8. And to shake off laziness one must perform bodily labor; this is the only way to conquer laziness. If we fail to do this, we cannot but receive due punishment from Nature. We have to endure it in the form of sickness and other miseries. Since we have the body, we must use it for labor. The time spent on such labor is not wasted. It does yield result; we have sound health; our minds become bright and keen and pure. In the ideas of many thinkers we see reflected their colics and head-aches. 

If these thinkers would work under the sun, in open air, in the presence of Nature, their ideas would be strong and bright. Experience shows that just as the mind is influenced by bodily sickness, so also good health has a bearing on mind. Instead of contacting tuberculosis and then going to Bhuvali and other health resorts in the mountains in search of sunlight and pure air, why not dig with a spade in the open, or water the garden or hew wood with an axe and keep healthy?

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