The Power Within

Vishnu has two mounts one is Hawk and second is Snake. Hawk and Snake are natural enemy to each-other. Vishnu in his slumber or respite uses snake as his mount and whenever Vishnu goes for battle, he uses hawk as his mount. The snake is known for his near-sighted, he pays attention for all the things around him only. When Vishnu is at home, he pays attention on the things around him only, no need to think much, and enjoy the things available there. When Vishnu goes for battle, he uses hawk as his mount. The hawk is known for his far-sight and vision. In the battlefield, Vishnu need to be far-sighted, must have the tactics and good vision to win over the battle, hence he prefers hawk as his mount to snake in the battlefield. In the battlefield, the leader needs to lead his army, so the far-sighted, vision, swiftness and clarity of the goal is highly required to get the battle in ones favor. The hawk goes to his prey precipitously, because his vision and goal is very clear. The s...

I observed a father was playing with his kid. The age of the kid was around 7.5 months and had learnt the crawling recently. While crawling on the floor, he saw an object and got attracted to that object and tried to catch that object. Every single time, his father takes him back from the object whenever the kid reaches near to the object. Every next time the kid puts the same effort to reach the object, and every time his father takes him back from the object. This activity of father and son kept going more than 100 times. Every single time the kid was putting the same effort, the same zeal, the same power, and the same potential, the same energy but with the improved tactics to reach that object. I could not see any time that the kid was looking tired or frustrated on not reaching to his object or on the obstruction created by his father. Every time he was looking a fresh, every time he was trying with the same confident and with the same strong faith to reach that object.   H...

  The animal sacrifice is one of the rituals in Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In this ritual slaughter, people sacrifice goat, fowl, male buffalo, ram, chicken, camel etc. Buddhism and Jainism condemn ritual animal sacrifice. However, all these religions accept that animals have the souls and they communicate and worship to God in their own ways. Still, as ritual they perform the animal sacrifice. These religions talk about the non-violence. Some of rituals of all the religions are commemoration of some important incidents or a symbolism beckoning to some worth assimilating. In Hinduism, the follower of the Shaktism, sacrifice animals to invoke Shakti, the energy. In Islam, during the Hajj, they perform the animals sacrifice as a symbolic re-enactment of Abraham's sacrifice of a ram in place of his son. In Judaism, the animal sacrifice is done for the atonement of the sin by the individuals. What the benefit we get by doing these rituals? At one side the scrip...

King Bali was a valiant emperor of Asura. He was the grandson of Prahalad, the great devotee of lord Vishnu. He was renowned donor, and was a just king for his subjects. He had got triumph over three abodes, the subterranean, the earth and the heaven. Although, he was doing justice with all of his subjects, yet he was not liked by gods and goddesses. They all approached to Vishnu to seek help to propel Bali to his abode, the subterranean, to release earth and heaven from his kingship. He had imbued with arrogance by his achievements. He knew that, no one can conquer him. To smash his arrogance, and on the request of gods and goddesses, lord Vishnu took his Vaman Avatar , the dwarf incarnation. Bali was also a religious person. Once, on completion of his Yagna, king Bali was giving charity. Whatever anyone was asking, he was satisfying them with his charity. He asked Vaman (Vishnu), rather arrogantly, to ask whatever he wishes to ask. Vaman asked only three steps of land. Bali m...

Holi is traditionally a harvest festival. It falls in the month of Phalgun (February – March). The Holi commemorates the victory of good over evil. The story goes like that... Young Prahlada was an ardent devotee to Lord Vishnu, which was not liked by his egotistical father, Hirnakashyipu, who was the king of the land. Hirnakashyipu was an Asura. He tried many methods to kill Prahlada, but all went in vain. The king had a sister named Holika who was immune to fire. So, she took young Prahlada and entered into fire. The case became opposite, Prahlada came out unscathed from the fire and Holika was consumed by the fire. This mythological story symbolizes that whoever becomes jealous and hatred to someone and tries to harm that person, the first person who get impacted is the person who jealous and hates. The same thing happened with Holika. To commemorate that massage, we celebrate Holika Dahan every year. The tradition of intoxication, throwing dirt on other and hurling abuses d...

  Lord Vishnu helped gods and Asura to churn out the milk ocean to get the Amrut and Laxmi. When Laxmi came out, Indra, the king of gods, ran after Laxmi to get her to his abode, Amravati. Laxmi eluded Indra and went squarely to Vishnu. Literally, she clings the feet of Vishnu. Vishnu never chases Laxmi. Laxmi gets attracted towards Vishnu, and requests Vishnu not to forgo her. Indra wants Laxmi, but Laxmi is not ready to forgo Vishnu and go with Indra. On request of Indra, Laxmi created her own form named Suchi and sent her with Indra as his consort. Suchi is not trustworthy wife. Whosoever becomes the king of Amravati, she becomes the wife of that person. This form of Laxmi cannot stick with one person, she is fickle one. Indra is very attached to Laxmi(Suchi), and always lives in worry, disquiet, anxiety, fear and nervous of losing his position and Suchi. He keeps chasing Laxmi, and Laxmi time to time eludes Indra. Despite these, Indra is found in inebriated in power. Whenev...

