Allow Your Own Inner Light to Guide You

• There comes a time when you must stand alone.
• You must feel confident enough within yourself to follow your own dreams.
• You must be willing to make sacrifices.
• You must be capable of changing and rearranging your priorities so that your final goal can be achieved.
• Sometimes, familiarity and comfort need to be challenged.
• There are times when you must take a few extra chances and create your own realities.
• Be strong enough to at least try to make your life better.
• Be confident enough that you won't settle for a compromise just to get by.
• Appreciate yourself by allowing yourself the opportunities to grow, develop, and find your true sense of purpose in this life.
• Don't stand in someone else's shadow when it's your sunlight that should lead the way.
• Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

- Unknown Author

Limitation of Science

“Science does not know how we learn and remember, nor how we think and communicate, nor how the brain stores information, nor what the relationship between language and thought is. Science does not know how living cells interact with nonliving matter. It does not know what the origin of the universe is, nor how old the universe is, not what the ultimate fate of the universe will be."

[Charles M. Vest, professor, president of MIT, in the International Herald Tribune, January 16, 1996, p.8] 

Yaksha Prashna

Following are the famous intricate questions (called Yaksha Prashna) that were asked by the Lord of Death, Yama to Yudhisthir or Dharmaraja or Dharma, the eldest of the Pandavas of the Indian epic Mahabharata, and the famous wisdom-filled answers given by him:


1) Yama:     What is heavier than earth, higher than heavens, faster than the wind and more numerous than straws?
Dharma: One's mother is heavier than the earth; one's father is higher than the mountains. The mind is faster wind and our worries are more numerous than straws. 
2) Yama:     Who is the friend of a traveler? Who is the friend of one who is ill and one who is dying?
Dharma: The friend of a traveler is his companion. The physician is the friend of one who is sick and a dying man's friend is charity. 
3) Yama:     What is that which, when renounced, makes one lovable? What is that which is renounced makes happy and wealthy?
Dharma: Pride, if renounced makes one lovable; by renouncing desire one becomes wealthy; and to renounce avarice is to obtain happiness.
4) Yama:     What enemy is invincible? What constitutes an incurable disease? What sort of man is noble and what sort is ignoble?
Dharma: Anger is the invincible enemy. Covetousness constitutes a disease that is incurable. He is  noble who desires the well-being of all creatures, and he is ignoble who is without mercy. 
5) Yama:     Who is truly happy? What is the greatest wonder? 
Dharma: He who has no debts is truly happy. Day after day countless people die. Yet the living wish to live forever. O Lord, what can be  greater wonder?

(Source: Chapter 24  of Complete Mahabharatha collection of Amar Chithra Katha)

The Faith

            By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished. Faith in the Supreme; faith in the over-ruling Law; faith in your work, and in your power to accomplish that work, - here is the rock upon which you must build if you would achieve, if you would stand and not fail.

To follow, under all circumstances, the highest promptings within you; to be always true to the divine self; to rely upon the inward Light, the inward Voice, and to pursue your purpose with a fearless and restful heart, believing that the future will yield unto you the need of every thought and effort; knowing that the laws of the universe can never fail, and that your own will come back to you with mathematical exactitude, this is faith and the living of faith. By the power of such a faith the dark waters of uncertainty are divided, every mountain of difficulty crumbles away, and the believing soul passes on unharmed.

                         – From "Poverty to Power" by James Allen

The Secret of Success

          Mere wishing brings nothing but disappointment; it is living that tells. The foolish wish and grumble; the wise work and wait.

            Your success, your failure, your influence, your whole life you carry about with you, for your dominant trends of thought are the determining factors in your destiny. Send forth loving, stainless, and happy thoughts, and blessings will fall into your hands, and your table will be spread with the cloth of peace. Send forth hateful, impure, and unhappy thoughts, and curses will rain down upon you, and fear and unrest will wait upon your pillow. You are the unconditional maker of your fate, be that fate what it may. Every moment you are sending forth from you the influences which will make or mar your life. Let your heart grow large and loving and unselfish, and great and lasting will be your influence and success, even though you make little money. Confine it within the narrow limits of self-interest, and even though you become a millionaire your influence and success, at the final reckoning will be found to be utterly insignificant.
                              – From Poverty to Power by James Allen