In English
Mind affected by desire is polluted
Ignorance is caused by attachment. Attachment results in identification of the I with the body, senses, mind, etc. Attachment leads to desire; desire results in anger; anger blinds reason and promotes ignorance; ignorance breeds dualities of mine and thine, good and bad, etc.; these lead to activities to make gains, and avoid losses, etc.; these produce consequences of merit and demerit; they have to be consumed in this life or future lives; so one has to go through suffering. (suffering) is caused by (life) which presupposes suffering. is due to belief in (duality). is the result of (igonorance), the product of (anger). is the child of (affection) and (attachment)is the parent of . Even , the greatest bowman and warrior of his age, became a victim on the battlefield itself of this insidious, false, and enfeebling attachment. The mind obeys the senses and defiles man. It is well-nigh impossible for man to master the mind and turn it away from the objective world. confessed to Lord that the mind was uncontrollably way ward and could not be stilled. The mind has two phases: the unpolluted and the polluted. The mind affected by desire () is polluted; when it is unaffected by desire, it is unpolluted. For liberation from bondage to desire, the mind is the only instrument available to man. Turn it towards the objective world, you are bound; turn it towards God, you are on the road to liberation The mind refuses to be calm even for a fraction of a second. When a continuous shower of stones is falling on the waters of a lake, how can the surface be calm and unruffled? So too, man is throwing stone after stone of desire on the , the calm lake of the or mind.