TIPS FOR MIND THAT BECOMES OVERACTIVE IN MEDITATION
Ishwar Puri: “Great Master..said, ‘Meditation without first locating yourself inside is not going to be very effective.’
Once you are there ..the mind becomes double active, thinking of things…if you have lost some keys, mind can tell you where the keys are at that time. It will think so hard at that time it never thought so much. It’s trying to survive.. Trying to survive, it becomes very active.
Therefore, we are repeating words like a parrot and the mind is going on thinking of all other things of the world.. Repeating is not the secret. Listening to what you’re repeating is the secret. The mind speaks, the soul listens. The listening power is of our own consciousness, of the spirit. Always in the head the mind is speaking, always, and always the soul is listening, not the mind.
Therefore, there’s a divided function. The mind speaks, the soul listens. If you want to concentrate your attention, the soul’s attention, listen attentively. Listening to the words is like listening to the sound inside. It’s a starting point. The more attentively you listen, the better your meditation will be.
These are.. tips I’m giving after a lot, a lot of mistakes I myself made. I myself stumbled upon so many things, and that’s why after so many years of practicing, not working properly, not succeeding, failure after failure, then some success, then grace.. all that I’ve experienced, and then I’m sharing all this with you so that it cuts short your own time to make good progress.
Life itself is short. This discovery of your own Self is in a way a lengthy process, because it requires change of an attitude, a curiosity, a seeking to develop first, then you take it seriously.
But the diverse diversions and the distractions keep on the way. It takes a long time to get that kind of an intense seeking, that you say, “I’m fed up of all this, this is not mine.” To get to that attitude, it can take a few lifetimes.
So, one lifetime is a short period. But if we learn from these experiences of those who have been experts at this, who have done this before, it cuts short our own time in making progress. That’s why I came here, to share these experiences with you..”
Ishwar’s quote is an excerpt from “All the Answers Are Hidden Inside Us”
Ishwar Puri explains that the Initiation takes place behind the 10th door inside. Energetic experience never leads us to any awareness (knowledge of True Self).