External and Internal Control

External control helps internal control in many ways. To succeed in external controls is more difficult than to achieve success in controlling the internal! A turn of the steering wheel in one's hand in any direction makes the wheels of the car, which are not in one's hand, move in the same direction. The wheels won't turn in one direction when the steering is turned in another; this is the natural. But sometimes, when the steering is turned one way, the wheels may drag another way, but this is due to the giving up of the natural characteristic. The internal wheels, if they have no air, which is the true essence, may behave as if there is no relationship with the steering. But they can't go beyond the bounds of steering; the steering in the hand is related to the wheels below. If there is no such relation, the journey becomes impossible. Therefore for the one who has struggled with and conquered the external tendencies, the internal tendencies become easily controllable.

Baba (thought for the day) 

How does external control help internal control? 

We have to see it in our own experience or in our own life to understand it. If we don’t have the experience of the difference between external control and internal control, we have maybe the feeling to know what Swami is talking about, but in reality we don’t know, we just think we know.

We think we know the difference between external and internal control, but if we don’t have the experience of it, we cannot know it, it is not what we imagine in our mind.

External control helps internal control in many ways. To succeed in external controls is more difficult than to achieve success in controlling the internal! A turn of the steering wheel in one's hand in any direction makes the wheels of the car, which are not in one's hand, move in the same direction. The wheels won't turn in one direction when the steering is turned in another; this is the natural. But sometimes, when the steering is turned one way, the wheels may drag another way, but this is due to the giving up of the natural characteristic.

I guess external control is in the waking stage and what we know as being in the mind and discipline and concentration and internal control is on the level of the dream stage and not in the mind. We used that example of the car before, only a bit different, it said if we give gas, we cannot at the same time pull the brake. If we go inwards, we should not have our attention at the same time focused outwards.

The internal wheels, if they have no air, which is the true essence, may behave as if there is no relationship with the steering. But they can't go beyond the bounds of steering; the steering in the hand is related to the wheels below. If there is no such relation, the journey becomes impossible. Therefore for the one who has struggled with and conquered the external tendencies, the internal tendencies become easily controllable.

Our attention is on the internal wheels and if there is no air, how are we going to drive? The air is the essence, truth, never changing and therefore permanent, without air we cannot drive. We think there is no relationship with the steering?  

If there is no steering, the wheels have no meaning; the car cannot drive by itself normally. There has to be a driver at the wheel that the journey is possible.

Therefore for the one who has struggled with and conquered the external tendencies, the internal tendencies become easily controllable.

Already after the first insight I was looking for the answer and it was clear, it could not be on the mind level and we just went on following the insights in the hope to finally after all get to the point for insights to make sense, but as we automatically try to understand it on the mind level and it is not the right level, it is the waking stage only, it was just not possible.
In the inner view it was present as, 'we cannot understand it if we don’t know the source', but how to know the source, if we don’t know?

The waking stage we know, the dream stage we don’t know.
To get to the right conclusion we have to see the nature of it or as Swami calls it the characteristics of it.

The dream stage we don’t know. As the nature is about not knowing it with the mind, it is right to think, ‘not that’.
We know thoughts are on the mind level and it is affirmative giving the mind power if we think, I know. But we also know that we don’t know, because it is not only the waking stage, it is the dream stage. To get into a better relationship to the inner wheels we take the mind and the knowledge that it is a wrong conclusion and we get to the right conclusion, instead of affirmation in thinking, ‘that’s it’, what is mind only, to make it true, we have to think, ‘not that’.
The mind and waking stage is one reality, the other is another reality and we find it in thinking ‘not that’. We find the dreams stage in getting aware that it is not the mind and not the body.

It is what we don’t know therefore, the right conclusion is, ‘not that’, not the thought activity and not the mind, not the body.

We think one thing and it is always mind and if it is about the dream stage we have to think by negation, it is not the mind and it is not the body.
That is on that level true. It is not the mind and it is not the body, it is beyond the mind and beyond the body. That is true and we have to accept truth. If we conquered the external tendencies in knowing it is ‘not that’ we go for the inner tendencies and if it is controlled outside I guess it also gets controlled inside.

