Speed of Mind

Light travels faster than anything else known to man. But a human mind can travel faster than light. And a fickle mind like mine can beat all records of speed whatsoever perceptible to human kind.

I was made to realize this when I was a child. Well being fickle minded isn’t really considered a virtue. If it were, then all this propaganda about keeping your mind in control would have been meaningless.

It is indeed very difficult to control your mind or your thought process. And you could test that anytime anywhere without having to do much. You just need to sit at one place with eyes closed. Eyes need to be closed to shut out all distractions. But if you are one of those who can shut out their mind to the outside world with or without eyes closed then you need not really have to keep your eyes shut.

Once you are in that position you got to try to channelize your thought process towards just one thing and try to bring your mind to a state of nothingness. Simple, right? Is it really?

Well I tried and this is what happened in my mind -

“I can see nothing. It is pitch dark around me. Of course! What else do you expect when you close your eyes so tight? Yeah, but do I really need to keep them so tightly closed. I can just normally close my eyes. After all thoughts will not enter my mind through the eyes .I need to keep my mind focused on one thing. I should be thinking only about that one thing. What should I pick? Movies are my favorite. I could perhaps think about one movie and concentrate my thought process on that. But wait no, movies shall have more than one character so my mind would still be thinking about more than one thing at a time. Ok let me concentrate on one actor. Who should I pick? Kareena Kapoor is a good choice. She always looks pretty. But how should I imagine her in my mind? What was the latest movie that she acted in? Oh boy- I cannot remember. Yeah got it – Golmaal 3 it was. But I haven’t watched the movie and neither have I seen too many promos. Don’t remember how she looks in the movie. Remember Ajay Devgan though .And he looks pretty weird with that short haircut, Guess that was just to add the humor quotient to his look. Not that he had any better hair earlier. I actually liked Farhaan Akhtar’s hair styling in Rock On. Oh what a movie. That movie reminds me of caramel popcorn, Diwali and my friend Elizabeth. I remember having gone to watch the movie with her during diwali and also we had had caramel popcorn after long. It was quite an experience. Actually caramel popcorn tastes very nice when mixed with plain salted popcorn. The sudden ‘sweet taste’ of caramel thrown in between the salted taste of popcorn just makes you want more of it. Come to think of it I am quite hungry right now. Hell with meditation, I don’t mind making some quick microwave popcorn and catching a nice movie !!!!”

And that was the end of my concentration. I forced my mind not to think any further in search of the ultimate truth rather focus on the current for now.