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Acharya Prashant: You can not win the mind, you can not cater to the mind, you can not control the mind. And you are not responsible for everything that this ancient mind does. A thousand squirrels are sitting here, and five hundred monkeys, and the extinct dinosaur, and all the men and women of the world living and dead, and about to come.

They are all sitting here in the mind, and they are playing their mischief parallelly. Do you know what an enormous crowd it is? The entire universe is contained in your seemingly little mind, And they are all raising a huge uproar. They are all together in their noise. It’s a strange chorus, and you want to note that down?

Do you know how much you dream? You just heard the dinosaur intervening (pointing towards the audience), and you thought that dinosaurs were extinct. They are alive, see (pointing towards the audience). Do you really want to pay heed? Let them have their mischief. You follow your dharma. You ‘be’ with the real One. And what is the real One? you need not know. All that you need to know is you are not that which keeps bubbling in your mind.

That much is enough, in fact being with God means nothing more than being able to not identify with the noise in your head. Without God that would anyway not have been possible. So, if you are not identifying, you are anyway already with God.

There is no secret here, sir. There are only complexities and you get nothing by solving these complexities. It's an endless maze. You can feel a little emboldened. You can feel a little upright. You can feel a bit of an achiever. If you solve a portion of this huge puzzle.

The puzzle can be solved. At times you may feel that you have put a lid on the mind, but the more you solve it, the more you see how expansive it is. It's of very little value trying to control the mind, to shut down the mind, or to understand the mind. The mind has its own universe, the mind is the universe. The mind has a parallel life of its own, let it live, let it live.

It is carrying the accumulated residue of an infinity of time. All of that has to run its course. You have to allow all of that to burn itself out. And while that is burning itself out, cleaning itself up in the natural course, you stay a little aloof. Let the dinosaur live its life.

There are snakes in here (pointing to his head), and there are rabbits afraid of wolves. There are world wars being fought here (pointing to his head). And there are old men, little kids, they are all here (pointing to his head).

And because they are old men, sometimes they will come up with very wise suggestions. You listen to what they have to say smile and then walk past them. It's their job to talk you up, it's their job to talk you in, and it's your job to keep flowing silently.

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