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another way of managing the desires is to suppress them there are three ways in
which the desires can be suppressed the first is the un-- of their thing
second is the aver thing and third is distractions so let us see them in a
little bit of more detail and the consequences of suppression desires are
hidden force sometimes we are not even aware of what desires are hiding there
deep into the mind they remain they're suppressed and it is not that they won't
cause any kind of consequences they do and the consequences are also below the
level of our awareness that look like some other events they do not look like
consequence an effect of the suppressed desire the hidden desires
how can a desire get suppressed and still remain below the threshold of
awareness it can happen due to many reasons such as some childhood event traumatic event
not only childhood there is life also this can happen where a desire was made
and its expression resulted in some very bad bitter experience and the mind
learns not to bring that desire back again on the surface it is simply trying
to avoid that unpleasant a traumatic situation again but as we know desires don't go away
they need to be satiated we need to manage them somehow
so the an aware suppression is a kind of putting them below the rug the mine does
it and hopes that nobody will notice it so this is the unaware kind of
suppression there can be many examples of these desires let us say some
communities or cultures do not want people to express some of their desires
a good example is the sexual desires they are suppressed by the social
mocking or social disapproval and the very first time somebody expresses them
and the attack by the society is so strong that however it has been
suppressed and the person forgets it but they remain they remain there below the
threshold of awareness the second kind of suppression is aware suppression now
you will be surprised to know that this can happen but yes it is possible
and one of the examples is celibacy let us say or controlling a habit which is
gone rogue and there can be another kind of suppression where the person is fully
aware of the consequence and does not like the consequence and so suppresses the desire and there can be another
instance where a person intelligently after thinking about the bazaar decides
to suppress it that is the intelligent way applying the suppression of the desire celibacy is
nothing but making a decision not to engage in certain actions to achieve
some goal probably it is a spiritual goal probably something religious probably instructed by the Guru and the
guru has told don't worry if you don't know how this work it will work for you
if you but full awareness must we'll decide to not act on that desire
or even if the desire comes suppress it somehow to kill it there and then so
very much aware of their desire but his expression also is suppressed its action
is also obviously suppressed sometimes we need to suppress a desire which has
become habitual for example smoking it is automated it is robotic so sometimes a way of
suppression is necessary the desire comes we simply kill it we say no desire
is here I am NOT going to be slave of the desire and we suppress the desire do
not act on it it remains it does not go away that's why all these addiction cures in the
fail because they do not kill the desire they simply suppress it so as soon as
the mind finds a way in the weak moments well you take the cigarette and smoke it
even celibate will fall sometimes because the root is still there the seed
is there sometimes we know the consequences of a desire of expression
of a desire and we decide to suppress it for example you do not like somebody and
the first impulse that comes in your mind when you see that person is to kill
that person insult that person hit that person do something bad but you know the
consequences the consequences are very bad probably you tried it and then the consequences were bad so you do not want
to express the desire and you suppress it it is not going to go away next time
you see that person at the same anger impulse dumps it can be a consequence
based a way of suppressing the desires sometimes it is recommended because the
consequences are pretty going to produce even more suffering then the desire itself so we say okay
the first thing I need to do is suppress it suppress my action I'll worry about
the desires and its roots some they fortunately there are ways to
completely get rid of this thing which I'm going to discuss in in some time and
sometimes there are intelligent of where suppressions for example life on something and I big
decision not to buy it because I cannot afford it this is very rational logical and then
no emotion emotions are involved here purely intelligence based but with full
awareness I kill the desire to buy the thing you have that thing your life will
be full of such examples the desire itself does not go away whenever I have money I go to my run to
the market and I bite it it has been suppressed for a time being so desires
they do not go away for some time you can get rid of them that is called
suppression the third way is distraction and some people may not agree that this
is a way to suppress the desire but I have seen this I've seen people do this and therefore I put it there when it is
you know halfway between the unaware and aware because you do not really decide
to suppress the desire you find something else to do you divert your
mind to something else some other desire so that this one remains out of your
awareness for a time being that is called distraction you have failed in
love let us say for example and there is an impulse always to go and meet the
lover you know somehow make up things again but you know it's it's kind of impossible now so you go to the bar
instead and drink whiskey that intoxication dumps down this impulse and
you feel good that means the desire to
drink is replacing the desire to do something hard which you do not want to
do and this is a very common example of
this distraction when more example can be that there is exam tomorrow but you
are afraid and you really don't like the study so what do you do there is a
desire to study obviously and that is because of your desire to clear the exam
to pass the exam but you do not really want it there is a competing desire to not study because it's too much to work
it's very hard work so you go and watch TV if the distraction you do not really
want to watch TV you go and spend time with your friends and that is not really
your wish what are you doing you are trying to avoid something when desire pushes away the other desire
