Why the Mind Must Be Trained 

The Real Foundation of Dhyan

 Imagine for a moment that your computer suddenly started clicking random buttons, opening applications on its own, and wandering uncontrollably across the screen.

You wouldn’t be able to work, think, or create anything meaningful. Everything would collapse.

This is exactly what happens inside the human brain computer when the mind is not under control.

Just as you must control your physical computer for it to function efficiently, you must have total control over your brain for it to function with clarity, intelligence, and power.

And the mind is the operating tool that controls this inner system.

The Untrained Mind

What Shrimad Bhagwad Gita Says

For most people, the mind is:
• restless
• unstable
• easily distracted
• constantly shifting focus
• driven by endless thoughts

But Shrimad Bhagavad Gita makes an extraordinary revelation:

The mind CAN be trained.

It can be stabilized, disciplined, and directed with precision.

Dhyan is the method through which this training is done.

What Dhyan Actually Means

The word Dhyan (ध्यान) does not mean is focusing on the breath or sitting quietly with eyes closed.

Dhyan literally means “sustained, continuous focus on one subject over a period of time.” It is an intentional, concentrated flow of thought toward a single divine subject.

Dhyan ≠ Breath Meditation

Not all Dhyan practices involve the breath. Breath awareness is used in specific Yogic exercises, especially during Anulom Vilom Pranayam, to prepare the mind — not as the main focus of Dhyan.

The True Objective of Dhyan

In authentic Dhyan practices prescribed by ancient Indian texts, the mind is required to be focused on a divine subject, such as:

• the image of one’s Guru
• the God Almighty
• a form of Devi
• a Devata associated with the practice

The eyes are also guided inwardly by focusing on the forehead region (the Ajna Kshetra), activating deeper layers of concentration.

This is completely different from modern meditation techniques, which remove the spiritual core and reduce the practice to breath observation.

Summary
• Your brain is a powerful computer.
• Your mind is the tool that operates it.
• If the mind is unstable, the entire system malfunctions.
• The Gita teaches that the mind can be trained.
• Dhyan is the ancient, authentic technique designed for this training.
• Dhyan is sustained, divine-focused thinking, not mere breath awareness.

We will now explore how Dhyan transforms intelligence, and why it is the most powerful mental training method ever developed.

Thought Process in Humans

The foundation of Dhyan

 To understand Dhyan deeply, we must first understand how the human thought process works.

Whenever you think about a subject—whether a person, event, idea, or memory—your mind automatically generates:

• an image, and
• associated sensory details These additional details may include:
• something you heard
• something you read
• smells, tastes, or sensations
• emotions connected to the memory
• the atmosphere or environment associated with the event

In short: Every thought = an image + sensory data + emotional imprint

This basic nature of thought is the starting point for Dhyan.

The Two Essential Components of Dhyan

Dhyan requires two non-negotiable elements:

1. A Focus Image Your mind must be trained to hold one specific image, such as:
• the Guru,
• a Deity,
• the Divine Mother,
• or the chosen form of Deity

This image becomes the central anchor for your mind. 2.

A Sanskrit Mantra (chanted silently) Along with the image, you must chant a Sanskrit Mantra in a silent whisper—not loud, not mental-only, but inaudibly vocalized.

Why? Because Sanskrit is the programming language of the human brain, and the Mantra is the instruction set that reorganizes and refines the brain’s functioning.

How Dhyan Trains and Reprograms the Brain

Daily Dhyan practice does two things simultaneously:

1. It trains the mind to become steady. Your disturbed, wandering mind gradually learns to focus on one image without distraction.
2. It rewrites the internal programming of your brain through the Mantra.

The language of the Sanskrit Mantra—spoken silently—interact with the brain, reshaping patterns, cleansing distortions, and enhancing clarity and intelligence.

This dual process is the core of Dhyan. It is also the exact element that modern “meditation” techniques fail to include.

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Why the Mantra Is Essential and Non Negotiable in Dhyan

 Western meditation systems removed the Mantra from the process because they never understood:

• how Sanskrit interacts with the brain
• why silent Mantra chanting stabilizes and reorganises the mind
• why Mantra and Dhyan must operate together

This missing element makes modern meditation ineffective for deeper transformation.

In Dhyan, the Mantra is not optional—it is the most critical component.

