Mental Balance

Brain is the centre of man's power. Its strength is limitless. If it is possible to make the proper use of this strength, then the man goes on progressing and progressing along the desired path. The waves produced in the mind are so powerful that one can achieve plenty of material prosperity with their help.
As much as the brain is powerful, so also it is extremely delicate. To protect it and maintain its activity, it is very essential to save it from unrequited heat. If we wish to take proper work from it, it is essential to create balanced conditions for it. The brain is subjected to severe heat from the sun, as well as by over hot water and chemicals, but it is also subjected to heat produced by excitement, and the damage to unorganized mind is in direct proportion to the extent of such excitement.
When excitement increases, man lapses into semi-madness and his imagination, decisions and activity all appear strange. If the actions and activities of a person ridden by anger are carefully observed, one can conclude that very little is now remaining for him to become mad. If the mind possessed by boiling anger is not cooled in time, then a situation can occur in which a person may commit murder, suicide and other cruel acts.
A face full of anger looks like demon's face and signs of excitement become clearly visible on the eyes, lips, nose etc. The person uses abusive language, the body-temperature rises because of increased blood-circulation, the hands and legs start trembling and the hair stands on end.
Blood pressure is of two types, high and low blood pressure and hence a change in blood-pressure may affect either. In the condition of high blood pressure, there is a feeling of increased discomfort and suffocation. The symptoms of low blood pressure are different, but there is discomfort all the same due to other types of effects on the body.
Increased blood-pressure can be linked to anger and low blood-pressure to sad feelings. Feelings and actions full of malice, contempt, aggression, destruction and cruelty come within the ambit of anger whereas feeling and actions of despair, worry, sorrow, fear and shyness come within th sphere of sadness. They can be considered similar to high and low tide, capable of creating instability and disorganization. Everyone knows how difficult it is to swim in a sea full of high waves.
The mental condition of sorrowing, fearful and despairing individual ruins even a strong health in no time. The face looks devoid of life. The voice becomes weak. It appears as if the body is half-dead. One does not feel like doing any work, appetite and thirst vanish and one finds it very difficult to get sleep.
Almost the same situation occurs in anger. The difference is only this much, that when the feeling of sadness dominates the conditions is like the freezing and melting of ice whereas in the state of anger, it is like scorching and burning. As it is, in either situation, the ordinary situation gets destroyed and not only the mind or the brain but also the body becomes incapable of day-to-day routine.
On observing the effects of excitement, it is found that excitement produces a severe shock on the capacity for routine work. The eyes, ears, nose and tongue are able to work half-heartedly, that too with great effort. There is no taste in the mouth. The ears hear imaginary sounds. Very little is remembered of the events that have happened be fore the eyes. The body temperature raises hair stand on end, breathing becomes faster and heart beats and blood circulation become faster. These symptoms collectively destroy to a large extent the life-force. It may be all right if such a thing occurs once in a while but if this disorganized situation, like a bad habit, becomes a part of one's mental make-up, then it is useless to expect stability or happy possibilities in an individual.
Mental instability is said to be caused by circumstances and a person offers excuses like, "It is not my fault. The circumstances were such that I became the victim of excitement or sadness." On the face of it, this logic appears both straight and true, but this is not reality. Different people react differently under the same situation. While one person becomes berserk with a slightly unfavorable situation, another person is able to remain calm and stable in a similar or even more unfavorable situation. This second type of person considers it as the routine ups and downs in life and is not at all perturbed or afraid. He reacts by trying to find solutions for the unfavorable conditions and feels that it is foolish to become perturbed just because the situation has gone against expectations.
Normally one does not come across mental disease. Hence the harm caused by mental illness is not visible to the naked eye, but one gradually comes to understand it. Normally a mental patient shows arrogant and supercilious behavior. One cannot make out that, trapped in some perversity; he is losing his basic capacity and getting sucked into the quicksand of more perversities.
There is damage to the society because of mental diseases, which is much more than the loss caused by physical illnesses. Many persons have made significant achievement in various fields despite physical illnesses, but it has never happened that a mentally ill patient has had any achievement to his credit.
The number of totally mad persons is increasing so fast that it appears that all the other illnesses are lagging behind in the race. The society can be saved from the havoc of he mad people only when more space is allotted to the building of mental asylums compared to the space allotted for jails. Half-mind, whimsical, unbalanced, disorganized and shallow people have increased to such an extent in the society that mentally healthy people in th society are now in a minority. More people suffering from mental vicariousness can be seen these days compared to those suffering from physical illnesses. This class of people is an obstacle in the organization and progress of an already fragmented society.
