Unfortunate is that person who makes everybody around him happy when he/she is living and makes them cry after his/her death.
Using the same argument isnt a noted criminal, a thief, murderer fortunate tht even his death makes everybody around him happy.
Now y does one cry when somebody near or dear dies..
I thought abt it for a long time, my mind... wasnt able to give me answer..
Then one fine day i realised that its probably ones selfishness which makes one cry ..
hmm to explain further..
we never cry for somebodys death if that person is unknown to us..
where as we cry for a person who is near and dear to us..
people call it loss of a loved one, dear one is what made them cry..
often it happens tht for the so called loved one, dear one we never have the time to spend in this materialstic world..
but we feel sad when they leave us...
The sorrow in us arise because we realise in this wretched world, there is one person less who
really cares for us or who might have cared for us.. in times of our need...
Now what can be more selfish than this....
disclaimer: i hope i havent offended anybody who reads this. My aim was not that, hope you understand...
Windows Live Writer review
Hi
I started using Windows Live Writer Beta and am using it to post review of same. Can be downloaded from http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/. Using this you can add, edit your blog entries in a Microsoft Word like interface on your desktop. You can create a draft of your post, preview it offline and publish it right from your desktop ( you obviously need an internet connection for posting ). All you need to do to start making entries to your blog offline is to add the blog name and access details. Once the software validates the blog url, it downloads the entire theme of the blog onto viewer and gives you a feel of making an online entry. The original settings for the blog are retained. I personally liked the part where in you can insert picture, with such ease. You can easily add hyperlinks,tables, videos, tags as well as plug ins. You can also categorize your posts, set publish dates. It saves all your draft versions as well as the recently posted blogs. The cool thing is you can add as many blog accounts as possible and Microsoft windows Live Writer supports different type of weblog services including Googles Blogger. The product takes time to load, also one cant delete a post i had made earlier via this. It would be great if the posts i had made earlier( not using Windows Live Writer), could be edited, deleted and accessed offline. So far i havent figured how to do that, and dont think its possible in the current version i am using. Please let me know if you know how to do it.
In all i would give a thumbs Up sign to this product and recommend this to all bloggers.
LIBA-IDG Ventures-TiE Pan-India Finalist
http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/22/stories/2008112258330200.htm
Hi had participated in TIE LIBA IDG ventures organized business plan competition, got a mention in the hindu paper. We were amongst the 6 finalists. Didnt win though, but got lot of exciting insights into entrepreneurship. Heard some wonderful speeches, from industry stalwarts. Hopefully share some of the excerpts in the days to come.
Greatest Most Subtle Brainwashing of the World.
Almost every middle class father/mother would have told the following statement to his or her child. “Study well, get good marks, get into a good college,get a job and then you can settle and be comfortable in life”. . Rings a bell, i expect most of the readers of the blog to be job seekers, employees of an organization. Just this statement, has dictated the lives of so many millions of people across the world. Statistically there is 1 billionaire for 7 million people.The other way to look at it is 7 million people work to make one person a billionaire.
Now this employee, a middle class person has decided that in his/her life job is of paramount importance, then come terms like job satisfaction. The person dedicates his entire focus on getting a job and work for somebody for the rest of there lives. 16 years is spent of educating oneself, then maybe another 2 more years on an advanced degree (typically an MBA in India) to get a measly salary between Rs 10000 to say Rs 2 lakhs per month. The extent of brain washing is so much that students are so keen and focussed on getting a 6 digit salary per month. Its even more ironic that the top MBA schools in India (IIMs) advertise based on salaries earned by the graduates and take great pride in it. The number of entrepreneurs churned out( a meagre percentage ) is hardly of pride to them or is hardly mentioned. Its a diff matter that some of them who succeed after many a year of slogging out in corporate world, proudly present the BSchool tag or the popular perception is that they studied in the bschool and hence are entrepreneurs.
