Question: When I am meditating and the thought processes start settling down and there is silence around me, then suddenly, if there is some outer sound, even a little bit of sound appears very big. There is a kind of jolt in the brain, in the mind, as well as sometimes in the body. How should we react to a sudden noise that appears many times louder than it is normally?

Babaji:

Try to have a positive thought and reassure yourself that everything is all right, nothing is happening, that it is maybe just mind’s imagination because the mind has such a technique. When it gets concentrated it can magnify everything and multiply it into tens and billions fold higher than what it actually is. Think of Guru or think of God and reassure yourself so the mind does not become panicked and lose its grip of concentration.