Why mind always directed outward rather than inward?
Because we do not raise the question of why the mind is always directed outward rather than inward.
This question is the result of not having a proper understanding of the nature of happiness. People spend their lives looking for it in the most inappropriate places and doing things wrong. It begins with the impression "that in reality, is poorly understood, that happiness is something you can find out about you, and besides, you have to do something or go somewhere to find it. That is your wishful thinking and, as you you believe, the mind goes to look for happiness outside world. Even
up when they say: "Happiness is within you as your own self look inward and find", you think you have to do something or go somewhere to find it. That's the power of Maia, the illusory. It's like a fish in the sea than other fish asks how it reaches the sea.
When you realize you have glasses on, you can spend all day looking for them or think that you lost and, consequently, believe they are an object you have to find. But in the end, just realizing that has been worn all day.
While it lasted this search, what you were looking for was, in fact the tool through which produced the fact to see. Were you looking for an object that turned out to be the person I was seeing something. It is the same with the mind and the Self The mind creates the notion that we must find the Self and organizes all of a search as if it were an object that could be located somewhere inside. That's the same nonsense that the man carrying a goat on his back and passed the time looking everywhere and asking everyone where they can be inserted.
... "The mind dies
gradually or suddenly?
One answer is: "When the sun rises, does the darkness suddenly or gradually?"
Speaking about this, Bhagavan once remarked: "You think that a rope that is hanging in the dark is a snake and then, how many years will it take the snake to die."
This response is better. If the mind does not exist, can not die either quickly or slowly.
Annamalai Swami.
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