The Power Within

We need not to take care of multiple things to be happy and contented. In delusion and ignorance, we try multiple stuffs to acquire happiness and ecstasy in our life. Our multifarious attempts, without discernment, invite numerous anxieties and stress. Happiness and worry are never co-dwellers. We try something new, something esoteric to attract happiness, but in the veneer of temporary happiness, we find abundance to despondency. Naturally, we try to covet something outside or somewhere which is absent in this moment and place. If something, what we need, is available with us or in front of us, we need not to go anywhere for its hankering. Similarly, we spend our time, energy and money in the search of peace and happiness outside. Searching peace and happiness outside is just like a mirage, it appears, but in reality, it is not there. …. If not there, then where it is ?   ….. It is within us. We find it, once we search it inside with diligence and sincerely. Hoping to reach...

Until and unless all of your desires are fulfilled, your soul cannot get liberation. Our present birth is the cause of our unfulfilled desires of the past lives. It is merely our responsibility to fulfill our authentic and pulsating desire. That is not the original desires which are acquired by the influence of the others or societies, these desires create illusion in our life. We may have an unlimited fluctuated desire, which create numerous problems in our life.   All the desires are not worthy to be fulfilled, the horrid desires create nasty consequences, which propel us to enmesh in an unlimited anxieties and worries. The suffering of humans is unauthentic and unwanted desires. Various desires take birth from the thought and get strength from continuous contemplation on that. Later these desires get converted into lust, and by hook and crook you want to fulfill your desire, in such   way, you lose your discernment about the consequences, and right and wrong. In the ...

Jealousy is one of the prominent causes for our suffering and unhappiness. The jealousy starts with comparing ourselves with others. The more we compare, the more we become jealous. The jealousy never does harm to others but the holders only. More than ninety percent of the population is suffering from this heinous disease. The comparison with others impede our potential. We start thinking more about others than the self. We think others are very happy and I am not. His problem is surmountable but not mine. Why others are happy, I am not. Why that person is possessing this and that, and I am not. Any kind of comparison with others will never allow you to be happy. It does not matter, how much you are possession, you would not be happy. In the first place, comparison of any kind   with anyone or anything is wrong, this is unnatural. There is always a suffering hidden in an unnatural and wrong deeds. Every human is unique, he is incomparable. No one has been in the past like y...

In the Ramayana, Rama got 14 years of forest exile along with his wife Sita and younger brother Laxman to keep the word of his father king Dasharath. In the last year of his exile, the demon king Ravana of Lanka abducted his wife Sita rather deceitfully to take the vengeance of the humiliation of his sister Surpanakha. The resultant, the war took place between Rama and Ravana for getting Sita back from the entanglement of Ravana. Rama`s army killed the army and family of Ravana. At last, Ravana came to the battlefield. Ravana was very vigor and valiant. Only Rama had the skill and strength to confront powerful Ravana. In the war, Ravana was defeated and was on the verge of demise lying on the battlefield. Exuberant Rama`s army was celebrating their triumph. But, Rama was quiet and pensive. He called his brother Laxman and asked him to go to lying Ravana and get the knowledge from him before he dies. Ravana is a king and a great scholar. Reluctant Laxman approached Rav...

It is tough to find even a single top-notch person who has not faced at least a deadly breakdown in his life. Breakdown in life is life is inevitable, it may be bigger or smaller. Your perspective life depends upon how you take this breakdown. If you take the temporary breakdown as a culmination of your career or life, then, yes it is; if you take it an opportunity for you to retrospect your deeds and activities and introspect yourself, then, it is a new dawn in your life. Humans are so busy with their day-to-day activities that they hardly get time for themselves and retrospection. They have caught a speed without pondering over the direction and destination. If it is not controlled, it would be perilous. The way speed breaker is needed to check our speed, similarly, the breakdown in our life is also needed to mold our lives in the right direction, if it is perverted. Abraham Lincoln, former US president, lost his home due to the legal issue in his early age, he started his bu...

