tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432096432621543418.post7892743056943656263..comments2023-07-22T20:09:05.753+08:00Comments on ...oneness...: ~ Life ~habibatyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01384521819983527813noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432096432621543418.post-69041564236021957242012-08-02T22:22:39.562+08:002012-08-02T22:22:39.562+08:00Surely, life is a continual battle.
For this batt...Surely, life is a continual battle.<br /><br />For this battle in life the first thing that is necessary is to keep the army in order. And what is this army? It is one's nervous power. Whatever be one's occupation, profession, walk in life, if one has no control over one's own nerves one will be unable to control that walk in life. Today people study political economy or various other kinds of economy, but the most essential economy is economizing the forces which make one healthy and strong through life. This army must be drilled and made to work at command. And one will find the proof of this when one can sleep at will, when one can rest and eat and work at will; then that army is really at one's command.<br /><br /><br />The officers of this army are the faculties of the mind. These faculties are five: the faculty of retaining thought, the faculty of thinking, the faculty of feeling, the faculty of reasoning and judging, and that faculty in man which is the principal one, the faculty of 'I', or ego. Even in a body with strong nerves, when these five faculties which work as the generals of the army are not in working order, not clear, one cannot expect success in life's warfare. One should further study or practice the art of training these generals of the army in one's own body.<br /><br /><br />Even with an army and with competent generals one must, however, have the knowledge of what one is battling against. For very often man is battling with his own real interest. During the battle it is an intoxication; he is battling but he does not know 'where he is going, and at the end of the battle, even if he is victorious, he will find that his victory is a loss.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com