War of Lanka (Ram Chandra #4)

by Amish Tripathi

Basically, their mantra is: Be happy by managing your mind rather than changing the world. Great people, on the other hand, want to change the world. Happy people just want to make their minds accept whatever the world throws at them, so that, in their little cocoon, they can be joyful. Like people who are drugged.’

‘Okay, okay, Kumbhakarna, stop frowning,’ Raavan said. ‘People don’t consciously register the things that truly make their life better. Like schools and hospitals. They take these things for granted once they have them. Instead, they focus on the magic of the stories that beguile them, like great battles between a hero and a villain. The common people are, fundamentally, idiots.’