This issue shares some excerpts from one of Shamcher’s earlier books, Man and This Mysterious Universe.  Everyday life . For situations and challenges of everyday life are the real teachers of wisdom. They are also the tests. The fortitude, kindness and resourcefulness with which one meets the situations of everyday life are the only proofs of maturity or personality. Sermons and scriptures of religion are only comments or explanations of the real teachings hidden in the circumstances of life.