In the rubber plantations, planters take recourse
to the method of thinning out the rubber trees by cutting the small surplus
trees which stand in the vicinity of big trees. By so doing they can tap more
milk (rubber juice) from the big trees. Even so, you must thin out the thoughts
by destroying them one by one in order to drink the ambrosial milk or nectar of
immortality.
Just as you retain only the good fruits from the
basket and discard the bad ones, so also, keep good thoughts in your mind and
reject evil ones.
Just as the warrior chops off the heads of enemies,
one by one, when they come out of a fortress through a trap door, so also, chop
off the thoughts, one by one, when they emerge out through the trap door to the
surface of the mind.
When the tail of a lizard is cut, the cut end will
flutter about for sometime as there is still a little residual Prana in the
tail. After one or two minutes all motion will cease. Even so, even after
thinning and reducing the thoughts, some thoughts will move about like the tail
of the lizard. But they are powerless. They cannot do any serious harm. There
is no vitality in them.
Just as the drowning man tries to catch anything to
save himself, so also, these lifeless thoughts try their level best to come
back to their previous state of life and vigour. If you go on regularly with
your daily practice of concentration and meditation, they will die by
themselves like a gheeless lamp.
Passion, egoism, jealousy, pride and hatred are
very deep-rooted. If you cut the branches of a tree, they grow again after
sometime. Even so, these thoughts that are suppressed or thinned out for
sometime, manifest again after sometime. They should be completely rooted out
by strenuous efforts, Vichara, meditation, etc.
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