This book looks at the worries, struggles and travails of the common man. It is largely based on author’s experiences, both personal and professional. The author has tried to show how most people make themselves miserable for no valid reason. We all hanker after happiness. We somehow convince ourselves that happiness lies in obtaining wealth, worldly success, etc. In our pursuit of material ends we forget the true purpose of life. This is why as per the author most people suffer from depression, a sense of frustration, restlessness, etc. According to the author, the key to happiness lies in acquiring the ability to look into our innermost self and to grasp that there is more to man than meets the eye. The basic message of this book is that man must learn to look beyond this world while very much living within it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.V. Joshi
The author Dr. Prakash V. Joshi was born in 1948 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. After graduating with high honors from the Institute of Science, Bombay, he went to Cambridge where he did Tripos in Mathematics. He was recepient of the Tata scholarship. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1972. He has served with distinction in India and abroad. He was in Guyana from 1998 to 2002. He was in Guyana from 1998 to 2002 where he was posted as India's High Commissioner. He was awarded doctorate by the JNU in 1990 in the field of International Studies. Dr. Joshi is keenly interested in Comparative study of religions, Hindu metaphysics and spiritualism. His other publications include: Saga of Hinduism (Volume I and II), and Vedanta to Modern science. An accomplished speaker Dr. Joshi has given several talks on spiritual themes. He delivered a weekly discourse on the Gita on the TV while in Guyana.
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