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

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________________ To appreciate the significance of equanimity, we first need to understand the four factors that help us maintain our equanimity. They are : inio Physical Labour Restraint Self-reliance Tolerance/Endurance The significance of physical labour in life Physical labour is as significant in life as good health is. Science has gifted countless equipments to mankind for a comfortable life-style. At the same time, it has completely eliminated the need to toil and labour in life. It is foolishness to believe that you can get the satisfaction of doing some physical labour by merely moving your arms and legs continuously for half-an-hour while exercising. Real labour is when at regular intervals during the whole day, you perform the functions of getting up and sitting down, coming and going, climbing up and descending and so on. All this physical labour itself is presently relaxing on the mattress of equipments ! WHO, the top-most health organization of the world has, in an eye-opening report given five major reasons for the increase of diseases in the world. The foremost reasons among them are pollution and a sedentary life-style. Man first accumulates laziness in his life. Then he accumulates cholesterol in his blood. Thereafter he undergoes a by-pass MIND YOUR mind : 84 - - - -

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