[Advaita-l] Functions of the mind

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2022, KAMESWARARAO MULA wrote:

>                                  Indeed nice & actually I was trying to
> recollect the same to reply Harsha's query, but coudn't find the words. This
> was the exact reference for the Function of the mind
>

Thanks for the kind words sir.  One more thing which also ties into a 
current series of posts in this list is that in order to acheive this 
manonasha one must first understand and control the mind and its workings.

The Mohamudgara or Bhaja Govindam stotra has the refrain na hi na hi 
rakshati dukrnkarane.  "You will not be protected by dukrnkarane."  This 
is from Panini's dhatupatha so some foolish people think it means you 
don't need to study vyakarana or other shastras or even that such study 
will take you backwards on the Vedantic path.  Such people are not 
"spiritual" merely illiterate.  On the contrary Shankaracharya says that 
vyakarana is "vedanam veda" the Veda of the Vedas because it is only 
through proper analysis of speech we can get control over it and transcend 
it.  Similarly traditionally one would not even begin to look at prasthana 
trayi bhashyas without some study of tarkashastra.  Even though Advaita 
Vedanta rejects many of the tenets of Nyaya, the rigorous, logical 
approach is how the mind is controlled and ultimately transcended.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>