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FROM IIM-AHMEDABAD TO HAPPINESS
discuss it threadbare. If after going through the case and its discussion, there is a sense of emptiness within you, it is no fault of yours. This is the beauty of the case method of study. No simple solutions are arrived at but, sure enough, in the ultimate analysis, tremendous amount of learning takes place. Moreover, this ‘emptiness' is an indication that the spark of exploring the true meaning of life has been lit within you. It is up to you now to prepare your own case and to mark your participation.
We may add here that the only way to do this is to bring your mental energy to focus and concentration. All human achievements are due to concentration. Even knowledge is possible through concentration of thought, that is, meditation, not otherwise. As seed sown on the wayside stray ground or in a plot where it is choked by the weeds, produces little or no harvest, but on good ground multiplies manifold, so does knowledge increase in a thoughtful mind. If we merely content ourselves with saying "how true it is,” or “it is quite wrong," and the like, we shall not understand anything. The difference between the adept and the average man lies in the power of concentration. It is a matter of daily experience that even in affairs of earthly importance, a certain amount of concentration of mind is absolutely necessary to bring an undertaking to a successful end. The necessity to stop the wandering of the mind becomes all the more important when it has to deal with such subtle and fine forces as compose the fetters of the soul. You have proved all along that you own the capacity to concentrate; what is required now is a change of its direction.
Long enough you have lived on a daily, high-power dose of worry and tension. Now stop worrying and start your new journey toward happiness cheerfully; Nature stands ready to team up with you:
“Look at the lilies of the field; they never worry themselves about what they shall wear, yet the pure white robe in which Nature has
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