FOCUS IN SILENCE

                                                             
                                                                 

The mind and the physical brain control the human body. The brain and mind are controlled by the desires. Just close the eyes and see what is going on inside the brain… Giving it two minutes, we will find so many thoughts running inside us - related to children, family, spouse, business, emotions... All these thoughts indicate desire - satisfied or unsatisfied. And it is because of these thoughts or desires that we are unable to go beyond human existence. All that is physical is temporary and what is temporary is painful… hence the pain that we experience day in and day out in the pursuit of these desires.

When the mind is engaged in worldly thoughts we cannot think of anything beyond… because the mind can only do and think of one thing at a time. We have five senses and of those only one sense is active at one time. They alternate so fast that we cannot make out, so when we are thinking, our thought process has to be one. Our bodies are programmed to achieve whatever it want provided it’s only one thing.

Words like concentration, living continuously on an only aspiration - all indicate the path to success as one-pointed focus. Multiplicity of desires leads to un surety. This lack of understanding of what one actually wants in life leads to success evading us… it is something like we have five litres of petrol and we put it in five different cars none will move forward.

Thoughts of the physical world tie us to the physical world, our thoughts are dissipated and the force of our consciousness is unable to perform; we cannot go beyond. So, when we talk about going beyond, it is nice to read books, but it is completely redundant as far as our spiritual journey goes; because the book is somebody else’s thought, somebody else’s experience. Then we will get carried away in somebody else’s thought process, not ours.

Only when we will silence our mind, we will be able to go beyond. Then our thought process is going to be on creation and we will go to higher dimensions. Scientists say there is a primitive mind and a developed mind. The medulla oblongata - lower part of the brain - is called the primitive mind because it is responsible for basic thoughts and basic breathing. Altering the breathing process by pranayamas requires higher brain centres to be involved and hence they are called advanced breathing patterns that need to be developed.

When we silence our mind, higher centres of the brain get activated. Then revelations come that are already inside us. When we still our mind, we are able to access those higher energies and then revelations come to us. Then we are called a "jnani"(seer), - not a knowledgeable person. Knowledge we can get through books, but that knowledge is not ours, it is somebody else’s. We need to have our own experience of that knowledge, which is also called "jnana or gyan"(wisdom).

The 'vedas', the 'testaments' were revealed when the 'seers'  went into silence. From silence everything emerges and goes back. Like from darkness everything emerges and goes back into darkness. So if we want to REALIZE, let's go into that silence - one pointed focus in silence, on silence; and that is what is going to make us evolve and give us the knowledge of creation - the wisdom of the Wisest - all answers that end in "Amen" .