Indian Spiritual Science

We often hear successful people talking about their journey towards success. They share their hardships and perhaps exaggerate their happy and sad moments. Successful people are full of themselves. Their mind is cluttered with their own stories, ideas and beliefs. So even when they talk, they have nothing but themselves to talk about. Their mind is in charge of their acts. Thus, they glorify themselves and try to knock out others. This makes them susceptible to the six vices. Under the effect of the six vices one is compelled to tread on the wrong path. Pride is the most prevalent among these ignorant beings. Due to this, one divides people into groups. The basis of this bifurcation is based on status, reputation, wealth, fame, etc. Thus, their decisions depend on people like themselves. In other words, they are surrounded by people of their kind. They bar insight. Overpowered by pride, they ill treat others. They consider others inferior and hold themselves at a higher pedestal...

Life presents itself in variegated hues. It means different for different people and there is no similarity whatsoever in the many perceptions that people have about their own views and experience of life. Although, one may seem to agree with others' views of life and even appreciate other's life, there still appears to be no similarity between two experiences of life from two different standpoints. Having said that, one is continuously trying to learn, enrich and organize one's life by trying to make sense of the other's life.This is indeed an intriguing paradox although common sense tells us that each one of the seven billion people breathing the same air on the planet has seven billion distinct life-experiences. There never was and there can never be any similarity even amongst two lives, to keep it to the minimum.  A man has an in-built appetite to learn and grow although he has not really figured out a consistent mechanism for the learning process itself. The...