Passage 10

In English

The heart can be compared to the sky, the mind, to the moon, and the intellect, to the sun. The thoughts that are generated in the mind are like the clouds that pass away. The cause for one’s happiness and misery or pleasure and pain lies in his thoughts. However, these twin ideas of happiness and misery or pleasure and pain obtain relevance only in the world of dualities. Just as the camera gives photographic impressions of the objects upon which it is focused, the mind absorbs the impressions of the objects it is directed at. The more it is directed towards the world of sensory pleasures, the farther it takes man away from God. An episode in the clearly illustrates this.