Manoratha, when you drive on the chariot of mind, you cannot get any fixed idea, because mind is flickering

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"Manoratha, when you drive on the chariot of mind, you cannot get any fixed idea, because mind is flickering"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Manoratha, when you drive on the chariot of mind, you cannot get any fixed idea, because mind is flickering. Saṅkalpa-vikalpa. Mind business is, "Accept this, and again reject it." So all these speculators are doing.

740109 - Morning Walk - Los Angeles

Prabhupāda: Therefore mental speculators, they have been condemned. Manorathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ (SB 5.18.12). Because they carry on, or they are carried by, the chariot of mind, manorathena. Manorathena asata. Manoratha, when you drive on the chariot of mind, you cannot get any fixed idea, because mind is flickering. Saṅkalpa-vikalpa. Mind business is, "Accept this, and again reject it." So all these speculators are doing. Somebody is putting forward some theory, and after some years he will himself reject or somebody else will reject. So manorathena, by mental speculation, you remain on the material platform. You cannot get any spiritual idea. Therefore harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. Anyone who is not in the spiritual platform . . . spiritual platform means to be a devotee of the Lord. The Māyāvādīs, because they are not devotees of the Lord, they are not on the spiritual platform. They are on the material platform. They are speculating spirit, "something negation of matter." That's all. That is mental speculation. "It is bad. Good means negation of bad." They are thinking like that. They do not know in this material world bad and good are both the same thing, because it is matter. That they do not know. They think, "This is bad, this is good." But they do not know, materially conceived anything, good or bad, they are the same thing. That they do not know.