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 | | Because the mind alone constitutes the root-principle manifesting as the individual, God and the world, its absorption or submergence and dissolution in the Self as pure Consciousness is the final emancipation known as Kaivalya and in the Supreme Spirit, the Brahman. |
 | | Although it is variously said that the neck is the seat of the mind, the brain of the intellect, and the Heart or the whole body of the ego, still the scriptures state conclusively that the Heart is the seat of the totality of the interior senses, which is again called the mind. |
 | | When, however, a person, with the aid of his mind, tightly holds their reins, it is then that his soul discovers itself like an object (unseen in darkness) appearing to the view in consequence of the light of a lamp. |
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