Don’t we all with all the gusto make sometime escaping from everyone and everything that has only one motive and it is thwart our plans to mediate on that day and finally we accomplish the mission impossible! And then what!
The first thing we confront is,
> "I’m unable to keep myself from getting distracted, the mind wanders away after some time. "
The mind wander the streets of memories like the parched-hungry-thirsty-stray-dog in the scorching heat of summer.
A problem reported by someone as mighty as Arjuna himself
चञ्चलं हि मन: कृष्ण प्रमाथि बलवद्दृढम् |
तस्याहं निग्रहं मन्ये वायोरिव सुदुष्करम् || SBG 6.34||The mind is very restless, turbulent, strong and obstinate, O Krishna. It appears to me that it is more difficult to control than the wind.
So to someone who reported the same issue, here is what all the genuine Masters have shared,
The beauty of meditation is that it gives us a first hand experience of the truth.
And congrats on realising the 1st truth there ever is, which is, the [untrained] mind is restless… As reported even by Arjuna who could shoot with the same precision even in the dark… and as mighty as to single handedly conquer the Kaurava Maha Army
Even after 5000 years we suffer the same issue he did, and the solution to it also continues to be the same
श्रीभगवानुवाच |
असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम् |
अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते || SBG 6.35||O mighty-armed son of Kunti, what you say is correct; the mind is indeed very difficult to restrain. But by अभ्यास practice and वैराग्येण detachment, it can be controlled.
The mind is like a little kid who needs something to hold on to…
observe your mind,
it can only hold on to a grossness,
and as you let it know the impermanence of the gross…
it tries to go to its source and…
(write below what you experience)
taught me something invaluable. He did not ask me to fight the mind. He taught me to gradually give it a higher focus through Dham Dhyan, Naam Dhyan, Deh Dhyan, Roop Dhyan, and eventually Netra Dhyan.
