Our mind is like a baby poking us every time. We tolerate for most of the times but sometimes the poking gets too annoying to finally get our attention on it's cravings. If we give way to what is being asked it may turn us to ditch and at that time the same mind says, you stupid why did you do this? You don't have any sense?

In the Bhagavatham 11th canto it is mentioned that a horse rider will go in the way of horse initially to get it to full control. The horse rider will give way to the different things that a horse does in the beginning to understand the horse and eventually gains full control of the horse. Similarly the Vedic samskaras from birth to death help us to control the horse like or baby like mind in a protected safe way so that we don't get totally lost!!!

Poking mind - you stupid stop it