This is an ancient observation true even today – that most people spend
their childhood in pranks and play, their youth in sports, pleasure and
pastime, middle age in plans and schemes to pile up a fortune, and old
age in hospitals trying to bolster failing health through failing
wealth. Earning and spending, one fills their time with work and worry.
People are busy with a number of attempts to earn happiness, but success
is little and short-lived. The only panacea for all ills, the effort
that will result in total victory is the control of the mind, which is
the master of the senses. Every sense organ is an outlet for energy that
binds one to the objective world. The senses are induced by the mind to
move out and attach themselves to objects. You must make the mind
submit to viveka (wisdom), which discriminates between right and wrong.
Then the mind, instead of harming, will help you.
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