हमारे इस संसार में अनेक प्रकार के धर्म है| प्रत्येक धर्म अपने को महान समझता है| इतिहास गवाह है, कि इस विश्व में सबसे ज़्यादा युद्ध और खून खराबा धर्म के नाम पर ही हुआ है| कोई धर्म अपने-आप को पूर्ण नहीं कह सकता।  हर धर्म के लोगो में से कुछ लोगो ने ही अध्यात्म को प्राप्त हुए है।  यदि कोई भी धर्म अपने-आप में पूर्ण होता तो  उस धर्मं के सारे लोग अध्यात्म या दैवित्य को प्राप्त होते, और सबको मौक्ष मिल गया होता। लेकिन  अब तक ऐसा नहीं हुआ है, तो हम कैसे यह दावा कर सकते है, कि जो धर्म हमारा है या जिस धर्म का  हम अनुसरण कर रहे है, वही उतम है, और बाकी सब बेकार। कोई भी धर्म पूर्ण नहीं है, सभी धर्म एक-दुसरे के पूरक है। धर्म कोई मंजिल नहीं है, यह तो सिर्फ रास्ता है, यह तो सिर्फ एक इशारा है, उस अनंत मंजिल तक पहुचाने का। यदि हम मंजिल को भूल कर, सिर्फ इशारे को या सिर्फ रास्ते को पकड़ कर अकड़ रहे है, तो हम एक बुद्धिमान प्राणी के  श्रेणी में नहीं गिने जा सकते है। हर धर्म उस मंजिल की तरफ इशारा कर रही है, उस परमात्मा तक पहुचने की मार्ग मात्र बता रही है। उस मंजिल तक पहुचने के ...

According to the astrology, the nine planets (Navgrah) make their influence on individual’s life. These nine planets are associated with a certain duty. Surya (the sun) is the king of these planets. Surya is fixed at one position and all other planets rotate him in a fixed orbit. Budh (Mercury) is the minister. Budh is the son of Brihaspati(Jupiter) and his wife Tara. Brihaspati is a teacher and guide of gods. Due to this, Brihaspati is also known as Guru. Shukra (Venus) is the planet of wealth, pleasure, and reproduction. Shukra is the teacher of Asura and knower of Sanjivini Vidhya, the resurrection knowledge. Mangal (Mars) is the chief of the army. Rahu and Ketu are the administrators. Chandra (The moon) is a planet of the human mind. Shani is the celestial Judge on the earth. He is the son of Surya and Chhaya.  It is said that when he opened his eyes as a baby for the very first time, the sun went into an eclipse. His work as a judge is to check the law of na...

According to the astrology, the nine planets (Navgrah) make their influence on individual’s life. These nine planets are associated with a certain duty. Surya (the sun) is the king of these planets. Surya is fixed at one position and all other planets rotate him in a fixed orbit. Budh (Mercury) is the minister. Budh is the son of Brihaspati(Jupiter) and his wife Tara. Brihaspati is a teacher and guide of gods. Due to this, Brihaspati is also known as Guru. Shukra (Venus) is the planet of wealth, pleasure, and reproduction. Shukra is the teacher of Asura and knower of Sanjivini Vidhya, the resurrection knowledge. Mangal (Mars) is the chief of the army. Rahu and Ketu are the administrators. Chandra (The moon) is a planet of the human mind. Shani is the celestial Judge on the earth. He is the son of Surya and Chhaya.  It is said that when he opened his eyes as a baby for the very first time, the sun went into an eclipse. His work as a judge is to check the law of na...

Indra, the king of gods, resides in his abode, Amravati, with abundance. He has nymph, Gandharv for his entertainment, Soma for his drink, Kamdhenu cow (the wish fulfilling cow), the Chintamani stone (the thought fulfilling stone), Kalpvruksh (the imagination fulfilling tree) and Amrut (the elixir of immortality) which keep Indra and other gods ever young and vigor, Suchi (a form of Laxmi) as his wife. He has powerful army as well for his security. He has everything what one can think of, to live one’s life in luxuriant. His life is considered a complete life in terms of luxuriant and facility and as a king. Despite all these, Indra is not invincible. All these things could not make him impervious. He always lives in fear to lose his position. Many humans and Asuras by their penance have defeated Indra and toppled his kingdom. Whenever he loses his kingdom, he takes the help of either Vishnu or Shiva to get his stature back. Winning Indra means, getting access to all above ment...

