This text, called “The Mind’s Prayer to Itself” or “O Mind,” was written by Vasudeva in retreat.
The mind may be visited by thousands upon thousands of all kinds of knowledge and impressions, from the transcendental to the idiotic, from reverence to aparadhas. But if you identify with even one of them, you will become a victim of maya. And the subtler such identifications are, the harder it is to expose the fetters of duality, and then you are not free. And even if you experience the bliss of the gods


