Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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2. TRAINING THE MIND
A MAN never shows what thoughts and conflicts go on in his mind, nor does he tell them to anyone. But because he does not reveal them to others, it does not mean that thoughts or conflicts are not raging in his mind. Even a small child is full of thoughts and that is why it asks so many questions.
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Many thoughts disturb our minds but we keep them hidden and think, "What if someone reads mind? And if people read my thoughts, they will find out how much I know, or rather how little I know!" For that reason we try and hide, or cover up the thoughts that go on disturbing our minds owing to the turmoil raging within us. But a student of life, or in other words a person who is curious about the meaning of life, knows that we cannot go on hiding our thoughts for ever. They cannot remain hidden for long. In the end they burst out like a volcano and destroy everything around them. Like a volcano in eruption, our suppressed thoughts, when they gush out from the inmost recesses of our mind, practically destroy the man who stores them.
A man's downfall comes about in this way. Somehow the thoughts he is trying to suppress, come out and are revealed in all their violence, destroying the man who has hidden them so long.
So wise men who know the secrets of life, immediately remove bad thoughts that come into their
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