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Lust, anger, greed, excessive
attachment, jealousy, malice, to name a few,
are the mental disorders. The diseases of
body are curable by the medicines available
in the market, but the same is not the case
with the diseases of the mind. The true bliss,
calmness, happiness, contentment and so on
are the matters of mind. There is no medicine
to treat the lust, greed and anger of an
affected person. It is Gita which provides for
the treatment; the lust can be treated by true
knowledge and spirit of renunciation, anger
by calmness, and greed by contentment; in
short, by changing the thinking patterns.
Gita says, "Try to understand the mind
and learn to tame and control it. The mind is
never satisfied and there is no end to greed.
Greed is the cause of sinful acts. God has
given us enough to satisfy our needs but there
is never enough to satisfy our greed. The