The vāsanās, expressing in the intellect, are called ‘desires’; desires expressed in the mind are called ‘thoughts’; the mind so agitated soon gets lost in its own fancies and imaginations. Thus, early seekers, should never give up their regular practices of control at their body, mind and intellect levels – regulating the immoral and unethical living at the body level; control of the low emotions and baser passions at the mental level and attempts at settling the thought flow of the intellect through study, reflections and meditations.
