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Leading A Spiritual Life

everyone is free to act as he or she pleases, and which is
consequently fraught with challenge and competition.
This state of affairs creates all the social problems which
are generally described as ‘social evils’. It means that
the happiness of one person may mean unhappiness
for another. Indeed, this happens all too often. In
this situation, it is quite natural that when the mind
is perturbed, it should slip into negativity. This comes
about far too easily and is a very common experience.
For all human beings, not being able to develop oneself
as a positive personality is a great loss. It is only when
you are a positive personality that you can be the
beneficiary of all those bounties which are destined for
you by the law of nature. If you have allowed yourself to
turn into a negative personality, you will never have the
blessings which are your due. You will live in frustration
and die in frustration, without achieving the high goal
for which you were born.
In this situation, the first task for every man and
woman is to stop their thinking from taking a negative
turn and instead direct it into positive channels. This
should be an imperative for every human being.

There are three major sources of intellectual
development – study, observation and discussion. All
three are nourishment for the mind. If the mind is
peaceful, it will be able to take the right lessons from
these sources. But if the mind is not peaceful, it will not
be able to avail of whatever intellectual food is on offer.
The mind is the greatest shaper of all kinds of
personality development. Everyone knows that for
good health, we need to take great care that nothing

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