Organizing The Mind For Success
Our ability to do
something in the world essentially depends on the extent to which we
are capable of harnessing our body and mind towards our goal, and
after that, harnessing the situation in which we exist. But the most
fundamental things are that our body and mind function not only to the
best of their ability, but the way we want them to. When I say “the way we want,” there are many ways to check it.
Let’s try a simple experiment. For the
next 10 seconds, do not think of monkeys. Give it a try. Close your eyes
and do not think of a monkey for the next 10 seconds…
Can anyone do it? Our mind is full of
monkeys, isn’t it? Our mind is not doing what we want it to do. If you
say, “you don’t want monkeys,” it will think only of monkeys. Have you
noticed this? This is not just your problem. The whole world is
suffering this. When they are in the office they want to go home. When
they are at home they are thinking of the office.
Accidental Success
The problem is just this: the mind is going into everything that it should not, but not doing what it should be doing.
What happens in your mind should be one hundred percent the way you
want it, but within yourself, how many moments of unpleasantness do you
go through in 24 hours’ time? Irritation, anger, agitation, tension, fear, anxiety
– all different types of unpleasantness. If you feel unpleasant five
times a day, one way or the other, the residue spreads right through the
day. This is not because something is wrong with your work or with
people around you. It is essentially because your mind is refusing to
take instructions from you.
If you cannot even conduct your mind the
way you want it, the question of life happening the way you want is
remote. You can only be successful by accident, not by intent.
When you are successful by accident, you
live in fear. People have landed up in places just by accident, and they
live in enormous anxiety all the time because they are successful by
chance; they did not get there by their own dint. They somehow
got there, so now they are fearful every day. But when you are
successful by intent, you know you can do it. If the whole thing gets
washed away tomorrow, you will rebuild it once again.
When you do anything accidentally,
invariably, you will suffer the process. If you know how to drive your
car well, it can be a joy. But if you don’t know how to drive and do it
accidentally, it can be enormous suffering. Every process of life can
become a huge suffering if you do it accidentally.
Self-created Suffering
There is enormous suffering in so-called
“successful” people. Why? Because they manage a big industry and huge
corporations, but they do not know how to manage their own mind. That
means their management is by accident, not by intent. Managing an
industry or a corporation essentially means you have to manage ten
thousand minds. If you do not know how to manage your own mind, how will
you manage the outside situation?
If you are causing misery to yourself,
obviously you do not know how to manage your mind. Nobody can cause
suffering to you. People throw various kinds of situations at you, but
it is always you who caused suffering to yourself. For example, if I
call you an idiot, you would cause suffering to yourself. The word
“idiot” does not cause suffering. If you did not know English and
someone called you an idiot, you might think they were saying to you, “good
evening.” So, if you are causing suffering to yourself, the basic things
within you are obviously out of control. They are not happening the way
you wish them to happen.
Any instrument in your life is useful to
you only if it takes instructions from you and is managed by you. Please
see, the state of your mind is such that it says its own things, it does not listen to you.
Your mind is not doing what you say; you do whatever your mind says.
That means you are a terrible manager. If you are like this, you will
only manage external situations by accident.
An Organized Mind
A well-established mind is referred to as a Kalpavriksha.
If you bring your mind to a certain level of organization, it in turn
organizes the other three dimensions of your system – your body,
emotion, and energies.
Once these four dimensions are organized in one direction and kept unwavering for a certain period, anything you wish
will happen. You don’t even have to lift your little finger. Without
having to do any activity, you can manifest what you want.
The problem with the mind right now is
that it changes its direction every moment. If you walk somewhere and
keep changing your direction every two steps, the chances of reaching
your destination are very remote unless it happens by accident. But if
you organize your mind in one direction, and in turn organize the whole
system in that direction, anything you wish will happen.
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True Power of The Mind
Chit Shakti meditation is not just
visualization. In the yogic understanding, there are 16 dimensions to
the human mind. These 16 dimensions fall into four categories. These
four categories are known as buddhi, manas, ahankara, and chitta.
Buddhi is the intellect – the logical dimension of thought.
Unfortunately, the modern education systems and modern sciences have
largely limited themselves to buddhi. That is a buddhu (foolish) way of existence.
The Limitation of the Intellect
Buddhi or the intellect cannot function
without a certain bank of memory or data. Depending on the data you
have, the intellect plays around. Suppose in your memory system, there
are 10 gigabytes of memory. Depending on how sharp your buddhi is, one
person can produce, let’s say, a trillion thoughts with these 10
gigabytes. Someone else can produce 10 trillion thoughts with the same
10 gigabytes of memory.
If you can think a little better than
someone else, it is considered as intelligence today. If someone says
one thing and you can say ten things to that, you may be socially smart,
but you are not any more intelligent. If you
can make more things out of it, you are considered intelligent, which is
not true – you only have a sharper buddhi. The buddhi will not take you beyond limits
in any way, because it can only function based on the data that is
already there. It is not capable of accessing anything beyond that.
