Self-Control 17

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Om Namah Sivaya

“The bhakta takes shelter under vidyamaya. He seeks holy company, goes on pilgrimage, and practice discrimination, devotion, and renunciation. He says that, since a man cannot easily get rid of his Ego, he should let the rascal remain as a servant of God, the devotee of God.”

“But a bhakta also attains the Knowledge of Oneness; he sees that nothing exists but God. He does not regard the world as a dream, but it is God Himself who has become everything. In a wax garden you may see various objects, but everything is made of wax.”

-----Sri Ramakrishna

Tirumantiram by Rishi Tirumular (verse 2036):

Control of Thought is the Key to Control of Senses

Why drivel at length?

Why the mirage think of?

The thought is the seed

Of things all;

Expand your thought

The things too expand;

Contract your thought;

That is all there is to it,

For those who think about it.

Bhagavad Gita:

 

>From Chapter VI: The Yoga of Meditation

35. Undoubtedly, O mighty-armed Arjuna, the mind is difficult to control and restless; but, by practice and by dispassion it may be restrained!

36. I think that Yoga is hard to be attained by one of uncontrolled self, but the self-controlled and striving one attains to it by the (proper) means.

Tirukural:

(305) They say only those who have renounced desire are renunciates. Others, though they have renounced all else, are not.

(306) As it is desire, above all else, which deceives a man, ascetics rightfully dread it.

 

 

 

 

 

Sivaya Namah

 

 

 

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