Without it, the practice becomes incomplete and loses its transformative power.

Meditation vs Dhyan

The Key Difference

Meditation (as taught today):
• Encourages letting thoughts come and go
• Discourages controlling the mind
• Promotes passive observation
• Offers temporary calmness

Dhyan (as taught in ancient Indian scriptures):
• Requires active control of thoughts
• Repeatedly brings the mind back to the focus image
• Uses Sanskrit Mantra to refine brain programming
• Produces rapid mental transformation

Where meditation teaches you to “watch the mind,” Dhyan teaches you to master the mind.

The difference is enormous.

Why Mind Control Is Highly Beneficial

The ability to control your mind is one of the greatest powers a human can develop.

Through Dhyan, you gain:
• mastery over flow of thoughts
• control over senses driven impulses
• stability of emotions
• discipline of senses
• clarity of purpose
• alignment with Dharma
• reduction of fear, anger, and confusion
• rapid improvement in intelligence and problem-solving
• inner peace that does not depend on external conditions

Dhyan is the entry point into all deeper practices of Sanatan Dharma.

It is the foundation for:
• ethical living
• emotional balance
• overcoming instincts
• development of higher intelligence
• experiencing true freedom of thought

Dhyan is the single most important practice for controlling and strengthening the mind.

Modern meditation calms the surface.
Dhyan transforms the depths.

What Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Says About
Controlling the Mind

 To understand how Dhyan truly works and why it is so essential, we must look at what Shrimad Bhagavad Gita teaches about the mind, senses, and thought control.

Dhyan does far more than develop focus—it becomes the foundation for correcting one’s conduct and aligning one’s life with Dharma.

The Gita repeatedly emphasizes one key truth: To control the mind, you must first control the senses.

Let us examine this in detail.
The Power of the Senses

यततो ह्यपि कौन्तेय पुरुषस्य विपश्चितः।
इन्द्रियाणि प्रमाथीनि हरन्ति प्रसभं मनः।।२.६०।।
“O Kaunteya, even a wise and intelligent person striving for self-control can have his mind forcibly carried away by the impetuous senses.” (2.60)

This verse reveals a profound reality:
• Human senses are incredibly powerful,
• They are impulsive and restless,
• They can easily overwhelm even the most intelligent and learned of individuals,
• They can overpower logic, discipline, and spiritual intention.

Even great sages and learned people can be swept away by the force of their senses.

This shows why mind control through Dhyan is the process of developing control over your senses and why Dhyan is absolutely essential.

The First Step Toward Stabilizing Intelligence

तानि सर्वाणि संयम्य युक्त आसीत मत्परः।
वशे हि यस्येन्द्रियाणि तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता।।२.६१।।
“A Karmayogi must restrain all senses and sit in contemplation of Me. For the one whose senses are under control, intelligence becomes steady.” (2.61)

This is a direct reference to the process of Dhyan.

A practitioner must:

• withdraw the senses,
• gain mastery over them,
• and then direct the mind toward a divine focus— the Guru, God, Devi, or Devata as required by one’s Sadhana.

This verse describes an advanced stage of Dhyan, where the practitioner no longer battles distraction but sits in deep contemplation.

Such subtleties will be explained in detail in the Guru Diksha Manual.

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The Consequences of an Uncontrolled Mind The Gita gives one of the most important psychological descriptions ever recorded:

ध्यायतो विषयान्पुंसः सङ्गस्तेषूपजायते।
सङ्गात्सञ्जायते कामः कामात्क्रोधोऽभिजायते ।।२.६२।।
क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोहः सम्मोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः ।
स्मृतिभ्रंशाद्बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति ।।२.६३।।
“When a person thinks constantly of material objects, attachment develops. From attachment arises desire. From unfulfilled desire comes anger. From anger arises delusion. From delusion, confusion of memory. From confusion of memory, destruction of intelligence. And when intelligence is destroyed, the person perishes.” (2.62–63)

These verses present a step-by-step map of mental downfall, showing what happens when thought is uncontrolled:

1. Thought becomes attachment
2. Attachment becomes desire
3. Desire becomes anger
4. Anger becomes delusion
5. Delusion destroys memory
6. Loss of memory destroys intelligence
7. Destruction of intelligence ensures a person’s downfall

Modern psychology does not have any sequence as accurate or complete as this.

