From IIM Ahmedabad To Happiness

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

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KNOWLEDGE IS THE KEY
her secrets if we only know how to knock, to give her the necessary blow, and the strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; and that is the secret.”
The object of concentration should be, firstly, the denial of the imaginary unbridgeable gulf between God and man, and secondly, the positive assertion of the Divinity of the Self. This should be the real aim and object of concentration. Whenever we can find time for it - and the oftener we do it the better - we should settle down to concentrate on these points. If we have faith in the teaching, we would very soon begin to feel that we are on the right path. A few moments' concentration, with faith, is all that is needed to show one that one's labour has not been in vain. It is the best proof that one can ask for, or that can be furnished by any system. As we persevere in concentration, we shall realize that what we have considered happiness hitherto is a condition foreign to the very notion of bliss. Real happiness will come to you by the right use of concentration alone. So long as you do not give up your false ideals of bustling worldly life, you stand in your own way and debar yourself from true joy. We must give up the pursuit of the shining objects which has brought us all the ills and unhappiness. It is only a delusion which makes us think that happiness is to be had from the outside. When we 'wake up' we shall find the Self to be source of bliss itself, and shall wonder how we could have forgotten ourselves to such an extent as we did. The nervous system of man is made up of 'polarized' cells, and the mind is a great steel bar' in which, under his present condition, the particles are so badly arranged that the psycho-magnetic ‘fluid' in one is neutralized by the opposite kind of ‘fluid' in another. Let him rearrange the particles of the mind, let the positive poles of all the cells of the mind-stuff point in the same direction, and let this