" Yeilding to the power of rajas, he identifies himself with the many motions and changes of the mind. Therefore he is swept hither and thither, now rising, now sinking, in the boundless ocean of birth and death, whose waters are full of the poison of sense-objects. This is indeed a miserable fate. "

― Adi Shankaracharya , Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani