Mastering Mind Control || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Can Thought Truly Be Selfless? || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00We talk so much of the mind, mind control, mindfulness, improving the quality of mind,

00:05but the mind is so damn helpless. How can the mind improve? It's like saying that the cow must

00:12ascend to the fifth floor when she is tied to the ground. Can the cow do that? She cannot.

00:17Similarly, how can thought gain deviation when the ego center itself is down in the dumps?

00:25How do you catch the rat? The rat must do something. If the rat is lying perfectly still somewhere,

00:30it will be very difficult to catch it. So you want the rat to do something. You throw some sugar and

00:34you want the rat to have a relationship with sugar, right? You want the rat to make some noise. The rat

00:40can be caught only in action. Just as we have relationships in the physical sense, there is me

00:45and then there is somebody I am related to. Similarly, thought is related to somebody. So

00:49thought is action. Thought is relationship. So even if one is to watch thought, the objective is not to

00:54improve thought. The objective is to improve oneself.