Now let us go into more detail. You want to meditate upon the object of meditation you have chosen but your mind is wayward and restlessly runs here and there in its own desires, habits, ruts and self-impositions. You are supposed to bring your mind out of these ruts, right? So when you sit in meditation, try to concentrate upon that object. If the mind goes somewhere else—thinking, liking, disliking—you are just practicing repeating habits. Your mind is so much in these grooves, consciously or unconsciously, one after another a full twenty-four hours, that you are hardly able to keep your focus on your chosen Goal for that meditation hour. Or if you do concentrate upon your chosen object for a few seconds, even at that very time you are subconsciously thinking of something else. Go deep and you will find your subconscious is an undercurrent moving separately, just as a river current flows at a different speed at the bottom than at the surface. You should not feel bad; all are in the same boat.
 

      How to meditate daily with a very fresh attitude? Of course, it is easy to say, “Forget about the past, just erase all impositions on the mind and don’t desire anything, just be fresh today,” but it does not happen. It is not impossible but it happens only in one among billions. I am not saying to change your pattern of life—you may or may not—but whichever pattern you are choosing, how to see it as beautiful, lively and refreshed. There are many impositions on the mind, many thoughts. The mind is occupied with one thing after another. We try to get free from these and meditate and we are not able to do it. There is only one answer: you are trying to remove these things without removing the basic cause. If you know the cause of these things, you can tackle them at the root level and then it will be easy.