Leading A Spiritual Life

ordinary lawyer, but as a result of this incident, he became the father of the Indian nation. When you perceive an opportunity, and you try to avail of it, but for some reason you fail to achieve your goal; then you might suffer a feeling of tension. But you should know that there is no end to opportunities in this world. If you fail to avail of one opportunity, then don’t take it as the end of everything. There are many other opportunities in life: in fact, the world is full of them. So, if you fail in the first instance, then try to avail of the second or the third opportunity, and so on. There is no full stop to opportunities – only commas! So instead of allowing yourself to be overwhelmed by tension, adopt the formula: ‘Try, try, try again.’ This is the formula for de-stressing yourself. Living in worry or stopping your thinking processes is not the solution. Instead of stopping your thinking processes, enhance them, and you will soon discover that the stress you felt was acting as an intellectual booster in your life. A Practical Formula for Peace Man’s personality is entirely in his own hands. He has total command over his own thoughts, heart and mind. L ord Mountbatten was India’s last British Viceroy. When, at midnight on August 15, 1947, he declared