Lotus Bloom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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FOREWORD
The religious reader with an eye for spiritual brightness may discover in this book a string of Chitrabhanu wisdompearls. As a rule ordinary works of art have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but the Lotus Bloom is substance rather than form, and it may be read and enjoyed backwards as well as forwards!
At the top of page four the author of the Lotus Bloom reminds us that modern man is wasting his energy and intelligence in a violent rush to improve the world instead of himself, ignoring the eternal truth that self-improvement rather than improvement of exterior furniture and fixtures, is the road to the crest of all human greatness. Since everybody is in reality a spiritual being, animated, sustained, and renewed from the spirit within, only on a high level of the inner spirit will you and I and the rest of the world-family, find happiness and peace.
We are living in a new age that is getting newer every day: new clothes, new food, new shelter, new art, new music, new dances, new means of transportation and communication, new leaders, new deals, new frontiers, new allies—everything newer by the minute, including a lot of new questions such as: How to feed the starving millions from East to West? What should be done about the popula