SHEDDING TEARS

Life is not a bed of roses or a leisure walk in our lawns - it is full of adventures with so many ups and downs. When we strive to rise, we may slip and fall for what is it to rise if we haven't fallen. Indeed, falling is sad and discouraging but is it everlasting? Well, that depends on us. We and only we decide, for how long would we linger with the fall and when we will begin striving again for the rise.

When we fall, it is natural to cry, to shed tears and throw the burdensome grief off our heart. For how long should we cry - as long as a child cries after falling, as long as the ripple stays in water. As per the scientific studies, emotional pain lasts for less than a hour and the rest is the production of our mind. If it is emotionally painful to fall after so many efforts, then we would actually feel the pain for less than a hour. 

Shedding tears is good and we should shed tears but only for short periods of time. Excessive crying is vain and usually a choice. Talking of choosing to cry, we can choose to cry for the rest of our life and our state will only go worse than any better. 

If crying had ever been a solution, then there would have been no problems. But fortunately or unfortunately, rising up again and striving again takes us to a solution. We all are given the option of making the fall everlasting or immaterial, a lot depends on which choice we make.

HAPPINESS

A small child with a little or no knowledge of this world is often happy, keeps laughing stupidly and making happy sounds. His happiness twinkles in his small eyes and an aura is formed around him. His happiness is independent of whatever happens in his surroundings. He is happy because that is all he could be.

If you ever wish to see happiness at close quarters, do not go to a saint or meditation centre, go to a child. If you ever wish to be happy and nothing else, be happy like a child. Free your happiness from the shackles of a human, an animal or an event. Happiness is not lying in a beautiful lady next door or a handsome guy, on whom you have a secret crush. No, it is not lying in successful completion of an important project or a great party, lots of alcohol and chocolates. It is lying in the depth of a small portion in your body, which you call heart. How deep, it depends on you!

Once a beggar meets an ambitious fellow, who wished to conquer the world and the curious beggar asked him, “Sir, what will you do once you conquer the world?” “Oh poor beggar, I will be happy and live with satisfaction,” replied the fellow. On that the beggar laughed and said, “You need to conquer the whole world to be happy and contentious. Here, I have not conquered anything and still I am happy an d contentious”

You do not need anything to be happy. Your happiness should be independent of whatever happens in your surroundings. However, I am not saying that ignorance is good – be aware and learn to balance your awareness with your ignorance. Do stupid things for life is a small journey through the worldly fare. Most importantly, reason or not, smile and laugh and the miracles will happen!

THE REAL TALENT

Nature has bestowed all of us with one great talent or the other. Despite being the miniscule part of this universal play, we are not entirely insignificant and immaterial. You may be need good in music or computers or writing or cooking or in any other art. Well, the idea is that you can do certain things better than others do - this is what makes you unique, makes you what you actually are!

A widely asked question is why do many of us fail to get due recognisation and end up living a life in which we are not using the best of our talent? Well, the answer lie within us. You may have tried really hard and so have the half of the population and still you end up gaining less - that calls for explanation and here there is one to offer.

You have been passionate, dedicated and assiduous. You did all it take to represent the best of your talent. Still why, because you were not patient enough. You did not wait long enough and you might have given up the trail when only a few miles were left but you weren't aware of it.

How much patience do we require? There is no limit. The famous poet Robert Frost left the security of family business and took up writing. He died without getting any good recognisation of his work and today, we know him as a great poet. Make the best use of your talent to the create things you can create because it gives you immense satisfaction and not because you will get recognised. Recognisation is secondary, satisfaction is primary. So, work for your satisfaction.

While you  would be busy, working for your satisfaction, recognisation will knock on your door someday.

The real talent lies in patience and perseverance. The rest of your qualities will been seen and awarded after you pass a few levels from your real talent.

There is no harm in falling but in refusing to get up.

 A NEW BEGINNING

A very happy and prosperous new year 2015 to everyone. Well, we have said a goodbye to 2014 and embraced 2015. Even on the wintry, new year fills us with joy, happiness and hopefulness. Hence, there is a promise – no matter how bad or good 2014 had been, this year would be good.

Hey friend, just check out – a list of mistakes is ready from 2014 & a list of promises is to be prepared for 2015.

2014 in your life would have been painted in varied colours – vivid or otherwise. You would have laughed and cried, enjoyed and shed tears and many more. But one thing – Have you made mistakes in 2014? If your answer is no, then I am sorry that you have wasted a year of your life. No you are not perfect and you can never be even if you live for thousands of years. Therefore, if you haven’t made mistakes, then it only means that you haven’t put your hand in anything novel. However, I am not in favour of repeating the mistakes but I do favour making a new mistake everyday of your life or you will stop improving as a person.

Why make mistakes? Make mistakes so that you can a make a new beginning, make mistakes to learn from them. If you won’t learn, then the whole purpose of making mistakes will be lost and instead of a wise person, you will end up as a fool. So, those who have the list of their mistakes ready from 2014 must make it a point to learn from them. They must promise themselves that they won’t repeat these mistakes in 2015. For those, you have not made a mistake in 2014 must not be discouraged, there is always a new beginning and it is never too late to start – the moment you begin to think that it is too late for you to start making mistakes or you can’t afford to make one, you are dead. No, this is not being old or mature for even oldies make mistakes and at times more mistakes than youngsters.

So, standing on the initial steps of 2015, let us make a resolution that we will make new mistakes in 2015 and learn from each one of them so that when this year will end, we would be a better person, an improved one...