and if it is good gets rid of the previous desire somehow then people use
it so anyway you get the point there are these ways of suppression that I am aware of probably there are more who
knows what are the consequences of suppressing a desire you must have guessed it by now
they are always bad most of the time that bad there are some exceptions here
and there just like I said controlling the anger and impulses it can be good
thing in short-term it's going to be worse if it is expressed but long term
always bad very very bad consequences are there what are the consequences of
unaware suppression you can guess it it leads to madness lunacy leads to
insanity because the person or the individual is not even aware what is
driving them these suppressed desires they get expressed through many ways it
is like you boil the water and put a very tight lid on the jar the jar is
going to bend the jar is going to break it is going to explode some or the other time that's what the
suppressed desires do to the mind they distort the mind they break the
functioning of the mind they corrupt the processes the healthy processes in the
mind this can be a subject of psychology or psychiatry science of pathology of
the mind but it must be your own experience that this happens some people
have very odd behaviors phobias and some very rational likes or dislikes that is
because of suppressions of desires some people have hate in them they are
not aware from outside they behave as if they are very cultured and loving caring
person but when you get to know them closely their insanity starts showing up
because of the hate that they have for you or for somebody else and when asked
why do you do this the person is not generally able to answer they don't know why they do that most commonly
suppressed desires are of the sexual nature and they are expressed as very
odd behaviors when the people of opposite sex mate I've seen it myself
and it is very funny to watch that but it is sad at the same time that how
people behave when they suppress their desires when there is a wear suppression
and their mind pretends that oh I am choosing a certain action and if I don't
act on the desire that is there a very powerful desire that is there nothing is
going to happen but no it does not work it does not work so you will see that
people suppress their desires with full awareness and for twenty years thirty
years they do not act on them and someday because the mind is getting
weaker as we age controls are falling away it is becoming
less and less aware if especially if the person is not a practitioner if the
person is not a spiritual seeker then the mind becomes a sin idol it starts
becoming weak and then the desires find a way then the desires get an
opportunity to come out and you won't be surprised to see you know where this is
going when they come out they usually come out in a very distorted way where it is
gusting way it is amazing so there are
some very eye-opening examples for examples a girl is usually taught to not
eat much to keep her body in shape and the reason is so that she gets married to a very rich person you know people
don't reject her then she suppresses with full awareness the desire to eat
especially the fatty and sugary things she continues it for five years 10 years
15 years and as soon as she gets married now this pressure is relieved and you
know such women they start overeating there is no control now because the
control before was artificial there was a tendency to eat was suppressed and you
know that which is suppressed it explodes comes out thousand times amplified you can see this behavior in
children you tell them not to do not to do this thing and as soon as they get a
chance they overdo it pathology of some kind it is a defect in
the mind human mind it is not all amazing thing it's not all rational and
intelligent temperature there are problems in the mind and usually in case
of animals or primitive societies these things do not happen usually Mother
Nature has achieved some kind of value there but the human societies and human behavior is mostly artificial you must
have noticed so artificial suppression happens in case of married women will
they all become fat because they have suppressed a very natural desire to eat
you see if they had satisfied the desire in moderate amounts with some exercise
and healthy diet eating fat fatty food
sugary food is not going to make the fat the thing that makes you fat is over
eating eating more than the body can handle and not really exercising not
burning the access matter net if now gets into the body so in the natural
surroundings when people had to hunt or grow their own food this problem never
happened nature always balanced things now
because we simply sit at one place and watch TV all day while desiring very
heavy kind of food lot of things lot of distortion has crept into the lifestyle
and it has very hard and funny and sad and sometimes very disgusting
consequences remember suppression of desire brings consequences cannot be suppressed what
is the consequence of destructions well the desire comes back to bite you with a hundred times more force you see
you are white something yes the distractions will make you overlooked
make you ignore that which you must do ultimately somehow the desire or the
need or the necessity is there and distractions only delay the consequence
it does not get rid of it fortunately it can be managed there is no need suppress a desire and
if the desire is suppressed there are ways to reveal them and there are ways
to treat them sometimes it is not in the hands of the person the person is now
patient so professional help is required you can take help of any kind of expert
the Western psychology are the Eastern methods they both work sometimes they
won't and and the person has no choice but to live with the suppressed desire
it has consequences it reverberates for many many lifetimes probably won't
believe me but I have no way to prove this people are born with a bad mind why
has that new thing the DNA does not code for intelligence or distortions or habit
or criminal behavior no DNA simply describes the body it is the grass layer of the mind storage of
memories there is something else which decides how child is going to be child's
tendencies I decide by the causal body the suppressed desires all reside there
if you go on suppressing the desires and the causal body gets polluted beyond
repair and takes on lower forms now let's not go there because we have
covered all that in the previous part where we discuss the metaphysical
implications of desires so the mind has its own way of ultimately expressing it
so if there is suppressed anger and it has polluted the causal body a lot it
