Do you drive the mind, or does the mind drive you?

A short utterance of Maharaj Ji — for the full talk, watch the video above.

The Full Discourse

This body is a chariot. The soul seated in this chariot is its rider. The intellect is its charioteer. The mind is the reins, and the senses are the horses. If the wise charioteer holds the reins firmly and drives the horses of the senses along the right path of the Lord, the destination is reached. But if the driver is drunk, the whole family will be destroyed. He will crash the chariot somewhere. So the intellect is now intoxicated. This is the intoxicant of attachment, ignorance, the belief that happiness lies in sense objects. See how mad a person is. For a little pleasure of his own, he burns another, kills another, cuts another. See how mad he is, how violent.

See how corrupted his intellect has become. If the intellect, as driver, did not make such mistakes… First of all, just as we hold our own body dear, every living being holds its body dear. Whether it is chicken or goat today, or adultery, when they fall into these things, they are burning, cutting and killing bodies just like their own. What is all this? They are mad people, their intellect is intoxicated. Do you know what we call such mad people? The Yamapuri is their proper remedy. There is no escape for such people there. Their only lot is to suffer.

This text is taken from the auto-generated captions of the video — there may be word errors in it. For the authentic utterance, please do listen to the video.

Original video: Bhajan Marg (YouTube)