No Age Constraints for the Performers

The excuses of any kinds are a contagious disease and the ghastly killer of the dreams, potential, power, energy, and above all, the quality of life and the happiness.

Various have age excuses. I am too old or too young. If l would be younger or older, I would have handled that situation or I would have given try for that, I would have got the success in that. Due to my age, I could not do much in this area. This common excuse has stopped the path of various talented people to thrive and reach the pinnacle of their life.

If you think, you are too young to start some particular work, think about Sachin Tendulkar, one of greatest cricketer the world has ever produced, he has almost all the batting record against his name. He made his debut at the age of 16 years. He faced the deadly bowlers of that time in this age and scored runs in adverse situation where other experienced batsmen were unable to face those bowlers. He had all the excuses to drop his idea to play against these bowlers saying, “I am too young to face them.” He never took his young age as an excuse to start his career in cricket. Think about Gyaneshawar who claimed all the knowledge of the Hindu scriptures at the age of 15 years.

The majority of people give up their ideas by forming the excuse of their old age. The retirement age of the job is 60 years, most of the people think that the job retirement, is the retirement of the life. Think about Amitabh Bachchan, at the age of 70 years, he is the busiest and active actor.

Many of the higher posts are getting handled by the people who have crossed their 60 years of age, the retirement age. Many ministers have crossed their 60 years of age. Reject the illusion that the retirement age is the retirement of the life. Many poets, authors, movie makers have done a fantastic after crossing the age of 60 years. Do not give the excuses of your age rather, whenever you get some idea, just give a solid start. Many persons have entered into politics and social services after retirement from their active job at the age of 60 years and done extremely great and earned more name, fame, popularity and prosperity than their active jobs.

Retirement is just the end of one inning and start of another new inning, the experience of the previous inning would be pretty helpful in the  second inning of the life.

Religions are the Reflecting Medium of the True Self

Due to the position of the eyes, we cannot see our face with our eyes without any reflecting medium. We use mirror for this purpose. We prefer clear, clean and plain mirror to see our original face without being distorted. If we go for dusty, concave or convex mirror, we cannot observe our true face, it would be unreal and distorted. Irrespective of of the brand or cost of the mirror, its work is to show your face. When we see in a mirror, our attention remains on our face not on the type of mirror or its brand. If we pay attention on the mirror, we can only observe the brand, shape and size of the mirror not our true face, which is not our purpose.

Likewise, to observe our true self, we need some reflecting medium. All the religions, authentic scriptures and revered spiritual teachers(Guru) work as a mirror to show the true self of the individuals. Misinterpretation of religions, scriptures are like a concave, convex or dusted mirror which represent the distorted image of our true self. In order to reflect our true self, we need to go to the authentic version of our scriptures not the later or distorted version of that. The later version might be constituted  with personal or political influences, which can never help someone to recognize his true self. To observe the original one the originality of the medium is important.

No religions, its authentic scriptures and teachings are wrong. The blind people may scoff the concept of the mirror and the face. Or people putting their palm on their eyes or standing in the darkness and want to watch their face in the mirror, they cannot. Just come out from the darkness and remove your palm from your eyes, means, break all your blind-belief and go to the authentic scriptures of any religion what you follow, It will help you to show your true self, the spirit. There is no any other purpose of any religions than spirituality, the knowledge of the spirit (the true self). Once the person knows the true self, there is nothing in this world to be known to him, he would be free from all kinds of delusion and live in peace ad ecstatic. There would be no boundary for him like religion and other draconian traditions. The boundaries of the society, religions, creed, regions, languages or any other discriminations are the act of immature and ignorant people who cannot see their true self. Demising without knowing the true self is the greatest sin.

Knowing the self is possible by discarding the blind belief and going to the authentic scriptures  with pure and pious heart and mind, without despising others religion and scriptures. All have the same purpose with different names.

Express Your Desire...and Live Younger

 We as a human have infinite desires but the time is finite. All the desires of the human being cannot be accomplished in our short life. Our one desire gets fulfilled with the promise of creating another desires. But this span of life is quite enough to fulfill our major pulsating desire, if we understand its methods. Anyways, all the desires are not worth fulfilling. Write down all your desires in your diary without thinking about your family background, education, position etc. Keep writing all your desires without any constraint. Write what kind of person you want to be, where you want to reach in your life, what kind of life you want to live, what all those things you want to have in your life, how you want to be remembered everything whatever is popping-up in your mind. Think and write as much as you can think and write, no boundaries, no limitations. Assume you have a magic wand in your hand, on turning out the magic wand, you will get whatever you ask for. Do not hesitate to ask anything from the magic wand, make a list of all your desires what you are going to ask from the magic wand which is in your hand. Do not worry, you are not going to display the list of your desires to anyone, so no need to think about its validation, think whatever you can think. There is no physical reward or retribution for thinking and imagination unless it gets physical manifestation. As a human being we have an abundance capability to think and imagine, then why to be meager in thinking and imagination!

Many times we would have heard from multiple persons that they utter something from their mouth, and it takes place, then they pretend and say, if I would have asked something bigger at this moment, it could have also taken place. Think anything you could and write down in your diary. Do not be negligent at this moment, you are redesigning your life, you are going to demand something valuable from your life. You are going to write the script for your life. You are going to claim the treasure hidden within you, do not be mean. You have colossal of treasure hidden within you. You are making the list which you want to get from it. You are the owner of your treasure, it is up to you whether you want to use it or not. Your treasure would be revealed to you on your dictate by following some certain rules. One of the most important rules is to give a command what and how much you want to get from your treasure and when, means, set a goal with an appropriate deadline. Once you set your goal, you should be committed to achieve those, no matter what. It is the goal which enables your energy, talent and potential to be used in a certain direction. Studies have shown that the specific and ambitious goals lead to a higher level of performance than easy or general goals. Someone truly said, “Goal setting capitalizes on the human brain's amazing powers: Our brains are problem-solving, goal-achieving machines."

The person lives more healthy, happy and meaningful life who has well defined purpose in his life. The life loses its interest and luster, and invites boredom and ailment without the purpose. This is the reason, the person who does not have any goal or no big goal looks older than the person who has some challenging goal ahead to accomplish. We are not old till we have something meaningful to achieve in our life.

Lord Ganesh and the Moon

On Ganesha Chaturathi, looking at the moon is considered inauspicious. Why is it so? According to a mythological legend. Once corpulent  Ganesha was riding on his vehicle rat, it looked so funny for the moon and he laughed and mocked lord Ganesha. Lord Ganesha did not like it at all, and out of distraught, he cursed the moon, also he instructed his devotees to not to look at the moon on Ganesha Chaturathi. Looking at the moon on that day would be the harbinger of the misfortune and doom. Since then, the tradition is there not to look at the moon on Ganesha Chaturathi.

All the mythological legends carry a good message. Here the curved trunk of Ganesha is the embodiment of space and rat is for time. And, all the creatures are bound by space and time. As a whole Ganesha represents wisdom.  The moon symbolizes the mind. Laughing at Ganesha by the moon, means mocking and ignoring the wisdom by an ignorant mind. The mind without wisdom creates all the bondage and hence miseries in the life. Giving priority of an ignorant mind and ignoring the wisdom is the destruction of the human life. Through this legend, the message has been given to concentrate on wisdom, although it looks esoteric for others.