The mind often misdirects our energy. It makes us crave for
trivial things or makes us worry about things that haven’t materialized and may
never materialize.
That’s why if we hear the mind, we will reduce ourselves to
incompetence and incoherence. Worse still, the mind after getting us into
unnecessary trouble by suggesting sinful indulgences as the quickfix solution
to the troubles.
If we are not to be misled by the mind, we can’t afford to
trustingly hear the mind – we need to mind what we hear. That is, we need to
discerningly evaluate whatever inner voice comes to us and act as per our
higher intelligence. The Bhagavad-gita (06.05) urges us to elevate ourselves
with the mind and not to degrade ourselves.
To boost our higher intelligence, Gita wisdom offers us a
readymade, reliable reference point.
We can compare what we are prompted to do internally with
what we have learnt from scripture externally.
During military communication, the authenticity of the
source of a message is evaluated by checking whether the message conforms to
certain norms – to speak certain passwords, to convey messages that are in
accordance with the nation’s broad interests, for example. A trained commander
can identify that hostile forces have taken over the military communication
system when the messages coming through it are against national interests.
Similarly, a trained spiritual warrior can identify that the forces of illusion
acting through the mind have sabotaged the inner voice system when the
suggestions coming from it are anti-spiritual.
The more we study scripture and tune ourselves to hear the
voice of God coming through scripture, the more we are able to identify his
voice and to also expose whatever is not his voice. Thus, we can make healthy
choices and march towards all-round success in life.
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