QnA With Gurudev- Purifying the Mind (Part 2)
A befitting conclusion to yesterday’s QnA session!
If you have a tendency to get angry and want to eliminate that tendency you should first feel sorrowful or repentant about it. Then you will have already conquered the anger to some extent. If you merely suppress it, the potential pent-up anger will come forth at a later date.
But if you are intelligent, you will divert that anger-energy into some profitable activity. You should not succumb to the anger-energy by meekly saying, “It is on account of my Karma.”
Carve out a new canal in your mind with continuous good thought waves. Repeat to yourself: “I love all. I am very, very tolerant.” Go on repeating these self-suggestive thoughts: “I am kind. I never get angry. I am always tolerant.”
Afterwards, in a very short time, you will observe that you have no anger at all in your mental make-up.
So first, you must recognise your mental tendencies (vasanas). Be fully aware of your weaknesses. Man is mind. Personality is the very composition of the mind.
Because of the vasanas of the mind, we live in a state of constant reactions to the outer objects. The quality of one’s experiences depends upon the mind that is brought to the circumstances.
The mind is what it is, only as ordered and set by the various impressions it has gathered in various transactions in life.
Thus, when we have purified and chastened the motives and thoughts in the mind, we have purified the mind.