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HOW TO ACHIEVE
MENTAL PEACE
The poor seeking wealth, only wreck
their peace; The rich, wealth-inflamed, are no less
bewildered! The causes of unrest are: “Too much,"
"Too little." He alone knows joy who is evenly poised.
Q. Man is ever restless. Why? Is it because his needs
are not being fulfilled? Or because his desires go on increasing? How is it that the whole and invisible power of consciousness becomes subservient to a divided and unintegrated mental disposition?
Ans. The basic needs of life, the utility thereof, cannot
- be denied, because those needs are natural. Religion does not aim at the elimination of natural needs; rather it aims at underlining the distinction between need and desire. Generally, a man is not conscious of it. He
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