| dhananjya |
Posted
on 24-Aug-03 09:21 PM
Dear GUY,
Let me tell you something about mind from my own experience.
Life is composition of body and mind. Mind is a driving force, which always take support of body to exist. Buddha, a great scientist of mind and matter and their interaction defined mind as: Namana Karoti Ti Nama, Meaning: Nama (mind) is one which always follows body to exist.
If you roughly divide mind, you will find four bulk part of it.
1. Vigyan (cognition)
2. Sangya (recognition and evaluation)
3. Vedana (bodily feelings, sensations)
4. Sanskar ( reaction)
This is not something imaginary theory given by a philosopher. This is the experimental fact which can be observed by one and all, whoever tries.
Let me explain, how these four parts of mind functions,
First Vigyan ( cognition ) arises. When six sense doors (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind) or any one of them, comes in contact with their respective objects (form, sound, smell, taste, tangible things, and feelings), first mind cognizes. i.e. mind just find the object. Then an innocent vibration flows in the body, Vedana. Then second part of mind, Sangya, recognizes from its past record, oh this is so so and so. Then after, this Sangya evaluates, this is good or this is not good. According to this evaluation, the Vedana, changes. If evaluation is good, one will feel pleasant sensations, free flow, and very fine thrilling current. If evaluation is not good, then one will feel gross feelings, unpleasant sensations, and misty, cloudy sensations. At the end Sanskar, last part of mind raises its head. For pleasant Vedana, it reacts with craving. It wants it again and again. In old languages, it is called Raga. For unpleasant Vedana, it reacts with abortion. It doesnt like it. In old languages it was known as Dosa. All and every moment, knowingly or unknowingly this process is going on and on. Always either craving or abortion, either Raga or Dosa. This repeated practice of Raga or Dosa increases reactive nature of mind. This has become habit pattern of life. One is bound to react with craving for good things and bound to react with abortion for unpleasant things. This is real slavery of mind.
Let me explain these four types of mind with an example: seeing a woman by a man.
1. Eyes come in the contact of a form(body of the woman). The body is cognized. ----Vigyana, cognition. As eye and form comes in contact, mind matter interaction takes place and body feels sensation (same as bell vibrates when it comes in contact with stick). Mostly this interaction is so subtle, unnoticeable without good concentration, but sometime it is bulk and one can notice. For instant, if someone sees vinegar (acetic acid), one can feel some current in the body as a reaction. This is mind matter interaction.
2. Now second part of the mind, Sangya, recognizes the form or body with its past memory. Oh this is a woman. This Sannya not only recognize but does evaluation also. The woman is beautiful or ugly. Sangya does this with its past memory. You can compare it with the memory of computer. Computer will find the file you want with its recorded memory. The mind which recognize and evaluate like this is called Sangya.
3. Then, the sensation (Vedana) that have already rises during cognition, turns pleasent or unpleasant according to evaluation of the Sangya. If Sangya said, the woman is beautiful, the sensation turns to be pleasant, but if Sannya said woman is ugly, sensation turns to be unpleasant.------the mind which notice these sensations is called Vedana.
4. Now fourth part of the mind raise its head-------Sanskar, if I literally translate it, it will be Racation. If sensation is pleasant, the mind will react with craving, Raga. Oh wonderful, I like it , I want it. This is cause why the man like to see beautiful woman again and again. It seems the woman itself is alluring, but in reality, the bodily sensations are alluring. The woman is cause of the sensations. So everybody craves for the pleasant bodily feeling and they wonder to find cause of it.------------------on the other hand if sensation is unpleasant, mind react with abortion (Dosa). Oh what a ugly woman. I should not associate with her. May I not see her again and again, like this. This dislike seems to ugly woman, but in reality it is to the unpleasant sensations. The woman is just cause of unpleasant sensation, so the man dislikes her.-----so Sanskar is reaction with craving or abortion against the sensation, Vedana.
Similarly other sense organs and their respective objects go to this cycle. If one is self inspecting, one can notice. This is not theory, one can observe ones mind and one will realize these facts. This is the way how mind master the man. This process is automatic, one has no choice except going through this process from cognition to reaction i.e. form Vigyan to Sanskar. We can not come out of this just understanding it intellectually. Our conscious mind is so minute compare to unconscious mind. This process is automatic in subconscious mind. Example: we want to adapt some good habits like right speech ( not lying, no back biting, no harsh words, no useless gossiping). We try to follow it. But its hard. Why? Because our conscious mind want it but subconscious mind is always slave of the above mentioned process. This is the reason why everybody can not be Vishma.
This is all what I explain is how one is slave of mind. There is straight forward way to come out this mental fitter.
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