Dear Ramana1359,
Nice post. Please follow the discussion below and see how the whole thing falls in place...
Mind : in sanskrit , is called "antahkarana", inner instrument. it has four functions: Buddhi, Manas, Cittam, Ahamkarah. There is just one inner instrument, with four functions. When the mind takes the form of sankalpa-vikalpas / thinking about a thing & doubting etc thats "Manas" - mind. When the same antahkarana takes the form of decisions that is "Buddhi/intellect". When it takes the form of "Memory or remembering" its chittam and when it appears in the form of "Aham karta, i am the doer" ... its ahamkara.
So I start from home to airport ... and on the way I get a doubt. "Did I lock my house ?" that is mind, manas.
So this keeps on bothering me ... and then i go home, see if it is locked ... and now i know "its locked" ... Buddhi, Intellect.
Do we see this much ?
Now, this whole thing is instrument ... inner instrument. What ever we have fed into it come out. When the doubt "Did I lock my house? " arises, my buddhi decides what to do . The Buddhi may itself become "wavering" or it may say "Chup! Keep still. You locked". So Buddhi can function in both ways. Do we see that ?
When Buddhi is not able to decide, it means mind has taken over the Buddhi.
And when Buddhi is decisive, clear and still ... it means Buddhi has taken over mind.
So control of mind means ... who controls mind? The Buddhi controls manas. Thats very important.
Someone is studying something and the manas/mind says "Lets stop studying, this is boring". And at this stage "Buddhi" has to take over and say "Shut up! We decided to study, so study now!"
We put an alarm to wake up at 5 am, then the mind says "Ah, Lets sleep for some more time" and thats when Buddhi has to come into picture and say "Did we not decide to wake up at this time ? " and enforce its law upon the mind. This is when we say Mind is under control. This is important, very much so.
But then a more important question arises. If Mind keeps saying something and i have to decide against it constantly, is that not a tussle ? A constant effort ? Anytime the buddhi is relaxed, the mind will take over!! so what to do now ? The answer is ... purification of mind . Though mind jumps, it is always under the "Control" of Buddhi. Ultimately Buddhi is the decider. Manas simply prompts. So Buddhi has to be purified so that the mind will not be able to "Control it". When Buddhi is purified, the manas no more has a control over it, there may still be suggestions, but none of them have the power.
There are two kinds of impurities of mind: mala & vikshepa. mala is mental impurities like raga-dveshas. And vikshepa is tendency to jump here and there. When both these are eventually nullified, the mind remains "Stay Put, where it IS", thats called Mano-nashanam.
Mind has to be brought into control, and it has to be totally vanquished... if i sit here, the mind should remain "Absolutely Still... Here"!! it should not keep jumping about [thats absence of vikshepa]
and then tehre should not be any push and pull towards anyone [no mala]
and thus, one remains Free, effortlessly. thats Mano-nashanam.
My first post after returning and its really become long
