The Economy of Human Life

Congratulations to the wise reader! For picking up the most ancient and universally vibrant masterpiece of Oriental wisdom. This book greatly inspired India's first president Dr.Rajendra Prasad and Founder of Benares Hindu University Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya. Who was always very eager for every student to read this book. Believe it or not this excellent and visionary work of practical wisdom has travelled across the globe, from India to China, and from Europe to America through the ages. And had been successful in blending many new philosophies to make this world a better place to live in. The apparent unending and electrifying knowledge of couplets are clearcut witness of rise and fall of many great empires the world over whether it had been India of the Golden Bird fame, the famous Chinese Dynasty or theBritish Empire or Alexander the Great, whom the original author of this wisdom 'BraminDandamish' had also written his famous letter, which is recorded by European Scholars, later, on Chinese translation of the original work had been honestly done by the notable Chinese scholar and then prime-minister Cao-Tsou at many pagod in Tibet in close association with learned Lamas.

An English gentleman, then residing at Peking for his business purposes found these works very useful and important for his countrymen too, there-fore, he decided to translate the greatest wisdom on the successful economy of human life into English without any commercial or literary interests. The English gentleman expresses these literary feelings and emotions in his letter to the Earl of Chesterfield that, "I could not rest, after the first dipping into it, without the pleasing task of a translation... I need not tell your Lordship the energy of thought, sublimity of style, and many other circumstances, prove it to come from the divine hand..."

How electrifying are the words of wisdom-"Bow down your heads unto the dust, O yeinhabitants of earth be silent, and receive, with reverence, instruction from high," again how honestly the great master says about universal power that- "Flesh does not think and bones does not reason...thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing are its actions but they are not its essence...be grateful to it and seek not to know it perfectly; it is inscrutable." Certainly this antique and err less wisdom is from the times when there were no modern and uptodate state of the art scientific laboratories to dissect flesh, bone and blood to its smallest cells. Isn't it still true today? When men are cloning themselves in test tubes and flying high in the dark-skies of the moon and mars.

The wisdom here is not only limited to morality and spirituality but the most notable is author's understanding and advice about business. He says- "Be industrious to procure gold". And further he says- "and be generous in the disposal of it." So that the returns could be much more than simply hoarding of it without a purpose. At last the naked truthfulness of life speaks from the stage of death, in its own words- "Wouldst thoulearn to die nobly? Let thy vices die before thee. Happy is he who ended the business of life before his death..." Thus spoke the ancient wisdom of a successful life. This is the root of hot-selling "success philosophy," of modern time from noted educationists, psychologists and success trainers from personal to corporate excellence. I am sure only lucky creatures of the planet Earth will be able to read it to make their lives worthwhile.

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