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There is a proverb which says that genious is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration: Really?

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Money is for the peace of the body; liberty is for the peace of the mind: can you strike the optimal balance?

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I have over the past 24 years of attempting to survive persecution as I envisaged the intrusions into my liberty to represent developed a frame of mind that regards the interactions between living beings as organised in Brahma-Nature in terms of its sattvic, rajasic and tamasic guna consciousness manifestations. This psychological drama unfolds every moment of existence on this Earth and to preserve one's liberty in order to survive in dignity one needs to be dodging and diving the forces that are always out to trap one into slavery so as to get one to do things their way and this was unacceptable to me for I would then have had to give up my personal convictions on harmony, conservation and preservation of Nature in performing the sanatan dharma in bhakti and devotion to God. The persecution complex arising as a state of mind generates paranoia, persistent delusions, and paranoid…

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It has taken me a considerable number of years to determine what is Hindutva, in actual fact, for I was brought up within the Hindu tradition but had no gurus from the age of 18 when my parents returned to India and I was left in the United Kingdom to make my way in life.

I was enamoured by the British way of life and learnt the proverbs, most notable among them that springs to mind right now is that 'a man without a aim or ambition is a ship without a rudder'. So I set ambitions to do certain things. However when all these ambitions were actually put to the rest of what the Reality would accommodate they amounted to fools paradise to the point that today I am living on my pension which is meagre and rely on the charity of my wife to fund my hobbies,…