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You should know that in certain situations which arise in your mind, you will be able to master and understand them. But you need to know that the situation or the thing that originates from you, you can control. Everything that happens has more positive sides than negative. We do not know at present why it happened; we think it is very terrible, but after some time we will realize it was good. If something happens that makes us very scared now, perhaps a time will come when we realize it is not so. The mind is made from our ambitions. An ambition—there are many good and bad ambitions. To marry, to have children, means to multiply yourself. Job, money, house, soul, friendship, new house, friendship, job—many ambitions. Willpower and self-confidence are very important. This is also very important, and ātmā viśvāsa is that you do not lose confidence. This means that you do not lose confidence, and the ego. So these are the different factors which come together and become the mind. Without ambition, without willpower, and without the ego of greediness, you will not think anything. So bhāva, vāsanās, ahaṅkāra. The function of the mind is connecting with our subconscious, unconscious, and conscious. To understand the mind is not an easy job. The mind is like an elephant. Five blind people were together; they were like pet, sleeping humans who went to see what an elephant is, because someone brought an elephant to that village. The blind cannot see, but they went to know how an elephant is. One was touching the legs and said, "Oh, elephant means pillars." One was holding the tail and said, "Oh, elephant means a big rope; you can climb." One was touching the trunk of the elephant and felt the breath of the elephant coming warm out on his hand. One was touching the stomach and said, "Oh, it's something like a big tank." A big tank. The fifth one was holding the skin and said, "My God, elephant means piggy skin." Everyone explains the elephant according to their experience. But where is the elephant? The legs of the elephant, the trunk of the elephant, the teeth of the elephant, the tail of the elephant, the stomach of the elephant, the skin of the elephant—but where is the elephant? Where is the elephant? In its legs, in its hair, in its body, in its skin, so where is the elephant? Noge, nos, rep, trup, koža, gde je slon? That elephant is completely hidden; even we who can see, we cannot see it. Taj slon je skriven. Čak i mi, koji vidimo, ne možemo da vidimo slon. Different philosophers, different writers, they write differently about the mind. But the question is this: is their theory, or their intellectual knowledge, or their experience practical? Unless you realize exactly through your meditation and the higher level of meditation to analyze what the mind is, you will not understand what the mind is. Therefore, Patañjali said in the beginning also in Rāja Yoga, yama and niyama—these two principles. It means to control thyself from the external, control your senses from the external world. Observe your senses so that they do not run out without your permission. So, the elephant—the mind is a mighty elephant. But this mighty elephant needs an aṅkuśa. That aṅkuśa is only 30 centimeters long, a small piece of iron, but that aṅkuśa is the master of that mighty elephant. When the elephant tries to be naughty a little bit, not following the instructions of the master, then the master goes and takes the aṅkuśa. When the master is taking the aṅkuśa and coming towards it, he does nothing. When the master takes the aṅkuśa, he does nothing; already the elephant makes the elephant like this. He makes the big dumkin's knurdle. Mighty animal. Ogroman slon. If we made a mistake, we said horsepower; we should have said elephant power. Elephant power. So that is the aṅkuśa; everyone must have their own aṅkuśa. That aṅkuśa is that if you are not afraid of anything, then be at least afraid of your karma, your thinking. This aṅkuśa should be that if you are not afraid of anything, then at least you are afraid of your karma, your thoughts, your fate. Fear—fear is such a process in every creature that goes beyond their capacity; when you are afraid of something, then you should know your capacity till here, then you need to know the limits of your capabilities. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar