Self Control : Control over our mind

The love of the God with his beloved children is so much that he teaches us children with different knowledgeable points so as to get victorious over the 5 vices. God teaches us every single day and he is so merciful that he doesn’t even look towards the children’s deficiencies and weaknesses even a single day. He decorates us souls with different subtle virtues and powers. He sees us souls in a very elevated vision. One can very easily experience his love. His love makes our spiritual level very elevated. That is why he cannot see our weaknesses and deficiencies. He makes us feel our deficiencies and give powers to eliminate it. One of the deficiencies is becoming slave of the vices – Lust, anger, greed, attachment, ego. These vices controls our mind and intellect in a wrong direction. These vices locks our intellect to think in a positive way. There will always be distress and sadness when there is a master and a slave. Now a days we have become the slaves of these 5 vices. Without these vices, we cannot sleep, we don’t feel peace, we don’t feel contented. But in actual the reality should be I (master) am the owner of my own mind and make the 5 vices work as a slave. Whatever may be the situation, people, circumstances be, we cannot become slaves of those vices and situations.

Now a days, the reason for peacelessness & conflict in the world is not having self control. All the tension, stress that is happening in everyone is the effect of not having self control. For example when any machine/car gets out of control, it becomes dangerous for the people working there or the person operating that machine/car. In the same way, non control of the self destructs the self as well the whole world. There are too much caos in every direction and everyone is working hard to control others instead of controlling the self. Due to this gradually our mind have become weak and we feel fed-up with the whole world. People say they are stressed, depressed, tensed etc. These mental health issues are the results of negativity.

So we must check our thought level. Is it negative or positive? If we want to live in peace and happiness and make our environment same as heaven, then we need to change our thought level. It must be positive. Parents, children, teacher, and every citizen need to implement positivity within. For this do these 6 things:

1. We need to stop think negative, stop talking wasteful and stop doing wasteful and negative karmas. For this to happen we should have a good amount of stock of positivity. Spiritual knowledge is the source of intense positivity.
2. Do selfless service as much as possible as it will accumulate the account of virtues & blessings and will in turn help us. Give away the desire of name and honor and do service from your heart. Learn more : Selfless Service
3. Where medicines don’t work, blessings work. For example: the mental problems don’t become good by medicines but improves through good acts, it gradually becomes light.
4. Try to donate what you possess as much as possible. Donating gives blessings and thus helps us a lot during any ups and downs.
5. Think about the self instead of others. Also Read : Close your eyes to see anyone’s weaknesses and make your mind introverted. Think of the weaknesses and strengths of the self. Thinking of the weaknesses of the self will gradually produce a force from inside to diminish it. Thinking about the others will gradually deplet our inner energy because thought about others will start waste and negative thoughts about that person. And the speed of the waste thoughts and negative thoughts are very fast that will definitely deplet out energy and will overheat your brain if not stopped. Thinking about the strengths will tend to increase the strengths in return and thus make the self powerful. Learn to deal with overthinking : How to deal with overthinking and self criticism
6. Enjoy the company and remembrance of God.

Doing these 6 things will in turn increase a grip over the mind and the self. Positive thought’s speed is very very slow and thus these positive thoughts helps to have a grip over the mind and the self.

How to gain self control?

Practice affirmation that I am the director of all of my acts. It is only me over which I have 100 % control. No other person or situations can be controlled by the self. So, whatever may be the situation or how bad any person is, I will remain in the stage of peace, love, happiness, wisdom, purity, bliss and power. I will always radiate blessings, love and cooperation to all irrespective of the situation and the type of person. I will not deviate from this soul consciousness stage otherwise everything will deteriorate and our life will become very hard.

Read this : Remaining constantly unshakable: Staying in the path of Drama

Constantly accept the fact that It is I, the self who has full control over the self and no one can make myself work according to them. No one can make me angry, frustrated, peaceless, feeling low etc. I will not accept any negative to go inside me because I am very powerful. I am the son of the God and so I am very powerful. Practice these affirmation before going to the bed at night, after waking up in the morning, during eating our meals and gradually you will have a grip over the mind and the self.