Page 16 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 9

BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM - VOL 9
We tend to abstract because mathematics has taken enormous precedence in our head as a science of sciences, as the mother or the father or the grandfather of sciences. You can use any word you like. This attitude of trying to make things abstract in sadhana is what actually ails, is one of our problems. If you get to know what exactly is the thought you are suffering from perhaps you will definitely come out of it. Instead, all the abhyasis that I have come across, I ask several questions they will say “several thoughts have come Sir”, I say “ok what are those thoughts? What is the nature of the thought? Were they divine, were they undivine, were they beastly, were they animalish or human or just some abstract concept of an Einstein’s theory”. I don’t think we suffer from such concepts of Newton’s theory or Einstein’s theory or somebody else’s theory when we meditate, they don’t come. What we get is either an animal thought or a human thought or a divine thought or something like that but we don’t want to classify that. We would like to classify it as “thoughts come Sir, disturbing Sir”. I don’t know what is it that is being disturbed. How balanced you were earlier to say that you are disturbed now? That also I do not know. I am now posing questions to you so that you may ask me in
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