You can train your mind through meditation” – Kruti Parekh
Kruti Parekh
Good afternoon to you all. I have always been fascinated with magic and magicians from a very young age. The kind of things they do and the kind of things they produce out of nowhere never fails to fascinate you. However, I am unable to understand one thing — why do they all wear a long-sleeved gown? Watching them perform in a short-sleeved shirt would be more fun.
I will tell you about an incident before I give you Kruti’s background. My daughter was getting married and we invited Kruti for the sangeet. Kruti said, “Let the sambandhis come. There is a bucket full of coloured water and you should spill some of it on them and it will turn into rose petals.” I refused. When she asked me why, I said, “What if it does not turn into petals?” You remember that, don’t you?
It is very fascinating to have you here. Kruti wears many different hats. She is India’s first test-tube baby, an IT engineer, a special executive magistrate and received her doctorate in Magical Entertainment and Humanities from the United States. She achieved all of this at the age of 25, which is remarkable.
Kruti has researched extensively on the Mind and I am privy to some experiences where she really played with your mind. The last time I met her, she called me on stage and asked me to hold a bulb, which was not connected to any electrical source. She asked, “What do you want this bulb to do? Do you want it to burst or do you want it to be lit?” As there were no wires, I said, “I want it to burst.” She gave me a transparent plastic bag, asked me to hold it and say “I want this bulb to burst” thrice. When I was about to say it for the second time, the bulb went off. I can never forget that.
I don’t want to give a very long introduction because most people know her. We are very glad, Kruti, you are here.
— Rtn. Pranay Vakil
Good afternoon, everyone. Let me begin with today’s topic and that is “Quantum of Mind”. My entire approach to the mind is very different and we need to first understand what the mind is all about.
If I divide my body into two parts — one above and one below, and ask which part is more important then what would your answer be? The one above or the one below? If you say that the one above is more important, I want you to ask yourself — in one day, how much time do you give to the more important part and how much to the not-so-important part? Ask this question to yourself and you know the answer. But let me tell you, with whatever little negligible time that you give to the more important part you are already doing wonderful for yourself.
Just imagine if you enter into working and giving it a little more time, what all you can do and achieve beyond what you have already achieved. This is about a race with your own self. You are already amazing, you just have to be a level higher. You have the power to do it. So my question to you is, “Are you in control of your mind or is your mind controlling you?”
Your mind tries to control you because you are giving the command. My talk is about you and not me. So now knowing what is really controlling you, I am going to explain the different phenomena of the mind and how you can try to control it. The first step towards it is written in the Bhagavad Gita and it says man-mana bhava (man means mind). If your mind is disturbed, so are you. I will give you an example. Imagine that you have won a lottery worth one million dollars. You come back home and there is a small child in your house. He or she wants to come and play with you. From the point where you won the lottery to the point where you come home, you will be extra nice to everyone you meet. You spread the happiness to everyone around you. You will come back home and say, “Hello, everyone. How are you all doing? It was such a wonderful day at work!” You will then pick up the baby, play with him or her and do everything that you do when you’re happy.
Now imagine another day where you have lost a million dollars in a business deal. You come back home from the same route and meet the same people. But you are just not interested in talking with them. You come back home and the same child is asking you to play with him or her with the same kind of enthusiasm. But you wish someone else would come and take the child to another room. Everything is the same — the only thing which is different is your state of mind.
Now what are the different phenomena of the mind? Telepathy, psychokinesis, psychometric, teleportation, dowsing and prediction. Let me tell you, you all practice these phenomena in your daily life without knowing that you are practising it. How many of you have had a telepathic conversation or a telepathic experience in your life? The system exists in your mind. The only thing you don’t know is how to use it. Telepathy is one of the different phenomena of the mind. It means two people think of the same thing at the same time. It happens in a very simple format where one mind is the sender and the other is a receiver. It’s like a mobile phone. You dial a number and it reaches the person you want to reach. This is exactly the same thing. And I have trained my mind to receive these kinds
of thoughts.
This has happened in your lives too. A mother knows exactly what her son wants when he just extends his arms. The wife knows what to give her husband without him saying it out aloud. All of this is due to emotional bonding that you develop over the years. A connection gets developed between the sender and receiver. In other scenarios, you have to create it. For that you need to meditate because the only way to train the mind is through meditation.
Coming to the other phenomena, psychokinesis is bending and moving objects through mind. Psychometry is understanding vibrations from people. Sometimes you get positive vibes from a person and you like him or her. Sometimes you meet someone who gives you negative vibes and you don’t want to be around him or her. Your mind has already programmed itself for these phenomena. The only thing is to use it in the right direction. Teleportation is thinking about an object and physically transferring it to another location. Dowsing is generally done with pendulums or with copper rods bent at right angles. It is used by many psychics to tell you about those dead or alive and whether you will get them back. Prediction, is something that we all know and it needs no explanation.
You are unable to work on the different phenomena of the mind because you have actually conditioned your mind over a period of time due to experiences. I’ll give you an example. We took a honey bee, put it in a glass jar, closed the lid and observed it for 48 hours. The bee would come up, hit its head on the lid and fall down.This happened for 48 hours. After 48 hours we opened the lid thinking that it is not doing anything. To our surprise, even after taking the lid off, the bee did not fly beyond the limit of the lid — because it had conditioned itself that it’s going to hit its head. It just kept going up and down even when the lid was open.
The other example is you. As a child you all must have had a free outlook towards life. But now a lot of things have changed. That is because your mind is conditioned to think that way.
To conclude, I would like to say that if wealth is lost something is lost. If health is lost then everything is lost. But if mind is lost we are lost. So let’s take control of our minds and make the change.