Our mind is such that even if we get a KALPAVRIKSHA, in the end we would still be worried. Kalpavriksha is a tree, under which if we ask for anything that we want, we would definitely get it. Kalpavriksha is a figment of human imagination.

One day a man reached near a Kalpavriksha. He did not know that it was a Kalpavriksha. He had been continuously walking for the last three days and he was hungry as well. He sat down to take some rest. Then he thought that it would have been nice if he got something to eat. As he was sitting under a Kalpavriksha, 2-3 celestial nymphs appeared there with plates of food. He did not even seem to have observed the presence of the nymphs and he ate all the food within no time. Then he wanted to drink cold water and a lady appeared with a pitcher full of water. He drank the water to the content of his heart and then suddenly saw one of the nymphs.

Then he realized that he had asked for food and water in the midst of a dense forest and he had got the same. He began to think that the nymphs could possibly be ghosts and presto, ghosts did appear. He was then afraid. He thought that he might die then, and he died the next instant.

Such is our mind. If by chance we do get a Kalpavriksha and our mind remains as it is now, then in the end we will surely die.

This is Mind. Neither can we pick up a fight with the mind nor can we suppress it. We can only co-operate with the mind. The mankind is facing the consequences of opposing or ignoring the mind.

In a sense, our minds can hold us captive. Because of conditioning, our beliefs can become set, depriving us of all hope, of even attempting to change our ways. Conditioning can go both ways – it can either hold us captive, or it can release us from our bondage. And one way to become released from bondage is to practice repetition so positive; that the mind will come to believe it is so.