Mind Is Like A Mirror, Check It To Meditate

We will know a little bit more about this mind and then we will continue our journey.

So with happy Thanksgiving,

Let us know a little more about mind,

Even though I may explain it in a very simple words,

But if you remember,

And if you live into that state of awareness,

Perhaps this may be the last session,

You know that I have gone there,

I am there.

Two or three examples,

The first example,

Camera.

Camera is here in with me,

I take your picture.

Camera doesn't move,

But it takes your picture,

Whether you are near,

Whether you are far,

Right?

Now take the example of a smartphone,

It talks,

But it doesn't go anywhere.

It takes the picture,

But it doesn't go anywhere.

It is one of the higher principles,

One great master explains in a specific text.

And you see that smartphone takes pictures,

Videos,

Audio,

You can record it.

So at present,

Say for example,

It has taken the picture and then it saves the picture behind.

Mind does not go anywhere,

Mind is like a camera.

Mind is like a smartphone.

Hey,

How are you Daniel?

So it receives the memory from the past,

It doesn't go anywhere.

Remember,

Can I maintain that awareness that this mind does not go anywhere?

Think of it,

Think of it.

It remains where it is,

Like smartphone.

Now,

If I have to talk to you,

The smartphone does not run to your country and then says,

Now I recognize Daniel,

Let me talk.

Do you see that?

The mind is like this smartphone,

Audio,

Video,

Chatting.

It is,

You see that?

Now see that.

What happened?

The mind entered into the hand and it says here,

I am there,

But I can raise your hand.

I can see far off objects,

I can smell,

I can have a fragrance.

Can I live into that state of awareness?

Are you getting it?

Mind does not go anywhere.

At a lower level of the practices,

We see the mind has gone somewhere,

Bring it back,

It is attached,

Lot of things.

You see that?

First thing.

Now,

Mind is like a mirror.

Do I see you?

Yes.

How do I see you?

The mind sees through the eyes.

So if you are 100 pound,

Seeing you does not increase the weight of the mind.

It does not change,

It does not show,

It shows,

I recognize the height,

But it does not give the same height to the mind.

Let us go a little deeper.

Let us go deeper.

You look into the mirror,

You see your image,

Right?

So does that image has a weight in the mirror?

There is no weight in the mirror.

That is the nature of the mind.

Because mind is so much obsessed and attached,

Full of craving,

Anxiety,

Reaction,

That is why it is not aware of the reality.

Are you getting it?

The moment we go in front of the mirror,

I'm looking smart.

Does the mirror look smart?

Does the mirror gains weight because you are in front of the mirror?

Does the mirror change the color?

You are in front of the mirror?

Does the mirror show you women?

Daniel,

If you are a man,

That is the nature of the mind.

It is that nature when we realize that reflects our real self 24 by seven.

Then what happens?

Then you are,

Even if you are angry,

Peace and happiness,

Both are behind.

It is not the pride that is making you angry and agitated.

You want to get the things done.

You work behind peace and happiness.

You speak behind peace and happiness.

You think behind peace and happiness.

What is first?

First is peace and happiness,

Then you think,

Then you speak,

Then you act.

Why?

What happens to the mirror when you are in front of the mirror and when you leave the mirror?

Mirror remains as it is,

No change.

In that mirror,

The real self reflects.

That takes you into a deeper state of meditation.

Think of it.

But knowledge is must be supported by practice and practice must be supported by knowledge.

That will take you to discovery of the real self and awakening.

Knowledge alone cannot help.

Real self cannot.

One of the masters,

Well,

He lived.

He lived until I would say,

82,

83,

And I had a fortune to meet this guy.

He used to tell his story.

Perhaps it may be a real story,

But it gives the right message.

This is an African guy went to Britain and he found the mirror because in those days,

Hundreds of years ago in those days,

The mirror was invented there and it had yet to go to African countries.

He bought a mirror.

He went back to Africa.

Similarly in those days,

You know,

The wife,

Wife opens the bag and looks everything and you know what this guy has brought for me.

So now she looks into the mirror.

Beautiful women.

Now I see my honey is attracted to this beautiful women.

He left the husband house and went to his father's house,

But he took the mirror with her.

Couple of weeks passed by and his father got upset why his daughter is not returning to her husband.