The Memory of Your Forefathers
The next dimension is called manas. Manas
has many layers to it. But manas is not just the brain – it is right
across the body. Every cell in the body has a phenomenal memory – not
just of this life but of millions of years. Your body clearly remembers
how your forefathers were a million years ago. Top to bottom, there is
manas – this is called manomaya kosha. In every cell in the body, there is memory and intelligence, but no intellect. Intellect is only in the brain.
In English language, everything comes
under one banner called “mind.” The idea that intelligence is only in
the brain has produced human beings whose consciousness is seriously
constipated. What is in the brain is intellect, not intelligence.
Intelligence and memory are right across your body. But people have
never been trained how to use this intelligence. Instead, they use their
intellect for everything. No wonder they are stressed out whatever job
you give them. The whole weight is on only one dimension of the mind out
of sixteen. It is like loading a sixteen-wheeler truck and trying to
drive on only one wheel – you can imagine the stress! That is what
today’s world is going through.
People may be using other dimensions of
the mind marginally, unconsciously, but they are not trained to use
them. They have only been trained to use their buddhi, or their
intellect. They are very smart. They know everything about everything,
but they do not know how to figure their own life. They do not even know
how to sit here peacefully and at total ease within themselves. If
there is true intelligence, the first thing that you need to figure out
is how to make life happen. You know how to make the world happen, but
you do not know how to make your life happen. You do not know how to
conduct your mind, your energies, your emotions or your body.
If you ask people to become fit, they
become tight. If you ask them to live in a more natural way, they become
fat. Where is the intelligence? There is only intellect. Intellect
looks good only in comparison. Suppose you are the only person on the
planet, your intellect will not mean anything. Only because there are a
few idiots around you, you shine. By itself, intellect will not be of
any consequence.
The Sense of Identity
The intellect directly connects with the third dimension of your mind, called ahankara. Ahankara is sometimes translated as ego,
but it is much more than that. Ahankara gives you a sense of identity.
Once your ahankara takes on an identity, your intellect functions only
in that context. It is important to function beyond the intellect,
because the intellect is seriously enslaved to your identity.
Our identities, such as belonging to a
certain nation, community, or whatever else, are necessary for our
survival in a particular society. But you cannot think beyond this
because you are functioning only from your intellect, and the intellect
takes its sustenance from ahankara. Only along the axis of ahankara, the
intellect can function. The intellect cannot transcend this, because
that is its nature. But there are other ways to know life beyond the
identities we have taken on for our survival in the world.
The Cosmic Intelligence
The fourth category of the mind is called
chitta. Chitta is mind without memory – pure intelligence. This
intelligence is like the cosmic intelligence – simply there. Everything
happens because of that. It does not function out of memory – it simply
functions. In a way, what you call cosmos is a living mind, not in the
sense of intellect but in the sense of chitta. Chitta is the last point
of the mind. It connects to the basis of creation within you. It
connects you with your consciousness.
Chitta is always on – whether you
are awake or asleep. Your intellect comes on and goes off. Many times
it fails, even when you are awake. If chitta or the intelligence within
you was not always on, you could not stay alive. Try to conduct
your breath with your intellect – you will go crazy. Chitta is keeping
you alive, keeping you going, making life happen. If you touch this
dimension of your mind, which is the linking point to one’s
consciousness, you do not even have to wish for anything, you do not
have to dream of anything – the best possible thing that can happen to
you will anyway happen.
The Divine Enslaved
When people touch this dimension of the mind, it is called ishwara pranidhana
in yoga. This means God works for you. You
know, yogis say, “Shiva does everything for me.” In a
way, otherwise, I would not be here. Both God and I become one identity. Once you know how to consciously
access your chitta, everything that is needed will simply happen in the
best possible way. If you go by your intellect or your buddhi, today you
think “this is it,” tomorrow morning you think “that is it” – like this
it goes on endlessly.
Once you know how to consciously keep your chitta on, you and Devine becomes one......it is likw : when someone really efficient is working for you, you do not have to do anything. Simply sit; the best things will happen – things that you could not imagine.
Chit Shakti is about touching the
dimension of your mind that is pure intelligence – unsullied by memory,
unsullied by identification. It is beyond ahankara, beyond buddhi,
beyond judgment, beyond divisions – simply there, just like the
intelligence of existence that makes everything happen. If you access
this, you do not have to worry about what happens or what does not
happen. It will happen in a way that you never imagined possible.
Once you have access to your chitta, it is
also a multi-pointed telescope. It makes you see things that no one
else can see – in every direction. It is your crystal ball. It is a
magnifying glass that brings the very core of life close to you
The moment you start looking at life through your chitta, where there is no memory, there is no karmic substance and no division. Suddenly, the Divine is right there, bang on, in your face all the time. You cannot miss it.
(Source : Sadhguru's lecture)
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