By means of self-control, one empties the mind, as it were, of its worldly contents, its transient desires and passions, and then, through contemplation, fills up the void with the spirit of Truth. The attempts to meditate without practising self-control is as futile as to irrigate a field without at first closing the big rat-holes through which the water leaks away.
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