Mind-conquest By Spiritual Culture: Sri Swami Sivananda
=================================================================================== Saturday 17, May 2025. 07:30. Mind-conquest By Spiritual Culture: Sri Swami Sivananda This article is a chapter from the book Conquest of Mind. ================================================================================= The mind is like a wheel which revolves endlessly with tremendous velocity. It generates new thoughts with every revolution. This wheel is set in motion with the vibrations of psychic Prana or subtle Prana. The practice of Pranayama lessens the velocity of the mind, slows down the wheel gradually. Perfect control of Prana will bring the wheel to a standstill. Alcohol, meat, Rajasic foods, the cinema, novel-reading, obscene songs, obscene sights, obscene talks, evil company will make the wheel of mind revolve very rapidly; whereas fruits, Sattvic food, the company of Mahatmas, study religious books, solitude, Japa, Kirtan, concentration, meditation, enquiry of “Who am I?” will slow ...