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Human Mind changes its colour and shape like a chameleon. It is very wavering and unsteady
 The mind had a pernicious habit of externalization from time immemorial. The constant utterance of OM purifies the mind-stuff and helps to make the mind introspective. When your mind is in deep concentration, a period of two hours appears like five minutes. If the mind is distracted and wandering, half an hour appears as two hours. Perception through the finite mind or cognition of experience takes place serially and not simultaneously. Simultaneous knowledge can only be had in Nirvikalpa Samadhi where past and future merge in the present. Though several objects may come in contact simultaneously with the different sense-organs, yet the mind acts like a gate keeper who can admit only one person at a time in the gate. The mind can send only one kind of sensation at a time into the mental factory inside for the manufacture of a percept and concept. There are secretions from endocrine glands which are ductless. viz., Thyroid, Thymus, Parotid, Pineal, Suprarenal, etc. These secretions are directly absorbed into blood. They play a vital part in constituting the temperament of every individual. The temperament of a man can be greatly modified by environments, education and experience. That is the reason why the Bhagwad Gita says: "Sadrisham cheshtate svasya prakriter jnanavanapi"—Even the man of knowledge behaves in conformity with his own nature" (Chap. 111-33).

 Mind havocs through the power of imagination. Imaginary fears of various sorts, exaggeration, concoction, mental dramatization, building castles in the air, are all clue to the power of imagination. Even a perfect, healthy man has some imaginary disease or other due to the power of imagination of the mind. A man may have a little weakness or Dosha (fault). When one becomes your enemy, you at once exaggerate and magnify his weakness and Dosha. You even tyr to superimpose many more weaknesses and Doshas. This is due to the power of Imagination. Much energy is wasted on account of imaginary fears. Belief, reasoning, knowledge and faith are four important psychic processes. The mind wants always to be doing something and when it attaches itself with the objects it cherishes, it feels amused and happy. It is difficult to divert the mind which from infancy has fallen into the pernicious habit of seeking pleasure outwardly and it shall ever persist in doing so, unless you give it something superior to be amused with, a greater form of pleasure to delight in. The mind in the vast majority of persons has been allowed to run wild and follow its own sweet will and desires. It is like a spoiled child who is given to much indulgence by its parents or a badly trained animal. The minds of many of us are like menageries of wild animals, each pursuing the bent of its own nature and going its own way. You must have an intellectual grasp, intellectual conviction and comprehensive understanding of Brahman first through the purified mind. The help of the mind is always needed either for perfection of an object or the understanding of Brahman. Meditation proceeds from the mind only, Mark how one Sankalpa (A Kind of Oath) expands into many Sankalpas (Vistara) in a short time. Suppose you get a Sankalpa to have tea-party for your friends, the thought of tea invites instantaneously the thoughts of sugar, milk, teacups, tables, chairs, table cloth, napkins, spoons, sweetmeats, salted things, etc.

So this world is nothing but the expansion of Sankalpas or Oaths. The expansion of thoughts of the mind towards the objects is bondage (Bandha). Renunciation of Sankalpas is liberation (Moksha). One must be ever watchful in nipping the Sankalpas in the bud. Only then will he be really happy. Human mind, tricks and plays and one must understand its nature, ways and habits. Only then can one control it very easily. The mind assumes the shape of any object it intently thinks upon. If it thinks of an apple it assumes the shape of an apple. If it thinks of Lord Krishna, or Jesus ,it assumes the shape of Lord Krishna or Jesus. We must train the mind properly and give it proper Sattvic food for assimilation. Have a Sattvic background of thought or mental image.

 If you tasted Wine for a month, the 'mental adhesion' to Wine comes in the mind. If you are in the company of Sannyasins, if you read books on Yoga, Vedanta, etc., a similar mental adhesion takes place in the mind for attaining God-consciousness. Mere mental adhesion will not help you much. Burning Vairagya, burning Mumukshutva, capacity for spiritual Sadhana, intense and constant application and Nididhyasana (meditation) are needed. Only then Self-realisation is possible. The form which the endless Atman (Supreme Spirit) assumes through Sankalpa is Manas (mind). The mind attains the quiescent state of Para-Brahman through its enemy of discrimination. It first turned its back upon discrimination and hence entangled itself in the folds of Vasanas of objects. Human mind is ever changing and wandering. This wandering habit of the mind manifests itself in various ways. We have to be on the alert always to check this wandering habit of the mind. We as ordinary Human Beings, our mind wanders to amusement, entertainment, and house hold & Worldly matters. A Sadhu's mind wanders to Holy Places. Many Sadhus never stick to one place during Sadhana. The wandering habit of the mind must be controlled by making it stick to one place, one method of Sadhana, one Guru and one form of Yoga. A rolling stone gathers no moss. When we take up a book for study we must finish it before we take up another. When we take up any work, we must devote our wholehearted attention towards the work on hand and finish it before we take up another work. "One thing at a time and that done well is a very good rule as many can tell." This is Yogi's way of doing.

 If all the thoughts are eliminated, then there remains nothing which can be called the mind. So thoughts are the mind. Again there is no such thing as the world independent of and apart from thoughts. The mind is generally attracted by brilliant light, beauty, intelligence, varied colours and pleasant sounds. What is the Adhishthana or background for all these things? There is one Essence at the back of the mind and all objects of this seeming sense-universe. That Essence is all full (Paripurna) and self-contained.