Ma Anandamayi

 The obstinacy of the mind must be curbed with resoluteness.

Whether the mind co-operates or not, you must be adamant in your determination to do a certain amount of practice without fail - simply because spiritual discipline is man's real work.

For so long you have been accustomed to perform actions that fetter, therefore from sheer force of habit you feel the urge to bind yourself by activity again and again.

But if you try hard for some time, you will be able to see for yourself how you are caught in your work, and that the more you engage in practice the quicker will be your advance.

By constantly endeavouring to live a life of self-dedication, self-surrender will come about one day.

What does self-surrender mean, if not to surrender to one's very own Self!