OUR MIND

OUR MIND

Even though we can't see it or touch it, our mind is either our best friend or our worst enemy. Our state of mind will make us either highly successful and happy or it will drag us down into a miserable quagmire. If we make the mind our best friend by bringing it completely under control, we will be blessed with supreme success. And if we allow it to run wild, our life will be an utter disaster since we will be forced by laws of nature to glide down to the animal kingdom in our next lifetime.

So how do we bring it under control? This is the most important question. Krishna gives us a hint in the Bhagavad-gita:

yathā dīpo nivāta-stho
neṅgate sopamā smṛtā
yogino yata-cittasya
yuñjato yogam ātmanaḥ

"As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent self." ---Bhagavad-gita 6.19

So the secret of success is that we have to keep the mind always focused on Krishna, the transcendent self. The Krishna conscious mind is the perfectly controlled mind.