I find the mind to be very strong, and it resists my efforts to control it. What can I do?

Ans : Overcoming the mind is like killing oneself mentally! We never think that the mind is different from us, but realising that we are not the mind is the most important thing. Disassociating yourself from the mind means giving a deathblow to yourself, or to that which you have always thought to be yourself. A new 'myself' has to come into being. Non-cooperation with the mind, as one exercises discrimination, can start to come into operation, and you will then come to know that the mind is other than yourself. This practice requires courage, it is not for the ordinary weak man; it is for the hero to attain.
Mind is able to wreak all this havoc with the help of the ego. We have to play another masterstroke. We have to kill the ego. This "ego-dectomy" has to start in the very beginning of spiritual practice. The ego has to go completely. The extremely hardened, grosser aspects of the ego should be hammered out in the very beginning. The ego is an enemy that is not outside us, but inside, and something about which we know nothing. How great is the necessity to have a guide and to have absolute faith in the guide, and to be able to surrender to him!