has happened for many lifetimes then the like next form will not be a human form because the causal body knows that it's
not going to work now intelligence of the human body human mind is going to be
overpowering this energy so takes on a form that is conducive for expression of
that anger so it can be any animal violent animal I can be in other some other plane of
existence who knows this is kind of beyond our comprehension now so what is
the solution to suppress therefore the suppression if it is social well you
know the solution you get out of the culture get out of this society live somewhere where people are not
suppressing your desires especially if the desires are harmless sustained if it
is due to artificial lifestyle correct your lifestyle get into a good company
avoid people who are a suppressive repressive toxic and whatnot because
obviously suppression and the person himself or herself won't want to
suppress anything there is pressure from outside of pressure from situations that
is why do not take a practices that require suppression of desires there are
more refined practices if you warn them and about habits you know suppression of
habitual things it is best to not form the habit in the first place become
aware as soon as you are becoming a slave of some action some repeated ever
action you stop it there and then you break it before it gets hold of you and
then you avoid the ultimate situation where it needs to be sub president sub
president suppress for the whole lifetime being aware since the beginning
using your intelligence and rational logical abilities from the get-go will
avoid this kind of aware suppression and distractions well it may sound like
preaching but don't do it you do that which is necessary try to express the
desire and lift the consequences end or the consequences do not find a
distraction because it is going to become more ugly you will need to endure them anyway so do it while it is still week and see
burning candle easy to extinguish a burning bonfire very difficult and a
burning forest well impossible so you know you can understand you get the point
the third way of managing the desire is a ver observation so now you have the
background you have the knowledge necessary to understand this way of
managing the desire you get a hint now what I am going to talk about aware
observation is letting the desires come and go not acting on them not trying to
associate them by this or that method and not suppressing them not finding
distractions not they not doing actions that knowingly suppress the desire and
bringing out the unaware suppressed desires and identifying the desires
that's why we took trouble to classify the desires because mine likes it now
make a table of the desire flowchart of the desire and it really likes these things especially if you are on the path
of knowledge you will like this kind of structured analysis of everything that's why I took the trouble of arranging it
like this and if you are following what I recommended now on the very first part
of this series to note the desires to classify them as soon as they come
because the mind needs something to do with the desire if it arrives there if
it appears there it cannot simply see it so what what do we do I gave you the
tool I give you something to do with it classify it look at it it is a control
system kind of desire it is a reaction to situation oh no it is impulse it is
my intention and thinking about it since many days or it is my lifetime wish it keeps repeating
it was there yesterday it was there last week and it is good it is bad it belongs
to this named which I must fulfill and it feels good our this is totally unnecessary this one
is suppressed I did not know that this desire is there this is another desire you see if you want you can go into this
detail when you start the observation otherwise the mind is not interested in
observation you will need to take interest cultivate some interest develop
it desires are your partner for many lifetimes and don't ignore them try to
understand them try to may be in a relation with them and this is the
proper relation as soon as that desire appears the first thing to do is to see
it if you don't see it that means you are not on any spiritual path spiritual
path is about becoming aware knowing that I am the pure consciousness that
has the capability to become aware of any experience and the desire is only an
experience it is an event that happens in the mind all events are desires of
one kind or the other so even if you don't want to go into that kind of
metaphysical mumbo-jumbo your own mental environment should be with the nur of
awareness what call is your own mind should be under the light of awareness
it is polite for some good reason is it shines light it makes things known that
is why it is called light be in the light don't be in the darkness if a
desire happens in darkness you know what it does we spend so many hours discussing now you have a good idea now
what happens if it is in dark so become aware shine the light of awareness on
all mental activities to start with classified analyze it just like a
scientist look at the specimen under the microscope he is very interested he's really curious
let me look let me look what is there look how it behaves look how it wiggles
has failed look at its mating behavior it's all going under the microscope or
telescope or whatever put all your mental instruments on it and observe it
take a third-person view of your own mind you have done this old thing for a
long long time for many lifetimes you have identified with whatever happens in
the mind you have done this in ignorance
you do not know that you are not the mind and therefore whatever happens in the mind you say I am it willing I have
the samples I have this desire and it is mine so that this crap right now right
here it is not true events in the universal mind there is just awareness
of it this is the only truth you can see it now so become aware of the desire and
you will see something surprising but you have never seen in your life before
the desire comes the desire goes nothing
happens no consequences no actions you
see there are consequences only if you act on the desire I had there you satiated you suppress it you know or you
decide to distract yourself or anything do the black magic do the white magic if
you are into all these monkey business then there will be consequence if you
simply observe it put under the microscope of awareness what will it do
you can do this experiment I mean it is not something which is
right of only highly advanced spiritual seekers no ordinary people can do it why
don't they do it and they don't know it nobody does them these things you see the important stuff is not told to