Dhyan: The Method to Break This Downward Cycle

In Dhyan, the mind will wander. It will drift toward desires, objects, and sensory temptations—because that is its natural tendency.

But the practice requires that you:

• pull the mind back
• again and again
• to the divine image
• while silently reciting the Sanskrit Mantra It is this repeated, intentional redirection that gradually builds:
• mental strength
• discipline
• clarity
• sense control
• and emotional stability

Over time, Dhyan gives you complete control over your mind, reversing the very chain of downfall described in the Gita.

However, this control is not permanent unless the practice continues.

The mind, if left unchecked, naturally begins to wander again. Therefore, Dhyan must be practiced regularly to maintain mastery.

Destruction Of Sorrows

This development of control over your mind will also lead to destruction of the sorrows in life, which can only be experienced and cannot be ascertained in mathematical figures.

The reader must understand the importance of this.

When you develop control over the senses, you will not take decisions that are guided by the senses but are guided by logic and intelligence.

Thus, when you take decisions with logic and intelligence your decisions will be correct.

When your decisions in life, small and big, would be correct, you will not face sorrows in life.

नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य न चायुक्तस्य भावना।
न चाभावयतः शान्तिरशान्तस्य कुतः सुखम्।।२.६६।।
"A person whose mind and senses are not under control, such a person does not possess intelligence. Because of which the person does not have a sense of performance of duty without getting attached. When the mind is still attached to objects of senses the person cannot have peace of mind. How can a person without the peace of mind be happy? 2.66."

By developing a control over your senses, you will take intelligence and logic-based decisions, therefore you will develop not just superior intelligence but as a result you will get the peace of mind because of superior and correct decisions in life.

With peace of mind happiness will descend upon you.

This is true not just for your professional life but personal life as well.

इन्द्रियाणां हि चरतां यन्मनोऽनुविधीयते
तदस्य हरति प्रज्ञां वायुर्नावमिवाम्भसि।।२.६७।।
The mind which becomes slave to the senses which are treading upon their subjects, even one such sense can sweep away a person’s intelligence just like strong wind sweeps away a boat. 2.67.

The mind of an average person is slave to the senses and therefore runs after or only thinks about the subjects of the senses.

In real life the human senses are extremely powerful to control.

For example, the sense of observation would like to see beautiful subjects, the sense of hearing would entice you to listen to good things all the time, the sense of taste would pull you to eat foods that may not be healthy for you, the sense of touch would force you to feel good all the time and the sense of reproductive organs will make your mind think about the related actions.

Just one of these senses is extremely powerful to sweep your mind away and make you take incorrect decisions in life.

What to talk about all the five senses roaming around freely?

तस्माद्यस्य महाबाहो निगृहीतानि सर्वशः।
इन्द्रियाणिन्द्रियार्थेभ्यस्तस्य प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठिता।।२.६८।।
Therefore, O mighty armed, one whose senses are entirely within the control such a person’s intelligence is steady. 2.68.

Therefore, when all the five senses are put under control at that time a person’s intelligence becomes steady.

आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं समुदमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत।
तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी ।।२.७०।।
Just as the water of all rivers collected from everywhere enters the oceans, but the ocean stays calm, similarly for a steadfast person, while still consuming the material objects, such a person reaches a state of complete calmness or peace (by developing a steady mind). 2.70.

This is an analogy, just as many rivers and water from all sources even while all of it enters the ocean, but ocean in itself remains calm.

Similarly, while a steadfast person is living in this real world with all the subjects of senses all around and consuming all of the material objects, the person remains calm and the senses remain under his or her control.

The essence of all of the above discussion is like this.

First, development of a steady mind is of prime importance and is the prime requirement. This is because when the mind continues to think about subjects of senses, it remains attached to the subjects of senses. This attachment develops a desire to own the subjects. When the subject or object cannot be owned, the person will develop anger and when anger is developed the memory and the capacity to analyse is lost. When this capacity is lost a person’s, intelligence is lost.

Note that in all verses Bhagwan Krishna has specifically used the word ‘Buddhi’ meaning intelligence. Withdrawing from senses cannot happen by forcing yourself to not to think of the objects of desire in your normal life.

