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| 108 Elements of Human Mind |
108 Elements of Human Mind
Kedi: Why didn’t I feel sad
even after losing?
Ganesh: Because you chose to
lose yourself. If you did not want to lose at any cost and still lost, then you
would feel sad.
Kedi: Does that mean I have to
fight another boxing match to understand the pain of losing?
Ganesh: You can experience
loss even without boxing. Loss exists in every field.
Kedi: Then why did I join
boxing? Why did I let myself get beaten so much?
Ganesh: You did not take up
boxing to experience loss, but to understand the lifestyle and mindset of a
sportsperson, which also included 64 emotions.
Kedi: I remember, when I won
my first fight, you told me about the 64 emotions. I had experienced 62 of
them; cruelty and detachment were the two emotions left to experience. But what
is this mindset? Why don’t I remember?
Ganesh: The human mind has 108
elements. When some of these elements connect with each other, they influence a
person’s intellectual and mental thinking, and provide an invisible yet real
mental perspective. That perspective is called mindset.
Kedi: I did not understand
anything.
Ganesh: The mind has certain elements.
When they connect together, a person develops a mental way of thinking. Since
each person’s mental elements connect differently, they create different
mindsets.
Kedi: Still did not
understand.
Ganesh: The fact that you are
not able to understand quickly is also because of the mind’s elements. The
component responsible for not understanding quickly has given you the mindset
of not understanding quickly.
Kedi: What are the elements of
the mind?
Ganesh: There are 64 emotions,
12 moods, 12 natures, 8 states, 8 willpowers, and 4 perspectives of mind—making
a total of 108 elements.
Kedi: I know about emotions,
but what is a mood?
Ganesh: When someone
suppresses or stretches an emotion for longer than necessary, that emotion
becomes a mood.
Kedi: What do you mean by
suppressing or stretching an emotion?
Ganesh: When you are about to
go on a picnic with your friends, and one friend calls to stop you because
someone else is sponsoring the picnic and you are getting the limelight, you
feel hurt. You may say you will remain neutral, but they still do not agree,
and you feel sad. That two minutes of sadness is enough. But if you keep repeating
your friend’s words in your mind and extend those two minutes into two hours,
then that two-hour mental condition is called a mood.
Kedi: How does the mood of
some of my friends change suddenly?
Ganesh: Different thoughts and
memories continuously arise in the mind. When someone catches hold of one of
those thoughts or memories and puts it on repeat mode, it activates a
particular emotion, and that emotion keeps running continuously. That is why a
mood can suddenly change even while laughing and dancing.
Kedi: What is nature?
Ganesh: When you are connected
to a particular emotion and respond at that time, that response is your nature.
Kedi: What is a state?
Ganesh: When the coordination
of mind and body results in physical and mental actions happening together,
that condition is called a state.
Kedi: For example?
Ganesh: When you were boxing,
you were experiencing emotions in your mind while physically moving your hands
and legs to punch your opponent. That is the conscious state of the mind.
Kedi: What is willpower?
Ganesh: In this world, a human
performs every action because of willpower. Whatever willpower exists in the
mind, related actions are performed. Once willpower becomes inactive, a person
cannot perform even the task in which they have mastery at any cost. But if
willpower is present, a person can perform any action even for free.
Kedi: What is perspective of
mind?
Ganesh: Just as we see through
our eyes, we also “see” through the mind to think and understand. The angle
from which the mind sees is called perspective of mind.
Kedi: Which are the four
perspectives of mind?
Ganesh: Andhak, Mand, Chibit,
and Sulochan are the four perspectives of mind.
Kedi: What is Andhak
perspective?
Ganesh: When a person cannot
see beyond their limits, it is Andhak perspective. For example, a worker may do
only the assigned task, but cannot see how much profit it brings to others,
what impact it has on the world, or how much harm it causes to himself. He only
sees the limited task.
Kedi: What is Mand
perspective?
Ganesh: When a person focuses
on one subject and explores other subjects related to it, but does not even
look at subjects that are unrelated to the main subject, it is Mand
perspective. Most scientists have Mand perspective.
Kedi: What is Chibit perspective?
