Finding A Purpose In Life : 26 People Who Inspired The World

There is a pilgrim soul in all of us, an inner searching that continues throughout our lives For lack of a purpose, millions in despair seek refuge in unbridled consumerism, drugs, alcohol, crime or antisocial behaviour. From times immemorial, man has striven to know his place in this bewildering world, find a direction and pursue a purpose higher than his own advancement.

In this book, R. M.

Lala addresses these issues through the medium of great lives like Abraham Lincoln, Albert Schweitzer, Emperor Asoka, Vinoba Bhave, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Narayana and Sudha Murthy and others. He highlights the difference between ambition and purpose, career and purpose, and indicates how understanding this lies at the core of understanding oneself.

This inspirational and motivational work shows how each of us can find a purpose satisfying to ourselves and meaningful to others.

R.M. Lala is the author of eleven books, including the bestselling The Creation of Wealth, a book on the Tatas, and the Beyond the Last Blue Mountain, his biography of J.R.D. Tata. He became a journalist at the age of nineteen and entered book publishing in 1951, establishing and managing the UK division of Asia Publishing House, the first Indian publisher to be established in London. In 1964 he became co-founder of the newsmagazine Himmat Weekly, which he edited for the next decade. He was director of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Tata's premier charitable foundation, for eighteen years. He is also co-founder of the centre for the Advancement of Philanthropy and was its chairman from 1993 to 2008. His books have been translated into various languages, including the Japanese.