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The mental happiness of a person who is habituated to walk home from the station, does not go on strike when the auto rickshaws go on a strike. A person who does some household work himself can become a domestic help when the maid is not available. Washing machine, AC, TV, lift, cell phone, remote, computer, calculator.... How many of these appliances can today's man abstain from using?
If someone says that man has made progress, a question immediately arises in the mind that man has forgotten his activities only. The progress has been made by these appliances only. Washing clothes, making calculations, remembering, climbing up and down and all such activities are being done by men himself since ages. Today all such activities are performed by equipments.
What man was habituated to do earlier, he is unable to do; and equipments are able to accomplish now what they could not do earlier. Man who is talking about personality development and skill raising today looks like an orphan child adopted by science!
Dependence on gadgets has increased so much that it is difficult to say whether man uses gadgets or gadgets use man. If a man wants to speak, he needs his mouth only. Today if a mobile phone wants to talk, it needs the help of a man. Earlier you needed the brain to remember something. Today a computer needs the help of a man to store everything into its CPU. If man wants to go somewhere, he used his legs. If the car wants to go for a drive, a chauffeur is required. Earlier man used to use his finger-tips to count and calculate. Today a calculator takes the help of man when it needs to operate. It
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| SR No. | 007026 |
| Book Title | Mind Your Mind |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Udayvallabhvijay |
| Publisher | Pragna Prabodh Parivar |
| Publication Year | 2014 |
| Total Pages | 130 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 9 MB |