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night time. If I am able to do my recording of about 3-4 hours despite
such adverse circumstances, what is stopping you from doing what
you should do?

Situations are not as bad as they seem to us. A little patience is all
that we need to solve our problems. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
What do we mean by a good environment to study? A quiet place?
Even if you have a quiet place that cannot give you a right
environment to study; you need to have a quiet mind as well.

Our ancestors saw a lot of poverty in their life. Earlier there were

also not many options of employment, only a few people used to
have wealth and ours is the generation which took birth just after our
Independence. There is a big difference between India of then and
India of now. Back in those days, the only priority was on survival—
to find a stable employment opportunity. There were neither many

options of employment nor enough opportunities to move ahead in
life. That generation was very industrious and could only survive
because of their hard work. This is why, each and every decision
which they made was risk-free—that is what their mindset has been
—and now any decision, which has some degree of risk, is not liked
by these people because they are used to trusting on tried and
tested things.

Today's generation has neither seen poverty nor has it been through
tough times. Today, we have hospitals, roads, dams and everything
which makes our lives a lot easier. Science has made tremendous
progress in making our lives comfortable which is why the new
generation does not think about struggling for survival.

People now want to become industrialists, they want to live as per
their terms and are not afraid to take risks. But the previous
generation had deep-rooted fear in them. This is where we are
different from them.
Your family members want you to become a doctor or an engineer,
or maybe take up a government job, they want to see you earning
money early, want you to get married soon, because through all this

they derive happiness and mental satisfaction. If you want to