God is a Curious Listener

The world is driven to unhappiness and frustration because it is driven by a sequence of desires. People resort to any means to fulfill their wishes. This could involve taking recourse to lying, harming others or damaging the environment. All religions have, therefore, condemned desire as the root cause of unhappiness.

The state of true liberation comes when one performs all duties and obligations without bothering about the result. The way to achieve this state is through learning. "Savidyayavimuktye", true learning, which liberates us from desire, craving, attachment and fear.

In the Gurukul of Sandipani, both Krishna and Sudama had to share tasks. They lived a life that laid importance of duty rather than the fruits of action. Naturally the concept-developed minds in which there was no place for desire. It also ensured that desire did not slide to the subconscious domain.

The author, Mr. Sunil Sachwani, was born in April 1964 and is a Mumbai resident; professionally, he is a banker. After banking hours, the author, in his free time, spends time in performing various duties such as household work and writing articles and books.

He writes articles for his bank's magazine called "Taarangan" which is published quarterly for the staff of the Bank of India. He was inspired by his father-in-law, who as a senior citizen, used to write books.

The author has written three books in 8-9 days of privilege leave. The author possesses the ability of how to utilize the spare time! So this is one such example.

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