Maintain Composure

We are living in a world in which cosmic changes on a vast scale also take place. The cosmic forces that are at work are powerful and still incomprehensible.

Our progress therefore sometimes appears to be illusory, momentary and insignificant, when we see a lifetime's good work coming to naught, when disasters overtake us, when achievements of many generations get destroyed, sometimes in seconds, we get lost, we lose our balance and feel dismayed, we lose heart and give up the battle as lost.

We have to, however, persevere, we need to have stout heart, maintain composure and continue our good work.

Vast changes wrought by man

Humanity would not have made any progress if it had not tried to create conditions of comparative safety, stability, peace and plenty of over-changing world which is always in a state of flux.

We were subject to the vagaries of weather, but gradually we provided ourselves with better and better shelters which have given us protection from scorching heat of the sun, wet rain and cold winds of the winter months. Gradually these shelters once only hovels, have been improved and made ever more beautiful. They are now provided with insulation and are being made proof against lightning, fire, rust, blast and earthquake.

In the beginning, we depended on the bounty of mother earth to provide us with food. We, however, gradually developed their art of cultivation and grain storage. We tamed over a thousand plants and made them grow to our liking.

We were first limited by the condition of the soil and the quantity of rain from the sky but not resting content with these limitations we discovered ways and means of replenishing the fertility of mother earth and developed various means of irrigation.

Our crops came to be afflicted by pests. We have now developed insecticides and pest-resistant varieties of crops.