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How can I still my restless mind?Question : My mind wanders aimlessly when I sit to meditate, and I feel dejected by this. How can I still my

restless mind?

Answer by Swami Mukundananda : The mind is

such a machine created by God that it cannot remain

empty; it keeps working on something or the other.

To still the restless mind into a state of

thoughtlessness creates an unstable condition for the

mind that is difficult to maintain. This is just aswhile riding a bicycle, if you press the brakes and

 bring the bicycle to a standstill, you will fall to the

left or to the right. But if you simply turn the handle

to one side, the cycle will stop moving forward and

very easily turn in the direction of the handle.

Meditational techniques for stopping the thought

 process and stilling the restless mind are highly

unsuccessful. In Bhakti Yog , we do not try to still

the mind; we divert it to God. We do this by

meditating upon the form of God.

Make the Form of God as the basis of your meditation. In endless past lifetimes we have been habituated to

interacting with forms. All the personalities we loved and all the objects we were attached to had forms, and

so attraction to forms is a natural sanskar (tendency) of the mind. If we endeavor to meditate merely upon

the Name of God, or the syllable “Om”, the mind will not easily experience sweetness in it.  But if we have

the all-attractive form of God before us, the mind will effortlessly be drawn towards it. This meditation

upon the form of God is called Roop Dhyan. Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj states:

सब  साधन  जन    ुदेह  सम  ऩ  यान  जन    ुपाण। 

खात  गीध  अर  वान  जन    ुकामादक  शव  जान  ।।  (Bhakti Shatak)

“All spiritual practices are like the body; meditation upon the form of God is like the life airs. Just as the body without life airs is worthy of being eaten by dogs and vultures, similarly without meditation upon the

form of God, one’s devotion is eaten by lust, anger, greed and envy.” 

Source : Jkyog.org  

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