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JAINA CONVENTION 2011
"Live and Help Live"
bed. To a worrying man a doctor jocularly said, "Do not worry, one day you are going to have a very long sleep from which you would not awake". Bortz recommends, "As soon as your sleep is over leave the bed".
platitudes in their lives are very happy. one another friend of mine takes the opportunity of being constantly cheated out of his money, in small quantities. The satisfaction on the face of the other one is a matter of great fun to him.
There is some more scientific research worth noting. The first is not to equate chronological age with old age, they are not much connected. Secondly, "Lose it or use it". We lose many of our best traits if we do not use our brain, health, feet and other parts of the body. Thirdly our brain is like a child, it requires enough nutrition for growth. The more we use it the more powerful our brain works. The best artistic works have come out at the old age.
Laughter is the best medicine. A person must be able to laugh and if he laughs at his own follies, he gets all the more pleasure. It is not necessary that it needs a saint to practice these traits, a man of the world can as well do it. The Parsee community is well known for their humor. They are the victims of their own jests. This way they are happy and make others happy.
While great calamities we can bear in time, the small day to day annoyances kill us. When we suffer some loss we should ask ourselves, "Is it going to kill us?" If not, we need not worry about them.
The greatest challenge for the twenty first century is for creative thinkers to develop a program using the abilities and wisdom of older people that would release their full potential and harness the energies of millions of elderly individuals.
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Speaking the truth may be inconvenient in the beginning but once we form the habit it solves many problems. A friend of mine with very inconvenient habits, says he is very happy to speak the truth. He has thereafter not to worry about the fact that the falsehood would be detected. This is not a mere platitude. It is worth practicing. Tit for Tat is fatal to the peace of mind. Another friend of mine says the other day a person who had harmed him fell into his trap. He did a favor to him. He says the favor done to him worries the other man more than the harm he could have done.
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It is normally believed that these simple traits are the privileges of the saintly persons who have no interest in life. Practical life is very different from these platitudes. But it is not true. I have seen that the people who practice these
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