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MIND-FIELD : THE PLAYGROUND OF GODS
Series on Indian Psychology-2
MIND-FIELD : THE PLAYGROUND OF GODS
If one were to ask : on which science the Indian sages have done the most thinking, short of meditation itself, the answer would be ‘psychology’, understanding mind. It has been done not by objective observations alone. The sages have used themselves as guinea pigs. They led their own mind through various states of sentiments (bhavas), concentrations, visualizations, silent recitations and other interior devices and observed their effects on the mind. Of these methods and devices we shall speak later in greater detail. Here we continue with attempting to understand the definition of mind and its stages.
by Swami Veda Bharati
Shiva Ratri, a yogic celebration
Shiva means consciousness and Ratri means the night. Shiva is the knowledge and the night is the ignorance. Shiva is the male principle and the Ratri is the female principle. Shiva is the sun and the night is the moon. Thus the word “Shiva Ratri” signifies the two existences or truths, Purusha and prakriti. In Vedanta prakriti is called as maya. Maya is also real until one establishes himself with the Brahman, the supreme consciousness. The real celebration is that establishment. It is a journey towards the light. Because Shiva is worshipped in the form of light as “Jyotir lingam”.by Vishnu
FULL MOON MESSAGE
One day Mullah Nasruddin entered his favorite teahouse and said, “The moon is more useful than the sun”. An old man asked why Mullah? Nasruddin replied “we need the light more during the night than during the day.”
by Vishnu
Holy, A colurful game of Divinity
A COLORFUL GAME OF DIVINITY
Have you ever thought about your colorful body? What is the color of your skin, what is the colour of your blood? what is the color of your bone? You may find our body is nothing but colors. Like this body whole world is contained with colors. You can find the similarities of the world and the body. Because all are made of Prakriti. Prakriti has three gunas- sattwa, rajas and tamas. Sattwa is white, Rajas is red, and Tamas is black. The first evolutes of Prakriti, mind, is also made of three gunas. The mind is like a crystal but when the white color or sattwa is predominates in that crystal mind then you feel peace, love, compassion and so on. When your mind becomes rajasic you feel very active, perhaps angry, and when your mind is covered with tamasic darkness, then you become slothful, sleepy. The color very much affects the mind.
by Pandit Vishnu
Training the Mind
We must try to understand this problem. It's the habits we have formed with our mind. If those are the thoughts that you think all the time, what is the poor mind going to do? From your very childhood you have said to your mind, "Okay mind. You are free; think what you want to think. See what you want to see. Cultivate whatever emotions, negative or positive, that you feel like cultivating." Now if you have a dog, and you never train that dog, and suddenly when the dog is eight years old, can you train that dog? If I ever own a dog, I'm going to give that dog a name. I'm going to call that dog, Mind. And I'll train my dog well, so that when I say," Mind, sit," Mind sits; "Mind, stay," Mind stays. That's my dog that I have to train. Do you get the point? So meditation is training the dog you own called the mind, giving it a new direction. Where you have been tense, learning to relax; where you have been negative, learning to be positive. And in this way the mind gradually changes; but it takes time.by Swami Veda Bharati