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As you find time for food and nourishment, sleep and allied routines like bathing, etc., you should also spend 25 to 45 minutes every day, closing your eyes and observing your own inner, subtle mental processes.

Q: By your experience with Industrial Heads, can you say that once they develop insight into the ‘inner resources’, they can actually think, act and perform better? Also, how can these leaders be exposed to the concept of inner resources? And, how can they go ahead with this ‘harnessing’?

Swamiji: Yes. As you find time for food and nourishment, sleep and allied routines like bathing, etc., you should also spend 25 to 45 minutes every day, closing your eyes and observing your own inner, subtle mental processes. How are thoughts emerging, from where, what is the source-substance which gives rise to them, where does every thought disappear? How does the single mind-substance create countless thoughts, and yet remains undiminished? What should be its magnitude and potential?

If you probe like this, delving into your own consciousness, there will grow an inner subtle dimension, a depth and vastness, exceeding whatever you feel you have now. By this personal, inner examination, a diving into the within, the inner subjective hemisphere will begin to unfold before you.

I will not call this meditation. I can say it is ‘introspection’, wherein one portion, as it were, of the mind, begins to observe the rest of the mind, and the process unfolds the vast, deep, lofty inner magnitude. The result will be ineffable inner mento-intelligential growth, expansion and elevation. To work with a small puny mind, or to live and move with a vast resourceful mind – which is better and which do you relish?

– Vicharasethu – Dec 2008