  Take 100% responsibility of your life. It is your life, if you do not take the responsibility of your life, then whom do you think will take responsibility of your life on your behalf. You are the person who can change and mould your life the way you want, no one else. We spend more than 70% time with our self .Someone can only guide you, if you really seek for that, but it is also depend upon you, whether you are sincere for that. The vicarious experience does not work. The moment come, when you have to go through the ordeal in the life, only then the great changes take place in your life. Incriminating others for your destitute or futility shows that you are not ready to change or improve yourself for the betterment. Blaming others is also the herald of the helplessness, this beckon towards the impotence, because one has proclaimed about the helplessness, cannot create anything. The society is not good where I stay, people around us are dishonest, I cannot help myself, I...

जब हम स्वस्थ रहते है तब हमारे ज़हन में यह प्रश्न नहीं आता कि मै स्वस्थ क्यों हू। लेकिन जब हम अस्वस्थ रहते है, तब हमारे मन में तरह-तरह के प्रश्न उठते है, कि मै अस्वस्थ क्यों हू, या सारी तकलीफे मेरे साथ ही क्यों? सवाल तभी उत्पन्न होता है, जब कुछ अस्वाभाविक होता है। जैसे सूर्य पूरब में उगता है, और पश्चिम में डूबता है, तो कोई प्रश्न नहीं करता कि ऐसा क्यों हो रहा है! क्योकि यह स्वाभविक है। अचानक रात को सूर्य निकल आये या दोपहर को अचानक सूर्य गायब हो जाये तो प्रश्न बनता है कि आखिर ऐसा क्यों हो रहा है? इसी तरह स्वस्थ और आनंदित रहना मनुष्य का स्वाभाविक गुण होता है। जब कुछ अस्वाभाविक होता है तो प्रश्न उठने लगते है। स्वास्थ्य का अर्थ होता है, 'स्व' में 'स्थित'। वास्तविक प्रश्न होना चाहिए कि क्या हम स्वं में स्थित है? क्या हम स्वाभाविक और प्राकृतिक है? प्रश्न यह नहीं होना चाहिए कि ऐसा मेरे साथ ही क्यों हो रहा है? मनुष्य के स्वास्थ्य को तीन भागो में बाटा जा सकता है:- १. शारीरिक स्वास्थ्य  २. मानसिक स्वास्थ्य   ३. आध्यात्मिक स्वास्थ्य। जब तब मनुष्य तीनो प्रकार का स्वास्थ्य लाभ...

We would have observed the human pyramid created during Krishna festival to “Dahi-Handi” to help one on top to get to the pot of the curds and butter tied high up on the ceiling, and the prize for this achievement. No matter, how capable top person is, the top person will never reach to top without the coordination of the lower people. In this way the entire credit should go the lowest people who hold all the top people. If the lowest person stumbles, then the entire human pyramid will fall down. The concept of “Dahi-Handi” is true for the development of any country, public or private organizations. A country cannot reach to the top and be prosperous, until and unless the government works towards the deprived people to make them strong and lifted. They should be lifted in terms of education, mental and physical health, ethics, from poverty to prosperity etc. It does not matter, how strong one`s law is, how strong one`s plan is; it will not work until and unless the lowest perso...

Ravana was born to a great sage Vishrava and his wife, the Daitya princess Kaikesi. He was born in the Devagana, as his grandfather, the sage Pulastya, was one of the ten Prajapatis or mind-born sons of Brahma and one of the Saptarishi (Seven Great Sages Rishi) in the first Manvantara. He was a great scholar (Pandit) and an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva. He is also known as Dasa-Naan or Dasa-Sheesha, a person with ten heads. There was no one who can even equate of his 1/10 knowledge. His ten heads symbolize that he had a profound knowledge of 4 Vedas and 6 Upanishads. He was 10 times more scholarly over his subjects than the best scholar of his time. Lord Shiva is a hermit. Making home and attached to the worldly possession is a work of the householders, not of the hermits. However, Parvati, Lord Shiva`s consort, requested him to construct a home for them on the Kailash Mountain, the abode of Lord Shiva. As per his nature, Lord Shiva was reluctant to do that. Ravana,...

There are two sons of a farmer. One son was paying full attention what his father was doing, how he was dong the farming, how he was getting what the grain he wanted. He was fully obedient to his father. He was learning everything what his father was teaching him pertaining to the farming. He had learned all the method and techniques of the ranching and farming from his father. The second son was not paying much attention on his father`s teaching pertaining to the farming. He was thinking that, there is nothing much to do in the farming, just put the seed and get the fruit or grain. Therefore, he did not put his effort to learn the farming much. One day their father died. The two brothers started fighting over the property and farming land what their father had accumulated. The time had come to divide the property and farming land between two brothers. The second son fiddled out the first one and got the better farming land in his share than the first one. The second brother was...

