The Mind Is Trouble
Excerpt from Wake Up and Roar
Satsang with H.W.L. Poonja
Sitting, standing, running — it doesn’t make any difference. This has nothing to do with meditation. People who are crippled sit all the time. They are not meditating. And someone who is “meditating,” whose mind is running toward sense objects, is not meditating.
The fishing cranes are silent and concentrated and standing on one leg — what sadhana — but they are finding fish! So it depends on the mind, and the mind will trouble you even while sitting, standing, sleeping. It will trouble you. You will worry that a cobra might be coming, that a tiger is coming. It will give you fear. Mind is trouble. Day and night, it is never at rest. Even at night it is mostly dreaming. Very few moments of real rest.
Even samadhi of yoga or practice is only another state. One day a yogi went to the king. He told the king that he would go into samadhi for forty days. For forty days he would not eat, speak, or even breathe. The kind said, “If you can do this, I will give you a horse.” This is what the yogi wanted, so he went into samadhi.
After forty days he did not come out. Years went by and the yogi stayed in deep samadhi. The king eventually died; the horse died. Still the yogi stayed in samadhi. The king’s son was now on the throne, years later, and the yogi opened his eyes. He looked around and said, “I want my horse.”
This is only mind.