Mind is somehing distinct form the physical body. It also cannot be identified with the spiritual Self. This is because the spiritual Self is the knower, and the mind is not the knower. Mind is an object of knowledge. Just as we perceive an external object, similarly we can perceive our own mind.
Since the mind is an object of knowledge, an object of cognition, it cannot be the knower. You are essencial the knower.
Here is an object, a table for instance. Do the eyes see the table? And do the eyes hear a noise? If the ear hear and the eyes see and the nose smells, what happens? You have so many knowers, so many selves in one individual. But beyond these senses there is one common knower. That knower perceives through the eyes, perceives through the ears, perceives through the nose. That knower not only is distinct form all these organs of perception, but is also distinct from the mind because that knower visualizes the mind, observes the mind. You can observe your mind directly through introspection. Others can observe your mind only indirectly. Only your own mind is observable by you directly through introspectction. All other methods of studying the mind are indirect.
Because the mind is an object of knowledge, consciousness is not intrinsic in the mind. Cousciouness is intrinsic in the knower. The knower is self-aware, self-evident, and you never question your own existence. You take it for granted that you exist: this is self-revealing - that you are.
Why the is knower self-revealing? Because it is self-intelligent. Self awareness is its very essential characteristic. Such is the Self. And what is the mind? The mind is an object of knowledge, such as a table is the object of knowledge. Naturally the mind is devoid of consciouness. Any object of knowledge is devoid of consciouness. This Self, the knower, is the sole self intelligent principle in human personality. So, the mind is dark, material, just as any external object such as a clod of earth is dark and material and devoid of consciouness. Similarly, the mind is also material.
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Joe Vieira
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