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This book, the second in a Series, is an attempt to juxtapose the nuggets of eternal wisdom contained in the Gita, a spiritual treatise written for the whole of humanity, with the perspectives of modern behavioral science. The author has introduced certain new concepts like ‘heady and hearty, man becomes humane’, and a ‘torso attitude’ that supersedes the head and heart, whereby the vertical posture of a person gets inverted to make the tummy and sex get to the top, and topple his priorities in life. As you perceive, so shall you receive. If you think, 'I am a failure', a failure you shall be; if you say, 'I am wretched', wretched you shall remain; if you say, 'come what may, I'll win one day', your day will come sooner. . The art of man-making involves, among other things, purifying and sublimating our ego consciousness in self-expansion. . The book discusses the characteristics of a man of stable wisdom, the glory of detachment and self-control, what a wise man should and shouldn’t do, the glory of the three-fold self-mastery, what happens when the ego gets expanded beyond the self, etc. When the torso attitude takes precedence over cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence, the man de facto assumes an inverted posture, whereby his head and heart move to the bottom, and the (needs of) gut and sex rise to the top. And once that happens, as the Gita wisdom says, “buddhinaasat pranasyati” (with discriminative intelligence lost, man you perish).