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the mind is a subtle body

People can’t control their minds. So, it means that there is an entity that is trying to grab onto or control the mind. This is more evidence that you’re not the mind but there is someone, you, and you are attempting to control your mind.

For example, sometimes your mind starts getting out of hand and you can’t control it. You know, it just goes totally crazy and you want to get your mind under control but you just can’t stop thinking about something. You want to stop thinking of something but you can’t stop thinking of it. So then you try to control your mind. Or, let’s give the example where you try to make your mind blank or you try to make your mind move that way. So the point is, whether you can do it or can’t do it, whether you can control your mind or can’t control your mind, this is evidence that you are the entity who is trying to control the mind as if it’s like a horse or something. You are trying to control the horse, you are trying to control something different than yourself.

So the fact is that you’re not the mind. The mind is a subtle body.

+ The Reality of Reincarnation : Jagat Guru Siddhaswarupananda Goswami