Mind and the Senses
The senses are induced by the mind to move out and attach themselves to objects. Man must make the mind submit to viveka or intelligence which discriminates, and then, the mind will help instead of harming him.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. 5, p. 75
It is the mind that weaves the pattern called the “I.” The way in which it establishes this ego and elaborates it into a multitude of shackles is called maya (illusion). The mind prompts the senses to project into the outer world of objects, for it builds up notions of pleasure and pain, of joy and grief and constructs a whole array of urges and impulses. It resists all attempts to escape into the eternal, the universal, the absolute. It protests when the individual is eager to become conscious of his identity with these; but when it finds determined opposition to its tactics, it surrenders and disappears.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. 5, p. 186
What of the buddhi or intellect? It is the source of man’s decision-making capacity. It reduces confusion, calms conflict, and resolves doubt. When we say, “My inner voice has resolved thus” it is buddhi that is referred to. Buddhi is also referred to as the “inner self.” On the lowest plane of existence is the body, the physical sheath. On a higher plane is the sense complex—the five senses of perception and the five of action. The mind is on a still higher plane and the buddhi on an even higher one, so that it is nearest to the core, the atma [soul].
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. 10, p. 355
The only method you can adopt to escape from the coils of the mind is the cultivation of pure intelligence. This is the sum and substance of all spiritual discipline. And the intelligence gets cleansed of all partiality and prejudice, hatred and greed, only by the adoration of God through love poured out to all beings created by God and standing witness to His glory and beauty.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. 9, p. 160
Love is the word which indicates the striving to realize the falsehood of the many and the reality of the one. Love identifies; hate separates. Love transposes the self on to another and the two think, speak, and act as one. When love takes in more and more within its fold, more and more entities are rendered as One. When you love me, you love all, for you begin to feel and know and experience that I am in all.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. 7, p. 473
