The mind cannot grasp the real

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: How to bring the mind back to the center, what to do when the mind is not at the center?

Acharya Prashant: It doesn’t matter what the mind is saying. The mind may say, “I am feeling blissful or I am feeling awful.” If the mind is saying something, it only proves that there is mental activity going on. Even if the mind is saying that it is experiencing absolute joy then rest assured that it is just disturbance. If the mind is saying that it is experiencing disturbance then of course it is disturbance. But even if the mind talks of other experiences, kindly do not give those experiences any credibility.

Real home, real core, real center, real peace is not something which the mind grasps or constructs or within the scope of mind’s detection.

Now our friend asks that how to bring the mind back to the center, what to do when the mind is not at the center? Do not believe in this conclusion, this is what you can do.

You are never away from the center. In fact the thought that you are at the center or away from the center is what is responsible for you to believing that you are away from the center.

Do not take these this thought seriously, reject it, discard it. Have tremendous…