Clarity of mind. How to calm your thoughts?

Sometimes the mind feels like it's constantly moving. It tries to analyze, fix, understand – and the harder it tries, the more it gets stuck in a loop. As if it can’t stop on its own. And the question arises: is there any way out of this other than another attempt at control?

W tym fragmencie Satsangu Nitya kieruje uwagę na przestrzeń, która nie uspokaja się przez wysiłek. Cisza nie wynika z działania, ale z odpuszczenia utożsamienia. Z rozpoznania, że to, co się porusza, nie jest tym, kim jesteśmy.

How to calm the mind, if not through thoughts?

What is agitated can calm itself down - if we do not disturb it. Nitya points out very simply: do not try to calm down by force, because it only increases the tension. Because then the mind fights with itself, wanting to achieve peace. And that is not the point.

What is truly soothing does not come from thought. It does not need technique or concentration. It is more like returning to a place where there was already silence. To a moment that does not require any improvement. To a space where presence becomes natural.

Clarity is not a product of practice. It is a lucidity that comes when we do not try to control anything. When we get out of the way and do not interfere with what is already there. That is when true seeing begins – not with the eyes, but with something deeper. That which does not pass.

Highlights of Satsang:

• A space that doesn't need action [2:10]

  Silence is not something to be achieved. It does not require technique, concentration or special practice. On the contrary – sometimes trying to quiet the mind only strengthens it. That is why it is so important to remind ourselves: what is natural does not require effort.

  "Don't try to force yourself to calm down, it will only make things worse."

  Instead of intervening, one can allow what has been stirred to settle itself. As if the mind had the right to relax, not through control, but through trust. In such a state, clarity appears, which is not dependent on what happens. Only then is true clarity possible – not as a reaction, but as a seeing.

• You are not your thoughts [12:06]

  It is here that the key moment of Satsang comes in. Nitya’s story of suddenly realizing – without preparation, without spiritual knowledge – that whatever is arising in the mind is not really about her.

  “All the thoughts I experience, all the feelings I have, all the emotions, all the complaints about fate – they are not really mine.”

  From this place comes a certainty. I am not my thoughts. I am not my emotions, my body, or my history. Something inside sees all these experiences—and if it sees, it cannot be them. This recognition did not come from an effort, but from a complete stopping. And it was then that everything calmed down—not because it was supposed to, but because the identification was no longer there.

• All that happens is Consciousness [20:54]

  The reactions can be strong. The emotions can be intense. The mind can say, “This is real because it is so strong.” But the strength of an experience does not mean that it tells the truth about who we are.

  "It's just a powerful experience at the moment, but it doesn't say anything about me. It says as much about me as this floor."

  From the perspective of presence, everything that appears – thoughts, emotions, bodies, sounds – has the same status. It's a manifestation. Not better, not worse. Not more real, because more intense. In this presence, the boundary between “self” and “world” disappears. And something much quieter appears, which does not need confirmation.

Clarity that doesn’t depend on the mind

Mental clarity is not the result of self-improvement. Nor is it the outcome of working on oneself. It appears when something deeper than thought is recognized – something that doesn’t need to change, because it has never been disturbed.

It’s not a state that can be maintained, but a place from which everything is seen. There’s no way to name it, yet it is more truly us than anything that comes and goes. A silence that doesn’t depend on whether the mind is quiet or not.A trust that was never learned.