First, a system needs to be followed to develop the control over your mind. So, while you sit for the purpose of Dhyan, you must pull your mind from all the senses and focus upon either Guru or the divine subject such as a deity. If you do not focus your mind upon the divine subject, then it will go back to the senses and the purpose of Dhyan developing a control over senses would be lost.

Thus, in contrast to the meditation technique, in Dhyan the mind needs to be controlled instead of letting the mind roam around freely.

The mind will again and again go away into other thoughts, but you are required to bring it back to the image of Guru or the deity.

Soon you will start to develop a control over your mind. Even after a long time the mind still wanders, the practice needs to be continued for life.

Mind has the characteristics of straying away at the slightest of distraction.

Therefore, this basic practice of about ten to twenty minutes would need to be continued throughout your life.

This is termed as essential morning and evening ‘sandhya’ in ancient texts.

But this is a sure shot way to bring your mind under control.

This practice alone is very powerful and in your professional life you will see major improvements.

This is your daily Yoga for mind just like the daily Yoga for the physical body.

Such a control over a period of time would lead to detachment from the subjects which would lead to peace of mind, which in turn would lead to happiness.

This is the path to happiness suggested in Shrimad Bhagwad Gita as you must have seen in the above verses.

This can only be experienced and cannot be translated into mathematical figures. The control needs to be complete over all of the five senses because just any one sense is powerful enough to sweep away your intelligence.

All the same it does not mean that you leave the worldly affairs and become an ascetic in the traditional sense of the word, but living within this very world, handling all of the worldly affairs, still you do not get attached to any of the worldly objects by gaining control over your own mind.

This can be achieved only through the practice of Dhyan as described above. 

Purity Of Mind From
Sense Control

Purity of Mind Arises From Sense Control

रागद्वेषविमुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन्।
आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति।।२.६४।।
प्रसादे सर्वदुःखानां हानिरस्योपजायते
प्रसन्नचेतसो ह्याशु बुद्धिः पर्यवतिष्ठते।।२.६५।।
A person who controls the senses and is free from attachment and hatred— even while interacting with the sense objects— attains purity of mind. From this purity, all sorrows are destroyed. For one whose mind has become pure, intelligence becomes steady. (2.64–65)

These verses reveal a fundamental truth:

Control of the mind
→ leads to purity Purity of mind
→ destroys sorrow Purity + control
→ stabilizes intelligence

This transformation cannot be measured in numbers—it can only be experienced through practice.

Why Sense Control Leads to Right Decisions

When your senses are controlled:
• You no longer make decisions driven by impulse and senses
• You do not get carried away by attractions or repulsions
• Your actions become guided by logic, intelligence, and clarity

Therefore: Correct decisions
→ fewer mistakes
→ fewer sorrows
→ more peace

This applies to every area of life—professional, personal, financial, emotional.

Without Control of Mind and Senses, Intelligence Cannot Function

नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य न चायुक्तस्य भावना।
न चाभावयतः शान्तिरशान्तस्य कुतः सुखम्।।२.६६।।
A person lacking control over mind and senses does not possess steady intelligence. Such a person cannot perform duty without attachment. One who remains attached cannot have peace. And without peace, how can there be happiness? (2.66)

A perfect chain:

1. No mind control →
2. No clarity →
3. No peace →
4. No happiness

This is why Dhyan becomes essential—it builds mind control from the root. 

Meditation:
A Crude Copy of Dhyan

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 Over the last few decades, the West borrowed fragments of Dhyan and turned them into “meditation techniques.”

But in doing so, they removed the most important core principles:

• Requirement of focus on forehead and not on nosetip
• Requirement of focus on the image of Guru or Deity
• Requirement of Sanskrit Mantras essential

While meditation techniques try to develop focus on the nose tip alone and watching the breath.

This is a requirement only for a particular Yogic Pranayam technique and is not a general practice of Dhyan.

Because the essential blueprint has been lost, meditation often produces limited or no results.

This is why thousands of people say:

“I have been meditating for years, but nothing is changing.”
“I feel calm during meditation, but my life is the same.”
“I don’t know what to do after this.”

Meditation has been mistakenly treated as an end process. Dhyan, on the other hand, is a beginning—a gateway to deeper intellectual transformation.

Why Modern Meditation Fails for Most People

People practice meditation for years expecting:

• enlightenment
• inner awakening
• release from suffering
• dramatic life changes

But meditation, as it is taught today:

• does not improve intelligence
• does not develop Dhruti
• does not stabilize the mind
• does not engage the subtle body

Without these elements, true transformation cannot happen.

