Does the mind tempt us because of the modes or do the modes tempt us because of the mind?
Does the mind tempt us and control us because of the modes? Or is it that because we are attached to the modes, that's why the mind controls us? Yeah. So sometimes the questions can become like splitting a hair.
If there is a hair, I just have to throw it in the dustbin. It will become too complicated. I am not saying this question is like that.
Some questions can become like that. So it's a valid question. Let's take a simple example to understand this first.
As I was talking about internet surfing and internet suffering. Now it can happen in two ways. One is that I am doing some work, but I think maybe I can see something.
I can watch something. And then I myself go on the computer and I start surfing here and there. The other is.
So in this case, what happened? The desire came from. And then the computer became a device for me to go and computer or phone or whatever. It became a device for me to go.
So the device becomes a gateway to the vice. The vice, the wrong desire is there within me. And the device becomes a gateway for acting on that vice.
So in this case, that's come from me. And the second case, it can also happen that I am doing something constructive on the computer. But suddenly I look, some other link comes up somewhere.
Maybe I can look at that. And that one link, second link, third link and then we get lost. So in both cases, we have made a choice.
Without our choice, we won't go there. But the initiative, the initial proposition, in one case it came from within. In another case, it came from without, from the computer.
So same way, in some cases, with respect to the way we may get entangled, sometimes the moods may create some phases in the mind. Like some people, they say they are poor risers. Poor risers means when they wake up, they are always in an irritable mood.
They are always sullen, shouting and things like that. Or just disagreeable when they wake up. That is just the way they are.
After a while, when they wake up, they do some few things, then their mood starts improving. Some people are like that. We just understand this is the nature of this person.
I just have to manage it. So like that, sometimes beyond our control, sometimes our mind just goes in a particular mood. We may not have done anything, but just feel, you know, we feel depressed.
Or everything seems gloomy, everything seems dark. Wherever we see, we see problems everywhere. So sometimes the mind is in a mood like that.
So that we could say is the influence of the moods. So when without our doing anything, suddenly we find a particular frame of mind over there, just coming in. That we can say the moods have acted and they have created that mood.
Now Krishna says in 14.22 that, प्रकाशं चे प्रवृत्तिंचे मोहं यो चे पाण्डवा नद्वेश्टिसं प्रवृत्तानि नन्युरुत्तानि कांक्षिति।। उदासीन वदासीन गुणे योन विचालेते, गुणावर्तन्तित्येव यो वतिष्ठति नेंगते। प्रकाशं चे प्रवृत्तिंचे मोहं यो चे पाण्डवा नदवेश्टिसं प्रवृत्तानि नन्युरुत्तानि कांक्षिति।। प्रकाशं चे प्रवृत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति नन्युरुत्ति � I thought he was a very sincere person but during the class he would be completely blank so I used to wonder if he is not at all interested in the class how would he come on time he would not only come on time before time he would come so you always come on time he said yes bro this wall is so comfortable I want to make sure that nobody comes and sits on the wall so I come before so the person is sitting in a very peaceful way but in Jatvaguna I am physically peaceful and I am mentally focused in Tamoguna I am physically peaceful but I am mentally completely dull dead thinking of nothing or just wandering all over not focused or productive so these are three different modes and sometimes we have different influences that come upon us so at that time what we do is this is just a mood that has come it will come, it will go ताम सिद्धिक्षसवाज don't act on it that means sometimes against our doing anything the desire is coming at that time know it is a mood and just tolerate it in some other times we ourselves get the desire I want to do this but at that time also if you understand just because a desire has come inside me it doesn't necessarily mean it is my desire it has come, it will be there for some time it will go out so it can work out either way it can work out because of the mood's influence certain desires pop up and then we act on them or otherwise sometimes some desires come up and then we do something so for example say if somebody gets a sensual desire then they may go and see something, watch something and they try to create that desire more in them so that they feel I can have some sensual titillation and I can enjoy so it can work both ways the important thing is that when either way it comes we are alert so I write on the Gita everyday it's on the Gita daily so I wrote one article temptations will come, we don't have to welcome temptations will come we cannot avoid them but then we don't have to welcome they will come, they will stay for some time if you see that some person come uninvited and they keep knocking on the door if nobody opens the door they will go away but just because they knock on the door it doesn't mean that we have to open and we let them in if we let them in they will stay so like that temptations will come but we don't have to welcome does it answer your question? yes sir.