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The lord also realised his real Self only with the help of such restraint and austerities and acquired real happiness. This very fact is our guiding factor. We have also to proceed further by the same path and enjoy the real bliss of soul.
PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
Our mind can be compared with a monkey. It makes us dance and so sometimes we are inclined to possess this thing and the next moment we love to possess something else. It is not easy to control the mind, but with practice one can accomplish anything. The great sages declared. "With practice one can control the mind". So it is essential to study the mind.
Religious rites lessen the power of passions, in fact they destroy passions. If these rites are performed under fraud or hypocrisy or with desire to achieve worldly happiness then one has to undergo infinite number of births and deaths. If the soul remains under spiritual influence then it would manifest powers despite being confined in Karmic bondages. If the soul on the other hand remains under the influence of other objects or other motives it would lose its power.
Remember that more the soul assumes detached view in life more joy it begins to experience. Only with dispassionate or detached attitude, the soul would be able to realise real happiness. Make this detachment or dispassionate view your very ideal and you will be able to enjoy real happiness.
