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================================================================================================= 1.#Opinion : Monday, 25 Mar 05:30. 3477. // Article Philosophy 1.#On Reason and Higher Life - 3.  ================================================================================================== It all, in the end, hinges upon whether an act is done for one's personal pleasure or for the good of a larger existence. But no sacrifice should involve pain or injury to others. This is another condition to be borne in mind, barring of course the pains of the nature of the operation performed by the doctor for the good of the patient. To perform a sacrifice it is not always necessary that there should be a 'taker', for sacrifice is not always material. Sacrifice is possible even if you alone exist in the world and there is none else, for sacrifice is more a psychological act of self dedication to a higher existence than a mere parting with material objects, though the giving away of

======================================================================================= Sunday 24, Mar 2024. 05:30.  Stages of Mind-conquest 1.MIND-CONQUEST BY INTROSPECTION 2.MIND-CONQUEST BY DISCRIMINATION ========================================================================================= CHAPTER 1 MIND-CONQUEST BY INTROSPECTION Man can bore a diamond with a bristle; he can tie an infatuated elephant with a slender silken thread; he can exercise his ingenuity and through the instrumentality of a mirror bring down the moon for the play of the child; he can make the flame of fire burn always downwards; but it is difficult for him to establish a control over his own mind. For gaining mastery over the mind, he has to know what the mind is, how it works, how it deceives him at every turn and by which methods it can be subdued. As long as the mind restlessly wanders about amidst objects, ever fluctuating, excited, agitated and uncontrolled, the true joy of the Self cannot be realised