These thoughts create stress, worry, and anxiety and get converted into a feeling of fear and panic.
What is more disturbing is that the mind bombards us with so many thoughts that it actually makes us ignorant of the reality. It does not permit us to discriminate the myth from the truth. It envelops us in darkness, and we live and die in ignorance.
How does the mind create ignorance? We human beings don’t realize that our mind is the tool that makes us sink in what is known as the Cosmic Illusion. Many things in this world appear to be real, but in reality, they are a myth. For instance, we see a gold ring. Anybody will say it is a gold ring. But in reality, it is not. It is only gold. If we remove the gold from the ring, would the ring still remain? There would be no ring. But the mind sees only the ring, not the gold. This is because it is a slave of the cosmic illusion and thus it does not discriminate between the myth and the truth. As it continues to see what appears to be, it makes us sink in an ocean of ignorance and we suffer.
Today, the mind sees so much news on the pandemic and does not investigate beyond what we hear and see. Our ignorance creates fear and we live in panic. The mind bombards us with thoughts that we will also get the