Ganesh: When a person focuses
on two opposite subjects at the same time, it is Chibit perspective. Most
soldiers and politicians have Chibit perspective.
Kedi: What is Sulochan
perspective?
Ganesh: When a person wants to
know all subjects around them, even those that have no connection to them, it
is Sulochan perspective. Most journalists have Sulochan perspective.
Kedi: Which perspective do I
have?
Ganesh: You have Mand
perspective. That is Awhy, whenever you want to understand a subject, you keep
asking questions about all related topics, but you never ask questions
unrelated to the subject.
Kedi: What are the 8 types of
willpower?
Ganesh: Sex, purity, love,
pleasure, peace, knowledge, bliss, and liberation are the 8 types of willpower.
Whatever action a human being performs, there is no reason other than these 8
willpowers behind that action.
Kedi: Most people work to earn
money. There is no option of money here at all. Why is that?
Ganesh: Saying that people
work to earn money is the biggest lie. People work to buy one of these 8
desires with money. And when any work directly fulfills one of these desires,
then they do not even want money in return for that work.
Kedi: What kind of work can
someone do because of the willpower of sex?
Ganesh:
Kedi: What is the willpower of
purity?
Ganesh: Just keeping the body
clean is not purity. Expressing your real thoughts and emotions is purity.
Whoever searches for a platform to present their opinion, or does whatever it
takes to reach a platform, does so because of the willpower of purity. The one
who does not have the willpower of purity does not even have the desire to
present their opinion. In a group, the one who gives the most opinions and the
one who does not give even a single opinion — for both of them, the reason is
the willpower of purity.
Kedi: What is the willpower of
love?
Ganesh: When someone is in
love, they can do anything to make their lover happy. They can travel 30
kilometers every day just to meet their love. But when love decreases, they do
not even want to walk three steps to meet the same person, even if that person
is present at the same place.
Kedi: What is the willpower of
pleasure?
Ganesh: When someone wants
pleasure, they can climb a mountain, travel a thousand kilometers on a bike,
stand outside a hotel in line for 2 hours, wait 4 hours in a carnival for their
ideal person.
Kedi: What is the willpower of
peace?
Ganesh: When someone wants
peace, people work to change jobs, work to build a house, collect money to go
live in solitude for a few days. All this they are able to do because of the
willpower of peace.
Kedi: What is the willpower of
knowledge?
Ganesh: When a person wants to
learn a subject, learn an art, do some experiments, all this happens because of
the willpower of knowledge. The one who has more willpower for knowledge works
to gain more knowledge. The one who has less willpower for knowledge does not
want to gain any knowledge at all.
Kedi: What is the willpower of
bliss?
Ganesh: When a human does some
work to get something new, or to win, or to make their own people win, they are
able to do that work because of the willpower of bliss.
Kedi: What is the willpower of
liberation?
Ganesh: When someone works to
free themselves from debt, to free themselves from negative or weak character, to
go away from their family, to free themselves from some responsibility or
relationships — they do all that because of the willpower of liberation. The
one who does not have the willpower of liberation cannot free themselves from
any bondage, no matter how trapped they are.
Kedi: What are the 8 states of
the mind?
Ganesh: Void, conscious,
semi-conscious, unconscious, emotion, creation, temperament, control — these
are the 8 states.
Kedi: What is the void state?
Ganesh: When you are in sleep,
do not see any dreams, do not experience any emotion, do not experience your
own existence — then the connection that body and mind establish is called the
void state.
Kedi: What is the conscious
state?
Ganesh: When you think and
understand before doing some work, and the mind’s thinking and the body’s
action go together, that is called the conscious state.
Kedi: What is the
semi-conscious state?
Ganesh: When you are sitting
in the office cabin attending a meeting, and at the same time looking at your
colleague and getting lost in imagination about the future, imagining the
qualities of your future wife, and at the same time nodding your head to show
you are present in the meeting — that is the semi-conscious state.
Kedi: What is the unconscious
state?
