Swami Sivananda Vani

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The True Import of Self-control

 

Self-control is a universal rule which applies to all men and all

women, at all places and at all times. It is the very key to

beatitude. Indulgence in objects is the effect of the failure of the

individual to discriminate the Truth from untruth. Desire to have

contact with and enjoy external things is the outcome of the ignorance

of the Truth which is God. Self-control is the restraint of the

outgoing tendencies of the mind and the senses and the centring of the

same in the Truth which is the Universal One. This is dharma which

supports the life of the universe. Adharma is selfishness and egoism

of nature which leads to self-imprisonment, suffering and failure in

life.