Watch the mind, or the mind will catch you Gita 06 34
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Hare Krishna watch the mind or the mind will catch you we all have a dangerous mind within us this mind often works as our enemy it’s like a sneaky child who can not only get into trouble but can get the parent also into trouble the parent needs to watch the child but of course the mind is not just like a child the mind is much more dangerous the mind is also like a like a madman the mind is also like a Krishna describes various characteristics of the mind in the Bhagavad Gita Arjuna describes in 634 when he states that Chanchalam Himanakrishna Pramathee Ballavadrudam Tasyaham Nigraham Manye Vayorivasu Dushkaram it’s like a stormy wind which once it catches us it can sweep us away and it is restless like a child it is wild like a madman Pramathee Ballavadrudam it is strong like a bodybuilder and it is obstinate like a like a bully it is like a because of this deadly combination if it catches us it can sweep us away but what can we do about it we need to watch it watch it means that the mind gets power to the extent it captivates our attention so if a certain desire starts coming in the mind and it makes us below our attention, below our consciousness itself give us that attention our unconscious attention we give it and we start acting on it then it starts getting momentum so the mind is like a storm which doesn’t just come naturally it might come naturally but it grows proportional to our attention so if we are watchful then what we will do we will not pay attention we will not start entertaining and indulging in the mind’s fantasies in the mind’s whims and if we neglect the mind and we redirect our attention constructively elsewhere then the mind won’t sweep us away so it’s like a storm which the more we look at it in fear the stronger it becomes and the faster it sweeps down upon us and sweeps us away but if we note it and say then we move ahead and focus on something else without panicking without obsessing this is a storm that dies out so if we learn to watch our mind then it won’t be able to catch us it won’t be able to sweep us away and the best way to watch the mind is not to obsess over watching the mind but watch in the sense keep a watchful eye not that we constantly keep looking at the mind but we are aware of what the mind is doing where it is going and we have something more purposeful to do and when the mind starts getting distracted we bring it back under focus and when we learn to watchfully regulate the mind then it will not be able to captivate or devastate us thank you