Questioner: Acharya Ji, from the past two days, I am writing down all the activities going on in my mind. It seems really hard for me to see the mind the entire day. How can I watch the activities of mind and so separate from it?
Acharya Prashant: So, all that happens, why do you write that down? Why do you give it importance by registering it? So many things happen. Even as I speak you might have burped, somebody might have had hiccups. Would you write that down? Is that significant?
All of these are hiccups of the mind, just waves. As I speak to you, I might just say (makes a sound). Would you register that? How significant is that? How significant is that? Did you notice that right now as I am speaking, I am rubbing my little finger against my thigh? See, here is my little finger, and here is my knee, I am rubbing my finger on my knee. How important is that? Why notice it? All that you have written down is just there. The question to be asked is why must it be ‘in’? Let it be there. Why must it be ‘in’? Why must it be in association with you?
Keep looking at me and tell me- what is the level of ink in your pen? The same pen you used, to write down your notes. What is the level of the ink in your pen?
Questioner: It's full.
Acharya Prashant: It's not full, but does it matter? Does it really matter? And it is the same pen with which you are writing. If the pen that writes need not be attended to. Why must be the mind that has thought out what is written be given that kind of attendance?
