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Today's science has given man ample comforts and in exchange thereof taken away his tolerance power. On the other hand, it has given him many things which fill his life with unbridled consumption and removes restraint from his life. Unrestrained consumption will always invite ailments. Besides, the absence of tolerance will always lead to loss of poise and composure while suffering from a disease. Thus, science has made it difficult for a person to maintain his tranquility.
Being drowned in the world of comforts, we have forgotten that the most important thing in life is not a comfortable lifestyle, but maintaining equanimity and peace and that the excesses of comforts in life will control my ability to exercise restraint and my tolerance and put my equanimity at risk.
Today's science has made progress by leaps and bounds in medical field and removed the fear of disease from a man's heart. Four decades ago when a person had to undergo a surgery for cataract, he had to make adjustments for a number of days. This operation is completed today within the same number of hours. Going under a surgeon's knife has become as simple a matter today, as going under a barber's scissor for a hair-cut.
By-pass surgery of the heart and operation of the brain are not dangerous anymore. A patient sitting in Mumbai can consult an expert physician in New York after mailing his medical reports.
The bones can be repaired or replaced by screws, plates and balls of sparkling metal. You can attach an artificial foot from Jaipur or Germany. A blind man can be operated upon and
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MIND YOUR mind: 87
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