anybody never thought this is how our society is this is how ignorant people
are you will need a teacher you will need a guru to even become aware that
there can be such a method as soon as it is are appears you need to be aware what
it is doing where it is taking you what kind of actions it is asking you to
perform when you are aware you can see the consequences very clearly you see
there is intelligence also just like I said sometimes we use intelligence to
suppress the I desire with full awareness there is a difference between intelligence and awareness the
intelligence is a learned behavior because you saw what happens when the desire you know makes you act and then
intelligently you decide not to act or do something else so if that experience
did not happen you won't be able to decide anything about it this intelligence has its
limits that it is dependent dependent on previous experience awareness does not
have any such limit if you can be aware of each and every desire even something
that happens for the first time even if there is no intelligent programs written
through your experiences in your mind awareness is not a mental phenomena it
is beyond mind therefore it has the power to free you from the mind
what are you you are nothing pure awareness only the action of awareness the action of consciousness the
experiencer I am that so it has the power it does it has real power over the
mind nothing else has power over the mind you know that very well now so
the any activity of the mind and most of the activity of the mind is just desiring desire fulfillment nothing else
you see as soon as the impulse the desire any planning or anything is going
on in your body I mean in your mind and body you know through awareness only so
there are three ways of becoming aware of desires the first way is to cultivate
this through a practice this is the proper way actually a seeker is doing
the thing is cultivating the mind and 90% part of cultivation is keeping the
awareness on that is all see on the path of knowledge there is no other practice the second way to become aware is to
delay your actions intentional delay observe this word very carefully there
is an intentional intention here ultimate desire grow a desire to delay
the desires a desire to rule all desires use the mind against the mind this is
the way of the seeker anyway you don't have anything else I sent it to you I have only your mind
so cultivate a part of the mind which brings up a desire an intention to delay
whatever your previous desire is telling you to do for this you will obviously
require awareness and it can become a habit also to always delay the impulse
impulsive nature so those who are very very impulsive never think never use their intelligence and logic any
rational abilities this way this trick can be very useful delay the decision
delay the action delay it what that does is gives the mind a little bit of
freedom a little bit of time for the intelligent processes to activate
otherwise it's instantaneous you can see such people do not think before they act and
repent if you observe the wise people intelligent people if you are not in the
company of intelligent people your life is a waste already let me tell you this directly you're not going to achieve
anything worthwhile in this life if you don't follow wise people so if you
observe them carefully they never decide in a hurry they delay the decision at least delay
for 24 hours now I can understand some things cannot be delayed a truck is
rushing to you when you are standing on the middle of the road then don't try to delay that impulse or the control system
or the reaction to run to the side it can cost you your life so see
intelligent delay intentional delay there is intention or intelligence in
that delay it's not totally stupid you must have noted we do not face such
situations every day is sometimes very rarely and there you don't delay
anything if it is absolutely necessary you do it but our most of our day most
of our routine is not so much emergency it's not so much hurry and these
decisions that we take these desires that we entertain during these resting
peaceful hours they decide our quality of the life not the accidental things you get the point anyway if there is
something important if there is a desire that appeared and it looks like it is going to cause a lot of consequences you
simply delayed don't even think about it postponed it as long as possible and
don't worry if it is absolutely necessary it will happen that is the rule that is the law if it is necessary
it happens then there are no options to delay it but the unnecessary things can
be halted you get a little bit of control there the unnecessary parts if it is habitual
it is a very good trick to delay the act habitual action and slowly it becomes
weaker you can try it if you are a habitual of drinking too much tea let us
say there are many people here they want tea every half an hour I don't know why
people do that why don't they fix it and there are causes of it but they you know acidity
and bad health but they take pills and they will take very very expensive
medicine and to buy those expensive medicines they will do you know anything
under the Sun to earn that money you see I don't understand why why this
distortion is there in the life you are human you have working brain use it it
is the story of an average person you see and I don't blame them
ignorance is the root nobody tells them nobody tells them these things that your your own mind is doing it you see their
witness them districts and I am also guilty of such ignorant dark lifestyle
where everything happened on the mercy of natural forces that causes suffering
you see ultimately suffering will bring you out of the darkness so this is one
of the very effective tricks delay the desires and it is not going to suppress
the desire you will need to observe it later on and treat it with whatever do
whatever needs to be done then there is a long term solution and the third way
of becoming aware and third way of your observation of desires and that is
reduce the seeds of desires what is the seed of desire
remember when you were born probably don't remember but look at a child
how many desires the child has let us say now you are grown up and you have
thousand desires you get twenty thirty desires every day new desires every day and it is a mess that is why your life
is a mess remember the childhood they were two or three desires the basic
needs were all there is food and shelter and a little bit of entertainment play
and that's all was there so how did it happen how did the mess of desire the
junk pile of desire what's so big it is now like a big mountain and you if you