A couple of questions for all job seekers, employees …Where are you in the pyramid. Would you like rs 2.4 lakhs or rs 24 lakhs or rs 240 lakhs or 2400 lakhs in your bank account. One of the typical middle class attitude answers i have heard is i need enough to live. Money is not everything ( i perfectly agree to it). If you have chosen 2.4 or 24 or 240 its most likely because you have heard words like filthy rich, money is not everything in life, Too much money spoils you and similar stuff in your younger days. Also the thought process that being rich is taboo, evil and not good.
Let me ask you the same question in another way. If i give you 2.4 lakhs or 24 lakhs or 240 laks or 2400 lakhs which one will you choose. If i give you a hyundai santro, tata indica, Ford fiesta, BMW which one ill you choose. If i give you a 1000 sq ft house, 10000 sqft house, a bungalow with garden with people to take care of the house which one will you choose.
I know your choices will be 2400 lakhs, BMW, and the bungalow. If your choices are that then why are you working all your life for the remaining. 24 crores (2400 lakhs) is really not huge. Recently Mukesh ambani built a 600 crore house. Also the 2400 lakhs, bungalow and the BMW when would you like it. In 2,20,35 or 50 years! Have you ever seen an employee become rich just based on salaries. Those of who are working … are you really comfortable, Break the brain washing patterns which have been instilled in your head…..
I promise you as long as you want to be comfortable in life… your life will be full of problems, and you will worry about the smallest of issues. Step out of it start taking challenges in your life… Life can be great fun, you will derive lot of satisfaction, and you will be amazed at the hidden talents inside you which spring up.
I strongly encourage people to read the foll three books.
a) Rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki b) Copycat marketing by Burke hedge c) Secrets of Millionaires mind Harv T Eker.
My next post would be on entrepreneurship …. :)
Hidden Lessons in Mahabharath
Hi
The following was shared by Swami Pragyapad, during my yesplus ttc. Have become a big fan of mahabharath (earlier, current versions, ramanand sagars krishna) especially the dialogues.
There are profound lessons to be learnt from mahabharath epic. One such lesson :
The pandava princes were born in the royal family yet the injustice meted out to them and kind of pain suffering they went through is unimaginable.
They were kicked out of there own kingdom, they could do nothing when their wife was stripped in front of them, went in hiding for more than a decade and lived in forests,they had to fight kill their guru, uncles, friends whom they had grown up with,they lost all their sons due to treachery of ashvathama and i could go on & on. Yet they won in the end.
If problems galore in your life, to face them and win over them, the following is what you should do.
a) Be like Yudishter – Follow truth, believe in it.
b) Be like Bheem – Like a stone, firmness
c) Be like Arjun – With Focus and awareness tackle the problem
d) Be like Nakul – Be dispassionate, i.e to focus on your actions on solving the problem without worrying about the result.
e) Be like sahadev – Sahadev means in company of good people.
You could possess all these qualities, yet without Krishna in your side….. you cannot win :). Faith is essential for your success.
One could ask, yudishter always followed the truth, nakul was dispassionate yet krishna chose only arjun for the knowledge of bhagvad gita. Why ?? This is because arjun was focussed. For you to get the highest knowledge it is essential you remain focussed on acquiring it and giving it the highest priority.
Give your sadana, seva, satsang highest priority….:)
About
A very straight forward person. Wanted this blog to be about things happening in my real life, also offering a very different perspective on topics ranging from spirituality to materialism.
Ekta kapoors - mahabharath review
This serial is aired on 9x channel monday-thrusday at 9 PM. People who liked earlier version of mahabharath, would love this to. I became a huge fan of this, and it became an integral part of my schedule and occupied high priority. One of the reasons could also be due to the absolutely stunning promos. one such promo
Who experiences Miracles
Lets see what kind of people experience miracles...
I was recently watching the new ekta kapoors mahabharath, the episode was on krishnas birth, am sure most of you know about the guards sleeping, chains breaking on there own, doors opening, vasudev carrying new born krishna across a raging yamuna river, finally exchanging the child in a village and coming back all the way with another child. After doing all this devaki asks him the question "where is the child", vasudev replies "gods child god has himself taken care of it."
Now this statement made me realize something deep, which prompted me to post this blog.
