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

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________________ percentage of these two is very clear. We hardly hear what is useful, and after hearing also tend to forget the same. But we hear a lot that is useless. Not only that, we continue to remember it till we have our sanity. If our Karnavati' (name of a train and here also implies sense of hearing) is going to speed in the wrong direction, then don't you agree that the phase when hearing is hindered, will be the one where turmoil will reduce and as a result affection will increase ? Till this age in life, many problems have been created due to seeing and hearing. Now when there is a problem with vision and hearing, how long does it take to consider it as a blessing and pacify our mind ? Blindness, deafness or any other disability is definitely painful. But what is wrong if we inculcate a positive view-point to save the mind from being depressed due to the negative impact faced by the loss of senses? Today man has become an expert in making provision for his old-age. The government and society have also instituted several schemes to take care of the senior citizens. He keeps planning to take care of all situations, from losing a house owned by him upto a situation where even his own child refuses to stay with him. But what will he do when his own body does not support him ? He has not made any plan about a worthwhile retirement. Retirement can come in two ways : sequentially and accidentally. As age advances, the cells become weak and gradually as his capacity to work reduces, a person retires. This is sequential retirement. Due to illness, fracture or any such reason, if he has to take unexpected rest for some time, MIND YOUR mind : 20

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