Day By Day V : I have been doing sadhana for nearly 20 years and I can see no progress. What should I do? B : I may be able to say something if I know what the sadhana is. V : From about 5 oclock every morning I concentrate on the thought that the Self alone is real and all else unreal. Although I have been doing this for 20 years I cannot concentrate for more than two or three minutes without my thoughts wandering. B : There is no other way to succeed than to draw the mind back every time it turns outwards and fix it in the Self. There is no need for meditation or mantra or japa or dhyana or anything of the sort, because these are our real nature. All that is needed is to give up thinking of objects other than the Self. Meditation is not so much thinking of the Self as giving up thinking of the not-self. When you give up thinking of outward objects and prevent your mind from going outwards and turn it inward and fix it in the Self, the Self alone will remain. V : what should I do to overcome the pull of these thoughts and desires? How should I regulate my life so as to attain control over my thoughts? B : The more you get fixed in the Self, the more other thoughts will drop off by themselves. The mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts, and the I thought is the root of all of them. When you see who this I is and whence it proceeds all thoughts get merged in the Self. Regulation of life, such as getting up at a fixed hour, bathing, doing mantra, japa, etc. , observing ritual, all this is for people who do not feel drawn to Self-enquiry or are not capable of it. But for those who can practise this method all rules and discipline are unnecessary.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 03:50:09 +0000
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