How to control mind

HOW TO CONTROL MIND:

Now forgetting the entire world let's focus our attention on the art, how to control minds? We all wish to succeed in life, that means we wish to feel good, we wish to be able to think well, we wish to be able to do good. Then we must know how to control the mind. How it works? This is the universal common need because life has been created by God. Hence life is sacred all of us has tiny parts of God, wish to be perfect like he is perfect. How to control the mind for that kind of success?Some people have a lot and yet they fail miserably, some people have very little and yet they lead rich and successful lives. I will give you one instance of either case so that we can draw conclusions from it first. The first kind of typical example I came across was of Elvis Presley.He was the icon of a generation, he was called the king of rock, and roll or more simply the king.He has blessed with exceptionally good looks a golden voice as a result of it. He became super celebrity, he had amazing wealth exceedingly popular and he had what was his life. Here's a description of an average day of Elvis Presley, during his last four years have performed on the stage. When he would return, he would tell his retinue of servants, give me the first hit. They would give him in a paper different coloured crystals of different barbecue rates, and they would give him a shot of drugs under his shoulder blade then a race would begin. How much he could eat and drink before he fell asleep? He would then fall off asleep, and the morning four o'clock he would wake up. Now with less enthusiasm, because he was drugged.He failed to control the mind. He would say give me the second hit, they would again jab an injection under his shoulder blade and give him some crystals to eat. That would keep him knocked off through the morning around 12:00 or so. Third time when he woke up whether he asked or not. They would give him the third hit in the early night. He would take some chemicals to bring himself, back into energy and go and give his performance on stage and then repeat this process his closest associates. When asked why does he do this? Said, he is so unhappy. He wishes to forget himself, that is why he does it here the example of someone who had so many blessings and yet his inner life was a miserable failure.Now contrast this with somebody who was his contemporary. This was a lady who most of you have heard of her name was Helen Keller. Helen Keller at the age of 18 months, she caught a virus as a result of it. She lost her sight and her hearing two of the five senses became dead. So from the age of one and a half years, till the age of six, little Helen Keller used to throw tantrums. She didn't have means to communicate when parents would touch her she would go into a tantrum. As a solution her mother took her to a school for the physically challenged and Sullivan was the principal of the school. She touched Helen Keller, and little Helen again threw a tantrum Hansole. Even told the mother leave her with me, tonight I will take care of her.So when the mother had gone and Sullivan placed little Helens left hand under the water faucet and with the right hand she drew indicated water for the first time in her life, little Helen understood that physical entities have designations or names a light went on inside her. She thrilled on this little bit of learning. She wanted to learn more that night, she learned the names of 30 objects.She has to control the mind.She continued to keep learning, she learned to Braille. She went on to become a graduate and started doing philanthropy around the world, as she became famous she desired to give lectures. So she wanted to learn how to speak, she did not know how to hear and yet she learned how to speak and she delivered lectures around the world. She lived till a ripe age and at the end, she said life has been so beautiful. I've enjoyed every single day see from one perspective, she had so much less than others and from another perspective. She had made her life success on these three parameters to feel good to think, good to do, good so to be successful internally and externally. God has bestowed all of us with many assets our body, our resources, our family, our social status, our set of skills and knowledge. Very often we sideline these, we underestimate these and we think I am NOT happy because of this-this-this. Do you know this guy doesn't behave properly? That's why I'm not happy, the situation is not exactly right for me. That is why I'm justified in having negative thoughts, God is not taking care of me so much. That is the problem, in other words, we do not know how to control the mind.We tend to rationalize for our negative thinking by blaming externals.If we do that we will never succeed in the art of mind management, we will never succeed in controlling the mind.Because the first step is to take responsibility for what I think, for what I feel, I am responsible I should not blame anybody else. I was once taking a walk in Delhi, I was crossing a bridge and I found a person in tattered clothes standing on the railing of the bridge.He seemed to be gathering his resolve to take a leap into the water, seeing what he is about to do. I screamed stop now, he hesitated and the moment was lost you. See people who are thinking of committing suicide, if they lose the moment, the thought process change as I jumped up he jumped down.