The balanced Universe!

For past 2000 yrs of recorded history, Everyday we have been seeing new and new prophets of doom. A nuclear World war 3, Y2K, 2012, the Judgement Day just round the corner, population explosion, meteorites, global warming etc.
In fact the history of the world is filled up with failed prophecies of disaster every few decades.

A Quntum Mind!

Only a Quantum mind can solve the mysteries of Life and the world and can easily sift the true from the untrue from the continuous invasion of his mindspace.

A quantum mind does not either accept or reject any theory or opinion even if it from a Nobel laureate. It has  a major area of no judgement in between and puts all new theories into the same. As he broods over it he mooves it closer to acceptance or rejection area till he finally accepts or rejects it.

The first person you should forgive!

The first person you should forgive!

Forgiveness is the key to a mentally and physically healthy life, the peace of mind and the true happiness.

So,how, where and with whom we begin this process of forgiveness!

There is a person,who matters most to every one of us. Most of our grievances, complaints and conflicts are against that particular person. Therefore, resolving our issuing with him is most important to us and should be our beginning.

Who is he?

That person is the self.
Yes our own self, our own personality. Astonishing, but deep inside our minds we blame, dislike, sometimes even almost hate our own persona for past words actions or lack of actions, bad choices that we made or for our weaknesses and  even our looks and figure.
There might not be a single person who looks in a mirror without finding faults with himself. It maybe, the blemishes, the baldness,  the complexion or the love handles etc. Beauty is what mostly we all are most insecure about.

Then comes the guilt box in the mind.
In the conscious and the subconscious mind there is a ginormous guilt box. It stores each and every mistake, blunder and folly from the beginning of your memory and even beyond.
" I was a fool to do this"
"why the hell did i /did not do this/that" and whole lot of stuff like this. This guilt box is a one way route. What goes in, stays in. These guilts,like seeds, while buried inside the mind give rise to compliactions, fears, insecurities, latent anger, dissatisfaction, obsessions and so on.
These guilts reflect in our dreams, thoughts and actions. These creatures given birth by the guilts completely ravage our Garden of Eden, a mind of happiness that we started our life with, as a child.

Start immediately forgiveing yourself.

Like yourself, your blemishes, your scars, your baldness your love handles puny structure, your dark complexion, whatever it be, that is what you are, that is how you are! You are good, you are beautiful, as beautiful as one can be. Accept yourself, love your own persona. If you do not like yourself, who else would ever will. You were made by the same God and he loves his evey child.

Also a mind at peace is a smiling face and a smiling honest face is a very beautiful face.

Forgive your own actions of past, each and every.
Tell yourself that I did that because that time i thought like that. I did not know any better. What has happened, has happened. No fault of mine, but of situation and my reactions. Maybe it was better this way. Now I know better.

Forgive yourself by all the above means. Feel good with yourself. Like and love yourself.

You matters most to you. So be affectionate towards you. Think of yourself not with anger, remorse, dissatisfaction or disappointment, but with love and appreciation.

This path leads to the way of forgiving others and then to the one true happiness, bliss, the purpose of our lives.

God Bless! Have inner peace! Be happy!

A violent world of violent people of violent minds!

Open the paper or Switch on the tv and all you can hear,
war and battles going on somewhere far or near,

shootout, murder, gunfight, assault and molestation,
everyday we wonder whats gone wrong with our nation,

Violence in homes, villages, towns, borders  everywhere,
where is the root,  it is coming from acually where,

closer than I would think, The source I found here
It is in our own minds, the violence-generator is there,

the complaints we have the grievances that we have carried,
the envy, the hate, the anger that lies alive but buried,

the rigidity, the self rightneouses makes us so blind,
that among every other, only evils is what we find,

soon we have some grouse, with everyone we know,
with everyone we recall, some negative thought start to flow,

Thou we know don't, but the anger and hate is very physical,
its not just emotions and memories but it stays in form of hormones and chemicals,

so all the hate, fear, envy anger that we accumulate with the age,
tranform us from the inside from a happy kid to an oldie filled with rage,

with every bit of anger that we go on gather,
from laughter, peace, happines and from life, we go a bit farther,

here is the violence that all persons accumulate,
that finally turns to fights,  battle and war as the cumulate.

to end all wars before we start to help,
we must end the violence deep inside ourself

first you forgive yoursel against all self grievance
then forgive the family before you advance

then forgive the friends, the colleagues the boss and the neighbor,
forgive them from your heart for any harm they did you ever,

we all are humans and we all do some mistakes,
to get it over with forgiveness is all it only takes,

forgive not for greatness but as a selfish deed,
to for your own happiness and peace you will do it indeed

life partner, Brothers, relatives, colleagues and neighbours
and the Daughter in law, the Mom in law when they forgive each other

with forgiveness and passion we can make our world the heaven,
improving ourselves will eliminate global violence even

i dream of the world where we all get along with each other,
peace, calm, cooperation and compassion everywhere.

