Power Of Attention

Learn how to understand your mind and control your attention. Through this lecture Shri Mataji give the pure knowledge of human attention and how you can strengthen your attention. Learn the knowledge of your intellect, mind, emotions and attention.

Transcript

We should really try to find out with our introspection,

Are we our guru or not?

Because before this your mind was on one side and your heart was on another side and your attention was in another dimension.

So these three things were creating confusion within you.

If you understand a human being then you will be surprised to see how these three things act separately in a human being and sometimes they fight also.

First is your intellect and your mind,

Second is your heart,

Your feelings,

Your emotions and the third one is your attention.

In these modern times this confusion is the worst because all the time your attention is outside.

It could be towards beautiful things or beautiful women or beautiful men or all kinds of nonsensical way of wasting your energy.

Such attention then is absolutely like a horse which is let loose.

You cannot control such an attention and this attention runs wild from one to another.

In a fashion also,

A sort of a very popular thing to keep the attention moving all the time.

But this attention that has to be towards the Divine,

Towards the Almighty is just being frittered away.

Because attention doesn't grow its own roots.

First is to find out about yourself,

Where does your attention go,

What makes you feel like looking after or concerned or attention.

See the attention comes from various problems and could be your upbringing where you are not controlled,

Could be your education,

Could be your atmosphere in which you live or could be your own ego or your conditioning.

So this attention is being attacked by all these outside energies or negative forces and it gets entangled,

Like a river flowing straight into the ocean can get lost in a barren place.

In the same way this attention which has to go towards the Divine gets frittered away and is punished.

This weak attention cannot take you towards the Divine.

So you find that all this attention is being completely absorbed or frittered away by the nonsense that's going on.

Unfortunately or fortunately you are born in these modern times and in these modern times,

As you know,

It's a very chaotic condition.

In these chaotic conditions you don't know what is right and what is wrong and there are all kinds of attractions which can take away your attention and reduce the energy of your attention.

It is possible more for the people who are very right sided.

All the left sided people can be very much affected.

Right sided people,

As you know,

Go up to a point and become extremely dry,

Self-opiniated and aggressive.

All their attention is in aggression while the people who are on the left side are indulging too much into their own whims and their desires and their own temptations.

Both sides can fritter away your attention which is the most important thing.

It is the most valuable thing is your attention.

But the attention cannot be controlled by a person who doesn't have a weak mind or a weak heart.

Now supposing you take somebody who is a very intelligent person.

The intelligent person puts all his attention in capturing the attention of others.

I don't know why but it's a kind of a paradox.

The person who himself is having such a lot of aggressiveness and all that tries to be very sweet,

Tries to be very nice with people just to keep good relations or we can say the good behavior towards people so that they pay attention to that person.

This is a very subtle thing.

They are not even aware about it that we do such a thing just to make others pay attention to us.

That is how we have seen that in these modern times so many stupid things people do just to attract the attention of others.

Most of the facts that had come up in modern times are just to make something stupid so that people should pay attention to them.

Of course the Sahaja Yogis are not like that but I'm just pointing it out how in the modern times you have to be very careful that you should not try to attract the attention of others.

Instead of that what you have to do is to pay attention to others in a very subtle way not with any expectation that if you are paying attention to somebody that person should pay attention to you.

A person who is really in connection with the Divine is least bothered about how people pay attention to that person but automatically the attention of such a person is on others which is very,

Very subtle,

Very subtle.

You cannot make out that the attention of such a person is on you but it works and it works beautifully so then when we come to our heart.

In the heart resides the Spirit as you know very well.

Now when it is the heart which has to work over your brain and which can work what becomes of you is nothing but you become a source of love and compassion,

A source I'm saying.

You do not assert on others,

You do not say that I've done so much for you and what are you doing to Me,

What is this that I should have so much expressed in so many ways and here you are,

You are forgetting Me and not doing anything for Me.

So the expectation of reward,

If it is there then you must know it's your mind which is giving you these ideas and is working it out that way that you just now put attention to the amount of love the other person has given you for whatever you have given to another person.

It's very subtle.

So in Sahaja Yoga you should see now yourself as just a source of love which is just flowing.

In that you do not say that you have to have this or that or you have to achieve this goal or you have to become that.

It's finished now.

Once you have become the source then how can you become something?

The thing is those who are receiving from the source want to have some sort of a reward or some sort of a recognition.

In this subtle way if you move your mind is very clever.

In Sahaja Yoga we have very clever intelligent people but this mind you have to be very careful because this mind can cheat you.

So ask your mind why are you in Sahaja Yoga?

What is the purpose of your Sahaja Yoga?

Gradually this mind will shut up and then you have to ask yourself that what is my own desire now?

What do I want?

What do I want to achieve why I am in Sahaja Yoga?

If you ask this question you will see you'll just dissolve,

You'll become thoughtless.