Page 115 - https://ia800806.us.archive.org/12/items/mwk-eng-book/Leading-a-Spiritual-Life.pdf

Leading A Spiritual Life

things – the spirit of tolerance, the spirit of forgiveness
and the capacity to maintain your positivity even in
negative situations.
Later on in life, I discovered that in this world of
problems, this is the only way to maintain one’s
spirituality. This is the only way of living by which you
can satisfactorily develop your personality.

This was the first lesson of my life. This lesson told
me what spiritual culture was, how one could maintain
one’s mental balance sufficiently to develop a spiritual
personality. In my childhood, I understood this lesson
unconsciously, but in my later life, this lesson became
rooted in my conscious mind. Now it has become
second nature to me. Having a nature like this has
proved invaluable.
I can say that I am an even-tempered person who
is not easily provoked or who allows his thinking to
become negative. I live with a hate-free mind in the
complete sense of the word. Having such a personality
is my greatest asset, and perhaps the credit goes to the
village boy who made me learn this lesson through a
shocking experience.

We all love freedom. Everyone wants to live with
total freedom. But this freedom culture creates a very
serious problem. That is, when I exercise my freedom,
say, by swinging my arms, it is very likely that I hit
another person’s nose. The freedom of one person can
be a problem for another. Such a situation is an integral
part of our lives. No one has the power to eliminate this
problem.

114