The Total Solution to the Total Problem.20 - Swami Krishnananda

28/03/2017.

When the proper means is employed, it may evoke a response from the corresponding objective towards which the means is directed. The end which is the goal of the means has a relationship to the means, and the end may be considered as the evolution of the means towards its fulfilment. Inasmuch as the basic facts of life do not seem to be in harmony with the usual notions of man, the ordinary methods employed in life for a successful existence may not serve the purpose here in this situation. There is a novel method altogether that perhaps has to be employed.

Self-control is the means, the method, the technique, the art, the science and the way. But man is accustomed to give a freelance expression to his emotions, feelings and passions in the world of objects of sense spread out in this world of space and time. Self-restraint is something unheard of in this world which longs for sensory joys, physical comforts, political authority, power and whatnot.

Self-control, self-restraint and a withdrawal of the operation of the senses in terms of spatial and temporal relationships is the only way. This is not the only way merely of the so-called religious man, spiritual man or the yogin; it is the way of anyone who would like to succeed in life if he has to live a worthwhile life. A person who has abandoned himself totally to a life of sensual and physical comforts is not to expect final success in any field of life.

All the great geniuses of the world were self-controlled people.

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