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Swami Turiyananda

In Varanasi, when a doctor operated on Turiyanandaji's finger, the attendant asked, " Don't you feel any pain?" The swami replied: " Look, the mind is like a child; we must hold it tight. But like  a youngster it will go on crying ' Let me go! ' Once in the midst of surgery I let my mind get loose. Immediately I felt intense pain. The surgery was not finished. So I had to catch hold of the mind once more." Then he continued, in the Bhagavad Gita we read: ' Wherein established in the bliss of his inmost being he is not shaken even by the heaviest sorrow.'