The purity and agility of body, mind and speech determine the quality of the life you are living and the degree of the success you are carrying.   Ponder from any angle, you will find that these three factors are cause for any action you are indulged in. The activities of these three give the concept of body language and facial expression, which express the intention and personality of a person. The defect and impurity in any of them reduces your changes to be a great achiever in your life at your chosen profession. Among them, the mind has the biggest influence on the life of the human, then speech and lastly the body. Anything bigger or smaller starts with an idea, and idea from thought, and thought from the mind. These thoughts affect our speech and body. Our speech and body becomes the vehicle to carry the generated idea to a realized wharf. In order to generate a good and healthy thought and idea, we must have a bridled, healthy and balanced mind. Even an executed o...

A genuine desire is the determinant of the direction of any big achievement, and its accomplishment depends upon a meticulous plan and undaunted first step towards it. Even the creation of the cosmos is the result of God`s desire. The bigger the desire, the bigger the achievements. But the desire is never fulfilled with a hollow heart, weak effort and lack of faith. A desire backed by an unwavering faith with a single minded genuine effort never elude you.   If our desire is not getting fulfilled, it means, we are not fully aligned with our desire, we are not determined, we are in doubt or we are lacking in our effort. One of the disciples of Socrate expressed his desire to him, “I want to become as knowledgeable and wise as you are, can you please tell me the way for that”. Socrates did not respond anything to him at that moment. One day, both were crossing a river. When both reached at the depth of their neck level, Socrates caught his neck and started doping him in the ri...

Everyone wants to be financially independent and strong. And, there is no sin in this. Nowadays, the status of the people is measured by the scale of money. The more money you have, the bigger person you are. Some people do have a great sense of finance, they know how to play and make money in the market. They know how to do illegal things legally. They may be good in finance and can flaunt their money, but at the same time, not necessary; they would be good at economics. Hoarding of finance by ignoring economics can give you temporary flaunt and pleasure, but in the long run, you pay the price of ignoring the economics. How finance and economics differs? The economics provides the rules, regulations, policies, vision. It checks the fraudulent flow of the money. Economics does not work for the individuals. It focuses on holistic progress. It is designed to provide the financial stability to the nation as a whole. A nation can be financially strong, but economicall...

Bhishma was blessed of choosing the moment of his death. He could live on the earth as long as he desired. He had got the knowledge of political science and other subjects from Brihaspati, the guru of the gods (Devas), and Sukracharya, the guru of demons(Asuras). He learnt Vedas and other scriptures from the sage Vasishtha. Sage Markandeya was his spiritual guru. On the persuasion of his mother goddess Ganga, Parashuram taught him martial arts, military science and the skills of other weapons. There was no answer of the prowess of his archery at that time.   Parashuram alone had defeated all the Kshatriya on the earth for 21 times. In order to safeguard his promise and principles, Bhishma had to fight against his Guru, Parashuram. Bhishma was that one Kshatriya on the earth who got the privilege of defeating the invincible Parashuram. He had unparalleled power, vigour and valiance. In all the aspects, he was exceptionally amazing. He always wanted to see Ha...

The answer of the subjective questions varies from person to person and with time and space. No one can guarantee that I am right with some particular answer. The prevailing answers may be accepted by the majority of the people, because, it suits to the present situation or get accepted by the limitation of the knowledge on the particular subject. The law, rules and regulations are made time to time to satisfy the query and organize the people and resources at some particular time and space. This never assure that, the same solution of the query will be working in the coming future as well. The older generations have the problem that the new generation are not demure and domesticated. But, what is their measurement. They are trying to evaluate the present situation with the outdated scale, which may not work on the current situation. Coping with the time and space is the best method to be happy and thrive. Once Albert Einstein was taking the test of the physics. He set ...

