Why the Mind Remains Bound to the World
The soul seeks eternal fulfillment, yet the materially conditioned mind remains absorbed in Maya. This creates the inner conflict of material bondage.
The soul seeks eternal fulfillment, yet the materially conditioned mind remains absorbed in Maya. This creates the inner conflict of material bondage.
The soul is eternal, conscious, subtle, and Divine in nature. As an eternal part of God, it can never be fully satisfied by material happiness.
The body changes, the senses become active and inactive, and the mind fluctuates constantly. Yet the conscious self remains. Then who are we really?
If the self were material, material happiness should completely satisfy it. Yet dissatisfaction continues. This inquiry becomes the beginning of understanding the true nature of the soul.
The material mind and the material world are both formed from Maya. This creates natural worldly attraction and becomes the root of spiritual misidentification.
Every conscious living entity is called jeev (जीव; jīva ). The other names of jeev is atma (आत्मा ; ātmā ), spirit, inner self, soul etc. This is also written as jiva. The literal meaning of the Sanskrit word jeev means life. So, the one which is always alive and infuses