Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha,
Mind is more difficult to Silence than the Wind. So let’s understand that mind is not just a matchbox – one can burn it and throw it away. It will require effort. It will not happen automatically. The Supreme Almighty GOD SriKrishna in BG says:
“Yes, The mind is difficult to Silence (control), but NOT impossible. It is difficult, but there so many things are difficult in this world 🌎. You studied all the way to graduation, post graduation to phd. Was it easy? You worked hard, you endeavored. You raised a family. Is that easy. Is that easy raising children? My GOD, when a saint sees us, we all are struggling to raise the children, he says ‘wow, I’m m happy to be free of all this’. Now take them to Kumon class, then to chess class, then to cricket, then to swimming and to modern yoga (look at the small dot in the wall and meditate)..etc… what a struggle to raise children. Then drive to office or travel in bus or car or auto in heavy traffic, in parallel buy grocery for family, take care of parents in old age and we all do it one or the other things facing these challenges. So you have done so many difficult things in the world already. The amount of effort and endeavor that you put in the material side for material gain, if we put in the same to Silence the mind, won’t it work?. Yes, it should work. So to silence mind, take it out from the Negative side by “Continuous PRACTICE and DETACHMENT”, like how we continously practice attachment on material side for developing turbulent mind, do the same effort to the opposite side to silence the mind, you will gain success. It’s easy. It’s just we don’t want to do it, when we already know we can do it by looking at our same or more efforts that we put in the material side.
Detach from wordly affairs –> Practice attachment to lotus feet of AcharyA. This is “ABHYAS (Practice)”,
but don’t expect the mind to remain there. After a little while, it will come back to the chaos state. Now don’t get discouraged. Take the mind again away from wordly affairs (detach), Practice again attachment to AcharyA lotus feet. Keep doing the Abhyas. After some time the mind seems settled down but soon comes back to again to the chaos state, then the Practitioner of mind control says “what is this? I tried so hard to correct my mind, again it got spoiled. Why does this happen?
Because “MIND IS ALSO MADE OF MATERIAL, it’s Achit Insentient”?. This is natural for the material mind. The world is also made of Achit. So both Mind and World are Sajathiya (same jasthi), so mind always like the “ras (flavour) of the world and hence mind like to dwell in the flavour of world like gossips, wordly affairs etc… and we get dragged to it because mind is inside our body. So don’t be astonished if the mind goes into the material side, So it is our simple job to take it away from wordly affairs and take it there to AcharyA lotus feet only by contnious Abhyas. We already know how to do this effort and endeavor, since we have practiced that in wordly affairs, so just turn it to the opposite side of AcharyA lotus feet / BhagavatA Satsangham, whenever mind dwells to its own material companion – the World.
So the sovereign recipe for controlling/silencing the mind is “Detachment and Practice” for anyone of us, but for Moksham, only AcharyA RamanujAr ThiruvAdi will take us
Adiyen (ElayaAlwar) Srinivasa (DhoddayacharyAr) Dasan.
