The Journey Within: Inner Calling as Spiritual in R. K. Narayan’s The Guide and Robin Sharma’s The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

The Journey within begins when people start contemplating about the real purpose of their existence. The contemplation of longing to know the real purpose of life starts in the process of sitting with mindfulness – meditation which transcends the survival purpose of life. It leads to spirituality, the ability to talk to oneself or the heart - the inner calling, leads humans towards the perception of Divine within oneself, treasure within oneself and happiness within oneself. R. K. Narayan’s The Guide and Robin Sharma’s The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari carve out spiritual traces where protagonists find pleasure and happiness. In The Guide, the transformation of Raju from a tourist guide to spiritual guide for the sake of humankind and his interconnectedness with the Divine owes much to the self-realization as well as to his heart. In the same way, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari transcends the material prosperity and reaches to the state of ecstasy as exemplified in spiritual preaching of the monk - Robin. Following the spirituality as theoretical tool, the article the central characters and explores their transformation towards spiritual awakening.

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Heartache of the state, enemy of the self: Locating agency in narratives of bipolar disorder in urban China

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e619482011-118 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Emily Ng

Keyword(s):

Bipolar Disorder ◽

The State ◽

Urban China ◽

The Self

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Effectiveness Of A Program Of Extra Curricular Activities On The Self Efficacy Of Efficacy Of Fourth Grade Primary School Pupils:, A Field Study At The Study At The Schools Of Belkaid Benamar And Brixi Nagassa Abdelghani In The State Of Tlemcen

10.33858/0500-012-001-024 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 219

Author(s):

Assia Malache ◽

Abdelwahab Sofi

Keyword(s):

Primary School ◽

Field Study ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Fourth Grade ◽

The State ◽

The Self ◽

Extra Curricular Activities ◽

Primary School Pupils

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Chasing Angels: The Sweet Wine Angelica

Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture ◽

10.1525/gfc.2008.8.3.74 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 74-78

Author(s):

hank shaw

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

The Real ◽

Mission Period ◽

History Of ◽

Uncertain Future ◽

Sweet Wine ◽

Made In

Portugal has port, Spain has sherry, Sicily has Marsala –– and California has angelica. Angelica is California's original wine: The intensely sweet, fortified dessert cordial has been made in the state for more than two centuries –– primarily made from Mission grapes, first brought to California by the Spanish friars. Angelica was once drunk in vast quantities, but now fewer than a dozen vintners make angelica today. These holdouts from an earlier age are each following a personal quest for the real. For unlike port and sherry, which have strict rules about their production, angelica never gelled into something so distinct that connoisseurs can say, ““This is angelica. This is not.”” This piece looks at the history of the drink, its foggy origins in the Mission period and on through angelica's heyday and down to its degeneration into a staple of the back-alley wino set. Several current vintners are profiled, and they suggest an uncertain future for this cordial.

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TAX FOR THE SELF-EMPLOYED: PROS AND CONS

Chronos Journal ◽

10.31618/2658-7556-2020-26-1-2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

S.S. Hasanova ◽

R.R. Hatueva ◽

A.L. Arsaev

Keyword(s):

Income Tax ◽

The State ◽

The Self ◽

State Budget ◽

Self Employment ◽

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

Pros And Cons ◽

Crisis Conditions ◽

Part Time Work

This article discusses the pros and cons of applying professional income tax. Professional income tax is not mandatory, but an alternative way to pay 2 taxes on self-employment or part-time work. The introduction of this tax can mediate an increase in revenues to the state budget, which is of particular importance for the country in post-crisis conditions.

