38.      What is Brainwashing: Brainwashing means casting such an influence on a person that their discretion (discriminating intellect) becomes corrupted and simultaneously their mind becomes so deluded that they cannot distinguish between right and wrong. Due to this, they become unable to make decisions themselves. Consequently, they become a puppet in another person’s hands. Being incapable of assessing the situation and making decisions, they start behaving according to the signals of another person.

Despite moving on another’s signals, the victimized person does not even know that they are operating according to someone else’s intellect.

39.      How does Brainwashing happen? We understood that brainwashing means placing a person’s “decision-making power” in the hands of another person. But to understand how that happens, we first have to understand how a person makes a decision.

40.      Control over Intellect and Mind: A person’s decision-making power depends on two things.

1)    Intellect (Buddhi)

2)    Mind (Man)

A person makes a decision either by thinking with the intellect, or by listening to the mind, and sometimes by relying on both.

Now if we want to bring control over a person’s decision power, then naturally we have to gain control over that person’s intellect and mind. But how does that happen? Let’s see.

41.      How to gain control over Intellect and Mind: We understand that a person acts only when inspired by intellect and mind. Therefore, to get one’s work done by a person…

1)    Corrupt the intellect

2)    Delude/Confuse the mind

In other words, if a veil is cast over the intellect (corrupted) and the mind is diverted to the wrong place, then that person becomes incapable of understanding the truth. So that his mind pulls him towards the wrong place and the intellect cannot understand it. Ultimately, instead of right deeds, he starts doing wrong deeds.

42.      If you can’t convince them, confuse them (If you can’t persuade, then confuse): If you cannot gain control over a person’s mind and intellect, then at least confuse him. A confused person is also like a blind person. He can be easily misled. This principle is also used very much.

43.      Brainwash with the help of Innocence and Ignorance: To corrupt the mind and intellect, the presence of two factors is very necessary.

43.1.        Innocence: A naive person is deceived very quickly. It does not occur to him to suspect others. He does not think whether the talk is true or false, what could be the motive behind the talk, etc. He easily accepts whatever is told to him as true. Let me remind you again that as mentioned in point (‎13), the Kutch Kadva Patidar community had become very “naive/innocent”, which gave scope for its degradation.

43.2.        Ignorance: Ignorant and blind are alike in a way. There is a saying in the local language that “Andho ane abhoio harkho” (A blind person and an ignorant/uninformed person are the same). Therefore, if you want to mislead a man, make him ignorant.

When such things are put before a naive and ignorant person, he accepts them easily considering them to be true. When a person starts behaving in this way, i.e., that person becomes a puppet in someone’s hands. That person is called a brainwashed person. He reaches the last stage of brainwashing. This is how a person is brainwashed.

44.      Misuse of Brainwash: As mentioned above, after becoming a puppet in someone else’s hands, the conspirator puts the matter in front of such a person very tactfully in such a way that the person’s mind cannot oppose that work and with his intellect, he understands that whatever work (wrong) he is doing, that work is true and necessary. At this stage, the brainwashed person is misused and he doesn’t even know.

In other words, the brainwashed person is kept away from the work of his interest, and diverted towards wrong and avoidable works. And that person gets engaged in such wrong work with all his heart.

If the mind is engaged in wrong work and the intellect is veiled, and at the same time the truth is suppressed, then that person remains engrossed in wrong work only. Preachers of Satpanth have used this principle very much. About which we will see ahead.