Mindless feeds don’t feed our mind, they feed our mindlessness Gita 16 16

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Hare Krishna.
Hare Krishna. Mindless feeds don’t feed our mind. They feed our mindlessness.
Suppose we keep exposing ourselves to various feeds. Now, some feeds are just about say, some gossip. Nowadays, so many notifications can come up that we can get overwhelmed by it.
And if these are mindless, now this can be just not just social media, electronic feeds, it can also be feeds that can come to us from people around us, from the stimuli around us. If they themselves are not well thought out and processed, then they just become more garbage that litters our mind. And whereas the garbage within, garbage outside can be cleaned easily, the garbage inside is not even detected easily, leave alone being cleaned easily.
So, when we subject ourselves to mindless feeds, now they don’t feed our mind, but they feed our mindlessness. Feeding our mind means that they give us something to think about, something to process, something to learn from. But to feed our mindlessness means they just make us more distracted.
When we are mindless, we are distracted, absent-minded, inattentive, because our mind is scattered over a hundred places. And when we feed our mindlessness, we start making our life more and more miserable. We can make it even hellish.
The Bhagavad Gita points to this danger when it states, अनेक चित्तविभ्रान्ता मोह जाल समावृतः प्रसक्तः कामभोगेशु पतंति नरकेशु चम् So, in 1616, it is said, अनेक चित्तविभ्रान्ता, that our consciousness can get dissipated over hundreds and thousands of things. मोह जाल समावृतः, and then we can get caught in the network of illusion. प्रसक्तः कामभोगेशु, and प्रसक्तः, we are completely consumed by worldly desires.
पतंति नरकेशु चम् Our consciousness sinks to a hellish level where we just suffer terribly not being able to do anything worthwhile in our lives. If we don’t want that to happen, we need to calmly and purposefully choose our actions in a way that is conducive for our elevation, that is conducive for our ongoing growth. And we need to choose the feeds and feed our mind with not just mindless feeds from the world around us, physical and digital, but mindful feeds from timeless literatures like the Bhagavad Gita.
Thank you. Hare Krishna.