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when water enters the boat. As long as we keep sailing on the waves of samsara (life) we need not fear anything, but we should see that the water of passion and attachment does not enter the boat of our life.
In the Kitchen, fire burns in the oven. The smoke emerging from the oven blackens the walls and roof of the kitchen. In consequence, the beauty of the room is lost. The condition of the mind is also similar. The mind is blackened by the smoke of passions and its beauty is lost consequently.
As long as the mind is impure, beauty, felicity and peace cannot dwell in it. The mind is the only enemy which should be conquered. "True victory is victory over the mind and real defeat is to he enslaved by the mind." Those who are enslaved by the mind have to face defeat in the battle of life. True victory is the conquest of the mind. To conquer the mind we should check its changing propensities and compel it to obey us. Yoga means controlling and disciplining the mind. Our good and evil deeds are connected with our mind not with cur body. It is said, "The sin committed by the mind is truly a sin. The sin of body is not a sin." A man embraces his wife as well as his daughter. The difference between the two actions lies in the mental attitude behind them. A doctor uses a knife. A robber also uses a knife but the former uses the knife to help people, to do a good deed, and the latter uses the knife to kill people. Both a good man and a bad man use their minds for thinking and reflection. A wicked man uses his mental power of thinking to harm others while a good man uses it to help others.
Mahatma Gandhi studied the Gita and thought about it for forty years and then he wrote Anāsakti Yoga. Sri Aurobindo, even after plunging into the waters of contemplation for forty years said that his quest was not over.
Vāchaspati Mishra, after his marriage, began to write a commentary on Sankhya Karika. He was working with such concentration that he forgot his wife. For years, she had been serving him but he did not see her face
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