Yogic January 2020_Digital Issue | Page 42

MINDFULNESS The Science of Mindfulness Steps to secure Inner Peace The pure intellect purifies the thinking and right thinking perceives what is good. asanśhayam mahā-bāho mano durnigraham chalam abhyāsena tu kaunteya vairāgyena cha grihyate K rishna, the originator of yoga says: O mighty-armed son of Kunti (disciple and seeker), what you say is correct; the mind is indeed very difficult to restrain. But by practice and dispassion, it can be controlled. Eastern Wisdom is knowledge about subjective reality. Every master helped people at their time to know mind, body, 40 www.yogicherald.com Jan. 2020 consciousness and existence. The brain is gray matter, considered part of the body. What we are learning is the result of 6000 years of research to make life better, free from suffering (now termed stress and stress induced disorders). The master agrees with the disciple that mind indeed is difficult to control. This is one of the many ways in which masters educate their disciples. But the next