Your Mind is never silent ... from Afzal Ahmed Syed

Sitting in prayers and reciting verses mechanically, simply makes you forget the "self" for sometime. You sit for hours because you don't want to go back into that world of desires, thoughts, mundane activities, work etc, you choose a way to escape from the world by adding a label called "religion" on your limited box of consciousness.

Also you are seeking for security, for something to happen to you, a change in your being that would make you close to God, but there is no spiritual experience at all. You pray and recite more, for many hours because you are trying to make a spiritual connection. You have a belief that this activity is moving you close to Him, but are you actually experiencing it ?? Yes, you might experience peace, a glow in your personality and love towards Him, but the moment you don't perform religious practices for sometime, you are back to your "self" again, with same thoughts, desires etc.

Your mind is never silent, because it needs something to keep itself busy and stay in tuned with the world. Your mind loves making you addicted, so that you lose sense with the Reality. It uses everything that you know of, so that you can get attached to it and keep the traffic of thoughts busy. Isn't it better to stop the flow of traffic, by completely annihilating the 'self', rather than losing yourself completely in its pace??

One must get out of that box of consciousness, eliminate its contents completely and not add labels and images to it. For something "extraordinary" to come into you, you need to get out this conditioned and ordinary self... When the walls of this box are broken, you merge in Him. You become Him..

There is a seed of divinity inside you, experience it and let that seed grow into a plant, by watering it with silence and awareness. How this seeds transforms itself into a beautiful plant is miraculous, it happens by the Supreme Light.. and this Light will keep the plant alive till eternity. Do not go into the intricate details of this transformation. For now just let the seed grow and don't let the outside pollution affect its growth.