Any purpose, any wish, any desire in an agitated mind… it just gets lost in the remaining crowd of thoughts. If only you will learn how to quieten this mind…
And in a quiet and mind – a mere wish is a command to the universe!
How advanced is this! Now we close our eyes, and we know we are getting thoughts… Earlier used to live like a stranger. Thinking used to keep happening, you used to keep scratching… Now for the first time we realize – thoughts ellam varuthu… Aye, namba mande kulla masala (we are getting thoughts… we have stuff…) it’s a revelation! Okay, for the first time you all realize Upper kuch kam karraha hey (Some work is happening in the head). Till now, idhar se kam horahatha… idhar se kam horahatha… (work was happening here…) Now suddenly we realize… Oh, upper hemisphere also something is happening… Right now, you’re at least becoming aware of your thoughts. It will come in… yours is a scientific mind.
Ippadi ukathundu erukkayey yethavathu nadakuthu? (You are sitting like this… is something happening?)
Is something happening to you? Just because that fellow told, ok, you’re sitting… but actually what do you think it’s happening? Coffee readynu nenaikiran (I think coffee is ready!). If now itself she has done coffee, would it become cold by the time I have? Mahatria, told – you should always have small beginning only in life – for today so much is enough! Coffee! You will go…
Okay. Everybody will have to go through… everybody will go through… The reason Buddha was not able to experience silence is… He went… he wanted to embrace silence with a question in his mind. ‘How to remove the suffering in the world?’ And because you closed your eyes with a question in mind, the mind will not quieten and it’ll either give you a counter questions or thoughts… It will! In fact, rather than thinking, meditation is not happening to me – at least understand… now there is a focus to your thinking. Your mind is thinking in the direction of your questions. At least it’s moved from many to a focus… which itself is progress. Somewhere at some stage and this cannot be done by this. That’s why meditation is happening! You cannot do it… Somewhere at some stage in life… You don’t know when, how… you simply drop the questions. You just drop. Not because you have answers to all the questions, but you realize every question again becomes a question. Every answer… right now you asked me two questions. I have given you answer because it’s infinipath, they look for the next question and continue… if it’s not an infinipath – only two of us were there in the car, after answering your two questions you will sit or in that you’ll ask me two more questions? You will have two more questions – in that you will ask – because… we are all like that children, where even after the story is over, the child will ask… then what happened?
You can’t stop the questions… but over a period of time on practicing not doing… like it happens for many of you in the fourth, or the fifth or the sixth day, in HDB, or sometimes the fifth or the sixth HDB… Suddenly, for once, come there saying that – I’m not coming here for realization, and I just come here for experiences. As long as, I’m repeating, even if you are a Siddhartha, with a question in mind, when you close your eyes, you will only have thoughts. When you drop that question and close your eyes, then you have an experience.
At some stage, you will say, <span style=color:red;>Mahatria</span> today, I do not want to listen to you, I just want to watch you in silence. At some stage, you will not want to hear me, you will just want to experience me. We don’t know when that happens. That doesn’t mean your thinking is wrong. That doesn’t mean your questioning is wrong because there is no materialistic progress without questions.
That’s the nature of the mind and that has led you to that progress. Don’t see that as something that is wrong. Then why is spirituality asking us not to think! why is spirituality… because in a turbulent Pacific Ocean, even if a take the Petronas Towers, twin building, and throw it, you will not notice the ripples… because it’s already so turbulent, you won’t even notice it. In a still water lake, if somewhere even a speck of dust that’s flying in the wind comes and deposits itself on the still water Lake, it’ll create ripples that will fill the entire lake.
So these advanced scientists realized, right now you’re planting all your desires in an agitated mind. It’s getting lost in the crowd of thoughts, it’s losing its potency. The more and more you learn to quieten your mind and in that quietened mind, you plant that purpose in your life. The futuristic direction in your life, the sort of potency it gains, whether its a spiritual direction or a materialistic direction, is phenomenal. So they’re asking you to quieten the mind. So as long as you’re quietening the mind itself, you’re already in the right direction. You may not have yet stopped the mind. But <span style=color:red;>Mahatria</span>, how do I know I’m quietening the mind? The fact that you’re aware of your thoughts, your mind is quiet. Because otherwise you won’t even be aware of your thoughts.
