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The idea is that, whether in worldly or in spiritual matters,
success is hard to come by without one-pointedness of mind. If the
mind is concentrated, one will never lack ability. Even if you are
an old man of sixty, you will have the enthusiasm and energy of a
youth. As one grows older, one's mind should get stronger. Look at a
fruit. It is green at first, then it ripens and shrinks and falls
off, but, all this time, the seed within gets stronger.
The outer body will wither, will fall,
but that is not the essential part of the fruit. The essential part,
the soul, is the seed. It is the same with our bodies. Even as the
body grows older, memory should grow stronger, and knowledge
brighter. But this rarely happens. One says, "My memory is
getting weaker these days." "Why?" "Age is
growing on me." Your wisdom, learning, memory - these are the
seeds. As the body becomes infirm with age, the soul grows
correspondingly stronger. But this is impossible without one-pointedness.
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