However, just negating mind won’t work.

Medicine needs to be administered as well. We know mind cannot stop working even for a single moment. If it is advised not to do one work it should be given another work immediately otherwise it will fall back on its old habits. It can be given work to remember God.

On getting up, the first job would be to remember God and his form. Before beginning of the routine work, one hour devotional practice will help. Listening to devotional songs and trying to visualize pastimes of God Krishn and Radha should be done every morning without fail. There are some devotional songs which entreat God to shower his grace.

While doing this practice it is necessary to accept oneself a fallen soul because every soul has committed infinite sins of all sorts through its infinite lives. Think of soul’s piteous condition and helplessness, regarding mind’s problem of anger, jealousy, depression, dissatisfaction, boredom, regarding weakness and limitations in terms of physical and mental abilities, regarding sufferings, regarding the bashing that soul receives at hands of others, regarding the death. If this pathetic condition is rightly comprehended, there will be a tearful prayer to God for entry into the divine world which is devoid of all problems and which is replete with eternal and infinite happiness.

Spending about an hour in listening to spiritual discourses by Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji Maharajaj is essential. His lectures can be downloaded from youtube for which link has already been given in the earlier posts. Regular intake of divine material into the mind and the spiritual practice of remembering God will start purifying the mind or heart. When purity of heart reaches a certain level, there will direct message from God right there in your heart which will confirm that you are on the right path.