How to deal with stray thoughts that flood our minds when we try to meditate? Bhagawan explains and encourages us today.
When you are engaged in repetition of the name and meditation, other thoughts might enter at first, but you shouldn’t worry about this. There is no great danger on account of them. When you begin remembering the name of God (namasmarana), sit down with enthusiasm. If you enter upon any task with firm determination, no impurity can affect you. Your only concern is to see that you are fully pure when you start repetition of the name. Do not worry about formalities for this. Select the name that you like and the form of that name. That name is itself the mantra. That mantra is ever pure, ever active, everything. But do not change the name and form to suit your fancy and have one thing one day and another the next. Whatever the name and form that first gave you contentment, hold fast to them without swerving. They will get implanted in the heart, without fail. Afterwards, everything will happen through His grace!
– Dhyana Vahini, Ch 8.
