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Human mind is endowed with the discriminating power of intelligence. Mind is nothing but a subtle phenomenon of thinking. It operates through thoughts; if thoughts do not exist mind loses its identity. Because of its multifarious assignments, such as ambition, emotion, sentiments, feeling, instinct, inclination, imagination, volition, etc., the mind has acquired its mercurial nature. Acting in collusion with the sense organs, the mind rouses the five nerve-centres in the ‘Consciousness,’ and they in turn, propel the executing organs to activity. They are:

LUST

ANGER

GREED

ATTACHMENT

EGO,

which affect the intellect, distort its power of judgment and discrimination, and drive the man to act as a ‘slave’ to ‘mind’. It is therefore, essential for man to tame the mind and harness the power of thoughts.