The world is not receptive to new ideas, particularly new boons. If one goes on the Internet and learns how the major discoveries were received by the world, one will be appalled at the treatment they had received. The world was conservative. It is conservative to the core today.  In 1969 the banks had a total of about five thousand crores of rupees in deposit. Today any one branch of a big bank I the metropolis has that much deposit. Indira called a meeting of the Chairmen of Banks to propose nationalisation.

The Mother says that one cannot pretend to have the Supramental consciousness as one can practise deceit in other fields. Even Silence can be pretended, not the Supramental Consciousness. We hear that one man's faith has cured his cancer, another man's faith has dissolved his stone in the gall bladder. Occasionally, one's faith can inspire faith in another. It is great. There are two parts in such solutions. One is the Force that grants, the other is the faith of the person who prays.

Waiting patiently for things far out of one's reach is aspiration. It takes time to be fulfilled, but will surely be accomplished. Aiming at things one does not deserve on any showing is sterile ambition and helps one to lose what he already has. The rule works in two opposite ways for people of two opposite endowments. A goal and an aim are essential. An aimless life achieves nil. Discipline is necessary. A life devoid of discipline is worthless.

All the time we live the truths or secrets of life, but we never learn them. One such truth or truism is until you cross a certain borderline, you can lose all that you have painstakingly earned. Once the line is crossed, one is safe. It does not matter that both of you are partners for a decade or two, but ONE single doubt, justified or not, can wreck the partnership. The confidence of your party leader is fragile like that.

The 1973 oil crisis pushed people to seek other sources of oil than the Arab countries. The quest eased the situation a little. Research for alternate sources too has yielded some results. Jatropa and ethanol caught the attention of many during the last one or two decades. They are two different things. One is a clean burning fuel that can be mixed with petrol in very limited quantities. It comes from molasses, sugarcane or sugar beet. The nation expects to treble its oil consumption in the next twenty years.

Planning is the MIND conceiving of work in relation to one another. From its beginning, such planning was reduced to writing.  Writing a plan down on paper is to give the mental thought a graphic shape on paper. It gives the thought life. In the language of Tantra, such writing down is known as yantra, an engine. By the very fact of its being written down, it has the power to fulfil itself. Engineers who preside over an enormous project, as the cutting of the Suez Canal, generally achieve the goals of their planning.

Wisdom is the ultimate goal for the mind. Political wisdom is its extension to the affairs of the nation. There once was a dream that philosophers would become kings. To be wise, one should cease to look at the affairs of the world from one's point of view. One must cease to be subjective. Objective knowledge of the affairs of the nation raises wisdom to political wisdom. History tell us that Nehru, our idol in the Freedom Movement did not have that political wisdom when he trusted Chou En-lai.

It is a fact that in Asoka's India a woman could travel around safely, which shows the law and order of his rule. In the fifties, the Soviet government challenged its citizens to show four square inches of dirt in Moscow. Macauley spoke about India of his times and said he had never heard of theft or met someone who lied to him. When great values spread across the country and come to settle down as culture, the nation is proud about it.

People believe it is a natural law that some are ahead of others. It is true. When we come to another way of life, it is mostly true, admitting another truth also. It is true the pioneer is ahead, but it is not true that the gap is ever present. Founders of great companies are often thrown out by a subsequent board. This is a modern experience, as we saw in Apple, the computer pioneer. That the founder is a great personality is true in one aspect the company requires. As the company grows supported by the dynamic society, the founder is unable to keep pace and is thrown out.

When a village is raided by thieves in a big group, it is not the sages in the village or the scholars who come to defend the people. Nor is it the most honest of men. He who defends the village will be a leader of several bold men who risk their lives.  Such men will obey a real hero, a hero in a fight. He will be a muscle man of immense courage. The next item on the agenda is that hero will become the head of the village. Before civilisation invaded humanity, it was robber barons who ruled. Even after that, only they ruled.