Meditation On Mind

SR No.: 269689
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chitrabhanu Gurudev
Publisher: Chitrabhanu Gurudev
Total Pages: 10
Language: English
Classification: Article
File Size: 2 MB

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A Meditation On the Mind
The following is an excerpt from the lecture given by Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu on March 17, 1981
Mercury is a slippery, silvery liquid. If you control it, you can make many uses of it; but if you do not know how to control it, it will slip through your fingers.
The mind is like mercury-it is beautiful and luminescent, and it is very useful. It can bring the best results if you control it, but one must learn to bring the mind to calmness and one-pointedness.
Today's meditation will give insight into the tendencies and nature of the mind. Our whole practice is to discover its various qualities, and then to realize and express ourselves. This beautiful meditation leads to inner satisfaction.
ing for something pleasant, and that pulls you. Dvesha is the running away from things that do not please you. It pushes you. When these two come, they do not allow you to see clearly. Your seeing is colored, and so the object you see is also colored.
Many people need glasses to see. They have eyes, but if you remove their glasses, they cannot see. Then when they are wearing the glasses, the glasses themselves alter their perception of objects.
This is our situation now. If we try to live without the idea of pleasantness and unpleasantness in objects, life appears very bland. We feel lost, and so we again pick up the glasses of our concepts; but then we see the concept and not the object. We see “This I like," and "This I don't like.” And we run toward the things we like and away from the things we don't like.
The irony is that when you run away from things, they always come to you from another direction. And the things you long for always run faster than you can run. It is such a race. The forms, the situations, and
Three aspects of seeing. When
I you sit and watch the mind, you find three aspects: the seer, the seeing, and the seen. Seeing is clear and precise as long as the seer sees without losing balance. However it is easy to lose balance because of the push and the pull. Raga is the long
On the cover: Ceiling mandala, Delwara Temple, Mt. Abu. Photo by Vardhaman.