Here is an E-mail in circulation and, surely, it has a lesson to impart, a moral, but for the satisfied and the sedate. One has to learn how to also live in richness and plenty, in fact in the opportunities of life that come to us on its adventurous course. It is good to understand its connotations, yet there has also to be the constant urge from “good” to “great”—as Jim Collins would like to insist on us. Our “good” should not stand in the way of progress and stop growth towards “great”. Let “good” not become a block to become “great”. The spirit of adventure, our arête, should never become dull and indolent. There is always a greater mountain to climb than the mountains we have climbed and, as would Chuangtse like to tell us, you yourself become a mountain whose heights keep on constantly rising. The swift ascending slopes have never a terminal point, the flatness of the easily contended. But this urge has to spring up from not the sense of avarice and possession. It has to come from the deeper or nobler perceptions of life whose tendency is always to grow and expand, and never to stagnate. There is the fullness in that last “one” which gives us the well-deserved “hundred” and we ought to strive for it. There are always a thousand battles to be fought and these must be fought in the heroism of the Aryan fighter, as would the Gita exhort us in all our actions and in all our movements. Cease not from using the sword of conquest.

And here is the invitation which we all must accept.

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