What is the most common tendency of the mind? How can we regulate it? Bhagawan endearingly drives home some beautiful lessons today.

The mind is influenced by passion for objective pleasure and delusion of ignorance with which it pursues fleeting objects of the world with amazing quickness. So, again and again, it must be led towards higher ideals. Of course, it’s difficult at first, with persistent training, the mind can be tamed; it will get fixed in the perpetual enjoyment of “Om”. Mind can be trained by following methods of quiet persuasion, promise of attractive inducements, practice of withdrawing the senses from the outer world, endurance of pain and travail, cultivation of sincerity and constancy, and acquisition of mental equipoise (Sama, dama, uparati, titiksha, shraddha, and sama-dhana). Mind can be turned towards Brahman and constant contemplation of Brahman by the study of the Upanishads, adoption of regular prayer, serving others, the ecstasy of devotional singing, and adherence to truth. Very often, with the progress of meditation, new desires and resolutions arise in the mind. But one need not despair. The mind can be broken provided one takes up the task in right earnest and follows regular routine of training.