” From whatever and wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the Self. The nature of the mind is flickering and unsteady. But a self-realized yogi has to control the mind; the mind should not control him.: “

THE greatest of the psychologists , and actually the personality who originates  the material mind , via His Annirudha expansion coming from  His Mahavishnu form , should be consulted , that’s Krishna.  If we really want to understand psychological processes and the  purposes  of the  mind,  is many fold . In material nature , a mind spends a lot of its time in the duality of the material world , accepting and rejecting objects of the senses , based entirely on selfish actions , either directly selfish , or selfishness connected to family , friends  , community or country.

Thus the minds activities allows for a  free reign and the free will enters  into the many possibilities of the quantum atomic plane, because what the mind wants , takes time to manifest , it may take years or many lives to come to fruition,  , thus the  finer ethereal plane of a mind , enters into the many possibilities of the atomic quantum plane , before it can    manifest in the classical plane that  we currently experience and  then become part of the lives we lead , all this with the added complexity of  karmic synchronicity influences , or as the astrological influence , that means things happen in our lives we did not bargain for , but our minds contemplation and our actions bring reactions,  good and  bad .  As such, the Supreme psychologist must be consulted so we can all understand ,  just exactly where our minds are best situated , thus, Krishna speaks Bhagavad Gita ,and gives the ultimate rundown on mind and psychology.

That’s a complex topic to understand. It also comes  with a range of  relative answers , according to a prescription that is appropriate to a particular state of a conscious being . The Supreme psychologist Krishna, in His conversation with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, touches upon all the ranges and methods of controlling and understanding the mind . The Vedas elaborate further on these topics of psychology.

Divinity brings wisdom and knowledge to everyone in three ways,  through the krpa ( mercy) of Sastra ( theological texts ).and through the person Bhagavat ( a person realised in the wisdom of the sastra )  and also Krishna is situation within the heart ,and knows all the bodies ,along with their mentalities and entanglements.

One who knows that Krishna knows all bodies is in knowledge.

ksetra-jnam capi mam viddhi
sarva-ksetresu bharata
ksetra-ksetrajnayor jnanam
yat taj jnanam matam mama

TRANSLATION

O scion of Bharata, you should understand that I am also the knower in all bodies, and to understand this body and its owner is called knowledge. That is My opinion.