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भाद्रपद शुक्ल , दुर्वा सप्तमी , रविवार , विक्रम संवत २०६८
How to Remove the Fickleness of the Mind?
Madhusudanacharya in his book "Bhakti-Rasaasyan", says:
Kaamkrodhbhayasnehaharshshoukdayadyah |
Taapakaachittjatunastchaantou katheen tu tat || (1/5)
"Passion, anger, fear, affection, joy, sorrow, compassion etc., are feelings that move, soften and melt the mind in the same way as lac (a sort of wax), leaving a lasting impression, while on abatement of the heat it hardens."
Lac is hard, but contact with heat makes it soft and it melts. Wax also softens by a little heat. If one applies color over it when it is hard, the same could be scrapped off easily by a finger nail. However if wax is placed in a bowl and heated over fire, and then some color is added, the color will blend thoroughly with the wax. The color is seen also when the wax cools. Similarly, those enjoyed pleasures and occurrences, which melted our hearts that we were greatly absorbed in, those colors are also very much embedded in the mind, and we are often reminded of these incidents. Whatever pleasure we relished with great passion and attachment in the past are not there in the present at all, but they are melted and established in the memory due to those strong past impressions, therefore it quickly becomes apparent, today exactly as before, even though many years have passed. Though appearing just as before, it is with absolute certainty, something of the past. It is not there in the present at all! There is no connection with the present and we have nothing to do with it. This is an excellent method to remove such memories. Therefore without any doubt and definitively understand that those incidents are not in the present. Those things or actions or company etc., are of the past and they are not there in the present. By trying to eliminate memories of such happenings from our mind, these will not go away, because when we try to wipe them out, it means that we accept their existence at present. Thus making efforts to wipe them out, means to intensify them. In truth, the past is no more in existence and if it does not exist, then why to worry about it? Similarly when the mind has no existence why to worry about fickleness or restlessness of the mind? It is surprising that something non-existing should cause us pain and something absent should cause us fear.
Passion, anger, fear, love , joy, sorrow and compassion – these seven sensations influence our mind (an melt it); mainly because of attraction or aversion. If one has a keen desire to enjoy pleasure, the keener the desire, the more the mind melts and the more the pleasure is recollected and the incident is increasingly recollected.
Sharp anger affects the mind (melts it) more and its memory is not obliterated soon. For some reason, if one is overwhelmed with fear, then that feeling gets firmly glued in the mind and is not removed easily. And so if there is love for somebody, that feeling also melts the mind. So meeting a friend give much joy and the mind is melted. If somebody dies, that causes much grief, which settles in the mind. If there is less grief, the impact is milder. If one feels compassionate with somebody, that feeling also settles down in the mind. But all these situations do not relate to the present - that is absolutely true.
From "Vasudeva Sarvam" in Hindi and "All is God" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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