Question: What is the most important thing to remember about the practice of dhyana?

Babaji:

To the practice of dhyana, you have to dedicate yourself. Be disciplined. Have patience and totally surrender. Try to sacrifice the ego. ‘Dedicating’ means you have to take out the time in priority and sit down to practice. ‘Be disciplined’, you have to apply discipline to yourself, so that you practice daily without fail. You become very serious and seriously you pursue. You shall not stop under any circumstances. Then, when you sit down, it takes time for the mind to settle down, because the mind has gone out of control and is always conscious of the universe. It keeps on thinking and, in the process, goes into craving very often, constantly picturises. It cannot keep quiet. So this mind has acquired these habits from time immemorial, perhaps since so many lives. So it will take some time, definitely, to control this mind, to purify this mind, so you’ve got to have patience and allow it to happen.

’Surrender’, if you do not try to analyse or make any judgments, if you do not jump into any conclusions, do not imagine, the mind surrenders. The mind, if it surrenders, will recede. It becomes purified. It starts going introvert towards the Self, to the Ultimate Truth, consciously. ‘Sacrificing the ego’ is also the same. You do not imagine or try to define your existence. You simply experience your existence. You do not try to imagine, do not try to analyse or jump into conclusions, do not try to make any judgments. Don’t see any faults in the Guru. Do not try to analyse the Guru. Just have total, unconditional faith in the Guru. That can work wonders and thus you can sacrifice the ego. Ego is the biggest hurdle to further progress for mankind.