As it is said mind is a flow of thoughts. Mind can take you to anywhere in just a moment of time. In bhavagadgeeta krishna says controlling mind needs a rigorous practice. I can say who can keep their mind in control are genius and we can do wonders if that task is accomplished. Several gurus have preached their ideas in keeping mind under control. Ramana maharshi said if you do pranayama you can keep mind just as you trap a bird to a cage. I did not remember sanskrit sloka behind this. Buddha took one more step ahead and propose very simple principle to do this. He said, whenever your mind is jumping like a monkey just turn your concentration on your swasa(breath). Make your mind to focus on swasa. This is an exercise which keeps your mind in control. Just try this whenever you are under control of mind and you want to keep mind under your control. Apparently, there are many techniques existing to keep the mind in control. He talks of another technique where he says dont give scope for words to dominate. For example if you are seeing a flower just observe thats it. If you let your words then you start comparing with something else(another flower) and the sole beauty that your enjoying by watching the flower vanishes. Everything has a beauty in itself, so when you are watching something just observe but dont let wordliness to dominate. These are excerpts from swamiji discourse and includes editing from my side with whatever little understanding.
You can watch swamiji’s discourse on aastha channel every monday,tuesday and wednesday at 11.00PM to 11.20PM
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For the past three days I was attending spiritual talks by swami sukhabodanandha. The talks gave entertainment and enlightenment. The talks basically were on Bhagavad Geeta which is the book of life. It teaches you how to live a life peacefully by inhibiting the bad qualities that are part of every human being. He extracted the beautiful meaning encoded in the sanskrit verses and unfolded to the audience in the form of excellent examples. They are just real time examples where we can find lot of our peculiar mannerisms when dealing with different situations. I read his books unknowingly rather accidentally while I am pursuing my masters. I got inspired by his mind blowing examples and his way of presentation. Now I got a chance to attend his live talks. He emphasizes that our mind is just a flow of thoughts. Mind is always involved in fight between bad and good thoughts. He says pandavas are good thoughts and kauravas are bad thoughts and bhagavdgeeta explains how to win over these more number of bad thoughts. In the talks, I have observed 80 to 90% of the people are middle aged and old aged and the rest is youth. I can say that its a myth saying that bhagavad geeta is advisable to only old people. I can still remember that my grandmother used to read that at the age of 75 and I was under impression also that its for only elder people. But now I realize the importance of bhavagadgeeta which should be read by people when they are young. It does not make sense to go through the sanskrit verses and spend your whole time in memorising the verses. What is important is to get the real meaning involved in it. I can confidently say that there are too many preachers in India who teaches bahavadgeeta than a few who literally implement those preachings. Knowing does not matter following and implementing matters. Life gives you so many live examples to show How you should be and How you should not be. But you should be conscious enough to catch and understand those things. Swamiji beautifully says that we are spending our whole time in liking and disliking the moments that you face in your life. What he says is to experience the every moment that you face in your life. Just think in ourselves are we not doing this? and this is the main cause for whatever unhappiness, stress etc etc. I will give you the details of each talk explaining the examples and good quotes quoted by him.
