According to the Hindu belief system, You, He and I refers to the soul and not the body. The soul is always accompanied by its mind. Like the limbs, eyes, ears and mouth are the tools of a physical body, the mind is the tool of a soul. A soul is so used to its tool, that when in a body it forgets its identity and thinks it is the mind.
Mind has the record of every experience a soul has had in its innumerable cycles of birth and rebirth. More number of births means more data and therefore more information. This makes a person mature or wise or intelligent.
Mind is domineering tool. When you look at the moving pictures in a television set, you completely ignore the components which make the set and electricity which is the driving force. But the mind is something internal and manifests as part of you. Therefore you don’t have an external reference to realize that the mind is not you. Body and mind imposes two limitations to the soul, which is truly without any limitations. Body introduces a limitation which we call space. Mind imposes a limitation known as time.
Meditation is an attempt to calm the mind and limit its dominance. It only makes the mind sharper and focused. But never helps in conquering mind. A person with a focused mind, will be able to accomplish certain mental feats such as extraordinary memory, reading others mind, multitasking. The practitioner is tricked into believe he is realized. By chance if he has a group of followers they will make sure he is a realized or enlightened soul.
These are attributes that are natural to any mind.
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