The Secret Position about the Mind

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Posted by: " N.S.Parasuraman " parasu41

Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:59 pm

The Secret Position about the Mind

by Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

 

Mind is an ocean and you are that ocean and in the ocean, the waves

of thoughts, feelings and emotions are arising. Sometimes these waves

will be strong, as in a sea. Sometimes they will be mild. Sometimes

they will be fast. Sometimes they will be slow. Suppose, the wave

rises, as it sometimes happens in a bore tide, nothings happens to

the sea. If at all, something happens to the land and the buildings

and the people there.

 

Your attitude must be that any thought that arises in your mind

ocean, does not cause the least disturbance to you, the ocean. So

never try to wrestle or fight against the thoughts. Simply allow them

to be.

 

This is a very great, but secret position. You should never complaint

that the mind is thinking. Let it think. By the thoughts of the mind,

what do you get is the only problem? Allow it purely as a waviness in

your mind ocean. And simply remain, in order to induce and strengthen

this feeling that you are the mind ocean and the thoughts, feeling,

and emotions are but waves, by none of which the mind ocean is

affected, on the other hand the mind ocean shows its strength, power

and grandeur. This thought you must have.

 

Now, in order to have this attitude, whatever basic thought that you

want to take, you take. As I told you yesterday, it can be

asango'ham. It can be ananto'ham. I am infinite, I am not affected.

Nishcalo'ham. I am immovable. So many waves and breakers come, but

the ocean does not change its axis.

 

Simply allow your thoughts; allow your thoughts to be. Allow them.

Don't be afraid of them. Let any thought come. Let any wave arise.

Let any breaker wave arise. I am not asking you to achieve anything,

gain anything, look at anything, proceed towards anything. No. No,

No, No. I only tell you the truth of your mind.

 

Your mind is the vast sea. Only on the surface of it, the waves of

thoughts, feelings and emotions arise. The vast mind ocean is very

very deep. May be one or two meters of depth on the surface are

affected or involved in the wave process. But there is much, much,

much, much greater depth below. In that depth, no wave affects. Let

it be any thought - murderous thought, respectful thoughts,

frightening thoughts, jealous thoughts, intolerant thoughts. These

are the ones that trouble you; that is why I mention about them. But

treat them all as waves and as substance it contains the water of

sea. In a strong wave, there is no poisonous water. Similarly in a

bad thought, there is no poisonous mind. But there is a delusion that

the bad thought is killing. No, it does not. It will not. Let the

mind think anything it likes. You keep quiet. You say that " I am mind

vast sea, mind vast sea " . You are not to control your thoughts. You

are only to decide the attitude towards it. If you feel it is a

sinful thought and you have become a sinner, you are. You become a

sinner. `This is a sinful thought; I don't know why it has come, let

it come . I am not going to do anything.' The sinful thought

vaporizes into the air. It does not make you a sinner. Simply remain:

 

Nishcalo'ham, Ananto'ham, Nishcalo'ham, Ananto'ham.