What’s a moment in your life that felt like it was straight out of a movie?
For the mind is restless, turbulent, strong and obstinate, O Krishna; I think it is as difficult to control as the wind.” — Bhagavad Gita
Your reflection reminds me of this verse because it does not describe a mind that is empty. It describes a mind that notices things.You wake in the morning. You sit. You listen. You practice. You pray. You hear a podcast discussing tax relief. You play an online game while wondering what comes next.
From somewhere in the distance a faint Lux fragrance drifts through the air. A piano begins to play far away. The notes arrive without invitation as you continue chanting the Chalisa.
The mind immediately judges:
Why am I hearing this?
Why am I smelling that?
Why can’t everything be silent
?Yet hearing a piano from afar is not necessarily a failure of practice.
Ears hear sounds.
The nose detects scents.
The mind notices movement. The struggle often begins when the mind declares that these experiences should not be happening.Perhaps the miracle is not that the piano disappears.
Perhaps the miracle is that the piano plays, the scent drifts by, thoughts come and go, and the chanting continues.
The world does not stop presenting itself. A bird sings. A car passes. A memory appears. A fragrance arrives. A distant melody enters awareness and leaves again.
The practice is not always to create a blank sky; sometimes it is simply to remain the sky while clouds pass through.A moment that felt straight out of a movie was this ordinary morning itself: a person sitting quietly after prayer, the scent of soap carried on the air, a distant piano floating through the neighborhood, questions about the mind rising and fading, and the chant continuing beneath it all.
Nothing dramatic happened, yet for a brief moment the entire world seemed to be moving on its own while the observer simply watched.
“Abandoning all attachment, free from longing and possessiveness, one attains peace.” — Bhagavad Gita
The piano may come. The piano may go. The fragrance may come. The fragrance may go. The practice continues.
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