investigate you will find that most of the desires you have acquired from outside by outside I mean society the
environment situations other people by copying others mindlessly this is how
you accumulated this pile of desires if you are aware from childhood you see
that would be a different life that quality of life is unimaginable for us
so children are not told to become aware except maybe in Tibet high up there in
the Himalayas but we are unfortunate we'll live in cities and in this kind of
rotten societies so we don't get this opportunity unfortunately even as an
adult grown a person these things are beyond the reach of an average person
only spiritual seeker it's a hint of these things if we cultivate if you
start today also it's never too late you see cultivate the awareness see that
others responsible for most of your desires that are totally unnecessary
for life for life processes few desires are enough and then you encounter the
society which is so polluted with desires I don't have any good words for
that but you get the point there's the brainwashing all the desires
they mostly arise out of conditioning in the last episode we discussed that in
the first condition to become a magician to take control over your own mind and
the world is to insulate yourself from the will of others from the imposed
desires of others including more powerful minds they are governing your
mind right now you are not aware of it right if you because never cultivated
darkness but if you start today start now you will start seeing which desire
came from which source and most of sources you will find our external for
example you have this odd funny desire to get dressed in expensive clothes
ordinary clothes are enough to protect the body and to look decent and beautiful you don't need a million
dollar suit studded with diamonds so if you have this funny desire very stupid
desire there must be a reason and the reason will be that that it has been
implanted through somebody else some very charismatic mind some very powerful
mind has affected your mind and now your mind like mad thing it is satisfied
producing suffering suffering suffering madness odd behavior and also guilt I'm
not good enough I don't have expensive things even my neighbour is better than me so you see this is all conditioning
from the cycle coke my mother tongue is a mother tongue of lowly people and
educated poor people I need to learn this language this foreign language and
this desire will simply make your life miserable I've seen so many people like
this small things small things I'm not tall enough I need to be 6 feet tall
otherwise I should you know kill myself and whole of the life is wasted for that
person or I don't look good I have the barest desire to look good
and that there is a there are consequences that produce more desire like you will need to spend money and
you will need to go to gym and I'm giving you very very simple examples but
there can be complex examples like also that you get a desire to kill and mass
you you want to bomb the whole city because you want to rule the country and how did the desire get into your mind
you saw somebody probably it was somebody in your family you belong to a royal family and this disease of ruling
others was implanted from that you were conditioned you were told that you need
to rule people you need to kill people you need to overpower people by hook or crook fool them lie to them use force
and the person became a king despair is how our politician nowadays
somebody in the military high up in the military in attacks other countries makes other lives miserable
so you see there can be extreme examples also but I don't think such people will
listen to this talk anyway ordinary people are going to listen I'm hoping
and therefore these examples are perfect so the point is you must have guessed it
that try to see the source of your desire and cut it bare and then cut the
rope that which was tied to you you are tied in many many ropes even if you
start cutting one row per day which is very fast if you ask me you got one one
seed per day you burn one seed of the desires per day probably in few
lifetimes you will get rid of all the desires it will be like peaceful again it will be like a very silent pond
occasional ripples here in there right now it is like a mr. it is like a storm in your mind and
then the reason is desires most of them remain unfulfilled most of them produce consequences that
you are managing right now you spend your life managing the consequences only
don't know how to manage the desires therefore you spend your life managing the consequences and the problem is you
don't even know why you're alive because of this dirt of consequences there is no
meaning in this life there is no purpose in this life don't even talk about happiness and bliss and creativity and
love and bigger things which a human should do if we are humans we are born
to do the human things not the animal things which most of us are doing so
situation is very bad that is due to bad influences so just like the handbook of
magicians is that the influences first make your own intention stronger it has
to be enough where intention you see how good it will be that if all of your
intentions are your own plus they happen in the light of awareness with your
experience gained from your activities other actions in the light of intelligence also in the company of wise
people who are always ready to advise you you don't listen that is another
matter you see because of this dirt of and desires accumulated desires from
outside and the brainwashing is so strong that people will advise you
wrongly they will advise you in a way which causes harm to you because of the
competition nobody wants you to progress nobody wants you to become good nobody
wants you to become powerful strong beautiful intelligent so if somebody
sees you reading some book get this nerd he is he is reading a book
written by a scientist take this porno book man be like a man you see they will pollute your mind even
if you have good intentions because of the bad company bad culture but society you will become like them
so isolate yourself how to reduce the seeds of desire first is to become aware
of the sources of these desires you see let them off you don't need one you don't want them live in solitude prefer
the company of wise otherwise no company make it a rule I have done that actually
it is very difficult to not come across stupid people in this world sometimes
you will need to interact with them keep them to a minimum prefer people who like
you and whom you like do not run after anybody random see they don't like you
they don't want you there you have no no place in their lives get rid of people
