Quietness

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From Swami Ashokananda's talks:

 

How are you to know that this condition has come to you?

You know it by the state of your own mind. You will find that

from time to time your mind moves away from all the things

of the world. It wants to become quiet, as if in quietness it will find

something; and from time to time the mind does acquire an inner

quietness. Just as on a stormy day when the wind is blustery, from

time to time there are quiet moments, in the same way the stormy

mind, as it were, reaches these points of quietness. When that

condition has come and you try to increase that quietness of

mind you cultivate religion. As a matter of fact, you feel a desire

to think about God or to find a person who talks about God.

Then you can gradually rise to a better and better condition of

the mind, and you can practice religion much more seriously.

In the path of devotion that is considered necessary; there has to be

a desire to know God, to love Him. Maybe again after an hour or so

the mind goes back to material things; nevertheless for one hour the

mind has dwelt on God; it wants to dwell on God.