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of uneasiness, restlessness and hope. Even a vague sense of an aspiration for the attainment of some thing causes anxiety in the mind and hence, the mind cannot become free in the real sense. After cultivating such a mental control over desires and aspirations, it becomes necessary to keep the mind or Citta free from the influences of the external objects on it. It can be done by controlling the functioning of the sense organs that convey the impressions of the world to the mind. When the mind is properly inhibited ideas cease to cause restlessness in the mind. Restraint of the mental states implies the external as well as internal control. It implies the curbing of the functions of the external sense organs by arresting the flow of impressions from the external world, internally it means the cultivation of certain mental attitudes like indifference and detachment. S. Radhakrishnan describes the nature of our mind in the following passage - "Our mind is an arena of conflicting forces which require to be subdued to some unity. There are some desires that seek satisfaction, some vital urges of life, such as those of self-preservation and selfreproduction, which refuse to be easily controlled. The obstacles to concentration are said to be the different forms of misconception namely, ignorance (opfaut), egoism (EHT), attachment (zm), aversion (a) and clinging to life (strafa aer). Others are sickness, languor, doubt, headlessness, laziness, worldliness, erroneous perception, failure to attain concentration and instability in it when attained.” 1
1 Radhakrishnan S. : Indian Philosophy, Vol. II, p. 349.
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