Control of the Senses (Tattva Bodha pages 17 - 18)
- By succumbing to the incessant demands of the senses we grow physically and mentally weak - sense control is important for secular success, is required for spiritual success
- All successful people know their minds to a certain degree - with this awareness of themselves they are better able to execute what they set out to
- We have to renew our aspiration to develop discipline for the sense organs - this is facilitated by shama or discipline of the mind
- Whenever we are in a satsanga we are spiritually brilliant and unambiguously peaceful - when we are not in satsanga our strength falters and the only way to remain stong is to 'carry' satsanga everywhere and 'remember' satsanga all the time
- The mind will remain immortal until Self Knowledge shows us the truth of the mind's mortality - compassion, or the ability to suffer with another, is a potent means to drop the erroneous notion of 'my mind'
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