Logically speaking its hard to digest the chains breaking down, guards sleeping etc. What is even more hard to digest is that why on earth would vasudev carry a new born child on a rainy day across a raging yamuna and walk across it. Isnt it....
Decisions made on faith are beyond logic, he had just surrendered and was totally willing to do the work of the divine. ( To know more about the interpretation of this entire event check this blog out by BAWA an absolutely amazing interpretation http://bawandinesh.blogspot.com/2008/08/janmashtami.html)
Now coming back to Art of Living organization, there are three kinds of people/volunteers.
The first kind - They loved the course, keep coming regularly for the follow up, want to spread the knowledge, want to, want to and keep wanting to.. :) but they wont do it, for reasons best known to them.
But one thing they will definitely do is give lot of ideas, criticize a lot, after sometime be stupefied/extremely jealous at hearing the wonderful experiences of other fellow volunteers.
The second kind - They loved the course,keep coming regularly for the follow up, want to spread the knowledge, they also spread the knowledge, but never surrender. They think they are doing it, they are contributing to the growth of the organization. They generally are stuck in the heads,reason out rationalize, often get frustrated, irritated, keep correcting others etc.
hmm they never grow, but give plenty of room for others to grow.
The third kind -
The most amazing people, i am so lucky to have met so many of them, to name a few stalwarts; Bawa, Dinesh , Rajesh, Swami pragyapad, Swami Sathyajotha, Vishwas bhaya i could keep adding to the list and go on and on....
They are like the vasudevs of krishnas time, totally surrendered, willing to do the work of the divine. This category belongs to those people whose quest of knowledge is very deep and they are here only to learn. If you are in this organization to learn and only to learn, then boy you will have phenomenal growth, growth beyond your wildest imaginations.
Now comes the question, what is that they are here to learn, the answer to this is very simple " you really dont know what you are going to learn ", you just have to the job of the divine, learning happens on its own. Learning happens, its usually accompanied with miracles, happenings which are way beyond logical explanations.
Now comes the logical question how can one be like that. MY answer to that is dear who ever you are, you were like this for 12 years of your life. When you went to school, did your parents tell you that you were going to learn 'a,b,c,d.....; 1,2,3,4...' or did you ask them. You just believed and went,didnt you.....
Everything was so fascinating for you, because you were totally listening and just do what the teacher tells you. Now if you have this attitude here, then not only do you actually contribute to the growth of the organization but actually experience miracles day in and day out of your life.Till you get used to them as part and parcel of your life.
For people with this attitude,Life is an adventure, its fascinating and joyful to live in. Would you like a life like this then you need to surrender....experience miracles & start doing the work of the divine.....i dont need to tell you who the divine is do i...;)
JGD
How lucky are we
Dear Guruji
Show me the way
So many moments
So many realizations
Yet none I remember
Every time you make me rise
Yet i chose to fall again
When will i learn
or
Is this the learning
In so many ways you again and again
Show me the way
I wrote this on 2nd May 2007 after yet another one of those magical moments, magical realizations, with tears of gratitude; just got used to them in this wonderful path, how lucky am i, are we:)
Jai Gurudev
What is Grace ??
Well to me miracles i.e grace is flowing every moment in our life, keeping us alive and kicking.
To explain grace... hmm that experience of divinity which takes over your life and makes you feel grateful. Lets see how miracles are happening every moment of our lives, shall we...
hmm you need a bit of visualization power for this......keep asking yourself the questions...
When do you usually get up rather,when do you know you are awake.......
Assume you get out of the bed at 7, but you know you are awake much before than that, you have your eyes closed and you keep thinking of the past or the future..i.e what happened yesterday or what is going to happen today etc
Then you get out of the bed, hopefully you brush your teeth, while brushing what is going on..you keep thinking of something or the other.. right....
Are you really focusing on brushing the teeth.....it just happens isnt it...
Then you have a bath, while bathing your mind again is thinking of something else continuously. Now you finish your bath without even knowing you have completed it. Have there been times when you go for a head bath and come out without having one :)
How many times have you forgotten to take the towel :)
Anyways next is you sit down to eat, while eating you are either talking with somebody or watching tv or thinking about something.
