The only problem there is

Mind is too fast a machine.

Things happen so quickly, you know. Just like a thunderbolt. In a faction of second, you think of so many things, manipulate some and there you go – you have an outcome. There are the images and thoughts that you particularly stick to. And believe me, most often we don’t have any reason or basis for ‘sticking‘ to a particular idea. We just stick to it.

Now, you will say – what’s the catch?

Well, you can choose!

You can choose what you want to stick to! Wouldn’t it be nice to stick to good-great-cool-nice things – ones that make you feel awesome, ones that make you feel kinda cool. Don’t fool yourself by believing that your mind plays no part in the shaping the world around us ( or may be far till the end of a universe that appears infinite – a universe that can be realized but can not be measured) That’s sorta riddle that matches quantum physics theories. The moment you begin to observe a particle, you change the way it behaves :) That’s a well known law of physics.. Scientists tried to SEE  and they found that they affected the very nature of a basic particle called photon that was being SEEN. Take it like this – you can not measure the universe but you can shape it! Who care’s about measurements, all external knowledge and degrees and certificates and money when you can shape the universe! Who cares if you get what you want-  if that is the law of universe… and the good news is.. it is the law of universe!

Slow down.

Mind is affecting the world so much and in so many ways that its really difficult to realize at first. You will need to slow it down. You will need to slow down this god-damn fast machine. If you don’t, you will keep stumbling like an orphan football – mind kicks you every now and then. .. and believe me, its hard to deny the fact that you have not been sad, frustrated at some point in life.. As long we have an attitude like an ‘orphan football’, we can not expect to gain CONTROL.. control over the mind that shapes the world around :) Control doesn’t mean oppression! Take it in a good sense, okay. When two folks happen to love each other, they are actually controlling each other. That is the sort of control that you want to give and take :)

Only problem there is – mind is too fast a machine!

Slow it down. Slow it down by any means. Visit a quiet place to let it have fewer things o deal with. You will need to feed less and less to your mind to understand it. That is the way. That is the only way. Everyone finds it hard to think well when situations are real bad. It could be the ambiance, a-real-tragedy-going-on or something else, its problematic to think right! If you can slow down your mind, get a fewer thoughts, see a fewer pictures in your mind, visualize fewer instances in your mind.. you can find .. you can find how your mind is changing the world around you. Come to halt for some time. Understand. Don’t run to measure it. The only problem there is – mind is too fast a machine. But don’t worry.. your real self is too deeper than the mind you have :)

2 responses to this post.

  1. Posted by meeti on September 27, 2010 at 9:18 am

    i,ll tell u one thin
    all ths while even i used to feel mind is strng
    but
    d othr day i read heart is stronger
    if v have unconditional love for evrybdy
    if v do not feel hatrd for anybody
    if v forgiv n forgt
    all these r ofcrse emotions whch r cntrlld by heart thn the mind has nothin to wrk on
    it will slow dwn automattically
    any karma u do shd b wthout expctatn
    thn see d reslt
    evrythn falls in plc automatically
    u don,t hve to push
    don,t hve to cntrl
    dont hve to slw dwn
    a beautiful serene harmonius atmosphere is d result whr v gt ample time to b one wid HIM

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  2. :) Well.. Personally I can assure you that, unconditional love is the greatest power that I could ever feel .. I didn’t even know that it was ‘unconditional love’ that was the common string in all those awesome-st moments when I was feeling in super-duper harmony with people around me, things going on around me and everything else until I heard it from Avdhoot Baba Shivananda and heard it in ways that gave me deeep chills :)

    and I think… Mind and heart being two different faculties of a being are concepts introduced by movie makers :) Generally, we tend to differentiate intelligence/decisions/choices/desires/thoughts as

    1. emotional/irrational – ones we feel more ( but there are fewer ‘reasonable’ proofs to support their truthfulness) .. e.g. feeling love for people in your neighborhood :) You can say its your heart taking over your mind.. or you can simply say your mind is going unconditional :) Just that much.

    2. rational/practical – ones that are validated by things going on around us. If 10 people say Muslims are doing some nasty work in Pakistan, we start believing it just because it seems ratioanal to believe so. It seems practical. It seems practical to reject the request for help from someone who may not help you in turn.

    What I am telling here is that we have one faculty (that is mind or heart or heart+mind doesn’t matter) .. It’s just a matter of definitions :) Don’t go after them. Go after the meanings, which you already mentioned so beautifully above :) God bless you.

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