So he started searching everything.

Is there anything suspicious in his room?

And he found the mirror.

And he saw into the mirror.

That is what happens every day in our life.

It may be a story,

But this is what happens in our daily life.

So he saw into the mirror and he said,

Now I understand my beautiful daughter loves crazy old man,

Because he's looking himself into the mirror.

And one step further and then daughter's father's,

You know,

Daughter mother also saw into the mirror and said,

Now,

You know,

At this age,

My husband is in love with the old women.

What a crazy guy.

Now apply this in your daily life.

You see this beer guy,

Maybe you may feel happy,

But if the pride is there behind,

You hold back.

See that you look into your,

You look your friend.

It is not neither friend or foe,

Nor husband and wife.

It is all happening in the mirror.

So at last this freaking guy went to daughter's,

You know,

In-laws house and he said,

Come on,

What you guys are all crazy.

And then he removed that doubt,

Delusion,

You can say doubt,

You can say delusion,

You can say thought process,

You can say pain,

You can say grief,

Whatever you want to name it.

It hardly matters.

That is the journey of meditation.

Think of it.

So mind is like a mirror.

We lost that transparency of a mirror.

You see that in every government we say,

Where is the transparency?

Newly elected presidencies now,

We will work with the transparency.

Means what?

This mind is not attached,

Obsessed,

Anxious of anything in front of itself.

Am I right?

If I compare it with reference to the mirror,

When this mind is attached,

Obsessed,

With the objects outside,

This mind becomes impure.

Pure,

Purity is required.

The moment the mind becomes like a mirror,

Grace,

Peace,

Happiness,

Love,

Wisdom starts pouring into our life.

Because if I'm attached to anything outside,

That object or a person has to leave me.

And they always leave me at least for six to seven hours during the deep sleep.

That we do not understand.

That those crazy relations of this,

A frequent guy did not understand.

Now I'm comparing both.

Are you getting it?

It's very simple,

But still it is challenging to the mind that is obsessed,

That is attached.

It is because of the attachment,

Mind creates millions and trillions of thought pattern.

That we will take up last week,

How many types of thought pattern.

We have to empty the mind.

Now,

Do you want to empty the mirror?

Mirror is always empty.

You stand before the mirror.

Yes,

Mirror says,

Okay,

Here is your image.

You leave the mirror,

Gone.

The mind should be like this.

In that mind,

Real self reflects 24 by seven.

I'm answering your question.

Or a query that you asked me,

How it is irreversible process.

That is the journey.

And the journey of meditation is not that when you succeed,

It is an irreversible process in your life.

That is not the end of the journey.

The journey of meditation is that it is expressing and revealing that peace and happiness,

Love and wisdom here and now.

That is the journey of meditation.

You know,

When we use the word journey,

We say here is the destination departure point and here is an arrival point.

And after that,

The end of life,

No.

Journey of meditation is to reveal.

That is why I use the word,

Revealing that peace and happiness.

Go back and understand the mirror does not create any impression in the mind,

But we create a lot of impression in the mind,

Maybe because of the pride,

Maybe because of the attachment,

Maybe because of the detachment.

And we do not realize that anything we are attracted in this world or obsessed with it will have to leave because they are constantly changing.

It is an influx.

They have to change.

There is no way out,

But the mind forgets to act like a mirror and why it forgets?

Because I have a hollowness inside,

The emptiness inside.

I don't see that peace and happiness in me.

So that is how these masters have discovered these principles,

How to move step by step to purify the mind,

To make the mind like a mirror,

Allow the mind to reflect the real self.

And once that real self compare is a billion dollar as compared to a penny,

Which is a pleasure that we receive with the objects and people outside.

And last point,

Why I say pleasure and why I compare pleasure with a penny?

Today's a Thanksgiving day.

So observe whatever acts you are doing and in the evening,

Collect all the units of pleasure.

One unit of pleasure by eating food,

Second unit of pleasure by meeting with your relations and friends,

Third unit of pleasure by having receiving a gift,

Fourth unit of pleasure and collect all the units.

If you have collected 50 units of pleasure today in the Thanksgiving day,

Can that 50 unit of pleasure give you one unit of happiness?

Ask yourself.

Pleasure is already gone.

