Mind alone is cause of bondage as well as Liberation

The phenomenal powers of the mind are evident in one’s dreams, wherein it projects a whole new world of dream objects. Shankaracharya in ‘vivekchudamani’ in verse 170 told - 

 “In the dream state, even though there is no contact with the external world, the mind alone projects the entire dream-universe of enjoyer etc.

Similarly, the waking-state is no different. All this (world of myriad phenomena), is but a projection of the mind”.

It is the same mind which was projecting everything in dream state and we experience it. That same mind is again projecting everything in our waking state. We need to think over it again and again and try to know the truth behind. 

In dreams mind is causing bondage and in waking state too same mind is causing bondage. Mind is producing thoughts and these thoughts are actually cause of bondage and liberations. 

Thus the triad of ‘experiencer-experienced-experience’ of the dream state is the mind alone.

The mind alone causes man’s attachment to the body and sense objects. These attachments bind him like an animal being bound by ropes, denying him the freedom to be the infinite blissful self. Thereafter the same mind creates distaste for the sense objects as though they were poison and liberate mind from bondage. Therefore the famous declaration of the Amritabindu – Upanishad – “The mind alone is the cause of both bondage as well as liberation”.