मन बहुत चंचल और धूर्त होता है। मन अच्छे से अच्छे इंसान को भी दुःख में धकेल सकता है। मन खाली जगह को ढूढ़ते रहता है। और जहा उसको खाली जगह मिलता है, उसी को अपना जगह बना कर बैठ जाता है, और अपने खालीपन और दुःख का ढिढोरा दुनिया में पीटने लगता है। आपके सारे  दांत सही है, तो उसपर अपना ध्यान कभी नहीं जाता। यदि एक दांत टूट जाये तो, अपनी जिह्वा बार-बार उसी से टकराती रहती है। मन भी वैसा ही है, जो है उसकी कदर नहीं करता और जो नहीं है, चाहें उसकी आवश्यकता ज़िन्दगी हो या न हो, उसी को ढूढ़ते रहता है, और इंसान को परेशान करते रहता है। हमारी ज़िन्दगी ऑक्सीजन पर निर्भर है, लेकिन हम बहुत कम ही उसपर ध्यान देते है। जब हमारी साँसों की उल्टी गिनती शुरू होती है, तब हमारा ध्यान ऑक्सीजन के महत्व पर जाता है। हम कितनी बार यह सोच-समझकर खुश होते है, जो हमारी अति-आवश्यक चीज़ है, वह प्राकृतिक है, और हमे मुफ्त में और पर्याप्त मात्रा में है। जैसे हवा,पानी,सूर्य की रौशनी आदि। यदि यह प्रदूषित हो रही है तो हमारे वजह से हो रही है। मन तो सिर्फ सांसारिक चीजों को ही पूरा करने को कहता है।  इसी मन की बात और जिद...

The existence of the nature and earth is primeval to any creature on the earth. Human is considered the most intelligent creature on the earth, as human can think and imagine for the future. Gradually, the population of the world has reached around 7000 million. People fight for the piece of the land on the earth. They show their proprietary over that. Animals fight for their territory in the forest. In jungle kingdom, there is "might is right" concept, the weaker has to leave or sacrifice. In human kingdom, all should get their share whether he is weak or strong. On increasing of the population, the human even cut the jungle, the home of animals, and fenced it and hence has created the concept of the property. But who really owns the earth? How someone can say that I own this piece of land. It was there even humans breathed their first on the earth. Human did not create the earth and nature, rather the earth and nature provided the life for the human. How one among multi...

Distinct people have given the distinct names of the God according to their religion, region, language, rituals, belief system and comfort. But, unanimously all the religions point to the same almighty God. We call Him Ishwar, Bhagwan, God, Allah, Parvar Deedar, Ek Omkar and much more according to our belief system. All the religions, creeds and rituals have only one destination without second is, to gain the spirituality, the knowledge of the spirit. The religions, sects or creeds are there to show the path to reach the destination, the spirituality.   The names, the rituals, the belief systems, the religions, the lifestyles depend on upon the geographical locations or personal choices. God does not bother what the religion, path, name or creed we are following, His mere interest is in our intensity of FAITH. God is primeval, ever-existing, without father or mother, unborn and without any form. Then who gave the different name of God? Who came first, God or ...

A group of passengers were travelling by a mini bus. Passengers were looking haste to reach their destination. Some of them instigated the driver to drive faster to reach the destination hurriedly. Driver also started rushing. Driver lost his control and unfortunately, they met with an accident. Some people got scant bruises on their body. But one guy lost his left hand in this accident. Everyone blended with panic and furious, started shouting on driver. They forgot that they only instigate driver to rush the bus. All the passengers were looking frightened and worried expect one person who had lost his hand. All the persons asked him,” You lost your hand still you are not worried or panic.” The person replied, “Many-many thanks to God, I could have lost my others limbs or even my life, but God is so generous on me that He has taken only one hand. The life has been blessed by God and He has all the right to take it back at any time. I do not have any propriety on my body and ...

There are three major reasons of boredom. 1. Our brain does not have the ample work to do, which is very widespread reason of boredom. 2. Recurring work is being done on daily basis without any challenge. 3. You are not a fascinating person to yourself. Our brain requires some major definite purpose to keep itself busy to devise a plan and think how to achieve the major definite purpose. The lack of purpose make you bore and indolent.   In game, you do not get bored, because you have given a purpose or goal to your brain to achieve. Throughout the game our brain remains busy to make plan and strategy to reach the goal. Sometimes, even we do not aware how quickly the time has passed in achieving the major purpose. If you have not decided the purpose of the day despite having all the luxury and comfort at your home, you will fail to protect yourself from being bored.   In non-official day, people become more bore and lethargic, if they have not planned their day and...