get rid of relations get rid of relatives nobody likes you I can give
you in this in writing this is human nature you see they your own relative
your own parents will brainwash you will feed you with desires that you don't
want because you're an affair because your intelligence is not functioning you
see you are a child right now or a teenager and you will simply accept whatever the others tell you especially
if they are your parents you see hate this person of the other religion no no you cannot marry that
girl of the other caste who tells you your own parents your own mother and father are they entitled this title of
mother and father if you if they do this to their own child why do they do this
because they are themselves in the gutter that's why they do it they are themselves ignorant you see how
can you expect the ignorant society to bring you out of the darkness
so solitude is a good way cutting off unnecessary people very good way cut off
the TV cut off the newspaper magazines and the cheap stuff that you are surrounded with everything is asking you
to buy this and buy that and take this service in that service the only service they are offering is to give me your
money that is the service they are offering isn't it like a idiot people
take the advice from the TV and you know what kind of life they are living it is
not a human life it is anything but human I mean first we should become
human I did not made a mistake when I said that shouldn't I become a god like
shouldn't they fix my goal as becoming some enlightened being
you know I advanced being because I am a spiritual person first become a human
that is the practical goal we do not know how to be human you see it is a
fallen society is a fallen culture it is everywhere in the it is global you see
global phenomena now what we do we mimic those cultures that shine from the
outside glitter has to have too much money looks like they're nice people but
we import all the bad things from there also and we ignore the good things
because they belong to poor people substandard subhumans so there there is
such a deep conditioning going on here that that's why I told you that probably it is going to take a few lifetimes and
very nice guidance very nice teacher very capable guru to pull you out of
this mess this quicksand of human
culture which is not a human culture nowadays to become human is forgotten
you don't know how to be a human just an animal trying to survive walking talking
clothes animal most of the people are like this unfortunately the reason is the dump of
desires the incorrect desires the wrong conditioning so you have two options
either you become like a child simplify your life like a child or you they accumulate good influences and the good
son scars slowly they will purify the mind slowly the desire stop coming you
know how the desires come by now they are coming from storehouse of memories they're coming from the causal body it
is a model don't think that oh it is going to end someday let me enjoy my life no it never ends it only changes
nothing actually disappears in this existence it
changes from one state to another you want it to change towards something better more happiness more freedom or
bliss more awareness more consciousness that is the whole endeavor of a seeker
is there anything else are we seeking anything else there are three steps of
becoming aware which most of you know who regularly is listen to my podcast
and read the blog articles very simple three steps first step is to become
aware after your actions and desires have happened after they have done the damage at least you become aware now at
least look at your own past look at your own actions look at your own desires
that turn on the light maybe it's a tube light turns on after a while but you
will know in the next time there is a chance that that desire an action and the consequences will happen in the
light of awareness you will get a little bit of control next time this time it
has happened so let it happen now what can you do so become aware when it has already happened the second step is to
become aware while it is happening while you are in the middle of the desire in
the ground zero of the desire you are
desiring you're acting there are consequences your you're fielding them and so on become
aware in the middle of that and the third is to become affair even before it
happens even before the desire raises its hood you become aware now now this
thing is going to come you see you will know it only when you know your mind let
you know your hand now this is only saying people don't know their hand you're talking about the mind no they
don't know anything about themselves they know a lot about outside things you know the crap that the society has
pushed into them they don't know themselves so know your mind that will
give you this ability to predict the desire that is going to come those who
observe people carefully they know what the person is going to do next what they're going to do comes from their
desires what they are going to desire next you can see them so I can't do that to yourself you know what you're going
to desire next you do not know this because there is no awareness right now
so if there is awareness even before the
desire appears and becomes an action you can stop it you can observe it awareness
is like fire it was the desires you can conduct this experiment whenever there
is a desire instead of acting and you know running around like a mad you see the mechanism in detail you see the
desire in detail it is possible to see it not with eyes with the mind that's
why it is called the third eye the eye of awareness awareness is the only thing that makes us see and you can see in
your own mind you don't need to see other minds there is nothing there except pile of junks you need this
simply you need this power to see your own mind that will be most useful for you
believe me as soon as the desire comes or even before you will become aware of
it see its dynamics its it's it is producing feelings in the
body sensations in the body it is making your muscles the micro woman's in the
body you're making making your eyes diet here and there producing torrent of
thoughts and the desire never comes alone comes with all her friends using
it it's a big gang of desires always and you can all you can see it all don't
worry if there is a question that oh if I keep observing that when I'm going to
act I'll just die here observing the desires so don't worry that which is
necessary you will happen there and then if it is urgent it will happen instantly
if it is unnecessary if it can be delayed if it requires intelligence and rational thought delayed I just observe
