◘Mind is said to be the 6th sense, the highest in biological evolution. It helps us to undergo the highest of human experiences.

◘The main objective of the mind is to experience the creation with the help of Maya.

◘Mind interacts with the other 5 sense organs - ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose and helps to experience sound, touch, sight, taste and smell respectively.

◘Mind and body work as a pair and use the brain as the junction point for the senses.

◘Mind is the seat of emotions. It is also stored with memories and karmas.

◘Mind permeates the entire human system and also has the capacity to stretch and permeate the entire cosmos through its intent.

◘The functioning of the mind is considered as the subtlest and the most complex.

◘The other functions of the mind include experiencing, imagining, creating, perceiving, remembering, retrieving etc.

◘Excess karmas cause sagging of mind due to the imprints and prevent further ascension of the soul.

◘Purity of a person depends largely on the purity of the mind. Hence it is very important to keep one’s mind free from mental impurities or arishadvargas.

◘Sadhana plays a crucial role in cleansing one’s mind from such impurities.

◘Ego is the mistaken identity of the self or soul.

◘Ego is relating ‘I’ as body or mind instead of self or soul.

◘Ego originated when the soul was bound inside the body and started assuming that the body is real, forgetting its own identity.

◘It is the Mind and Maya that causes Ego.

◘Ego clouds soul intelligence.

◘Ego limits. Ego misleads.

◘Ego is the cause of suffering.

◘Ego comes in the way of sadhana and hinders the progress towards self realisation.

◘Ego vanishes only in love.

◘Karma is the effect of action.

◘Based on the intention of the action performed, its effect acquires good or bad imprints and is called as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ karma.

◘Good Karma brings happiness and bad karma brings unhappiness.

◘These imprints attract and influence similar imprints, good or bad and become tendencies and eventually habits and creates destiny.

◘The imprints are registered in the mind and body.

◘When we perform action with Ego, the mind exhibits the bad imprints as Arishadvargas or six negative tendencies.

◘When we perform action with self or soul awareness and in ‘non-doer’ or ‘surrendered’ state, we acquire no Karma. Such actions cause Karma Yoga.

◘Karmas, good or bad, both add load to the mind sheath and become an obstacle for the onward ascending journey.

◘Because of Karma, we as souls are stuck up in this Earth unable to ascend.

◘Karma causes a cycle of life and death.

◘The purpose of this birth is to clear the karmas, break this cycle and return to our abode, Light.