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MENTAL HEALTH
Are we healthy ? Let us ask ourselves and not others. Let us try to get an answer to this question from over selves and not from others. If we possess the feeling of equality, we are mentally as well as physically healthy, otherwise not. We often talk about two kinds of health, mental and physical. This, however, is not a happy division. If we are mentally healthy, we will also be physically healthy and vice versa. The mind and the body are two mutually connected entities. The former influences the latter and vice versa. However, the mind's influence on the body is deeper than that of the body on the mind. Mental health is connected with the feeling of equality. Without this feeling the mind cannot be healthy. The principle of equality is also the principle of mental health.
The first principle of mental health is : Know thyself. The mind of him who does not know his self is not a healthy mind. One who does not know his own strength and weakness cannot be mentally healthy. We are not able to become aware of our strength and capacities because we do not know our self. We do not know our strength because we are weak and we feel a sense of being wretched. We become excited when somebody misbehaves with us because we do not know our weakness. In such cases we overlook ourselves and try to find fault with others. If one has two sons and he prefers only one of them, the other naturally becomes jealous. He forgets that he has not been preferred because of his incapability. The mind of one who does not know his weakness always remains explosive and this sometimes continues for the whole of his life. Therefore, it is necessary for us to be aware of our strength as well as weakness.
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