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diseases. Along with the material progress
together with quantitative increase in the
objects of wordly pleasure, comfort and luxury,
the mental diseases are on the rise. Gita has
given psychologically justified, practically
oriented and easy to implement solutions to
mental diseases and problems. A work like
this is not to be found elsewhere. Gita, for its
wealth of knowledge on mind, is unique in
the world. It is the mind which makes you a
captive of desires at one stage, and it is the
mind again which liberates you from them at
another. The mind is your friend and also your
enemy. It is the mind which lifts you up and
then fells you down. We are godly because of
mind; we are like demon because of mind.
When the mind is downbeat, the body too is
downcast; when it is disappointed, the body
gets old; when it is depraved, the body is
sick.