Question: When we are meditating I notice that there seems to be different attitudes inwardly, regarding the process of encountering the thoughts or the sensations and visual matters that come before us. I feel that there are subtle distinctions between how I relate to those. You are instructing us to look at them without judging. Sometimes I feel like other actions are going on, like passing through the thoughts or even possibly you might consider repressing the thoughts. Can You comment on those attitudes or approaches to the material that is coming to the mind of the meditator?

Babaji:

Having an attitude to the thought means first you are recognizing the existence of such a thought or such a thing. Then the mind analyses and makes a judgment. These three things happen quickly and instantaneously and in the process mind absorbs the imprints. So here the basic aim of meditation is, "You shall lose all such acquired habits of the mind." The mind has to become totally purified. While meditating the mind is getting purified, already acquired habits are getting purified. The brain acts like a tape recorder and the mind is like a tape and records everything. So while previous imprints are getting evaporated the mind again recognizes them, having an attitude and analyses, "This is good, this is bad." Thus the mind is going to absorb further imprints because the nature of the brain is to de-codify and show the thought process.

Two important things: You either try to stick to one thought, if at all you need to have a thought: "I want to meditate." Meditate means, keep watching. That is all my job. Anything that comes, let it be anything, good or bad, it's not my botheration. Or try not to analyse anything; not to have any thought at all if possible. That’s why I keep advising, "Keep watching them and do not imagine what it is, if any thoughts or visions occur." Because if you do, the mind will absorb further imprints. The idea here is to raise the mind above the dualities.