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The Art of Man Making

give you the yagna”-the power to co-operatively work together

for a desirable goal. With this-functioning in this co-operative
spirit of selfless dedicated endeavour-may you all prosper(ane-

na prasavishyadhwam) nay, even if man were to discover any

imperfection in nature, or in the scheme of life in the world, an

intelligent community can, by itself, striving in the yagna spir-

it of selfless co-operative endeavour, bring about all improve-
ments and every conceivable progress. The story of scientific

world and it’s growth during the last thousand years; the story

of economic and political revolutions the world goes through
from time to time, are all examples. Alas! men co-operate and

act as a team more often for destructive wars than a constructive

work for creating peace and harmony among themselves! It is

due to a weakness inherent in man that he fails in his attempts at

co-operative endeavours. We know if we all decide and work for
a cause, good or bad, we can succeed. We can make a heaven of

earth, or hell of life around us. In order to work co-operatively,

each will have to sacrifice his ego and his personal desire-grati-
fications. If anyone in a team asserts his ego or grows anxious

for his own desire- gratifications, the cadence in the work is lost,

and the co-operative scheme breaks down. Thus for success the

entire team must have one sigle inspiring idea at the altar of

which everyone must readily surrender his personal vanity and
greed. A large number of people coming together to act in uni-

son at the same altar of grace, for the total glory of all is the

ritual yagna. This yagna spirit is a gift recieved from the creator

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