The Mind Is Like Ice To Truth And Fire To Lies Gita 03.43
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Hare Krishna the mind is like ice to truth and fire to lies when we hear the truth and when we hear the lies how we respond to it reflects a lot about our mind often it is said that the truth is unpalatable and whenever somebody tells us some harsh truths about us somebody tells us something which is unpalatable then the mind becomes like ice ice is something through which breaking is very difficult and that’s why when say a group of people meet for the first time then they have something like ice breaker which is a question or a discussion point by which initially people have some barriers between them those barriers can be broken and then things can move forward so that’s ice breaker but if the ice is not broken then what happens the atmosphere is chilly and frosty and we can’t move forward so the mind is like ice to truth that means when somebody starts speaking the truth to us then we start becoming cold and suspicious and we start considering those people as our enemy and that’s how we stay in illusion not taking the feedback that might improve us and also the mind is like fire to lies now what do you mean by fire in here here it’s like fire spreads rapidly once the fire has started it just starts spreading spreading spreading so if we hear something bad about ourselves our mind becomes like ice and if we hear something bad about others the mind doesn’t even want to verify whether it is true or false it just immediately wants to start speaking it and even if we don’t speak it our mind catches and our mind catches fire and our imagination starts becoming flame and we keep thinking about this more and more and more and more so this especially applies on the spiritual path with respect to the nature of worldly pleasures and the nature of spiritual pleasures spiritual joys are eternal everlasting but the mind is like ice to them and the mind focuses on how mind doesn’t want us to go toward those pleasures and keeps us restless wandering here there and everywhere and it is like fire as soon as a little sensual stimuli is brought the mind just drives us crazy in pursuing those stimuli and that’s why the Bhagavad Gita says that we need to restrain our mind with our intelligence and then we can elevate ourselves so the Bhagavad Gita says in 343 evam buddhe parambuddha samsthabhyatmanam atmana jahishatrum mahabaho kamarupam durasadam samsthabhyatmanam atmana we need to situate our mind on the spiritual reality on spiritual truth and how do we do that evam buddhe parambuddha with our intelligence being fully cognizant having full cognizance of our transcendence and thus although the mind is like eyes to spiritual truth if we keep using our intelligence to focus our mind then gradually the mind will become more and more pure and then it will become more and more receptive and that’s when we will start experiencing real life real love and real joy thank you, Hare Krishna