The Mind and Ayurveda

One can liken the mind to a vehicle.  The moment we are born we are in the drivers seat.  Yikes!  The only problem is that we aren’t born with instructions on how to get the car started, let alone drive it.

Our consciousness is in our mind the moment that we are born but the human race doesn’t fully understand the nature of mind and all of it’s sensitivities.  Few of us (if any) are born to parents that fully understand the mind and how it works.  Yet we sit in the drivers seat.  How do we know where we want to go?  How do we decide what our goals and desires are?  How do we know what obstacles  to avoid?  How do we know what to fear without putting ourselves in harms way? It sounds like an accident looking for a place to happen and that is exactly what happens with many of us.  So we end up sitting in a therapists office trying to figure out what happened.

So as we begin our path we ponder things like will we be loved or will we make a difference to the human race or will we be financially independent.  Now if we don’t understand the nature of our minds, then the other things really don’t matter.  If you don’t know your mind, then how do you know for sure that you love someone or that they love you?  If you don’t understand your mind then how do you decide what you can do to contribute to humanity?  According to Dr. David Frawley in “Ayurveda and the Mind: the Healing of Consciousness” the real issue is how to use the most important and central instrument in our lives – our MIND (emphasis by the author).

Frawley says that learning the right use of the mind not only solves our psychological problems, but directs us to our higher potential of Self-realization.  It leads to the spiritual life which is the real occupation as CONSCIOUS beings (emphasis by the author) then we can transcend mind – which is inherently limited – to Pure awareness which is unbounded by time, space, or causation.  For all things in life we must start with understanding the mind.

I agree with just about all that he says, but I think that the mind is UNlimited.   I believe that our minds are our vehicles to the universe.

Just my two-cents worth.

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