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to accompany them to work. He replied, "Oh, how do you expect me to work now? My stomach is too full. I am not in a position to exert myself!"
Man is good at making excuses. He cannot work if his stomach is empty. He also cannot work when his stomach is too full. He is not at all interested in working, so he finds excuses right and left. The man who wants to evolve further, never resorts to excuses; he enjoys working and puts in his best effort. There are very few who are intent
on doing their best. A verse from the Gita reads, "Only one man in ten thousand really works for fulfilment." Onc must not, however imagine that fulfilment is rare or difficult to attain. Each man can find fulfilment. We have the goal before us, and also the means to achieve that goal. Success is certain. The end, the means, and fulfilment are inevitably linked together. Any man who chooses a particular goal and acquires the right means thereto, is bound to succeed. One does not have to bother about success. What one must attend to is the right end and the right means. Fulfilment comes of itsell. It is foolish to be preoccupied with the result. We need not bother about it at all. Only a little while ago, a man came and said, “I'm suffering from a particular disease. Is it possible to get rid of the discase through meditation?" This sort of question invariably crops up. I fecl and osten declare openly that the placc you have come to is no hospital. Still, I concede that most diseases get cured hcrc of themselves. If the mind is healthy and in order, thc process of hicaling is set in motion. Diseases start losing their virulence, and often get cured. All this is possible. The first esscntial is to bring order in the mind, to change the inner environment. If the inner environment undergoes a transformation, the atoms of the outcr environment also begin to change. The real problem is to change the inner condition, where the cause often lies buried. The inner overcomes the outer.
A man saw a dog and fled from it in fear. He went running and the dog chased him. On investigation it has been found that the man flees in fear. He is afraid of the dog. When in a state of fear, the adrenal gland becomes very active. Profuse secretions from the adrenal gland fill the air with their odour. The dog's sense of smell being very acute, it smells the adrenal from far. It is because of its acute sense of smell that a dog is used in chasing murderers and . other criminals. A dog does what a man cannot do. It can take hold of the scent of a man and pursue this smell for miles together, till it apprehends the man himself and starts circling round him. As a man flees, his adrenal gland becomes very active and secretes more profusely. The more profuse the sccretion, the intenser the smell it gives off, and the dog takes hold of this smell. Outwardly it may
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