3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

MIND : DEFINITIONMind: DefinitionMIND-STUFF is made of a highly rarefied matter ofSatva substance in the elements. Gossamer-likeit spreads in the body with its tentacles deeply rooted inthe senses, working through sense organs. Its base alsogoes far above, rooted as it is in the universal or cosmicmind chid-akash. It serves as a link between the materialbody and the conscious spirit or soul in the body whichis enlivening both the mind and the body. Like fire, itis a good servant but a bad master.171So long as the soul is in the mind zone it is a prisoner.It is engulfed by the mind and is subject to it and has toobey the dictates of the mind. The mind and the soulcombined in their turn are locked up in forms-causal,astral, and physical successively. The mind feels shy ofgoing in and coming in touch with the Sound Current,for there it loses its identity and freedom. Instead, it isprepared to go to the extent of sitting in trenches in theface of bullets to win a bottom victory, or will gladly facethe risks of crossing the Atlantic to gain a name or establisha record.17'What constitutes desire? All conceptions in the mindare desires.173 At present the mind desires those things itcannot get. When it realizes the Truth, the whole ofNature will be at its beck and call.17'Mind is nothing but a storehouse of karmic impressionscoming down from the beginning of time in an endlessseries of incarnations. The body cannot but performkarmas, and karmas fashion the body and all that is of