From IIM Ahmedabad To Happiness

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers

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FROM IIM-AHMEDABAD TO HAPPINESS
Shakespeare, Newton or Spencer live upon a revelation made to Buddha, Christ or Muhammad. So have we to solve our own problems and to begin to see with our own eyes, rather than to continue peeping through the eyes of our most venerable Seers and the Sages of the past gone by.”
Each man has to work out his growth and salvation himself; none may claim support from his neighbour. One must remove one's doubts, one by one, for no one but you yourself know what your doubts are. This is the very first principle. It will, in due course of time, bring its reward, which is self-reliance. Its development is the first sign of success.
Right faith has its eyes constantly fixed on the great ideal of perfection and bliss, and never loses sight of it for a moment. Its function is to determine the direction of the individual activity in the right way, preventing it from becoming self-destructive. Faith is like the man at the helm, always directing and guiding the barge of life, in storm and in calm. He whose heart is not chastened by right faith is like the rudderless ship which is soon dashed to pieces against rocks, for want of proper guidance and control. The necessity for right faith is fully obvious from the fact that people only live up to their beliefs.
If one wants to dwell in a heaven where one can enjoy undisturbed bliss, one must help in its evolution from within. All one has to do is to sow the tiny little seed of faith. If the mental emotion be a happy and blessed one, everything will adjust itself to contribute its share of bliss to the man who puts himself in that attitude. The true nature of the soul is blissful, though it is now lying buried beneath a heap of filth and rubbish of evil passions and desires. As Vivekananda says, the soul is like a prisoner lying in a prison, barred and chained from within, waiting for the arrival of the Liberator. We have called him, prayed to him to come, and are anxiously awaiting his arrival. But there is no redeemer
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