QUESTION- Swamiji just how do we purify our mind from all these negative tendencies- anger for instance?
GURUDEV- It is as if the mind is made up of soft matter. So, as each thought passes through it, an impression is left on the mind stuff, just like a scratch.
Then when similar thoughts are repeated, the scratch deepens into a canal.
Every subsequent thought save has a tendency to flow through that ready-made canal. So if the canal if made up of good thought waves, then a good character is maintained and strengthened by the subsequent thought waves flowing irresistibly in that direction.
Let us take a concrete example to examine the working of the mind.
A continuation to this answer follows tomorrow.