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will receive help and co-operation from others in his difficult circumstances.
JEEVANVIDYA therefore states,

"You are the architect of your destiny. Give happiness to others and receive
happiness in return, Give sorrow to others and receive sorrow in return.''

Important Truth

In this context, the following principle of JEEVANVIDYA is very instructive
"The dream of bringing about a revolution in the world will never be fulfilled, unless the

human race genuinely appreciates the very truth, that the state of Man's happiness is
hidden in the happiness of others, while the state of his grief is concealed in the sorrows

of others''
In fact the above principle of JEEVANVIDYA indicates only the factual situation

because Man automatically receives happiness as a reaction, when his efforts are to
make others happy on the three levels of thought, speech and deeds. In the same way,

Man receives sorrow as a reaction when he makes the life of others miserable. This point
can be clarified by means of an example. If you look at a garland of flowers, you will

notice that all those flowers are interwoven by a thread which passes through them.
Those looking at the garland, see only the flowers, but do not notice the thread.

However, there is a very close and intimate mutual relationship between the flowers and
the thread. There is a portion of thread in each flower, since the thread is passing

through all the flowers. Hence, if the thread receives a jerk, all the flowers receive that
jerk to some extent. Similary, if the flowers are shaken, the thread is correspondingly

affected. We witness exactly the same process in human society. All people of all
religions in the world are like flowers and these flowers are interwoven together by the

thread of Cosmic Mind. Thus the entire thread is the Cosmic Mind, while the portion of
the thread in the heart of every individual is the mind. It is because of the existence of

these individual minds that, all the people become conscious of their individual identity,
which is further magnified and multiplied with impressions of caste, sect, race, religion,

nation, language, etc. This individual identity is always expressed and manifested by
every person in the world, in the form of 'I' ness. Every person says, "I do this or that, I

am handsome or beautiful, I am rich or poor, I belong to this or that religion'', and so on.
There is thus a close, intimate and genuine relationship between the individual mind the

Cosmic Mind comprising of all the people of the world. As such, whenever and wherever
favourable or unfavourable events occur giving rise to peace and joy or chaos and

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