Draw Bigger Line …

 According to a fable of Akbar and Birbal, Akbar drew a line on a wall and asked to all subjects to make this line shorter without touching or removing any portion of this line. All people thought at every angle, but did not get any clue how to make it shorter without touching it. Birbal was a witty minister; he was well-known for his presence of mind and providing the solution of the complex problems. At last, Birbal took this challenge to make the line shorter without touching or removing any part of the line. Everyone was surprised how Birbal would do that. Birbal took a chalk and drew a bigger line parallel to the existing line. In comparison to the bigger line, the existing line was looking short. Birbal did it, without touching or harming the existing line. 

This small fable gives a good lesson to our life. If you are determined to excel someone in your life, do not harm that person. Generally, callous people try to pull leg or harm or disturb their competitor to excel from them. This is middling and malicious approach, to excel and soar in the life. In this way, you are preventing your advancement; you are just squandering your power and energy in a wrong way. You have capability to get entire gold mine, but you are getting satisfied yourself with nugget. You are trying to show, you are bigger not is positive way but in negative way. You want draw your competitor lower than your level, so that, you can visible bigger than your competitors. In this process, you did not progress at all; you are there, where you were. Do not think you become bigger. You again, will compare with someone, will try to use the same process. It is not sure that your competitor is getting impacted or not, but, it is sure that you become self-destructive of your growth and success. If you want to get grand success in your life, soar and excel in your life, do not try to pull leg and climb, it is not going to work. Slog more, learn more, think more, implement more, and do more than others do. You will achieve any height you think of, without violating anyone`s right. You will acquire your grand satisfaction and happiness in this process. If you want to take revenge from someone, take with grand success without harming that person. If you want to respond your criticism, do not respond with argument or verbal involvement, rather respond with those with your activities and success, and prove the critics wrong.

Carve Your True Personality

One person inquired to a sculptor, how you carve so beautiful image from a piece of the stone. The sculptor replied -- every stone contains a beautiful image in it, but shrouded with some redundant outer stones. You need not to search the stunning image hidden in it, you just need to recognize what are the unnecessary shingles wrapping the gorgeous image. Confiscate the superfluous grits from the portion of the stone; you will get an attractive image. If you know, how to strip the gratuitous stones, you can delineate any kind of image you wish to. It is the same stone, after carving become valuable, and gets the place even in temples and palaces. It is the same stone, before carving, people use for the steps and stairs, and after carving, people use those to embellish their palace and deference it.

Every one of us is like un-chisel stones. An emphatic personality is masked within us. When sculptor starts sculpt a stone, he keeps an image in his mind, and then accordingly, he eradicate the redundant outer nugget to get the image. Before giving a shape to your personality, think and keep in your mind, what kind of personality you want to carve or develop. Then start removing the negativity which does not suit to the required personality. Remember, your desired personality is already there, but under the veil of negativity and bad habits. Negativity -- hatred, jealous, envious, lust, criticism, not recognizing your true potential etc. Bad habits -- Intoxication, indolence, dearth of exercise of brain and body, not trying for self-skill and knowledge, vanity, self-complacency, boastful talk etc. Start removing your negativity and bad habits one by one. You will observe that your desired personality is started visible. Without carving your true personality, you will never get your recognition and respect, you will remain mum and dump, and people will use you like a step to ascent their heights. To sculpt a beautiful image, five parameters are predominantly required... 1. Picture of the image in the mind  2. Skill of Carving   3. Patience   4. Persistence and 5. Determination. In the similar fashion, you also require these five parameters to chisel the personality of your wish, and to get your share of respect, success and happiness in your life. Decide yourself, whether you want to be used as an un-whittled stone or you want to be useful as a striking engraved stone images.

