Page 32 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Dr. K.C.V. on Ten Commandments of Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga
The world is in the throes of a new birth. A new pattern of culture is emerging. The ways of science have paved the way for the reorientation of human aims and goals. Though men are presently thinking in terms of better ways of existence for all and have been forced to conceive of life as a whole and not as for oneself and a few, yet the means and methods adopted for arriving at that goal or realisation of a welfare state have not been satisfactory. Man muddles on with the rationality vouched for his growth. Yet it is a fact that man is in search of happiness. This happiness and peace of mind seem to be closely linked up. Man has to realise that he belongs to a great world not only of humanity but also of other kinds and types of life, not only on this Earth of ours but also on other worlds. Science has been opening up the frontiers of our knowledge in very vast directions. We have almost begun to enter into a greater world. But our minds are yet incapable of thinking to that scale and indeed we are incapable of adjusting to this mortal world and the prospects it is offering.
Man feels himself to be a greater being in reality or at least capable of realising himself in the world and fulfilling the demands of his body, life and mind. His efforts in this direction have been continuous, and labour of extreme concentration has gone into his struggle to grow, to live and to realise happiness in terms of the wants of his body. It is true that some mighty minds have held that all this search for happiness in the world by adapting the world to one's needs and happiness cannot avail, and the precariousness of the achievement is more to be known. True also indeed they have counselled that in transitoriness of happiness achieved there can be no real happiness. They have also held that the very definition of illusion is precisely transitoriness of all happiness. The search for the eternal and the permanent happiness is the real search and this entails the renunciation of the search for the transitory happiness or success. However, man is not quite prepared for this renunciation of the transitory happiness which according to him is in the hand, for the sake of the permanent happiness which is far off. Better the bondage of the immediate if it is pleasant than