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Dressed in a splendid outfit, as Alakh tried to enter the room, there was a tearing sound. Ch ............ ! His brand new shirt got entangled in a nail and was torn. As he realised what had happened, there was a sighing echo from his mouth, A...r...r....r....!.
When he entered the room he observed that Naman had also scratched himself with the same pointed nail when he had entered the room. Not only was his shirt torn, he had a cut on his ribs and blood was oozing out from that cut. Naman had pressed a kerchief on the bruise and was experiencing immense pain..
Alakh looked at Naman and then at his shirt which was torn. He got a consolation. Even though his shirt was torn, the body inside was safe. Shirt is an external object and if it is torn, you can get a new shirt, the body should be safe. The external loss can console you, only if you can see something inside being saved.
This view-point is very ́useful when you suffer from physical illness. The body is also an external object. Sooner or later it has to be changed. Don't let the soul within be affected by bad thoughts. To ensure this is also in our hands. The reason is that it is not in our hands to ensure that there is no scratch on the shirt or on the body, whereas the soul can be scratched with evil thoughts only with our permission.
Those who consider the shirt to be everything, become unhappy when the shirt is torn. But this unhappiness inflicts
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