At a given time, the mind is filled with a non-stop stream of thought on the particular subject agitating it at the present moment. The subject conforms to the mood. The mood may be the creation of the subject, or the subject may be the choice of the mood. The stream of thought is broken only by another stream stronger than the one agitating. But then the first one is only kept aside temporarily, to be taken up later. It remains by the side, still not exhausted. Every thought stream, umpteen of them likewise, lurk by the side, waiting to be taken up in the future. What more do one need to have a restless mind? Often some are pushed to the sub-conscious. They remain there incomplete to nag the present.
Those agitations that have found solutions successfully also come back often because the success is pleasant and enjoyable. One can live in a happy stream of thought, enjoying it for hours together, until interfered by a disturbing thought waiting by the side, or a new sense signal of an event in the present. So many thoughts wait by the side throughout the waking state, ready to pounce upon, showing their face every now and then, even when one is preoccupied with one stream of thought. I don’t know whether this is so for everybody. I am stating my personal experience.
The mind can become still only when you exhaust all the residues of the streams of thoughts completely by understanding them fully. One has to perceive them fully as they are. This understanding is not by analyzing the thoughts or the subject of the thoughts. It is by seeing, perceiving them straight and observing the underlying emotions from which they erupt. The seeing of it is instant and does not take time.
Direct perception of the streams of thoughts as they arise bestows complete ‘knowledge’ of them, and that destroys the agitations, the mental residue of past events and actions. The thoughts do not come back unless deliberately invited. The mind is then free to be silent
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