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with a lot of possessions always dejected, brooding, and worrying about their problems. People who are happy are in touch with themselves. First of all, we have to have a connection with our own selves. That is the main thing. In this materialistic society, the most lonely and forlorn person is the materialist himself, because he does not have insight into spiritual life or inner power. He does not have a sense of these inner values. He has limited himself and lives in a narrow world. When you go inside and make the connection with your own self, you are happy even with a few things. If more things come, they will add to your happiness if you have inner awareness. But if you don't have inner awareness, your material things can pile up and still there will be a void, an emptiness. The material things will fail to bring you joy.
THE DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
We see here how to have the inside touch. When you sit for meditation, concentrate on your energy. Feel each part of your body. "These are fingers, these are arms, this is my head, here the whole body is vibrant." Because of "something," all these limbs are active. Go on concentrating and observing to see what this "something" is. “My body touches, my tongue tastes, my nose smells, my eyes see, my ears hear and my brain thinks." Why is it that sometimes eyes are there but don't see, ears are there but don't hear, tongue is there but can't taste, skin is there but does not feel, and brain is there but can't think? With this inductive affirmative and deductive negative questioning, you will go inside and come to one conclusion: that it is your soul that makes your body work, and because of it your senses sense, your limbs move and you communicate. 'And when the soul leaves, the body starts to decay. Then
