07 Feb 2005
The very nature of the mind is to waver. The Lord created the mind with such a nature. You cannot change the nature of mind because the Lord created both the mind and its nature. How can you change the creation of the Lord? The Lord must have created the mind with such a wavering nature for some good purpose. You do not understand that purpose and therefore you are making a futile attempt to change its nature. You must divert your mind from the world to the Lord. The mind is always moving from one point to the other point in the world.
Even when you divert the mind to the Jnana Yoga (knowledge) of the Lord, the mind still wavers from one point to the other point. The Lord has several divine qualities. To understand His greatness, to understand the real path and to understand your self, the mind must be diverted from one point to the other point. Therefore the nature of the mind suits the study of Jnana Yoga, which is the base for devotion (Bhakti) and from Bhakti, service (Karma Yoga) results, which finally brings the grace of the Lord. Therefore your effort must be to divert the mind from the world to the divine knowledge. Both the world and divine knowledge consist of various points and both these suit the nature of the mind. You must withdraw the mind from the world and repeatedly try to divert it to the knowledge of the Lord. The Gita says the same (Abhyaasenatu…). In such a case you will succeed in the spiritual path. But if you try to change the nature of the mind you will strain yourself unnecessarily and finally fail. Try to use the same nature of the mind in your spiritual effort. Every item in this world is good because the Lord created it only to help your spiritual effort. All the bad qualities like Kama, Krodha, Lobha etc., can be diverted towards the Lord and they can be used to attain the grace of the Lord. Anything becomes bad only when you use it for the world.