India, Sept. 15 -- In the simple, yet complex, way that Hinduism looks at things, everything, in the cosmos, except the soul, is fleeting. The world is Maya (Illusion). In Buddhism, there is a wrinkle. Shunya (Emptiness) is not nothingness, but transitory, rather, the "inherent lack of intrinsic existence." Larry Ellison, the 81-year-old founder of Oracle, discovered the power of this adage on September 10, when he overtook Tesla and Space X's founder, Elon Musk, as the richest person on this planet. The next day's headlines confirmed it.

But the headlines were wrong. They were overtaken by the fast-changing events in the short-lived and transient world of wealth and billionaires. Like everything else in this virtual world of Internet an...