Mind Alone Is Bondage And Liberation

Acharya Prashant

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The mind is the entire set, the whole universe of objects that the ‘I’ has a relationship with. Not the entire set of everything that is there in the universe. One does not have a relationship with everything. But whatsoever one develops a relationship with becomes mind. An object untouched by the self, the ego is just an object. But the moment the object is touched by ‘I’, it becomes vishay or mind. And, mind is an accumulation, a congregation of objects that it is in relationship with.

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Acharya Prashant: I’ll begin with the explanation. So, we’ll have this session in two parts. In the first part, we’ll cover some fundamentals of Advait Vedanta. I’ll try to take it up in a way that one single shloka verse unfolds to reveal us the complete essence of Vedanta. So, the verse we are beginning with is...I suppose all of us are carrying a pen and a sheet of paper, right?

So, this comes from the Upanishads, as we know Vedanta is synonymous with Upanishads. Though if you ask technically Vedanta comprises of not just the Upanishads, but also the Bhagavad Gita and the Vedanta Sutra or Brahma Sutra of Badrayan or Ved Vyas. So, what we are taking up is this —

Mana eva manushyanam karanam bandhmokshyoh

And this comes from the Brahmabindu Upanishad.

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