India, Jan. 30 -- Since our childhood, we have been taught to be polite and to be nice to others. In a way, it's important because you get what you give, and if we want others to be nice to us, our behaviour towards them should be similar, shouldn't it? But! if our so-called nice behaviour is superficial, acting as a mask over not-so-nice feelings, it will not win us any goodwill in return, because the law of karma operates even at the most subtle level, which states: "As you sow, so shall you reap."

Hence, it is very important to have genuinely good feelings towards others, because when our feelings are pure, good wishes and nice behaviour come naturally. We don't have to tell ourselves to be nice to someone or, at a more subtle level, ...