150. Since we are directly or indirectly dependent on the environment, shouldn’t it be our prime concern to make sure that it stays healthy? Shouldn’t we constantly strive hard to improve our attitude, behaviour and language?

- Sujit Mukerji

149. Some of us become so pre-occupied with ourselves that we tend to overlook the interests of our children. We even justify our actions and attitudes and say we are doing only what is required of us whereas it may be our own interests or the way we see things. Such an attitude drives us in a direction that proves detrimental to the balanced growth of the child’s persona.

- Sujit Mukerji

148. It is nothing but the sense of selfishness which makes us more right-conscious than duty-conscious.

- Sujit Mukerji

147. We must try to understand the difference between duty towards oneself and selfishness and try to safeguard ourselves against justifying our selfishness.

-  Sujit Mukerji

146. Whatever our nature (determined by the genetic factors), the habits (determined by the environmental factors) that we acquire act either as a bridle or as a driving force.

- Sujit Mukerji

145. The first and the most important step towards success is the feeling that we can succeed.

– Nelson Boswell

144. Our brain has three levels – the lowermost controls the basic body functions and instincts, the next higher one controls the emotions while the highest one controls the cognitive functions or our reasoning ability. Spiritualism, the fourth aspect, has now attracted the scientists’ attention and they are trying to find out if it is the fourth level of development of our brain. Each level is governed by the next higher level. The lower two levels are, obviously, fully developed – our instincts and emotions are so well pronounced. The third level is, again obviously, still developing – we can be so unreasonable at times e.g. we have the tendency to judge others from our own points-of-view, expect others to be like us when we can not be like them, be egoistic, inter alia. The lower three levels are subject to logic.  The fourth faculty, that of spiritualism, is beyond worldliness, i.e. beyond logic. Once all this becomes clear, doesn’t it become a whole lot easier for us to comprehend the goings-on?

- Sujit Mukerji

143.  It has been scientifically well established, beyond even an iota of any doubt, that music definitely has a rejuvenating effect on all life forms. It has been described as the medicine of the troubled mind by Haddon. It has appropriately been defined as the speech of angels and, as observed, it has the charm to soothe even the savage beast. It is something that ‘all can hear but only the sensitive can feel’. When we are happy, we feel the sound of the rain as music to our ears. Music has no language. That means in whatever language it is it will have an appeal to the mind. It is amongst the most popular things since the ancient times.

At the end of a hard day’s work, the poor farmers or the labourers, after taking their meals, get together and sing songs to soothe themselves before going to bed. In the same way, rich people quite often listen to the music with the same intention to feel good. Thus, music is an essential ingredient for the ‘feel-good’ factor.

-- daughter, Josheca Mukerji

142. Different people define democracy in different ways. Some great personalities, like Abraham Lincoln, defined it as government of, by and for the people whereas Aristotle defined it as a government of many and Lord Bryce defined it as a government in which the will of the majority of qualified citizens rest. The dictionary defines it as a form of government in which the people vote for their representatives to govern on their behalf. In the above lines the ways of defining democracy are different but the main idea is the same.

There was once a time when the world was unaware of the idea of democracy but now more than half of the independent countries in the world are democracies. However, the expansion of democracy has not been so smooth and, unfortunately, it still remains an unstable and uncertain achievement.

-- daughter, Josheca Mukerji

141. That some can achieve success is a proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

—Abraham Lincoln