Today we start, in the direction the first step we make,
forgive people in my lives, mostly for my own sake.

The greatest gift to yourself today you should give,
simply forgive forgive forgive and forgive.

Be Selfish, Forgive!

You are unhappy coz you are stressed,

you are actually stressed coz you can not sleep,

you can not sleep, coz your thoughts keep you alive at 1am,

you have thought of painful past and fearful future coz you have bad people in your life,

you have bad people in life coz you see them as evil beings and not humans. Humans who have weakness and humans who err sometimes, humans who give way to emotions and impulses and weaknesses, just like you my friend, humans who did not have somebody to teach them to be better.

you are unhappy because you have not forgiven them. Forgive them from heart. See them yourself in your mind as friends and see yourself embracing them. Forgive all beings on earth, past or present. Forgive and see your world changing to a world of friends, a happier world, guaranteed! Forgive because it is for your own happiness. Forgive beacuse it will make your heart light. Forgive to sleep soundly. Forgive to be happy. Forgive as an utmost selfish act. Tell yourself that you are not trying to be a great man but doing it as a selfish act.

Be selfish,  Forgive!

Serious, must read!

I have come across a very serious disease, in fact the most widespread. Medical science has not discovered it so far. It is affecting millions of  lives and is fatal in long run. Very few survive. This diease is "Seriousness"

Being serious today means being really 'Serious' on the day after tomorrow. A person tonight trying very hard to sleep, deep in the ocean of worries and fears at 1 a.m. , taking medicines for B.P.,Sugar, Anxiety and so on also started off as a carefree and a happy child.  Now as a very serious person, at an advanced stage of this disease, he is scolding his grandson to be quiet, not to do this that etc. What the hell, happened in between to him.
He learned to worry. His memory enlarged. Now whenver not occupied, his mind is swarmed by all those random memories, almost all negative ones. Recallings bad words and supposed bad action of friends, colleagues, neighbors, relatives, own family and so on. The list become endless, the world seems dark and full of evil people and enemies. This leads to future possibilities of harm from all sides. The wounds of past and the fears of future keep him up allnight, actually. Then the BP will rise, follwed by stress, anxiety, depression, sugar, cholestrol. Then the Physiologist, the cardiologist, the nephrologist, the psychiatrist, the whole legion of doctors  will start unloading all their armament of old and new pills on the poor guy, till the body and the mind finally give up.
The remedy was very simple and yet undiscovered, "Happiness". He should have been told to be less serious and more happy. Less brooding and more enjoying, going out, engaging with people, dumping his memories. Thinking good of people. Finding their goodness instead of digging to see their evil side. Come on we are all humans. We all want to be loved, honored, respected, recognized, to be safe. inside, we all share the same weakness, desires and fears. Forgive others for what you thought they did. Not at all attach motive to their words and action. Accept others. More friendliness and less ego.
The past never happened and the future will never come. What you have is today. Go out, be with family and friends, be woth kids, watch the sky, the moon, the stars, the trees, the flowers, feel the breeze, the grass, the running water. Be the child again!
Externalize the mind. Stop thinking, start enjoying today. 

The only medicine to this fatal disease of the "Seriousness" is the "Happiness". Why not take a pill now. It is free as well.

Intelligence ?

What is Intelligence ?

Intelligence of a mind is an Idea, a construct which we all believe to exist, yet would find very difficult to define or pinpoint.
To start with let us take one of the widely accepted definitions,
From "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" (1994),

    "A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience."

Going by the above, for an mind to be intelligent we need a mind which is not at all having a fixed or rigid approach. It should be able to see any problem or situation ideally from a 360° sweep, It should be fast, it should evolve and it should learn quickly. In short it should be flexible, it should be open.

Why does a child learn computers or smarrphone easily, which defeat all effort of many elders. Because, a child has a mind, that is relatively empty. No ideas of right and wrong, better or worse, Good or bad. A clean slate, just like a freshly formatted computer. However, With time and age, the mind gets crammed to the hilt with time, with education, teachings, preachings and social customs. Finally the mind is so rigid, one dimensional, so hard anchored to his textbooks, his beliefs, his faiths that he also looses his learning skills and adaptability.  The same child who once imagined super powers and flying trains will skoff at any new idea at his twilight end. What has happened in between ? With every concept he was taught in class and told to remember and believe, he lost some of his imagination and creativity. Learning starts from questions, why, why not, what if and so on.  Stop the questions and mind ceases to evolve. Intelligence goes south. Finally you will have a mind crammed chokeful of data, with heaps of information, a little knowledge and zero wisdom.