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Gayatri is a Unique Solution for Problems

It is absolutely easy to be liberated from sins by Gayatri worship. The specialty of Gayatri worship is that when the resonance of the innate powers within its 24 letters occurs within the heart, the sattogun (virtue) within thoughts increased day-by-day and as a result changes occur in the nature and program of the person. One in whose heart virtuous thoughts increase; the same excellence will also be there in his deeds.
A person's nature is not any definite or permanent thing. It keeps on changing according to situations and sentiments. It is not necessary that person who is sinful to-day will remain sinful throughout life. Similarly it cannot also be said that a person who is a gentleman with good conduct to-day, will remain so in future also.
Situations and sentiments can bring about such a change in a person that he will appear completely transformed. Sin is a type of mental condition and habit. It is within man's power to give up sin by strength of mind. The mental strength necessary for the change by giving up sin is created in promising measure by Gayatri-worship and the means for inner transformation become easily available. Liberation from sins is as easy as shaving one's bearded. It is not proper for a sinful person to think that - since he has been on the wrong path up to now and adopted sinful thoughts and performed bad deeds, how is his reform possible? This disappointment is improper because every fallen person can rise up, every sinner can become pure.
Many a times it is seen that man performs wicked deeds because of helplessness, ignorance, bad company, curiosity or force of circumstances. At that time, he does not think that such sin is terrible. Afterwards, with his mental development, the same wickedness appears very horrible. But because those sinful acts were carried out because of wretched mental condition, the related punishment is also small. According to man's conscience, compassion is felt at the time of killing; therefore it is a sin for him. In man's mental situations too there can be small or big vibrations due to various reasons. During such mental conditions sins committed in mental weakness due to ignorance are not considered serious in the eyes of God although traditionally believed to be so.
Sometimes it so happens that with good intentions, a man performs some deeds which - according to traditional code of conduct - are considered very big sins. But when looked at judicially, they are not considered so despicable, but many a time not only forgivable fut the same bad acts become praiseworthy also. When a person kills someone for rubbing his wealth, it becomes a terrible sin. A judge of some court of law passes a death-sentence on some anti-social person for protecting the rule of law and an executioner carries out the sentence - they are performing their duties. If someone risks his life to save someone from terrorists and killed them, then it becomes a virtue. All the three have 'killed' some life, but the killings are with different results, therefore all three are not considered sinful in the same way.
Stealing is a bad act. But according to circumstances, that too does not remain a bad deed. One who is prosperous and yet unjustly robs others is decidedly a thief. Take another example - in a situation of loss of life through severe hunger, if a person tries to protect his life by robbing something from a prosperous man, it is no big sin. In a third situation, by robbing a wicked person of his means - making him powerless and putting such means to good use is an act of virtue. All the three thieves cannot be treated as sinners at the same level.
Many a time - because of situations, helplessness, necessity for religious protection or little intellectual development - such acts are performed which appear damnable, but the intention behind them is not sinful. Such acts cannot be termed as sins. Among those who can be included in the list of sinners, most people are such that they had to perform undesirable acts because of some of the above reasons, but later on they became normal. They became helpless because of situations, lack of solutions, and habits, and slipped into wickedness. They would have definitely become good individuals if they were in good situations, or received good facilities and obtained proper means for progress and satisfaction.
However sinful a person in the eyes of law and public opinion, but in reality the number of sinners in this world is very small. People who became wicked because of the force of circumstances can be reformed because every soul is pure because the soul is a part of God.
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Lose Not Your Heart

Those who are devoid of spiritual thinking and merely carry out social service become mesmerized by their own success or virtues. They start believing themselves as servants of humanity. In such a situation they expect that people should praise them and obey them. Their false sense of pride makes them enemies of many people. Therefore instead of becoming real servants of people they become their destroyers.
Man cannot develop humility nor can he develop the capacity for self-improvement without the basis of spiritual thinking. He goes on committing one mistake after another and thus makes his own life miserable.
All of your problems can be solved with the help of the Nepalese culture and way of thinking. The government can protect your rights but it can not develop the thought process where from your happiness or misery arises. This can only be achieved by spiritual enlistment.
