Book Title: Mysteries of Mind
Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Book Agency

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________________ LECTURE THIRTEEN SYNOPSIS *Removal of mental tensions leads to the arousing of energy. * Tensions produce emotions. From passions to tensions, from tension to passions, hence imbalance. * What is pleasure? What is pain? * That which results in pleasantness is pleasure. That which results in unpleasantness is pain. * Tension and emotion are one and the same thing. * Where there is tension, there is emotion. emotion there is tension. * Tension is the root cause of sorrows. *Three chief causes of disease: * Body * Mind * Food * Renunciation of objects and its consequences. * Mental balance means freedom from attachments and aversions and a state of equality. * Ignorance is the cause of mental and physical disease. * Not knowledge alone, but direct contact. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only Where there is www.jainelibrary.org

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