Yogi Fights Day after Day
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Jun 19, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Query: The mind goes on a playback loop of nonsense, and you had said that that was one plane of reality of the mind, and that the idea is to focus the mind on the higher realm. So how do you recommend doing this?
MiBeloved's Response:
It would require limiting the mind’s involvement on lower planes of consciousness. Let us take the example of alcohol. If I go to a bar, then drink alcohol it will lower my vibration. But suppose I become addicted to the liquor, then how will you help me? Then if you tell me that I should not go to the bar I will be unable to follow your advice. This is because of the addiction.
Hence we have certain social associations which occur on planes of consciousnesses where the mind functions erratically and where the mind has the tendency to dwell on what is irrelevant and trivial to our spiritual life.
But still one has to break the habit to get out. An alcoholic has to break the habit. So if you are conditioned to bad association, then you have to work with yourself to get yourself away from it.
The right way is to see that if you associate with low level people, you will be stuck with low level energy and your mind will function in a trashy way as a result. Staying with such people and then going to fight the mind, is the fool’s way of dealing with this.
The alcoholic should find a way to stop going into the bar where liquor is available. He should not think that he can go there and resist or go there and not drink. That is not how the laws of nature work, even though that is an ego stance which will fail.
There was a guy who lives in New York who was having a real trashy kind of life, before I began talking to him about Bhagavad Gita. Now he has changed completely not because of me but only because, he pushed himself away from his previous association and sat down with the Gita. He reads spiritual books daily and fights with his mind to stop it from pursuing association which are spiritually detrimental.
But this is not all that must be done. You also have to have a spiritual practice. We practice yoga asanas with breath infusion on a daily basis. We sit to meditate on a daily basis. We read books on spiritual information on a daily. We stay in touch with each other, particularly through this forum.
It is a constant battle because material nature is dead set to keep us involved in social trivia. But if we are concerned about ourselves, we have to fight this day after day.
