Brahman Hindus believe that by reciting mantras, they are strengthening the building blocks of reality.

Those who act without thought of personal Profit and lead a well-disciplined life Discover in course of time the divine Principle that all forms of life are one.

For the geometer Pythagoras (c. 530 BC), living at Croton in Sicily, the key lay in number and harmony – and the dynamic balance of contraries, based on the opposition of odd and even. For Heraclitus (c. 540–475 BC) the true constant was change itself, in a macrocosm composed of fire and water; for Democritus (c. 460 BC), the essence was a flux of