Kalpavriksh You are sitting under the a - Isha Foundation

ETERNAL SOLUTIONS JAN 2008

Insight Enlightenment

You are sitting under the

Kalpavriksha

?

By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Human mind is like

a Kalpavriksha or a

wishing tree.

Whatever you ask

for becomes a

reality. And

developing the

mind like a

Kalpavriksha is in

your hands

will be the basis of how and what

direction our life flows. If one looks

at this carefully, for most human

beings 90 per cent of their thought

process happens haphazardly, without

any particular purpose or focus. When

the mind is happening in such a

haphazard and unfocused way,

naturally life will also happen in the

same way, because what you see as

life, what you see as the world around

you is just a magnified impact of

human mind. The human societies are

just magnified manifestation of what's

happening in the human mind. We

talk about big issues like peaceful

world and beautiful world when there

is no peaceful mind and beautiful

mind. Unless we make this happen

within ourselves, manifesting this on

the outside will not happen.

Using the power of the mind or

manifesting the power of the mind is

traditionally called chit shakthi. Today,

modern science is proving that the

whole existence is just a reverberation

of energy. What you call a thought is

also a reverberation. If you create or

generate a powerful thought and let it

out, it always comes true. The

problem right now is there are so

many contradictory thoughts which

are killing each other or fighting with

each other within one's own mind that

manifesting what you want seem to be

so difficult.

accidentally walked into paradise.

After the long walk he felt a little

tired. He thought, "I wish I could rest

somewhere." He saw a nice beautiful

tree beneath which there was

wonderful soft grass. So he went and

slept on the grass for a few hours. He

woke up well rested. Then he thought,

"Oh! I'm hungry. I wish I had

something to eat." He thought of all

the nice things he ever wanted to eat

Manifesting and

creating what we want

in our lives is

fundamentally and

essentially dependent

on how our mind and

emotions are focused.

Control of chit shakthi

T

he fundamental aspect of

creating our lives the way we

want is to direct our thoughts

and feelings towards that which we

want our lives to shape and blossom

into. The essential part here is to use

the power of the mind to make it

happen.

Manifesting and creating what we

want in our lives is fundamentally and

essentially dependent on how our

mind and emotions are focused.

Accordingly, they flower and blossom.

This power of the mind needs to be

developed so that everything in you is

naturally driven towards it because the

way you think is the way you feel, the

way you feel is the way you act, and

the way you act is in which direction

your life will naturally go. So the

power of the mind which is the basis

of almost everything that human

beings have created on this planet has

to be harnessed.

Inner and outer peace

Almost everything that is humanly

made on this planet was first created

in human mind. So how we organise

and focus our minds within ourselves

The reason why for one person

success comes so easy and naturally,

while for another it's a struggle¡ªthat

one person thinks the way he wants to

and another thinks against himself. So

by using the chit shakthi or the power

of mind, one can manifest and create

what he wants in his life. There is a

beautiful story in the yogic lore.

A man went for a walk and

Darwin? He said that all human

beings are actually monkeys; our tails

fell off and we became humans.

Though the tails fell off long time

ago, the monkey-nature comes back

with the slightest provocation.

Markata or the monkey

In yoga, human mind is referred to as

markata or the monkey. We are

referring the mind as a monkey

because of its wandering nature. The

word monkey has also become

synonymous with imitation. If you say

you are monkeying somebody, it

means imitating someone. It's a full

time job of your mind.

So an unestablished mind is

referred to as a monkey. When this

monkey became active in the person

who went to paradise, he thought,

"what the hell is happening here? I

asked for food, food came. I asked for

drink, drink came. Maybe there are

ghosts around." He looked and there

were ghosts. The moment he saw

them he got terrified, he said, "oh

there are ghosts around here, maybe

they will torture me." And the ghost

started torturing him, and he started

screaming and yelling in pain. He said,

"oh these ghosts are torturing me,

they're going to kill me." And he died.

The problem was he was sitting under

. a wishing tree or a Kalpavriksha.

Whatever he asked for became a

reality.

You are also constantly sitting

under a Kalpavriksha.

and all of them just appeared in front

of him. After the sumptuous food, he

thought, "oh! I'm thirsty; I wish I had

something to drink." He thought of

all the drinks that he ever wanted to

drink and all of them appeared in

front of him. After he drank some

alcohol, he went back to his original

nature. Do you remember Charles

A well-established human mind is

referred to as a Kalpavriksha or a

wishing tree. In this mind, whatever

you ask for becomes a reality. You

need to develop the mind to a point

where it becomes a Kalpavriksha, not a

source of madness.

The writer is the founder of lsha Foundation

and an enlightened yoga master.

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