The World is Your Oyster- Pearls of Wisdom for Young Minds

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Oysters have a hard shell.

But once you manage to get past the hard exterior, the interior is soft and tender.

Some of these marine molluscs can also produce pearls. Well, this world is like an oyster. And if you can break through the hard façade of this world, you can certainly access the pearl of life's riches and live life to the fullest, with utmost joy and freedom, as it was meant to be lived. By cracking the shell of ignorance that keeps you away from the highest wisdom, the world becomes your oyster.

Through this book the author Anandmurti Gurumaa, a charismatic self-realized master, galvanizes young ones to lead a life filled with wisdom. This book is especially intended for the youth seeking an all-encompassing guidance from a contemporary figure who can show them how to navigate through the complexities of modern times and lead a life of sheer contentment, fulfilment and joy.

As a child transitions into youth, the world can seem lay a very daunting place. Life seems ever so exciting, yet challenging. The glitz and glamour on one hand and the harsh realities on the other. Stepping into adulthood with so many dreams, so many aspirations and so many fears! The thrill of succeeding, the fear of failing; the lure of wealth and fame, the desire of love and appreciation, and the anxiety of not having enough or losing it all. It's a gamut of emotions, expectations and wants liberally laced with all sorts of anxieties and confusions.

The complexities of the modern world make it all the more difficult. Changing morality, hard core materialism, overboard ambitiousness, fragile relationships overwhelm the young mind. It is easy for a young person to feel lost, to feel unequipped. In a society where even, the adults are blissfully unaware of what life is all about, it is easy to understand the befuddled state of today's youth. It becomes easy to lose the plot and drift aimlessly. No one teaches the art of living. Neither schools nor colleges nor universities.

And life can be extremely challenging if one hasn't learned the art of living. The journey from the maternity ward to the graveyard becomes just accidental. It becomes a random set of events on which one has no control. A confused mind can only beget a confused life. Often the young ones join in the mad race without realising that it leads to nowhere. And by the time they do so, one is either too old or too sick to do anything about it. The tricks of the trade have thus to be learnt at a young age when the body is healthy, when the mind is still malleable.

What is this life? What is its purpose? Who am I? What do 1 really want to do in my life? Where do I get endless happiness from? It is easier to research such questions when the body is healthy and the mind is spirited. But this knowledge is seldom available from parents or family or teachers or friends. After all, how can the blind lead the blind?! An enlightened master alone can impart the luminous knowledge that lights up the dark corners of one's life. And the master fine tunes the knowledge as per the recipient's abilities and proclivities.