Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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But if a man's mind is not clean and pure, no matter how much he has by way of worldly possessions, he will remain worried and not try to help himself. His mind is not happý. .,
A worldly man looks after his physical well-being; but a wise man looks after his mind's welfare too, and pays full attention to his mind. The great Patanjali has written three types of works. For purifying speech, he created grammar; for keeping the body clean and healthy, he wrote a book on medicine. Patanjali then thought he had : inade speech clean grammatically and made the body strong and healthy, but side by side, if the mind was not pure, it would not help the body and speech -- no matter how pure they both were. Without a healthy mind man cannot remain happy for long; so he produced his third big work on abstract devotion -the book on Yoga.
The first thing that the great Acharya Hemachandra mentioned in his Yogashastra was how to keep the mind still; how to keep it from wandering in various directions.
A person whose mind is healthy and pure, even if his body is weak or sickly, will not be mentally affected; he will think it is natural for the constitution to be a little sick sometimes but he is happy that his mind is still pure and healthy.
Look out for those who have developed a fine, muscular, healthy body; who have worldly posses
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