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length. Fewer the thoughts, greater the peace. Remember this always. A sadhu who lives in the cave and who is practising thought control is very happy inspite of his poverty in terms of wealth.
Fewer the thoughts, greater the mental strength and concentration. Suppose that the average no of thoughts that pass through your mind within one hour is one hundred, if you succeded in reducing it, by constant practice of concentration and meditation to ninety, you have gained 10% of power of concentration of mind.
Thought makes a saint or a sinner.
The expansion of the mind's thoughts towards sensual objects is bondage. The attachment is due to the force of Rajas. Sattva brings non-attachment and infuses in the mind discrimination and renunciation. It is the Rajasic mind that causes the ideas “I” & “Mine" and the difference of body, caste, creed, colour, order of life etc.
The poisonous tree of the Mayaic illusion grows more and more out of the minds modification or expanded thoughts in the soil of the multifarious enjoyments of the world.
Impure thoughts should be destroyed by the
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