The media is mostly the mind multiplied, magnified & magnetized Gita 06.05

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Hare Krishna the media is the mind magnified multiplied and magnetized often people especially those who want to live more traditionally or virtuously these people condemn the kind of media that is there today the obscenity, the violence and all such things that are present in the media now while it is true that there is much in the media that is undesirable it is also important to understand that actually it is not the media that is the problem it is the media is the symptom of the problem often who creates the media? it is people and how do they create? it is based on their mind’s imagination so it’s my mind and your mind and there are thousands of minds some minds are more creative than others but these minds get multiplied so many people with their minds come together and create use their imagination to create products so for example we all can have some sensual fantasies but if people from all over the world with the most lurid fantasies and they come together use the resources and then they create certain certain depictions and that is the mind multiplied it is not only multiplied it is magnified how magnified? because often what the mind can imagine a little through when people’s mind is coupled with technology then it becomes magnified just like when we zoom our camera on a particular thing we can see it much more that comes in clear focus so like that we may be able to imagine some things and others may not then those who can imagine it it’s like their mind’s camera has a magnifying button and thus whatever it is that we are to see it becomes more and more magnified and that’s how things get worse and then ultimately it’s also magnetized magnetized means it’s just like a magnet attracts the the iron filing similarly the media is systematically designed in such a way as to captivate people’s minds in fact most advertising involves very scientifically researched depictions with the maximum possibility of of captivating people’s minds so the media is often designed to be like a magnet and we are to be we become like the iron filings so there are systematic studies of patterns based on which people design okay what should be the packaging what should be the music what should be the ambience that people will buy the most and thus we get trapped if we are to not be trapped like this then each one of us needs to move forward determinedly to do things constructively so the we need to the Bhagavad Gita tells us that each one of us has to control the mind if the mind is not controlled it can become our worst enemy uddhare dātmanātmānam nātmānam avasādayet ātmāyivayātmanobandhur ātmāyivaripurātmanahā if we need to elevate ourselves with the mind and not degrade ourselves and these principles of the media being the mind magnified multiplied magnified and magnetized it applies not just for bad things which can degrade us it applies also for good things that elevate us and thus if we use our mind’s imagination pulling the virtues various virtues imaginations to try to depict spiritually uplifting things then we all can be individually and collectively elevated and then our mind can become our friend and the media can become an expression of the mind’s friendship helping our mind to move towards higher more divine thoughts thank you