Devoetee: How can the rebellious mind be brought under control?
Ramana Maharishi: Either seek its source so that it may disappear or surrender that it may be struck down.
Devoetee: But the mind slips away from our control.
Ramana Maharishi: Be it so. Do not think of it. When you recollect yourself bring it back and turn it inward. That is enough. No one succeeds without effort. Mind control is not one’s birthright.
The successful few owe their success to their perseverance. A passenger in a train keeps his load on the head by his own folly. Let him put it down: he will find the load reaches the destination all the same. Similarly, let us not pose as the doers, but resign ourselves to the guiding Power.
Ramana Maharishi: Either seek its source so that it may disappear or surrender that it may be struck down.
Devoetee: But the mind slips away from our control.
Ramana Maharishi: Be it so. Do not think of it. When you recollect yourself bring it back and turn it inward. That is enough. No one succeeds without effort. Mind control is not one’s birthright.
The successful few owe their success to their perseverance. A passenger in a train keeps his load on the head by his own folly. Let him put it down: he will find the load reaches the destination all the same. Similarly, let us not pose as the doers, but resign ourselves to the guiding Power.
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