213. Swami Chinmayananda.

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01/01/2017.

What is to be avoided is not the 'world' outside. In the impulse of the #moment, in a rising tide of disgust, at some specific failure, people often renounce in a hurry and run away from #life. Such people, without exception, come to live in regret, suffering endless mental agony, arising out of their physical privations. The exhaustion and fatigue suffered by them in this subjective storm is the source of all worldly sorrows. This storm is in the #mind, which they will carry wherever they go. What has to be changed is the mind, not the environment.

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