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Mind

The sincere never gives up the long battle with the mind and always relishes to struggle hard for maintaining the Sacred Schedule. A real seeker never gives up nor yields to the dictate of the mind. You will find the gracious hand of protection of the Master always with you. 

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The mind, as you know, works in subtle ways – too subtle for an ordinary man to detect and then to detect rightly and in time before the mischief is done. It is from the abundance of heart that all actions, oral as well as physical, proceed. We have, therefore, to be mentally alert about our thought-waves, so as to be able in time to mark their ebb and flow and then bypass them by the process of concentration, forgetting all about the mind and the mental states, including even the pure mind essence which gossamer-like envelops the soul. 

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Likes and dislikes are again the attributes of human mind. As a matter of fact it is simply an attitude of your mind when you like something or hate others. A sense of equanimity or equipoise when established by Inner Communion with the Holy Naam will create an indifference for all these matters. Simran is the basis of all Spiritual Evolution. You will please appreciate that it is the constant thought of worldly pursuits which has been the cause of present human birth, and for attaining liberation from the cycle of birth and death, the very thought pattern is to be revolutionised by replacing it with Divine Thoughts.

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You will please realise that most of the time, we ordinarily are at the heart-centre and are therefore swayed by countless emotions, feelings and impulses of diverse kinds: likes and dislikes, preferences and perversions, prides and prejudices, senses and sensibilities, all of which, whether we wish it or not, keep us chained to the world and all that is worldly. We have, therefore, to be very cautious in training the mind in the reverse process – the process of inversion or tapping inside, by steadily developing the Inner Gaze with a loving longing for the Lord. He is within us and we are within Him like the proverbial fish in the sea. The apparent cloud of darkness that greets us when we close our eyes will gradually reveal that lining – because of the sun of Spirituality behind it – and will eventually burst if we but learn to see intently and lovingly into the middle thereof. 

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Human mind is fashioned as such by Providence that when it is determined to follow its prescribed course all Divine Forces come to render you feasible help for the accomplishment of your object. Contrarily if one happens to stoop to the temptation the same forces take the reverse process with inevitable repercussions of shame and guilt.

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Mind has a vast sphere of activity. It resents Inner Silence and absorption with the result that instead of quietness, more of confusion intrudes. You are requested to avoid all thoughts whatsoever all along your daily chores, and try to keep your mind enchained whether with the Simran of charged names, or loving remembrance of the Master, or listening to the Holy Sound Current as coming from the right side. This is the sublime solution for all the troubles caused by the mind. You will find that such a Sacred Schedule will have salutary effect on your regular Holy Meditations, which will become more fruitful and harmony.