Part 8
Many people avoid making
decisions their whole lives, so their decisive faculty of mind, the faculty of discrimination,
becomes rusty and dies. Such people become totally dependent on others. When we
study the four functions of the mind – buddhi, the faculty of decisiveness;
ego, the principle of identity; citta the storehouse of impressions; and manas,
the importer and exporter of sensations and experience – then we become aware
of the power of the will. Will power is that something within us to that comes
forward and says, “Do this. It will be helpful for you.” Training the internal
functions help us to understand the decisive faculty of the mind, without which
we cannot be successful.
Watch what you do on a daily
basis. We become what we do and think about. If you think about nothing – you will
become nothing. If you think about being a great student – you will become a
great student. If you think about being honest – you will become honest. The activeness
and thoughts that will feel your day are keys in living successfully in school
and throughout your adult life.