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flowers, creepers, avenue trees, and beautiful scenery, the area emitting fragrance. His disposition of mind is settled on it and he is happy. If his attention is made to divert perforce through the influence of any individual, event, or opposition, his happiness is converted into sorrow.
Take one more example. Sitar and Tabala are being played; the songster is singing. The mental disposition of the hearer is immersed in the song or music, and he is happy. If some one removes him (the hearer) from that place his disposition will be removed from there, and he becomes unhappy.
This disposition gets happiness when it makes the edible articles and the organ of taste as its centre and settles there. Remove the articles or bite the tongue. The disposition suddenly withdraws itself, and the re¬sult will be unhappiness. Provoke a dog chewing a bone and see the result! When a man is hale and healthy the current of mind flows through the viens and arteries and settles on the physical plane, which results in happiness. If there is an injury, or the vein is cut, or there is bleeding, the flow of the current will not settle. It has to move away again and again account of the injury, and the result cannot be anything other than unhappiness.
In the state of perfect health the disposition settles, resulting in happiness. In ill-health it becomes unsettled and the result is unhappiness. If the abdomen functions well on account of the settling of the disposition, there is happiness. If there is heaviness or indi¬gestion and the disposition is unsettled there is pain and unhappiness. Likewise this is applicable to all condi¬tions of ill- health. There will be two conditions on rubbing ointment over the wounded part of the body. Either the continuity of the veins will be re-established without any hindrance to the current to flow; or that part will be benumbed and the disposition will cease to unsettle, with the result that there will be no unhappiness.
When a sympathetic friend, a physician, a guru or an affectionate relative comes and sits beside a patient, the flow of the patient’s mental disposition leaves the lower part of the body by the effect of medicine and reaches the brain, which unconsciously becomes its centre as per natural law. So, there will be no feeling of pain when a person breaks his head by falling from a high mansion. The flow of his mind, due to the effect of the blow, leaves the lower part (region) of the body and settles in the brain. There, too, the same difference is found. Happiness is not anywhere outside. It is in our fixing the attention, in the steadiness of disposition, and in the withdrawal of our mind. (Surat). Those who know this secret need not search for happiness outside.
A person is engaged in a particular thought making his heart as its centre. He is merged in joy on knowing the result. This thought may pertain either to a mathematical problem, or to an enigma in astronomy, or to a question in





























































































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