The six demons -- Kama (lust), krodha (anger), lobha (greed), Moha (attachment), mada (pride) and matsarya (hate)---pursue you and turn you into wrong paths and make you servile, stupid and sad. Fight against them resolutely. That is the life-long war you have to wage. It is not a Seven Years War, or a Thirty Years War; it may be a Hundred Years War, if you live a hundred years. The struggle knows no respite! This is a civil war, where vigilance alone can bring dividends. Arjuna prayed to Krishna, ‘The mind is infested by these demons; it does not afford me a moment of rest.’ Krishna said, ‘Give it to me!’ Easy, is it not? Like the bee which hums until it reaches a flower and starts drinking the nectar, the mind too will clamour, until it settles on the Lotus Feet of the Lord, and then, it is silent, for it is engaged in tasting Divine Nectar! Once it discovers the nectar, it will not flutter any more. (SSS Vol.9, p. 88)