Human Mind is one of the most complex pattern of the this cosmos. Mind is just not brain(organ). Mind have no physical shape. Mind is not inside the body but body is inside the mind. So mind is bigger than the body. Mind also do not have fixed size. Mind can expand and shrink. As it have no shape, it can not even imagine. Science and technology could not manifest mind so far. So what is mind ?

Mind is a consciousness. If “consciousness” word seems confusing, we can consider Mind is an energy or a little life force, or energy vibrations whatever make sense to us. Mind is not part of our physical body but it is part of our soul (self / Jiva). I am still researching the place where it is. But i feel mind may be near top of the head. We can consider body is wick and mind is Jyoti(flame). 

Nature of Mind

One common nature of mind is to run towards anything that grand, majestic and beautiful and where there is some joy, happiness or something very unique. So Mind is a great motivator and charioteer in our journey to explore bigger aspect of self existence. in this analogy, Body is chariot and five senses are the horses Till now, body and breath level there is no emotions. At the level of mind, emotion comes into the realization to self. The emotion of Joy and Happiness. Now Understand, emotion is sensed by mind, not body. body of-course have 5 sense organs, but can only feels by mind with help of intellect(we will see soon). Because of cosmic nature of duality(extreme end of “to be” and “not to be”) absent of the emotion also exist.  Absent of joy and happiness mind generates “Desire”, and if the desire is intense enough then it drive the whole body(action happen). So “Desire” is consider as a sub nature of mind.

The mind wanders anywhere without a goal, but as soon as the command is given, the mind focuses on one thing. Energy and time flow where the mind is. It is really meaningful that mind is a charioteer. The King (soul) just need to order, just need to define the destination. 

Function of Mind

Now the Mind own a body, 5 senses (sabda, sparsa, rupa, rasa, gandha) appears to be joyful (pleasure) to mind. This drive the whole body to achieve this type of joy called “sensory pleasure”. Sensory pleasure have sort life span by cosmic design and happen only at body level. Mind itself drive by its nature and desire to have longer, majestic joy. This also enable mind to pick up thoughts. Mind do not have its own thoughts. Thoughts are just scattered vibrations (random positive or negative tiny energy) in cosmic realm. Thought appear in the mind first. Be aware about mind that thought can not be stopped. But wisdom enable self to control our action. Due to ignorance, Mind dominates the soul to perform any action. 

During the human’s social evolution some concepts(thoughts) driven by intellect seemed attractive to mind. Those are Wealth, fame, Authority and child. Their thoughts only bring joy to the mind. it is called “conceptual pleasure” which happen only at mind level. As it is futuristic idea, it takes longer time to achieve and But its effect lasts a little longer than sensual pleasure. one important nature of mind is Mind can not still for long time without any action. It is impossible to control mind due to its nature, but we(soul) can control our action. It is wisdom that control our action. 

Only intelligent people can understand that both types of pleasure(sensory and conceptual) are temporary. Intelligent people continue to seek the joy that is forever.

Mind in Meditation

It is nature of mind to resist. The more we try to stop thought, the more thoughts coming. Whatever asked not to do, mind would like to do first. So in meditation , we are asked not to try to resist thought, let them come whether it is good or bad and accept. During meditation mind get weaken.