Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 12
The reason is that a man's (self's) nature is that he gets fixed where his mind and intellect are fixed. As in the direction in which the needle moves, so does the thread follow it, similarly where the mind and intellect are fixed, the Self is also fixed there. By assuming the existence of the world, by valuing it and by being attached to it, the mind and intellect are fixed on the world and by their fixation, the Self is also fixed on the world; therefore the Lord orders to fix the mind and intellect on Him so that the Self may have disinclination for the world. As when a goldsmith heats up gold in the fire in order to purify it, then the adulterated metal is removed and pure gold remains, similarly when mind and intellect are fixed on God, they are separated from God and the Self merges into God viz., only God remains. In the Srimadbhagavata the Lord declares—
By thinking of the sense-objects, the mind gets entangled in sense-objects, and by thinking of Me the mind gets absorbed in Me viz., the mind ceases to exists.'
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