How to devotee the Mind
In the Bhagavad Gita - the Bible of the Hindus - human life is depicted, metaphorically and with eloquence, as a battle between the human mind and the Eternal Soul. The Gita is set on a battlefield and describes a historical, as well as mystical, event. This event unquestionably took place at Kurukshetra, near present-day New Delhi. The metaphor for the battlefield at Kurukshetra is a battle inside the body between biological and spiritual soldiery - and the Soul's constant struggle to attain self-realization whilst in the human body. Whilst the Gita's depiction of human struggle from bondage is very creative in its metaphors, it is also very practical, by offering spiritual guidance and strategies for the Eternal Soul to win the battle and derive the lost kingdom of joy, eternal peace and relaxation from human bondage.
How to devotee the Mind
Human beings, by design, are simply endowed with a mind that helps make sense of the world and allows the Soul to taste itself in the world of matter and duality. The mind controls and governs the five major senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Hence, the mind is the King of the senses. Just like a king needs to reign over his domain to construct supremacy, in similar metaphorical manner, the mind is preoccupied with gratifying the five senses in the daily taste of life. The key to attractive beyond these bodily limitations is found in following the breath. The mind might be king of the five senses, but the breath is the conqueror of the mind.
Even the aged yogis discovered that the path to Self-Realisation and cosmic consciousness is intimately related with mastering of the breath. We come into this life with our breath and we leave our body with our last breath.
The Bhagavad Gita offers a clarification to this eternal struggle between the mind and the Soul by production any references to Kriya Yoga - the yoga of action. "Offering the inhaling breath into the exhaling breath, the yogi neutralizes both breaths; thus he releases prana from the heart and brings life force under his control". (Bhagavad Gita Iv: 29) The interpretation is that the yogi arrests decay in the body by securing an additional provide of prana straight through quieting the performance of the lungs and heart; he also arrests mutations of increase in the body by operate of apana (eliminating current). Thus neutralising decay and growth, the yogi learns life-force control.
Paramahamsa Hariharananda, a Self-Realised yogi and Kriya master, describes the human brain as the Kingdom of God. The living human brain is the mightiest power in (temporal) creation. The life of every human being depends on it and is controlled by it. The "Cave of Brahman" is an etheric chamber where Brahman, the creative essence of the universal spirit, manifests itself and radiates pranic life to the twenty four gross body elements via the medulla, cerebellum and the spinal chord. The pituitary and pineal glands, at opposite ends of the cave, are the inevitable and negative poles of Self-knowledge: male-female, solar-lunar, night-day; the duality that we taste in the human form.
Kriya yoga is often referred to as "the science and practice of Self-Realisation" because it invigorates the brain and settles the mind, which has a calming succeed on the whole nervous system. It regulates the inevitable and negative fluctuations in the nervous law by magnetizing the spine. This opens the sushumna channel (literally the "chimney inside our spine") that makes use of universal power - life force - for biological functions of the body. This occasion of the sushumna also produces stupendous calm as the spinal column becomes an open channel to taste more life force and divine vibration.
Kriya yoga meditation allows practitioners to come to be aware of their breath in a way that allows them to taste their true Self. From infancy until death, in every moment, all human beings are engrossed in performance according to their stage of life. In addition, the three qualities of nature known as tamas (dullness, inertia), rajas (extroversion, movement) and satva (essence, peace and calm) remain in the ida, pingala and sushumna channels respectively. Depending upon a person's stage of evolution, the prana will flow differently straight through these channels in the astral body. The force flowing in the ida leads habitancy to idleness and gossip; in the pingala, leads to ultimate activity, prosperity, worldly involvement and restlessness; in the sushumna leads habitancy to Self-Realization, the ultimate goal of every human being. Because of gravity the currents of ida and pingala enmesh and cause agitation in the spine. After practicing the Kriya yoga breath technique, the flow is directed upward to the cranium and fontanel which magnetizes the spine and opens up the sushumna.
Chapter 2, verse 65 in the Bhagavad Gita translates as: "When you gain self-control and self awareness by mastering the breath with meditation, you will feel divine bliss and all your sorrows will perish". The minds and intellects of contented habitancy are firmly established in the Self. With the help of Kriya yoga inhalation, by magnetizing the spine, one will witness the Self in the pituitary. The soul becomes the conductor of the mind and the senses - and life is established in wisdom, free from attachment and delusion.
Chapter 3, 33 translates as: "Human beings are under the operate of eight aspects of the body nature: ether, air, light, water, earth, mind, intellect, and ego, by law of nature, human beings are all the time absorbed in the body consciousness and guided by their instincts. They do not see that the indwelling Self is working straight through them, because the soul nature has been absorbed into the body nature".
Attachment and aversion for objects of the senses abide in the senses. To clear the path to Self-Realization, these are the main obstacles to conquer. Our senses are gifts from God and, if used properly, will bring us joy.
The Bhagavad Gita describes life as a creative journey. habitancy voyage straight through it carrying the baggage of their karma, the seed impressions of all their former activity, the total sum of all their delight and pain, and the results of all their interactions straight through time and space with other souls. Some may taste life as a pilgrimage; others see it as a vacation, yet its true purpose is to fulfill the cherished goal - Self-Realization.
When this goal is achieved, one has returned to where the journey began. Like a circle, the journey of life is faultless only when it reaches its beginning point. When we return to our Source, the Dao, the Brahman - the place from where all things come and must therefore return - then our Soul's purpose is fulfilled and we taste love, joy and bliss. We are all the time creating and re-creating moments of our existence on earth and, if we pick to wisely direct our innate powers of creation, we then co-create with the universe that which the soul desires and seeks to taste for its evolution on earth and the journey back home.
Reference
The Bhagavad Gita, In the Light of Kriya Yoga Book 1, by Paramahamsa Hariharananda Kriya Yoga construct 2000
http://www.kriya.org
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