In our vain ego, we try to adjust, change or remove the external objects in order to have a control over them. However it will all be in vain if we don't have control on our own minds. Sw. Chinmayananda says: "Instead of unnecessarily wasting our energies in regulating the world of objects and environments, or controlling our sense organs, let us attend to the mastering of our minds.
Just as to one who is wearing shoes, the whole world is covered with leather, control the mind and go wherever you will!
"By following the ethical & moral codes of confuct, by cultivating devotion to the Lord through worship and prayers, by penance and surrender, through study and reflection, by dispassion and meditation upon self, through sacrifice and service, we strive to bring our mind into a quiet and total silence, and the quieter the mind gets, the more thoroughly conquered the mind becomes", exhorts Sw. Chinmayananda.
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