Discipline: Recipe for Success Good order is the foundation of all things,” says Edmund Burke. Call it God or Nature, it has provided a prefect system without an iota of flaw. The seasonal changes, sunrise and sunset, rivers merging in the sea, balance of nature, the phenomena of both the animal and the plant kingdom, birth, death and the eternal truth that whatever or whoever is born has to die, the...

Leadership Qualities A leader, to be successful, has to motivate and influence others. He has to get genuinely interested in others and learn to give lavish appreciation. Another important factor is avoiding criticism. All of us know that no one likes criticism. In fact, no one admits that he has made a mistake. No one ever blames himself, although the whole world may condemn him as the guilty one. Let us...

Youth and Literacy The best and the most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the head. —Helen Keller If it is spring for the Mother Nature, then she has been kind I enough to bestow on us the most beautiful phase of our life, which is often energetically proclaimed as “Youth”. This is the time when the youth dare to think...

Science and the Modern World Scientific thought is essentially power-thought—the sort of thought whose purpose, conscious or unconscious, is to give power to its possessor. Power is a casual concept and to obtain power over any given material, one need only to understand the casual laws to which it is subjected. This is an abstract matter and the more irrelevant details we can omit from our purview, the more powerful our...

Indian Values and Western Culture   The mysteries of nature were explored and exposed in India which is termed as the cradle of an ancient civilization. The Vedas, the Puranas and the Upanishads were written in India where personalities like Gautam Buddha, Lord Mahavira, Swami Dayanand, Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda and many other were born. We have a value system which is unparalleled in the world; this value...

Preservation of Tribal Culture in India Our tribes, through the centuries. have been leading a life V absolutely different from the lifestyle of the common men in the rest of India, weaving a colourful pattern of folk songs, folk dances, values of life that value the innocence of man. Their social customs, cultural traditions and economic lives are distinctly their own. They have been least affected for ages by the razzle-dazzle...

Making Successful Decisions The ability to make effective decisions is a fundamental requirement for both professional success and personal happiness. An effective decision is one which brings about, more or less, the state of affairs we are hoping for. More than that, an effective decision can result in surprising but welcome changes to our lives. An ineffective decision, in contrast, has either little or the wrong effect. A though effective decision-making...

Godmen and New Cults Since time immemorial religion has always been a source of fascination for the human mind. Man is afraid of his death but not of his deeds. Man feels that his deeds are not worth a scrutiny. But we always consider death to be a supreme change that would lead us to salvation. So, we use religion as a tool to meet our ends gracefully. Man also uses...