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overpowers you by sleep. Mind is a master-magician. He knows several tricks and illusions. Maya
operates through mind. Mysterious is Maya. Be on your alert. Be vigilant. You can control mind
and Maya. Throw away the blanket as soon as you hear the alarm. Sit on Vajra Asana. Do 20
Pranayamas. Drowsiness will disappear.
7. O friends! Wake up! Sleep no more. Meditate. It is Brahmamuhurta now! Open the gate
of the temple of the Lord in your heart with the key of love. Hear the music of the soul. Sing the song
of Prema to your Beloved. Play the melody of the Infinite. Melt your mind in His contemplation.
Unite with Him. Immerse yourself in the ocean of Love and Bliss.
8. Just as you remove at once a pebble in your shoes that troubles you, so also you must be
able to remove any tormenting thought from your mind at once. Then only you have gained
sufficient strength in control of thought. Then only you have attained some real progress in the
spiritual path.
9. An aspirant says:  I am able to meditate on one Asana for three hours. In the end I become
senseless but I do not fall down to the ground. If there is real meditation, you will never become
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senseless. You will experience perfect awareness. This is a negative, undesirable mental state. You
will have to get over this state by keeping up perfect vigilance.
10. Suppose the mind runs outside during meditation forty times within one hour. If you can
make it run only 38 times it is a decided improvement. You have gained some control over the
mind. It demands strenuous practice for a long time to check the mind-wandering. Vikshepa Sakti is
very powerful. But Sattva is more powerful than Vikshepa Sakti. Increase your Sattva. You can
very easily control the oscillation of the mind.
11. When there is deep concentration you will experience great joy and spiritual
intoxication. You will forget the body and the surroundings. All the Prana will be taken up to your
head.
12. If you find it difficult to concentrate your mind within a room, come outside and sit in an
open place or terrace or by the side of a river, or in a quiet corner of a garden. You will have good
concentration.
13. When you are lying down in your bed, sometimes a big light will pass along your
forehead. As soon as you try to behold the light by meditating in the sitting posture it may disappear.
You may ask:  How is it that I fail to catch the light by exertion, whereas it comes by itself when I
am lying down, without an effort? The reason is you lost the concentration as soon as you sat for
meditation by entry of Rajas.
14. It is very difficult to fix your mind in the beginning on the whole picture of Lord
Krishna, because all the rays of the mind are not collected. Sometimes you can visualise the face,
sometimes the feet, sometimes the eyes. Fix the mind on any part of the picture which the mind likes
best.
15. The mind has attraction for certain new words or names of towns or persons. Suppose
you have come across certain new words or names of towns or persons such as  ecstasy,  Fyzabad,
 John Herbert. If you sit for meditation the mind will repeat  ecstasy,  Fyzabad,  John Herbert.
Sometimes it will sing some songs, repeat some old poems or Sanskrit Slokas which you got by
heart during your boyhood. Watch the mind carefully and try to bring it back to the point or centre.
16. When you meditate with open eyes you may see a friend in front of you and hear his
voice also; but you may not be able to make out the person and his voice because the mind is not
attached to the ears or the eyes. If the mind is entirely withdrawn from the sensual objects, if the
thoughts are annihilated, if likes and dislikes are destroyed, how can you perceive the world at all?
You will become mindless. You will behold the Self only everywhere. All names and forms will
vanish.
17. It is very difficult to fix the mind all at once on a point. The mind moves with a
tremendous velocity. Just as the horse in a circus runs in a circle again and again, so also the mind
runs in a circle again and again. Instead of allowing the mind to run in a big circle, make it run in
smaller and smaller circles. Eventually it can be fixed on a point. You will have to catch hold of the
mind through intelligent methods. Mere coercion and force will not do. It will make matters worse.
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18. Sometimes you may become despondent and feel,  I have many weaknesses and
defects. How can I eradicate them? How can I control this strong and impetuous mind? Will I get
liberation or Nirvikalpa Samadhi in this very birth? I have not gained much even though I have [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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