CONTROLLING THE MIND
You must control the mind. What is the purpose of the mind? The mind has the function to look around and help you to see the truth around you, whether it be in a book, a person or a movie. Your mind studies it and determines what is right and not right. Your mind is in touch with your higher self in this determination. ‘Not right’ does not mean evil. THERE IS NO EVIL. What you determine as wrong is only wrong for you . Your purpose in life is different from another’s. DO not enforce your views of right and wrong on any human being. You know that lying is wrong but another may have to go through the experiences of lying, cheating and dishonesty to LEARN. By judging him you are building karmas which are not required. Merely tell the person what you know. Do not ask him to practice it, or tell him what to do. When the mind your tells you what to do it is linked to your higher self, but there is a constant conflict due to the conditioning it has received. It has been beaten away from the truth by parents, teachers, and society which want it to think the way they desire. The mind is beaten , dented, and cracked and soon it learns that this is the only way to think, act and behave. Now the mind enslaves YOU. When a child is young it is not controlled by the mind. Firstly because there is no conditioning. Secondly because the link between the soul and the higher soul is at its optimum, and the soul masters the mind. A baby does not know that it is wrong. It does whatever it desires. But we cannot permit this strong link to continue or there would be no purpose to the physical world. The purpose is to forget, and then experience and remember. When a soul desires to break away from the Whole it has complete knowledge. But the purpose of the separation is to LIVE this knowledge, not POSSESS it. Would a chocolate cake taste as good sitting on a table , as it does when it is in the mouth? You have to chew it, experience it, in order to enjoy it.
Your mind therefore makes it difficult for you to remember, but then nothing worthwhile is attained without effort. ‘Effort’ is a lot more than the meaning of that word : you have to experience the hurdles, the obstacles, the pain. Due to this you have all at some time desired to walk way from this path, but sooner or later you do return. At this moment of return you have enslaved your mind.
Look at your life, take a paper and pen and observe where your mind has been conditioned. Ask yourselves ‘is this the conditioning of society or do I really need this as a soul?’ Many things you will cancel out as 'social', irrelevant. The next time you use that conditioning, be aware that your mind has again used its conditioning automatically. When your mind acts in this conditioned manner , STOP. The soul must then take over, otherwise the moment of realisation is futile. This is very difficult to do. If you truly want to be out of the control of your mind, the more you strive the easier it will become.
Next, when you sit for mediation, and your mind attempts control over you, ignore it. If you try to block or control it, you give it importance. Is not the soul stronger than the thoughts? When do thoughts stay? When you give them re-cognition. You have given it a presence again and the more and more importance it gets, the more it says “ this is good. I will stay!” But if you allow it to move on, flit away, where is its presence?
When you meditate, meditate with the soul, link with love. You are the only important person for those few moments. There are two ‘you’s’ ……. The mind and love. Let the mind do what it desires , do not try to do anything with it. Your very trying gives it recognition.
Q: Sir, must we be ‘out of mind’ to link with Him?
Can you ever be out of mind? Souls who have gone through years of letting the mind go, become so detached they are all here (Jade Fire points to the heart)….love. They are only vaguely conscious of what the mind is doing. My son, this stage is reached after several lifetimes.
When you meditate delink by holding your fingers in this way (Jade Fire demonstrated by holding the thumb against the first two fingers). This gives a physical manifestation of soul merged with SOUL. Another way is to hold in your palm a small flame (on a plate) for a few moments. Keep your eyes open, look into the flame, and BECOME the flame. If you find your mind takes over when you putting it down, pick it up again. You will find that one day, after putting down the flame, you will still see it in your palm. That will be a beautiful moment of mind delinking. Do it for one minute only, but for that minute BE the flame. If you do this the first thing in the morning, your day will be full of energy. If you do it at night, you will be linked with us through the night. In fact, my son, if you do no other meditation, this will be enough.
Q: Sir you talk often of the importance of controlling the mind. Why have you made it so difficult for us to control the mind?
My dear, dear son review your life, review all your achievements, your attainments. Did you get any of these without effort? And these were all 'earthly' achievements. You did not mind making the effort then,my son. Now, my son, you are making the effort for your soul. You are a soul and like all souls you wish to move, get promoted, you want to have achievements. As a soul, the greatest hurdle you face is the control of the mind. The greatest of masters have taken several lifetimes to accomplish this, because that is the only hurdle. When the soul first disjoins from the whole it asks only for permission of the whole to experience all the wisdom that the soul already has. How will the soul experience this if it doesn’t first forget it? The lord supplied the mind for this. Don’t forget that you took this decision as a soul and the Lord agreed. It is very difficult to enslave the mind. All souls that you consider great and evolved have lived lives that were sometimes evil, base and materialistic, and they needed this in order to learn the lesson that there is only one true Master and that is THE DIVINE SOURCE. It is then very simple to enslave the mind because with every action and word you ask yourself who is holding the reins, he (the mind) or HE ? Your work will be done.