Sure Ways to Self-Realization [antikvár]

Introduction Many years ago, great psychologists predicted that the present technological revolution would create many new psychological problems for humanity. Their predictions have come true. Throughout the whole world human beings have become burdened with tension and anxiety. They have lost their peace of mind. The advent of machinery has given men and women more leisure time than at any other time in the history of humankind. Yet they do not know how to use this spare time most beneficially. They spend their free time in nerve-exciting amusements, through which they try to forget themselves. Their mental problems accumulate as each day passes. They are assailed by problems of many forms - famjly problems, economic problems, worries regarding health, jealousies, hatreds, sorrows, fears and so on, and all these influences make the mind continually restless. Modern civilization has placed all sorts of comforts and amusements before the individual, but unfortunately he has lost his appetite for them. His mind is troubled, tormented and tense, and this sickness of the mind prevents him from having a positive, healthy and balanced attitude towards life. There was a time in Indian history when the same crisis occurred. It was at a time when humankind had reached a peak of material prosperity and education. People then were in the same situation as people are today; as their wealth 1