Sound Bhakti

In Japan, where we go frequently, there's this little tranquil river that's barely flowing, but enough so that there's life in it, and it's beautiful. And retired people in Japan like to fish. Some do, and they'll stand by that little stream and they fish. When I go for my walks there, I watch, and I have never seen anybody catch anything, but what they do is they put the lure in the water, and then they pull it back and put it in and pull it back. With fishing, the fish has to see the lure and then get attracted to it and then bite. And so you can think of your mind like a fish. Fish are very fickle. They'll go off at any second; you look at them and make a wrong movement, they're gone. So you have to be a patient fisher and throw the lure and keep bringing it past. The mantra is the lure, and you keep bringing it past your mind. Keep bringing it past your mind, until the fish of your mind sees the lure. And then when you've captured it, when it's hooked on the mantra, then you've achieved a success. It's al