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Categories of Mind

The document discusses different categories of minds that spiritual aspirants can belong to. It identifies five main categories: 1) Idiots who are very difficult to teach, 2) Those with scattered minds who cannot focus on one thing and jump between different interests and practices, 3) Those who are moha or attached to worldly pleasures, 4) Those who are vikshipta or intellectually inclined but not experienced, and 5) Steadfast ones who are progressing on the spiritual path. The categories help explain why there are different paths that people follow in their spiritual journeys based on their starting point and level of understanding.

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Categories of Mind

The document discusses different categories of minds that spiritual aspirants can belong to. It identifies five main categories: 1) Idiots who are very difficult to teach, 2) Those with scattered minds who cannot focus on one thing and jump between different interests and practices, 3) Those who are moha or attached to worldly pleasures, 4) Those who are vikshipta or intellectually inclined but not experienced, and 5) Steadfast ones who are progressing on the spiritual path. The categories help explain why there are different paths that people follow in their spiritual journeys based on their starting point and level of understanding.

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We come across many different paths, all of which claim to be the path

to spiritual enlightenment. This creates much confusion in our minds.


What can we do to clarify this confusion, to imbibe the true spiritual
teachings and to progress on the spiritual path?

The question asked is, "Why are there so many roads to Delhi?" The
roads have nothing to do with the ultimate destination, they have to
do with the traveller and his starting point. The roads that terminate
in Delhi have nothing to do with Delhi; the important thing is where
the person lives. If you are in Bangalore, then you are not in
Calcutta, Pune or Bombay and, therefore, you have to think about
how to travel from Bangalore to Delhi. In other words, rather than
looking for the destination or the path, you have to examine where
you are now or to which category you belong.

Five categories of mind

Broadly speaking, spiritual aspirants belong to five categories. First


come the idiots, the blockheads, the inert and the unapproachable.
It is very hard to get into them. This is the lowest category,
moodha. The second category is scattered, broken and dissipated.
Their desires, passions, aims, accomplishments, actions,
expressions, personality, choices, likes, hatreds and prejudices are
all dissipated. They do not stick to one thing. Sometimes they want
to become a film star, sometimes they want to become a cricketer
like Kapil Dev, sometimes a tennis star like Navratilova, sometimes
they want to become Indira Gandhi. Sometimes they want to
practise kundalini yoga, sometimes swara yoga. Sometimes they
want to enter into jada samadhi, dig a pit, get in and stop their
breath. They are called kshipta; they have dissipated, unstable
minds, with no centres. That is also a category of mind in
psychology.

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