Find out the mind

[Guest guest]

D.: When I try to meditate, I am unable to do so because my mind

wanders. What should I do?

 

M.: Your question furnishes the answer. First, with regard to the

first part of the question, you say you concentrate, but do not

succeed. 'You' means 'the Self'. On what do you concentrate? Where

do you fail? Are there two selves, for the one self to concentrate

on the other? Which is the self now complaining of failure? There

cannot be two selves. There is only one Self. That need not

concentrate.

 

" But then, why is there no happiness? " - you ask. What is it that

prevents you from remaining as the spirit which you are in sleep?

You yourself admit that it is the wandering mind. Find out the mind.

If its 'wandering' stops, it will be found to be the Self - your 'I'-

consciousness which is spirit eternal. It is beyond knowledge and

ignorance.

 

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from Talk 328

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