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fasting or not. Have a sense of peace whether you sit for meditation or not. What you ate, what you drank, where you went, what you did are not more valuable than the peace of mind.
Avoid yourself from the futile things. Do not carry the burden of futile things. Forget and keep the things off from you which frustrate your peace again and again. Let it be a matter of husband, wife or children.
Who doesn't love a child? All love a child. I love children. You love children. Therefore, God has been accepted in the form of a child. We worship God as a child. Wife is loving to all. Who will say that his wife is not a good one? If she were bad, you would become a saint very earlier. Wife is liked by all. Likewise, every husband is liked by every wife but the quarrelling atmosphere among them is not a good thing. Every man and every woman has four short comings. Neither the females can be compared now with Sitaji who bear all silently and engulf into the earth nor males are like Lord 'Rama' who has no short comings. Sisters, please, remember that your husband is not a saint who bears all the things. We all have born here as a human being and no human being of the world can be free from any short comings. Therefore, it is better to be happy instead of shouting at the shortcomings.
If person or surroundings is boredom or polluted, use the best part of your wisdom instead of crying at your luck and try to change the situation into a peaceful situation by your sweet and peaceful temperament. The peace of mind is the real part of life, the rest all is only social arrangement or mental weakness.
If you have to advance your life towards the doorstep of peace, you will have to give importance to the peace at any cost. We will have to use the words full of peaceful sweetness. The test of peace is to control and adjust under 46
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