The Power Within

Like other animals, humans also started the journey of their lives from the forest. They did know nothing but hunting for their survival. There was no technology, no weapons. Physical strength was everything for them. Running behind the animals, catching them, killing them and eating them – that was their life and routine. Their lives were not better than any animals. They were doing the same things what other animals were doing for their survival.  They were thinking about the food and running behind the animals only when they felt hungry. In that process, many people were losing their lives out of hunger, because, it was not possible for them to get animals every time they felt hungry. And multiple times they were getting attacked by other ferocious animals and losing their lives and becoming the food of other animals. Everything or everyone in nature is food for something or someone. Either you are using something for your food for your survival or something or som...

When I was in graduation, I had a band of friends who were often found playing cricket and roaming together. One of my friends was doing master in mathematics. We called him Pikku. He was an average student. One other friend who was also studying with Pikku was the topper of the class. Nine acquainted people of mine from mathematics department applied for a clerical post in the irrigation department of the government of India including those two friends of mine. Examination finished, the result announced.   All people cleared the examination except Pikku. They were happy that they got a government job. They saw a permanent job and a settled life. They celebrated their success by throwing a grand party. We all enjoyed and congratulated them on their new job. Pikku was also present at that party. We asked what went wrong for him. We knew that he was an average student, it was not surprising that he could not clear that exam. Jokingly, he said – I am not made ...

Anger poisons our system. Everyone knows that anger is not good. It worsens the situation. It makes us more animal than human. Generally, we are suggested to control your anger. But, the anger cannot be controlled by simply knowing it. Controlling anger means, there is anger within you and disrupting your system. There is not a button of anger somewhere, where you can switch on or off. If something does not go the way you want, you get angry. When someone challenges your thought and ideas, you get angry. You look for recognition for everything you do and think. If you do not get it, or someone opposes it, you get angry. If you are not able to compete with someone, you get frustrated. Frustration looks for an opportunity to get it released, and whenever it gets an opportunity, it takes a shape of anger and creates many chemical and emotional problems inside you. Suppression paralyzes our lives, whether it is our skills, knowledge and talent or frustration and anger. This c...

The suffering and joy of life is the product of our thought. Whether it is an affluent society, developing society or under poverty society, the seed of suffering is everywhere. Along with the seed of the suffering, the seed of joy and happiness is also there. By default, the seed of suffering is sown, because our untrained and casual mind is prone to negativity. We need to choose the seed according to the fruit we need. Both, the seed of suffering and joy are present before us. We have to decide what the seed we choose. Whether it is the seed of joy or suffering, the same effort, energy and time are required to nourish that seed, but the result is always different. The seed becomes a plant and then a tree. It is difficult to uproot a strongly rooted tree. What the tree you have planted, you have to spend your life in that shadow only, whether it is the shadow of suffering or the shadow of joy. Even though you understand that you are under the shadow of suffering, it will...

You cannot tolerate cheerfulness of others if you are not cheerful. A happy and successful person wants everyone to be happy and successful. He tries to make his surroundings and people around happy and cheerful. An unhappy and futile person wishes everyone to be unhappy and futile. He feels good if someone is unhappy, and feels bad if someone is happy. The bad and distressful news spread faster than good and happy ones. The speed of expansion of any news depends on upon the recipients. Depressed, unhappy and negative people take more interest in the negative news than the positive ones. If you become happy with someone`s failure, definitely, you would be jealous of his success. In other`s happiness, you find your distress and other`s distress you search your happiness. This habit never allows anyone to be happy because someone around you doing something better than you in one or another area. Only the unhappy people can dream to be happy. Why dream, if you are already happ...

Lord Ganesha has an elephant head, gigantic and heavy, and at his feet a petty and tiny mouse. The mouse is the vehicle of Lord Ganesha. The tiny mouse carries the heavy elephant-headed Lord Ganesha. Looking esoteric … isn`t it? Why lord Ganesha chose a mouse as his mount…? What it indicates…? What is its symbolism…? What the message and knowledge this esoteric story wants to convey…? Let us try to understand its logic, science, and psychology. According to a legend - the mouse which is the mount of Lord Ganesha was a very powerful demon named Krauncha. He was disrupting everyone and everything with his power.  He had become unbridled. Everyone had ceded before his power and atrocity. Day by day his destructive power was increasing. He tried to disrupt lord Ganesha also. A big fight took between that demon and Lord Ganesha. Eventually, lord Ganesha defeated and controlled that demon. That demon was very impressed by the feat of Lord Ganesha and requested him to be h...

According to Matsya Purana – King Manu was taking bath in a river. There, a small fish approached Manu and begged him for its rescue from the big fish. He took that little fish in his cupped palm and put that in a jar. The fish grew and the jar became insufficient for it. Then, he put that fish in a pond. After some time, that pond became insufficient for that fish. Again, he put that fish in a river. After some time, that river also became insufficient for that fish. At last, he put that fish in an ocean. That little fish became so huge that even that ocean became insufficient for that fish. Manu understood that there is definitely some divine intervention in it and with folded hand, he requested to the giant fish to reveal his true identity. At last, that fish revealed his identity as Lord Vishnu and suggested Manu to collect all the seeds of the earth and take shelter on the highest peak of the Meru Mountain because a great deluge is going to take place in 7 days.  And t...