Examine the desire for control: to control one's external environment, and the outcomes of actions for instance.
Once individuated the mind wants to
manipulate the perceived world to please the senses and stroke and
sustain the ego.
The Pure Consciousness appearing through Its Power as
the Lord has manifested as the external world and bestows fruits of
actions that are thoughts to lead the jIva back to the Source.
As long
as ignorance prevails the lessons are not learned quickly. There is no
action or thought that is intrinsically right or wrong, but the
perceived fruits of these actions are according to the nature of the
mind. Once sattva is purified the mind realizes that thought itself,
irrespective of right or wrong, is the problem! SAttvic mind perceives
some fruits as desirable, rAjasic, other ones, and tAmasic yet other ones.
The fruits are in concert with the underlying thought: sAttvic thought leads to
knowledge, pleasure and illumination and bind through those, rAjasic to pain and tAmasic to delusion and ignorance. (See BG).
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