it and this is possible only when there is awareness so these are three steps of
becoming aware of your own mind and what are you going to become aware of the activity of the mind what is the
activity of the mind mostly desire and managing the desires and running after desires and thinking about desires
acting upon desires and thinking about the consequences planning imagining
fantasizing there is nothing else in the mind really so you will see the results
almost on the day when the mind will become quieter the intelligence will
rise it will start shining your actions will become more peaceful coordinated in
well thought for the first time in your life people will see you as acting in an
intentional way in an intelligent way you will be more successful than others
you see to be more successful you don't have to kill others compete with others you just need to be more aware and
choose your actions intelligently that is the trick it will it will work in
your spiritual life it will work in your material life it will work in our mental life all the mental issues
pathology of the mind can be treated like this simply by becoming aware of the desires the mind self-corrects just
like your body self correct then whatever the doctor does is a little bit of help to the body if the bone breaks
the doctor puts the broken pieces together and ties them down so that you
don't move them and bones they you know send the fibers down and the heal it
because one solid bone no doctor can do it only the bone that has the ability to
regenerate you get a cut on the skin you just band-aid it the skin does it the
skin does the healing the virus gets into the body well sometimes it kills the body but if there is a protection in
the body the body fights it the body gets rid of the diseased body is nothing
it is mind only in the grass layer of the mind same thing happens in all layers of the mind probably it is much
easier to correct the mind in the body because the body is rule-bound you see the virus or infection gets in then
mostly it is the physical rule that decides what will happen but mind well
there are mental laws you can have more control there physical laws how can you
control them your own mind you have most control the mind cures itself I was
telling but the unaware desires they are not really we are not really unaware of
them we choose to be unaware of them because the mind keeps throwing them out
there is some mechanism in the mind that twists them and causes our kind of behavior or sometimes it appears as a
disease in the body because you see the body is part of the mind and everything
that goes on in the mind they are not two separate things this you know some kind of ignorance brainwashing by the
society so it will be seen in the body it will be seen in the mind the unaware
stuff deeply buried stuff as soon as the mind gets chance it throws it out you
need to choose to see it how can you see it when you are aware of everything that goes on in the mind you
can see it at least sit down were at one place peacefully and look into your mind what
is going on and you will see all the garbage there which was suppressed you
can see it you can very lovingly he would care just like you take care of the wounded body you feed it in your
rest and so on you clean it you can do some same thing for the mind it is not different from the body the structured
mechanism the pile of programs and memories you can correct them you can
rewrite the code of your mind simply you need to know what is where what break
what is producing what actions do not act on them so this suppressed desire is here now I
can see it and it is trying to produce this kind of action and now you can you
simply observe it channel it to something else if you are angry with somebody forgive them this is a good way
because most of our misery comes from people and if you hold it here in your
mind you will remain miserable for the rest of your life forgiving is
correcting your own mind it is not going and licking the feet of the other person that's not going to work that fellow
will remain the same fellow that he was forgiving is a surgery in your mind you
need to correct your mind the reaction that happened because of the bad
interactions negative interactions negative experiences you need to sit down and correct them it is better than
spending money your hard-earned money on the doctors doctors don't even know what
is happening in your mind they know what is written in the textbook and they try to treat you it takes many many years of
experience to know what happens inside the mind of a patient and that kind of service is going to be very expensive
you know you know that and a very cheap
way it is free if you treat yourself if you treat your own mind it is free free of cost on the
first day you can see it is instantaneous because it's mine instant manifestation happens from the
very first day you start observing your mind you will start seeing the results it is my own experience something that
is bothering you producing negative reactions in the mind negative desires just observe it like
good observer astronomic at the planets
it does not matter with the planet simply looks at them same thing to say look at the activity of the mind whether
it is negative positive do not go with the reactions in the mind oh it is disgusting no no IIIi did something
really very very bad I don't want to remember it now don't do it let it surface let it come see what effects it
is having in the mind see which behaviors were driven by this pathological activity of the mind and
now you get the point the mind will self-correct next time it will again
throw it up again very lovingly you know with all care sit down watch these
things are not to be done by dwell driving or you know working or things
like that cooking on fire no no you will need to spend some time this is called
meditation for a good reason if you do it even 15 minutes per day it will change your life go on increasing
the time if she like it if you don't then you need guidance if it's not
working or if it is because mind is a tricky thing I don't take any guarantees here you see if the pathology is very
strong meditating can make it worse sometimes it happens the mind doesn't
like its sins to be revealed so it will it will do everything sometimes the
influence is outside and there are parasitic influences and they don't like to be revealed now this is a little bit
of metaphysical angle I don't want to scare you so I am NOT going to talk about it because most of people have
seen they have parasitic entities on them and they don't know it because they are not aware of it and the thoughts of
violence are coming near in your mind or you want to do something really disgusting while and your nature is not
