Why do scriptures refer to the mind negatively when it is our faculty for deep thought as in “Einstein was the greatest mind of the 20th century”?

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thank you Hare Krishna question why do devotees use the word mind in such a negative sense as an enemy the word mind also has positive meanings the greatest mind of the century Einstein is called so why do we use it in such a negative sense answer the words have different meanings and in the Bhagavad Gita and in the Vedic scriptures the word mind is used for a specific aspect of the human being so that aspect is our existence is currently in three levels there is gross body, there is subtle body and there is the soul, we are the soul and in the subtle body there is the mind it is one of the components there is a user, there is a software, there is a hardware software is the subtle body and a critical component of the software of the subtle body is the mind the mind is very much prone to corruption by the viruses, viruses of lower emotions, lust, anger, greed envy, arrogance, illusion all of them are basically centered around selfishness and when we become overcome by those emotions then we get dragged down so in this sense, because the mind is highly corruptible, so the mind is talked about in negative terms, that one has to be cautious about this the mind is likely to act as our enemy, because it is not just corruptible because we have been in the material world in the past, it is already corrupted and it is safe to assume that it is corrupted, so we have to be careful now generally many times in the secular world the word mind is used to a different sense, it is used to refer to the intellectual faculty of a person and it is in that sense in the world Einstein is the greatest mind of the 20th century so there when we talk about the word mind, what is essentially being talked about is the fact that this person had remarkable intellectual faculties now the intellectual faculty, and not just the intellectual faculty, but the faculty for rational thinking and for deep thinking which is what is often referred to in the secular circles by the word mind, that is something which is appreciated in the Vedic literature also so in fact it is said that this capacity for deep thinking for rational thinking and ultimately philosophical thinking which leads to God this is what differentiates humans from animals, so if we use the word mind to refer to the rational faculty, the faculty for deep thinking especially, then that is something which is very much appreciated in the Vedic literature, in fact it is said that the whole process of spirituality activates and develops this faculty of deep thinking and ultimately takes it to the supreme object of thought, that is the highest absolute truth, that is the supreme reality who is Krishna and through this, through the development of the faculty of deep thinking, it is we attain the highest perfection of life so that faculty is not at all referred to negatively in the Vedic literature, so these are two different senses of the word and depending on in what sense if we talk about as a corruptible or corrupted element within the subtle makeup of the human being we refer to it, then the mind is referred to negatively but if we refer to it as the faculty for deep thinking, then it is referred to positively in the Vedic literature also. Thank you.