Say the time taken for you to get ready is 2.5 hrs, from the time you wake up to the time you step out of the house, what has your mind been doing, thinking, and you are hardly aware of it. If somebody asks you what you have been doing you say getting ready to go to office or school or college. You would not even remember about the various thoughts which you have been thinking about.
So far work has been happening without you even paying attention to it...i.e without you even focusing on what you are doing.
So far nothing dangerous happened....
Now you take your bike or car out. You are travelling in the bike and what are you doing....
again thinking.. thinking about something which you are not even aware of. Imagine you are almost driving the bike or the car with a blind fold. Interestingly there are 1000's of other motorists who are also driving the bike,car,trucks,buses who keep thinking of something or the other, basically not focussed on the roads, nor the traffic, thinking about their past or the future.....with utmost unawareness....
Having no idea from where the thought is coming from, having no idea that they are thinking about the thought.....holding onto it.....
Let us take the following situation, imagine a small 100 sq feet room; In this room if we were to allow automatic small toy cars to just run, say 20 of them. You start them of and they just go, these toy cars have no idea about where they are going bascically no control of there lives, these toy cars would definitely dash against each other within a matter of mins isnt it.
Now you are also driving the bikes and cars on the roads... having no clue to what you are thinking.... absolutely not focussed on driving and there are a million other people who are doing the same. Isnt it a miracle that you go to your destination and come back unaffected.
Do you realise what i am trying to convey... Do you realise every moment of your life you are protected....you have absolutely no control over your life.......
If not wake up to this reality.....grace is flowing every moment in our life.. just wake up and observe....feel grateful
Art of Management - essential rules
Apart from this volunteers take time out to do work, which is often not the first priority and do the work due to some hidden internal drive. Now in such a situation organising work with a budget of peanuts would test and bring out the best of the Leadership and Managerial abilities in each person. In such challenging times, if you can succeed in smiling then you are on the way to achieve success.
Most of the corporates/offices i have seen management is of mediocre standards, the reason is very simple, where is the challenge. You are the boss, you have got people who come to office everyday and are keenly listening to you and they better listen to you for them to get paid/promoted. In essence there is a clear cut heirarchy, where is the challenge to innovate. Here you can induce fear in an employee, despite biting his teeth he/she is going to continue working. In an NGO they just drop out and stop working.
Anyways having worked for AOL events for the past 3 years, the following are the rules i have learnt which any leader should apply. I welcome you to add to the list.
Rule 1 - 80-20 rule is wrong its 98-2
Usually in a big organization, 20% of the people drag the remainig 80% people. Here 2% of the people would do the work. Remaining 98% would want to contribute but be stuck in there thoughts/inhibitions. A leader needs to identify these 2% and appropriately give them the most challenging tasks. Seniority should definitely not be an issue here.In fact what i do, is ask my fellow volunteers are you in the 2% cateogary or the 98%. Just a gentle reminder would suffice. It goes without saying, the leader also has to give priority to the 2 percenters, and give their opinions more weightage.
Rule 2 - Focussing on results.
Often in a charity based NGO, people feel just good by working and totally forget the results. For instance if the aim is to arrange for a talk in a college/corporate to talk about the activities about the organization, then people feel good if they have just gone and spoken to the officials in the respective colleges or corporates. When asked what happened, the answer would be " i went and spoke to 4 colleges or called up 10 insitutions" with great satisfaction. If asked how many have agreed for a talk, the answer would be i am yet to finalize on that. Volunteers would often focus on the work, the actions rather than the results.Whether you are working for a NGO or your office or your college, as a leader or as a team player a good question to ask yourself would what have i achieved today, is the work done, what is the next course of action.
Rule 3 - Putting yourself as a third person.
To apply the above two rules you need to observe yourself as a third person. Often in an NGO, since there is no hierarchy, too many conflicting egos come into place, too many ideas. If you get stuck in the people and the ideas you would loose the bigger picture. To explain this further, imagine you are the camera and are watching yourself handle the situation and listening to your team. In my experience, by doing this you can comfortably apply the first 2 rules. Failing to do this, often causes all the problems. This rule you can apply whether you are a team leader or a team player. From the perspective of the team player, putting yourself in third person makes you realise whether you are listening to others, open to new ideas or are you stuck in your own thoughts.
