Removing clutter

 

How can I get rid off the clatter in my mind?

Question:  How can I get rid off the clatter in my mind? 

Swami Ramsukhdasji: When clatter comes your way, don't become happy or sad. 

These things will come and go. 

The mantra is "agaamipaayinonitya" recite this within the mind. Have that 

feeling, that inner expression that this thing comes and goes, it is unreal (it is changing). However good or bad the situation may be, but the minute that situation comes up, immediately recite within, this is "agaamipaayinonitya". 

It's nature is to come and go, it is unreal, constantly changing. 

This is the truth, because neither favorable nor unfavorable situations will remain. Simply understand, that this will not stay with us. 

This is not a new thing. So what is there to be happy or sad with the situation? 

In getting something that you like or not getting it, 

what is there to become happy or sad? 

Best of best situations come your way, then that too will not remain, 

but you will always remain! Right in front of you, both favorable and unfavorable situations come and go, but you remain. You are that same one. 

Simply keep your sight on your Self. 

All that comes and goes do not blend with it - this itself is liberation. 

By blending with it - that itself is bondage. 

All the clatter, the noise that comes and goes, 

by becoming entangled with it is bondage, and 

not getting entangled with it is liberation Question: 

 In spite of knowing this, I become entangled and blend with the clatter in my mind.  What should I do? 

Swami Ramsukhdasji:  You say that in spite of not wanting you somehow get entangled and blend with the clatter. In favourable situations and unfavourable situations you become suddenly one with them, then there is a solution for that as well. On blending with them, you still have the knowledge that you have blended with them, but you are actually separate, and the favourable / unfavourable are separate. Isn't it the truth? Noise and clatter arise, then they subside; they come and they go away; but you remain. Then you and the noise are two or one? 

- Swami Ramsukhdasji