Liberty and Freedom are synonymous, but have a clear distinction in the enjoyment of it. English grammar is unable to fix the phrase ‘Love of the child' to a precise meaning by its rules. It means both the love of the child for the mother and the love of the mother for the child. The context explains, not the rules. Freedom can mean what the government or the society extends to the individual; liberty can also mean the extent the individual enjoys that freedom in the reality of his daily functioning.

The opposite of selfishness is unselfishness or selflessness. Self-giving is of a higher order. Life exists in the grades of survival, growth, development and evolution. An agriculture society changing into an industrial society is evolution. A famine stricken population avoiding extinction by its brave struggle is survival. A middle class family that faces a slide down into a lower class fighting back successfully is also survival. An empty house of a middle class family acquiring all consumer durables is growth.

If universal education is the foundation of universal Prosperity, Insurance is the social shield for the cruelties of Life. Life is not merely cruel; it is capable of being a tyrant. It has the power to reduce the most wealthy man to a beggar on the street. Tragedies in life can make yesterday's upper middle class families into today's slum dwellers. Insurance can protect any policy holder from most of the tragedies of life. Every farmer knows after a drought or floods the full value of crop insurance.

EID Parry and Co. has a sugar factory at Nellikuppam, near Cuddalore, It is more than a hundred years old. Before the World War, fertile lands were having a total return of less than Rs. 100/- per acre, while sugarcane growers were making more than Rs. 400/- per acre. In the villages around the factory, it was a common saying that if a farmer owned a brick-built house, he was a sugarcane farmer. It was a period when Madras State or Madras Presidency as it was then called, had only 1600 pump sets of which 1500 were in this part of the district.

The Spirit is Infinite and Eternal. Indian spiritual wisdom knows how the entire infinite universe is compressed into the infinitesimal and how one can release that infinite from the infinitesimal. Vinayaka knew that the whole world was compressed in his parents and that KNOWLEDGE helped him win the contest with his brother. The modern computer is a technological representation of this fact, abridging into a small laptop computer whole libraries. Life is an ocean and contains the universe in it.

In the early thirties, there was severe unemployment of which there were three MAs. They were the only postgraduates in this whole district then. Suppose someone at that time had the vision of hundreds of MAs or thousands of them, it would have been empty prophecy. Today in each remote village, the statistics say that there are five or ten holders of the MA degree. In this district, the MAs are more than 20,000. I have often quoted the US figure of PhDs in 1886 being ONE, and in 1986 a figure far over 30,000.

Means are sacred, spiritual. They are the urges of pure motives, impulses of the inner ideal. Ends are need-based, urges of material desires, part of a physical material existence. Relentless pursuit of practical ends by dominant personalities of capacity and energy end in their getting them in a great good measure. But when they come, they come with many other things unsought for. For a while, all the effort goes to extricate one from the gains. One discovers it is an eternal endless process.

Conviction in the context of a convict is punishment or jail sentence. Conviction in the sense of mental belief does not arise with a convict. If it does, it is a conviction that one can survive by crime better than through a profession in the society.  William Faulkner has seen that a convict can have a conscience. He too can believe in values and live by them, as few others can ever contemplate to order their lives. Convicts are often taken out to do outdoor work. They work while in chains. The Mississippi River was in floods in 1927.

We make decisions all the time, small and significant. Decisions lead to results. Right decisions bring right results that are vast. The rightness of a decision has several grades. The minimum right ensures the first result. The maximum rightness makes the final result eminently possible. One who seeks a bride has the least result of a successful wedding. The maximum good result is a happy married life for the rest of his life. We call marriage the crop of a thousand years. In joining a college, the minimum positive result is to secure the admission.

Common sense is understood as rationality. It expects good results for good acts, evil results for evil acts. Very often this is correct. Sometimes it goes wrong. One who was unemployed for ten years after his MA took his uncle's son under his care when the uncle died. Along with the son came his mother. Soon he found a teaching job in a university where he admitted his cousin in B.Sc. That university started an engineering college that year, the second engineering college in the then Madras State. The boy passed, took an employment.