Soumya

All your problems are in the mind. What happens if you experiment and start watching your mind? This is how you create a gap between the watcher, you and the ongoing thoughts. The problems are in the form of thoughts. Everything in the world, even your personal limited existence is a thought. Be still and know yourself.

Don’t be troubled by how much wrong is the world. If you yourself become right, atleast something will change. Otherwise, nothing changes. We see the world as problematic and reject it. Suffering remains. But think about this, we never signed a deal with God saying the world is going to be perfect. It's only our unwarranted assumption, a childlike expectation that there should only be good in the world. Look around there isn't. Most people have no clarity, they can't listen quietly. And they shouldn't. Why because expecting a perfect world is a problematic thing to begin with. It's not a perfect world and that's okay. You let the world be and you look at just yourself. That's the way. What you can do is be right yourself, through your own actions, by focusing on yourself rather than on the deeds of others. If we keep blaming others, there's only dissatisfaction and suffering because negativity has no end. So let others be. Don’t blame them for who they are. Look at yourself and improve yourself. That's how anything changes. Don’t let negativity or blame carry you. Be intentional, and concern yourself only with your own actions. You can't control others any way. Once we turn within this way and look at our own personality and its actions, we feel true inner freedom and power to bring a positive change in ourselves.

Don't think how the world should be. Don't think about how people should be. Don't assume you know what's best for them. Let the world be. Just do your duties. See how you can work and play your own role consciously in full awareness. That's it. This frees us from so much burden that we assume and put on ourselves. Never expect people should act in certain way, it's not our business. It's not in our control in any way. Give up controlling the world. Just focus on your own actions. What's really my business is just my actions. How can I act most mindfully and in total happiness, consciousness and freedom. That's my only concern and my only care. Once I understand this, there's no way expectations can stay in my mind. Just playing our own role with mindful attention is the key to happiness and seeing reality as it is.

Be relaxed here, now. Let this guided meditation take you to a point of stillness and absolute self-acceptance. Because once you accept yourself, you accept the world. Absence of all kinds of inner rejection is bliss, this is being one with reality. youtu.be/SZOJJe01muY?si=G2Mp…

Doing is the realm of the mind. All activity, all movement, all thoughts is mind. Reaching and non-reaching to truth is the mind. Touch that which never moved. That's you.

All your preferences reside in the mind. When you fall asleep, there's no mind, that's your real state. No preferences, no likes or dislikes. You are already here. There's no distance. Just realise you are not the movement of the mind. You are never any thought. Thoughts are not yours. Thoughts have nothing to do with you. You don't have to do anything. Know thoughts are here and you yourself see you are not them.

Action and reaction both happen in the mind. If you know you are not this mind, what can bother you?

You can never be lost in thoughts, but it can seem so when the mind tells you exactly that. See what the mind is telling you right now and don't react to it. You'll see you are not the mind.

Look within and see - what kind of thought is here? Pay attention to them and find you are not creating the thoughts. You are not a thinker. Thoughts can be anything but it can never be you.

The idea is not to reject opinions, but to see clearly who has opinions. It’s only the mind that has opinions. You, the silent watcher, can't have any opinions. You are never the doer.

When the mind is brought to the present moment, that's mindfulness. See through your eyes, your surroundings. Look at everything around you. Don't rush. Slow down. Be where you are fully. Stop for this moment. Be here. Pay attention to attention. Wherever your attention goes, be with it. Internally. ^This part is important. Thoughts arise, let them. You slow down and pay attention to thoughts. When the thoughts, mind is seen, nothing gets rejected. As attention is on the present, you are paying attention to the things of the present, you are free - because you are a witness to thoughts. Know thoughts are here. Don't do anything. Just stop within. You'll see you are not thoughts. You are here as a silent watcher to thoughts. Listen to the thought that is here. Don't react, just know a thought is here that says something, just watch within. Slowing down and seeing your mind with attention is how you know you are ever free witness to thoughts. No matter what thoughts say, it doesn't affect you because you don't exist in the realm of thoughts. You are a witness. You have nothing to do with the thoughts that come in your awareness/attention. That's a fact. When you see this, you are free. The only bondage is identification with thoughts - assuming that "I think." No, you don't think. Thoughts happen. You know thoughts happen automatically. You know thoughts are here. You watch the whole thing. You are a witness.

Swami Vivekananda on witnessing the mind “Before we can control the mind we must study it, seizing the unstable mind, dragging it from wanderings, and fixing it on one idea through the power of will to reflect upon the glory of God. The easiest way to get hold of the mind is to sit quiet and let it drift where it will for a while. Hold fast to the idea, "I am the witness watching my mind drifting. The mind is not I." Then see it think as if it were a thing entirely apart from yourself. You can picture the mind as a calm lake with thoughts as bubbles on its surface, watching them float away to gradually narrow the mind's circles until it can be fixed on one point. By holding to the idea of being the watcher rather than the mind itself, you can eventually separate yourself from it and make it your servant." ~ Fourth Lesson in Six Lessons on Raja-Yoga -- "If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal. The mind may go on working after that; but it will never be the same mind again. You will know yourself as you are - your true Self. Still the mind but for one moment, and the truth of your real nature will flash upon you, and freedom is at hand: no more bondage after that." ~ Notes Of Class Talks And Lectures/On Proof Of Religion

Stop becoming anything in your mind. Listen to the mind saying things. Listen, do nothing about it. Observe the mind no matter how much it pulls you into stories. You simply watch the mind. That's it.

"No mind" means you are untouched by everything that the mind says. Thoughts are here. You know they are here. This "voice in the head" is seen and noticed. Do nothing about it. React not. Simply stop.

The more you learn to stop inside in thoughts and emotions, the greater inner bliss and peace you experience.

Once you stop completely and look at your inner world. You find thoughts running. You learn to let it be. That's it. Stopping is the discovery of peace ever here.

See the eternal. Yourself. Ignore the sensory perceptions. This life is a fleeting movie. What you see here, now is God. Everything. Don't misperceive it as the world. There's nothing but one reality. The dream's basis is the one reality. See that reality. Not the dream.

The day you truly realise that the body dies, you will live in unwavering, unconditional surrender.

Nothing of this world stays. But you do, the essence of you, God is always as is. Be blind to the movie called the world-life. See what's eternally here. Love that. Abide in that. It's here as you, yourself. You can't find yourself. You are always yourself.