Functions of the Soul delegated to the Mind

The mind is a subtle machine, like a container
into which flows all the information gathered
through the sensory organs,
by the interface called the brain,
which sends them into the mind,
which has four main functions: Thinking, Feeling, Willing and Consciousness.

1. Consciousness

Consciousness is the function that generates attachment.
Normal examples of shifts of attachment are in level of changing material attachments,
after a certain period of time, as the material information environment has changed.

The extraordinary example is changing the material attachment to a spiritual one, when one has reached the level of long-term association with a spiritual information environment.

This shift of consciousness into the spiritual plane begins with the purification of the mind,
by moving from an environment whose goal is sense gratification
to a spiritual information environment, whose goal is the attainment of spiritual love for Krishna.

Thus the sense objects become pointers to the spiritual world and as a result
the sense organs that receive the spiritual information of these pointers
become "spiritualized". Thus the mind itself becomes "spiritualized", due to the fact that it is gradually
no longer interested in the goodness and badness of the material world,
but in the activities of the Transcendental Personality - Krishna.

2. Feeling

It is expressed by attraction or repulsion to the object (whether animate or not) which conveys information that is gathered by the sense organs.

And this attraction or repulsion on the mental plane
when it becomes intense and thus generates emotions, is transmitted to the gross body,
taking various forms: trembling, flushing, turning pale, skin turning chicken, hair standing up on your hands...

3. Willing

Due to feelings of attraction or repulsion that are transmitted throughout the body
the mind makes plans how to get the object of attraction,
or how to avoid/destroy the object that creates repulsion.

The mind thus is always busy planning
to enjoy pleasures, which are actually the rewards of past good deeds
and to avoid unpleasantness, which comes from past negative (sinful) activities.

4. Thinking

Into this subtle vessel, which is the mind, flows information received by the sense organs.
To think is to compare.
New informations are compared with existing informations in the mind.

Some of these informations are accepted, if they match the consciousness reached
and are stored in those mental libraries of accepted informations,
and other informations are rejected as unacceptable, if it does not fit the current consciousness/"beliefs",but are stored in those mental libraries of rejected information.

The moment some rejected informations become majority and continuous, a shift of consciousness takes place