MISTAKES

If you haven’t made a mistake today, then you have not learnt anything today.

Mistakes are the stepping stone to success – one can never attain specialization unless one has made some mistakes. However, specialization here must not be confused with perfectionism – Perfection is only created to be witnessed by millions and attained by none. Perfection resides at horizon – the more we move forward, the farther we have to go to attain it and yet it is unattainable. Perfectionists never make mistakes and hence, no one is a perfectionist. That must not discourage us, we can always improve and there is no limit to it.

The question is which mistake is good and which is not – wise men make one kind of mistakes once and foolish men make the same mistake over and over again. Mistakes are not significantly important – what matters is the learning from mistakes. If we haven’t learnt anything from them, then we have wasted a big opportunity. Though it is believed that experience is the best teacher, it is not mandatory to gain experience to learn lessons – one can learn from others’ mistakes as well.

Atychiphobia – the persistent fear of failure. One way or the other, we all fear to fail but becoming the slave of such fears has devastating consequences. It is horrible to try and fail but it is lethal not to try because you fear to fail. One may not succeed in one go but persistent endeavor will definitely reap results. Moreover, what is it to succeed, when you have never failed? – It is just like appreciating the light without having seen the dark – indeed, the real taste of success comes after a series of failure. Imagine yourself and your friend on different sea voyages – you completed the voyage earlier and haven’t dealt with a storm but your friend took a lot more time, battling the storms of the sea – at the end, who is the best sailor? Successes provide accolades but failures provide improvements and the more the improvements, the better we are and hence, worthy for even more accolades. Conclusively, the art is how to fail and not how to succeed (obviously one is not supposed to count in deliberate failures).

MAKE A MISTAKE EVERYDAY, LEARN EVERYDAY & IMPROVE EVERYDAY.

LIVING GODS

“Know thyself as thee are Gods”

~Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

As per the scientific theory of dualism, the entire universe is consists of only two things – energy and matter. Point at anything and you will find that it is either a form of energy or a form of matter or a blend of both. As humans, we are a creature of flesh and bones and hence, we are a form of matter. The one who drives us is God – energy that is the fuel of our life. If this energy abandons us, then we are left with the only thing that we have i.e. matter – We are dead. Myriad religions give myriad explanations of death and yet they say the same thing. For instance, those who believe in the existence of soul (attma) believe that the soul abandons the body and the body is dead – this soul is intangible. This soul is nothing but the purest form of energy. The matter is dead without energy and the energy needs matter for making an impact.

We are the beings with energy – man with God residing within us. Therefore, the onus is on us to make the presence of God evident in our deeds. You may well ask about the devils, those who do bad acts despite the presence of God inside them. If you feel that something is bad, you must change it – if you think that bad man, using divine energy inside him for bad deeds, is wrong then you, suppressing divine energy inside you by being a silent watcher of the fare, are a menace.

God stays with everyone indiscriminately and wants us to de-root the evil – he is visible in our acts and we must act. We are living Gods and hence, we cannot sit and wait for God’s son to come and steer us out of our troubles, when God himself is residing inside us. Stop waiting for messiahs and be the messiah yourself. THE GREAT PERSONALITIES ARE ACTUALLY, ORDINARY PERSONALITIES WITH GREAT ACTS.

The Darkest Hour

The first glimpse of dawn breaks only after the darkest hour of night.

The irony is that the tendency to quit is at its peak, when we are just a few miles away from the first glimpse of our success. When we begin we are full of zest and zeal, our enthusiasm is addictive and our belief in our endeavour is maddening. When we walk on the path of our success, we commit to walk in darkness – we are unaware of what will follow next. Still we are ready to take risks in a hope to marry our dreams. However, when we have walked quite a distance, the darkness begins to get heavy on us and our own impatience begins to taunt us. The burden grows with every step forward and our doubts about our success begin to surface. What is more, the people around us do not believe in our endeavour as they used to. By the time we are about to reach the end, we are tired and exhausted with diminishing hope – gone is the zest, zeal and enthusiasm; the pace of time comes to a crawl – minutes seems to stretch in the blankets of days and hours in the quilts of months. It is the time, when most of us quit and press the SOS button – the most wrong moment to do it for a few more steps and we would reach our destiny.

The space is mostly dark and only stars have light – our life is a journey through the space on a mission to become a star. So, darkness is not an omen and blindness – it is a challenge, a test of our potential to become a star. So, the darker the path, the better the test and the best would be the individual coming out of it. We all start our journey in a similar way, but only some reach the illuminated path and the rest quit and stay in dark – afraid to venture in denser darkness.

The difference between a successful and unsuccessful person is not due to the lack of potential but due to adequacy of its realisation. The inadequate realisation of potential gives half or no success and half success is akin to no failure. Accepted is the fact that we are tired and cannot move forward but don’t forget that when one has completed a large part of journey, then a few more miles should not come in the way. When the first light of our success will break, its warmth will fill us with renewed enthusiasm and the tiredness will become immaterial. It is just a matter of a little more endeavour – convince yourself and move on for you will not receive praises for an incomplete journey, even your own self will not appreciate your efforts and you will feel dejected.

After a long night, the darkest hour of night is the most testing hour – stay patient, be perseverant and move on. If you can survive the darkest hour, you deserve to witness the break of dawn and the following morning in the fare of this world will be for you to enjoy.