The fast progress of the world scientifically and industrially seems to have erased the meaning of a good life from people's mind. Every adult is running after something or the other, money, a high post, fame and power etc. are some very common ambitions that peoples of the world seek. To be explicit, everybody is trying to race against time. If only they had time to sit coolly and analyze as to what next.

The rich are unfamiliar with the little pleasures enjoyed by the common people while the common man fails to understand the importance of his simple life and longs for riches. The common man hence inadvertently invites tension.

A tension - free and simple life, a life in which man has time to appreciate the colourfulness or nature and the naughtiness of the wild. A life in which man has peace of mind. This kind of a lovely and delightful life is what can be termed as a good life. This sort of life is what man should try to pursue.

I don't say that progress done by us scientifically and in other fields has been a waste of time. The industrialisation and so called modernisation may be sources of relief to the weary limbs of man, but they do not provide the soothing blam to his hungry soul. The flowing waters, the blooming fields, and the gleaming rainbow, such are the things that will make man muse in wonder and sing a song of praise in total self - forgetfulness and spritual bliss.

We are looking for joy in the wrong place. The physical comforts have only proved to be addictive.

Lack of disciplne has lead to produce dreadful disease like aids. Freedome has no discipline in any sphere of life. Physical comforts make our physique weak. If man has a body that is destructible, a body that needs to be pampered, he also has an indestructible spirit that needs to be ennobled.

Our development is so one sided that the modern man tends to scoff away even the very mention of the spirit and the soul. What did the Mahatma lack? While he appeared just a half clad fakir, could he not shake the sophistication of the British Empire? Does his spirit not stir amongst us even today.

And what about the Buddha? He was so affected just at the sight of a dead, sick and old man that he abandoned all the comforts and luxuries and went out in the vast world in search of enlightenment which he ultimately received by progressing spiritually. It is a very sorry situation that today's man's feeling have turned so materialistic that while he is all the time encumbered in tensions and sorrow, he still is not attending to his spirit. This very clearly indicates how lazy man has become both mentally and physically.

My concept of a good life is life of a common man who is attending to his work and duties and progressing in other fields in the world; paying attention to nature, his surroundings and also to his inner self - his spirit.