Love of adventure is often seen in various walks of life. The large majority of the population longs for a peaceful life. "I have worked long enough. I wish to have a place where I can rest my head" is what man after thirty or forty years of labour is heard saying. Parents who have worked hard, long for children to take over so that they may retire. That is human, sweetly human. Great souls are in love with adventure. Even at the last moment, they seek adventure of one type or another.

On most occasions, we know exactly what we want and what we wish to pray for. Occasionally we are in situations where this faculty deserts us. Spiritually, it is a fine moment, as the meddling mind is rendered powerless to interfere leaving the entire field free for the Spirit to act.

Spirit is old, but the Spirit I speak of is not known to the world. This is the evolving Spirit, called in the terminology of this new yoga, Psychic Being. As this version of the Spirit has not been known at all, the results it brings about also carries the stamp of it - it acts through an agency not in existence NOW. This evolving Spirit is seen acting through newly evolving laws or rules.

Mental relationship is conversation. Vital (emotional) relationship is being together pleasantly. Unintelligent conversation or conversation of unintelligent persons degenerates into a verbal contest. Life has many paradoxes. One of them is unpleasant characters like each other. Quarrel is one way they relate to each other. Their quarrel will not necessarily lead to a break. Actually, the more they quarrel, the closer they may come in certain instances. 

A fisherwoman who was trapped in a flower shop late at night by torrential rains found the fragrance of flowers interfering with her sleep. She fell asleep when she covered her face with her basket. She is in her elements with her head inside the basket.

Loneliness is unendurable. One always seeks company. To us companionship is friendship. Psychologically it is occupation or chewing the cud. The educated man is mentally occupied, i.e. his mind gets meaninglessly engaged with trivialities. He who does not fritter away his mental energies thus becomes a thinker. The efficiency of the Westerner arises from the fact of his Individuality that is work-oriented. Man seeking company for its own sake seeks vital occupation.

Wise men of the world have known that stupidity views itself as exceptionally wise. WISDOM is known as Self-awareness. What helps one arrive at self-evaluation is the desire for self-awareness. There is not one exclusive method to arrive at that desirable goal. Accomplishment, intelligence, manners, character, values, social status, others' opinions, professional ability, resourcefulness, etc. are the means resorted to to evaluate oneself. How often one had to revise his opinion in the past reveals his judgement.

A work can be done at the above three levels. Flat dull work needs no explanation especially where there is no accountability. A visa application is pending for five years as there is no follow up from the applicant or no supervision from above. It is a common experience in Indian universities that research there lies unattended for years. Sometimes families as a whole degenerate into this ideal of dull flatness. Soon they move down one level in the social hierarchy.

The submissive daughter-in-law of the earlier decades can be seen as the tyrannised mother-in-law of the modern era. The submissive continues to be submissive even when conditions change. Among partners, friends, spouses, and colleagues, this is a reality. He who dominated once continues to dominate; he who submitted in the beginning, as a rule, continues so to the end of his life.

When someone calls me on the phone and another person says I am not at home while I am there, it is a lie. To say I am there is a FACT that is true, but not TRUTH itself. Behind our small family is life outside, the government, the society, life and Nature in succession. All these may be true or false. Behind Nature is God who can only be true and never false. Philosophically, Truth is the outer expression of Sachchidanandam, an objective status.