Ganesh: When by doing some
work again and again, its pattern gets hidden in the brain, then you do not
need to think to do that work. The body does it automatically without thinking,
and the mind’s thinking gets rest. That state is called the unconscious state. Like
while riding a bike you change gears without thinking, you type without
thinking, the moment you put vada pav in your mouth you start chewing without
thinking.
Kedi: What is the emotion
state?
Ganesh: When you experience
some emotion and cry or laugh, tremble in fear or boil in anger — that state is
called the emotion state.
Kedi: Why is there a
difference between emotion and emotion state?
Ganesh: When the mind feels
something, that is only emotion. But when the body also feels that emotion,
that is emotion state.
Kedi: What is the creation
state?
Ganesh: When you think
something creative and also execute it through the body, that is the creation
state. Like doing decoration, cooking food, making a website — at that time you
are in the creation state.
Kedi: What is the temperament
state?
Ganesh: When you give some
reaction through the body and reveal your temperament, that is the temperament
state.
Kedi: Are temperament and
temperament state different?
Ganesh: When because of some
action a reaction arises in the mind, that is temperament. And because of that
temperament when the body reacts, that is temperament state.
Kedi: What is the control
state?
Ganesh: When some emotion or
desire arises in the mind, or there is a desire to react, but we stop it — that
is the control state.
Kedi: Why does someone stop
their emotion, desire, or reaction?
Ganesh: When you see a girl
and water comes in your mouth, lust arises in your mind, and both the place and
the girl are inappropriate — then you have to stop and hide the emotion. If you
do not do that, you will be declared mad or a criminal. If you see chicken in
your boss’s plate and, out of desire to eat it, put your hand into your boss’s
plate, your boss will throw you out of the company. If after hearing a
relative’s nonsense you give a wrong reaction, you will lose the relationship.
That is why according to inappropriate time, place, and situation, you have to
stop emotion, desire, and reaction. Mental health depends only on this one
state. The one who controls this state is mentally healthy.
Kedi: Then in which state is a
mentally ill person?
Ganesh: A human being who
stays for too long in the semi-conscious state becomes a victim of mental
illness.
Kedi: How long do I stay in
the semi-conscious state?
Ganesh: You do not stay in any
one state for long. The moment you see something new, curiosity awakens inside
you, and my peace gets disturbed.
Kedi: What are the 12 natures
of the mind?
Ganesh: Cheerful, calm, mischievous, enthusiastic, lazy, angry, arrogant,
suspicious, helpless, greedy, renunciant, and compassionate—these are the 12
natures.
Kedi: What is a cheerful
nature?
Ganesh: Whatever action happens, if laughter comes out as the first reaction,
that is a cheerful nature.
Kedi: Everyone laughs in the
world, so does everyone have a cheerful nature?
Ganesh: The world laughs only when there is a joke, but a person with a
cheerful nature starts laughing even after seeing sad faces at someone’s
mourning. The one who laughs in every situation and circumstance has a cheerful
nature.
Kedi: What is a calm nature?
Ganesh: The one who remains calm in every situation and circumstance has a calm
nature. In a cricket match, when everyone is jumping and celebrating, if
someone sits quietly and enblisss the victory, his nature is calm.
Kedi: What is a mischievous
nature?
Ganesh: The one who looks for an opportunity to do some mischief in every
situation and circumstance has a mischievous nature. Saw a bell—rang it. Saw
clothes—tore them. Saw shoes—hid them. Saw someone quiet—teased them. Saw a
crowd—pushed someone. If the first reaction on seeing anything is to do
mischief, that is a mischievous nature.
Kedi: What is an enthusiastic
nature?
Ganesh: When, on seeing or hearing about something, an intense urge arises to
experience it immediately, that is an enthusiastic nature. Whenever you used to
join a job, your enthusiastic nature would arise; there was curiosity and
eagerness to know and learn everything. As soon as you knew enough, the
enthusiasm would change.
Kedi: Does nature change?
Ganesh: Yes, with time nature changes. When desires and emotions change, nature
also changes, because nature is formed due to desires and emotions.
Kedi: What is a lazy nature?
Ganesh: The one who is lazy in every situation and circumstance, whose first
reaction is laziness, has a lazy nature. At home, you are lazy. When your
mother tells you to do any work at home, your first reaction is laziness.
