Yogi Himanshu – the founder of Bali Yoga School and Himalayan Yoga Association. He has been through darkest time in life and meditation saved him to come back fully alive. He shares what he thinks about eliminating thoughts as meditation practitioners try to achieve. He speaks only according to his experiences, not to what he has heard from others or books – He speaks only the truth to himself.

-Can we eliminate the thoughts and be free from the mind fluctuations ever?

-Eliminate like permanent elimination is quite impossible because while we are in this materialistic world we need mind as a tool to function in this materialistic world so it’ s quite I don’ t know if it’ s necessary what’ s necessary and what is according to Patanjali Yoga Sutra is to seize the fluctuations of the mind when we are able to seize the fluctuations of the mind we are able to see that the peace the joy everything is within and mind is not is not our enemy the data is not our enemy that the mind is not our enemy the data is not our enemy that the data helps us to you know live in the materialistic world to keep our physical body materialistic body function properly so mind is not an enemy it’ s an amazing tool the thing is when we start practicing yoga we understand it better we are able to see the mind in a proper way so that’ s the purpose of the yoga to seize all the fluctuations of the within all the fluctuations over the consciousness so that we can see who we are and we can see what the mind is what the body is and we can work in a union instead of a mind against us so that’ s the purpose of yoga. And elimination. But according to my experience, I don’ t know if that’ s possible to eliminate it completely. But I don’ t think it’ s necessary. What’ s necessary is to simply cease when we want and use the mind when we want. Namaste. Thank you very much.

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