Mr X Special
Miss x contemporary Mr x was an extraordinary individual himself.A separate website can be dedicated for him, he was an inspiration to many including myself because of his unique ways of studying and writing his engineering exams.
A typical engineering exam for 100 marks had 5 12 marks questions and 20 2 mark questions.
10 minutes before the exam, Mr x and i were frantically reading, mugging for the exam. Mr x closed his book, i panicked and said please wait.
Mr x calmly said i just finished my 2 marks i still have 12 marks to read...
His calmness, in such a tense situation was certainly an inspiration... for me and many others..
Miss x Jokes
On a college tour, a guy known for pulling girls leg; asked our Miss x assamese girl,
Can you tell me " i love you " in assamese. She replied, He then asked her how does one sing the national anthem in assamese, she thought abt it for some time and then replied " i dont know ".
Took my friend Miss x to the internet center to open an email id. While registering, Miss x entered the password, there were 8 asterisk marks on the screen, my friend quipped rather intelligently, "whats the point of having passwords, everybody just needs to type in the asterisks !!!"
Karans Dilema.
Karan was extremly happy, he had just passed out of Indian Insititue of Management Ahmedabad, at 26, a salary of 20 lakhs/annum, he felt on top of the world. He remembered the days of his first job, where day in and day he had slogged out, for Rs 20000/month. He had felt extremly frustrated, didnt or never had money at the end of the month. Even on weekends, he had worked for nearly a year & half, but somehow money never was with him at the end of the month. To compensate for all this work, to get rid of the accumulated stress, used to blow money on entertainment and hang out with friends. Finally he thought he is going to buy his dream house, dream car, live a dream life... people all around would respect him.. he couldnt wait for the first day of his office.
Six months had passed, since his first day in number one consulting company of india. Karan was smiling no more.. the freedom he had dreamt of was no longer there. He had such huge responsibilities, reporting to 2 senior vice presidents was really a handful. Karan had no idea how to handle their egos, and often was caught in situations overloaded with work & overlapping deadlines.
He was used to slogging out, he was thrilled to see his first months salary...but now he started asking himself this question... 2 year of slogging out in IIM, got me here.. i wanted the best in life.. i have it with me... Amazing job, Amazing car, Amazing house
(which he had planned to buy taking a loan.) , but still i have no freedom. Am i really doing what i want to do in life. Not one person in my office is happy. I see a bunch of senior vice presidents who refuse to accept that they are frustrated... whose sole aim in life is to work and work to earn money so that they can improve there life style...My own seniors and juniors are working and working only for money.. they can be better of by starting on there own... such talents each one of them have....but they are not doing it. At age 50 i can own my own company, am sure will be rich... or i would be one of these senior management players... but is this what i want to do...The education which i got, has trained me to get a job, to survive but not to live my life the way i want it. Is the only goal in my life to work to get money, get a 3-4 bed room houses,marry, have kids, .....he pondered.
Are you guys in a similar position.....want to add lot of punch to this story have been editing rediting this story for nearly 8 days now... am just not happy with it.. please do drop in comments if you have experienced similar situations in life.. how could this story have been made better...I wanted it to be an impact story.. which makes people think is this what i want in my life..but i dont think it conveys the message
Ranjiths last spanking
Ranjith was anxiously waiting for his 6th standard annual exam results. For the first time in his life he had been allowed to study on his own. He knew heart in heart he hadnt done well. Ranjith was a pampered kid, he had a status to keep up to in his flat. He knew his parents and neighbourhood grandma would eagerly be waiting for his results.
Kamala teacher called out his name, he went and collected the report card. Kamala teacher looked at him disapprovingly. Ranjiths heart panicked, it was racing fast. He kept his report card to his chest, went to the corner of the class room, slowly opened it.
