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You Must Strengthen ItThe very next thing after an irresistible desire is a powerful will. Will is need. Transmuted, its directing is modified from without to within. If your will is feeble, you must reinforce it. Deal with it as you do with other puny things : bolster it by practice. If a boy knows that he has feeble arms, he is saying : "My arms are weak, but I shall practice gymnastics, work on the parallel bars : therefore my arms. Will grow strong." it's the same with the will. Practice will make robust the tiny, feeble will that you have now. Resolve, as an example, pronouncing : "I will do such and such thing each morning," and do it. One thing at a time is sufficient for a pathetic will. Make yourself a guarantee to do such and such a thing at such a time, and you'll soon find that you'll be abashed to smash your guarantee.
When you have kept such a guarantee to yourself for a day, make it for a week, then for a fortnight. Having succeeded, you can select a harder thing to do, and so on. By this causing of action, you fortify the will. Day after day it grows bigger in power, and you find your inner strength increases. First have an irresistible desire. Then transmute it into a robust will. The 3rd requisite for Yoga is an ardent and broad intelligence. You can't control your mind, unless you've a mind to manipulate. Thus you should develop your mind. You may study. By study, I don't mean the reading of books. I mean thinking. You may read 12 books and your mind might be as weak as in the start. But if you have read one significant book correctly, then, by slow reading and much thinking, your intelligence will be nurtured and your ; mind grow powerful. These are the things you want--a intense desire, an indomitable will, an avid. Intelligence. Those are the capacities that you have to unfold in order the practice of Yoga could be feasible to you. If your mind is terribly unstable, if it's a butterfly mind like a kid's, you need to make it steady. That comes by close study and thinking. You have to unfold the mind by which you are to work. |
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