About the mental strife within us

The book “On the mental in us of the battle” includes the instructions of the great elder, the Monk Neil Sorsky (1433-1508), about how to recognize temptations and fight his passions. The Rev. was drinking his spirit with the experience of the great fathers of deserted ones, who, through internal cleansing and unceasing prayer committed by the mind in the heart, reached luminous insights. The sayings of the great fathers are filled with this book. The book was prepared by the publications: The life and works of the Monk Neil Sorsky, the first founder of the skit life in Russia and his spiritual and moral instructions on the monastery. - M., 1889, The Monk and God -bearing Father is our Nile, Sorny’s ascetic, and his charter about the skit life, set out by the rector of the Kostroma Theological Seminary by Bishop Istin. Purish 4. - M., 1902, “The Nile of the Sorsky Tradition and the Charter of Skitian life” with the introductory article by M.S. Borovikova-Maikova, 1912