Our minds, like a weathercock, move from one state to another; just control it to start meditation

 

 

D. Swami Prajnadas Kathiya Babaji said, "We shall have to make ourselves free by our own efforts."

Tarak Ghosh

Following the Gita, Spiritual Scientist and Social Reformer D. Swami Prajnadas Kathiya Babaji said, "We shall have to make ourselves free by our own efforts." We are both our own friends and our own adversaries. The mind wants to move away from the ideal in different ways. Idleness is the main cause. We should not be defeated by ourselves. Any cunning attitude of the mind should not be indulged in.

Your anxiety will dissipate within a few days if you utter the name of your god while sitting in a quiet place. If you practice this many times, you will get your mental peace back.

Select a clean spot, neither too high nor too low, and seat yourself firmly on a cloth, a deerskin, and kusha grass. Then, once seated, strive to still your thoughts. Make your mind one-pointed in meditation, and your heart will be purified. Hold your body, head, and neck firmly in a straight line, and keep your eyes from wandering. 

Sit in meditation with me as your only goal, with all fears dissolved in the peace of the Self and all actions dedicated to Brahman, controlling the mind and fixing it on me. An aspirant achieves nirvana, the state of everlasting joy and peace, by constantly controlling his or her senses and mind through meditation and uniting with the Self within.

During meditation, keep the body, the head, and the neck straight, still, and steady, and gaze at the tip of your nose. If you bend on the front side, you will become sleepy. If you bend at the back, inactivity is found, and if you bend at the right or left side, restlessness arises. So, it has been said to practice meditation or Japa while keeping your spine straight.

The mind takes a long time to be calm and quiet. The mind is a trickster. It always deceives us from moment to moment because it does not have a continuity of moods. The moods of the mind change almost every day. It is not difficult for the mind to get dissatisfied with things, and it can be dissatisfied even with something that it once regarded as a very necessary item in its life. 

There is no more difficult thing to understand than our own mind. We are the most difficult challenge in life. Our minds, like a weathercock, move from one state to another.

When it is totally under your control, your mind is purified, and this stage is called the "self-absorbed state" in self-joy. With this preparedness of the mind in a healthy manner towards all things, one has to sit for meditation on the degrees of reality. The particular degree that has to be chosen is the Ishta-Devata. The person becomes luminous from within. 

This is the genuine, ever-increasing form of the feeling. The mind doesn’t want to move anywhere. In this state, extreme happiness is felt. The person who has attained this state views or realizes the love in his or her heart and outside it as well. It is a unique stage. It is the last stage of meditation. There is nothing after it.

The mind should be eager to sit for meditation, and it should not feel any kind of compulsion.

 

As Arjuna said in the Gita, those who eat too much or too little, and those who sleep too much or too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, working and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. 

Through constant effort, they learn to withdraw the mind from selfish cravings and absorb them into the self. When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering, like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. The self-manifests itself in the stillness of the mind, in the depths of meditation. Beholding the self by means of the self, an aspirant knows the joy and peace of complete fulfillment. Having attained that abiding joy beyond the senses, revealed in the still mind, they never swerve from the eternal truth. They desire nothing else and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow.

The practice of meditation frees one from all afflictions. This is the path of yoga. Follow it with determination and sustained enthusiasm. Utilize your will to control the senses, renouncing wholeheartedly all selfish desires and expectations. Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become still in itself.

Whenever the mind wanders, restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction outside, lead it within; train it to rest in the Self. Abiding joy comes to those who still have their minds. They become one with Brahman after freeing themselves from the taint of self-will and uniting their consciousness.