India, Jan. 15 -- We are forever taking shelter in ourselves and getting nowhere. We all have ideas about how to succeed in life, yet we achieve only partial success. We are never satisfied, barring a few exceptions. One of the greatest weaknesses we all share is a feeling of superiority, called ahankar (ego).

We have many ideas about how others can improve, but very few about improving ourselves. We are constantly criticising others and rarely appreciating them, except when it serves some advantage. Let us examine how we take shelter in ourselves. We have been given many faculties, which we turn to repeatedly. The first is desire, and we desire without limit. The sky becomes the limit in daydreaming, without considering what is actually...