Swami Aparajitanandaji's Lecture on "Mastering your mind"

Swamiji addressed the children on Mastering your mind, elaborating with real life examples on how to train and discipline your mind to be your best friend to guide you in righteous path.

Bhagawad Gita - Chapter 6; Verse: 5 

uddhared ātmanātmānaṁ nātmānam avasādayet

ātmaiva hyātmano bandhur ātmaiva ripur ātmanaḥ

Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone and let him not lower himself; for, this Self alone is the friend of oneself and this Self is the enemy of oneself.

Your own mind is your best friend and worst enemy. So train and discipline your mind to be your best friend & harness the power of your mind. You should have control over your mind and not the other way around.
Children were encouraged to talk about their life experience where the evil spirits in your mind misguided to degrade or defame you.

Examples from Acharya & Students:

• An indisciplined mind can give-up easily
• An uncontrolled mind can put both your moral image and social image at stake
• Exam time or elocution competition, how the tensed and stressed mind can pull you down.
• Likes and dislikes for the junk vs nutritious food.  

How we develop habits in life?

• Repeated actions leads to habits.
• Repeated good actions leads to good habits.
• Repeated bad actions leads to bad habits.

A person conquered by monstrous mind will be an utter failure in life.
At temptation, we take unrighteous path and be in misery as slaves of our mind.

Our children are for sure liberated from being slaves of their mind and instilled with good habits after the revered lecture from Swamiji.