Being still

 

100222: Shree: Being still

लोक रडे असतात. हे पाहिजे, ते पाहिजे, हे जमत नाही आणि ते जमत नाही. All are feeble excuses to defend one’s perception and to constrain oneself. In our daily lives, we become distracted by change, by our change, by vibrations and by situations. What people say, what they do or think, what situations happen, what is one prompted to do by desires – are all desires. We vibrate and we have taken a form of existence and this makes us “crave” for enjoyment of mind and senses/ body. The craving is a disease.

The reverse training of the mind is important – प्रत्याहार. Renounce, controlling the desires, dissolving them, focusing, concentrating, making the mind still, meditating – all mean the same. The basis of any method of action or thought or feeling is of “concentrating” the mind at one point and dissolving the vibrations themselves. All thoughts of existence, change, insecurity, anxiety, fear, separation are an output of vibrations or a wavering mind. The mind wanders and hence these feelings get generated. Let the mind be still or focus at a point and what one experiences is bliss (or an unconditional feeling that depends on nothing for itself). Thus the training is to make the mind unconditional, so the situation does not affect it or does not draw it out or does not let it wander. In other words, a situation is perceived only if the mind keeps wandering and perceives thoughts based on space and time and other forms. The same situation seems to “dissolve” if the mind focuses at one point.

So is the situation real or unreal? It depends on the nature of mind. Or the mind creates or dissolves a situation. Dissolving means to become universal and blissful and unconditional. This is independent of life and death and hence consciousness is eternally present, complete, blissful, non conditional, non changeable, non motion. When one reaches consciousness, there is no inkling of any of these terms or concepts, but till that time, these concepts are a “measure” for us to become that Being.

Hari Om.