The report card read -
MATH 1 35/50 ---------------------------------------------------
MATH 2 36/50 ---------------------------------------------------
Total ---------------------------------------------------71/100
Science 1 40/50 ------------------------------------------------
Science 2 41/50 ------------------------------------------------
Total ---------------------------------------------------81/100
He was shocked, ranjith the class topper of 5th standard, who had never got below 95 till then, had got marks in the lowly 70's and 80's. He didnt know which was worrying him more,the low marks or the reaction of his parents and the neighbourhood grandma.
He just didnt want to show the report card to anybody, wanted to runaway. His best friend balaji was already asking him the marks, shaking ranjith. Ranjith replied "Maths low da, only 91, science also bad only 91".
Balaji said " oh..... awesome da, i got only 69 in math and 75 in science ".
Managing a very weak smile, ranjith urged balaji to walk back with him. On there way home, Ranjith was lost in thought, what was he going to tell his parents. Suddenly a voice called out "Ranjith ranjith how much ??" It was ranjiths father, he was with mani uncle. Ranjith was thinking "i cant let my fathers prestige go down in front of mani uncle" , also balaji was right next to him. He put on a sorry face and said " daddy only 91 in math and 91 in science ". His father face had a big smile, he said "thats my boy" and drove away.
He finally entered his apartment gate, now he had lied to two people, he decided to continue with it. He opened the lift gate, pressed No 3, reaching the third floor he closed his pen cap and now ran to his house, shouting " Amma maths 91, science 91 ". Neighbourhood grandma, came out and remarked, "well done my boy, i know surely you will get into iit". He proudly opened his report card and showed it to her, in the process convincing himself,
that he had done the right thing, after all his parents and neighbourhood grandma were happy.
Ranjiths report card read
MATH 1 35/50 ---------------------------------------------------
MATH 2 36/50 ---------------------------------------------------
Total ---------------------------------------------------91/100
Science 1 40/50 ------------------------------------------------
Science 2 41/50 ------------------------------------------------
Total ---------------------------------------------------91/100
His father came back with a huge diary milk chocolate. He also had a look at the report card, suddenly ranjith realised the blunder he had done. He panicked, he knew his father would find out. He waited for people to get back to their routine. He went inside his room at 1 after lunch, took out his pen, started changing the individual subject marks also. Suddenly his mom enters and asks " Ranjith what are you writing on the report card ". He blurted out, " Nothing mom, just scribbling ". His mom got annoyed and called out to his dad, " Ranjith is writing in the report card, check what he is doing ". ranjith knew he was trapped, he reluctantly handed over the report card. After ten minutes Ranjith was shouting " I wont do it again, sorry appa, please dont hit me, dont ouch .....". Time was 6:30, Ranjith woke up, went outside his room, went upto his father and told "sorry, i wont do it again". That was the last time ranjith ever did any mischief in his life, also the last time he ever got spanked.
Beyond Intellect and logic
Stupidity with awareness is intelligence
Intelligence without awareness is Stupidity
It took me 3 years to realise the above two statements and how true it is. Humans, 99.99% of them hardly know why they are doing whatever they are doing. How does one become aware of what he/she is doing. Very profound topic, if you are willing to come from the space of i dont know, and i would like to learn then it makes sense for you to read further or else its just a waste of time.
What is this space of " i dont know ". Lets take a look at it too. To draw a perspective it took us one year to learn the 26 alphabets of english language. Another 12 years of continuous exposure during our schools days to be able to converse in it. This was the time when we were told go to school and listen. After school, higher studies, graduation, suddenly just because we learn a couple of words, one feels very intellectual and think he/she knows it all. Just because a couple of questions arise in your mind you think you know it all. Its altogether a different thing, that you have no clue, as to where from and why these questions are arising.
Basically become stupid, nothing wrong with becoming stupid,all i am asking is to stop using your intellect and listen rather read ahead.
There are things which we think we know. There are things which we dont know. In realm of spirituality there exist things which we dont even know that we dont know. To learn this one has to transcend the intellect and definitely the data coming from the 5 senses. This requires great courage, an ability to walk into the unknown, faith to walk into a path which apparently looks dark over an unknown period of time.
What do you get if you do this. good question.Why should you do this, an even better question.
