When
your mind is not able to recognize any signal coming out of your intuitive
power, it seems that you are not able to perceive and sense the meaning of that
cue. It could be that you are not eager to identify the said signal and its
meaning. Perhaps your mind is not illuminated enough to understand the signal. In
that case, it is to be construed that your mind is not functioning because the
same is agitated with the happenings of the past and the events of the future
ignoring the present. Your mind is not in tranquillity. Your mind is prejudiced
with outward environment and its happenings. You are allured to get anything of
your utmost interest and your mind is prompting you to rush through the madness
to acquire the same, and they are mostly propelled by your extrovert thoughts. You
become completely insane and your mind forces you to guide in the path of
activities whereby you are so obsessed that unless you achieve or fulfill the
objects of desire, you are not getting calmer. To make these extrovert thoughts
to become inactive, to make your life to save from various perils, you have to
accept or take the sacred functioning and religiously follow the path of ideal
living intermixed with meditation. The power of
meditation will make your agitated mind tranquil and you will not be
perturbed or will be influenced by the extrovert nature of thoughts. When these
thoughts are destroyed, your mind will be in a no-thought stage means you will
be blessed to be guided by the thoughts of your soul or inner power of
thoughts. At that stage, your mind will be without any agitation and it will
reach the highest strata of meditation. And, then you will be able to catch the
signal as stated above and understand
the meaning of the same.
Thoughts
will always cloud your mind and many a time, it will provoke you to outburst
with an angry gesture and it will be of self-riotous compulsions coming out
from the two distinct sources of your life– the past and the future. Some thoughts,
which are emanating from the past consist of the memories of the good and bad
that already happened and stored in your memory bank. Out of these memories,
some of the thoughts, which are the
confusing one and in that, it baffles the individuals with regrets and sorrow,
repentance and force us to reminisce the reason of the causes of those
happenings. Joys and pleasures are raised with the memories of the past. These
past memories always guide you in the fragrant moments of the present. And your
present is always getting besmeared with the good and bad feelings of the past.
Here is the catch. You must put your
efforts to get rid of these past memories and to accept the fact of the present
and continue with the same. Another aspect of mind for its getting volatile is the futuristic source of
thoughts. We mostly carry away with the
wings of mind’s whims and fancies to drag us into an imaginary world of dreams.
In this world, we are made to ponder at the future possibilities of doomsday, tremble
and remain confined in hopes of successes and introspect dramatically either in
the losses or profits out of life’s adventures. The past is always a sweet or
dark memory to unearth the moments in which, we had already buried either our
joys or sorrows. But still, we are guided by those thoughts for no good a
reason. We always do these futile and unproductive exercises whenever we don’t
want to advance in our lives. We mostly exploit our energies in these wasteful reminiscences
over the things, which we have already committed. The important notion is that the more we
remember things of this nature, the more the same will be getting ingrained in our
personality structure. Then, we will not
be able to come out of this phase and we will be unable to control our mind. At the same time, when we are not preoccupied
ourselves with the wrong conception of entertaining the regrets of the past, we
propel ourselves in the fairy castles of the fancied futures, which are mostly
submerged with ugliness, fears, obnoxious dreams, battered hopes and if and
buts of thousands of unwanted expectations and desires.
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These
futuristic hopes may unnerve our mind and senses at times. When our mind are not rattled by the perception of objects
and allurement of the same, we should not conclude that our thoughts are
inactive and ineffective. You may think
in this way, but it is not so. Our mind,
when it is not that preoccupied with the worldly affairs and many other trivial
issues related to the past, it can choose its own course of action of thoughts
overshadowed by the happenings of the past or the futuristic things going to
occur. Of course, the mind is
relentlessly thinking either on the past deeds or the futuristic incidents. It
is fact that the mind is always agitated with the past or the future. In either
case, the mind of the individual at mediation can be impaired with sadness. This
is the reason, the monks and sages advise us, “Moment to moment engage the outgoing
mind to live in the present. Completely,
reject the past. Renounce the future
totally. Then, in such bosom, the
agitated mind shall reach the state of mindlessness.” This state of mind is
known as no-mind. The content of the
existing time divorced from all relationships with the past and the future is
the absolute fullness of the infinite.
The
past and the future moments have definitely its meaning, but if you ignore the
present at the cost of the past and the future, then there is no meaning of
life’s fulfillment. Then, you can never
enlighten yourself. Eternity is always visualized at the sacred depth of the
present moment. When you live in the
present forgetting the past and the future, you are able to connect yourself
with the Almighty. Actually, living in
the present and that too leading a moral life, is like you experience Samadhi,
the revealing cultivation of meditation. You must seek this opportunity in your
own way. Nobody can give this feeling to you. You must feel this by your own
introspection. Each of us must enlighten
to reach this stage on one’s own ability. No other vehicle will be useful for
this journey. You must concentrate on
this particular moment of present and embrace upon the same to reach the stage
of eternal bliss. And then only, you will perceive the meaning of any signal
coming out from your inner sense, which will benefit you and other human beings
through you.
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