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REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE:
aware of this center. It is finding our strength, this reservoir of energy, our inner treasure, our own Self.
Now you may have control over your body, but you don't have control over your mind. When you begin to meditate you will be surprised and shocked to know that your mind is not under your control. Your car, your children, your office staff may be under your control, but your own mind is not. You won't be able to focus your attention for five minutes on one thing. In five minutes you will go mentally to five different places, or ten or twenty. This demonstrates that your mind is not harmonious. If your body were as uncontrolled as your mind, you would not be able to cross the street. At least when we want to cross the street we can coordinate ourselves and go there. But when we tell our mind to do something, it will immediately do something else.
In my school days I had a teacher who would say to one of the students in the middle of class, “When the class is over, please buy me some vegetables so on myway home I won't have to go to market.” One day I said to him, “We are here in school, and yet you are thinking of home and sending us to buy vegetables.” He said, “Yes, and at home I am planning your lessons and thinking of you here in school.” He was a good example of how the mind works. In school he thought of his home. At home he thought of the school.
Look at yourself and see if this does not apply to you. When you are home with your family, don't you think of business and plan for the things you must do the next day? And at the office don't you think of problems at home, of your spouse and children, and of things you would rather
