MIND CONTROL

Our education, professional life, physical fitness, social & family life........ our whole life, society & nation's overall outcome is depend on individual's Mind control.

Mind is like a chattering jukebox full of thoughts and emotions of what we have heard, tasted, smelled , seen and touched. Mind is so restless, very agitated, obstinate and swift rapidly from one thoughts to others faster than light & wind.  Mind in matter of seconds makes haven out of hell and hell out of haven. As a human we are trying to be controller and master of universe, but in reality we are slave of our own mind. In our day to day life controlling  & convincing our mind to do the right thing  is very difficult task. 

Bg 6.6 — For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy.

Bg 6.34 — The mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strong, O Kṛṣṇa, and to subdue it, I think, is more difficult than controlling the wind.

How to control our mind?

We have to treat our mind as outsider, 2nd person not a part of our own body just like we treat & reject salesman's mind who try to sell each & every products to us. We should not buy all ideas that's mind proposing to us. We need to stop indulging ourselves actively or passively into shallow sensually pleasure activities. 

Mind can not remain empty, so our negative, worldly & mundane thoughts have to be replaced or crowded out by good spiritual thoughts. We need to change habits of our senses. We should develop higher taste for hearing & reading good thoughts, seeing, smelling & tasting good stuff.

We need to change ABCDE of our mind:

A: Association: Association is the key to be successful in any field we require association with like minded cool, calm & collected soul who is on divine path.

B. Books: Hearing, reading & discussing the good literature with spiritual thoughts and scriptures not mundane literature.

C. Chanting mantra: In age of darkness mantra meditation is easy & more effective.  

D. Diet: Watch your diet, our body & minds are made up of what we eat. Consume fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts. Avoid frozen & packages products and intoxicants.

E. Exercise: Physical fitness will help us to keep our mental fitness.

There was never, not now or will ever have medicine or machine to control our mind

5 minute video by Amarnath Dasa.

https://youtu.be/i3Grg_tz7Go

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I am inspire to hear & read Vedic Scriptures & other philosophy by regularly listening Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale known as Dadaji ( speak on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra. 

FYI: Good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com (Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures).

I also hear and read discourses & articles on Vedic thoughts & other philosophy from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples (Rasamitra Swami, Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, Bhakticharu Swami,  Urmila Devi Dasi,  Radhanath Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu ( Gujarati & Hindi) Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......). 

I am posting some article based on Vedic scriptures and literature. Of course I use Google search to collect some data. Thanks to Facebook for providing platform.

It is always good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Besides my parents, spouse, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE.

Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by grace of Guru & God (Absolute Truth).