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    The document discusses different categories of mind that spiritual aspirants can belong to. It describes the lowest category as 'moodha', which are idiots and blockheads. The second category is 'kshipta', whose desires and aims are scattered and dissipated. The third category's mind oscillates but can return to a central point, called 'vikshipta'. Most people belong to one of these three lower categories of mind.

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    The document discusses different categories of mind that spiritual aspirants can belong to. It describes the lowest category as 'moodha', which are idiots and blockheads. The second category is 'kshipta', whose desires and aims are scattered and dissipated. The third category's mind oscillates but can return to a central point, called 'vikshipta'. Most people belong to one of these three lower categories of mind.

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    The document discusses different categories of mind that spiritual aspirants can belong to. It describes the lowest category as 'moodha', which are idiots and blockheads. The second category is 'kshipta', whose desires and aims are scattered and dissipated. The third category's mind oscillates but can return to a central point, called 'vikshipta'. Most people belong to one of these three lower categories of mind.

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    The document discusses different categories of mind that spiritual aspirants can belong to. It describes the lowest category as 'moodha', which are idiots and blockheads. The second category is 'kshipta', whose desires and aims are scattered and dissipated. The third category's mind oscillates but can return to a central point, called 'vikshipta'. Most people belong to one of these three lower categories of mind.

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    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.
    The third category keeps on oscillating like a pendulum.
    However, although a pendulum oscillates, it has a centre where
    it stops. Your mind moves about here and there, but then you
    do pranayama. You think about kundalini, about tantra, about
    this or that, then realize what you are doing and return to
    pranayama. When your mind is oscillating, it is running here and
    there, but you can bring it back to the centre. It has a central
    point to which it can gravitate again and again in spite of its
    oscillation. That is the third category of mind called vikshipta.
    These three categories of mind are the very low categories of
    mind to which most of us belong. This classification of mind is
    according to yoga, Samkhya, Vedanta and also modern
    psychology, which has described and defined the mind in its own
    terms. Find out to which category you belong.

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