What is the best way to control the mind?

Q: What is the best way to control the mind?

Guruji: Why do you want to control the mind? You want the mind to stay in one place, right. That is what you mean by control. Why is it going here and there? If there is a nice program on television, do you need to control your mind to watch it? You love a child, you love your spouse, do you have to try to focus your mind on them? No!

Whatever you love, your mind is already focused on that.

When do you need to focus? When you do not like something. Even there, if you do not like something, you don’t need to focus, as the mind already does not like it.

Focus is needed when your mind is looking for something else other than what is right now. In such situations, breathing, and yoga will help.

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Q: What is the Atma (soul)?

Guruji: It is the cause behind your very existence. Without it, you would not exist. The Atma is that which listens through the ears, perceives through the eyes, smells through the nose, tastes through the tongue, and which is the reason for everything that happens.

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Our mind is like a blackboard in a school. If the teachers don’t wipe it after using it, and other teachers keep on using the same blackboard, will it make sense to the students? Our mind is the same. We use it a hundred times but never clean it. Pranayam, and meditation are useful for cleaning it. They will keep your mind fresh, and ready to learn.

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Q: How do we cope with small minded people?

Guruji: See, there are so many types of people in this world. How many people do you know who have for no reason to become your enemies? Your good friends have become your enemies? Isn't it?
Similarly, so many people who were unknown to us have helped us at some point of time. We may not have done anything for them, but they helped us out.
So friends or enemies are all a cause of our karmas. If our time is wrong, friends can become enemies, and if our time is right, enemies can turn into friends.

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Trust is like breath. Just like you can’t live without breath, you also cannot live without trust. There are three types of trust: Self – confidence, Faith in society, Faith in God. If any one trust is absent, then life is incomplete.

Om Namah Shivay