31. Thus the mind is enlarged by the various inventions of its imagination, as a tree is extended by the expansion of its boughs and branches. The extended mind encompasses all things, as an outstretched arbor overspreads on the ground. It is the mind’s comprehension of every thing, and its conversancy with the natures of all things, that serve to lead it to its state of perfection. (The amplitude of the mind, consists in the extent of its knowledge). CHAPTER CX. DESCRIPTION OF MIND. Argument. The great Magnitude of mental powers, and government of the Mind. Vasishtha said:—Since the subjective Intellect _chit_, has derived the power of knowing the objective Intelligibles _chetyas_, from the supreme cause in the beginning; it went on to multiply and diversify the objects of its intelligence, and thus fell from the knowledge of the one intelligent Universal _Ego_, to the delusion of the particular _non egos ad infinitum_. (The knowledge of the subjective universal soul being lost, the mind is left to be bewildered in the objective particulars to no end). 2. Thus Ráma, the faculties of the mind, being deluded by the unrealities of particulars, they continue to attribute specialities and differences to the general ones to their utter error. (Multiplication and differentiation of objects, mislead the mind from the universal unity of the only one). 3. The mental powers are ever busy to multiply the unrealities to infinity, as ignorant children are prone to create the false goblins of their fancy, only for their terror and trouble. 4. But the reality soon disperses the troublesome unrealities, and the unsullied understanding drives off the errors of imagination, as the sun-shine dispels the darkness. 5. The mind brings distant objects near it, and throws the nearer ones at a distance; it trots and flutters in living beings, as boys leap and jump in bushes after little birds. 6. The wistful mind is fearful, where there is nothing to fear; as the affrighted traveller takes the stump of a tree for demon, standing on his way. 7. The suspicious mind suspects a friend for a foe, as a drunken sot thinks himself lying on the ground, while he is walking along. 8. The distracted mind, sees the fiery Saturn in the cooling moon; and the nectar being swallowed as poison, acts as poison itself. 9. The building of an aerial castle however untrue, is taken for truth for the time being; and the mind dwelling on hopes, is a dreamer in its waking state. 10. The disease of desire is the delusion of the mind; therefore it is to be rooted out at once with all diligence from the mind. 11. The minds of men being entangled in the net of avarice like poor stags, are rendered as helpless as these beasts of prey, in the forest of the world. 12. He who has removed by his reasoning, the vain anxieties of his mind, has displayed the light of his soul, like that of the unclouded sun to sight.