When you are able to control your desires, it will be possible for you to have the entire world in your palm. If you become subservient to your ambitions, then you will become subservient to everything around you. If you become a slave to your desires, then you become a slave to the entire world. But if you control and conquer your desires, you can conquer the whole world. If you want to keep them under control only apparently, the lasting results will not follow. If you go and beat on the surface on an ant-hill with a stick, will the snake inside the ant-hill die? Controlling desires only superficially will not be the right thing to do.
The bad ideas and thoughts that come within your body have to be controlled. Mind is like the ant-hill. Out of the ant-hill of your mind, several poisonous thoughts like poisonous snakes will be pouring out. By using sacred thoughts of God and by using quiet and calm ideas about God, you should be able to put the snakes to sleep. Yours is an age which is a sacred age. To waste such sacred age and not to get good results out of that age is deplorable. You should not desire to imitate or copy others in all your actions. If from today, you are able to get rid of such qualities and control your thoughts, in future you will be able to acquire strength by which you can go close to God.
(Summer Showers in Brindivan, 1977, pg 37)
