| Discourses On Gita By Acharya Vinoba Bhave |
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| Discourses On Gita |
| CONTROLLING THE MIND |
How to achieve one-pointedness8. One-pointedness is, of course, necessary, but how does one come by it? What should one do in order to get it? The Lord says one should fix the mind in the Self and "think of nothing else" (na kinchidapi chintayet).But then, how is this to be done? To make
the mind perfectly calm is a great thing. Unless one stops with
force the revolving wheel of thoughts, how can one attain one-pointedness?
Even if the outer wheel is somehow stopped, the inner wheel will go
on revolving. As we use more and more external means to concentrate
the mind, the inner wheels revolve all the faster. You may cross
your legs, sit straight, and fix your gaze. But the mind won't
become one-pointed because of this. The important thing is to be
able to still the wheels of the mind. 9. The fact of the matter is, concentration is impossible, unless we keep within banks the samsara which fills and overflows our minds and the outer world. We should not, as we, do now, expend the soul's boundless power of knowledge on trivial external objects. Just as the man who has made his wealth not by robbing others, but by hard work, would not squander it, even so, we should not waste our power of knowledge by thinking of trivial things. |
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