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that this must be the fulfilment of his dreams and you congratulate him. He will tell you in a disgruntled way: “What's there in having one mill? I am not yet a big industrialist.” To such a man you can never preach satisfaction or contentment. His god is his ego and he will sacrifice everything to propitiate him; that is his mental attitude and he will never find happiness as long as he continues to worship this god.
Rabindranath Tagore relates a very interesting anecdote about himself. Once, on a night of the fullmoon, finding himself all alone in the house, he took up a book to read. After a few hours his eyes were fatigued so he put aside the book and shut his eyes for a few minutes. But the light from his readinglamp disturbed him, so he switched it off. And behold! the moonlight came streaming into his room. As long as his reading-lamp had been on he had not noticed the light of the moon; but the moment he switched off that artificial light, nature's light flooded his room and filled his very being. He wondered why he had not noticed this beautiful soft light so far, and he realised that it was because the harsh glare of the artificial light had obscured the cool light of the moon. Our ego is like the harsh glare of the artificial light, it dazzles us and as long as it is kept on it pre
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