As long as we don’t mine under the mind, the mind will undermine us Gita 06.07

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Thank you. Hare Krishna. As long as we don’t mine under the mind, the mind will undermine us.
Mining refers to digging deep as when we dig in a gold mine or a mine of precious ore. Undermine is to weaken, to sabotage. So, we need to mine under the mind.
That means, we have an inner world and in the inner world, the most prominent factor often is the mind. But though the mind is prominent, it is not the actual, it is not actually who we are. The mind’s emotions are not our emotions.
The mind’s emotions come and go while we as spiritual beings exist beyond the mind. So, if to the extent we understand this, that we need to mine under the mind, the Bhagavad Gita explains that in our inner world, there are two levels. There is the mental and the spiritual.
There is the mind and beyond the mind is the soul with its energy of consciousness and we are the soul. So, if we want to understand our real self and live in harmony with our true nature and potential, then we need to mine under the mind. If we just keep listening to the mind, eat this, watch this, touch this, we will ruin ourselves.
But if we focus on mining under the mind, then we understand ourselves as spiritual beings. Then we learn to distance ourselves from the mind with its many fleeting propositions for pleasure or pain avoidance and so forth. And to ultimately mine under the mind, we need to recognize not only ourselves as souls, but recognize ourselves as souls who are parts of the whole.
So, when we link with the whole, then we get an inner shelter, an inner anchor. And then the more we are anchored in relationship with the whole, the less we are affected by the pulls and pushes of the mind. And that’s how we can resist the mind.
So, the Bhagavad Gita says in 6-7, jitātmanah prasāntasya parmātmā samāhitaḥ śītoṣṭi-sukha-duḥkheṣu tathā mā nāpa-mānayau That jitātmanah prasāntasya, that the mind becomes conquered, that becomes peaceful. And what is the test that the mind has become peaceful? That the duality is coming from the outer world in terms of pleasure, pain, in terms of heat, cold, in terms of honor, dishonor. These don’t affect us because we are situated at the level of the soul connected with the whole.
So, paramātmā samāhitaḥ. So, we need to, if we want to discover our real self and live according to our true potential, we need to mine under the mind. Otherwise, the fleeting propositions of the mind will keep undermining us.
Thank you. Hare Krishna.