engage it in krishna

"My dear Krsna, I think the mind is very, very restless." Cancalam hi manaḥ krsna. Pramathi: "as madman." A madman is always restless. "And very strong. I want to control the mind, but it does not come under control. So this is the position. Therefore, You are asking me to control the mind..." Tasya aham nigraham manye vayor iva suduskaram: "I think it is more difficult than controlling the wind." Suppose there is very strong wind, and if you want to stop it, you see, it is not possible. There is cyclone. Similarly, Arjuna has compared the mind with the speed of cyclone. How it is to be controlled? So completely denied. But Krsna said, just to encourage Arjuna, that he should not be disappointed because he could not control the mind. But still, because his mind was always engaged in the lotus feet of Krsna, he is the best of all the yogis.    (More...)

He encouraged Arjuna that "Don't be disappointed, because your mind is always engaged in Me." Arjuna might be anything, but he was always thinking of Krsna. He was always associating with Krsna. He did not know anything else, Krsna. That is the position of first-class yogi. Otherwise, if you try to control the mind from kama, krodha, lobha, moha, matsarya, that is not possible. You have to change the position of such activities.    (More...)

Narottama dasa Thakura... Here it is said that kama-sambhavaḥ. Kama, kama means desire. So mind is restless, always desiring something, desiring something. So the best policy to control the mind is to desire how to spread Krsna consciousness. This is the best. Kamaḥ krsna-karmarpane [Prema-bhakti-candrika].    (More...)

For training the mind, this yoga system is. Those who are too much engrossed in the bodily concept of life, for them, this yoga system, astahga-yoga system, is recommended by practicing a certain type of asana and making a type of exercise of the breathing, in this way, pranayama, dhyana, dharana, asana, pranayama. But there is another simple method that is recommended in the sastra. You can train up your mind if you simply keep your mind on the lotus feet of Krsna. Krsna is here, and you see Krsna's lotus feet, and if you practice to meditate upon Krsna's lotus feet, Krsna's bodily feature, then immediately your mind becomes controlled. Sa vai manaḥ krsna-padaravindayoḥ [SB 9.4.18].    (More...)