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watch every thought. Vacant mind is ever distressed.
Non co-operation with the mind is swimming against the sensual currents, (Pratishroti tha), then the mind will be thinned out and gradually it will become your obedient, you will gain mastery over the mind.
The disciplined self has a very strong will. Therefore, the senses & mind obey our will. The disciplined self takes only those substances which are quite necessary for the maintenance of the body without any love or hatred. He never takes those substances which are forbidden by sastras.
We must thin out the thoughts by destroying them one by one-in order to drink the ambrosial milk or nector of immortality. Chop off the thoughts, one by one, when they emerge out through the trap door to the surface of the mind.
Even after thinning & reducing the thoughts, some thoughts will move about like the cut tail of lizard, but now they have becomes powerless, they cannot do any serious harm to the soul. If we go on regularly with our daily practice of concentration and meditation, they will die by themselves like a gheeless lamp. These thought that are suppressed or thinned out for sometime, manifest again after some time. They should
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