Passage 5

In English

The mind is like a bee. Though small in size, a bee can bore its way through thick wood or even through a human body as it did in the case of . However, such a bee, when it sits on the lotus to suck the sweet honey contained therein, gets caught within the delicate petals of the flower as they close around it and finds it impossible to escape. Similarly, our attempt to conquer the mind is bound to prove futile unless it is led to the Lotus-like-form of the Lord, wherein it gets eternally trapped.