No matter what you think but until you have made a lot. I mean a whole lot of progress you won’t realize how much the mind us constantly preoccupied with desires and preferences. And we constantly act on it
From The desires to talk or eat or gossip or food or sex or fear etc. Sven by those desires we constantly act.
HOW CAN ANYONE HAVE PEACE WHEN ASSAULTED BY DESIRES?
HOW CAN DESIRES BE VANQUISHED WITHOUT HAVING CONTROL OVER MIND?
HOW CAN CONTROL OF MIND BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT MEDIATION?
HOW CAN YOU LEARN AND GET THE INNER DOORS OPEN TO MEDITATE WITHOUT A GURU? Reading books is lectures cannot open inner doors. It is a secret power much stronger than all powers in the world that is needed to own it
HOW CAN YOU DO NISHKAMA KARMA WITHOUT A MIND WITHOUT DESIRE?