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MENTAL HEALTH
The second principle of mental health is the willingness to admit one's responsibility for whatever he has done. We are not prepared to visualize the consequences of our actions and that is why our mind has no peace. It is dangerous for mental health to avoid responsibility for our actions. It is a wrong mentality and breeds mental diseases. One needs courage to admit his faults. A weak mind does not have this courage. One should take responsibility for the good a well as bad consequences of his actions. There should be no hesitation in this respect. It is the weak who find fault with others. They want to save their own skin. We generally like to be praised for our good actions but are not prepared to be blamed for the bad consequences of our actions. To find fault with others is a sign of weakness.
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Devotion to truth is the third principle of mental health. It is very difficult to define truth. Truth is experience of the lawgonernedness of the universe. Death is a universal law. It has no exception. All the prophets and great men of the world met death. Nobody can be immortal. Everyone who is born must die one day or the other. Immortality is a figment of imagination. Death is, therefore, a truth. In the same way karma (action) and kala (time) are also truths. One who admits the operation of the laws which govern nature is a mentally healthy man.
Once a man lost his watch. He tried to search it but in vain. Loss makes the mind of even a wealthy man sad. The man become sad. Sadness is a feeling which comes only when we do not know truth. We do not know that the path of life is paved with gains as well as losses. If we knew this universal law, we would never be sad.
Tolerance is the fourth principle of mental health. An intolerant man is always miserable. No mind can be wholesome without tolerance. Moreover, the behaviour of an intolerant man is always unpredictable. If an intolerant man is meditating and if the fan stopped, his mind will be upset and his meditation will break.
All these things happen because we have no tolerance. We not only do not know tolerance, we have not even tried to assess its value. He who commands tolerance is indifferent to losses and gains. Wealth and riches are not lasting. Heat and
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