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DESIRELESSNESS
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becoming violent and offensive. Therefore it is better to show them that their barking shall not be a disturbance to you. When it comes up to this, their barking will eventually subside. Further, if we had taken care of it earlier, their barking might never have come to effect at all. In short, we have only to train them so that they might, by themselves, come up to proper regulation and discipline. The only way for that would be to raise ourselves up to the level where they may also begin to take the effect of our inner state of mind. That means spiritual elevation up to the level at which even animals may begin to take in the effect. This is the actual purpose served in the long run by the practice of meditation.
Barking of dogs refers to the unregulated activities of the mind and the indriyas which can easily be set right by meditation and remembrance.
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Socrates says,  ̳Knowledge is virtue', and by virtue he means to refer to desirelessness. That is, according to him, the essence of education. If by
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