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The third Making Masters session takes mind as its topic. Speaking through a bad cough after arriving only hours earlier, Mohanji breaks the mind matter into three processors: mind handles emotions, intellect handles information, and ego handles the personality — possessions, positions, relations. The strongest and most limiting of these is ownership, the "me and mine" that karma itself dwells on; dissolve ownership and karma dissolves with it. Comfort zones, he says, are built from familiarity, never logic, so trying to reason your way out of a pattern won't work. He distinguishes knowing from believing — until you experience something it stays a theory — and repeats his standing instruction not to follow him or anyone blindly. On projection: we broadcast ourselves continuously and unconsciously, and people connect to the projection, not the person, which is why closeness so often brings disappointment. Everyone runs three faces — what the world sees, what close people see, and what nobody sees, which is the real one. The central teaching is the difference between being mindful — fully alert and present while active, so that an experience is complete and doesn't need repeating — and being mindless, which is full witnesshood: no analysis, no judgment, no interference, total acceptance of life as destiny unfolds it. He clarifies that contemplation is a spiritual activity while analysis is an intellectual one, and that mind is only a projector; inclinations, fears and impressions are what get projected. When there is nothing left to project, mind becomes a reflector — which is how masters like Sai Baba responded to each person's own frequency. He walks through the states of Samadhi to Nirvichara Samadhi, where desires weaken from non-fulfilment (not suppression) until thoughts and mind collapse. In Q&A he tells Mahta that intuition needs clarity of purpose rooted in conviction, and that over-analysis paralyses projects. To Olivera, on staying present in conflict: situations only feel unpleasant when they hit the ego; avoided problems return stronger, like a half-killed snake — and when someone isn't listening, stop talking, because leaving a place where you're disrespected is self-respect, not escapism. To Sharon on ritual restrictions, he explains Prana Pratishta, the yantra and mantra that hold an idol's energy, and the 8-to-40-second window of transfer between idol and devotee — restrictions are circumstantial, decided by priests to preserve energy and give everyone equal access. On menstruation and temples, he explains that during expulsion the body retains nothing, so nothing is gathered — this is not disrespect, and he notes his own temples always have women priests. He closes with the Shiva-Shakti principle: stillness and moving energy, both present in everyone. The session was cut short at participants' request so Mohanji could rest before Kailash; the team continued with a recap and a guided Feel the Feelings witnessing practice.