Explore Mind
In relation to 'Mind', here are some important quotes, which
explore the Mind.
• When mind minds Mind, matter doesn't matter.
• Your gross action is status or expression of your mind.
• God is absolute oneness existance, maya (mithya) is relative
existence ie: whole creation of maya is based on dualities.
• Bliss or anand is a pure joy of awareness of being.
• Delusion: erroneous beliefs and ideas.
• Illusion: mistaken perceptions eg mirage.
• Maya: creates delusion, illusion and therefore confusion.
• You would attain to divine perfection, and yet not turn
your back upon the world. (Longfellow).
• The temple withen; musk forms in the naval of the deer.
He is fascnated, runs here and there for fragarance. Does’nt
know where it comes from. Likewise god resides in the human body,
but the man does not know it. Therefore he searches everywhere
for bliss, not knowing that it is already within him.
• Mind is the mental faculty that processes the information
derived from perceptions.
• Om: the vibrations of the power of supreme consciousness
that manifests as the field of primordial nature from which the
universe is emanated and sustained.
• It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound
or emancipated. (Sri Ramkrishna).
• Self-surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness.
Therefore one should try to gain equipoise of mind under all circumstances.
That is will power. (Sri Ramana Maharishi.)
• Don’t overload mind: the meditation masters are
right. Overloading with too many stray thoughts will not allow
you to focus on the task at hand. The ability to ignore irrelevant
distractions is critical to concentration, but this ability requires
a certain amount of free working memory (contemporary word for
short term memory.)
• Meditation is an accepted medium of merging mind with
Mind or mind with Self or establishing a dialogue with the inner
self, by effecting a detachment from external stimuli and muting
the inner dissonance through mantras or controlled breathing.
• As Patanjali in his Yoga Sutra says “By observing
breathing, we can observe our thought process that is the mind”
As soon as any impurity arises in the mind, the breath becomes
abnormal, one starts breathing a little rapidly, a little heavily.
When the defilement passes away, the breath again becomes soft
and regular. Thus by observing the breath, one can explore the
reality not only of the body but also of the mind. With continuous
practice and effort the mind becomes firm, stable and subtler.
• Your being has two sides-one visible,
the other invisible. Your consciousness, even when dissociated
from form, is still keenly aware and operative. If in deep meditation
you penetrate the darkness behind the closed eyes. By deeper samadhi,
your experience transcends even the manifested Light and enters
the All-Blissful consciousness-beyond all form, yet infinitely
more real, tangible, and joyous than any sensory or supersensory
perception. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
• The Name is redolent with divine glory. So when it is
turned overand tuned in the MIND, it transmutes it into an instrument
for liberation from delusion (Baba).
• Imprint the picture or name or mantra of God on MIND
like a painting on the cloth. –Never removable. Keep thinking
/perceiving or chanting it. You become what He is and what you
really are (Baba).
• If you live on the physical level of body oriented to
world, you will be entangled in food fun frolic and finally failure.
Therefore forget it, ignore it, and overcome it. But if you reorient
and upgrade it to the level of MIND, you will have wholesome happiness
peace joy love calmness and success leading you to higher knowledge,
wisdom, enrichment, enlightenment, fulfillment, freedom, and liberation.
This will be the divine path to perfection, your ultimate goal.
(Baba)
• Have a firm conviction in your MIND that everything is
surcharged with the same divinity that is behind your identity
and activity. (Baba)
• The ancient {sanatan) yoga (truth/brahamvidya/knowledge)
imparted to disciples has remained the same in its essence.
• Augment the mind’s depth and thereby it's potential.
The ability to shore up the unyielding flow of thoughts helps
increase the mind’s power of perception and hence the potential
to benefit one and all. As revealed in the Bhagvad Gita: Whenever
the wavering heart wanders away, then so often let him subdue
it and bring it back to the control of the soul; for supreme happiness
comes to the yogin whose heart is at rest, in whom passion is
tranqualised, who is one with Brahma, and free from sin.
