Publishers know more about selling books than the writers. Harper and Row, well known publishers stumbled on a report written by Tom Peters and Waterman and approached them with the idea of publishing it. Tom bluntly said it was a report and not readable and they could not hope to sell even 10,000 copies to recover their cost. The publishers differed and securing their permission, printed it. About six million copies sold in the following years. For non-fiction, it is remarkable.

Spiritual aspirants are the heroes of the society; they are the soldiers of the Spirit. Rare is the soul that is drawn to the Spirit or a Guru; rarer still is the soul that believes in that Guru or the Spirit when the occasion arises. Vivekananda's doubt about Ramakrishna's spiritual stature survived till the end.

Those stalwarts who joined the Freedom Movement obeying the call of the great Mahatma sacrificed their all. Having entered the fray, it was not given to them to overcome the human deficiencies.

Spirit permits experimentation, but the field is one's own life. To experiment with Spirit is not impermissible, but it must be confined to only one occasion. Faith moves mountains, but it is not for the layman. There are Himalayan opportunities as well as immovable problems like a mountain in one's own personal life.

When astrology came into existence thousands of years ago, man felt as he did when railways came to relieve him from walking facing the dangers on the route infested with thieves. It was a great progress by any rational consideration. In the beginning of this century, air travel become a possibility and became widespread after the second world war. The history of the phone too has a similar development. Phone conquered Time; cell phone conquered space also. The cell phone is carried on the person and no longer fixed to a place.

Astrology is precise to the point of what you will eat for the next meal, numerology will be equally stunning, vaastu may decide your immediate outcome as the auspicious hour. In one high sense, they are all powerful, exact subtle sciences. Westerners may not believe as much as we do. 

Maybe they are not sometimes poor, but often times poor. There are several reasons, at least three major reasons. 1. They are NOT orthodox in the best sense of the word, 2. They lack the right discrimination to sift the chaff from the grain, 3. They often worship harmful vital spirits in the name of the venerable gods Shiva, Vishnu, etc. 

Values may be spiritual, but just because they are so, could they raise mundane results so phenomenally high? Why do we call values Spiritual?

A thousand years ago man was physical. His life was elementary. He survived. Now man has multiplied his comforts, enjoyment, mastery, reach, etc. a hundred fold. Some would feel it is a thousand-fold or more. Anyway, the progress in one millennium is phenomenal. This happened because he moved from a physical man to a mental person. Maybe he has not yet a fully formed mental life, a rational life. Certainly he has moved away from the body to life - from the physical to the vital. Both of them accept the guidance of the mind in material matters, not in emotional affairs.

Earning money is an act, as any other act of winning the elections, passing an exam, etc. The components of such an act are energy that comes from interest, goal that gives the direction, ORGANISATION from which power issues, skills that convert that power into results.

There are really good souls who believe that earning money is unethical. I shall not try to explain my position to them or trace the genesis of their present faith beyond declaring that it was a faith and moral that very well suited the ages when all aspects of life could be lived handling little money. My two important faiths are: