QUOTE : 5. Sarasyaavartaad iva vrttirantah karanaparinaamah. What are the thoughts? What are the vrittis, the modes, moods? They are like a whirlpool in the lake that is mind. It is the same substance in you, the same energy. You can spend the whole life worrying, grumbling, brooding over things and being miserable, or the same energy could be used to uplift you to unimaginable heights. It is one energy, one wave. That is your mind. Like a whirlpool, the waves arise within the water. The same water is made into a wave. Thoughts are not some external force coming into you and attacking you. It is part of the consciousness. And how to move about with it, this we will see.