We have to seize our unstable mind and drag it from its wanderings and fix it on one idea. Over and over again this will be done. By power of will, we must hold of the mind and make it stop and reflect upon the glory of God. The easiest way to get hold of your mind is to sit quiet and let it drift where it will for a while. Hold fast to idea, "I am witness of watching my mind drifting. The mind, is not I." Then saw it, think as if it were a thing entirely apart from yourself. Try to identify yourself with God, never with matter and with the mind. Picturize the mind as a calm lake stretched before you and the thoughts which comes and go as bubbles rising and breaking on its surface. Don’t make any effort to control the thoughts, but watch them, and follow them in imagination as they float away. It will automatically and gradually lessen the circles. The mind ranges over wide circles of your thought and those circles widen out into ever increasing circles, as in a pond when we throw a small stone into it. We want to reverse the process and starting with huge circle make it narrower until at last we can fix the mind on one point and make it stay there. Hold the idea, "I’m not the mind, I can see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind', and each day, the identification of yourself with thought and feeling will grow less until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself. When this is done, the mind will your servant to control as you will. The first stage of being a yogi is, to go beyond the senses. When your mind is conquered, he has reached the highest stage. The flow of this continuous control of the mind, it will become steady when practiced day after day, and the mind obtains the faculty of constant concentration. The pure mind, easy to control. Purity of your mind must be insisted upon if you would control it. The perfect morality is the all in all of the complete control over mind. The man who is perfectly in moral has nothing more to do; he is free. The mind has gradually and systematically brought under control. The will has to strengthened by slow, continuous and also persevering drill. This is not a child's play, no fad to be tried one day and discarded to the next. It is a life's work; and the end to be attained is well worth and that all it can cost us to reach it; being nothing less than realization of our absolute oneness with the Divine. With this end in view, and with the knowledge that we can certainly succeed, none of the price can be too great to pay. Sit some time to fresh and let the mind run on. You just wait and watch. Knowledge is powerful, says the proverb, and it is true. Until or unless you know what the mind is doing. You can’t control it. Give it the rein; many hideous thoughts will come into it; you will be astonished that, it was possible for you to think such thoughts. But you will find one thing, each day the mind's vagaries are becoming lessor and lessor violent, that each day it is becoming calmer. Do think of your own body, and see that how it is strong and healthy; it is the best instrument you should have. Think of it as being as strong as adamant, and that with the help of this body you can cross the ocean of life. Freedom is never to be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that- “It is strong”, tell your mind that- “It is strong”, and “have unbounded faith and hope in yourself ”. You must practice this at least twice every day, and the best times are towards morning and evening. When night passes into day, as well as a day into night, a state of relative calmness ensues. The early morning and the early evening are the two periods of calmness which you can feel. Your body may have a tendency to become calm at those times. We should take such advantage of that natural condition and begin to practice. Mentally repeat: Let all beings will be happy; Let all beings will be peaceful; Let all beings will be blissful. So do to the east, south, north and also west. The more you do that the better you will feel yourself. You will find at last that the easiest and simple way to make ourselves healthy is to see that others are healthy, and the easiest and simple way to make ourselves happy is to see that others are happy. After doing that, those who believe in God should pray - not for money, not for health, not for heaven; pray for knowledge and light; every other prayer is selfish. The first sign that you are becoming religious, which means that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is so gloomy that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. To the Yogi, everything is bliss, every human face that he sees brings cheerfulness to him. That is the sign of a virtuous man. What business have you with a clouded face? It is terrible. If you have clouded face, don’t go out that day, shut yourself and stay back in your room. What right have you to carry such disease out into the world. Let the world freely and happily
By Mr.Arun Joshy
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