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his eyes. When his eyes become weak, his interest for his sport diminishes. A spiritual aspirant's strength lies in his mind and as long as he doesn't permit his mind to become weak, he continues to emerge victorious. Even if such aspirants lose their eye-sight, they keep their inner vision secure.
If an experiment of keeping your eyes covered with a blind fold and sitting at home that you are familiar with, for only half a day also can prove to be difficult, then it is certainly not easy to accept with a smiling face, the loss of vision for an entire life-time.
Just imagine the state of being blind. When you cannot see, you definitely have difficulty in walking around, but you have so many problems in remaining seated also at one place. You cannot see the faces of those with whom you have to live for life-time. While others praise an object, you cannot even see it. Suddenly the door opens and someone walks in. Every other person gets up immediately to welcome the visitor exclaiming : "Welcome, welcome, you have come after a long time". A blind man too is anxious and wonders who has come. While eating food, he cannot see the plate, bowls or any food placed therein. This is blindness!
Forget the eyes, our mind is so vulnerable that even when any ordinary thing gets spoilt, we get upset. Just remember the days when everyone was crazy during the cricket season and more so, when India was to play against Pakistan. That day suddenly the television set broke down. The mind was plugged with the television set and it too broke down ! By evening you got to hear that India had lost the match with a very poor score. Someone inquired : "Did you see the match ?". "No!" : "Why?". Then you had answered with the style of a philosopher : "Why to see and feel the pain !" In reality, for this
MIND YOUR mind : 80
