Question: During meditation, when I observe a thought, it seems like there are two sides of me. One side is watching and the other side is like an ongoing monologue.

Babaji:

Every human mind is like this. The mind is distracted. It analyses and cannot keep quiet. So meditation helps the mind to keep quiet, and when it eventually becomes completely quiet, we experience the Immortal Self. So try to keep watching, and, perhaps with a little will-power, tell the mind to be quiet. The soul’s consciousness is involved in the world too much. You can quieten the mind, but for this you need one mantra, ‘practice, practice, practice.’ Too often in spiritual endeavours, we can get distracted by practices that are spiritually irrelevant or even harmful