Did You Know?

Our eyes are responsible for 83 percent of the impressions imprinted on our mind, our ears for 14 percent, and the remaining 3 percent are formed by the other sense organs of the body put together. If our attention ceases to go out and we thus stop the entry of impressions from outside, we can, with an inward gaze, realize the Truth. It is for this reason that saints always instruct us to shut our eyes and our ears while doing repetition or listening to the Shabd.
_{Philosophy of the Masters, Vol. I}

If we try to fight with the mind in order to detach ourselves from worldly things, we can never succeed. In order to overcome our mind, to subdue it and to take it back to its own origin, we have to give it a pleasure which is greater than the sensual pleasures.
_{Spiritual Perspectives, Vol. II}

The best way of working off karma and, at the same time, of avoiding the accumulation of further karmas is by doing things in a spirit of duty. This attitude in life, along with regular meditation, i.e., simran and bhajan, is the best way of overcoming the drag of karma and getting spiritual uplift.
_{Light on Sant Mat}