The mind is a creature of habit. It must be given the habit of settling down quietly, especially in these days when there is so much distraction all around. A solitary meditator who gives hours and hours of his day to meditation alone cuts off everything else. If you are doing Vedantic meditation, concentrating on the self, not the body, not the mind, the witness consciousness,. yogi, the meditator, niyatamanasa with controlled mind. With controlled mind, you can understand at two levels. One is the mind is controlled means it has already been purified by a course of Karma Yoga. They get polished up by Karma Yoga over the years. So, the