Luck is that power which manages affairs rightly, those affairs which man's initiative mismanages. Those who are around lucky people know that the Master constantly takes the wrong foolish initiative which all others dread, but somehow things come around ultimately successfully. They see a FOOL in action and also perceive a FORCE that sets right his conscious folly and, in spite of his initiative brings success. After some experience, they declare in despair, "What! This fool is lucky while I am not".

Half of the 72,000 crores of uncollected bank advances could have been initially avoided had there been an insistence on Management Training for aspiring entrepreneurs. Every field needs experience. The thousands of crores of funds thrown away on young men of inexperience form the foundational basis for acquiring that rare experience.

Often low profile opposition political parties are surprised by a landslide victory in elections. They are generally unaware of the extent of the good will of political support they were creating all along. A party that has created a vast powerful support in teenagers will not get their votes in this election, but will be taken by surprise in the next election as chunks of voters will suddenly come of age.

High fever, acute pain, unbearable discomfort, pain in the back, etc. renders one unfit for work. An employee takes leave of absence from his work spot until he is relieved. In extreme youth when the energy of life is overflowing, when the very flavour of life is to express this energy, age overlooks similar conditions in favour of living abundantly. The same conditions that find a well-to-do man in bed with several persons attending on him, will find a poor person at work.

The high mental concentration needed to grasp abstruse mathematical theorems or intricate points of any scientific idea is not developed by a few hours of study or a few days of practice. It does not come to all. When it comes, it comes by years of cultivation. Spiritual concentration is not to be had for the asking. Over a period of months and years, you may succeed in such a concentration.

Fortifying the present is preventing growth of Prosperity in the future. We go back to our village after twenty or twenty-five years and meet our neighbours who remain as they exactly were before. Some of them will be proud not to have changed anything in their lifestyle. There is an opinion that not changing is of value. It is a kind of mental conservatism. Psychologically, it is a good definition of misfortune of conception.

The African tribals are great worshippers. Their prayers are invariably answered, as they are an invocation of their own powers, perhaps the power of their collective community. There are occasions when their prayers fail. They have a way of "God's Accountability". They drag the idol of God and beat it to their hearts' content for having failed to answer their prayers and throw it into the sea. Very pious families beset with great tragedies sometimes suspend their worship or even give it up. It is too much to tell them that this, too, is an act of God.

For fifty years, India is aspiring to abolish poverty and to usher in Prosperity. At the same time we hear as a chorus, 'Money must not be a goal. It makes man mercenary. It rekindles our greed.' That cry finds an echo in our hearts. We sink low, as our lofty aim is here described as a mean motive. This is a confusion and not a real issue. Who are these people who voice this moral indignation? At least half of them own more than half a crore. To answer them is easy. 'Let man not seek money.

The one thing man cannot know is that he is at fault, that the error is not of anyone else, but only his. What is hilariously strange is, it will be blatant to every other person. The accusing finger arises from all sides of the society, but the only thing the accused knows is hostility, jealousy and that he is the victim of mean, perverse, low culture. Introspection, self-criticism, self-awareness have thus become more and more important socially. The Bible speaks of this and any culture has a few proverbs on these values. What makes man so blind?

For timid persons, social authority is more than real, and psychological authority is a subjective, oppressive Reality. One such person has succeeded in weaving a web of warp of opinions and woof of illusions around him. For several years, he has felt safe within it. It gives him a rare protection in all social encounters. What is a total reality to him outside his house is not without its disillusioning moments. They are the hours when he is with his own family where he is overflowing with the energy of joy more unfettered than most.