Why shouldn’t we, even for a split-second mistake mind for the Soul? Bhagawan clearly explains today the significant difference to guard and guide us in our spiritual practices.

While doing meditation, the mind shouldn’t be allowed to wander away from the target. Whenever it flies off at a tangent, it must be led back to the form meditated upon. Finally, if you so desire, all things can be subsumed in that form itself! Nevertheless, only one form must be meditated upon in the beginning. You shouldn’t change daily from one to another. Again, during spiritual practice, you should not indulge in thoughts about things you don’t like which cause pain or shake your faith. If any such peep in, learn gradually to welcome them as beneficial and seek to grasp the good in them, instead of the bad. Of course, the mind is inert (jada). Just as when water, inert matter, begins to shine when it’s placed in the Sun, the inert mind borrows effulgence from the Atma and appears as if it has consciousness (Chaitanya). Intellect (buddhi) gets reflected in the mind, so it looks as if the mind is also intelligent, that is all. The mind’s real nature is ignorance.