Book Title: Mind Your Mind
Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Pragna Prabodh Parivar

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________________ PROGRAMMING THE SOFTWARE OF HAPPINESS Glimpses into some pinpricks! When you left home for an important meeting did you know what was going to happen on the way ? The wheel of the autorickshaw fell into the puddle and drops of dirty water splashed up and stained your clothes. This sudden burst of dyeing and printing on plain clothes distresses the mind. The face wrinkles when new clothes that are well ironed are crumpled. It will take barely an hour for the clothes to become clean again but the mental disturbance resulting from the damage caused by the dirty water takes very long to heal ! The servant has barely finished mopping the floor and lay down to relax, when the door bell rings. Little Pintu who was playing in the compound entered the house as soon as the door was opened and ran into his room. His soiled feet fell on the wet-floor and created a coloured xerox of his foot-prints in your mind. If you were to wipe the floor again with a wet mopping cloth, it would barely take 15 seconds and the floor would sparkle again. However, it takes much longer for the impression of these foot-prints to get erased from the mind ! Just when the clothes were washed and hung for drying on the pipe outside the balcony, the neighbor residing on the upper floor, swept the ridge of his balcony and window with a broom. All the dust flew down. The wet clothes lovingly accepted the - - - - MIND YOUR mind : 110

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