# Transcendental Meditation: Letting the Mind Settle Naturally

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- Source account: [@binarybodhi](https://x.com/binarybodhi)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:22
- Published: 2026-11-05
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally) There could be so many systems of meditation, mind control and trying to concentrate here and there.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=7) But all these procedures put the mind to strain, some kind of resistance. Because if you want...

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=14) If you try to concentrate the mind, you are holding the mind in one spot.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=20) What is necessary is to let the mind move till all the moving comes to a standstill in a natural way.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=27) Right. That state of least excitation of consciousness is gained.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=32) It can only be gained in a natural way. Any effort, any, uh, trying to accomplish that state of least excitation will always keep the mind in an excited state.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=46) So in the name of meditation, so many systems are there.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=50) They have existed since all times, but they keep the mind in strain, in stress.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=59) Don't relax the mind. Transcendental Meditation being a very natural procedure, by itself the mind settles down, and once it comes to that state of least excitation, then it becomes most orderly.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=73) Orderly thinking starts, behavior becomes better.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uqyovqGW153N/en/transcendental-meditation-letting-the-mind-settle-naturally?t=76) Everything in life starts from that experience of least excited state of conscious-