Who all are the active factors in our inner world – soul or mind or Maya?

Anwser Podcast

Transcript

This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors.
So in our inner world, who all are the active principles? The soul, we know the active principle in terms of having consciousness and choosing. But what about the mind? Is the mind like a random generator which just throws desires at the mind, at the soul and the soul chooses? And where does maya come into the picture over here? See, I gave the example of a computer program with some default settings. So the default settings just come up.
We could say that the computer is generating that. Say for example, if I have regularly visited a particular, say, NY Times, I visit to look at the news. As soon as in my browser I type N, immediately it does autocomplete NY Times.
Now who did that? Did I do that or did the computer do that? You could say both ways. The N is what I typed, but the NY Times, it did that. So like that, or you could take that example further.
And sometimes some site becomes set as our home page of a browser. So as soon as you open the browser, that opens up. So that is also how we get some setting over there, which has been made.
So the mind is like a device which has default settings. And those default settings have also been set by us only in the past, by what we have done in the past. And so the soul is the chooser, and the mind is a generator, but it is not a random generator.
Sometimes random desires may also come up, because they are there from our past impressions. Sometimes we may see something and some random desires come up. But primarily, it is the desires based on what we have done.
And we can also connect. Because of that, now I see this desire is coming up. So the primary active principle is the soul, which is the chooser.
But the mind is the proposer. Why don’t you do this? Why don’t you do that? Why don’t you do that? And if the soul is not conscious, not aware, then the mind proposes, just like say, now I am taking prasad. If I am talking with you and mother, do you want it? I don’t say anything.
You will serve it. Hey, I didn’t want to take this. So I have to be attentive.
So now, so like that what happens is that if somebody is a proposer, and if we are not conscious, then that gets accepted. That’s how it happens with us. But the active principle is primarily the soul.
And the mind appears active, that is based on the choices that the soul has made in the past. Now maya for all practical purposes in our life is equivalent to the mind. We can make that as an equation.
Maya is equal to the mind. Maya is also energy of Krishna, which acts. But the way she acts is primarily through the mind.
So it’s like in an exam, if it’s a multiple choice paper, there are five alternatives. The wrong four alternatives are also given by the examiner only, the teacher only. So the five alternatives that are there, they’re all given by the examiner.
So maya is like the one who gives the alternatives. And we are the one who choose. Yeah, we cannot blame the mind at all.
We are the ones who are accepting the false setting, making it strong and strong. Yeah. Blaming the mind that is one is dushtama, trikishera.
That’s just to actually caution, to remind. It’s not exactly to blame. You had one more question?