Only Nepalese culture has the real strength to turn into a human being. This culture teaches us that man is born to love man, and certainly not for quarrelling and fighting. If each and every programmed of Gayatri Parivar is carried on properly, the Sun of Nepalese culture will see a new dawn.
If you with to achieve peace of mind, develop inherent capacity as well as strength. Take the help of your conscience. One may deceive the entire world, but who can deceive one's own conscience? If you consult your conscience for every work, you will be able to maintain your moral discretion. If you are able to act according to the moral direction of your conscience, you will be able to succeed even though the whole world may be against you.
The spiritual downfall of a person starts at the very moment when he starts thinking about himself as the most virtuous and incomparable.
Real success lies in making your life meaningful with intelligent thinking, and intelligent thinking lies in dedicating your life towards the pursuit of the following rules-Goodwill towards all, utilizing available time with discipline and good behavior, making efforts for others' welfare, using speech only for good work, earning your livelihood only by honest means, frequently remembering Almighty God every day, not neglecting one's duty and not being upset when things go wrong.
By giving up the pursuit of materialism only, it will be extremely difficult to awaken the feeling of renunciation without dissolving one's own ego.
Arise! Awake!! Stop not till your goal is achieved!!! Enmity will not increase if we ignore it as trivial. When someone tries to harm us by ill-will and by refusing to be provoked to a reply. One must mentally accept that only silence is the most befitting reply. One who does his duty and does not try to find shortcomings in others is always at peace within himself.
Ups and downs are a part of life. Be cheerful, keep smiling. What is the use of a face that cannot laugh nor even smile?
Anyone who wants to maintain his mental strength should not be irritated by criticism from others.
You have also to learn that you will have to bear some difficulties as a part of life. This is a part of the rule - "as you sow, so shall you reap" and is a result of your earlier acts. Any wirk which produces doubts tiredness and despair also has inherent strength. Finish your work and then step aside. Let the result of your work flow forth in the river of time.
Choose the work for which you are capable and then pour everything in it. Do not despair by any event. You have a right only on your actions and not on the actions of others. Do not criticize, do not have expectations, and do not be afraid. In the end everything will turn out well. Experiences are a part of life. Despair not as you are leaning against a sound support. Please follow its second article "lose not your heart -1"

Gayatri - A Unique Solution For Problems-1

Many people think that they have committed so many sins, such wicked deeds and the list of their known and unknown sins is so big, that they cannot be reformed, so how can they achieve salvation? People who think in this manner should know that as soon as they take a vow to walk on the path of good deeds, the old dirty lice-ridden cloak of vices is automatically cast off. By shedding off sins and desires and sincerely repenting for them, we are liberated from the bad results of our bad deeds. Only those traits of acts of our past births which are destined to be borne as prarabdha (fate) have to be born at some time or other during this vehicle of more sins. The punishment under God's law of fate can be lightened by not resorting to wickedness and repenting for earlier sins and it is also possible to be forgiven.
The mental strength through Gayatri -worship definitely helps to remove innumerable bad tendencies, habits and sinful attitudes of the worshipper. Many people ask, "I have so-and-so bad tendency, I have not paid any attention to avoiding non-vegetarian food, I have committed certain bad deeds. Can I be deserving of Gayatri-worship?" Such people should very well understand that Gayatri is a kind of soap. When soap has been created for removing dirt, then it is useless to think whether dirty clothing deserves the use of soap. The use of Gayatri is like a spiritual soap to remove the bad impressions and influences and dualities and controversies within the mind. Hence a sinful person should not hesitate to use it.
Liberation from evil tendencies is definite and easy with inner transformation. It is neither impossible nor surprising if to-day's sinner becomes a saint to-morrow. Authors of scriptures have told this straight-forward tale with great emphasis on the destruction of sins through Gayatri-worship.
It is understood that one can be freed from the punishment for past deeds by certain means, and then evil people will go on committing sins and then resort to the above means by thinking that now their past sins have been annihilated. They will think of further committing the sinful acts and resorting to the prayers for destroying the sins thus mistakenly thinking that they will get the benefit from their bad deeds and simultaneously get the added benefit of freedom from the sins.