Kedi: What is an angry nature?
Ganesh: The one who gets angry in every situation and circumstance, whose first
reaction is anger, has an angry nature. Some people get angry even on seeing
others laugh and also on seeing others cry.
Kedi: What is an arrogant
nature?
Ganesh: The one who shows arrogance in every situation and circumstance, whose
first reaction is arrogance, has an arrogant nature. A person who has the
desire to prove himself bigger and more successful in front of everyone gives
arrogance as his first reaction in front of all; that is his nature.
Kedi: Am I arrogant?
Ganesh: To have arrogance, one must first achieve something. You still cannot
even repair your second-hand bike. If you want arrogance, first achieve
something.
Kedi: What is a suspicious
nature?
Ganesh: The one who doubts in every situation and circumstance, whose first
reaction is suspicion, has a suspicious nature. A person with a suspicious
nature looks at the whole world with suspicion. He thinks, “I am doing wrong to
others, so the whole world must also be doing the same wrong to me.”
Kedi: What is a helpless
nature?
Ganesh: The one who feels helpless in every situation and circumstance, whose
first reaction is helplessness, has a helpless nature. A person with a helpless
nature has this as the first reaction: “I am helpless, I cannot do it.”
Kedi: What is a greedy nature?
Ganesh: The one who is greedy in every situation and circumstance, whose first
reaction is greed, has a greedy nature. A person with a greedy nature wants to
gain more of everything; he even desires to obtain things that are of no use to
him.
Kedi: What is a renunciant
nature?
Ganesh: The one who has the desire to renounce everything, whose first reaction
is renunciation, has a renunciant nature. A person with a renunciant nature
ignores all such subjects on seeing them and does not desire to obtain them.
Kedi: Does a renunciant give
up all his possessions?
Ganesh: No, a renunciant immediately gives up those things that are of no use
to him. He keeps what is useful. Often we see 100 things, most of which are of
no use to us, yet we think about them and desire to obtain them. But a person
with a renunciant nature renounces such things forever in a moment.
Kedi: What is a compassionate
nature?
Ganesh: The one who has the desire to help everyone, whose first reaction is
compassion, has a compassionate nature. A person with a compassionate nature
has helping as his first reaction.
Kedi: What are the 12 states
of mind?
Ganesh: Blissful, peaceful, devotional, adulterous, grief, fearful, sad,
depressed, confused, restless, deceitful, remorseful.
Kedi: What is a blissful state
of mind?
Ganesh: When someone celebrates after obtaining or winning something, that is a
feeling of bliss. When someone repeatedly remembers that bliss or keeps
thinking about it, then they remain in a blissful state of mind.
Kedi: What is a peaceful state
of mind?
Ganesh: When someone rests calmly without thinking about anything or
remembering anything, then they remain in a peaceful state of mind.
Kedi: What is a devotional
state of mind?
Ganesh: When someone hums devotional songs, chants mantras, or listens to
discourses to continuously experience the feeling of devotion, then they remain
in a devotional state of mind.
Kedi: What is an adulterous
state of mind?
Ganesh: When someone constantly remains lost in sexual fantasies and
continuously thinks only about sex, then they remain in an adulterous state of
mind.
Kedi: What is a grieving state
of mind?
Ganesh: When we lose something or someone forever and are completely certain
that we cannot get them back, we experience the feeling of grief. When someone
continuously keeps remembering the lost thing or relationship while flowing in
that grief, that is a grieving state of mind.
Kedi: What is a fearful state
of mind?
Ganesh: When someone is afraid of a particular subject and continuously keeps
thinking about matters related to that fear, then they remain in a fearful
state of mind.
Kedi: What is a sad state of
mind?
Ganesh: When someone experiences sorrow and continuously thinks about the matters
that cause sorrow, then they experience a sad state of mind.
Kedi: What is a depressed
state of mind?
Ganesh: When someone wants to do a task but the emotion and willpower connected
to that task are weak, because of which they are unable to do it, and they keep
thinking about their own weakness, then they remain in a depressed state of
mind.
Kedi: What is a confused state
of mind?
