MIND

ARE WE MIND ??






1. The small child has brain but not mind i.e. hardware but without operating system and data and applications programmes.



2. Development of Mind;

The so called mind starts developing with the help of inputs from the sense organs.

The inputs may be given by others or taken by one’s own efforts.

It means the source of whole of the contents of mind is outside the human body.

The data and programmes which are in the form of just impressions collectively called mind at any given point of time and goes on growing/updating continuously.

Therefore the mind is continuously changing without our awareness.



3. Needs for survival:

For the survival of the body, the mind is not necessary. To survive, this intelligent instrument needs only five things which are:

A. Air (oxygen) , a gift from nature.

B. Water ,a gift from nature.

C. Sleep , also a gift from nature.

D. Food , almost a gift from nature (we get a no of seeds/plants from one seed used for growing) but the body requires to do some labour.

E. The working mind inbuilt in all creatures, also a gift from nature.


Just imagine that if a child is provided all the above four (A to D) throughout life without being given any mental input.

Will he/she not be able to survive without mind ?

May be not so smoothly.

The life as such has nothing to do with mental inputs.

It goes on and on manifesting/expressing itself though various forms in different ways.


The mind is required only for verbal communications.

The life as such is not bothered about the mind.

Take the example of person lying on bed in coma.

The life is present there keeping other vital organs active but mind is not functioning.

Hence at shuttle level or in another sense the mind is nothing less than a luxury (no need but having).




4. Living without Mind:

Every night this so called mind is almost absent especially in non-REM (no dream) state, but in that absence also the life which we are in reality, survives .

If we would have been mind we would have gone/died in the absence of the mind.



5. Awareness of Mind:

Generally nobody creates his/her mind consciously.

That is why nobody can control the mind.

The creation of mind in early phase of our life i.e. childhood is not in our hand because as children we are handicapped due to absence of any such programme which can decide whether so and so inputs are worth having/taking or not.

We as children are plane slate on which others write.

Therefore so many things are put inside this brain without our consent.

The tragedy is that we never become aware of this going on conditioning(creation of mind) even when we become fully grown up when something is either put into by others or when we put in at our own.

We behave as an unconscious(sleep walkers) persons.

We never think whether the data going inside has any relation with things needed to support the life as such i.e. air, water, food , sleep and working mind ,which are the only needs for survival/continuation (in present form) of life which we are.



6. Where is the Mind:

Further till date the location of mind has not been found by anyone.

Sometimes questions have also been raised even about the existence of mind itself by many so called "self-realised/enlightened/wise men" persons.

There are many statements are like “ Mind is a myth”, “Mind is an illusion” “Mind is nothing but a sum total of impulsive reactions depending upon the training the body has received” "Mind is just an idea".....like that.

Its a simple logic that in case of any search by any person the person (subject) searching must be separate/different from the object of search.

But here the real problem in the search of mind is that the very mind is searching itself.

The same is the situation with all the so called spiritual seekers because they are seeking themselves which is naturally not possible.

Not only that they are seeking the so called real with the help of the mind which itself is an illusion or does not exist as such.

In Gita Krishna says--I am beyond  mind and the sense organs.

But fortunately or unfortunately is that we have no instrument other than this so called mind only for searching anything whatsoever.



7. Scientific Development:

The artificial intelligence has created a possibility that in future chips with relevant data will be implanted directly into human brain.

No need to cram the books to become doctor, engineer, C.A., pundit, padri, mullah, etc.

No vacuum will be felt on the death of a great scientist or a poet or anyone because before he dies all the programmes and data will be copied and as and when required it will be pasted in a healthy person’s brain and he will start from there where the dead one left.

Don’t take it as a fiction.

It is going to be real in very near future because this idea is based upon the scientific developments in various fields especially artificial intelligence and growing computing power being reported from time to time.

Our brain functions exactly like computer or any other creature’s brain but perhaps because of so called "self-consciousness" we consider ourselves better than other creatures without consulting other creatures.

Perhaps the time is not too far when this supremacy will be proved a sheer myth when we will be able to communicated with other creatures in our language with the help of machines.