There is an old saying, “karat-karat abhyas ke jarmati hot sujan” that is, if you work hard, you will surely succeed. It is also said that if the mind wins, the world wins. Although we all work with our hands, feet, ears, mouth, etc., we do it with the senses, but it can be done only when our mind wants to do that work. For example- Like a student is sitting in a school class listening to a lecture from a teacher. While listening, he remembered that he forgot to wake father up before coming to school. If mother comes back, who will open the door of the house? There will be a big ruckus. Now as long as that student’s thinking remains in the house, till that time , he will not know what the teacher is saying. If the teacher asks him what was she talking about, he will not be able to tell. Although his body was in the same school, the ears were listening to the teacher’s voice, the eyes were looking at the teacher but because the mind was not there, all the senses were not able to do their work properly. That is why the mind is said to be very strong. In Shrimad Bhagavad Gita too, Arjuna tells Lord Krishna that the mind is very fickle, stubborn and extremely powerful. Now the question is how to conquer the mind? Only God tells the remedy for this. It is necessary to win the mind or else the student will not be able to complete the studies, the player will not be able to play in the playground, the businessman will not be able to do successful business, the housewife will not be able to run the house in an efficient manner. Lord Krishna says that the mind is stronger than the senses in the body. The intellect is stronger than the mind, if a person is determined to do something with the intellect and keeps practicing it, then it becomes easy to operate the mind. According to Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, by practice and detachment, the mind comes under control. In order to achieve your goal, if you have disinterest in worldly things and attachment to the goal, then success will surely come. By the way, there is another thing that the soul is stronger than the intellect. As long as the body has the power of experience, knowledge and mind, till then happiness and sorrow are experienced. This mind-power or sense-power is called soul. As long as it is in the body, this person will be called a person in the eyes of everyone and when it is not there then everyone will call it dead body. Fire is experienced by looking at smoke, similarly the cause is experienced by action. Although we cannot see the soul, but its existence has to be accepted and because of the soul is the Supreme Soul. Sri B V Vishnu Maharaj
