Musing is amusing...

Mind is such a wonderful thing. It is like a person living within you who can be your best friend or worst enemy. Like it is said, when you love someone let them free and they will come back to you. So you have to love your mind and let it be free and it will come back to you. You need to treat it with compassion and love and not fight it. The problem is that the Self is identified with the mind and the mind is ever fluctuating and identifying with the external senses and circumstances. When infact the real Self is the atman or the soul. The 'I' should have been the soul which is constant and ever blissful but in the I got mis-identified with the mind. Not that the mind is all bad. It is infact very good and without the mind or intellect there is no Self. Mind is the tool for the Self to get salvation. Rama (the soul) cannot accomplish anything without Hanuman (the mind). The mind needs to be cared for and observed with compassion and needs to be appreciated when there are positive thoughts or when it is resonating with the vibrations of the soul. You need to be constantly aware that the reactions are taking place from the mind as it is so attached to the body and the senses and the external world so much. A response comes from deep within stillness while a reaction comes from the mind. All the 'feelings' and emotions at various levels are stored in the mind and it is funny that the mind has a natural tendency to repeat negative thoughts and go into a loop, but it finds it so difficult to latch onto positive thoughts. i never have a loop of positive thoughts!? It is a bit scary as well to feel the nothingness within and observe the mind full of emotions and thoughts and feelings. It feels pleasant and scary at the same time because one is always used to identifying with so many emotions , that if you dont identify with any of those, there is no 'I'. The 'I' needs to be identified with the soul which is pure joy and bliss and which exists in everyone and I can imagine it being the same in everyone and all of us being connected. It is the mind which shapes the personality and the thoughts of a any person good or bad. Even a 'bad' person has the same atman connected to us but it is too clouded by his vrittis and the layers of the mind are lot more foggy and he/she is not able to see clearly. One needs to see and hear from the soul. It is like once you tune into the frequency of the atman or soul, you have access to every soul in this world. All the souls operate on the same frequency and if you have been able to tap into the frequency of your own, you can have a conversation with all the souls irrespective of their minds. So it is possible that if a person acting with his mind is coming to harm you or others, you can tune into the soul frequency and raise his vibrations to that frequency so that his mind calms down and his senses too and he drops the weapon. It is true that all of us are 'connected' and all of us are branches of the same tree. I could meditate better today focussing on the soul/observer and watching the mind pay attention to the senses and the vibrations falling on the ears and the smell and taste and everything that the mind is able to latch on to. I felt a sense of calmness and 'high'. Knowing that the mind is my friend and I appreciate and am thankful to it for coming back to me. As a dog needs its master, the mind needs the soul. When we bow in front of an altar, I would like to think of bowing as the ego/mind physically being lower than the heart/soul. I would like to think of bowing as the mind bowing to its master and acknowledging the higher Self. Human mind is the only tool for salvation as it has the intellect or viveka and once it is on the same frequency as the soul it can do miracles for us. It can help us get rid of anger, hatred, jealousy, fear, anxiety because all these are the feelings of the mind which manifest in the physical body in some form. The atman which is mind;s best friend and companion can heal the mind and bathe the mind with joy and sattva and make it realize its true nature of being the soul's best devotee and friend.