Is my mind my best friend?
My question arises from the Karma Yoga July 22 session.
My experience of my mind is that it is not reliable. It does not seem to be a sound predictor of seeing the reality of any situation. It seems to lack the intellect's ability to discriminate. The mind is limited to moving between perspectives. It cannot determine what is true and what is not
For me, the mind is the servant. The mind is the servant, not the master. As the master, I, the Self, the witness, can choose when to pay attention to the mind and when not to. My mind is not the final arbiter in any situation.
Experiencing this, I am free of the movements of the mind because the proper relationship has been established. And when the mind knows that the master is displeased with the servant, it always returns to the master!
Jai Maa, Thank you for sharing these contemplations on the mind. There is another description of the mind through the Shiva & Shakti stories that Acharya Shunya shared in the recent Kula meet. There, she used the narrative of Shakti's decision to search for God, to illustrate how the mind becomes what it is thinking of / meditating on and how we can wield the mind as an intelligent instrument. What I appreciated about this story is that it gently and accessibly reminded us how a mind focused on G.O.D. cracks open access to the divine. Here's the Kula Session link, and the section on the mind starts around 40 minutes in: https://youtu.be/6YGID5hVVis?si=jvDhSvKRoMu-GmvA