Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

one bad mind which keeps wandering off and one good mind which tries to bring back
the bad mind? No, there is only one mind and you should not create a split by
antagonizing the mind. If you do this, one part of the mind becomes the dictator and
controller and the other part becomes the victim. Then you'll develop a great gap between
two aspects of your mind and personality and within a very short time you'll become
totally schizophrenic.
It is necessary to understand this point very well, because our religions, philosophies
and ways of thinking have not been very systematic, loving and tender in their approach
to the mind. We have always been led to believe that the mind is very mischievous, but
this is a grave mistake. Therefore, please try to redefine the mind and approach it
scientifically.
Mind is not a psychological stuff, nor is it a thought process. Mind is energy. Anger,
passion, greed, ambition, etc. are waves of that energy. Through kriya yoga you are
trying to harness the energies of the mind, but you should not try to suppress this energy
because it will explode. And the more you suppress this energy the greater will be the
ultimate explosion.
Kriya yoga is very clear in its approach to the mind. It emphasizes that you do not try
to do anything with the mind. If your body protests about maintaining a fixed posture,
change it. If your mind objects about closing the eyes, keep them open. But you must
continue with the kriya yoga practices because they have a direct effect on the deeper
processes of the body which are responsible for the state of your mind. Remember that
the body affects the mind and the mind affects the body.
We should not consider the techniques of kriya yoga as practices of concentration or
meditation as their aim is not mental control. The beauty of kriya yoga is that you have
only to remain relaxed and let the mind move naturally and spontaneously. Inner
awareness will then awaken, and in time, your mind will automatically become onepointed.
A path for all
As you know, we are all aspirants of a different caliber. Some of us are tamasic, some
are rajasic and a very small number are sattvic. Of course we are not purely sattvic,
rajasic or tamasic. Predominantly we are one of these, but we retain traces of the other
two gunas. The tamasic mind has traces of rajo guna, and as it evolves, it retains traces of
tamas, but it is now predominantly rajasic. It also develops traces of sattva. As it evolves
further, it becomes more rajasic and may or may not have traces of tamas and sattva.
Next, it becomes predominantly sattvic, with traces of rajo and tamo gunas here and
there. And then in its fifth stage of evolution, the mind becomes totally sattvic,
manifesting rajo and tamo gunas very rarely.
These five stages are like rungs on a ladder, representing the evolution of chitta or the
mind. The lowest rung is known as the inert mind. The second rung is the scattered mind,