Ganesh: When someone wants to achieve something but cannot decide which option
to choose, and continuously keeps thinking about the right decision, then they
remain in a confused state of mind.
Kedi: What is a restless state
of mind?
Ganesh: When a person waits for a result and keeps thinking about what kind of
result it will be, then they remain in a restless state of mind.
Kedi: What is a deceitful
state of mind?
Ganesh: When someone continuously keeps thinking about creating conspiracies,
then they remain in a deceitful state of mind.
Kedi: What is a remorseful
state of mind?
Ganesh: When a person feels sorrow for losing something because of their own
mistake, that sorrow turns into remorse. When someone continuously thinks about
that remorse, then they remain in a remorseful state of mind.
Kedi: What are the 64 emotions
of the mind?
Ganesh: You have written all 64 emotions in your mobile notepad. Check it
tomorrow morning.
Kedi: But if I do not know
their meanings, I will want to know the meanings too.
Ganesh: No one in the whole world may have heard about the 64 emotions. You
have written them only after knowing their meanings; you just had not reflected
on the other elements of the mind, which now you have also come to know. Now go
to sleep, let me sleep too, it must be 1 a.m.
Kedi: Just tell me the names
of the emotions, do not explain.
Ganesh: In the Muladhara chakra, lust, anger, greed, addiction, etc., four
emotions are generated.
Kedi: What is the connection
between the mind and the Muladhara chakra?
Ganesh: All 64 emotions are not generated in one place; rather, they arise from
the seven energy chakras. The mind only experiences them. Because the mind is
connected with the intellect and the body, the intellect and body experience
the emotions.
Kedi: Which emotions are
generated in Swadhisthana?
Ganesh: In Swadhisthana, ego, surrender, doubt, worry, fear, believe, etc., six
emotions are generated.
Kedi: Which emotions are
generated in Manipura?
Ganesh: In Manipura, love, jealousy, attraction, hatred, affection, enmity,
attachment, renunciation, compassion, kindness, etc., ten emotions are
generated.
Kedi: Which emotions are
generated in Anahata?
Ganesh: In Anahata, pleasure, sorrow, happiness, sadness, laughter, pain,
delight, suffering, enthusiasm, despair, hope, hopelessness, etc., twelve
emotions are generated.
Kedi: Which emotions are
generated in Vishuddhi?
Ganesh: In Vishuddhi, peace, unrest, restlessness, anxiety, patience,
impatience, self-torment, tormenting others, astonishment, detachment,
helplessness, shame, laziness, expectation, embarrassment, grief, etc., sixteen
emotions are generated.
Kedi: Which emotions are
generated in the Ajna chakra?
Ganesh: In the Ajna chakra, wisdom and witness-consciousness are generated.
Kedi: Which emotions are
generated in Sahasrara?
Ganesh: In Sahasrara, bliss, selfishness, cruelty, forgiveness, remorse,
memory, faith, devotion, entertainment, desire, curiosity, satisfaction,
dissatisfaction, and wonder, etc., fourteen emotions are generated, and the
illusion of two emotions—hypnosis and intoxication—is produced.
Kedi: One last question, in
the 108 elements of the mind, why are all the elements connected differently in
each person?
Ganesh: Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi connect the different elements of each
person’s mind based on four subjects: accumulated karma, destined karma,
fortune, and misfortune. Because of this, everyone’s mentality becomes
different, and that same mentality motivates them to experience their
accumulated karma, destined karma, fortune, and misfortune.
Kedi: So my accumulated karma,
destined karma, fortune, and misfortune are responsible for my mentality?
Ganesh: Yes, but present actions also have the capacity to change it, because
by changing actions, the mentality that experiences the changed fortune and
misfortune also changes.
Kedi: Why does Lord Vishnu
give mentality to humans?
Ganesh: Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi create the mind element from two
dimensions—energy and chakras. They connect each person with different
emotions, nature, and willpower, because of which everyone receives a unique
mentality.
Note: This content represents one half of a chapter from Kedi Purana, a 40-chapter work authored by Kedi Ganapati.
Kedi Purana is a modern Purana of the present and final Kaliyuga of the current Kalpa.
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