Mind

  My Mind Started Chatting even more loudly during meditation,  what should i do? I tried to practice (meditation) but, as soon as I sat on the floor, my mind started chatting even more loudly. What should I do? Prajanananandaji: It is not the body that comes with you life after life, but the mind. Life after Life you have kept the mind in an extrovert state. Even in this lifetime, since childhood and for years and years, you have kept your mind untrained, restless and in an extrovert state. It is only since a few hours that you are trying to discipline your mind. Previously you have always followed commands of your mind. By simply sitting down on the floor, you pretend and expect to have a silent peaceful mind! Please have a little patience!! The mind is a bundle of thoughts. Let thoughts come, watch them but do not entertain them. If you welcome a thought it will give rise to a chain of related thoughts, Avoid those thoughts than can be avoided. Watch your thoughts, but do n...

  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 wa...