How can I still my restless mind?

Question: My mind wanders aimlessly when I sit to meditate, and I feel dejected by this. How can I still my
restless mind?
Answer by Swami Mukundananda: The mind is
such a machine created by God that it cannot remain
empty; it keeps working on something or the other.
To still the restless mind into a state of
thoughtlessness creates an unstable condition for the
mind that is difficult to maintain. This is just as
while riding a bicycle, if you press the brakes and
bring the bicycle to a standstill, you will fall to the
left or to the right. But if you simply turn the handle
to one side, the cycle will stop moving forward and
very easily turn in the direction of the handle.
Meditational techniques for stopping the thought
process and stilling the restless mind are highly
unsuccessful. In Bhakti Yog, we do not try to still
the mind; we divert it to God. We do this by
meditating upon the form of God.
Make the Form of God as the basis of your meditation. In endless past lifetimes we have been habituated to
interacting with forms. All the personalities we loved and all the objects we were attached to had forms, and
so attraction to forms is a natural sanskar (tendency) of the mind. If we endeavor to meditate merely upon
the Name of God, or the syllable Om, the mind will not easily experience sweetness in it. But if we have
the all-attractive form of God before us, the mind will effortlessly be drawn towards it. This meditation
upon the form of God is called Roop Dhyan. Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj states:

(Bhakti Shatak)
All spiritual practices are like the body; meditation upon the form of God is like the life airs. Just as the
body without life airs is worthy of being eaten by dogs and vultures, similarly without meditation upon the
form of God, ones devotion is eaten by lust, anger, greed and envy.
Source : Jkyog.org

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