The Best Way To Watch The Mind Is To Have Something Better To Watch Gita 06.47

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the best way to watch the mind is by having something better to watch we all need to be mindful that is we need to be aware watchful about what our mind is doing and how it is influencing us but at the same time the mind is so seductive and deceptive that if we start watching it then we will be soon bewitched by it the mind may propose nonsense but it will do that proposition in such a appealing way that we will be deceived so we can’t just keep watching the mind the mind is a distracting presence within us which can become degrading but the way we can deal with this is by focusing on something bigger than the mind when we are say looking through a window at someone outside then if there is a spot on the window which obstructs our vision we will notice that, we will clean that but if we have nothing interesting to look outside the window then we may just start looking at the window and the mind is a deceptive window it can at any moment start changing into a TV screen and once it changes into a TV screen we start watching it and we start being taken in by whatever is being displayed over there and we start acting on that so we may be filled with craving we may be filled with lamenting and we go on an emotional roller coaster based on what the mind of the TV is showing but if we understand that the mind is primarily meant to be a window and we have something attractive to look at through the window then if on that window the TV is playing as a small minimized icon somewhere, we won’t be that distracted by it we will be aware that something is playing over there but we won’t pay much attention to it and of course sometimes something useful, helpful, important may also play over there and then we can notice it, we can evaluate it and then zoom it if required so sometimes our mind can give us a good thought and if we are not too obsessed with it but are aware of it then we can evaluate it and on merit pay attention to it so this principle of having something better to watch as the best way to watch the mind is given in the sixth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita where it states that that in 647 among all the yogis and the essence of yoga is at one level to calm and calm the mind and purify the mind so the top most of yogis are those who focus on Krishna so they have something better to watch the all attractive supreme reality Krishna and by focusing on him they can best manage the mind so similarly when we surround ourselves with adequate resources for remembering Krishna and serving Krishna and when we have that to watch then we can best watch our mind that is watch it in a way that we are aware of it but not deceived by it