Like the air, it enters and leaves the body, and knows neither its own or other people's good or bad, dependent as it is on something else. The faculty of knowledge and the mind itself constitute the mind-made sheath, the cause of such distinctions as 'me' and 'mine'. It is strong and has the faculty of creating distinctions of perception etc., and works itself through the vitality sheath. 167 The mind-made fire burns the multiplicity of experience in the fuel of numerous desires of the senses presented as oblations in the form of sense objects by the five senses like five priests. There is no such thing as ignorance beyond the thinking mind.
Thought is itself ignorance, the cause of the bondage of becoming.
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.