it is the mind that won't keep quiet

[Guest guest]

Bhagavan quoted verses 5 , 52 and 36 from two songs by

Thayumanavar. Their gist is as follows:

 

"Bliss will follow if you are still.

But however much you may tell your mind about

this truth, the mind will not keep quiet.

It is the mind that won't keep quiet.

It is the mind which tells the mind 'Be quiet and you

will attain bliss'.

 

Though all the scriptures have said it, though we

hear about it every day from the great ones,

and though even our Guru says it, we never are quiet,

but stray into the world of maya and sense objects.

That is why conscious, deliberate effort or meditation

is required to attain that mauna state or the state

of being quiet."

 

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Day of Day with Bhagavan, pp 89f

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