One must remove this misconception from its roots. If man goes on committing more sins, he remains sinful only. There is no question of his sins being washed out through prayers. If simultaneously he commits sins also. When man starts despising sinful acts and saves himself from bad thoughts - like cleansing from urine and faces - then on achieving this state of mind, he will not have the inclination to adopt the path of sin. He will not expect that God will accept a small bribe of prayers and forgive his continuity of sins.
But in God's office, those person cases are considered with a liberal attitude, who has given up bad deeds, and not only given up bad tendencies but repented for past mistakes. For the banishment of crimes, the rule of punishment is put into effect - when children do something wrong, the mother scolds them, when a disciple becomes tardy, the teacher takes up the cane, when the societal rules are disturbed, the local council dispenses punishment, when the law is broken, fines, jail, extolment or death-sentence is their. God has provided for punishment of sins through punishment from deities, bodily ailments and material wants or scarcity. This rule of law is not meant as revenge or 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for - a tooth'; but it is created on the basis of highspiritual science. The reason is that as a result of the unhappiness caused by 'punishment' there is a commotion within man's mind, a certain reaction, which shocks his hidden, thinking and he gives up the faulty path to return to the proper path.
Through punishment from others, we are forced to commit penance for our purification. If we willingly adopt this method for ourselves, willingly undergo penance for our open and hidden sins, and then it is innumerable times better compared to the penance forced on because of others. There is neither insult, nor revenge nor dejection - instead, because of woeful penance there is spiritual joy, and valor and courage manifest and our prestige increases in the eyes of others. The fire of the soul is required for the eradication of sins. The creation of this fire gives double benefits, one - destruction of harmful tendencies, sins, and two - development, nourishment and increase in divine qualities through the same warmth and brightness, and as a result the seeker becomes an ascetic, mentally strong and luminous.
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Mental Balance 2

Remaining part of the mental balance - 1
How can the all-destructive anger be controlled? It has been seen that despite resolving firmly not to become angry, many a time such situations arise that our resolve breaks does and anger bursts forth. Only when the mind is at peace, the person realizes that he had become angry. When a man becomes angry on someone without harming him, he express anger on own self because he wants to punish himself and thereby causes personal loss. Thus, anger takes a person to the state of madness.
Intelligent and thoughtful persons do not allow anger to grip them although the reason for anger exists. They take the support of discretion and control this harmful impulse and thus save themselves from harm. Daily some event takes place from which one derives cheer and happiness. Sometimes on seeing someone we feel sadness and revulsion. With some events related to us we feel pain, dejection, anger, excitement etc. The body suffers from reactions in the form of excitement etc and the centre of all these reactions is the brain. Because the brain is the controller and administrator of the body, the changes occurring there influence the body also. This has always been a subject of research for psychiatrists.
Mental tension or pressure caused by anger, revulsion, suppressed feelings or despair may not only slow down digestion, but it may also cause other disturbances in the digestive system. Ulcers can occur in the stomach and intestines. Symptoms of premature ageing may start with mental tension and pressure.
Thus so many adverse effects are caused on the body because of imbalances of the mind and of all such imbalances; anger is the most vicious and shows its influence immediately.
When the impulses of mental imbalances become intense, the flow of digestive juices may decrease or increase. This disturbs the smooth function of the digestive tract. When the mind is at peace the emotions are of a peaceful nature and the digestive system also works smoothly. Depending on the type of emotion, the flow of the digestive juices may either increase or decrease. If the emotion is of severe fear, the flow decreases and if the emotion is anger, the flow increases.
The poisonous sugar resulting in the internal metabolism because of anger is the most dangerous for digestive system. By its mixture in the blood-flow it spoils it, producing a yellow coloration of the body, tension in the arteries and veins, and pain in the waist. When a child drinks the milk o fan angry mother, he suffers from gripes in the stomach. The milk of a mother who is always angry is sometimes so harmful that the child may start wasting instead of gaining in weight.
Anger destroys not only the body's strength or energy but also mental energy. A man can do hard work for 9 hours with the energy that is spent in expressing anger. Along with destruction of energy, anger puts its indelible stamp on the person's health and destroys the natural beauty of the face. Hence it is in our own interest to save ourselves from anger.
Anger is occasionally necessary for an individual's survival in society. It takes a long time for creating compassion and discretion in the people in whom evil has taken deep roots and by that time such people have done a lot of damage. When an evil person's tendency of harming others becomes intolerable, it becomes necessary to express anger against such a person. This anger must not result from an upset or excited mind but from discretion and proper thinking.
