How can a petty mind seek the ‘immense’? It can only translate the immense in terms of its own shallow pettiness. Therefore the mind must be completely free, and therefore the mind becomes quiet. It hasn’t to seek peace of mind – which is an absurdity. There must be complete disassociation from society, which does not mean that you leave society, go to a forest or become a hermit – that is merely a change of clothes, a change of habitation – but to completely disassociate yourself so that you become alone. The mind then is uninfluenced by society, so it is capable of standing completely alone. Then you proceed to meditate because then you will notice the brain, which is the result of time, which is the result of animal instincts, which is the result of the accumulated knowledge of society – the nation, race, group, family – that brain becomes extraordinarily quiet because it is no longer seeking, no longer frightened, no longer pursuing an idea, no longer craving for comfort, security or permanency. Therefore the brain is extraordinarily quiet. It must be quiet because any movement of the brain which is compelled by the past, if it projects it, creates illusion. Therefore it must be completely still.