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minds. If one discovers that one has appendicitis, one immediately gets this part of the intestine removed by an operation and then one is at peace. In the same way, if you get a bad thought, an impure thought, an unhappy thought or an unjust thought in your mind, there is only one remedy-CAST IT OUT! If it is not removed immediately, remember, you will suffer, none else but you.
If we are upset or ill, we find out which organ is not working and consult a specialist for that. If that specialist happens to be in Bombay or Calcutta, or even in a far away country,,we try to go there and find a cure for the disease. If a remedy is necessary for the body, is it not just as necessary for the mind?
Does the body alone get ill and not the mind? Do you ever think of the sickness of the mind? Do you know that the mind can make the body ill?
But we do not search for the roots. We look for the cause outside instead of searching within us, and thus we neglect our roots and feed the leaves, branches and fruit with water, while the roots die without water. How long will this last?
Wise men have said that just as the roots of a tree require water, in the same way the roots of the mind require knowledge to grow up and thrive. Alas! we do not think of that. We sometimes forget completely that we have a mind. Only those who
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