A Purposeful Life

remained a big hurdle for its inventor for quite some time. It was only a dream which finally brought about the desired solution. As he was racking his brain to perfect his machine, Howe dreamt that he had been captured by a primitive tribe and was ordered to produce an operational sewing machine within twenty-four hours, failing which he would be speared to death. He tried hard, but could not accomplish it. When the deadline was up, they surrounded him and raised spears to kill him. Scared, yet still concentrating, he observed that each spear had an eyelet at the tip. He kept on gazing at the eyelet and then woke up with a start. The solution was right before him. For the machine to work, the placement of the hole had to be neither in the middle nor at the base, but at the tip. His lucky dream helped him, in 1845, to produce a sewing machine that would complete 250 stitches a minute. What is a dream? It is the result of complete involvement. What we think about during the day, we dream about at night. Howe succeeded in inventing a machine only because he had engrossed himself in it to such an extent that he came to dream about it. Such is the case with any undertaking, whether one wants to invent a machine, or bring about a revolution in human life. One achieves success in one's aim only after complete involvement. Only when the thing one has set one's mind on becomes a part of the subconscious mind is it reflected in one's dreams. Having a Purpose in Life In 1931, Japan conquered Manchuria in the north eastern area of China, where it established the government of its choice. After that China’s relations with Japan soured. On July 7, 1937 the Marco Polo incident took