Owner'S Manual For The Mind

I will just give a simple understanding about how the mind works and how exactly the Upanishad is going to help us. Let me once more explain the word Upanishad. It means: just sitting. If you want a commentary for that word, I could say: sitting with an enlightened being.

Let us first understand how our mind works with the help of a simple drawing. Your mind is doing nothing but 'making your future into past'. Understand: what you call as life is nothing but swallowing your future and making it into the past. Am I right? The future becoming the past is what you call your mind, or whatever you know as life; nothing else. This diagram is just a time shaft. The space where the future and the past meet is what we call the present moment. The future is just disappearing into the past. Every step of what I am describing, you need to understand completely; only then you will be able to go with it.

A little bit of introduction about the mind is good. It is like an owner's manual. Owner's manual for the mind! We use the mind without reading the owner's manual even once. Even in the car, there is information about the airbag, and it says: for further details, see the owner's manual. How many of us have referred to the owner's manual about the airbag? With airbags,

it is alright to ignore the owner's manual, because you may feel it is useful only when you have an accident. But if you don't read the owner's manual for your mind, you will create accidents! And you will not even know that you are going through accidents every day. That is the problem. So it's better

to have the owner's manual for the mind.