Mind management is the key 

SWAYAM VISHVAS
Speaking Tree 
Th  Ti
The Times of India, 
  f I di  
30 January 2010
Mind management is the key
i d i h k

When we are afflicted with a disease

like malaria, we don't treat each
symptom
t lik fever,
like f pain
i andd shivering,
hi i
one by one. We just treat the disease
andd theh symptoms automatically ll
vanish. So deal directly with the mind
and symptoms like stress and strain will
disappear.
Vishvas meditation is mind management.
There is no attempt, however, to control the mind;
the idea is to ggo beyond
y it. The mind is compared
p to a
monkey drunk with the wine of desire, stung by the
scorpion of jealousy and possessed with the demon
of pride. Lust, greed, jealousy, anger, ego, tensions,
reactions grudges,
reactions, grudges depression,
depression stress and strain are,
are
however, the symptoms and not the disease.
The common misconception is that meditation is
concentration of mind and various techniques are
taught to achieve this.
this
Meditation
M di i has h got no technique.
h i Th
There are techniques
h i
for concentration. Concentration is a mental exercise
between the mind and the object of attention. But
meditation is neither a mental exercise nor a practice.
Meditation is a direct and natural process beyond the
mind itself. Meditation is not concentration; it is the
mother of concentration.
Remember, concentration is where one tries to control
thoughts, where thoughts get dissolved naturally,
enhancing your powers of concentration, memory, will,
right thinking and fitness.
.
When yyour thought g current is interrupted
p ‐ which
means that all thoughts are fixed on one object ‐ it is
concentration. But when the flow is uninterrupted, that
is meditation. This is when the thought is not fixed on
any one object,
object rather we just remain a non
non‐doer
doer and
directly watch thoughts as a neutral energy without any
judgement analyses,
judgement, analyses participation,
participation visualisation,
visualisation
imagination, contemplation, suppression, repression,
condemnation or concentration.
concentration
Meditation is a non‐doing entity where you are simply
a seer, witness,
it you are an observer
b off the
th mind's
i d'
happenings.
To watch is our true nature. It is a natural, non‐doing
state. No effort is required to watch. We all have full
potential to look within directly as we all are blessed
with the 'Third
Third Eye
Eye'.
Meditation is mind management. It is not forcing the
mind to be quiet.
quiet It is to find the quiet that is there
already. We are children of bliss. We suffer from stress
and strain because we gave all the powers to the mind
and made it our master. Not only that, we consider
ourselves
l nothing
hi but
b theh mind.
i d
Mind is matter. It has no power of its own. It is useful
in the external world but in the spiritual, internal
world, it has to be overcome. Otherwise we will be
the victims of mental and physical diseases.
M dit ti is
Meditation i seeing
i the
th mindi d as a witness,
it a neutral
t l
energy. It is not interfering with the intricacies and
doings of mind.
mind Just be a seer,
seer be a witness.
witness We just
stay in our own source, in our true nature: All‐bliss.
 cheerful We are
We are happy when the mind is cheerful.
depressed when the mind is gloomy. We are at the
mercy off the
th mind
i d that
th t waxes and
d wanes. We
W consider
id
ourselves nothing but mind. It is blasphemy to
consider
id ourselves
l as victims
i i off an unforeseen
f
incident when the unending Bliss is flowing within all
of us.
Meditation is mind management.
Meditation is homecoming.

The writer is a member of the Vishvas Foundation. E‐mail: vishvas@vishvas.org

With kind regards
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