Learning About the Mind

Learning About the Mind

There are many situations or states of mind, but generally you can categorize them into three kinds:

When there is craving or longing. Longing for worldly or spiritual experiences

When there is dullness. There is neither longing nor there is any interest in anything. a sense of inertia in our mind. You just go on with inertia. This situation can set now and then in life

When there is contentment, happiness and joy, The purpose of all this celebration is to move from inertia to joy, to move from longing to contentment. It’s so beautiful.

There are those who do not even look at their mind, they just keep working and working. Then there are others who keep looking at their own mind. Both are not good, take the middle path. Sometimes take a look at the mind, but not all the time. Do you see what I’m saying? Otherwise you will become self-centred, all the time thinking, 'What do I want?' Or 'I am feeling like this'.

Forget about how you feel, feelings keep changing. One minute it is good, next minute it is not good, so what! Move with valour and courage.

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The more we are in our comfort zone, just caring for ourselves and our immediate families, our life starts shrinking. Then we start being angry, upset, frustrated; all these negative thoughts start coming. If you keep yourself a little engaged in social and public activity, you will be less upset at home, and there will be more harmony at the home. front.

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Q: How do we manage stress and anxiety?

Guruji: Keep smiling as you are doing now. Don’t hold on to stress and anxiety. If you don’t hold on to it, then there is no question of managing it.

What is a Guru and ashram for? Leave all your anxieties, pray, have faith and move on. If you have the faith, you will reap the fruits.

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We need to lessen our needs and take more responsibility. If our needs are more and responsibilities are less, time will be bad for us. When we reduce our needs and take more responsibility we will be of use to the society. The society will take care of us and we will be able to take care of the society.

Om Namah Shivay