Humble Pranams At The Divine Lotus Feet Of Our Ever Present Beloved Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba!
Controlling our mind is such a hard task.Its just like how a wild animal is trained by the Master in a circus.When the Master strikes the rope on the ground the wild animal bows down and listens to his exact command.Our mind too which is a wild animal needs a strike of the leash so that it listens to the inner voice of our LORD. A King called several villagers together and gifted each one of them a goat with an order that every animal should be well fed by its keeper.But he imposed just a single condition.When the Goats were brought back to him when ordered,they should not be eating green leaves at all.In fact,they should display total distaste of leaves.AS an incentive to the villagers,he announced a reward of ten thousand rupees to the villagers who would successfully tend the goats as directed. The villagers thought that if a goat was fully fed,and if its stomach was full,it could take nothing more;it would refuse even green leaves.So they made it a habit to feed the animasl so fully that they would not wish to touch anything,A Girl however followed a different method of training her Goat.She placewd green leaves before the goat and when the animal was about to feed on them,she gave a beating on its mouth with a stick.Repetition of this proceedure had the effect of deterring the animal from touching green leaves even when they were placed right beofre it,although its stomach was not full. Somtime later the King ordered the villagers to present the goats for inspection.He found that the goats started eating leaves as soon as they were placed before them.But there was one GOAT that was not even looking at the leaves.Instead it was looking at the stick its keeper held.The King was delighted and promptly presented ten thousand rupees to the Girl who successfully trained that particular goat in the manner ordered by him. Control of mind also reuires a similar hard training ans severe discipline.Arjuna,eminent that he was,admitted "Chanchalam Hi Manah Krishna! Pramadee Balavath-Dridham" "Oh Krishna,mind is unsteady and fickle,confusing,strong and inflexible.He prayed to Krishna to enlighten him of how to subdue and control such a difficult and unruly mind. There is no doubt that the only way to conquer the mind is to practice ardous and relentless spiritual discipline(Sadhana) Source : Tapovanam pg 283 JAI SRI SAI RAM!
