How to stop mind's inner chatter? || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: 11.02.23, MMMUT Gorakhpur (Online), Greater Noida  Context: ~ How to stop overthinking? ~ How to stop mind's chattering?  ~ How to be more focused in life?  ~ How to not get easily distracted?  ~ Why does the mind wander all the time?  ~ What's the best use of a human life?   Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~ #acharyaprashant #mind #focus

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00:00Good evening, sir. Sir, there are times when I think a lot and I feel caged in my own mind.

00:11My mind constantly keeps chattering and I can't stop it. So, sir, my question is how

00:17to stop the mind's chatter? Thank you, sir.

00:26The mind chatters only about little and inconsequential things. First of all, the matter would be

00:37a petty one. Secondly, irrespective of how long the chatter is, the matter can never be brought to an end.

00:50So, it is inconsequential. The mind loves to engage itself with itself.

01:06The mind loves to roll in its own stuff.

01:14It wants to be a prisoner unto itself.

01:18So, the mind is doing this that just see that one, it's a pair and you have more important stuff to do.

01:30The mind has to be busy with something. You did not give it something important to be busy with.

01:36So, it started playing with itself. That's what has happened.

01:40The mind is a monkey. It needs something to play with. You gave it nothing. It started playing with its own body.

01:52Now, it has its tail in its mouth.

01:55It's happy that it has a toy to play with and it's crying because the game is painful.

02:06That's how the mind behaves, no? Give the monkey something decent to play with.

02:21Is your life settled? Have you reached your end? Have you realized your purpose?

02:28Are you at the end of your journey?

02:31The mind is the instrument that helps you along your way.

02:41If the car has not yet reached its destination, why is it revving so much on neutral?

02:54The mind talking to itself is like a car accelerating on neutral.

03:02What does that do? That takes the car nowhere. Only heats up the engine and burns the fuel.

03:11And that's how most of us burn down our precious life energy, right?

03:18The car standing on neutral and the RPM is 6000.

03:27Lot of noise and lot of heat and no distance covered.

03:36It just appears something is happening. Nothing really happens.

03:44But the car is built to travel.

03:48So, just change the gear and give it a destination and all the internal chatter will just stop.

04:00In neutral, even at 6000 RPM, it was going nowhere.

04:06At 6000 RPM, it was going nowhere.

04:11Pull the right gear and drive it wisely.

04:17And even at 2000 RPM, it will take you places.

04:24The mind will not be overworked and will still deliver useful results.

04:31But when you are talking to yourself, that Atma Samvat, that internal chit-chat,

04:38that continuous conversation with the mirror,

04:47that's just dissipation of life energy.

04:55That's the worst way to exist, to live in your mind.

05:05What's the most dangerous place to live in?

05:14The mind.

05:19Horrible is the condition of those who live in their minds.

05:25And the only way to get out of your mind is by giving the mind a purpose.

05:31Nothing else will work.

05:34That's a law.

05:39All laws apply to Prakriti, nature, right?

05:43Just as you have Newton's laws and other laws, similarly this is a law of the mind, Prakriti, law of nature.

05:52If you don't want the mind to go bonkers playing with itself,

06:00then give it a task.

06:06And don't let the mind ever run out of tasks.

06:12The mind is just energy.

06:15You do not give it a purpose solemn enough, the energy will become destructive.

06:24Just keep the mind constructively involved with something proper and purposeful.

06:31And that will require honesty.

06:35We are lazy people, right?

06:38If the mind is to be given a proper purpose, the mind will work.

06:42But the limbs too will have to work.

06:46The mind cannot just work on its own without hands and eyes and nose and legs working.

06:52And we don't want that to happen.

06:55So we slouch on the couch, doing nothing.

07:01And only the mind is working.

07:05Give the mind a proper purpose, let the entire body, your entire system,

07:10everything in your existence be focused, be channelized towards the right purpose in life.

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