MIND-CONQUEST BY INTROSPECTION: 2. Swami Sivananda.
===================================================================================== Saturday 25, October 2025, 19:45. PART ONE: Stages of Mind-conquest: CHAPTER 1 MIND-CONQUEST BY INTROSPECTION Sri Swami Sivananda This article is a chapter from the book Conquest of Mind. ====================================================================================== CHAPTER 1. MIND-CONQUEST BY INTROSPECTION: Man can bore a diamond with a bristle; he can tie an infatuated elephant with a slender silken thread; he can exercise his ingenuity and through the instrumentality of a mirror bring down the moon for the play of the child; he can make the flame of fire burn always downwards; but it is difficult for him to establish a control over his own mind. For gaining mastery over the mind, he has to know what the mind is, how it works, how it deceives him at every turn and by which methods it can be subdued. As long as the mind restlessly wanders about amidst objects, ever fluctuating, excited, agita...