The Mind Is A Persecutor Who Pretends To Be The Persecuted Gita 18.35

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the mind is a persecutor who pretends to be the persecuted some people are so cunning that they do something terrible and then they accuse others who are victimized by them for doing the very same thing it’s like some people they are bullies, they are persecutors and then when somebody accuses them they say, see these people accuse me they act as if they are persecuted such people are very slippery and they have to be dealt with very cautiously and unfortunately our mind is a persecutor of that kind let’s see how the mind acts as a persecutor while acting as if it’s the persecuted sometimes we feel burdened we feel exhausted irritated we start feeling that life is so unfair to us, life is so insecure, so many bad things have happened to us in the past and there is so much risk in the future and in this way we feel overwhelmed by negativity basically we feel persecuted now actually speaking if we consider where are these feelings coming from we could say no it’s from the world, it’s from my life yes we all have difficulties in our life but often the feelings of negativity come not so much from the particular situation that we are going through but from the reaction of the mind to that situation so the mind keeps replaying some bad thing that have happened to us and then magnifies them and then doesn’t allow us to forget them and thus it is the mind that is persecuting us by replaying repeatedly some bad thing that has happened in the past the mind makes us feel persecuted and now but actually because it is the mind which is doing this so it is the mind that is the persecutor and here we try to buck up at that time or if others tell us to buck up, come on don’t be a don’t be a cry baby and then the mind starts complaining oh nobody understands me I am in so much trouble and nobody empathizes with me nobody cares for me and thus the mind makes us makes us feel as if we are persecuted if we identify with the feelings of the mind so it is the mind playing this pernicious double role that can break us completely that can make us a mental mess the Bhagavad Gita points to this in 1835 when it states that that the mind when it is infected by the mode of ignorance it goes into various self-destructive thought patterns such as idle day dreaming, lamenting fearfulness moroseness intoxication and so forth so so the mind first makes problems seem bigger than they are and thus it acts as a persecutor and then the mind makes us we are souls different from the mind the mind makes us identify with those feelings and then acts as makes us powerless because of those feelings and thus it makes us feel as if we are the persecutor so the way to deal with this is by dis-identifying with the mind not mis-identifying with it that means we need to remind ourselves through repeated philosophical reading of the Bhagavad Gita that we are not the mind so we dis-identify with the mind and then we connect with Krishna by practicing Bhagavad Gita by living the Bhagavad Gita’s recommendation of the Bhakti Yoga and thus by focusing on something other than the mind we can gradually neglect and purify it thank you