Vikshepa ~ Scattering Tendency

During an early morning meditation (Dec 20, 2016), Srila Yogeshwarananda utters this word in my mind:

Vikshepa (विक्षेप) – random disorder

That sums up the general behavior of the mind during meditation sessions. In fact while most meditators pretend that the meditation session is ordered and is as desired, the fact remains that the mind’s default behavior tends toward to chaos. It is scattered here and there in itself chasing one thought-idea after another in a random sequence.

On this morning before I knew it, the mind drummed up much chaos, not even disorganized or undesirable ideas, just scattered energy which remained incoherent, like fireflies flashing in the night without any set order, randomly moving here and there. I as the core-self followed these signals with intention of making sense out of something which was senseless.

Many people feel that there should be or that there is some order in this creation, either because God, as they position him, is a being of order, or that this creation must have some purpose to it.

Nothing has to have any order or function to exist. Existence is causeless. Its power is in existing not in being part of order, not in being created by this or that agency. Besides even if there is such an order or agency, the origins in that energy, or in the Supreme Person, cannot be subject to the judgement of something or someone who emerged billions of years after.

Yes, the mind is disordered, it is scattered by default.

Vikshepa!

What to do in meditation to bring it to fore?

First one has to realize that its innate nature is scatteration (vikshepa).