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Ours is an age of stress, stress-related lifestyles; anxiety, anxiety-related activities; boredom, boredom-related living. Our lives have become frighteningly superficial, we never pause and look at ourselves and our constant chattering; we have made our lives miserable, a prison and have invented ways and means to escape from this, only to get caught in another cage of our own making, a little more comfortable, but a cage nevertheless. We may be wealthy beyond compare, have umpteen degrees behind our names, have a top, secure position in an already degenerating society but without self-knowledge, without this deep understanding of oneself and therefore the radical transformation of the human psyche, our life is in vain. Self-knowledge is the basis, the foundation of all that is good, noble and Creative in life. We seem to have taken for granted that our life should move forward in a certain fixed, rigid and set pattern in this life; we do of course experience moments of happiness and joy scattered here and there, a never-ending search for peace and a lot of sorrow and anguish! For most of us, this is life! Apart from this, we know nothing