Video Information: 11.02.23, MMMUT Gorakhpur (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
~ How to stop overthinking?
~ How to stop mind's chattering?
~ How to be more focused in life?
~ How to not get easily distracted?
~ Why does the mind wander all the time?
~ What's the best use of a human life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant #mind #focus
Context:
~ How to stop overthinking?
~ How to stop mind's chattering?
~ How to be more focused in life?
~ How to not get easily distracted?
~ Why does the mind wander all the time?
~ What's the best use of a human life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
#acharyaprashant #mind #focus
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LearningTranscript
00:00Good evening, sir. Sir, there are times when I think a lot and I feel caged in my own mind.
00:11My mind constantly keeps chattering and I can't stop it. So, sir, my question is how
00:17to stop the mind's chatter? Thank you, sir.
00:26The mind chatters only about little and inconsequential things. First of all, the matter would be
00:37a petty one. Secondly, irrespective of how long the chatter is, the matter can never be brought to an end.
00:50So, it is inconsequential. The mind loves to engage itself with itself.
01:06The mind loves to roll in its own stuff.
01:14It wants to be a prisoner unto itself.
01:18So, the mind is doing this that just see that one, it's a pair and you have more important stuff to do.
01:30The mind has to be busy with something. You did not give it something important to be busy with.
01:36So, it started playing with itself. That's what has happened.
01:40The mind is a monkey. It needs something to play with. You gave it nothing. It started playing with its own body.
01:52Now, it has its tail in its mouth.
01:55It's happy that it has a toy to play with and it's crying because the game is painful.
02:06That's how the mind behaves, no? Give the monkey something decent to play with.
02:21Is your life settled? Have you reached your end? Have you realized your purpose?
02:28Are you at the end of your journey?
02:31The mind is the instrument that helps you along your way.
02:41If the car has not yet reached its destination, why is it revving so much on neutral?
02:54The mind talking to itself is like a car accelerating on neutral.
03:02What does that do? That takes the car nowhere. Only heats up the engine and burns the fuel.
03:11And that's how most of us burn down our precious life energy, right?
03:18The car standing on neutral and the RPM is 6000.
03:27Lot of noise and lot of heat and no distance covered.
03:36It just appears something is happening. Nothing really happens.
03:44But the car is built to travel.
03:48So, just change the gear and give it a destination and all the internal chatter will just stop.
04:00In neutral, even at 6000 RPM, it was going nowhere.
04:06At 6000 RPM, it was going nowhere.
04:11Pull the right gear and drive it wisely.
04:17And even at 2000 RPM, it will take you places.
04:24The mind will not be overworked and will still deliver useful results.
04:31But when you are talking to yourself, that Atma Samvat, that internal chit-chat,
04:38that continuous conversation with the mirror,
04:47that's just dissipation of life energy.
04:55That's the worst way to exist, to live in your mind.
05:05What's the most dangerous place to live in?
05:14The mind.
05:19Horrible is the condition of those who live in their minds.
05:25And the only way to get out of your mind is by giving the mind a purpose.
05:31Nothing else will work.
05:34That's a law.
05:39All laws apply to Prakriti, nature, right?
05:43Just as you have Newton's laws and other laws, similarly this is a law of the mind, Prakriti, law of nature.
05:52If you don't want the mind to go bonkers playing with itself,
06:00then give it a task.
06:06And don't let the mind ever run out of tasks.
06:12The mind is just energy.
06:15You do not give it a purpose solemn enough, the energy will become destructive.
06:24Just keep the mind constructively involved with something proper and purposeful.
06:31And that will require honesty.
06:35We are lazy people, right?
06:38If the mind is to be given a proper purpose, the mind will work.
06:42But the limbs too will have to work.
06:46The mind cannot just work on its own without hands and eyes and nose and legs working.
06:52And we don't want that to happen.
06:55So we slouch on the couch, doing nothing.
07:01And only the mind is working.
07:05Give the mind a proper purpose, let the entire body, your entire system,
07:10everything in your existence be focused, be channelized towards the right purpose in life.
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