Namaste all,
I am writing this to get some more leaning about what is called Mind and what is called Brain. We know psychiatrist treats out brain. We have all seen many photos of brain, if we go to hospitals we can get a chance to see brain, doctors operate on brain, so they have seen alive brain. Some times brain commands what we say some time it works on its own. For example, if we want to pick up a pen, then through eyes, nerves, brain, processor in brain, back to nerve again to hand and we pick pen. This is how brain obeys our commands. Now there are many functions which are done without our commands. For example, if unknowingly we put our and on gas stove, brain reacts very fast, it doesn't wait for us to follow through communication channel but it orders commands to hand to take itself off off the gas stove. This is something which I know about brain.
Now about Mind, what is mind !! I know very little about mind. I am not sure if I have seen any photo of mind, and do not know exact place of mind in head. Desires are mind !! If I have desire to eat ice-cream, so that desire is called my mind ? I got angry on someone, it is described as, I lost control over my mind and slapped him. If we try to sit down for chanting but we will not be able to pay attention to mantra because there comes thought after thought, so where those thoughts comes from ? All these thoughts originate from mind ? Brain can obeys our commands in many cases, does mind obeys any of our command ? How fear something and many things, how this fear come in our mind ? , see here I use fear some in our mind. So how and from where fear enters our mind ?
Some people are strong willed people, so they are called strong minded people ? People are practical, so how I can relation their mind to their practicality.
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