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Everyone is riding on the chariot of mind. And the mind is taking him here and there, here... And the yoga practice is also treatment

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"Everyone is riding on the chariot of mind, and the mind is taking him here and there. And the yoga practice is also treatment"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Harāv abhaktasy kuto mahād-guṇa mano-rathena. Everyone is riding on the chariot of mind, and the mind is taking him here and there. And the yoga practice is also treatment.

So everyone is attracted with the woman's body. In your country I have seen the advertisement, "bottomless," "topless . . ." That is the material attraction. Everyone is in this material world on account of attachment. And similarly, for woman, the man's body is beautiful. So in this way both of them are attached to one another. That is the basic principle of material life. Yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham kaṇḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham (SB 7.9.45). They become attached. And account of sex life, they become more attached, and therefore both of them remain almost perpetually in this material world, and to satisfy different desires they transmigrate from one body to another. And on account of accepting this material body, there is always miserable condition. Therefore everyone requires the psychiatric treatment so that the mind may be transferred from matter to spirit soul. Then you'll be cured. The disease is of the mind.

Harāv abhaktasy kuto mahād-guṇa mano-rathena. Everyone is riding on the chariot of mind, and the mind is taking him here and there. And the yoga practice is also treatment. This is also yoga, bhakti-yoga, and this ordinary haṭha-yoga, that is also treatment of the mind. Treatment of mind means controlling the senses. Yoga indriya-samyamaḥ. Mind is the leader of the senses. So if the treatment of the mind is done properly, then the senses work properly. The example is the madman. Because the madman's mind is not controlled, he is acting in a way, people say: "Here is a madman." So everyone is more or less a madman in this material world, or, in other words, you can say anyone who is in the material world, he is a madman; he requires treatment. Just like anyone who is in the prison house, it is to be accepted that he is a criminal. Without any study, without any exception, we can accept all the prisoners as criminals.

Page Title:Everyone is riding on the chariot of mind. And the mind is taking him here and there, here... And the yoga practice is also treatment
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-10-09, 14:01:23
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1