Diwali is a five day festival, and it is one of the prominent festivals in India. Diwali celebration starts from Dhanteras (on the 13th of Ashwin month). This day is celebrated to commemorate the emergence of Dhanvantri, the celestial physician, taking the pot of the elixir of the immortality (Amrit) at the time of churning of the ocean of milk. This day people purchase utensils and other metal goods. Buying of utensils signifies that Lakshmi is about to emerge, and to preserve Lakshmi urn is required. The second day is celebrated as Narak Chaturdasi . On that day, Lord Krishna along with his wife Satyabhama had killed Naraksura. Naraksura was the son of Vishnu incarnation. In Varah incarnation Vishnu had fathered Naraksura along with his wife Bhudevi (goddess earth). And in Krishna incarnation, he and his wife had killed him. On this day, wives apply oil on the body of their husbands. This is for removing the physical and mental pain after the battle from the Asura. Killing A...

  The influence of our milieu plays a prominent role in building our genre and personality. It helps us to program our mind. In our childhood or teenage, we are not well versed in understanding about good or bad, action or inaction. What we get from the environment or family, our   immature mind adopts that. This adoption creates a base on which our future is going to stand.   If it is merely an influence of the environment, it can be corrected by changing the environment, or developing the knowledge by self-effort to mold the life of our choice. What the society or family teaches us is not always correct or may not be suitable for our spirit and material nature. Everyone has taken birth with his distinct material nature, and have the equivalent potential to blossom in his own material nature. Not living with own material nature invites the miseries and unhappiness in our life. In this case, if you are not living your life according to your material nature and inn...

 The stability of any organization depends on two major pillars, people and process. We can put an organization in two categories, small and big. In small organization, the proclivity of the policies are people oriented. And, in a big organization, the propensity of the policies are process oriented. It is tough for big organization for changing policies frequently, it would be tedious too. They maintain their own standards. If any organization keeps changing its policy frequently, or keeps policy on the shelf for some particular people, is akin to creating jeopardize for the organization. The policies are made for better and prolific run of the business. The majority of the people are emotion driven. To make any pursuit, the logical ability should suppress the emotional one. The decision taken on the emotional basis does not make a positive impact on the future.   The need of policy to check the human weakness of emotion and to abide by some particular direction a...

The Hindu mythology tells a fascinating legend of the fierce battle of Durga with Mahishasur, a demon who had a boon from Lord Shiva to not be defeated by any man or deity. Using his power and boon, Mahishasur   defeated gods and toppled out Indra, and spread the reign of his atrocity.   To get rid of Mahishasur and his atrocity, all gods headed to Brahma, and Brahma led them to Lord Shiva and Vishnu. There, all the gods invoked their energy and spotted to a point. From these collective energies a female form took place named Durga, who succeeded to kill Mahishaur and other demons viz. Raktabija, Madhu-Kaitabha, Chand-Mund, Shumbha-Nishumbha   in her distinct forms, and helped gods and the universe to set free from the atrocity of ferocious demons. The word "Durga" in Sanskrit means a fort, or a place which is difficult to overrun. Another meaning of "Durga" is "Durgatinashini," which literally translates into "the one who eliminates suf...

If you are not getting the result the way you wanted, just check the method you are following. A method never fails, only individuals fail. Not any specific religion or custom or tradition, and not even your lineage can pledge you for a happy and successful life. If it would be, the people who fall is some particular religion or creed or following some particular tradition would have all in living in abundance of all kinds!   But, unfortunately, we do not find the same. Some are very successful and happy, and others are compelled to live in destitute and indigent. The religion, caste, creed, race, custom, tradition and other stratification are social concept and creation for organizing and directing   a group of people in a particular direction, can help you to be the part of the crowd but not the part of the ecstasy which is the natural quest of the human on the earth. The success, prosperity, health, wealth and happiness depend on some particular pattern. The d...

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 t...

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 ou...

  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 no...