Hare Krishna 🙏🏻🪷
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻🪷
Jaya HG Gauranga Sundar Das Gurudev 🙏🏻🪷
One may be either your friend or enemy.
It’s like either or.
Either one is your friend then he cannot be your Enemy
& if one is your enemy then he cannot be your friend.
But Bhagavad Gita 6.5 mentions :-
uddhared ātmanātmānaṁ
nātmānam avasādayet
ātmaiva hy ātmano bandhur
ātmaiva ripu ātmanaḥ
A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.
So here it is mentioned that mind is conditioned souls friend as well as enemy.
But how ??
That’s answered in the next verse by Krishna in Bhagavad Gita 6.6 :-
bandhur ātmātmanas tasya
yenātmaivātmanā jitaḥ
anātmanas tu śatrutve
vartetātmaiva śatru-vat
For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be the greatest enemy.
So if mind controls you then its takes you to journey of lust, anger, greed, illusion,pride,envy
But if you control the mind then you are free from all these & you follow what the supreme personality of godhead as a Supersoul dictates you.
So whole purpose of astanga yoga is to control mind & bring it to be obedient to order of supersoul.
But a person In Krishna consciousness is automatically controlling his mind because he is following directly dictation of Krishna by following spiritual master’s order.
Because spiritual master is transparent medium & true representative of Krishna.
As its mentioned in the sastra :
Yasya Deve para bhaktir
Yatha Deve tatha guru
If one has unflinching faith in spiritual master & Krishna then transcendental knowledge is automatically revealed to him.
So one engages oneself in transcendental loving devotional service to Krishna & try to satisfy Krishna by satisfying Spiritual master.
With this transcendental knowledge one’s intelligence becomes sharpened & one becomes determined to do Seva & Sadhana in Sadhu Sanga & easily make friends with mind.
Hare Krishan 🙏🏻🪷
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻🪷
Jaya HG Gauranaga Sundar Das Gurudev 🙏🏻🪷