Don't try to control the mind, leave it alone to be quiet || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)

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Don't try to control the mind, leave it alone to be quiet || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)

Acharya Prashant

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Don't try to control the mind, leave it alone to be quiet || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)

Question: How can a person be the master of his mind, so that his mind is under control?

Speaker: Under whose control? Who is demanding this control? You are asking, “How can a person be the master of his mind, so that the mind is under his control?” Under whose control?

Listener 1: Under the person’s control.

Speaker: Who is the ‘person’? Where does he live? Who is talking right now? Who is desiring to control the mind? From where do all desires come?

From where do all desires come?

Listeners: Mind.

Speaker: So the mind is saying, “I want to control the mind.” A desire in the mind, is asking to control the other desires in the mind? Yes, is that so? You see the impossibility of this, right?

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Anuradha

2y ago

Your obsession with the thought, continues the thought. Stop being obsessed, stop giving the thought more energy, and the thought will go away, because the thought has no organic life of its own.

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