POSSITIVE AIDS TO PEACE OF MIND 14.

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14. Reduce Your Wants.

 

Do not multiply your wants and then feel like a beggar. Reduce your wants and

feel like a king. Why should you enter a cloth shop and see many varieties

presented before your eyes when you have enough clothing at home? Either you

will buy unnecessary things. Or feel sad, " Oh, I don’t have this. Ah, how I

wish I could buy that! "

Peace of mind and material avaricious are incompatibles. They do not go

together. Make your choice.

 

Reduce your wants to the barest minimum consistent with your general external

activities. The fewer the wants and possessions the greater the peace of mind.

Possession gives pain. The point is so obvious that it needs no explanation.

Hire a taxi rather than own a car. Live in a rented flat rather than possess

your own house.

 

Most of us suffer, not for want of right knowledge or wisdom, but for want of

exercise of that wisdom in our daily life. If you want peace of mind, at once

stop doing all those things which you know you should not do. And, equally

important, start doing all those things which you know you should do. This will

set you on the right track, and when you are on the right track, God’s Grace

will flow into your life and make it more and more sublime. You will gain peace

of mind and radiate peace all around you.

 

Faith has to be exercised. Love has to be exercised. Selflessness has to be

exercised. Charity has to be practiced. Dispassion has to be practised. Devotion

has to be cultivated. These qualities, these virtues do not arise, in you over

night. They have to be assiduously cultivated before they can become a natural,

a habitual, and an integral part of your being.

 

Continued….15.

 

 

 

 

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