When patients or clients have to choose a doctor or lawyer, they look for the most qualified and popular. The perceptive population will raise the question, is the man known for RASI? It is actually known as kairasi. What the client desires to know is not how experienced the lawyer is, but whether he wins the cases. It is consummate wisdom popularly considered rank superstition.

Sherlock Holmes has captured the imagination of the world. When a crime is committed, we find ourselves taking almost the same view as the police. Several others in the story also take that view. It is a view taken by us dictated by the circumstances. That view never solves the mystery of any Sherlock Holmes story. Holmes goes to the root of the mystery disregarding the popular view, detects the criminal and solves the mystery. He says he does so by insight and intuition. Though he was a detective, there is a profound truth in his belief. What is this insight or intuition?

After an intense wave of atheism immediately following the war, we now witness a surge of religious worship in Tamil Nadu. Perhaps it is an All-India phenomenon. Hundreds of temples have been consecrated and renovated. Thousands throng the erstwhile deserted temples. As a rule, the income of the temples from the devotee visitors has been steadily increasing. House construction is being presided over by vaastu. Alongside we see the deterioration of moral standards all over the country. Why does evil flourish while everywhere people turn to God?

Consecration accomplishes. To consecrate means to make sacred. Doing a work for ourselves is human. To do it for the Divine is consecration. When you protect the weak from the cruelty of the strong, you protect that individual. It is a personal help to him. It is an individual act benefiting a single individual. Suppose you consecrate that act of protection, consecration accomplishes that act. A magistrate punishing the offender upholds the law and announces to all cruel persons that they would be punished.

Co-operation is to offer direct help in a work. Co-ordination is to alter our work in such a way that another person's work will be facilitated. The sugar mill's scheduling its crushing operation in time with the farmers' cutting the cane is co-ordination. Such co-ordination is vital for many functions. Where it is not vital for its survival, such co-ordination creates a new opportunity that spreads to the end of the world. Families that know this truth in some fashion rise sky-high. For personal progress one can coordinate his various faculties or talents.

The ordinary man is often an adored member of the society. He is hailed as a model man. Such a man will follow all the social rules, and never transgress the social boundaries. He will conform to the norms of the society, honour his own conscience and be held up as a perfect gentleman. Such men during their school days win all the GOOD BOY prizes. This is all right; but this is not all. Some children are gifted, while others are unruly. The precocious children will always be found NOT to fit into the society at one point or the other.

Life is submerged in an ocean of words. Words emanate from us endlessly and impinge on us forever. They all dissolve and disappear. Of course, several words remain in our memory ever fresh. But we also know the phenomenon of some casual words remaining in our memory and constantly repeating with a vigour. On closer examination, we see they are words spoken to us at a crucial moment of our lives.

A good person is born good. It is his swabhava. By a good upbringing many people remain good. When people suddenly come into wealth, the good in them often comes to the surface. Success, wealth, education, etc. have known to bring out the innate good in man. A man is GOOD if he is treated as a good man. You are how you are treated. In Shaw's Pygmalion, Prof. Higgins supported by Col. Pickering makes the flower girl Eliza appear as a duchess. That was the power of phonetics and training.

The more prosperous people are, the less they believe in God. It is true with education too. Prof. S. Chandrasekaran who won the Nobel Prize could not see any reality in the concept of God. His education weaned his mind away from God. God was not even a permissible concept for him. Confronted with a problem of life, the Westerner will rarely think of God. Instead, he will try harder each time. When his best efforts fail, he will grow stoical and masculine to muster courage to silently suffer it without sharing his woes with another.

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