So I make a mental note of what it is trying to convey.
So the messages from the mind are not useless.
How to make the mind rest?
Or in a way you're asking your mind not to do its work.
If mind is asking, ”I will not do the work”,
then that will be the tragedy. See?
But you are asking, right?
I get the question.
But who is asking?
Where is this separation coming [from]?
Who is recognizing that the mind is busy?
Well, who is that me that is questioning?
You have to understand that.
Second thing — Babuji’s words again.
He used to say, “Eyes are to see, nose is to smell, ears are to hear.
And so the brain or mind is to think, Don't try to stop it.
Okay.
But he would add one line.
“Make sure that it thinks what you want it to think.”
You want it to think on the presence of divine light.
That's the beginning and we prayerfully wait
that this thought of presence of divine light
hopefully can turn into divineexperience, however temporary.
Then a stage comes where you would like this experience to turn
into becoming that experience.
And then a time comes when you have become, you feel so
happy of achieving something.
There is some sort of joy there.
This, Babuji says, it happens automatically that you transcend
that into a state of nothingness.
Meaning, you transcend the bliss.
So okay, so this gradation, graduation or transcendence from thinking to
feeling to experiencing, to become the experience to anandam [bliss] to
nothingness, it's a gradual process.
Have patience.
Whenever I used to meditate in my earlier days … as a student also …, sometimes I
would say, “Today, I’ll study this.” These thoughts would keep coming in my mind.
“Better take this chapter, better read this chapter”, and I would
just grab that chapter and finish it off after the meditation.
So I make a mental note of what it is trying to convey.
So the messages from the mind are not useless.
My friends started coming.
I sat in front of Babuji and I was thinking of her.
Tauba, tauba., May God save me.
I started sweating from all over my body.
See?
I tell you the fact and it bothered me so much.
I was profusely sweating and then I was tightening my jaws so deeply.
And then I opened my eyes and then closed.
And then there was some relief.
Then some understanding arose in my heart.
Why am I fighting?
He knows everything.
He's the one who picked it up from the bottom of my consciousness,
trying to take it out.
Why must I interfere?
Let him do whatsoever he wants to do.
So, then after, this understanding saved all my meditations.
The thoughts — they come because Master is working.
But some thoughts which are created by us,we have to stop them somehow
by attending to what they suggest.
Mistakes I’ve committed ... You cannot correct it anymore.l.
You did any mistake towards your parents — Just say sorry.
That should settle [it].