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Once someone asked Sant Mira Bai, a female bhakta poet: “Our mind wanders far away during meditation, what kind of practice did you do that you were able to control your mind?
Mira Bai replied:
Through my consciousness I traveled the skies and then my mind came under control and agreed to be still.
Let us ponder this subject. What vehicle did Mira Bai use to travel the skies? Was it an airplane, a helicopter or a rocket? Mira Bai's journey was not in the outer world, but rather, it was within, in the inner realms. Her vehicles were divine light (bindu), and divine sound.
Sant Maharishi Mehi comments on the inner journey:
Bindu and sound will come and receive you as you meditate. Yes, they will take you on the ride to observe the celestial realms of divine light and sound.
and through sound the mind
Sound is the quality of the void comes under control.
Sant Kabir speaks about the meditation:
Until we accomplish the meditation of complete thoughtlessness (shunya, which means emptiness or void), the mind cannot be controlled completely.
