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"One can't increase concentration directly rather one
can identify distractions and after removing all identified
distractions what is left is pure CONCENTRATION".
Mind is always associated with a pool of thoughts. And, "thought is
just a THOUGHT, there is neither a good thought nor a bad thought."
Every thought is capable enough to give a psychological pleasure. This
is very important to understand that since every thought is
pleasurable, one can be diverted from PRESENCE.
What is PRESENCE? If one is doing what one is supposed to do at a
given instant of time, one is said to be in PRESENCE.
What one is supposed to do at a given point of time is highly
individual matter and that's why one can choose which thought is of
prime importance at that very given point of time. Once the thought of
prime importance is chosen, rest all thoughts are distractions at that
very moment.
For an instance, one is studying. One may get a thought of what had
happened yesterday. At the same time, one may get another thought of
doing something, which is supposed to be done tomorrow. In a similar
fashion many other thoughts would be coming. What is happening here,
one is not in present. One needs to remove the distraction one by one.
How???
Remember, "To see itself is to be free!". One need to just tell oneself
that this particular thought is a distraction. This is a kind of
trick, when one says, "this thought is a distraction for me",
awareness comes in a very natural manner, and one is free from that
very distraction (thought). There is no need to struggle with
thoughts, all attempts to push the thoughts out of the mind is futile.
It will not work, because this is how mind functions or one can say
this is the nature of the mind.
One can get rid of thought(s) only through bringing awareness and
understanding that any thought can take away from the prime business
or prime focus.
I do agree with the people who say, "there are lots and lots of
thoughts pour in... every moment and ...when there is so much of
distractions... If one tries also to see each distraction and remove
it one by one will consume a lot of time to bring the state of pure
concentration Is there any short-cut?".
The answer is "No, there is no short-cut, one need to see each and
every distraction one by one only". This is a kind of practice and
gradually one will be able do it within no time. In case, one is
unable to do so, definitely there are several other aspects, which
need to be resolved, and for such cases Oneness University is the best
place. However, I am sure, each one of us can make an attempt to apply
this knowledge here itself and see the difference.
All that you can do is, you can see what is there, first of all, you do not know what is there. Because all the years you have been running away from it, see everywhere you find only the self. So you come to know, now there is an indirect way of knowing, but then to actually look at it is painful. To look at your envious thoughts, your jealous thoughts, your fearful thoughts, your anxious thoughts, is not such a good experience. That all the time you are running away from it.
That is the only problem which man has got. So, because we are telling you, look, turn around, confront it, look at it, then may be you will say let me try. Initially it could be difficult, but then you will soon realize it is very tempting. It is very nice to see, as you see your darker side, your negative side, strangely you will stop condemning, you will know that is true, along with that comes joy also and with that joy you will soon find that there is absence of conflict. Not that your negative side has gone, not that you cease to be jealous, cease to be angry, cease to be fearful, no no no no not those things. You are for the first time in your life able to say, yes I am this I am not ashamed of it that is the only truth, I am being truthful.
That is when you have taken the first step in spirituality that is also the last step, there after everything is automatic. No guru is required, no teaching is required, it is all automatic. You think there is some thing you can do to get there. There is nothing you can do to get there. If you are a jealous person, you are not going to become non jealous. If you are fearful person, you are not going to become courageous like the lion. If you are a depressed person, you are not going to go into euphoria. You cannot change, try as you might, you cannot change. So what is the teaching here. The teaching says you cannot change, and there is no need to change, because you have been designed like that, you are that, that is all that is the only teaching.
Therefore you accept, Aa Ah! I cannot change, what is there to do, nothing to do. There is nothing wrong like that, I have been designed like that, you did not design yourself, God designed you like that, he has some purpose in designing you. So there is complete acceptance, when you accept what is there, that is meditation, that is sadhana, that is all, so it is very simple, please do it, I will help you.
"A Sadhak once asked his teacher, "Master, Why can't I remain peaceful, in spite of doing so many spiritual sadhanas. Why can't I be devoid of suffering in spite of reading so many spiritual books and listening to religious discourses? Is enlightenment possible for such as I?"
'To be liberated from suffering you must first understand what suffering is'. Sri Bhagavan says, "Suffering is nothing but the continuous thought processing that happens in the mind over an event or incident of the past. Suffering is nothing but the 'carry over' of the past events of our life.
There are two kinds of people who have walked on these sands, enlightened and unenlightened. Enlightened ones are those who are 'ordinary' and unenlightened are those who are 'extraordinary' (extra suffering). An enlightened one, does not suffer because he is constantly living in the present, experiencing every bit of what life is offering him. But for those who are unenlightened, life itself is reduced to nothing but suffering.
To be aware is to be enlightened. The whole purpose of life itself is to live life moment to moment. If one observes the thought process in oneself, then it can easily be discovered that the 'CARRY OVER' is the suffering. For instance, there were two friends who were very close right from their childhood. Out of sheer misunderstanding, they landed in a bitter quarrel and they broke up. The fight by itself is nothing but mere 'calling names'. But it doesn't end there, the event continues to plague the mind, be it at kitchen, office, watching TV or even at a party! It follows… It continues. The suffering springs only when our mind indulges in unnecessary thoughts about living in past or future, without living in the present. This constant commentary or dialogue in the mind is the cause for all suffering, where even after an event has ended, it is continued within where we still talk to the other person, who has hurt us.
An enlightened person experiences everything, which makes his life rich, eternal and ever fresh, but for an unenlightened, life is mechanical and repetitive, hence boring. One who is enlightened enjoys the ice cream whereas one who is unenlightened does not enjoy the ice cream because he would be busy with the question – who made the ice cream? Which factory? Which cow's milk? Which grass did the cow ate? One who is living will never question the purpose of life. Why would he! He is only experiencing.
Now the question is how to end this unnecessary thought process. Any effort in this direction is a futile endeavour, because any effort to silence the mind would only create more noise - "THOUGHT CANNOT END THOUGHT".
Buddha was Buddha not because he read books. Venkataramana didn't become Ramana Maharishi because he attended religious discourses. Enlightenment is something that is beyond the purview of the mind. It is not transformation within the mind; Enlightenment is a state where you transcend the mind and its limitations. Such a happening is a benediction.
"To experience is to believe.' Enlightenment is a benediction bestowed today upon thousands by Sri Bhagavan and Sri Padmavathi Devi.
Come! Alive into the waters of immense grace and experience, because…..
"Man cannot make it on His own … It has to be given to Him."
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