On controlling the mind

Since nature never provides unlimited resources to satisfy the unending need and greed, then every individual, society and state has to limit oneself to the minimum. But today, the whole media with all their magnificent varieties of performances make us believe that it is possible to go to the unlimited extend. That is why we are thinking of an ambitious world. But really, the world is incapable to satisfy human ambition. Therefore one has to control ones own sense organs and mind. The control of mind and sense organs has been technically termed as ‘sama’ and ‘dama’. ‘Sama’ means controlling the mind; ‘sama’ has been defined as the sum total of the subtle forms of sensory organs and motor organs. Then, controlling the mind must be the first step to be adopted to control the sensory and motor organs. That is, if we are able to control the subtle forms of activity, naturally we must be able to control the gross forms. The theory is that there is causal nexus (connection) between cause and effect and since cause remains as a subtle entity and the effect is exposed as a gross entity, then any control over the causal form must be able to control the explicit effect. There are instances in which people practise the external control of sensory and motor organs without having proper control over the mind. Then what happens is that such an activity can always create conflicts, crisis, confusion and various types of psychological complexes. Every psychological complex has been generated in human mind and the dangerous tentative mechanism reveal something pleasant as a means to control that has often been treated as unpleasant. For ex. The superiority complex that is present in every dictator, whatever field in which the dictator acts, is only a mechanism to conceal the inferiority complex which he feels. Every act of superiority always reminds the agent that he is inferior. Finally, the multiplicity of the rate of gravity of the complexities takes him to the mental asylum to get released. If one is ready to go through the sad narrations of oppressions and repressions experienced by the monks in monasteries of religious orders, it substantiates their view. Therefore, the first thing one has to do is to control ones desire by conquering and controlling mental functions.