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formalities. Forgiveness emerges as a real current only where a person becomes angry upon himself. The person goes on becoming cleaner only when he admits his smallness. After all, how many thoughts come to mind. Hundred kinds of thoughts do not come. If you settle-down for meditation, five-ten-twenty kinds of thoughts may come. In fact, the internal path is the corridor of thought. Its path is demarcated. The thought too walks on those demarcated paths. You might have seen that when a farmer from a nearby village sets out towards the town, he loosens the bullock's reins. The bullock proceeds-on along the demarcated path. Similar is the mind. One goes from his house to the shop, from the shop to the bank, back to the shop from the bank, then to the temple. Comes back home from the temple. He just went to some selected places, and came back. Let him move on, and you try to see him, test him as a witness. On doing so, the waves of mind would begin to concentrate spontaneously. There, the centre of 'Chitta' (inner consciousness), the layer under the mind, would go on peeling-off its layers. Please note, there is a difference between mind and inner consciousness.
Mind is that which always knocks at the door of the future and 'chitta' is that which maintains its foothold at the door of the past. That is why, the mind never goes in the past, aad 'chitta' (inner consciousness) never peeps into the future. Man remembers his past life only through the inner conscious. Mind is just a wave that lives in the present and goes on thinking of the future. It is a heap of atoms. Contrary to this, layers have gathered on the 'inner conscious'. 'Chitta' is a sacramentality, traditions. Layers of sand (time) go on gathering on the traditions of the past. As you go on peeling off these layers, you would find yourself free from tradition and sacramentality. And, with this, you would go on getting freedom from mind. Go on peeling off the layers of an onion, the ultimate remainder will be zero.
What have been called thought and mind, modern science has named them as the 'Conscious' and the 'unconscious' mind. There is the 'hathayoga' if concentration of the body is desired, but it is necessary to take the help of 'mantra-yoga' to attain concentration of thoughts. The person, in whose mind a storm of throughts
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