Taking help

Of course, it is not an easy task to conquer and control the mind and sense organs. It needs constant training. Training does not mean that one has to approach a particular person or an institution to get trained in controlling the mind and sense organs. It is because there is no such institution or person who can make one to control over one’s sense organs and mind. The act of controlling the sense organs and mind has to be done by the individual himself. All the external agencies can only help him/her to do it in a particular manner. But a universalised practice has to be individualised in tune with the context in which one lives. All Gurus (Masters) can tell one something about the existence of God or of the values, but the experience of God or of the values can never be given by a Guru. A Guru is a person who is authentic because he/she preaches only what he/she experienced. Authenticity in writing and in preaching can be attained only when there is a direct one-to-one correspondence between words and deeds. That is why it has been said that a Guru is only a personified experience of the ideas and values he/she teaches. Such a Guru can give one the idea that if one is ready to follow a particular path or journey then he should be able to reach a particular destination. But the task of travel has to be done by the traveler himself. Even such a Guru is not enough to make one to experience values or God. But such a person can only guide others. The maximum experience one can expect from a Guru is that he/she must be able to give us some sort of guidance. But the actual task of conquering and controlling the mind and the sense organs have to be done by the person concerned. The conquering and controlling of the mind and sense organs are to be practiced at every level of human action. It is not possible to have a division in between a group of actions in which one need not have control over mind and sense organs and another group where one does have such conquering and controlling, is not possible. Since human life is an individual unit of experiences, one cannot sanction holy days in one’s practice of ‘sama’ and ‘dama’. The present day market economy has made life divisible into too many fractured segments. In such a state of experience a man occurs in different contexts and adopts various norms and practises in tune with contextual peculiarities. Take for example the case of a seller and a buyer in different contexts. As a buyer one is free to bargain to get a product at the minimum prize, but as a seller he/she would be insisting to get the maximum price. The methodology he/she practises as a buyer would be entirely different from the methodology he/she adopts as a seller, though in both the contexts he/she expects the maximum profit. The market economy openly justifies that a person is free to adopt any means to ensure the maximum profit. Therefore, the personal interest of a buyer and the seller can be diametrically opposite.