It only happens when you are in contact with that object or a person.

Hey,

How are you?

So we hug each other and after we leave,

The mind is already going somewhere else.

Oh,

You have a beautiful dress.

Now the pleasure is gone.

All hugging and meeting.

Are you getting it?

Mirror,

Unit of pleasure,

Happiness,

And that is gone in a probable life.

So what I see the real Thanksgiving is to discover that peace and happiness which enters into our mind by grace.

That is why we are grateful.

Now grateful,

Latin word coming from the grace graciousness.

If the mind wants to force the real self to allow the peace and happiness to take place in my life,

It will never happen.

That is why we say,

The real self says,

Mind be pure,

Become like a mirror,

And I'm here all the time.

I can reflect myself,

Don't force me.

Forcing means I want to own,

I want to possess,

I want to get pleasure.

That will never happen.

That never happens.

That is why we say the love,

Peace,

And happiness are earned.

It cannot be forced.

So when it is not forced,

Then it becomes a journey of meditation.

When the mind lays like a mirror.

See,

We see that another young and handsome guy,

Sam,

If he stands before the mirror,

Mirror does not say that you are most handsome.

I will remain attached to you.

Even if someone comes,

I will not show him or her into the mirror.

Now,

Can that happen?

Is my mind like it?

Now,

Become just,

Become aware,

Is my mind like it?

I'll give you a lesson and finished.

Now,

Again,

I will come back.

Don't be so serious,

Sergey.

It isn't you.

It is always with you.

It is always with you.

We forget it.

That is why this teacher,

Which we are following in our journey on Mondays and Thursdays,

What he says,

Two principles,

And then we'll start the practice.

I'll repeating the earlier principle.

He says,

The mind of its content,

Why empty?

There's a lot of dust in the mirror.

Empty it.

And then what is the reserve?

The moment you remove the dust,

That real self is already there behind the mind that appears in the mind,

And it becomes a reversible process.

That process is known as awakening.

That state is known as awakening.

A lot of thoughts are coming to my mind,

But I'm holding back last mind.

Difference between waking up and awakening?

Both,

In both the words,

One thing is common,

Waking up.

You wake up in the morning,

You wake up to the same old world of attachment,

Of detachment,

Of position,

Of power,

Of pleasure,

Of anxiety,

Of duality,

And a conflict.

This is all it does to the mind.

And what is awakening?

You awaken totally to a different world,

Not the old one.

You awaken to inner peace,

Happiness,

Love,

Wisdom.

That is what is the journey of meditation according to the teachings of our great masters.

Let us start our journey of meditation.

Eyes are closed.

Eyes are closed.

Eyes are closed.

Let us start in the same way.

I am.

The way you stand before the mirror and the mind says I am.

Why don't you say I am?

I am not Sam or Daniel or Jerry or Sangeeta.

I am simply I am.

No name,

No label.

And then I know I am.

I know.

This knowing,

This sensation,

This awareness is nothing but consciousness.

It is pure consciousness.

I know I am.

When it becomes impure,

I know I am man,

I am Christian,

I am Muslim,

I am Hindu,

I am meditator.

You see that?

Dust has come.

And then when I know I am,

Who is this I am?

Who I am,

Who is this I am?

This I am is behind the mind,

Is the real self,

Is always full of permanent happiness.

Another doubt we should remove from the mind that I am creating that peace and happiness by the practice of meditation.

No,

I am discovering that inner peace and happiness which is already there.

The way I lost the keys of my car in the home,

I don't say let me create another key.

You say,

Oh,

It has been there in my house so let me find it.

I forgot it.

Same way,

Discovery.

It is very simple.

What is very simple in our journey is always higher,

Greater,

Loftier.

So look at,

Look inside the heart.

In that awareness of the body,

You see the body is steady and in that steadiness of the body,

You are looking inside the heart.

Where?

In the space.

Why in the space?

The space is also a mirror.

You see,

Every word I choose coming from these teachings of our masters,

I don't interfere in any way in these teachings.

Why?

Because that is the only way.

The moment you interfere,

You are confused.

You are looking into the space and become aware of the space.

In that state,

Become aware of the space.

And what a beautiful mantra and the verse that we are doing in today's meditation,

Which is also happens to be a Thanksgiving Day.