Realm of spirituality is quite paradoxical, Both these questions are very intellectual and unless you transcend it you will never find out :).
But if you succeed in doing this, an ocean of knowledge, bliss awaits you, you can soak in unparalleled joy. Are you using your intellect to understand this statement, forget it... you will be stuck there....:)
How do you do this... a very good intellectual question, if i answer it you will use your intellect to interpret it... and be stuck there :)
hmm hmm hmm..... drop in a mail to me.. may be i will let you know....
Why do we do what we do....
Hmm interesting rather bewildering topic...
I am generalising to a great extent here... but lets see how it goes...
I ask each one you reading this post..to give a thought to the upcoming questions
The questions......
For all of these questions.. ask yourself.. whether the decision was yours..and for your own benefit or was it influenced by somebody...or you decided to stay in the mad race and decided to do what others were doing
1.) Why did you study i mean go to school...college
2.) Why did you decide to take a particular subject in school .. college ....
3.) If you have done your higher studies... then why did you decide to study..
4.) Are you working right now.. if then why did you choose the corresponding line of work..
5) Why did you decide to work...
6.) How many times have you decided to do things.. because everybody else is doing the same..
Eg (its like everybody is getting into IT so let me get into it..)
7) Why do you want to marry...why have people married..ask your parents if they know why they married..
( Any other answer other than companionship would do..please dont insult your current friends.. )
8.) Why do you want to make money.. why do you want to be comfortable...why do you want a car... why do you want a house...
Ask yourself the following final question and genuinely answer it...
Is everything which has been decided by you.. or for you ( by somebody else...) so that you can remain happy...and to convince yourself that your own fears of insecurity can be driven away, if you followed what everybody around you...did
Are you happy now...
Ask yourself this... how many times have you obtained something which you had wished for...
How happpy you were when you got what you wished for..and for long that happiness persisted...
Most often... whatever.. you ended up getting ..which made you happy, how soon did it end up making you sad.. depressed..irritated.. wondering why you wished for it in the first place..
What is the secret of happiness....Why is that we cannot sustain happiness..hmm would you like to know..
Death of a loved one y does it make one cry
The Human Mind , the biggest monkey
I sit back and wonder what has been happening for the past 2 years in my life.
So many memories.. so many mistakes.. some good mistakes.. some bad.. then i think about the
present and the future..
Then something in me asks me this question, what is that which makes u think again and again about all this..
I answer to myself, its you my mind, its because of you i did all this and continuing to do so..
I tel it, you could say my mind telling itself, There is a positive side to you and the negative side to you. I can hear myself say, you are too complex for me.
I dont know who you are..
But in you i see the most complex, most powerful element on this earth.
I tel myself in you i c god.. in u i c satan..in u i c a child.. in u i c....... the list is endless...
I ask myself this.. could i say my mind is asking itself...
Y do you make me want to work..
At the same time Y do u make me lazy and distracted..
Y do you make me want to give.. be selfless.. be generous..
At the same time Y do u make me Selfish, greedy..
Y is that u create a sensation in me which makes me believe that i can change the world..
Y is that u also make me feel that this world is hopeless place to live in..
Y is that u create self confidence in me.. telling me i am capable..
Y is that u create a fear in me.. telling me i am not capable..
Y do u create a dependency in me.. that god will take care..
Y do u create in me a feeling there exsists no god..
Y is that u create the feeling of love in me..
Y is that u create the feeling of lust in me..
Y is that u make me like certain people
Y is that u make me dislike the same people
U make me love a child when its happy..
U make me hate the same child when it cries..
U make me realise that silence is golden..
U also make me talk when i should keep quiet..
the list is endless....................
Alas i realise that all the people in this world are controlled by you..
some realise this , some dont..
You have made a mahatma gandi, albert einstien, Abdul kalam......
You have also made a hitler, osama, sadam hussein, george bush...
I ask u why???
What is that you want..
This is game you have been playing for centuries..
I dont who you are, what you are, what you want from each one of us,..
but u sure do know one thing, leaving you uncontrolled is probably the most dangerous thing to
happen on this earth..
Alas do people realise this....................................................