Cogitation: Thinking is undirected; try to go back from your thinking to where the thought came. Go back retrace the steps, and then you will see that another thought was there and that led to this and they are not logically connected. One thought leads to another without any direction from you. The thought itself leads to another because of association. There is no logical connection-only association in your mind.

Contemplation: It means thinking-directed thinking. We think but that is not contemplation. That thinking is undirected, vague, leading nowhere. Thinking becomes contemplation when it moves not through association, but is directed. The mind always tries to escape from one side path to another, from one bypath to another, to some association. You cut off all the side ways. On only one road, you direct your mind, then you bracket out all associations. This is called contemplation. As a scientist, a logician, a mathematician, a poet, a musician working on something, say any problem, are in contemplation. Many things from the sideways will attract, but he does not allow his mind to move any where, mind moves in one line, directed. This is contemplation. Science is based on contemplation, it is logical and rational, it is not absurd.

Concentration: Then there is concentration, to stay at one point, being at one point, not allowing the mind to move at all. It is not thinking, it is not contemplation. In thinking, in ordinary thinking, mind moves like a madman. In contemplation the madman is led, directed, he cannot escape anywhere. In concentration the mind is not allowed to move; in ordinary thinking, it is allowed to move only somewhere. In concentration it is not allowed to move. It is only allowed to be at one point. The entire energy, the whole movement sticks to one point. Yoga is concerned with concentration. The yogic mind has its thinking focused, fixed at one point; no movement is allowed.

Meditation: In ordinary thinking, mind is allowed to move anywhere; in contemplation, it is allowed only in one direction, all other directions are cut off. In concentration, it is not allowed to move even in one direction, it is allowed only to be on one point. And then comes, Meditation. In Meditation, mind is not allowed at all. Meditation is ‘no-mind’, not even concentration is allowed. Mind itself is not allowed to be, that is why meditation cannot be grasped by the mind. Up to concentration, mind has reach, an approachable reach. Mind can understand concentration, but not meditation. Mind is not allowed at all really in meditation. In ordinary thinking, all directions are open; in concentration, only one point is open-no directions. In meditation even that point is not open, even that point is taken away. Mind is not allowed to be. Thinking is an ordinary state of mind and meditation is the highest possibility. The lowest one is ordinary thinking-association, and the highest, the peak, is meditation i.e. no-mind.

Self-Realization is concerned with meditation. The blissful life is based on meditation. Meditation makes a man a master of the mind. The glory which the modern man has lost in his rat-race in the outside world can be regained, discovered or reclaimed through meditation. How can, contemplation, and concentration which are mental processes help in achieving a state of no-mind.

If the process of thinking becomes more and more dense, thick, then you are proceeding to one-mind to multi-mind, if the process of thinking becomes less thick, less dense, is decreased, is slow down, then you are helping yourself towards no-mind. It depends on you and mind can be a help, because really, mind is what you are doing with your consciousness ” Chetna” this very moment. If you leave your consciousness without doing anything with it, it becomes meditation.

Deep down mind, space filled occupied by thoughts. If you remove some thoughts, space is created or reclaimed. If you go on removing your thoughts by and by you go on regaining your space. This space is meditation. When you remove the thoughts, just as you remove some commodities or furniture from the living room, some space is discovered there. Space is not created by removing the material or furniture then no space comes in from outside. It is always there your have recovered it while removing the furniture.

So there are two possibilities – either slowly, gradually decrease your mind, by and by empty your mind. Or it can be done suddenly also. There is no need to go on for lives together removing the furniture by and by there are problems. One goes on slowly decreasing thoughts and then again creating new thoughts. You can make a jump or devote full time to remove unnecessary thoughts in one time and then, while becoming the master of mind, you may enter the world to fulfill the role with the torch of Third Eye. This is the right way and right approach towards leading a blissful life in the world.
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So glad it’s helpful to you Mary. Cluttered brain gets to the best of us

I’m a list maker to the nth degree and write everything down. It’s a huge help when you’re tired to have something to refer to right in front of you instead of trying to remember everything and feeling bad if you forget something.

Lists help you cut yourself some slack!