Harish Pothepalli

  "Truth is One" one hymn proclaims," though the wise call it by many names"   The  I ndus Valley Civilization  was an ancient  civilization  located in what is Pakistan and northwest  India  today, on the fertile flood plain of the Indus River and its vicinity. Evidence of religious practices in this area date back approximately to 5500 BCE. Their religion is based on ritual sacrifice, with lyrical, life-affirming hymns meant for incarnation in an ancient form of Sanskrit . "These hymns, reveal an intimate, almost mystical bond between worshipper and environment, a simultaneous sense of awe and kinship with the spirit that dwells in all things". They worship natural forces and elemental powers of life: Sun and Wind , Storm and Rain , Dawn and Night , Earth and Heaven , Fire and Offering .  These powers are the Devas, Gods and Goddesses sometimes recognizable in other religions. In the hymns seem very near, present before us in the forms and forces of the

"You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny" The Upanishads , the Bhagavad Gita , and the Dhammapada - are among the earliest and most universal of messages, sent to inform us that there is more to life than the everyday experience of our senses. The Upanishads are the oldest, so varied that we feel some unknown collectors must have tossed into a jumble all the photos, postcards, and letters from this world that they could find, without any regard for source or circumstance. Thrown together like this, they form a kind of ecstatic slide show - snapshots of towering peaks of consciousness taken at various times by different observers and dispatched with just the barest kind of explanation. The Dhammapada , too, is a collection - traditionally, sayings of the Buddha, one of the very greatest of explorers of consciousness. In this case the messages have been sorted, but not

Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal prosperity of each of us as individuals. Money is the medium by which earthly succes is measured.  Money makes possible the enjoyment of the best earth affords. Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. Success means accomplishments as the result of our own efforts and abilities. Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than ou thoughts. Our thinking can no wiser than our understanding.