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When the mind is able to become totally silent through long-time practice of meditation, we become its master and discover also the truth of our existence. Such a one who has achieved this will be able to guide and inspire others towards that. As Babaji says,

‘Listening to a Yogi’s speech would be totally different from other teachers of spirituality because a Yogi speaks from experience and is very practical. Even if a Yogi is silent, He is conveying the message of Truth that is achieved when the mind becomes totally silent. If a Yogi speaks, it is not from the scriptures alone but mainly by the direct experience of the Truth.’

The application of wisdom when we interact with people and situations in our daily lives is very important – when to talk, speak up, when to act and when to keep quiet. As Babaji mentions in the video, ‘Often people operate depending on their temperament and habits. They don’t think before uttering a word also’.

Too often we jump into a reaction due to our mental habits and regret doing so afterwards.

So this wisdom can come when the mind becomes quiet with a regular meditation practice. ‘When mind becomes quiet it becomes under your control also. When the mind is under our control we are able to apply wisdom properly, use our brains in a proper way, think in the right direction and act upon accordingly.’

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‘In this world, religion and spirituality – all this is taught so that one can wash all these acquired habits and keep the mind as cleansed as possible. When it is cleansed, we recognize it as a non-violent mind. So throughout this body’s life that is available to you, your efforts should be towards making your mind as non-violent as possible. You will be benefited by that one.’

~Babaji

‘Never bother if the meditation is happening or not. Just go on doing it. Don’t allow your mind to churn and spin into such thoughts; ‘Is it happening, am I progressing?’ All this can generate unnecessary confusion.’

~Babaji

When it is hard to forgive others:

‘Someone’s wrongdoing may be unforgivable, but for that reason, it need not be on your mind all the time. Entertaining any hatred or dislike, so then you are a casualty. If you understand this thing, you will try to overcome that aspect first.’

~Babaji

‘Human life is a rare gem. A short lifespan is available, that is an opportunity. Within that time, you should be able to exercise your wisdom, to find the highest, the maximum beneficial thing, that is what it is. Like if you want the happiness, you should have the wisdom to think that happiness must be there at all times. That is the real happiness. Not that I can give you happiness for one hour, can you give me five hundred dollars? That is not the criteria. If anyone can give hundred percent, twelve months, twenty four hours.’

~Babaji

Going back to our Real Self is what we are doing when we meditate and enable this mind to become quiet.

‘Agony can be overcome when you look back into your Self. Because you are the source of peace.’

~Babaji

‘We can simply plan. A future is meant so that you can plan always about your future- I need to do this, I want to achieve this target, I want to have this type of life, I want to set a standard of life, I have my dreams. It is no problem. But along with that the mind jumps into an anxiousness. It need not be anxious. Because it always jumps because there are expectations. With an expectation it is unable to take any result that might come- it wants to have only such results which is expects. So then it becomes anxious- what if it happens, what if it doesn’t happen. What makes these things, then you lose focus in the present. Because your future is always shaped when you are better focused in your present efforts. Only then you are able to shape your future in a much better way. And it would also start brooding about the past also. To stop this only we practise meditation basically.’

~Babaji

There is the well-known phrase, ‘One man’s food is another man’s poison’.

What one person thinks is good, another may think is bad.

The problem arises when we think, for example, that something is good, and then we start thinking that is the fundamental reality, that everyone else should also think this is good.

If anyone disagrees with us we would think they are wrong and bad. We can lose out peace and go into a conflict with them about it.
However, what we should consider is that we have simply defined it as good and bad based on the habits of our mind, our own imagination.

If we can accept that other people think differently based on their own habits in the mind, then we won’t let our mind become too judgemental and lose control of itself. We can keep ourselves intact and remain at peace. In meditation, we do not make any judgement of what appears. Then the mind can recede and become quiet.

Question:

In today’s world many are taking drugs and alcohol to obtain a certain level of peace. Can drugs or alcohol have a similar effect as meditation Babaji?

Babaji:

Not at all. It cannot have. Whereas meditation is a natural process to control the mind, taking alcohol and drugs are unnatural methods which suppress the brain’s activated waves. What happens, brain is the biological organ in the physical body, mind is your conscious energy, ‘you’ means you as the Immortal Soul. Now the brain is in touch with the universe through the nervous system and sensory organs. It receives all the messages, it de-codifies and reflects and passes on the message that you want it to do it. Your mind gets applied on the brain and it also catches all the reflections of the brain.

You would have noticed that you would get the best of happiness when your mind is unconscious of this world, just like in deep sleep. When alcohol or any drug is taken it suppresses this brain’s activated waves so the mind has nothing to catch. Temporarily it gets kicked off the brain. As long as that drug’s or alcohol’s effect is on the brain the mind thinks that it is enjoying happiness and a higher peace. That is simply because the brain’s waves are suppressed.

So unfortunately here, these drugs and alcohol deteriorates the basic health of the brain, the nervous system, and gradually one by one different organs of the body. Thus it is very harmful and it is never a permanent solution, because as long as the effect of the drug or alcohol is on the brain, it suppresses. Once the effect is over the mind again jumps back. Thus you can never achieve a permanent happiness and peace; you are losing your physical health also.

~Babaji