Anger is an expression of opposition to something unpleasant or some deceit against us. It is expressed as excitement or impulse and suppresses the ability to discriminate between right and wrong and then it degenerates into quarrels, bitterness and fights. The family of the emotion of anger is large - imbalance, upset mind, arrogance and intolerance are its family members.
Enmity results from suppressing the outward expression of anger and mentally burning with anger against someone. This enmity causes even greater harm than anger as such. Anger is always a result of haste. When you find that something wrong is going on or if some loss occurs, then do not come to a decision about its cause in haste. Remember that more or less there is a mistake - rather hasty - conclusion about the cause. Therefore wherever something has gone wrong or some loss has occurred, go away from that place, stroll in a nice garden or go a friend, and talk to him. If you can't do any of these, drink a glass of cold water and cool down. There is always loss in increasing the anger and definite benefit in dousing it.
Whenever you get angry, immediately try to divert your mind in some work requiring physical labor. Whenever you get an undesirable result for your work, involve your mind in some study. Also consider daily physical exercise as a must for maintaining physical and mental health.
Just as you learn to control anger, similarly learn to control emotions like worry, unhappiness, upsets etc. Only those who adopt a balanced view for the life can accept various emotions in a neutral and balanced manner. Even then if uncontrollable emotions burst forth in certain circumstances, do not try to suppress them forcibly. The best way of tackling excitement is to remove it from the mind in some way or the other.
The mind's energy

Mental Balance 1

Crime is also a kind of excited behavior which occurs in a man's hyper-excited state of mind. Thieves and robbers understand the damaging effects of their behavior and repent also. They see and hear the progress and honor received by people who have treaded the path of good actions. When others explain this to them, they understand it too. Their morality is roused for some time and they behave like normal, good people. But then somehow, sometimes some waves of disturbed thinking arise and become so uncontrollable that they make them utterly to revert to their earlier criminal ways.
According to psychiatrists this helpless situation in such individuals is similar to that of patients suffering from fever or headache.
From a mental angle, only stability and capacity are the signs of mental health. Brain consists of innumerable components and by a co-ordinate co-operation they carry out their own role in the total working of the brain. If their co-operation is disturbed at some point or co-ordination is deranged then peculiar, big or small mental illnesses can manifest.
There are four components of a balanced mind:
AFFECT - alertness, logical thinking
THOUGHT - flow of thoughts, imagination
BEHAVIOR - transactions, practice
MOOD - estimate, enthusiasm
Various types of mental patients and their symptoms will be seen depending on the extent of imbalance in the co-ordination within any two or more of these four.
In the absence of logical thinking, man is not able to decide about what people will think and say about his actions, what will be the result of his actions. He does not realize the reactions of the people and the results of his actions. He does not stretch his imagination. He is entangled in only the two - the present and his own mind. As a result he performs acts which are laughable, unpleasant and wasteful. He may not suffer monetary loss, but others consider him a person with retarded intelligence or childish because of his complicated thinking and give up and hope for his ability for fulfilling any responsibility. People even entertain themselves and others by fooling them or ridiculing such childish persons.
When thought-processes get disturbed, imagination runs not. Without any sense or knowledge of the availability of means and their situation, such persons think that whatever they imagine will easily be achieved. they are not able to estimate the means and the time required for giving a concrete shape to their imagination. They are not able to imagine that there can be obstructions to their projects and hence a long distance between imagination and success. As a result they are no better mentally than the children living in a fantasy-land of fairy-tales.
The popular Sheikh-chilli of children's stories must have been suffering from such a mental weakness. When such people continuously think illogically, they become incapable of doing their daily work and lose their courage for doing anything without anyone's help.
As a result of disturbance in their behavior and mood mechanisms, it becomes difficult for a man to find out about the 'why' and 'how' of such person's transactions with him. Many a time we see their madness whereby they mistakenly believe their enemies to be their friends. These persons are also paradoxically afraid because of their belief that some person has become their enemies indulging in black-magic against them or plotting to poison them and destroy them. Many are obsessed by an imaginary fear of accident, death, attack, loss, separation, jail etc. Such persons are not even able to decide as to which difficulty can be solved by which solution.
