Linda: about thoughts during Chandi

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Namaste Linda and all: Swami has addressed this idea of thoughts

during meditation and while chanting Chandi very simply: they come,

we loose awareness of the mantra or Chanting, and when we realize we

are not chanting, bring our awareness back to the task.

 

Maa has made many statements about thoughts. Here are 2:

 

Maa addressed thoughts in Her book: " Living with the Soul " , this way:

if we have a thought, or emotion, we do not like, and it makes us

feel bad, immediately say a mantra, any mantra. That will help to

dissolve it.

In the same book She wrote: we have our goals, and anything which

takes us from our goals, use our discrimination, and do not put our

attention on it. Be strong, and stay true to your goals.

 

Maa has said to me: if a distracting or unhelpful thought comes into

your mind, just think: this is not my thought, and pay it no mind. We

do not have to give it our attention. Even can say to it: " go away,

you're not my thought. "

 

Jai Ma Jai Swami

 

vishweshwar

 

 

 

, nierika wrote:

>

> Dear Tanmaya ~ When I first learned TM, and was given my mantra, the

cuing

> we received about thoughts, images, etc. that might pass by or come

into our

> awareness, when meditating or when not meditating, was this: to

regard them

> as clouds in the sky, and to simply, without judgement, let them

pass, as

> clouds would, across and out of the " screen " of the mind. This was a

great way to

> " look " at thoughts ... by not looking. By keeping the attention on the

> Goddess, I think it is pretty much the same ... let the thoughts go

by. What you

> don't pay attention to, will eventually dissipate. What you pay

attention to

> is like dropping a stone in the river ... it will send out ripple

after

> ripple, after ripple, with each ring of the ripple gaining in size.

>

> I guess " killing " thoughts would amount to pretty much the same

thing. The

> Goddess kills them; they die; you let them go. Like you say,

ultimately they

> are not evil, else how would the Goddess send them to heaven.

Perhaps by

> killing them, they are actually being divested of their own

idea/thought of who

> they are and discovering their true nature. And since the Goddess

is the essence

> of confusion and of freedom,

> I believe the safe choice is simply to see Her everywhere. Jai MAA ~

Linda

>

>

> Tanmaya wrote:

>

> ...In truth, thoughts are the wierdest things going, the wierdest

things

> in our experience. Just try to determine what a thought IS; what is it

> MADE of?...

>

>

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