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13. If you tasted Ovaltine for a month, mental adhesion to Ovaltine comes in the mind. If
you are in the company of Sannyasins, if you read books on Yoga, Vedanta, etc., a similar mental
adhesion takes place in the mind for attaining God-consciousness. Mere mental adhesion will not
help you much. Burning Vairagya, burning Mumukshutva, capacity for spiritual Sadhana, intense
and constant application and Nididhyasana (meditation) are needed. Then only Self-realisation is
possible.
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14. The form which the endless Atman (Supreme Spirit) assumes through Sankalpa is
Manas (mind). The mind attains the quiescent state of Para-Brahman through its enemy of
discrimination. It first turned its back upon discrimination and hence entangled itself in the folds of
Vasanas of objects.
15. Mind is ever changing and wandering. This wandering habit of the mind manifests itself
in various ways. You will have to be on the alert always to check this wandering habit of the mind.
A householder s mind wanders to cinema, theatre, circus, etc. A Sadhu s mind wanders to Benares,
Vrindavan and Nasik. Many Sadhus never stick to one place during Sadhana. The wandering habit
of the mind must be controlled by making it stick to one place, one method of Sadhana, one Guru
and one form of Yoga. A rolling stone gathers no moss. When you take up a book for study you
must finish it before you take up another. When you take up any work, you must devote your
wholehearted attention towards the work on hand and finish it before you take up another work.
One thing at a time and that done well is a very good rule as many can tell. This is Yogi s way of
doing.
16. If all the thoughts are eliminated, then there remains nothing which can be called the
mind. So thoughts are the mind. Again there is no such thing as the world independent of and apart
from thoughts.
17. The mind is generally attracted by brilliant light, beauty, intelligence, varied colours and
pleasant sounds. Do not be deceived by these paltry things. Enquire within. What is the
Adhishthana or background for all these things? There is one Essence at the back of the mind and all
objects of this seeming sense-universe. That Essence is all full (Paripurna) and self-contained. That
Essence is the Brahman of the Upanishads. That Essence verily you are. Tat Tvam Asi, my dear
readers.
2. Thought-culture
1. When you sit for meditation thoughts of your friends and office work, memory of
conversation that took place in the previous evening with your friends and relatives will disturb
your mind and cause distraction. You will have to withdraw the mind again and again, cautiously
from these extraneous worldly thoughts and fix it again and again in your Lakshya or point. You
will have to disregard and ignore the worldly thoughts. Be indifferent. Do not welcome these
thoughts. Do not identify yourself with these thoughts, ideas. Say within yourself: I do not want
these thoughts. I have nothing to do with these thoughts. They will vanish gradually.
2. The mind is a mischievous imp. It is like a jumping monkey. It must be disciplined daily.
Then it will gradually come under your control. It is only by the practical training of your mind that
you can prevent bad thoughts and actions from arising and can prevent bad thoughts and actions
that have arisen from recurrence. It is only by the practical training of your mind that you can
encourage good thoughts and actions to arise and can maintain good thoughts and actions when
they have arisen.
3. Watch your mind always very carefully. Be vigilant. Be on the alert. Do not allow waves
of irritability, jealousy, anger, hatred, lust to arise from the mind. These dark waves are enemies of
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meditation, peace and wisdom. Suppress them at once by entertaining sublime and divine thoughts.
Evil thoughts that have arisen may be destroyed by originating good thoughts and maintaining them
by repeating any Mantra or Name of the Lord, by doing good actions, by dwelling on the misery that
arises from evil thoughts, by abstracting the mind, by analysing the origin of the thoughts, by
enquiry of Who am I? or by the force of the will resolving to suppress the evil thought. When you
attain the state of purity, no evil thoughts will arise in your mind. Just as it is easy to check the
intruder or enemy at the gate, so also it is easy to overcome an evil thought as soon as it arises. Nip it
in the bud. Do not allow it to strike deep root.
4. In the beginning all sorts of evil thoughts will arise in your mind as soon as you sit for
meditation. Why does this happen during meditation when you attempt to entertain pure thoughts?
Aspirants leave their spiritual practices of meditation on account of this. If you try to drive a
monkey it attempts to pounce on you with vengeance. Even so the old vicious Samskaras and old
evil thoughts try to attack you with vengeance and redoubled force only at the time when you try to
raise good, divine thoughts. Your enemy endeavours to resist you vehemently when you try to eject
him out of your house. There is a law of resistance in nature. The old evil thoughts assert and say O
man! Do not be cruel. You have allowed us to stay in your mental factory from time immemorial.
We have every right to abide here. We have helped you up to this time in all your evil actions. Why
do you want to oust us from our dwelling place? We will not vacate our abode. Do not be
discouraged. Go on with your practice of meditation regularly. These evil thoughts will be thinned
out. Eventually they will all perish.
5. Positive always overcomes the negative. This is the law of nature. Negative evil thoughts
cannot stand before positive good thoughts. Courage overcomes fear. Patience overcomes anger
and irritability. Love overcomes hatred. Purity overcomes lust. The very fact that you feel uneasy
now when an evil thought comes to the surface of the mind during meditation indicates that you are
growing in spirituality. In those days you consciously harboured all sorts of evil thoughts. You
welcomed and nourished them. Persist in your spiritual practices. Be tenacious and diligent. You
are bound to succeed. Even a dull type of aspirant will notice a marvellous change in him if he keeps
up the practice of Japa and meditation for 2 or 3 years in a continuous stream. Now he cannot leave
the practice. Even if he stops his practice of meditation for a day, he will actually feel that he has lost
something on that day. His mind will be quite uneasy.
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