Similarly some people delude into believing that they are leaders, learned persons, kings etc and possess occult powers. Because of spoiled mood, many people take to addictions. 'Sometimes they appear to be full of enthusiasm, happiness, smiling without reason, full of energy, and showing great hopes. At other times they are so much immersed in worries and despair as if the sky has fallen on them. Many persons suffer from the deluded belief that some terrible disease has entered their body or is about to attack them.
Impulses and excitements adversely affect the brain and sometimes a man imagines unwanted projects and when he is not able to achieve success because of lack of means, he becomes extremely upset and in the resulting excitement destroys the sensitivity of the brain. Immoral thoughts are also harmful because by their very nature, they are destructive.
The authors of moral scriptures have also written that anger is sometimes necessary but is totally discarded, how will society combat immorality, injustice, evil and demoniacal activities? Moralists have explained the need for moral anger to combat immorality, injustice, evil and demoniac tendencies. Thoughtless, immoral and rash anger discussed earlier is certainly harmful. Poet Baanbhatta has described anger thus, "A very angry man is blind despite having eyes". It is said in Valmiki Ramayana - Anger takes away life and is the road to total destruction.
With the onset of anger, the muscles of the body start becoming tense and the muscles of hands and legs especially tense up more because these limbs have to play a more risky role during a fight. Tension appears on the face. The result of the tensing of muscles is also seen on the whole body and in addition to hands, legs, and face, other organs also tense up and contract. In addition the respiratory system is also greatly influenced by anger. According to the scientists, all this takes place because in the situation of anger, the energy of the body is quickly depleted. To replenish this spent energy, the lungs become more active and the breathing becomes faster.
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Lose Not Your Heart 4

In future also you must continue your efforts, but with the attitude of a sportsman. Understanding and logical thinking demand of you to change your attitude with changing times. Attainment of happiness, success, progress, luxury etc should not make you swollen-headed. Conversely, it is pointless to weep or get angry or despair in an unfavorable situation. Instead of weeping and wasting time, utilize the time to change your attitude and exercise your mind to find out a solution. Actually this will prove more beneficial to you. Real intelligence lies in finding happiness from whatever is available and thus maintaining your balance of mind.
When your hands are full with too many jobs at a time, not a single job gets done because the mind is pulled in many directions. This leads to loss of time, energy and more important is - loss of temper. Thus by concentrating thoughts only on one project, you easily achieve mental equilibrium, prevent the loss of effort and energy and start on the path of progress, because you will be completing every task that you undertake.
The fundamental principle of worldly success is to fill your mind with noble thoughts when doing any work. We may not be able to change the situation around us, but can mould ourselves according to the situation and remain cheerful.
Expecting others tobe with us and to do as we say, is the main reason for increasing our mental tension and complicating our lives. The solution to this problem lies in doing our work silently and let others carry on in their own way. Do not try to dominate any one. Also do not waste invaluable time and energy in trying to please everyone.
It is useless to desire that others should listen to us only, be interested in us only and co-operate with us only. This desire is not only wrong, but also harmful. To depend emotionally on others is not beneficial at all.
Mental tension can also be caused by disorganized way of living, needless hurry, being busy during day as well as night and work continuously without a pause. This makes it essential to change your life-style and day-to-day working by intelligent planning for enough rest and relaxation. Man's mental strength is put to good use only by leading a relaxed life enriched with honesty, discipline, good will and being organized and punctual. This helps us to take proper advantage of the capacity given to us by God.
Drink deep from the fountain of joy that comes from doing your duty and keep going without fear in the face of obstacles. This is the essence of religion.
Most great men were men of ordinary caliber in the beginning. But they neither allowed this to lower their high aim nor did they allow despair to dampen their spirits. They went ahead step by step in the strength of confidence and constant efforts. Even in the face of difficulties they were not wavering. Even in unfavorable circumstances they did not falter. Even through they had limited resources and ordinary caliber, their dedication inspired them to sacrifice everything for the country, for their religion and for service to humanity, thus setting an ideal for millions to follow.
Nothing comes from attributing our faults to others. Only we ourselves are responsible for out physical and mental weakness. Doubtless, there may be some influence of some people, certain circumstances and the result of past influences. But three-fourths of our life's passage in this world is influenced by actions guided by our own personal viewpoint. We can certainly solve the difficulties troubling our mind and body by first reforming our selves.
Those who speak quite a lot to advise others but do not put it into practice cannot influence the people. Those who practice what they preach will continue to progress on the spiritual path.