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Integrated Life
in, they do not clash with each other; their flames merge together and make the light brighter. If our talk is not light-like, we shall have to change the topic on seeing some one else. How long shall we continue to remain thus scared? Our life would be gratified, if we give up hypocrisy and compartmentalization. We would then experience the harmony lying within ourselves.
Let the life be integrated; do not divide it in compartments. A thread cannot move along with the needle, if there is a knot in the thread. Compartmentalization works as a knot on the thread of religion. One cannot go ahead so long as the knot is not removed. That removal consists of breaking the compartmentalization. We should learn to speak what is in the mind. The same words should be uttered whether we talk to one single individual or to the public at large. That would lead to true pleasure and we would be able to remain frank.
The life of the people now seems to be reduced to that of a mole. As the mole lives in a hole, so do the people, trying to live in secrecy. We need to consider why the man has become so dwarfish. We are having good food, good clothes, comfortable accommodation etc. and yet we happen to grumble and render the life miserable. Let us decide to change all that and experience the pleasure of life. If there is an ideal, the life will cease to be boring; we would find it worth
living.
We experience unhappiness in life because the pleasure stands withdrawn at present. Just consider what we have gained during the life. Is it not a fact that we have mostly spent it in disputes and deception? The gold-like human life is being wasted! Childhood has gone, youthfulness also has gone; now is the time to think what we have to do; it is not necessary to continue the life in the same fashion.
Old age is the time to rest. If we give up hurry and bustle of the young age, we will be able to enjoy the old age. It is the time of peace and calmness. The excitement of sense-organs has calmed down, the distress and afflictions are generally over and we are blessed with
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