 

Create a Plan to Achieve Your Goal

Find out what are the pre-requisite to achieve your goal. Note down, what kind of knowledge, what kind of information, what kind of skill and prowess are required to achieve your goal. Nothing comes without sacrifice. Find out the source whence you can acquire all those pre-requisite for your goal, collate all those required information. Now, make plan to garner all the knowledge, skill, and prowess. And start walking step by step to gain those skills. Once you have well devised plan, irrespective of your temporary setback and problems, with your dogged determination, you will achieve your goal. Keep evaluating your progress according to the plan. If you find at some point of time that your current plan is not helping much to achieve your goal, make another plan and start executing it, but never think of to give up. Do not hesitate to make a big goal in your life. The bigger goal appears small when you start taking action solemnly. The great persons who have achieved acme of their pursuit, those were not achieved by chance, but by setting a clear goal, meticulous plan and steps, frequent review of their progress and strong belief and dogged determination not to give up.

Once you set goal and make plan, start executing your plan without being perverted from the original plan. Be committed towards your impending success. Do not get feared from the temporary failure, this is not the debacle; this is the part of the path of the success. Remember, no success or failure is the final. No problem occurs in your life bigger than you. No teacher set paper in the examination harder than the standard of the student. The same is true for all of us. The bigger the examination, the tougher the question is. The tougher the question, the higher the position and post is. Slog and acquire all the knowledge and skill to solve the tougher questions of the life to get the higher position and success in your life. No problems are existing without the solution; it is we, who are unable to find the solution for that. Plan your life and claim your success and be the person what you always wanted to be in your life.  The success and failure are not a single day effort. The success and failure depends upon what you do on daily basis.

Provide Proper Food to Your Brain

We provide the food to our body to make it workable and healthy. Any food will not work to keep our body healthy. Only healthy food and healthy life style is what going to make our body healthy. When we miss any of our meals, our body starts sending signal about appetite, and we provide food to the body, and we feel good. The improper ingest of food and life-style makes us sick. Have you thought that what you are providing to your brain as a food? Even though, you are well fed, your body is healthy; still you feel uncomfortable, frustration, stress etc. These symptoms are not of the body, but of the brain. Your brain is not healthy and strong enough to handle the pressure and demand of the life. Your brain is unhealthy, because, it is not getting the healthy food to keep it healthy and responsible.

The food of the brain is positivity, creativity and learning. The attitude of the positivity, creativity and learning are habits. We need to form a habit to exercise and provide the viable food to the brain. Medication and contemplation on the positive aspect of the life helps to feed our brain with positivity. Meditation helps us to shun from the outer world and focus on the internal purity. Indulge yourself with some particular creative work. You can choose your best hobby whether it is prolific financially or not, but it is very prolific to make your brain healthy and stress free. Our brain is always hungry to learn new things. It is our indolence which prevents us to do slog and learn new things daily to feed our brain. A kid always keep asking questions and learning something new daily, this is the reason, kids remain happy, if he is fed well and physically not sick. Our brain has the colossal of memory to learn sundry things in life. The brain looks for the direction, the food, the work. These are things which help our brain to burgeon and handle the situation come before us. The habits of solving puzzle also help a lot to feed our brain. Well-fed brain always ready to confront and solve the situation occurs before us. The nature never put any problem before us which is greater than us. It is the dearth of preparation, and weaknesses of the mind and body, which put us into trouble.

Surround yourself with positive people, read motivational and inspirational books, listen motivational cassettes and videos. These make a prodigious effect on your brain. Walk away from the negative people, they are very precarious, they can spoil you and make you cripple. If the situation occurs like that where you cannot circumvent these kinds of people, then do not heed much on the negativity, and read books and success stories of the great personage. Do not feed your brain with negativity; it will make you to fear in your life about the unnecessary things which are really not needed to think on that. Fear is the result of lack of knowledge and preparation and action. Provide the food what your brain need, and brain will provide to you everything what you need in your life.

