Making the Mind Strong
Someone asked Swamiji toward the end of a spiritual camp, "Swamiji, why in your presence is meditation so easy, but then when we are no longer near you, our ability to be still and dive deep fades away?"
"Because," said Swamiji, "when you're in my presence, I hold you with my mind, and my mind is much stronger than yours right now."
"To make the mind strong", he said, "You need to integrate the personality. You cannot have one thought pushing you in one direction and another thought yanking you back in another". "When you say one thing and do another, you dissipate energy," he said. "When you say one thing and then do it, you build inner strength."
1 Adapted from At Every Breath, A Teaching, authored by Rudith Emir, published by Central Chinmaya Mission Trust
