The mind is agitated, and so, you too are led into passions and emotions. When the plank on which you sit moves, you too move; when the train runs fast with you sitting in the compartment, you feel that the trees too move with you. On the other hand, the mind makes you feel stationary on the earth, though the earth revolves fast on its own axis and also around the Sun. These are all tricks of the mind, hiding the truth and imposing its own illusions on your experience. The real truth is different from the picture of truth that the mind presents. To ascribe joy and grief that one passes through in life to the nature of the Individual Soul is an act of ignorance. One must dissociate one from the other. Elation and depression, pleasure and pain, joy and grief are modifications of the mind, not of the jivi (individual soul). It is the mind that reacts to external objects and events and pronounces them as desirable and undesirable, good and bad. This explains why the control of the waywardness of the mind is to be achieved! – Divine Discourse, Jan 04, 1974.