Of the few lakhs of candidates who take the IAS examination, two hundred are finally recruited, two thousand pass the written test while only two lakhs pass the entrance. Those who are not selected - 1800 - invariably get another higher job, as the failure in IAS is still a qualification for high non-IAS jobs. 

Power cut or power failure is a constant phenomenon ever since the population began to consume more power and the government embarked on greater generation of electric power. It is a problem not of failure but one of expansion not keeping pace with the speed of expanding consumption. For one who is trying to replace his centre of functioning from life to Spirit, any failure is not welcome, as it is a sign of his own ineffectivity.

It requires a generous heart to delight in another's success. True generosity handsomely recognises another's talents and endowments. Generosity of emotions is Spiritual. The highest hallmark of generous emotion towards another is the ability to give another by one's own endeavour what lies outside his own best efforts. If one can be generous, he need not evoke the Spirit in him specially, as it will surface in his normal actions. Certain places will be entirely of generous people and it may be found in the entire district.

Technology abridges Time and shortens Space. That  is an index for the advancement of civilisation. Every mechanical aspect has its psychological counterpart.

There are emotional people who cannot wait for an hour to see the child that returned from school. To many of us, it sounds unreasonable; to them it is an emotional reality. One such person while he is eating wants his father to come at once if only the inner emotions rise. The father invariably appears at the door. Otherwise, he cannot continue eating.

The ultimate rightness or otherwise of any work is indicated by the sensation of Sweetness it generates. In doing a work, if it gives you Sweetness inside, you can be sure you are on the right course and the work is RIGHT by any evaluation. 

It is true invocation of the Spirit is not a day's work nor is it to be had by one and all for the mere asking. It is equally true that the Spirit ANSWERS as soon as called and a recalcitrant disease that long evaded cure shows signs of definite cure on the very first day of calling. A more valid truth with the Spirit is it responds fully to a person who is a non-entity in anyone's eyes. There are two sides, not of Spirit, but of the human mind-set. If you are on the right side, I wish to speak greater and sweeter truths of the Spirit in Life and Mind.

What is genuinely yours will not leave you. With the right inner effort, it can be retrieved.  The question of what is genuinely yours leaving you will not arise unless you give adequate cause in the inner fabric of your emotions. A young man who inherited a small substantial property was offered a bride of an affluent lawyer on condition he take a local job and tend his property. The young man was actuated by unrealistic ambition  but had no talents of any description. 

Indians do not celebrate birthdays. Pious people go to the temple and conduct a special archana on their birthdays, not according to the English calendar, but according to the star of their birth. Celebration of birthdays has become universal as part of the several new-fangled Western habits that are becoming popular. What was common in Indian households was the celebration of the first birth anniversary of the child and the sixtieth birthday which would be a mini wedding festival.

Doctors used to say that it is not so much the disease that brings the patient to the doctor as the pain. People from the cooler climates spending long years in the tropics - in the army, navy, civil service, in quest of Spirit or in archeological research - develop in the later years skin cancer. When the affected part is in patches, it is removed by an operation.

Timidity provokes strength to tyranny. In the occult dispensation of life, that is how strength expands its domain of authority. Going further away from the surface mind to the subliminal which lies beyond the inner mind that lies just below the surface, the highest rule of life urges the weak to invite teasing by the strong.