The mind can be trained by regarding it as a separate entity, watching it and teaching it. There is the ego and there is the mind; the ego is our self and the mind is before us. We should look at the mind and think, "I am the ego, my mind is before me," and then analyze it, imagine it to be an entity, speak with it, and the answer will come. Even animals are trained; can man not train himself? When one cannot train oneself this only means that one does not want to train oneself; it is laziness, lethargy, one does not want to take the trouble. For instance very often people, when asked to read a poem, will say, "Yes; I shall be glad to read it presently." They do not want to exert their brain, and they may arrive at a state where they do not even want to take trouble for themselves. First they do not want to take trouble for another, and then their laziness increases and they do not want to take trouble for themselves. It begins with selfishness; they do not want to think about another, and then it ends by a person not wanting to think about himself. Then what is he thinking about? Nothing.