How can we overcome the mind’s habit of contemplating sense objects – Hindi?

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There are three things here. First of all, the attachment of our mind is not just a thought. In reality, the mind is also a thing.
Suppose this is a floor. It has become like this. Its level is like this.
So if water falls here, it will automatically go to this place. If I say that water is going here, it will not go there. There is no expectation that water will go here.
If the floor is like this, then water will go like this. If I want water to go there, then what I have to do? I have to force it to go there. So in that way, the attachments that have been formed due to our past karmas, what does it mean to become an attachment? It means that our mind has tilted in that direction.
So our consciousness will naturally go in that direction. So in India, there can be cricket. In America, there can be baseball.
In Canada, there can be ice hockey. In different countries, different sports can be popular. So people will naturally go in that direction.
So if I have become attached to something, then only firm determination will not work. I will not think about it. Okay, I will not think about it.
I will decide. But water has to go there. So sometimes what happens? We decide that I will not think about it.
But still I will think about it. I don’t have any will power. I am very pious.
I am a ascetic. But we have to understand how the mind works. So if I have decided that I will not think about it, then it does not mean that I will stop thinking about it.
After that, I should be prepared that my mind will go in that direction and I have to push it in the other direction. So I should be prepared. The second thing is that in one way we are pushing the water in this direction.
But what can we do gradually? If we want the water to go here, then what we have to do is we can redesign the floor so that the slope of the floor comes like this. So in this way, what can we do? We can purify our mind. So one is the control of the mind and the other is purification of the mind.
Control of the mind means the mind is going in one direction but we do not let it go in any direction. We bring it in the other direction. Similarly, the floor is sloping like this but I am bringing the water here.
This is the control. And this control is necessary in this way. When we are attached, it will go in one direction so we have to push it in the other direction.
But what will happen gradually is purification of the mind will happen. Purification means that if the mind is going in this direction but we will keep on doing bhakti, we will keep on thinking about God, then through that the attachment of the mind will change. God says, your mind will be attached to me.
So gradually, the mind will go in one direction. Very slowly. And we also see that some things in our life have been purified.
Maybe we used to eat meat. Now even if we see meat in front of us, what will happen? We are not attracted to it. So the mind is not going in that direction.
Similarly, our life has changed. So one is the control. So the mind will go in that direction but we will not let it go.
The second is purification. So if we keep on doing bhakti, the mind will not be attracted to it. And the third is protection.
So redirection, purification and protection. Redirection means the mind is going in this direction, take it in that direction. Purification means attract the mind to it.
But the third is protection. What does it mean? If the water is going this way, then I will build a wall here. If I build a wall, then the water will not be able to go there.
But if I build a wall, then it will go. What does it mean? If there are some things in my life that I am attracted to, then I have to bring something in them and me. I have to bring something in them.
For example, if a person is a drunkard, he has to quit alcohol. So first of all, if that person is a drunkard and his house is above a bar, then what will happen? He will not be able to quit alcohol. What will happen? No matter how determined he is, one day he will wake up in the middle of the night and then what will happen? Before doing anything, he will know that he has gone down in the wrong direction.
to control the flow that is available in front of us. So, that is why we can bring some things. If a drunkard says that if you go home, then I will take you somewhere else.
If you have a friend, then don’t hang out with that drunkard and go to sleep. So, if that person has got used to eating tasty food, then what will happen? He will be told that if you are hungry, then eat some healthy food, don’t eat fatty food, eat some fruit, eat some salad, eat some sweets, then what will happen? Like this, a scientist had made an assumption that if a person is hungry and he has some burgers then what will happen? He is talking on the phone, reading something on the net and he is not thinking. But if he is eating without thinking, then he will start eating the burger.
So, what happens is that many times our attachments our attachments decide our unconscious decisions. Because of our attachments, we make many decisions without thinking. So, if we have to stop then what we have to do is we have to keep some space in that attachment.
So, we have to keep that unhealthy and fatty food away. If you are hungry, then eat some healthy food. My weakness is that I spend a lot of time on internet so I put a filter on my mobile so that I don’t go to such sites.
So, we need protection. It’s not just about willpower, we need a process of willpower. And what is in the process? Redirection, Purification and Protection.
If we keep all these three, then our thoughts about our senses will reduce and we will not get trapped