Normally the mind is in a turmoil, it is eagerly active. First of all it is preoccupied with its problems and wants solutions for them. the mind knows only to think, to see pros and cons, reason weigh deduce and arriving at some kind of conclusion. the result can be success or failure almost at random. Apart from this the mind is also performing involuntary activity, it is assailed on all sides by hundreds of thoughts ideas and notions that come from outside and fill up the brain and over this one usually has no control. Each thought tries to push itself forward, secure a place for itself, claim satisfaction and fulfilment. so there are all moving at cross purposes so the mind knows no peace or issue.
It is possible to put a violent pressure upon oneself and forcibly push out all this confused movement and make the mind vacant. But the effect of mental will upon mind cannot be perfect or enduring. besides absolute vacancy is not our goal. we have to find other means to still the minds activity. Now.
It is the time to call in the peace that is beyond, that is already there somewhere. it happens with a sincere demand or aspiration in the consciousness, a certain readiness in the being. when that happens (something in the manner of the Upanishadic vivrnute tanum svam he unveils himself his own body) you feel as if a sheer blank, even a black void has entered into you and captured you. In the very midst of whirlwind activity comes a dead stop. Nothing is there now, no idea, no thought, no notion, no motion even an immense emptiness has eaten up, engulfed everything. Keep steady and await. In that stillness something rises up -- up and up-- and goes out beyond, a tranquil beam of consciousness. And then something descends, from afar, a peace, a luminousness, authentic and absolute in its reality. It comes down enters into you, possess your brain and body. It has you find resolved all your problems, harmonised all contraries and conflicts; For it comes from the home of Mother truth. Now you do not strive, but you know. you do not grope, for you are led. You await and at each moment you receive a direction as to what is to be done; You have no thought or preoccupation. the inspired moment happens automatically and infallibly.
Sometimes it happens too that the sudden silence or inner immobility causes a bewilderment and you are caught by a fear that you are losing all bearings, that you are turning an absolute idiot or something worse. some in this panic have let go the grace that came. In such conditions only one has to be firm and steady and continue. Remember only those thoughts that you choose and you select must be allowed. there must be a conscious selection. how to proceed. give the requisite silence and reliance, the decision comes inevitably and you are moved to do automatically what is required to be done from moment to moment.at first you may not get the why or the wherefore of your action, you act merely as an automation but with luminous silence within and a tranquil aspiration attending. when once you have been trained in this unquestioning docility, then knowledge will be given to you gradually, at first of only of a few steps ahead, later on for a fuller and completer perspective. it does always work.
It is possible to put a violent pressure upon oneself and forcibly push out all this confused movement and make the mind vacant. But the effect of mental will upon mind cannot be perfect or enduring. besides absolute vacancy is not our goal. we have to find other means to still the minds activity. Now.
It is the time to call in the peace that is beyond, that is already there somewhere. it happens with a sincere demand or aspiration in the consciousness, a certain readiness in the being. when that happens (something in the manner of the Upanishadic vivrnute tanum svam he unveils himself his own body) you feel as if a sheer blank, even a black void has entered into you and captured you. In the very midst of whirlwind activity comes a dead stop. Nothing is there now, no idea, no thought, no notion, no motion even an immense emptiness has eaten up, engulfed everything. Keep steady and await. In that stillness something rises up -- up and up-- and goes out beyond, a tranquil beam of consciousness. And then something descends, from afar, a peace, a luminousness, authentic and absolute in its reality. It comes down enters into you, possess your brain and body. It has you find resolved all your problems, harmonised all contraries and conflicts; For it comes from the home of Mother truth. Now you do not strive, but you know. you do not grope, for you are led. You await and at each moment you receive a direction as to what is to be done; You have no thought or preoccupation. the inspired moment happens automatically and infallibly.
Sometimes it happens too that the sudden silence or inner immobility causes a bewilderment and you are caught by a fear that you are losing all bearings, that you are turning an absolute idiot or something worse. some in this panic have let go the grace that came. In such conditions only one has to be firm and steady and continue. Remember only those thoughts that you choose and you select must be allowed. there must be a conscious selection. how to proceed. give the requisite silence and reliance, the decision comes inevitably and you are moved to do automatically what is required to be done from moment to moment.at first you may not get the why or the wherefore of your action, you act merely as an automation but with luminous silence within and a tranquil aspiration attending. when once you have been trained in this unquestioning docility, then knowledge will be given to you gradually, at first of only of a few steps ahead, later on for a fuller and completer perspective. it does always work.
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