Questioner: Hello sir, my question is that I’m fully aware of the thoughts that I’m having, most of the times. So, I feel like, ever since so for a year and a half, I have been going through something, it’s a low phase. I acknowledge the suffering and I know how to come out of it but then I feel like I keep getting stuck in the same thought cycle again and again. I find an answer and then I’m back at it, something small happens and then I am back at the same cycle, the intensity reduces over time. So, I feel like, if I look back a year and a half ago, maybe it was this big (expressing with the help of hand to show the size) and now it’s just small and I am almost out. But then, the thing is that, it still keeps coming back. It’s the same thought process, it’s the same conclusion and then it repeats. So how do you break it? I mean there is solution in my mind that this is the solution, but after doing that the problem is repeating again, that means the solution is wrong.
Acharya Prashant: No, you don’t need a solution for the existing mental pattern. If you will think in terms of what to do with what’s going on in the mind, then you’re only providing it with more energy, more respect, and more consideration, that just continues the cycle. Thought is important, thought is necessary, one needs a higher plane of thought, and one needs a higher object to think about.
Involve yourself with something so humongous, so implacable and so tremendously important that you cannot ignore it even for a second and then all the petty kinds of little thoughts and nonsense, that invade the mind and clutter it, you’ll find that they don’t have space, they are crowded out.
If you’ll keep your mind available to anything that the world wants to keep in it, then the mind will become a storehouse of random thoughts, experiences, memories, and desires. And the mind does want something, you cannot say I’ll keep my mind clean and there will be nothing in it, that’s humanly impossible, even if that’s possible That's the last stage of wisdom, when the mind is absolutely free of all content.