This is why many meditation practitioners eventually feel:

• stuck
• confused
• disappointed
• or spiritually exhausted

They do not know what to do next—because meditation was never meant to be a standalone, final practice.

Dhyan: The Original, Authentic Process Towards Superior Intelligence

Dhyan (ध्यान) in ancient Indian scriptures is:

• a disciplined, advanced science to cleanse the soul
• a process that results in focus of mind
• a methodology to refine intelligence
• a means to dissolve past karmic patterns
• a starting process to bridge with the Divine
• the core of Sanatan Dharma traditions

Meditation as taught today has been made into an end process. While Dhyan is the beginning to a life long process of mental and physical transformation. The next process in Dhyan is the Sadhana practices. Sadhanas have been stated in the Vedas as tools to solve human problems and achieve objectives, otherwise unachievable by an average person.

The Conclusion

Meditation is a relaxation technique. Dhyan is a transformation technique.

Meditation calms the mind for a few moments.
Dhyan rewires the mind permanently.

Meditation is a tool.
Dhyan is a path.

Meditation brings temporary stillness.
Dhyan awakens higher consciousness.

Understanding the difference is essential for anyone truly seeking:

• inner growth
• mental clarity
• spiritual progress
• awakening of intelligence
• deeper understanding of self

In the Guru Diksha Manual, we will teach the exact methodology of how to perform Dhyan, how it works, and how it transforms human intelligence in ways modern methods cannot. 

Dhyan Mantras

The second requirement in the daily Dhyan practice is that of chanting of mantras.

There are three mantras. These three mantras are to be chanted every day for a specific number of times. All of these would require around twenty minutes twice every day.

People who say they do not have time for all this because the schedule is busy are not right.

According to studies one spends about 2 to 3 hours every day just on the mobile phone social media. Therefore, I will never agree to persons who say they do not have time.

Out of these many hours, 90 percent of this time spent is on non-productive issues. If you analyse you will know that even if you did not spend time on these issues, there would be no change in your life.

This time spent is entirely lost. Instead, if the time is spent wisely, one can achieve really big objectives in life.

Just as when a person is not well, the person himself needs to take the medicine.

Any other person taking medicine on behalf of the ailing person will not help the ailing person. Similarly, if you need to correct your intelligence you need to spend some amount of time upon yourself. Anyone else spending that time will be of no help.

Coming back to Dhyan, these three mantras and all the associated implements and directions would be available through a Guru Diksha Packet on this website. 

First Activity Even Before Formal Education

In ancient times and in the traditional Hindu schools of learning, the Gurukuls, this process of Dhyan started as the first activity whenever a child joined a Gurukul.

In ancient Gurukuls, the education of children started not at the age of three years but around twelve to fourteen years. At this stage a child starts to gain some understanding of the surroundings and the society.

Also, in ancient Gurukuls it was never rote learning, it was more of understanding the subjects through stories from Puranas and the like.

In ancient India the literacy rates were hundred percent before the British came in.

The primary process of education in ancient India started with making a child’s mind steady and incursion of values into the minds of young children by teaching them as to what is Dharma or being human.

This was the first stage of enhancement of human intelligence by making the human mind steady by the process of Dhyan and not meditation as practiced today.

This Stage 1 is to reprogram your brain which has been corrupted due to the sins committed in the past lives and this life and bring it back to its normal form.

This is therefore the most essential and important stage. Without going through this stage, a person cannot go for higher steps as in stage two and three which follow this stage.

Again, the people who say that they do not have time, they should reorganize their time. Surely enough time is available with everybody if the person is really interested in moving upwards above average.

Thus, Guru Diksha is the first stage. You can also call this joining of a school for systematic studies.

As of today, there is no school in the entire world including India which is giving the complete knowledge about the tenets of Sanatan Dharma that include system of life, understanding human intelligence and information about a defined path towards superior intelligence and a happy life.

It is our endeavor to establish a school which would provide organized extensive learning with respect to the above for the benefit of masses.

Going through the SRS series of videos for understanding the fundamentals of Sanatan Dharma is a first step in this direction. Simultaneously taking Guru Diksha can be taken as a start towards the practices.