Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 12
Appendix:—Mind and intellect are God's `apara prakrti' (Gita 7/4-5). Inspire of being God's prakrti viz., nature, the `apara prakrti' possesses a different nature (inert and kaleidoscopic) from that of God. But `para prakrti' is not of a different nature from that of God. Therefore `apara prakrti' is not uniform and untainted like God but the self is such 'mama sadharmyamagatah' (Gita 14/2). Mind and intellect belong to the class of `apara prakrti' viz., they are fragments of Prakrti but we (the Self) are the fragments of God. Therefore the Self belongs to a different class from mind and intellect. There is attraction and union in the entities belonging to the same class, rather than to those belonging to different classes—This is the rule. Therefore mind and intellect can't be merged in God, only the Self can be merged in God. A striver commits an error that he, by assuming the independent existence of mind and intellect, by keeping the Self aloof, tries to merge his mind and intellect in God. But the reality is that only the self is merged in God, mind and intellect are not merged. When the Self merges in God, the mind and intellect lose their existence, and only God remains. The reason is that in fact mind and intellect have no existence of their own, the self has given them existence 'yayedam dharyate jagat' (Gita 7/5), 'manahsasthanindriyani prakrtisthani karsati' (Gita 15/7).
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