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Leading A Spiritual Life

fails to report for duty for a day or more without taking
proper leave, the number of days on which he is absent
will be deducted from the total period of his service.
The same applies to anyone who starts a business,
abandons it and starts some other job and again
abandons that job and starts a new venture. This kind
of practice can be described as a ‘break in history’.
People who behave in this way are said by psychologists
to have grasshopper minds. And those who indulge in
fragmenting their history in such a way cannot achieve
any great success in life. Your history is your greatest
asset and a break in service or a break in history deprives
you of this valuable asset.

There is another ‘break’ which is widespread in the
present world – the ‘break in generation’, or as it has
more recently come to be called, the ‘generation gap’.
Over the previous centuries, it was common practice
for elders to give the younger generation the benefit of
their experiences. This was a healthy and instructive
process. Of that there is no doubt. Young people may
have a good education but, because of their lack of
experience, they can easily go astray. Formerly, parents
or older family members had always been there (and
are still there) to communicate their experiences to the
upcoming generation, so that they should take the right
path in life. But now, due to modern and unnatural
ideas about freedom, the new generation is reluctant to
accept the advice of their elders.
They have developed the attitude of ‘we know
everything, we are the masters of our future; we have to
stand alone.’ This kind of psychology acts as a deterrent

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