Today's topic of discussion is the way this mind works.
The mind has many afflictions.
These are called Manas Rog in Vedic terminology.
You have got sharirik rog, afflictions of the body, one affliction brings you down!
Swamiji I could not come to your lecture.
What happened?
My tooth was aching.
6ft frame and 1 toothache brought you down?
That's the way it is.
Now the mind has got a whole lot of afflictions.
Anger, Greed, Desire, Hatred, Envy.
We don't see them as diseases, but the Vedas say these are Manas Rog.
How they are created, how they will go away, this is the subject of Vedic psychology, and
if you understand it you will say the whole of western psychology starting from Sigmund
Freud it all fades into insignificance.
Such powerful analysis of the functioning of the mind is given in the Bhagawat Gita.
Shri Krishna says, our Vedas say - look Anger is a disease and Greed is a disease.
Anger is such a problem, the government has got it's laws in place yet people are unable
to control, they break property, they hurt and kill people all out of anger.
There is story form UP.
One Thakur family, the land owners.
There was a litigation going on between the elder brother and the younger brother.
The younger brother won the case, he was returning from the court in the evening, the elder brother
was sitting in the courtyard with his mother.
While returning he lifted his mustache.You know the Takurs in UP keep long mustaches.
He lifted it like this..The mother said to the elder brother, if you have drunk my milk
teach him a lesson.
He killed him, later on, when the inquire was done what was the instigation it was found
out the instigation was the younger brother has lifted his mustache.
This is Anger.
It's a disease of the mind.
But then is the disease of greed.
Motivated by greed people spend their whole life hoarding when they know that nothing
will go away with them.
They are going to leave everything here and yet a lifetime is not enough.
It is said Andrew Carnegie once the richest man in the world with the steel empire, he
had so much.
He was asked are you satisfied you are leaving this much.
He said no, I want to leave 10 times behind.
Once one man got the boon from the king, he saved the kings life in the forest and the
king being pleased, told him ask what you like.
He said your Majesty as much land as I can measure on my horse from sunrise to sunset.
The kind said alright, he had a huge kingdom.
The next day he started off on a good stallion.
Now at sunrise he began.
As the stallion was galloping he was thrilled so much has become mine, so much has become
mine.
By 10 am he was the owner of 1000s of hectors enough for many generations but not enough
to satisfy his greed.
By mid day he had a huge terrain, he could not have utilized it in any way, but his greed
was telling him this is your chance don't miss it, come on a little more.
He kept on goading and spurring his horse.
By late afternoon the horse was totally exhausted, so was the riders, but the horse collapsed
and this man fell head long from the horse.
His head went and hit a boulder, he suffered a spot death.
When the villagers came to bury him they said you know in the end only these 2 yards of
land was of any use, all the rest went waste.
That is the irony of greed.
As somebody said "Duniya mai kubha kamaya, kya heere kya moti ,lakin kya kare yaroon,
kaafan mai jeb nahi hoti".
I earned so much, so many jewels and diamonds but what to do the shroud that covers the
dead body doesn't have pockets, it all got left behind.
So greed is also considered from Vedic view point as a disease of the mind.
But the Vedas say, no no no beyond it all is another disease.
This is the biggest problem.
What is that?
Desire!