Subject:-A Session with Mr. Tathagat Roy at
Merchant Chamber Hall Kanpur on May12th,2013
Mr. Tathagat
Roy started his discussion in a very energetic way and was able to involve the audience
in a very positive manner with the help of an interesting Ice Breaker.
The purpose
of his discussion was to take the
audience into a relaxed “Space”, free of tension, worries, & various other
thoughts which tend to occupy human mind most of the time.
He also
emphasized that thoughts are produced in
mind & so mind and thoughts may be synonymous with each other. He also
forced the audience to think about a very vital question, ‘’what am I’’.
And during
the course of discussion he proved that ‘I’ am not my mind. My entity is
different than my mind. So ‘I’ have
capability to watch my mind. ‘I’ have the capability to watch my thoughts.
And, he
tried to show this capability of human mind to watch the thoughts witch come
and go through a simple exercise.
However, the way he conducted this exercise was not
very effective .
‘I’ which he
proved to be different entity than mind and which should be the controller of
mind was named by him ‘The space’, or ‘awareness’ or’ self’.
Audience
totally agreed to the fact that we should not be controlled by our thoughts or mind ,rather we should be able to use our
mind or our thoughts whenever me need to do so. He meant that we should keep
affirming ’I AM’ and visualizing a space in our heart which is peaceful &
empty. We can keep experiencing this throughout the day & whenever we need
to PLAN or think, we should short using our mind(or thoughts).
According to
Mr. Tathagat Roy, we can remain in space & simultaneously active outward, both at the same time.
He also
mentioned the place where this space might be imagined. To clarify this, he
gave us an example of Raman Maharishi who was asked by a disciple where in this
body was this ‘SPACE’, to which he answered that if heart is slightly towards
left in our chest,
then, this
‘SPACE’ where our awareness lies, is situated slightly towards right from the
heart.
Finally, to
conclude it we can say that the purpose of the talk was to make the audience
aware that we can control our mind by being aware that our self is different
than our mind .
In my
opinion, audience would have appreciated this session more if the speaker would
have included a Chakra Meditation focusing o’ Anahat Chakra’ or ‘Heart chakra’.This
exercise would help the audience realize & experience “The space” more
deeply,the speaker was mentioning again & again.
Regards
Mukul
Chaudhri
www.chaudhri-aryan.com
