"Life, personality, pleasure, pain
Join for one conscious moment - which lasts but a while"

The millenium, which proverbially has been around the corner, seems to have come at last! See the great fun and frolic at the dawn of the New Era! How it kindles fond hopes of prosperity and peace amidst wanton destruction of wealth and innocent lives to celebrate it! Are we really in for better times?

The moment can only yield, what the moment itself has bred. "Mind is the fore-runner of all good and bad mental states". Let this moment decide what the millennium holds for us.

We are leaving behind a century of tremendously rapid material progress, precipitating an equally rapid downfall in spiritual values. Have we anything to learn in retrospect from our successes and failures before the chapter is closed?

The Atlantic Ocean is believed to be the watery grave of a once flourishing, civilization of a great land mass called "Atlantis". That ill-fated continent had attained heights of material prosperity 5000 years ago through science and technology, but moral depravity had undermined its achievements. Man's lop-sided development and mental imbalance made way for the great Deluge.

Looking back at our own achievements in the past century, should we not ask ourselves - "will history repeat itself?"

"That man infatuated by sons and wealth
And steeped in the pleasures of sense
Will find himself snatched away by DEATH
Like a sleeping village by a sweeping FLOOD"
Dhp.V.287