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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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In the aṣṭāṅga-yoga system, this eightfold yoga system—dhyāna, dhāraṇā—they are meant for controlling the mind. Mind, unless you control the mind . . . in the beginning it is said a man must elevate himself by his own mind. Mind is the driver. The body is the chariot, or car. So just like if you call your . . . ask your driver, "Please get me into Kṛṣṇa consciousness temple," the driver will bring you here. And if you ask your driver, "Please get me in that liquor house," the driver will drive you there. So driver's business is to drive you wherever you like.
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[[Vanisource:690214 - Lecture BG 06.02-5 - Los Angeles|690214 - Lecture BG 06.02-5 - Los Angeles]]
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In the aṣṭāṅga-yoga system, this eightfold yoga system—dhyāna, dhāraṇā—they are meant for controlling the mind.

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Mind, unless you control the mind . . . in the beginning it is said a man must elevate himself by his own mind. Mind is the driver. The body is the chariot, or car. So just like if you call your . . . ask your driver, "Please get me into Kṛṣṇa consciousness temple," the driver will bring you here. And if you ask your driver, "Please get me in that liquor house," the driver will drive you there. So driver's business is to drive you wherever you like.

Similarly, your mind is the driver. If you can control . . . but if the driver takes your license, that wherever he likes he will take you, then you're gone. Then your driver is your enemy. But if your driver acts on your order, then he's your friend. So actually, the yoga system means to control the mind in such a way that he will act as your friend, not as your enemy.

Actually, the mind is acting as my . . . because I have got little independence, because I am part and parcel of the Supreme, who has got full independence, therefore I have got little independence. The mind is controlling that independence. If mind says: "All right, let me go to the Kṛṣṇa conscious temple," and the mind can say: "Oh, what is that nonsense, Kṛṣṇa? Let us go to some club." So mind is driving you.

So therefore the our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to fix up the mind in Kṛṣṇa. That's all. He cannot but act as friend. You see? He has no scope to give anyone place. As soon as Kṛṣṇa is seated on the mind, just like as soon as there is sunshine, the sun is on the sky, there is no scope of darkness. There is no possibility. Darkness will never come before the sun. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa is just like sun.
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