Q. 158: Gurudev, I was wondering what exactly the mind is? Is it a little space in our brain or is it the universe?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Mind is energy which is all over the body.
See, every cell in your body is emitting some energy and the totality of all that energy around you is what you call the mind.
What happens in mind reflects in the body, what you put in the body, reflects in the mind.

Mind is not present at some point in the brain, but mind is all over the body. There is so much deep knowledge about consciousness;-The vibrations around the body make things happen around us. Have noticed, sometimes you see some people and you feel like talking and, sometimes for no reason you feel like avoiding some people. 

So, one of the best ways to have good interpersonal skills is to cleanse one's presence, one's aura. 

On a more gross level, Mind has got two dimensions.
One is open mind and one is closed mind.
An open mind is receptive, ready to learn, ready to catch the moment.
A closed mind says, “I know it all”.
Mind that has confined itself under the boundary of ‘I know it all' doesn't let one's personality to blossom fully. 

In one of the traditions in East, the name given to a religion is Sikh. Sikh means one who is always ready to learn, and the knowledge of the self is so vast that there cannot be end to learning.

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