Passage 12

In English

On one occasion, someone came to and wailed, "My mind is troubling and torturing me". gave a very witty reply: “Oh, is your mind giving you so much trouble? Catch hold of it and bring it to me. I will punish it". wanted to stress only that the mind is but his imagination. It is our desires alone that create the phantom of the mind. If desires are subdued, the mind vanishes. We must delve beyond the body, beyond the senses, beyond the mind, beyond the intellect and reach the source of all these - the . It is the substratum, basis and source of all else. For everything we see there has to be a base, which we do not see. For the car that is moving, there is the road, which is the stationary ground for the car to move on. The car may swerve but the road does not swerve. If the road also moves, what journey can the car make and whereto? So also, the is the basis for the functioning of the mind and senses and body. is their sole support and basis.