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Mind Management 心思的導引

Why is the mind always turbulent?

The fire is hot, not cold. If it were cold, it would not be fire. We would say that it has died out. Water is liquid, not solid. If it solidifies, it is ice, not water. The wind blows because it is its nature to blow. The nature of fire is heat, and the nature of the mind is to be turbulent. If you force the mind, if you try to beat it into quietness, you will be admitted to a mental hospital. When people go crazy, display abnormal or imbalanced behaviour, it is because they tried to quieten the unquiet mind.

The mind is restless, what is new about that? I need to go to the toilet every day, what is new about that? I need to sleep every day, what is new about that? I feel hungry every day, what is new about that? The mind will be restless. If you want it to be peaceful, then find the other thing inside called atman, the self. Beyond the mind is another thing, the self. When the mind moves, the self moves; the restlessness of the mind creates restlessness in the self in the same way as the flag of Hanuman moves with the movement of the wind. It is not the nature of the flag to move; the nature of the flag is to be absolutely still. The wind moves it. The atman is within you. The only way to quieten the mind is through devotion to God and selfless work.

Asana and pranayama remove disease. Pratyahara is hypnotism. These are not permanent solutions, they are temporary aids. The permanent solution is: engage your whole mind in God. The whole mind, not half the mind. Engaging the whole mind in God is bhakti, engaging the whole mind in the world is asakti. Prayer and worship are also bhakti, ringing bells and applying sandalwood paste is also bhakti, wearing a tuft and the sacred thread is also bhakti, but these are inferior forms of bhakti. Superior bhakti is immersing your mind in God. If you immerse your mind in God, you will not ask such questions. One whose mind is absorbed in God experiences such bliss that he does not care for the lack of money or bodily illness. How can his mind be restless? It cannot be.

When people experience distress, what do they do? They get drunk. They do that because it feels good, they experience bliss, and in that bliss they forget their sorrows and pain. They forget their losses, they forget that their wife divorced them. Whatever sorrow they have, they forget it. When a small bottle of alcohol can make a man forget his sorrows, what will God's name do? It is the biggest intoxicant! The effect of alcohol wears off the next day, but the intoxication of God's name does not go down. One who experiences that high never comes down. Once you are drunk with God, that drunkenness will never leave you. It never left Mirabai. It never left Anandamai Ma. It never left Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. How many people should we name?

Peek peek Hari ke naam kaa pyaalaa
Isako peekara aura pilaakara Banajaa tu matawaalaa

Drink, drink the peg of God's name
By drinking it and making others drink it
Become intoxicated.

God's name is super intoxication. When a person is drunk, all the sorrows of the world due to which the mind becomes restless are left behind. The mind becomes restless due to desire, anger, greed, attachment. But once you experience bhakti, these things do not enter the mind. If someone wants to abuse us, they can; if someone dies, they can die; someone wants to live, they can live. In brief, this is the method. All saints have said this.

The other method is selfless work. Usually, whatever you do, you do for yourself and not for other people. And if you must do something for others, you do it with half a mind. The way you people perform karma yoga, you want the time to be up quickly. This is called disinterested service. I do not call karma yoga selfless service; I am calling it disinterested service. You have no interest yet you are doing it. I see this every day.

I have been watching karma yoga from the time of our Guruji. I was also a karma yogi. But now I have become a drashta, witness. It is very hard to do something for someone else. When you perform a task for someone else, your interest goes down. However, when a person performs a task with the same interest, involvement and honesty for someone else as he would for himself, it is called selfless work. So in Kali yuga, there are only two ways to find peace: bhakti and selfless work.

附註: Karma Yoga: 完全奉獻 無私且毫無要求或期待的付出