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external physical actions. You will have to look to the motive of the man. Then you will not be mistaken. Keep the mind fully occupied with spiritual thoughts then evil thoughts will not enter in your mind. An idle brain is the devil's workshop. Avoid loose talk and gossip. The mind is jumping monkey. Therefore it must be disciplined daily then it will come under your control.
Just as fruit is born of the seed, so also deeds are born of thoughts. Good & bad thoughts generate good and evil action respectively. If you cultivate good thoughts by satsanga, study of religious books, prayer etc., evil thoughts will die by themselves. Then you have attained some real progress in the spiritual path.
Control the thoughts or sankalpa. Avoid day dreaming. Extinction of sankalpas alone is Moksha or release. The mind is destroyed when there is no imagination. The experience of world vanishes, when imagination is stopped. Victory over thoughts, a victory over ignorance & death. The inner war with the mind is more terrible then the outer war with the machine guns. Conquer thoughts and you would conquer the world.
The mind can very easily think of worldly objects
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