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The Self-Undermining State

10.1093/oso/9780190686710.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Arjun Chowdhury

Keyword(s):

State Formation ◽

Final Section ◽

The State ◽

The Self ◽

Central Authority ◽

Interstate War ◽

External Threats ◽

Willingness To Sacrifice ◽

The Cost

This chapter provides an informal rationalist model of state formation as an exchange between a central authority and a population. In the model, the central authority protects the population against external threats and the population disarms and pays taxes. The model specifies the conditions under which the exchange is self-enforcing, meaning that the parties prefer the exchange to alternative courses of action. These conditions—costly but winnable interstate war—are historically rare, and the cost of such wars can rise beyond the population’s willingness to sacrifice. At this point, the population prefers to avoid war rather than fight it and may prefer an alternative institution to the state if that institution can prevent war and reduce the level of extraction. Thus the modern centralized state is self-undermining rather than self-enforcing. A final section addresses alternative explanations for state formation.

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Comparison of the self-expanding Evolut-PRO transcatheter aortic valve to its predecessor Evolut-R in the real world multicenter ATLAS registry

International Journal of Cardiology ◽

10.1016/j.ijcard.2020.02.070 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 310 ◽

pp. 120-125

Author(s):

Konstantinos Kalogeras ◽

Neil Ruparelia ◽

Tito Kabir ◽

Richard Jabbour ◽

Toru Naganuma ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Aortic Valve ◽

Real World ◽

The Self ◽

The Real ◽

Transcatheter Aortic Valve

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Single-Satellite Integrated Navigation Algorithm Based on Broadband LEO Constellation Communication Links

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs13040703 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 703

Author(s):

Lvyang Ye ◽

Yikang Yang ◽

Xiaolun Jing ◽

Jiangang Ma ◽

Lingyu Deng ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Satellite Communication ◽

The State ◽

Earth Orbit ◽

Integrated Navigation ◽

Location Services ◽

The Real ◽

Navigation Algorithm ◽

Communication Links ◽

Leo Satellite

With the rapid development of satellite technology and the need to satisfy the increasing demand for location-based services, in challenging environments such as indoors, forests, and canyons, there is an urgent need to improve the position accuracy in these environments. However, traditional algorithms obtain the position solution through time redundancy in exchange for spatial redundancy, and they require continuous observations that cannot satisfy the real-time location services. In addition, they must also consider the clock bias between the satellite and receiver. Therefore, in this paper, we provide a single-satellite integrated navigation algorithm based on the elimination of clock bias for broadband low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication links. First, we derive the principle of LEO satellite communication link clock bias elimination; then, we give the principle and process of the algorithm. Next, we model and analyze the error of the system. Subsequently, based on the unscented Kalman filter (UKF), we model the state vector and observation vector of our algorithm and give the state and observation equations. Finally, for different scenarios, we conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis through simulations, and the results show that, whether in an altimeter scenario or non-altimeter scenario, the performance indicators of our algorithm are significantly better than the inertial navigation system (INS), which can effectively overcome the divergence problem of INS; compared with the medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation, the navigation trajectory under the LEO constellation is closer to the real trajectory of the aircraft; and compared with the traditional algorithm, the accuracy of each item is improved by more than 95%. These results show that our algorithm not only significantly improves the position error, but also effectively suppresses the divergence of INS. The algorithm is more robust and can satisfy the requirements of cm-level real-time location services in challenging environments.

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A Survey of Real-Time Industrial Wireless LAN Research

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.738-739.1105 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 738-739 ◽

pp. 1105-1110 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yuan Qing Qin ◽

Ying Jie Cheng ◽

Chun Jie Zhou

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Future Development ◽

Wireless Lan ◽

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Local Networks ◽

The Real ◽

Time Requirements ◽

And Performance ◽

Fundamental Mechanism

This paper mainly surveys the state-of-the-art on real-time communicaton in industrial wireless local networks(WLANs), and also identifys the suitable approaches to deal with the real-time requirements in future. Firstly, this paper summarizes the features of industrial WLANs and the challenges it encounters. Then according to the real-time problems of industrial WLAN, the fundamental mechanism of each recent representative resolution is analyzed in detail. Meanwhile, the characteristics and performance of these resolutions are adequately compared. Finally, this paper concludes the current of the research and discusses the future development of industrial WLANs.

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