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The Technique “Just Watch” Explained
The mind must become single-pointed to merge and become one with the Self again. For this to occur, it has to become silent. If you steadily focus (your sight), the mind will automatically become quiet. When you are completely focused, you don’t see anything at all, you are just watching. Just watching is achieved by meditation. You must make the effort and have patience; after that, it is an automatic Divine activity.
So this is the idea of asking you to just watch “Just Watch.”
So now, eyeballs move parallelly, they don’t come into one direction easily. So that’s why we tell, remain relaxed, don’t get confused trying to locate this point. That’s when you are running and it’s running, you’re running and you lose anything else, control over that one, you get confused. Instead of that, just watch. Even if both are at a distance, not coming immediately into the central point, no problem.
First steady the eyeballs so that its movement stops for a while. That is more important. When it stops, it holds the mind also there, stops the mind there. And once mind also starts stopping, then it starts coming into one direction, both of them. So, this takes time and requires enormous patience of yours. That patience is what is known as meditation. That patience is what is known as tapas. Your ability to keep quiet. Then it comes slowly, comes.
So, like when the eyeballs are in a distance, the vision also is in a distance for you. As they start coming closer, the vision starts coming closer and closer. Sometimes I have mentioned, when a road is mentioned as painted or drawn, this point where it comes, a vanishing point it is known as. After that you don’t get to see the road further. So as long as your vision goes, you can see this is known as the vanishing point. We were told by our teachers sometimes, that’s what I remember. So, like that, that vision is there but as your eyeballs are coming, that starts coming closer. This vanishing point comes closer, closer, that means your mind also is coming closer. So, when you gain the ability that you are able to hold on to that, in this meanwhile, millions of thoughts come to disturb you enough. So, the moment you recognize the thought as a good or a bad, a happy or unhappy, you do the first mistake and then you end up analyzing and making a judgment and you are gone.
So, you miss the eyeballs and the mind goes somewhere else and suddenly you will regain, “Oh I was supposed to be meditating here, where am I going, what am I doing?” that type of thing happens. So that’s what first instance itself you have to avoid. In the advertisements about drugs and drug addicts they tell, “Say no first time, second time say no, third time say no, at all times say no, never even try to taste it for a while, you are gone, you can get carried away.” This is such an intoxicating… analyzing the thoughts, recognizing the thoughts, knowing this world and trying to analyze can be very intoxicating. Once you get involved, you don’t like to give it up. So that’s what happens. So that’s what you have to maintain, quietness, your ability to keep quiet, then it comes, comes. When it comes closer, then that means it is purified. Then it starts merging with the Self. So, until it comes here is your effort. You put in effort. You require the patience. After that, it is automatic Divine activity. Just like, until you press the accelerator, start the engine and press the accelerator, it is your effort. Once you press, the vehicle moving is automatic, that type. So, then merging, merger happens.
So, this stage is that you meditate and rise to the level of tapas and patience. During this time enormous tests happen to test your ability to remain patient. This patience you practice when, in the services of the Master you are able to bear with humiliations and you don’t exercise any ego, don’t bother to analyze anything; “Why the Master has asked me to do this thing”. You are happy even if you have to be dusting and mopping, you never think “Is this all I have to do?” So, this is what is needed to do so that you could lose ego – we were discussing in the morning also. So, this is the important factor if everybody can understand, then the actual technological meditation progresses, smoothly happens, then results come, the peace descends. So, this is what has to happen.