Educationists all over know the phenomenon of creating successful careers for people devoid of any content of personality. These may be exceptions, but it is a reality of public life. Training well given and well received creates an apparently good product of personality and delivers all the goods in service expected of it. That is the proof of the pudding.

Mind is a very common word, but as a concept, it contains far more than is ordinarily understood. Neither in the Western philosophy nor in science do we have a satisfying definition of what Mind is. Indian philosophy and spirituality that know all about mind and its extraordinary capacities do not seem to have defined mind.

In a very broad sense, we can discover a rule of correspondence between any two events. It may be direct or indirect or even oblique. The simplest one is when you abuse your wife at home and go to the office, the boss abuses you. Here the correspondence is direct. In an exceptionally pitiable case, a husband abused by his wife goes to the office to be abused by the boss. This too is a correspondence!

Man will vehemently deny that he refuses GOOD LUCK. In Truth, that is what is prevalent. Often great good luck comes as an alliance of inter-caste marriage. Traditional people are unable to accept that. To accept luck, one cannot sacrifice the long cherished caste privilege. From his point of view, one many find a justification for such an attitude. At a time when jobs were scarce and VIPs were unable to secure one, a dull, poor, neglected boy was approached out of sheer sympathy with a job somewhere in the district.

Spiritual elevation leads to spontaneous action ending in a great performance in any walk of life. Therefore, there is an implicit distrust of meticulous, detailed planning. Those who can act with inspiration frown on planners as plodders of the physical plane. If Spirit is everywhere, is it not true that it is in the planning process too? The truths here are several.

It is infinite Brahman that created this world of infinite joy. Infinity is not only a Spiritual concept or Mathematical concept. Infinity is a practical concept. Man has a genius for creation in the positive as well as negative sides. This modern world of ours with infinite variety of wonders is a creation of the human mind. Man also has the peculiar capacity of becoming a slave to his own creation, as we become a willing helpless slave of passionate attachment.

Patience is a divine virtue. Not all gods are known to have it. People who invoke the Spirit have a quick response when there is a response. Problems of a simple nature, a delayed wedding, a disease, unemployment, a loan not recovered, etc. are immediately answered. A good many people forget the Spirit as soon as the problem is solved. 

The hundred articles in this book have been previously published in the New Indian Express from 15th July 2003 to 10th November 2003. I would like to thank Mr. M.K. Sonthalia, Managing Editor of New Indian Express for granting me permission to reprint the articles in this collection.

CONTENTS

• Invocation of Spirit is powerful. Better still, if you call, "Mother" it is all inclusive.
• There are several methods to do so, though in essence all are the same.

1. In our personality there is a surface and a depth. As long as we are thinking of a problem we are on the surface. To go away from the surface we must agree to forget the problem or NOT to actively think of it. Now the problem moves to the depth where it causes a worry that does not explain itself. One can call Mother or the Spirit if he moves away from the depth.