Keep Focused on Your Goal

Master Dronacharya taught the art of archery to all of his disciples. Once, he wanted to take the test of his disciples. He put an artificial bird on a tree, and asked his disciples to aim the arrow in the eye of the bird. He called one-by-one and asked what you can see right now. They described everything, what other things they could see there, the trees, fruits, leaves etc. Those persons who described these; he did not allow them to shoot an arrow. At last he called his favorite disciple Arjun, and asked what he can see there. Arjun replied, “I could not see anything but the eye of the bird where I have to shoot an arrow”. The master allowed Arjun to shoot an arrow. Arjun, unerring shot an arrow in the eye of the bird.  The master was testing about the clarity of the goal. If you are not clear about your goal, you cannot reach there, or chances are there for you to reach somewhere else where you did not want to be.

Think about your goal what you want to achieve. Most of the people get perverted from their goal or get delayed in achieving those, because, they think about others things than their set goal. Think about those things what you want and attract in your life, ostracize talking and thinking about those things what you do not want in your life. Focus on your set goal; you will achieve that, no matter where you are standing now.

Keep Learning in the Journey of Life

A person of 97 years old was learning a new language. He was looking exuberant and charming. A young person seating nearby, his age would be 35 years looked at that person with wonder. At this age people leave the hope of living and start counting his days, and at this age this person is learning a new language. Learning any new language is not an easy task. Now he is learning a new language, when he will learn, and when he will practice and when he will start communicating in this language. Not sure, by that time, this person would be alive or not, but he is learning with so enthusiastic. He is learning like that he is going to appear in the examination of the language and going to get the top score, or he is going to make his career in this language. The young person asked him about his mission to learn new language, and the secret to be so active, passionate and happiness. The old man replied, I am not sure, when my death will come, and you are not sure about you as well. And death come day; and I do not want to blight my entire life in thinking about the death and make my life stagnant. Life becomes death when you stop learning something; life is a journey, then how a person can think to be stagnant. Not learning anything is a full stop, and full stop is the dead end of your life, it does not matter, you are breathing or not, but you are dead. I do not want to be dead before my death, I do not want to get confused between life and death.

A kid looks happy in his early age, because, he is not confused between life and death, he is learning new thing daily in his life. He looks active and attractive. The person, who grows, looks active and attractive. And growth is possible by learning new things daily, no matter what your age is, and where you are standing right now. The secret of the happiness and activeness of the old man was to set goal in his life, learning new things without thinking about his age and other shortcomings. Many persons deliberately, stop their growth in their life, by stopping learning new things in their life.  It is difficult to find an old man who looks attractive and happy in his old age. The reason is very simple, they give up before life, and they stop setting any goal in their life. Goal may be spiritual level, social level, knowledge level etc. They simply surrender to the old age. We are not body or mind, we are spirit, and our body gets older not our spirit. We should not measure a person an old person by his age, but by his habits, goal, activeness and happiness. You do not have any goal, means, you do not have any enthusiastic in your life, and hence you are old, you are dead. The secret to be happy, active and attractive in your life is, to set goal and learn new skills to achieve your goal to make the journey of your life a pleasant one.

Hiring and Firing in the Organization

Employees of the private sectors are living in constant fear of getting fired from the job.  Employers have also devised different-different parameters and process for the appraisal evaluation for the employees. They keep the target to make the business growth to certain amount for the year. Keeping the competition in the market in mind, the employers always want to keep the best resources to get the maximum return out of them. The employees who are found under-performed according to their evaluation, they fire those employees or cut their salary. Some of the parameters of the appraisals are system dependent, and with those persons who are not directly associated with the individual performances. They set benchmark for the account, in one account many employees and teams are associated, if the account altogether does not perform well, it directly affect the individual performances, even though, the individuals has performed in his assignment exceptionally good. Due to the system evaluation, he/she may get the less rating and can fall in the category of the under-performances. And as per the company policy, they may get impacted. Then, organizations hire resources from the market to fill this position, in hoping to get maximum output out of them, to achieve their set target for the year, to topple their competitors. As per policy and competition, it may be justifiable for the survival of the organization, but, ethically, firing employees without providing more opportunity is not good.

