As Meditation Master Babaji says, “When your mind is wandering, it’s like it’s wandering in an unknown forest aimlessly and doesn’t know the path, where to go, what to do. All that is necessary is just become quiet. Don’t recognize the forest, then the forest disappears.”
This imagination quality that we all have is so strong. We get carried away with a thought, which generates all emotions of happiness, unhappiness, fear, panic, anything. It is like getting lost in a thick, dreaded forest. We get so lost that we even forget we had a home to go back to. The advice is therefore to practice meditation on a daily basis so that all such thoughts and imaginations can be purified from the mind. We learn to just watch, and not get involved in the thought. Thus the thoughts can disappear; such a relief comes when the mind’s suffering is alleviated. That elusive peace can descend.
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