Therefore for the one who has struggled with and conquered the external tendencies, the internal tendencies become easily controllable.

If we live only the outward level and project everything outside in the mind, we are not aware of the difference between outside and inside and if we don’t listen to Baba’s words we don’t find the reflection of the inner view in his words, but it is that reflection what makes us get closer to Atma and we can see the outer tendencies as different from the inner.

If we see it the way he explained not long ago as the waking stage and the dream stage and the merging of the two and as he said, world and heaven merge.
If we think it over, we know why we have to listen to him to get a reflection of it and to get in control of the inner tendencies.
We get aware of it with the man who comes in our dream to awake us and therefore, we listen to Swami’s words and think it over to get the meaning of the dreams and that dream stage what is rather difficult to understand.
It is not possible to understand it on the mind level, therefore, it just has to be done, it has to be practiced to make sense. It is the same as it is with meditation, it only makes sense if we are doing it, if we don't do it, it doesn't make sense and we don't have the experience of it, that means we don't know what it is as long as we don't do it.
We can talk of a strawberry, but only when we eat it we know the taste, the same with mediation and contemplation.
If we try to understand it on the wrong level, the waking stage and of the dream stage we have not enough experience, because we don't meditate and we don't go inside, we listen to his words, but we don't see the reflection if it is only in the waking stage. 
If we listen to his words and think it over we get aware of it after some time that we get a feeling for it and the insights are not anymore in an unknown field and more we get used to it and get the feeling for it, easier we get that control.
Actually it is controlled by the inner master and it reflects the truth and we are just getting aware of it. It is self-control and not mind control. 

Thinking it over makes us getting a feeling for it and as it is not the normal state we know as waking stage only, but the stage we don't know the dream stage we only get a feeling for it in thinking it over and the insights happen because our mind is set on it and the answers come from the inside. 

Dreams are not that easy to understand and it is not different with the man coming in our dream to awake us, that are nevertheless dreams and we have to get a feeling for it and that feeling we get in thinking it over and it is probably not always right and it even doesn't always make sense on the mind level, but nevertheless, we think it over and by doing it, we find in a thought for the day and in Swami's words what we just need to get to the right conclusion, it is all in these precious words and we just have to listen to it, by listening to his words we get to the right conclusion and if it was not totally right before, after listening it and seeing it in that light and thinking it over, there is the moment we know that it is right and that it can be only like that and no other way and that is how we get a feeling for truth and after all he is the knower, he gives us the answer, he is leading us from the inside to the right conclusion. 

It is great to be in contemplation of the Lord and as he had been telling us before, thinking the mantra is in the mind and concentration and merging is beyond the mind and meditation and contemplation is between in the borderline and with contemplation we actually get a feeling for the dream stage, we get both stages and the sleep stage is like Samadhi only if it is in the fourth stage as he said us already it is not changing anymore and it is permanent true. 
If our focus is turned inside the dreams will be there, if we watch, the dreams and insights will be there and in listening to him we get the meaning of the dreams. 

He is the reflection of both levels merged as he said not long ago, it is about omniscience and that is the waking stage and the dream stage together or the world and heaven merged and we know it also as heaven on earth. 

Without contemplation we don't get a feeling for the dream stage level and therefore, we don't understand his words, as he is on both levels. 

Listen, think it over and absorb. (Baba) We have to first use discrimination, it is here about knowing the difference between external control and internal control and we have to see it in our own life, otherwise, we don't remember it and we have no relationship to it. The car is there and the inner wheels are filled with air, but we need to drive it, we are the driver, otherwise, the journey will lead us nowhere. 

By thinking it over we get the feeling for it and it does make sense. 

On that journey we have to go on no matter what obstacles are there and if we don't have air in the inner wheel, we fill it again and go on. 

There are both levels, we have the external control as driver and we have the internal control of the car and that air in the inner wheel is also up to us to keep it ready that the car can go on that journey. 

Nobody else is doing it for us, but he is the doer nevertheless, he is the air in the wheels and without that air we cannot drive anywhere.