Ravana, the king of Lanka, agitated war with Rama. Bibhishan (Ravana`s brother) was not happy with his brother`s act and requested him to return Sita to Rama. Ethically, Bibhishan was correct, but as per Ravana`s policy, he was not, hence Bibhishan falls under-performance category, and hence, Ravana kicked him and banished from his kingdom, Lanka. Ravana wake his another brother Kumbhkarana from his deep sleep, hoping to get help from him to win the war against Rama. After banished, Bibhishan need to find some refuge, hence he approached Rama, and become the part of his team. Rama`s army was consists of monkeys and beers. Rama was an excellent mentor and leader. He always believed to perform his duty ethically. Despite dearth of resources in the jungle, Rama trained and motivated his army of monkeys and beers up to that extent that Rama and his army defeated Ravana`s army and brought Sita back. Rejected Bibhishan by Ravana, became helpful in telling the secret of Ravana`s death. Rama is incarnation of Vishnu and Sita is incarnation of Laxmi. Despite of providing all the luxuriant to his subject and army, due to the unethical approach to win Sita (Laxmi), Ravana is not worshiped. No one loyal to him, as one can be kicked out any time.

Due to the uncertainty of the market and competition, most of the organization, adopts Ravana approaches to get Sita (Laxmi), they try to abduct Sita by hook or crook. They expect from the employees to help to meet the organization`s expectation. The employees, who fail to keep the expectation of the organization vivid, are sacked out. Employees have lost their trust on organization. The organization, who could find a good leader, who can train and motivate the employees and win the trust of them, the existing employees can do miracle in getting Sita(Laxmi) back, and  in organization thriving.

No Dwell of Happiness Without Peace

People adopt different-different methods to keep themselves happy and frolic. All the artificial methods fail to keep the person happy and frolic for a long. People adopt intoxication; go for outings, exotic places, shopping etc. People can earn money enough and collate all the necessary luxuriant, but all the money cannot guarantee to provide your share of happiness as a human on the earth. According to one survey, the money can help human to provide 10% of his happiness, rest 90%, you have to generate by yourself. Except human, no other animals can laugh. Human, by understanding his true nature and association with the law of nature, can be happy. To attract happiness, you must first learn to live in peace and harmony with you. The happiness never prefers to travel those places where there is no peace. It refutes to dwell in the life of turbulent person. To acquire peace in your life, you must have the knowledge and method to acquire peace. You must have the knowledge about you, where peace will reside, your true knowledge, who you are, and your purpose on the earth. In fact, the peace is within you, but the outer environment has become so noisy that you cannot feel the peace inside you. To reveal the peace, you must shut the door of the outer turbulent.

Jealous, hatred, despise, discrimination, angry, lust, greed, untruthfulness and other negative feelings and thoughts are recognized reasons for a person to live this beautiful life without peace and harmony, and hence bereft of happiness. Just we need to remove Jealous, hatred, despise, discrimination, angry, lust, greed, untruthfulness etc. from the life, our life will start burgeoning in every aspect. No one but we only are responsible for getting rid of these negativities. This is possible by contemplating on our true self, focusing on our definite major aim in our life. The great persons never pay attention on others what they say or talk about them; they have knowledge about their personality and capabilities. They never stop and start responding every one, and squander their valuable time. If you want to be happy and soar in your life, you have to adopt the life style and habits of the great, and you need to shun all the negativities from your life, more than 90% of our imaginations never take place in our life, but they spoil our more than 90% of our life. Be wise and get your share of peace, success and happiness in your life.

