Mind your mind

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

-Staff

By Staff

Friday, May 2, 2008, 9:26

In its own way the mind leads us, sometimes in strange ways – in the way it 'thinks" and 'responds". Thoughts rise and fall in a chaotic manner in our mind; nothing is logical; thoughts rise, live and fall. It is not thought; it is just association. Association is jumpy, not logical. This is why there"s so much confusion.

When the thinking process is brought into consciousness our desires too become conscious.

At the moment they are mostly unconscious. You realise after a while that whatever it is that led to a problem is just the association, not desire. It"s like sitting in a car that moves on its own – something that you are not controlling.

A mind that is moving in association with unconscious desire is dangerous.

We try to suppress desire or we fulfil it. But suppression does not work. Fulfilment does not remove desire, it only creates more desire. Bring your desire to consciousness from unconsciousness. If the desire is really worth fulfiling, it will have its own energy for fulfilment.

If this is not so, it will disappear. However, either way you will be in a state of relaxation. Without consciousness, either suppression or fulfilment will lead to suffering, guilt and tension.