In this evanescent world of dualities of pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, good and bad, sun and shade, light and darkness, day and night, life and death and so on, it is very difficult to decide what is right and what is wrong or what is good and what is bad. The same phenomenon that appears to be bad now may appear to be good tomorrow. The same thing that produces misery in one may produce happiness in another.

“Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” It is one of the evils of Western Civilization that it takes of intellectual education alone and takes no notice of the heart. It makes men devoid of all human values. When there is a conflict between the heart and brain, let the heart be followed because intellect has only one state, reason and within that intellect works and cannot go beyond.

Generally our life is ruled by impulse, whims, moods habits and environment. We are caught in the meshes of our flickering mind and make all sort of blunders. Then we have to reap the bitter fruits of our bad deeds. “As you sow, so shall you reap and cause must bring the same effect: good, good: bad, bad and none escape the law – but whosoever wears a form must wear the chain.” It is true but beyond both name and form is, Inner Voice which is Pure, Free and Voice of your Self.

The way to kindle up your inner lamp can be illustrated through the following graphical process-

We are so much attracted to the glamour and grandeur of material prosperity that we hardly think of Spiritual prosperity. We fret and fume to earn and accumulate as much wealth of the world as possible thinking that it is a source of pleasure and en

Inner Strength within everyone is immense and unlimited but its manifestation outside is limited. Water in the ocean is unlimited but water in the jug, jar, cup and glass is limited. Clay mouse is different in size and shape from clay elephant but once they are melted, it is all clay.

It is a paradox to say, “Defeat but win because we enjoy victory when we vanquish our opponents. Remember the king Ashoka the Great, after defeating the enemy in the battle of kalinga in which thousands were killed, did not have any feeling of victory but feeling of remorse and was disheartened and dejected so much so that he abandoned the idea of extending his territory and engaging in any more battles.

“Thou shall earn thy livelihood by the sweat of thy brow” was the curse on Adam. Every one suffering from stress and strain is feeling the heat of the curse. The manifold demands of life and the claims on physical and mental powers are likely to keep one all the time strained and stressed.

Thought is the vital force behind our actions. Any action is determined as good or bad with the thought behind it. A knife in doctor’s hand is entirely different from the knife in murderer’s hand. Swami Ji says, “We must watch our thoughts. Be a witness to your thoughts.

In this evanescent world, immortality is found nowhere. A compound has to be disintegrated sooner or later. Search was undertaken on the spiritual plane to find out the Reality behind the apparent, the infinite behind the finite and the Immortal Self behind the ego, the little self.