00:00Today's civilized man is up against a bizarre predicament.
00:04His very attempts to censure security for himself have resulted in making him even more insecure.
00:11Life, all its comforts notwithstanding, has succumbed to an endless anguish.
00:17Acts of virtue go completely unrewarded but vice, paying immediate dividends, bar the way like a sold wall.
00:25Everyone wants to get rid of his knowledge, acts, circumstances, desires, and habits.
00:32In short, he wants to be free even of his own self.
00:36He desires to be liberated from his own stranglehold.
00:40The storms of nameless anxieties blow out one by one the beacons of hope and enlightenment.
00:46The thinking faculties of the present-day man are in disarray.
00:51The profusion of leaders has created a vacuum of leadership.
00:54Mankind, once a unity, has been split up into factions.
01:00No one trusts anyone.
01:02Man no longer trusts even his own self.
01:05When the future itself is murky, then the present, full of comforts though it may be, also appears to be meaningless.
01:13Everyone wishes to play the savior nowadays.
01:16It is like the outbreak of a messianic epidemic.
01:19And all this at a time when everybody seems to bear a gravestone on his head, and those who wish to lament, mourn in fact for themselves.
01:28The just and unjust demands of living have become so massively threatening that human beings, face to face with their own helplessness and disability, are cracking up.
01:40Knowledge is on the increase, and is available to more and more people.
01:45But as the libraries overflow with books, man's heart becomes emptier of peace and tranquility.
01:52Our craze for the acquisition of life's comforts is like a strangling creeper choking up our thoughts and feelings.
02:00If Socrates were reborn now, B would be forced to drink hemlock again.
02:05Feelings are dead now.
02:07Today's tragedy is that tragedy itself is dead, and no own can spare a moment to mourn its demise.
02:14Men cannot understand why and to what end are heavenly commandments needed during their terrestrial vagabondage.
02:22Machines have robbed men of their decency.
02:25Sins have rendered prayers ineffective.
02:28There is so such light that the vision cannot function.
02:31In these circumstances, what can a small book hope to achieve?
02:35But here is something well worth pondering upon, namely that although the world is flooded with people and there is no end to the tide of rising population,
02:46each newborn child enters the arena with complete assurance and faith,
02:51heralding his arrival with the announcement that much has been achieved, but a great deal still remains to be done.
02:58A lamp visible from afar in the dark of the nigh cannot illuminate the way,
03:04but it helps to create a mood which in turn allows the wayfarer to shake off despondency and move towards hope,
03:13and the goal of certainty is but a few steps away from hope.
03:17For the man of ideas, the ideas emanate without sound, without words.
03:23But if these ideas have to be expressed, they need words.
03:27Very often the words tend to obscure the ideas.
03:31The reader, therefore, is requested to keep and eye not only on the ideas which the words propound,
03:38but also on the ideas which words can never properly convey.
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