Karachi,
March 9, 1940
Whenever thoughts arise in the mind during meditation see it with the spirit of a witness as if you are siting on the river bank and watching the water flow by. For example if a thought arise regarding a person or an incident, let it be. If you have succeeding and corresponding thoughts then you should know that you have an attachment to that thought regarding that person or an incident and you have taken interest in it. If a thought comes and it flies or passes by like a small sporadic cloud in the sky then it is all right. We have to see that no interest is shown in that thought and it is not followed by succession of deep and dark clouds surrounding the sky of our inner being (mind, intellect etc). We need to continue to practice that only one thought comes and passes by like a stray cloud.
You may ask "How can you perform works without the thoughts?". When there is continuous practice of not producing succession of thoughts with awareness, one gets the inner inspiration or urging from divine consciousness to perform the work in a best way with appropriate bhava. At this time there is no need for succession of thoughts for performing the works. There may not be a thought for performing a work. The bhava of thought expresses directly into the work and completes the work. When there is such lively and creative practice, the chain of thoughts disappear. So we should be expressly aware as soon as one or two thoughts appear and try to stop them from forming a chain of thoughts.We should be very careful and find the ways to prevent the formation of chain of thoughts.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Darshan
Edition 8; Pages 85 - 86.
March 9, 1940
Whenever thoughts arise in the mind during meditation see it with the spirit of a witness as if you are siting on the river bank and watching the water flow by. For example if a thought arise regarding a person or an incident, let it be. If you have succeeding and corresponding thoughts then you should know that you have an attachment to that thought regarding that person or an incident and you have taken interest in it. If a thought comes and it flies or passes by like a small sporadic cloud in the sky then it is all right. We have to see that no interest is shown in that thought and it is not followed by succession of deep and dark clouds surrounding the sky of our inner being (mind, intellect etc). We need to continue to practice that only one thought comes and passes by like a stray cloud.
You may ask "How can you perform works without the thoughts?". When there is continuous practice of not producing succession of thoughts with awareness, one gets the inner inspiration or urging from divine consciousness to perform the work in a best way with appropriate bhava. At this time there is no need for succession of thoughts for performing the works. There may not be a thought for performing a work. The bhava of thought expresses directly into the work and completes the work. When there is such lively and creative practice, the chain of thoughts disappear. So we should be expressly aware as soon as one or two thoughts appear and try to stop them from forming a chain of thoughts.We should be very careful and find the ways to prevent the formation of chain of thoughts.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Darshan
Edition 8; Pages 85 - 86.
