The Teachings
The mind is constantly preoccupied with its own thoughts and imaginations.
If we observe our mind, we can see that it is like a restless monkey. We are totally preoccupied with the thoughts and imaginations in the mind and not the mind itself. One thought comes and another follows, and we are lost into a never-ending whirlpool of thoughts.
Since time immemorial in this way, we start to build a world inside the mind.
Everything we come across we try to define in some way. Thus that is all sitting so strongly in the mind.
Stress, tension, fear all builds up, and we lose peace in the mind.
All of us are, knowingly or unknowingly looking for that peace, but it is so elusive to find.
[Why can we not find permanent happiness in this world?]
[What is the relationship between the mind and the brain?]
Simply we had imagined a thought, but have forgotten that we had imagined it and get so affected by that thought.Like we have left our comfortable home, we wander into a thick forest, get more and more lost until we forget how to get back home, and eventually even forget we had a home at all. Such is the predicament we find ourselves in as we get more and more sucked into the imaginations.
"Mind is looking for the same happiness that which it had enjoyed by remaining in the Self. Now that it has come out, it is looking but it has forgotten the path; just it has to go back, settle in the Self, remain quiet."
~ Shri Babaji
It is essential to become quiet in the mind.
Because the mind has become so habitual to think all the time, a practice is necessary to purify and silence the mind.
Simply we have to withdraw our attention from the thoughts and then automatically the attention will go to the mind itself. This is the practice of Dhyana, meditation which has been practised since very ancient times in India.The technique of Jangama Dhyana
This is the very technique that both Babaji and His Guru Swamiji (Shivabalayogi Maharaj) practiced to achieve Self-Realization.
(Meditation technique instructions)
If we can just watch a thought and not get involved in it, the thought disappears from the mind. It is only there because we are thinking about it.
In so doing, all thoughts can be evaporated from the mind. The Masters of Meditation practised with such diligence and patience that eventually their minds became totally purified and merged with the real Self.
[what other practices are there to quieten the mind?]
