In English
Lack of ability to concentrate is responsible for so many diseases in the world. Such a disease is very rampant among the students. In the University, when a doctor examined the students, he found 89% of the students suffering from one disease or the other. In the state of , 98% of the students are sick. If we look at the students, they look nice and appear as if they are swans, but their health is rapidly deteriorating. For external appearances, the students look quite healthy but, in fact, they are not at all healthy. In many ways, they let their minds go astray and day after day, they are ruining their health. This is the reason why the quality of and thinking of diverse things at one time is becoming more and more common amongst them. Today, concentration on one chosen aspect is very necessary for the students. In order to show the value of concentration to the world, the may be cited as excellent examples. Whatever work they did, and wherever they went, their mind was fully concentrated on . They were never allowing their minds to run in different directions. They always had full control over their minds. Today, our mind is not under our control, our organs are not under our control, our likes and dislikes are not under our control, our hunger is not under our control. As is often the case, your body is in the presence of the Lord in the temple, but your mind is thinking of the shoes that have been left outside. Thus, we concentrate on things that are of no value to all. Today, people sit in meditation, but after they sit for a very short while, the mosquitoes start bothering them and their mind turns on the mosquitoes. Alternatively, it may be an ant that moves on the back that attracts your mind. Our actions are changing accordingly. The room in which we wish to meditate is located next to the kitchen. If in the kitchen, the wife is cooking some vegetables, your mind concentrates on the vegetables and you ask yourself whether the vegetables are frying well. We are sitting in meditation only for external appearances, but our thoughts go in various directions and are attracted by trivial things. If we do not understand the manner of acquiring or , we cannot do anything well. Just as will give lack of peace, sometimes even , if not understood properly, will give lack of peace. There is an example for this. If there is a knife, it can be used for cutting vegetables or doing good things and also for harming and troubling others. Although the knife is one and the same, our thoughts determine whether it is used for good or bad. In the same manner, when we use our education along the right path, it becomes a friend and it gives good results. The same education will become our enemy when we put it to improper use. In that context, the students should realise how they can use their education in the right path. As it has been said: “Slow and steady wins the race.” The students should make an attempt to undertake their work in a slow and steady manner.