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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
impossible without such a conscious attitude. Sometimes we feel joy and at other times only sorrow. One should divert his attention from sorrows and try to feel joy only.
The practice of equanimity is a difficult task. We should not expect immediate results. We are not fully developed and free from the effects of our deeds, and, therefore, sādhanā cannot be expected to bear fruits in a day or two. Anyhow, we should at least attempt to keep our knowledge as pure as possible. We should avoid the operation of feeling. The development of the sense of equanimity means the purity of knowledge. This is the initial process of the transformation of personality and if we cannot enter into such a process there is no sense in talking about it.
The potter places a lump of shapeless clay on the wheel and as soon as the wheel begins to revolve, the fingers of the potter begin to give shape to the clay. The clay will not take the shape of a pot unless this initial process has begun. The aim of the practitioner should be to give a new form to his personality. Unless the clay has been transformed into a pot, it will not be able to hold water.
The transformation of personality is the consummation of the process of sādhanā.
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