Yoga as Body and Mind Control
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mother, sister or daughter. The mind is so fickle that the slightest suggestion can create havoc.
The  yogī  should have his mind trained in such a way that as soon as his mind wanders from meditation on Viṣṇu, he drags it back again. This requires a great deal of practice. One must come to know that his real happiness is in experiencing the pleasure of his transcendental senses, not the material senses. Senses are not to be sacrificed, and desires are not to be sacrificed, but there are both desires and sense satisfaction in the spiritual sphere. Real happiness is transcendental to material, sensual experience. If one is not convinced of this, he will surely be agitated and will fall down. One should therefore know that the happiness he is trying to derive from material senses is not really happiness.
Those who are actually  yogīs  truly enjoy, but how do they enjoy?  Ramante yogino 'nante  – their enjoyment is unlimited, and that unlimited enjoyment is real happiness, and such happiness is spiritual, not material. This is the real meaning of  Rāma , as in the chant Hare Rāma.  Rāma  means enjoyment through spiritual life. Spiritual life is all pleasure, and  Kṛṣṇa  is all pleasure. We do not have to sacrifice pleasure, but we do have to enjoy it properly. A diseased man cannot enjoy life; his enjoyment of life is a false enjoyment. But when he is cured and is healthy, then he is able to enjoy. Similarly, as long as we are in the material conception of life, we are not actually enjoying ourselves but are simply becoming more and more entangled in material nature. If a sick man is not supposed to eat, his eating unrestrictedly