How Mind Intelligence & False Ego control our body & Senses?
Two Questions with a single reply:
(1) “Kaushik Ramamurthy” from Chennai asked like this:
“Hare Krishna Prabhu. Are the mind, Intelligence and False Ego material or Spiritual? Because we use them to learn about Krishna. Please Clarify. You can post my name and Place. I have no problem.”
(2) A male devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Dear Gi.., i hav a doubt frm last 15 years. Now we are thinking, doing etc. I feel my self tht there s no relation btn our body n mind. Here mind s dominating my body. After my death is i hav t same feeling? Or my mind or soul capture another living being? Is all living beings hav t same feeling?”
REPLY:
Mind Intelligence and false ego – all these three are material elements only.
However, they are closer to the Spiritual soul than the gross body as these three are at the higher stage than the lower senses.
Our body has another invisible – subtle body within it. It is called Sukshma body, ie, subtle body. It is not made up of tissues like gross – outside body. It is made up of Mind Intelligence and false ego.
So, Mind Intelligence and false ego are the part of Sukshma body. Not the Gross body.
(Body or Soul – Which feels the Pains of Karma, birth and death? READ HERE!)
However, both our gross body and subtle body are affected by one another.
How?
Ha Ha…. If the mind directs something, body gets disturbed and acts according to the desires and directions of mind. If the body is paining, your mind gets disturbed. If the body is enjoying, mind too enjoys.
However, though mind is not the most superior element, it is superior to your lower senses. So, whatever you think with stronger mind, it controls your body’s senses. If you think of sense gratification within mind, your body’s senses ask for sense objects.
If you think of Krishna, your body too co-operates and involves in the Krishna related activities and gets controlled from material attractions.
This subtle body made up of Mind Intelligence and false ego acts also as a career of the athma, ie, soul when he (athma) leaves the body at the time of death.
(Soul entering the bodies – How, when and other related questions! READ HERE!)
If a person dies, his subtle body leaves along with athma and takes another body. So, after death, you will get similar or different feelings only when you get another body. However, those who commit suicide are given another temporary ghost body made up of Subtle body only that contains Mind Intelligence and false ego. That is why, the ghosts have all the feelings, but, they can not enjoy their desires.
And, all the living beings will have the same activities that we do: eating, mating, sleeping and defending. We do them privately; They do them publicly. That’s all. Now a days, even man has started to do all sense gratifications publicly like animals. So, in future, there will be no difference between the animals and men.
However, we and animals differ in only one thing. That is God consciousness. We can realize that there is a god and we are connected to Him. But, the animals can’t realize it.
So, it is good for us to cultivate God Consciousness that is unique for men alone instead of involving in Sense gratification..
Whatever we thought, planned and did including our devotional practices when we were in the previous body are carried by the subtle body along with the soul at the time of death.
Hope you are clear now about how Mind Intelligence & False Ego control our body & Senses.
(What are the destinations after death for different religions? READ HERE!)