MONKEY MIND

Yogis often refer to the free-floating, changeable nature of the mind as „monkey mind”. A distracted mind creates distracted habits. Commanding the mind and quieting it are considered the keys to yogic discipline and are the direct source of mental health.

Over the years, Yogi Bhajan has repeatedly stressed the need for a clear relationship with the mind. In countless lectures, he referred to one line in the 28th verse of Japji Sahib - Man jeetai jag jeet. This line translates simply: „By conquering the mind, you can conquer the world”.

The mind is given to you to serve you, not to control you. That is why the main message of Yogi Bhajan was to meditate, to recite the stream of sound naad: Shabad-.guru and performing sadhana - so that we can conquer our mind. All the degrees, material achievements and trappings of success will not give you mastery or self-control. Such things come only from mastery of the mind. Mastery of the mind comes from regular spiritual discipline and practice.

My ability to make decisions about my life is my own virtue. My virtue is my chance to relate to the advantages and disadvantages of my life. And the advantages and disadvantages of my life are based on my intuitive sensitivity. My intuition is based on the registration of advantages and disadvantages and opportunities, including my strength. My strength is based on my spirit or my soul, and my soul is my strength and is equal in everything, provided my mind relates to it. My mind relates to it if I have exercised my mind.

The mind was given to the soul at her call when she said: „God, I separate myself from you and go to earth. My love for you is infinite. If I want to know you and see you, feel you and experience you, what can I do? ” At that moment God gave her a mind. The mind is faster than time and space. It is man's supreme instrument. But it has to be trained. And when the mind is trained, it brings you virtues, it brings you consequences from the sequence, it brings you the riches of earth and heaven.

And when the mind is not trained, it brings disease, unhappiness, pain and disgrace. Planet Earth is the place to experience mind training.

„...Nanak, those who acquire reason conquer the heavens and the earth. An untrained mind is the only curse with which man must live. Man jeetay jag jeet. By conquering your own mind, you can conquer the whole world.

Very few people understand the theory of mind. Those who govern their own mind will know consciousness. Those who know consciousness will be known by God, worshipped by God. They are forever in the shield of Divine protection. Those who are ruled by the mind will live in madness and die in disgrace. The mind is your potential friend and the potential power of your Infinity. But when you do not control your mind, it has no choice but to control you. There is no enemy on earth except your own mind and there is no other friend on earth but your own mind.

You either make friends with your mind or you have an enemy in it. If your mind is not trained, you don't need to find bad luck, a bad star or another .inferior enemy . But if your mind is trained, you don't need to seek friendship, virtue or happiness.

The mind is always a known force, because only between man and his mind can a God-soul relationship be established. The soul shines through the virtues and reflection of the mind, and a trained mind always restores virtue to the body and the physical identity of man. In this identity lives the ecstasy and grace of man, in whatever form or shape, and the age and possibilities of time and space one can become. Therefore, nothing matters. Only the mind you control. And this is the courage that has been given to you as a human being.

„It is not life itself that counts. It's the courage you bring to it,” he says. "And courage is about controlling your own mind. With your mind you can see, feel and experience the radiance of your own soul. Through this radiance your radiant body can shine and forever on earth. This is the simplest way to live in peace. And wealth. Here and hereafter. It is open to all who give it a chance. And this life is nothing more than a chance. Those who miss this chance will miss God for a long time. Those who seize the opportunity will find God within themselves forever. That is the purpose of this visit to this planet, to earth.

History has proven that those who saw their soul in their mind and reflected this radiance through their radiant body to all people on earth, despite the fact that they abandoned their physical body, always lived to be remembered and to guide humanity for generations. And those who were guided by their own minds were forgotten even by their native relatives.

When God is kind to you, in his blessing, he can take you to a spiritual teacher, and the spiritual teacher can take you to your own soul, forcing your mind to go through discipline. And when you accept the spiritual teacher, you also accept the very great battle that goes on between your mind and the ego. This is where the ego unexpectedly becomes the blessing, the help, the health of the individual. Although the ego can be the greatest disease, it becomes the greatest advantage when it is used to control the mind.

Yogi Bhajan XII.1985