You see that.

So singing and listening is the first.

Who listens?

The mind.

And if the mind is like a mirror,

It will start feeling the vibes,

Even if you do not understand.

So first stage is singing and listening.

We don't pay any attention to the meaning.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Singing,

Listening,

Now,

Meaning the stage two.

You are also singing in your mind.

Singing in the mind,

Listening to what you are singing and meaning,

Meaning of swasthir is the state of well-being.

The state of the well-being is already present behind the mind.

But mind is seeking that state of the well-being with objects,

With people,

With events.

Why not Thanksgiving every day?

Why only today?

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Experience,

Look at the state of well-being.

Simply looking,

That means that you know the meaning.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Now,

Singing,

Listening,

Meaning and the applied knowledge.

Mind says no,

You have to do a lot of things to enter into the state of well-being,

Meditation and our master says it is already behind the mind.

So we keep our awareness deeper inside.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

The mind will always see it is a bit difficult.

And one woman in our country,

You know,

She was in her restroom and her mind started singing.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatu.

And then she wrote to me,

Oh,

That is what you meant.

Let me wait,

Let it mature so that the mind starts reflecting on the second line,

Singing and listening.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Singing,

Listening and meaning.

What is the meaning?

Peace.

Do I get peace with someone,

Including me?

No.

Peace is independent.

It is inside me with that meaning.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Peace.

And what is the applied knowledge?

This shanti means the good space.

So how to reach,

How to help the mind to reach to that?

Allow the mind to be aware and living into that infinite space inside you.

That is all.

We don't say you have to focus and make an effort.

Let us see.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.

