The Mind's Eye The process of education should be of developing the spirit of rational inquiry and self-discovery Recently the news about a .school girl raped by her own school teacher left the whole nation benumbed with shock and shame. While we try to reconcile ourselves to this dark reality by looking for answers in the burning embers and muted cries of victims and in due course push the unpleasant memories under the pressure of our mundane problems, we need to look at the root cause of such incidents. VVhat breeds such barbarity and sa.gery on the part of so .11. literate and respeCted Personalities who indulge in sharnele. act of exploiting innocent children and women ?

MOST of us are aware about the famous dictum that say's "Power corrupts man; absolute power corrupts absolutely." Initially, most people think that they will work for the public good if they have political, economic, administrative or such other kind of power. However they forget a fact that man's weakness for seeking mundane power, by its very nature, results in blurring his judgment of what is good and what is bad or what is fair and what is foul. This weakness or loss of proper judgment results in vitiating his intentions. It allows corruptive tendencies to enter his mind or to manifest. It changes his focus and modus operandi and makes him seek more and more power even by dishonest means. He meets only the VIPs or VVIPs and this further inflates his ego which had already become puffed up by the pressure of power. He is now surrounded generally by sycophants who expect to win favours by praising him for whatever he does —good or bad. This constant praise further inflates his false ego and alienates him from his

Mystery of unconsciousness Mystery of unconsciousness  True knowledge  of soul is nut a matter of superficial importance. Nor A it to be p left to some philosophers or religious scholars to discuss, says RAN.. RRAHMAKUMAR NIKUNJ, JI.More Than Half the population of world believer  that consciousness is an essential and inherent attribute of an entity called the ''Soul".