When thought is eliminated, everything else is eliminated. When thought increases everything else increases. All this is the product of the mind. In deep sleep when the thinking mind has gone into abeyance there is nothing, by every one's experience, so man's Samsara is a mind creation, and has no real existence. 171 Cloud is gathered by the wind, and is driven away by it too.
Bondage is imagined by the mind, and liberation is imagined by it too.
By dwelling with desire on the body and other senses the mind binds a man like an animal with a rope, and the same mind liberates him from the bond by creating simple distaste for the senses as if they were poison. Thus the mind is the cause of a man's finding both bondage and liberation. When soiled with the attribute of desire it is the cause of bondage, and when clear of desire and ignorance it is the cause of liberation. By achieving the purity of an habitual discrimination and dispassion, the mind is inclined to liberation, so the wise seeker after liberation should first develop these. A great tiger known as the mind lives in the forest of the senses, so pious seekers after liberation should not go there.