Understanding your mind is a tough task

Whenever there is love, the mind dies and this is painful. That is why love always brings pain with it. You often find people who love each other fighting, and you really don’t understand why they should fight when there is so much love. 

The mind has a peculiar nature. It desires something, and when it acquires or achieves it, it no longer finds it interesting. It drops it, and moves away from it, because it can’t stand being totally in the present. It dissolves. And if it doesn’t achieve what it wants, it gets frustrated. Then too, there is a rejection, a rebellion in the mind.

If you are peaceful, your surroundings become peaceful; your situation becomes peaceful and people around you become peaceful. Wherever you go, you carry your own mind.

In every relationship, you will find that people are demanding more. And even if they give, they give thinking they should receive much more than what they have given. Everything that we do is in order to get love, attention recognition or something. 

A semiconscious mind is the mother of desires. If it is unconscious, no desire comes. And when the mind is fully awake, then also there is no desire because everything is already acquired. 

It is not that if desires arise, they should be stopped. When they are there, they are there. When desires arise, you should become more conscious and be aware of your nature. 

It is very easy for the mind to either like or dislike something, or swing between these two extremes. The mind exists by doing this. It cannot exist without these opposites; without the duality, without the swing. The mind is attached to some ideals and resolutions. ‘I must do this, I want to be like that,’ and then one finds it very difficult to follow those ideals. 

Wonder is where there is no concept, no mind. One slips very easily from wonder to concepts. It is such a thin balancing line! Wonder about the concepts of likes or dislikes. In wonder, there is no wanting or not wanting. Wonder is a wonder! In wonder there are no likes or dislikes. 

See how calm, collected, cool and aware your mind is when these desires drop. See how clear and focused you are. Many people have never experienced such focus, such clarity at all in their lives! Look and wonder about these samskāras (impressions) in you. At that very moment they dissolve and you rise above them.