What does self-mastery mean?

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What does this mean by self-mastery? Self-mastery actually means that the self is the master of the self. What does that mean? I said earlier that there are different forces within us.
Some force which wants to be short term, some force which wants to be long term. This wants to indulge in quick pleasures. Some other part of us is thinking of long term things.
So, self-mastery means that when we decide to do something, we don’t let our passing impulses or desires sabotage our purpose. So, I decide to go somewhere and then suddenly I see, there is a movie over there, let me go and watch the movie. And I forget where I want to go.
So, what happens, there are stray desires that come within us and we often let them distract us from our purpose. Self-mastery means that once we decide a purpose that is what I am going to do, we don’t let various stray forces within us sabotage our purpose. We make sure that we move forward towards that purpose.