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numb how to Mangalam auspiciousness every moment in our life is auspiciousness because the mind is in a demanding mood it forgets that it loses that awareness that is the only thing we have to understand sir we shall Mangalam have a to survey Shambhoor numb how to survey Shambhoor numb how to survey Shambhoor numb how to survey Shambhoor numb how to survey Shambhoor Mangalam have a to now another understanding the mind imagines when the mind sticks to something but still it is a mirror so why not use the same tool to change the mind what do you mean imagine you just woke up from the sleep and imagine survey Shambhoor there is a well-being there is a peace there is a completeness and there is a wholeness imagine you are going to sleep feel that you watch yourself you are walking into your bedroom switched off the light light down on the bed placing blanket over the body eyes are closed and well-being peace mind imagines that I am stress stress is all imagination it doesn't stay in the mind mind is mirror let me imagine the well-being peace completeness and auspiciousness so you find those vicious moment before you sleep when you wake up imagine you are in a kitchen and take your mind to the well-being with understanding with awareness well-being peace completeness and auspicious now what our master says that when you do it regularly that well-being merges into peace well-being and the peace merges into completeness and because of well-being peace completeness merges all together it gives rise to auspicious moment auspiciousness and that auspiciousness is present behind the time behind the space behind the person behind the object behind the event looking at the breath look at the breath make your breath a little slow deep in the side not very deep not very short find out the length and length of the breath so that in the mind is not hesitated very gentle slow and as you inhale move the mind inside the right arm from the shoulder to the fingertips looking into the space and when the when you exhale move the mind from the fingertips to the shoulder looking into the space so what is the journey the breath is the car mind is the driver and the space inside is the highway it is that highway that goes to the real self or is that I've a mirror now inside the left arm same way the breath and the mind moves inside the left arm from the shoulder to the fingertips looking moving into the highway and from the fingertips to the shoulder in the highway do you remember I explained you the difference waking up awakening one thing is common that you are conscious you are aware and doing the practice you now inside the right leg same way you still disc what happens when the mind which is obsessed and attached with the body for all practical purposes it says I am the body when the mind leaves that obsession you are there you you inside the left leg you and now inside the spine from the crown of the head to the tailbone as you inhale the mind moves inside the spine from the crown of the head head to the tailbone and when you exhale from the tailbone to the crown of the head continue the journey if the mind is going anywhere if you remember any mantra any line that will be good if you don't just ask the mind are you aware of the well-being peace completeness auspiciousness simply just make a query and we continue the journey you will find the mind returns you you you you now leave this move the mind walk the mind softly from the crown of the head inside saying simply Oh Oh represents real self symbol on is the name of the real self and bring it down inside the heart from the heart again left the mind to the crown of the head saying Oh you may see oh you may see oh I'm shanti whatever you like but your mind should see and what it means so meaning is the knowledge you are aware of that you you you you find a free flow of the mind with Oh reflecting on the meaning the mind goes behind itself you see these masters have created such a crazy stuff with a clarity of the principles that it takes us very deep inside you you you do nothing remain as you you you you you you he bring your mind on the right hand bring your mind on the left hand lift your both of arms place it on your eyes open the eyes inside know your experiences bring the hands down will share our experiences and followed by any question that you have you so how are you Sam you I'm good I describe this one as having more I'm what's next than usual so just it seemed like it happened in a very quickly that's beautiful you know so thoughtless and all of that stuff I was you know not worried about anything outside and by the time you know I realized that we were in the meditation you're already taking us out and today we did seven or eight minutes longer than the usual that's a beautiful way to put it and that's a deeper experience and if you see that knowledge must translate into realization by practice but the very practice must have a clarity of the knowledge so the knowledge and the practice goes together now what happens at the intellectual level we know that time is one continuity and still the mind divides the time so now see that check the mind has entered into the state of timelessness then it says oh it was almost 35 37 minutes of the practice oh yeah it happened just in no time can I live into that state I'm answering Daniel how are you Daniel I'm good thank you so for me today was a very quiet but also kind of deeper and I also lost of feeling or understanding what is going on good and it was like very very short and I was surprised that we are almost at the end then that's really good that's a similar experience of timelessness can we live into that state 24 by 7 answer is yes if I can live even for a moment and if you have lived for 37 minutes in that state we can live 24 by 7 and if we live 24 by 7 the mind leaves all the garbage behind how are you Jerry so it was a similar I like the way that Sam said it as timeless it wasn't really thinking about it until he said it like that but for me too it was more about the space mm-hmm that's always good so the stages were really I wasn't at all but I was only focused on the space throughout the meditation so it was really interesting very good yeah continue no but it just that it was just really about the space I didn't the transitions through the meditation were really relevant relevant you see Jerry and all my friends for mine the space is objective for mine the time is subjective so after understanding that some people like Jerry goes into the infinite space all-pervading space and including also Sangeeta but others the mind picks up the subjective time you pick up anything doesn't matter question is are you going deeper so you find the space less Ness totally space infinite space so where is the time it is also timelessness when there is a timelessness it is all one space so they are mutually inclusive that is what we have to understand so however you Sangeeta sir the pallet or the month of turn a strength to go body me vibrations brilliant she really feeling holy thing to be a celebrity sick shield as you protect career ah that's another beautiful Sangeeta I know she is quite emotional and when you are emotional so what she says in her experience in the beginning she felt the vibrations because of mantra meditate mantra practices later on she felt that someone is protecting you like a big shield so that is a journey of meditation through emotion through feeling that's a typical so even when you are doing one meditation you may reveal that emotional nature as if you are being hundred percent protected when you are protected when you live in the auspicious moment that is what we did you see that see this it works in a different way so when you are in that moment of auspicious Ness protection is natural you never think of the fear and the anxiety and the reaction yes Sargi how are you I felt like a pressure in the sides of my head and no thoughts almost all maybe like two or three for all the period of time and it's quite wine quite right this now ask yourself can we live into that state of quietness inside all the time one can we continue to feel the same protective shield as in case of Sangeeta in the same state of timelessness as in the case of Sam and David Daniel and in case of Jerry can I live and maintain my awareness that I am just floating into that infinite space it is going to change the mind only difference between the teacher and the seeker the teacher perceives that we all are essentially one that is how the teacher perceives so the teacher never answers your question teacher always answers you because you are the most important but from the seekers point of view what is there the seeker perceives the teacher is different from me teacher knows much more than me that is your ignorance I can bet you you drop that ignorance here and now you are there the way that a freaking beautiful girl when the freaking guy return and he told you all are crazy you see this is the fact that is the only difference that is why we see that the seeker and teachers relationship is spatial the more your mind in ignorance says that I am different than you the more the teacher comes with the principles explains you and says no you are already there and that is how the journey continues any question that is all for today thank you we'll meet on Oh David was not there no happy Thanksgiving to him that is all