How should the mind and senses be steered to lead us to peace? Bhagawan lovingly coaches us in crystal clear terms today.

Many ideas take shape in the human heart, wandering to the very ends of the eight directions. Some are mutually supporting; some mutually destructive. But they must all be canalized and disciplined to subserve some high purpose. You must have the cleverness needed for this canalization.  It is not merely cleverness in the use of external things; it lies more in the control and subjugation of the mental faculties - this is essential for the blossoming of the Atma. For understanding the faculties of your own mind, you must move with elders experienced in that line or work towards sublimation of the vagaries of the mind.  Until you intelligently fix upon a certain direction for all your thoughts and activities, you will only be building shadowy castles in the air and roaming about in them. Even your senses will be pursuing contradictory paths and distracting your attention to such an extent that you cannot easily come to a decision regarding the ideal. They make you feel that their paths are the best.  But you should always strive to change the course of the senses and the imagination to subjects and desires that are conducive to the ideal, whatever the difficulty and however serious the crisis. That is the sign of real intelligence; that is the road to real peace.