• The desires of the mind are insatiable and are compared
to fire. Any amount of fuel to fiire will not satisfy it. You
may throw anything from straw to whole world into the fire and
it will never indicate its non-acceptance. This is the nature
of fire. This is the nature of desire. (Swami Parthasarathy)
• The MIND, when it is steady in divine contemplation,
expresses sattwa overcoming rajas and tamas. No more will be feverish
hankering after worldliness. Tranquility comes to a heart, which
is no longer stirred by desires, as stillness to a fire, when
no more fuel is added. (Srimad Bhagvatam x1.3)
• With understanding held by firmness, and MIND established
in the self, let him by degrees attain tranquilty, let him not
think of anything else. Wheresoever the restless and unsteady
MIND may wander away, let him withdraw it from there and bring
it under the control of the Self-alone. He, whose passions are
quietened and MIND perfectly tranquil, who has become one with
the Brahma, being free from all impurities, to such a yogi comes
supreme bliss. (Bhagavad Gita V1 24-)
• The mind is said to be two-fold. The pure and also the
impure; Impure-by union with desire. Pure-from desire completely
free (Maitri Upanishad 6. 34)
• “Mind and intellect, function, in every human being,
without any coordination, which leads to stress, strain, confusion
and tension. Whenever intelect tries to meditate, the mind be
comes extroverted. The mind promted by old habits goes out to
the world of sensuality and expirences. Mind and intellect are
not two separetad factors, but are two sides of the same coin
that is our own true self.
• The only way to reach the divine within is an inner intregration
of both mind and intellect when they become friends, and their
movenment as a team is called meditation (Ashutosh Maharaj).
• Mind gathers, contains all the knowledge and information
collected by sense organs, thoughts, actions, contacts, and experience
with objects, people, places, events and environments. Capacity
of mind is limitless. If an individual mind is limitless, the
Mind of minds is also limitless and infinite. This is the theme
of Traitya Upanishad. (Swami Chetan Ananda)
• Dharma (duty or worldly function) of mind is 'chanchalta'
(vibration). When chanchalta slows down, it meditates or sleeps.
Due to vibrations, it wakes up. When mind becomes still, in a
state of equanimity, equipoise, it is merged in Mind, Ananda.
• Through the practice of meditation and dispassion (renunciation),
the restless (fickle) mind can be controlled. (Gita 6/35)
• Out of the free-roaming senses that which gets followed
by the mind, robs the mind of its wisdom-as the wind robs the
waters of a boat. (Gita 2/67)
• Through the eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue, the
skin, and the mind, this bodily existence enjoys and suffers.
(Gita 15/9)
• When mind wakes up, world is there, otherwise not. Our
Real Self is now identified as worldly self, comprising of body,
mind and intelect (B.M.I)
• The natural tendency of the ‘mind’ (and body
& senses) is to run after the objects, just as water flows
naturally from upper level to lower level.
• Now if we have to throw water from lower level to upper
level, we will have to use energy and efforts to pump it up. When
we want to send this mind away from the world, ie to sleep, we
have to make a little effort and the mind goes to the dreaming
state (after waking, dreaming is the second state or from conscious
to sub-conscious state). Then from dreaming state to sound sleep
state (third or unconscious state).
• Now if we want to send our mind from waking state (where
it is under vibrations, agitations or turbulence towards the world,
or worldly affairs, events, environments, circumstances, situations,
matter, energy, elements, objects, desires, dualities, afflictions,
attachmets, doubts, fears, actions and reactions, time and space)
direct to a higher state, we will realise our Real Self. Now,
to send it there, we do require some effort to put in. This is
called ‘Sadhna’. This state of mind is the fourth
state and is called “Samadhi”. So, the disturbance
of mind creates the world outside. Karma yoga is the self-effort
to quieten the mind.
• Sages with control over their minds, who know their innerselves
and are carefree from anger and passion, attain their merger with
Brahaman here itself (i.e. in this life on earth.) (Gita 5/26).
• The turbulent senses forcibly lead astray the minds of
even the wise. To control them, one should sit meditating on me.
He, who has his senses under control, is steadfast in his wisdom.
(Gita 2/61)
• " Master the mind, and you master the world,"(Guru
Nanak)
• "A one pointed, relaxed mind is the most powerful
and creative mind, it can do anything." (Yogi Bhajan)
• Mind is the sixth sense, directly under the control of
intellect, with four states ie waking, dreaming, unconscious (deep
sleep) and samadhi.
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