Vishnu As a True Leader

It was well-known for the both Devas (gods) and Asuras (demons) that the Amrut, the ambrosia of immortality, and Laxmi, the goddesses of wealth, and other gems are in the Milk Ocean. Both Devas and Asuras had the same desire and objective, but with distinct intentions, to get Amrut and Laxmi. The churning of ocean was required to get out Amrut, Laxmi and gems. It was not possible to churn out the ocean, either by Devas or Asuras alone. Devas had no existence without Amrut and Laxmi, and Asuras wanted these to get supremacy of the three worlds.

Devas approached Vishnu to seek help in churning out the ocean. It was well known facts that to churn out the ocean, both Devas and Asuras should conglomerate. It was tough to bring out Devas and Asuras together, they despise one-another. One thing was common that both wanted to have Amrut and Laxmi. Lord Vishnu agreed to help to churn out the ocean, he united the inter-counter forces as Devas and Asuras, and he himself became the base of the shaft as Kurma incarnation (giant tortoise). Both Devas and Asuras worked together with full of their capabilities to churn out the ocean. From this churning, they got 14 gems, Laxmi and, at last Amrut. Both Devas and Asuras got their share in gems. When Laxmi came out, she clings to Vishnu, and Vishnu tricked Asuras and provided Amrut to Devas. Vishnu as a true leader, made Devas and Asuras work together to churn out Amrut, Laxmi and other gems from the milk ocean. And as a reward, he bequeathed Amrut to Deva for their good intention. He kept Laxmi with him, so that, she cannot be misused, and should be used in dire need and for holy purposes.

Market place is Milk Ocean. Devas and Asuras are the employees with different temperaments. Employees work collectively to churn out Laxmi (Money) from the market place. Employees of the different temperament do not work effectively to churn out Laxmi from the market. They require a strong leadership to recognize each and every employee`s potential, skill and temperament, and should put at appropriate position to execute the organization plan to get the Laxmi and gems churn out from the market. Objective of the persons may be the same, but not intentions. Employees get their salary for their effort as gems, and the employee with good intentions get rewards and the organization acquires Laxmi, to invest more in other pursuit to churn out more Laxmi and create more job opportunity and to keep organization burgeoning.

Mantra, Yantra, and Tantra Communication

From the ancient tradition, we can see that, on special occasion or in Yagna, we recite Mantra. The mantra has been constituted with some distinct purpose and with profound connotation. The repetition of the Mantra, means, something is being tried to be communicated to us to make our life suffer-free.  Mantra is a form of a verbal communication. It is suggested in scriptures that recitations of the Mantra without understanding its meaning is the bereft of the result. That is so apparent, if you do not understand what is being communicated to you, you cannot implement those in your life, and hence, you will not see any improvement in your life. Second form of communication is Yantra communication, Yantra communication means visual communication. Putting mark on your head, putting threads around your neck or wrist, putting turban, talisman, keeping Yantra or mark of auspicious at your home etc. these are the form of Yantra, the visual communication. Through this medium something worth is being communicated to us, to make us understand and implement those in our life, to save us from being entangle in unnecessary stuff in our life. Like putting marks on head with red color or ashes or sandal etc. Human is human because of his brain. Brain of the human is so puissant that he can surmount any kind of problems of his life, and can create a life of his choice. It is the power and flexibility of the thought of the human, by which, he can survive or suffer in his life. Most of the problems and solutions of our life are in our brain. For an illustration, the mark on the head indicates that we are human being, and have the most precious wherewithal as head, use it. Similarly, all the Yantra, we wear or keep at home or in temple, all are for the reminder. It constantly provide us the visual communication, so that, we as a human being, choose the right path, and by following those, should get our share of success, happiness, peace and harmony in our life. Ignoring those insinuation means following wrong path, which leads us into destitute.

Third mode of communication is Tantra; Tantra is a form of ritual communication. Almost in all religions, distinct rituals are performed. It is advised that ritual should be performed without any distortion, it means, the ritual what we perform, communicating something imperative to us. Any form of communication, one can choose and understand to get his life better. Simply doing it, because, others are doing, not going to bring any fruit or sooth in your life. Whenever, you do or encounter these kinds of communications Mantra, Yantra or Tantra, ask yourselves, why you are doing, what the message, you are getting, why the scholar of ancient, made necessary to perform for everyone to get a better life. None of these modes of communications is without significance, the meaning is startling, and its implementation is prolific.   

