Page 68 - Liberal Exposition of Pranahuti Aided Meditation

then the shape of the tin is lost for the only reason air wants to enter, it has no chance of entering into it and then the can becomes totally twisted and wrinkled totally out of shape. Similar is our mind when we try to keep your mind calm, what happens is all thoughts will come to you. It is not thoughts which come to you, they are thoughts which are there in you which are trying to go out, which want expression, which want attention. So many things which you forcibily put down and were attending to certain other things, they kept quiet. When you are calm, all of them will come to you and then they want precedence to be established ‘Now I will try to come, no no I am more important’. So many thoughts, some exams may be there, some promotions may be there, some responsibilities of going to the shop may be there, may be you have got to get certain things for your children, may be you have to attend to your parents, may be you have got something connected with your house, so many things. Everything with which you are connected comes there at that time, you really get confused and then prefer it is much better to have one word by which I can go on reciting, that seems to be much more easier because then your mind is given an attention, an object - you have got some toy to play with. It can be Om Namahsivaya or Namo Narayanaya, it does not matter much. Or O’ Ram or hey Ram, whatever you choose. Your mind is going to a word and then it is definitely absorbed in that because it is given a toy. In the other case of meditation where you are asked not to think of anything and think about a Divine light which you cannot think of and then you get confused, because the mind gets filled up with all thoughts, it just rushes in. Now we say to you at that time, try to be as indifferent to it as possible, don’t give attention to it, treat them as uninvited guests. Easily spoken, easily said, it is very difficult when actually you practice. I won’t say it is too easy, I won’t say it is too complex but first you have to learn this, learn to ignore, learn to ignore many things because you know that is not what you are seeking for. For that you have to learn two attitudes - one is you have got to be attentive and secondly you have got to be alert. Alert to the moments of silence that comes to you, attentive to the moments of silence that comes to you. It is just like a person who waits in a bus stand for a particular friend. He is to pass by that place and so many people go in the road, so many cars go, so many buses go, so many taxis go, and you are not going to attend to any one of them. You are waiting only for your friend and your mind is only for him. It is attentive towards him and it is alert for his presence. You just don’t bother about anybody else. Similarly here, when you are in meditation