By means of systematic Sadhana (spiritual practice) it is possible to tap the inner resources that God has endowed man with and elevate yourselves to the purer and happier realm of the Reality. Look at the trainers of wild beasts. They bring the tiger, the most ferocious of animals, like a cat into the circus ring, and make it jump through a hoop of fire, or lap milk from a plate, face to face with a goat, sitting on a chair! They are able to subdue its ferocity and tame it, reduce it to the position of an unassuming toy! How could they do it? They did Sadhana, they made the tiger also go through a regimen of Sadhana and they succeeded! If you could succeed with the tiger, can you not succeed with the ferocious denizens of your mind?
- from Swami's Discourse on October 4th, 1967... Sai Ram
