The mind makes us spin like dirty laundry and leaves us dirtier Gita 06 34

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thank you Hare Krishna the mind makes us spin like dirty laundry and leaves us dirtier for all of us our mind is a very powerful device inside us and the mind can go round and round and sometimes it can take us round and round if we are not cautious if we are not vigilant and determined so for example the mind can make us do this, do that, don’t do this, don’t do that and what about this what about that, what about that it goes round in a circle and comes back to the same point sometimes when we see how forceful the mind is we can compare it to how in a laundry when cloth is put and the laundry is activated and the washing machine is activated then the laundry starts spinning helplessly round and round and round at least within the washing machine the laundry gets cleaned but when we get consumed by the mind’s thought that means we let our consciousness get captivated and carried away by the mind the mind also makes us spin round and round and round but the mind leaves us dirtier that means we are left more confused, we are left more deluded, we are left more contaminated so for example if the mind if within the mind the desire comes for say enjoying a particular thing and then the mind makes us do this, do this, do this and somehow we go round, round and round and alcoholics can go to say extreme efforts to try to just get some drinks and then at the end of it they still feel exhausted they feel frustrated and they are not even satisfied the craving also still comes back after some time so the Bhagavad Gita points to this formidable pushing power of the force of the mind when it says that in 634 so chanchalam, the mind is restless it goes from one place to another to another to another but the other attributes it is pramathi, it is mad and it is it is strong it is drudham it is like a it’s obstinate so because of this once we get caught by the mind we can get spun round and round for a terribly long time and knowing this what do we do we avoid getting caught by the mind just as if the cloth doesn’t go into the laundry if we find a particular machine when cloth goes into it and it ends up dirtier, we won’t put the laundry into that machine at all so we will first try to fix the machine and then put the laundry so similarly whenever a thought comes up we instead of just thinking about that thought and getting carried away by it, we focus first on calming ourselves attributing that thought to the mind my mind is saying this, do I need to pay attention to this and then after that when we evaluate, if we are calm and if that thought needs to be contemplated, then it’s like we have made sure the washing machine is working properly and then we study it, then we enter into it, we put the cloths into it so like that when we learn to evaluate our thoughts we need to evaluate whether a thought was worth contemplating before contemplating it, then the mind won’t be able to spin us but rather we will be able to use the mind’s power for seriously thinking and arriving at proper understandings thank you, Hare Krishna