How can one get rid off the clatter (noise, turmoil) in the mind ?

A question has come, that how can one get rid off the clatter (noise, turmoil) in the mind ?

It is a very simple point. The noise that is taking place in the mind, is known by you. Those things that are known by you, seen by you, are not your Self (swaroop). Just like we are seeing this house, then, have we become the house? If I saw a stone, then have I become the stone? The seen and the seer are undoubtedly separate. The one who recognizes the noise is the Self. The Self senses the noise, then what is the problem? what is the issue? what is the obstacle?

We have seen a stone, it has become red hot, so what has it got to do with us? If it is ice cold, then too, what has it got to do with us?

This intention, this resolve that this noise should not remain, that is the reason for the noise; because it is due to this intention, this resolve, that we have identified with the noise. When you say, let there be no noise in your mind, then definitely there will be noise. We have to server all relations with the mind. In reality, there is no relationship with the mind. It is simply an assumed relationship. You have accepted the mind as your own, you have accepted the noise to be in you. Noise arises, and then it subsides, resolves are created and later broken, but you (self) are the same. Is there any doubt about this ? Whether these are wiped out or not, you simply leave them. Don’t blend with them. Don’t become pleased or displeased due to them. Even by becoming pleased is blending with them, and even by becoming displeased it is blending with them. This is a very good spiritual practice. Simply do not become either pleased or displeased.

Just like when the sun hits down hard, you naturally move away from the heat of the sun to the shade. Neither oppose the heat, nor become elated with the shade. Not becoming dejected or elated about anything is the main work of an aspirant.

Whatever path an aspirant follows, whether it be Path of Knowledge (Jnana yog), Path of Action (Karma yog) or Path of Devotion (Bhakti yog), or practicing any other spiritual path, it everyone’s duty that in situations that arise, he does not become happy or sad. This applies to all, not just the yogis. It is essential for he who wants to realize God.

However beautiful or ugly a thing is, however favorable or unfavorable a situation is, he who does not become pleased or displeased, attains God. And he who becomes pleased and displeased, remains caught in the cycle of birth and death.

Favorable and unfavorable situations will come to all. God, who was the charioteer of Arjuna says to him – Brother! These are – “Shitoshna dukhdukhadaah” You bear these situations. “Taastitikkshavya” (Gita 2:14). Sri Krishna did not say, I will get rid of them. He said to bare these patiently.

From “Sansaar kaa asar kaise chute?” in Hindi by Swami Ramsukhdasji.Ram Ram