To Take The Task Of Training The Mind Seriously Stop Taking Everything It Says Seriously. Gita 6.34

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to take the task of training the mind seriously stop taking everything it says seriously the mind is a constant distractor and misleader within us if we are to do anything constructive in our lives we need to learn to tap the power of our mind constructively and for that we need to train it when it gets distracted by trivial things we need to be able to refocus it so for this purpose it’s vital that we learn to do whatever is required with the mind that means that it’s like a child the Bhagavata says chanchalam himanah krishna pramathi balavadranam tasyaham nigraham mani vayoriva sudhushkaram in 634 Arjuna characterizes the mind as chanchala restless which is a typical characteristic of a child so when the mind is restless like a child what do we do we need to just like a parent take the responsibility of training and raising the child seriously and a counterintuitive but central part of that taking the parenting responsibility is not taking everything that the child children sometimes crave for toys and throw tantrums over trivialities and parents just need to patiently outweigh those things and persistently keep getting the children to study and do the important things that will help them grow similarly our mind sometimes starts craving for this or that pleasure and start complaining about this or that trouble if we start taking everything it says seriously we will be forever distracted and never be able to do anything constructive so we need to know that many of its suggestions are just passing concoctions that will stay for some time and go away and we just need to outweigh them of course just as a child can have genuine needs not just cravings unnecessary cravings and can have genuine difficulties not just chronic complaints so too with the mind and that’s why we can’t just summarily dismiss or neglect the mind we have to carefully evaluate it and that’s where the intelligence comes into the picture so if we train our intelligence by studying the Bhagavad Gita then we will be able to know when to take the mind seriously and when to not take it seriously just as parents need training so that they can train the children similarly our intelligence which is meant to be like a parent also needs training with that discerning intelligence then we can work for taking the for training the mind Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita uddhare dātmanātmānam nātmānam avasādayet ātmaiva yātmanobandhur ātmaiva ripurātmanaham just elevate yourself with the mind don’t degrade yourself know that the mind can be your friend and your enemy as well because we can’t know for sure when the mind is what we need to use our intelligence and know that most of the mind’s emotions are trivialities which maybe it’s not that every time the child has to be neglected child can be just heard and pacified not that whatever child has to be acted out so we have to intelligently evaluate what the mind is saying or doing and respond intelligently in a way that helps us move forward purposefully so when we just have purpose and perspective with our intelligence then we can train the mind seriously by not taking everything it says seriously