like that you're a building who is not like that your parents were nice people your friends are good why is it there
think about it it is very rare but if when all the explanations fail that which seems
impossible must be the cause you can even get rid of that simply by aware
observation although i don't recommend events you become aware that there is
external influence attachments to my mind and even to the causal body there
are attachments because of some past mistakes let's not go there but as soon
as you become aware that this is the reef it seems to be the reason that these things are causing a lot of
trouble bad health and so on unsuccessful in almost everything that I
do and now you will need expert help by experts I don't mean doctors and
psychiatrists they don't know anything they don't know about the metaphysical acting angles they are totally ignorant
about mind you will need a guru you will need somebody who has gone through this
mess of the mind who knows their mind once you know your mind you know all the
minds it is like once you know one car how the engine works and all you can
repair most of the cars all the cars once you know how to use one kind of
software you can use almost all the varieties of that software you see in the market it is not magic it is just
common sense once you know your mind all mites are same you will know all the
minds so a guru knows he will know your mind more than you know your mind and
that is the place that is the time where you decide to take help of a guru we are
fortunate to have such people search you will find ask around you will
find them there is a need to become a little bit vigilant because there are
fake people there are people there are so lowly people that they will take advantage of your misery also pay me
this much I'll get rid of this thing it happens a lot so you will need to take a
little bit of risk sometimes you will lose money but if the demand is to
become a slave will become a cult member or something like that you don't entertain them that is again common
sense I don't need to tell you all this those things the best thing is to learn
by yourself teach it yourself train yourself become aware start by sitting
and observing the mind that is the best way to become aware no knowledge is
necessary if you don't know that mind is not you how can you become aware of it if you don't know the body is not you
how can you control the body know that essential thing the spiritual knowledge is the most essential knowledge in this
whole existence the knowledge of who am i if you don't know I am consciousness
awareness where are you going to bring the witness from you will remain trapped in the mind and its activity forever the
mind cannot bring you back only awareness only awareness can bring you back home only awareness can get rid of
these and desire desires what are the consequences of aware observation it is
nice question isn't it what will happen to this desires well there is a good
news probably that is the best thing that I have said in this whole series that there will be no consequences is
absolutely total destruction of the desires if you become aware of the
desire let them arrive let them come and let them go like clouds in the clear sky
they are not going to produce consequences just like I said only when you say she ate them
when you act on them you fulfill them or you suppress them you control them you
do these or that distract yourself only then there are consequences you observe
them detach from them do not cling to them and they are not going to produce
anything they are just movements in the mind what can they do now the tiger becomes a kitten actually you will enjoy
the activity of the mind now it is amusing it's very funny if you see it it
has become serious it has become tragic only because you give it too much weight
isn't it the mind is like a puppy you made it into a rabid Bulldog that is the
only problem isn't it mind is not a problem awareness is the problem there is no awareness of what
the mind is doing and therefore it is doing whatever comes now unless fixes it
you take control of it now although whatever must happen will happen but in
the purification will start that is start of a journey that is not the end
if you have the question that oh but I can do it it's easy thing for me but
what will happen to my life what am I going to do with my life now look the
old is gone don't cling to the old the new is coming Sun is rising why do you
think what happened in the dark night if I do worry about that see that something
good is going to happen now it will be another adventure it will be an
adventure that you are going to like for the first time in your life there will
be meaning there will be purpose there will be hope if there's none this does
not happen then you are doing something wrong then you need to consult a guru probably on doing something else not the
other observation probably you're just suppressing it in the name of observation well let me observe oh there
is desire cut it down let me observe something else that is not proper way so if you do
if you do not even know how to be aware then please take some good advice from a
good guru they will be very pleased to bring you back on the track because your
mind is my mind actually and we are same isn't it we are one so it is always a
pleasure to fix somebody else's mind although although it is a difficult
thing I'm being honest here it is always easier to fix your own mind that is what
I have experienced others well it is not it is beyond my paygrade actually so you
can fix only yourself you should fix only yourselves don't worry about others once you fix yourself the others will
come to you asking for solution it is your wish it is your desire if you want
to help others there are no consequences don't worry about the consequences and
there there are some mistakes that can happen but start on the path start on
the path of light you will become aware of the consequences also if any and
actually you will be able to handle them more gracefully more elegantly in a
beautiful way by yourself without any kind of itching because you know now you
know how to fish you don't need to be given fish every day you will stand on
your own feet start and you will see it does not take time what takes time is
the resistance of the mind to the light once you make this determination this
Sankalp this magical intention to become aware the real magic will start
happening [Applause] [Music]
pure experiences
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you were listening to pure experiences by Thrun Pradhan
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