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Source: “Hindu Dharma” book.

How to Control the Mind
“What is the obstacle to one-pointed meditation? The answer is the unstill mind. All problems are caused by the mind, by the desires arising in it. It is not easy to control the mind and keep it away Image
effectively from desire. If we ask the mind to think of an object, it seems to obey us for a moment, but soon it takes its own course, wandering off. When I speak to you about meditation and tranquillity, for a moment your mind will perhaps become still and you will be happy. But
in a trice, it will go astray and the calm you experienced for a few seconds will give place to unquietness. If you bid your mouth to keep shut, it obeys you for a brief moment. Similarly, if you close your eyes asking them not to see anything, they shut themselves off from the
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#MahaPeriyavaa #YogiRamsurathkumar
Once during the mid-eighties, Pujya Sri Maha Periyava desired to see Bhagavan Yogi Ramsuratkumar and invited him through a personal attendant. He asked the personal attendant to bring Yogiji. Yogiji, accepting the invitation of Kanchi Sri Maha
Periyava, went to Kanchipuram. Sri Maha Periyava sat down and so did Yogi. Maha Periyava and Yogi looked at each other. They did not speak a word to each other verbally. After looking at each other for sometime, Kanchi Sri Maha Periyava, laughing lightly, said to His personal
attendant who had brought Yogi to Kanchi, “The matter for which he came is over. You may take him back to Tiruvannamalai.”
Did they meet just to see each other or did they exchange some news? Nothing could be comprehended. Yogi went back to Tiruvannamalai. Later when Yogiji was
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