Die, mind :

Habits can be changed only by creating new habits. These new habits have to come from a spiritual discipline. The usual reaction to the imposition of a spiritual discipline is to say: ‘I am not in a mood to practise them. I will do them only on my own terms, not when told by somebody or forced by circumstances’. But the very moment you say this you have sacrificed your will to be dictated by moods and desires.



To live in subservience to the calls and appetites of othe outer world is the origin of all sins.



Such subservience contributes to 'inhuman' and 'undivine' vasanas piling  up in the mind. From vasanas to thoughts and from thoughts to actions is a very familiar chain. To break it, one has to substitute the evil vasanas by divine vasanas . When we keep on  pouring the clear water of the thought of God in to the reservoir of the mind, we naturally dilute the impurities in it. Eventually the divine thoughts will completely fill up the mind, hopefully. This is the spiritual self-discipline needed. This is what strengthens the will. 



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