Page 37 - Liberal Exposition of Pranahuti Aided Meditation

CONTROL OF MIND
In any meditation that we do, we are confronting our own mind, our own manas. The sensory input will always be there and we are accustomed to give attention to it and that is why even during meditation we are giving attention to it. So which are the things that we will be normally having as thoughts or experiences during meditation? If you put this question, you will have
1. The sensory inputs
2. The mental constructs of sensual inputs
3. You will have something to do with restlessness
4. You will have a tendency to sloth or indolence or sluggishness
5. Doubt, whether with all these things you can still achieve it or
not.
These are the various forms of thoughts, feelings that you will have during meditation. In order to understand it better we should also understand what the nature of mind itself is. What are the conditions in which the mind is there? The mind is -
- Kshipta i.e. disturbed
- Moodha i.e. it is almost sluggish / indolent;
- Vikshipta i.e. instead of thinking about the object that you
want to think about, but something else. Then you have got,
- Samadhan, the state of mind where you have got fairly a balanced condition. And the last one would be
- Nirodh, when you do not have anything else to do.
These are all the various characteristics of our mind. These are the basic characteristics of mind. Any mind, whosoever it is, at any point of time will be governed by this, whether it is a Vikshipta or it is a Moodha or a Kshipta, or a nirodh or samadhan.