Q : Mind is such a powerful force which keeps going outside into the pleasures of the world. It’s not easy to go inside to still the mind. So, how do we do it?
Answer Yes, Mind is the biggest enemy which man is carrying within him but the mind is also our biggest friend. The need to be in company of an enlightened person is only for a sole objective that the Master guides you how to train your mind that this mind becomes your friend and not your enemy.
In Ignorance, there are dark shadows; child gets scared of all these dark shadows and begins to think that there are ghosts in my room. But the mother brings the light and in the light all the ghosts are gone. Child doesn’t have to struggle; but with this light, with this illumination, all ghosts just go away. Similarly, the Guru works like a mother, brings the light of knowledge to the mind; the mind which was having the ghosts of lust, greed, prejudice, hatred and with this illumination of the mind we get a clear insight, and we come to know how this mind is to be used and then you become your own master.
Now, mind is the master, not you! You are just a slave of the mind. That’s the reason mind says go angry, you are angry; Mind says go in the lust, you fall in lust; Mind says go and do the rat race, and you are part of the rat race.
Gurumaa