Courage to Take First Step

Despite having the stupendous of talent and skill, many persons get failed in their life, and compel themselves to live a mediocre life, because, they do not garner ample courage to take first step towards their major goal in their life. Predominantly, they fear to fall; they think what would have happen when they would fall down and would not get the success in their pursuit. People scoff me on my talent and skill, and deride me on my idea and pursuit. The people, who think more about others statement, rather than thinking about themselves, what they can do, and what the capabilities they are possessing to get their share of success, live a mediocre life in all aspect. Many people have lot of desire to do many things in their life, they set goal, they make the plan and step for the goal, but they keep adjourning in taking the first concrete step. You should not fear to take your first step in your life towards your goal, do not worry, even if you get initial failure and setback, these are quite natural. We all have learnt walking by falling many times in our childhood, we never hesitated to take first step and getting up after every fall, and ultimately, we learned to sprint. This is our nature as a human being that if we take first step and never worry and fear to fall down, we reach our destination in our life. The great achievers have also confronted many setbacks in their life.

The person, even with the mediocre talent and skill, takes his first step with determination, can create a history. The history is replete with those kinds of talented persons, who could not do many things in their life, because they feared to take their first step. And the history is also replete with those kinds of mediocre talented people, who garnered the courage to take the first step, and dogged determined to reach the set destination of their desire, and they have created the history.

The second step follows the first step, and so on... Just we need to take our first step towards our pursuit with determination; step by step, the entire journey would be concluded. The big journey starts with a single step. Think about big journey, big achievement, big success in your life, and do not hesitate to take your first step, do not squander your time, the life does not give the similar opportunity again and again. Think and execute your plan towards your major goal of your life. If you have to reach somewhere, you have to walk; there is no other alternative available. Do not prorogue, this is the right time to give a solid start, to take your first step towards you big journey and achievement in your life.

Matter and Spirit

Two kinds of knowledge are required to lead the worldly life with peace, harmony and happy, the knowledge of matter and spirit. We acquire the knowledge from the universities are limited to the knowledge of matter. What we get from the universities are in fact information about the knowledge, and when we put those information into action, we get the knowledge about the stuff, and when we started providing knowledge to others in particular areas, we get the wisdom. By getting the knowledge about the matter, we can earn matter, which help us to sustain our life and create a social status. It is not mandatory to earn a university degree to acquire the knowledge of the matter and its acquisition; one can earn an ample knowledge by dedicated self-study and determination and can be very successful materially. We would have observed that the person who have higher degree from the universities are not earning as much as matter the person who have not any university degree. This is the matter of applying your knowledge into the real world to convert your knowledge into equivalent physical possessions. Even though, the person who has earned the stupendous of material possessions and garnered all the sophisticated luxuriant, may not be in happy, peace and harmony. He finds his life incomplete.

The second kind of knowledge is the knowledge of the spirit, the spirituality, the knowledge of the true self. Without knowledge of the spirit, one always feels incomplete; the person cannot be happy and peaceful, people live in fear and fright. If you leave all your material possession and try to be happy and to know your spirit, you cannot. At some extent, material possessions are required to get help from it to know your spirit. If you are hungry and try to meditate on your spirit, can you? Your physical appearance is the combination of the both matter and spirit. If your body is frail, you cannot concentrate on the spirit. If your spirit is unknown, you cannot enjoy the physical life. You must get the knowledge of the matter, so that, you can earn ample matter to sustain your worldly life, and get the knowledge of spirit to acquire the wisdom to enjoy the worldly life and achieve your major purpose of life without violating others right. We should live our life so wisely, so that, we should not pretend our life at the death bed.