(Experts from His book – Meditation & Life)

According to the rishis, every person is a potential genius. Beneath every sinner, they discovered a sage who is but waiting, for redemption and recovery. This self-development and self-rediscovery is accomplished through the technique called meditation.

Life is a continuous process, with a set purpose, a glorious pattern, and a rigid logic. The life of each one of us in an effect that must have an independent cause, even though the cause may not be perceptible to us. Our present life is one of the innumerable incidents in our eternal existence.

When the great masters were closely observing life, they first investigated the basic constituent or unit of life – an experience. Their final declaration on life reads in the form of a definition: “Life is a series of continuous and unbroken experiences of objects”. Just as the physical scientists, having discovered that the fundamental unit of matter is the atom, did not declare that science had fulfilled itself, but continued observing and analyzing that the unit of life is an, but continued observing and analyzing that the unit of life is an experience, but diligently pursued their investigations to discover the modes and factors governing and controlling individual experiences. These investigations brought the great subjective thinkers to the truth that an experience is possible only when three essential factors come to play simultaneously in a given field – the subject and the object, which is the experienced; and the relationship between the subject and the object, which is the experiencing. They also discovered that an experience depends entirely upon the condition and the nature of these three factors.

If these be the factors of an experience, a study of life as such, which is a series of experiences, cannot be complete unless we thoroughly investigate the nature of these three distinct factors.

The masters of the scriptures came to the conclusion that scientific analysis of the subject and a diligent attempt at understanding it are the only methods sufficiently comprehensive in estimating life and planning the means and methods by which we may ultimately transform life’s discordant notes into harmonious and divine music.

No doubt the individual personality is to some extent under the influence of external circumstances and objects, but this dependence upon the outer world is maximum in plant life, and we observe that as the beings step higher upon the ladder of evolution, there is a corresponding release from slavish dependence upon circumstances. The more evolved a being, the more is he capable of outwitting or conquering his external circumstances. Naturally, therefore, the superman reaching his evolutionary fulfillment must necessarily be a master of all circumstances and a true ruler of the world within and without.