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Namah A Turbulent Passage

not easy to acquire. Its price is not just outer builds up our psychological atmosphere. Of
effort but an inner effort, a self-discipline these, the three central elements are Thought,
and self-control. Though initially difficult Emotion and Will. Thoughts are like bricks
to acquire, a house built with this material that build the walls of our psychological
makes the dweller peaceful and happy. house. If the thoughts are cheap and of poor
This material releases soothing energy that quality, weak and lacking in confidence, then
rejuvenates the body, mind and soul easily. the walls of our inner house are also weak and
The material is constituted of harmony of poor quality. They can easily be disrupted
and balance; everything is in the right or broken by the slightest strong breeze from
proportion and just measure. Truth, honesty, outside or pressure from inside. If they are
clean thinking and clean living, love, charity, full of doubts, then it is as if they are infested
kindness and courage fill this house with a with white ants which will eat them up from
sublime atmosphere and give a beautiful inside and make the wall hollow and weak
fragrance. The in-dweller of such a house within even if normal in outer appearance.
generally prospers. He is seldom in want or Similarly, anxiety-laden thoughts, fearful
misery. Illness usually keeps away from him thoughts eat up the wall, whereas thoughts
and peace and happiness become his very full of vanity, ambition, desire make the wall
breath. porous, cutting holes into it. This allows all
kinds of elements, often dangerous to our
Question: what kind of fuel would you like health and disturbing to our happiness, to
to use? enter and attack us or take siege of the house.
This is so, because vanity, ambition, desire
makes us vulnerable to what others think,
feel or opine about us. The reference-point
of our life then begins to shift from within to
outside. Slowly, we begin to act not for the
truth of our being but to please others or to
look good, great and successful in others’
The building-blocks eyes. That is why timidity and flattery are
only the other side of vanity. Ambition and
So far, Nature has provided these three kinds desire bring hope and fear, expectation and
of material. But surely it has still better and frustration, pleasure and pain, thrill and
more refined substance but that is for the anger in their wake. Slowly, these toxins
future and we shall touch upon it later. Mind create a progressive stress upon our nervous
you, it is best if the whole house is built by system just as rapid fluctuation of an electric
the same material, but that is not easy. Now, current to extremes can lead to the snapping
let us examine the basic constituents of this of the electrical linings in a house. As the
house before we see the planning and the internal wiring begins to snap, the various
details. equipment and, most importantly, the light
points stop functioning.
Thoughts, feelings, will, desire, impulsion,
motivations constitute our inner life, which Emotions are just that, the internal wiring

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