Who would have known Newton, Galileo, Einstein, if they had believed everything they had been told.

Knowledge comes from proofs, proofs are recived from experiments, experiments come from hypothesis, Hypothesis are born when someone starts to differ from his textbooks , from  one question!

Intelligence is adaptability, creativity, imagination, observation, experimenting and some courage, the courage to question.
To summarize, what we believe to be intelligence, which helps a man to survive, to evolve and to be successful is nothing but a fluid Mind, a mind that sees every new issue and new problem as a child would, as if seeing for the first time, with curiosity,with eagerness, with imagination, without any burden of teachings, preachings and customs and that is all it is.
So, go forth and explore, the universe is all yours!

Being right is the problem!

The biggest problem today is that everyboy thinks that he is right.
Today, there is conflict everywhere. In every home, between the husband and the wive, the Mother-in-law and the Daughter-in-law, the parents and the child, between neighbors, between colleagues at work, between the boss and the subordinate, between, between religions, between sects of the same religion, between teachers of the sect, between followers of the same teacher, enough stress and conflict is around to keep the world aflame for another thousand years. Labour-conservative, Republican-Democrats, capitalist-socialist, sociaist-Communist, Marxist-Maoist, Al qaida- Taliban, taliban- Isis, catholic-Protestant, Shia-sunni, so on and so on. The list might not be over till the world is over. In fact, what I find is that probably no two people in the whole of the world agree on everything. Everybody builts for him a completely uniqe set of believes of life and then for him it is the only set of believes that can be right because so and so and so on. Simultaneously, every other belief of the rest of the humanity is incorrect and therefore needs to be corrected by conversion or elimination and this is the root of every conflict in each home, block, town, state or nation or the entire world.
Dear friends we need to take it easy a little bit. Let us assume that while I am right, the other fellow is right too from his point of view. While I am hurt by his behavior, probably he also thinks himself a victim of my own behavior and this so often is true that one would be surprised. If i find everybody quarreling with me, it might be me who is actually quarrelsome. If I find everyone cold towards me, it might be me who actually seems cold to them.
The way back to peace, tranquility and happiness starts with toletance, with accepting that there can be more ways than one to life, success, career, happiness,  God and so on. This simple step will lead you to eradicate automatically the grudges that we hold towards almost everyone. Tolerance leads to reconciliation, which leads to acceptence, which leads to peace and harmon, which leads to Happiness.
Friends, this is the only life we got.This day hour and minute will never come again. Lets start living life here and now. Let us drop all hallucinations of being the the only right person, spread our hand to others and actually start living our lives.
I am right! You are right! We all are right in our own ways and still wrong in some other ways. Others are imperfect, but so am I and probably this is the part and parcel of being a Human. I think the great concept of Humanity can easily be summarised as "Co-acceptance, co- existence, co-operation Co- development and co-happiness"

The same is described in the ancient wisdom of this sanskrit verse.
"Sarvey Sukhina santu, sarvey santu niramayah, sarvey bhadrani pashyantu, ma kashchit dukhbhag bhavet"-
May all be happy, may all be healthy, may all percieve others in a good way, may nobody ever be sad.

And, therfore, from today, "Everyone is right!"

The Wonder of Words

"Word"

The most powerful Force, The most dangerous Weapon, the most ravishing of all beauties, the body of all creativity, the connection of love, all of this in one, and much much more, is a "Word".

It is said that the world was created from nothingness by a word of God, "Be!". 

Words are like seeds. They enter the mind, they hold the ground of the mind-space,and mind it, this is the most fertile of all grounds,of unimaginable scope. The words multiply in the mind,develop new ideas,culminate into actions and then scatter to other minds by word of mouth,written or spoken. then keep infecting and spreading for centuries and millenniums. Wonderful, it is as if the words have a life of their own, like a living microscopic organism, like a virus! As if, they are immortal and they use the minds of persons as carriers. 

Religions, Ideologies of Communism,socialism, individualism, revolutions, even the fights for freedom, most of them began with a set of words, some book, some sermon, some speech at some time. In fact, the present science, technology, philosophy all of this said to be evolved out of "Logic" as discoursed by Aristotle and Socrates. These powerful set of words, were so forceful of nature, so as to change the whole world scenario for millenia to come.

Read a novel and you find the words drawing a picture of characters and scenarios in your mind. You find the words also making you laugh, giving shocks, making you cry, playing with the strings of your emotions. The non fiction books keeping you awake at night,thinking, wondering, imagining, debating and all. A love song takes you to another time and place, a harsh word brings you to tears,a one liner splits you in laughter.A proposal of three words brings two souls together for life, a word of "Talaaq" spoken three times breaks the journey of a lifetime. 

This is the magical wonder of the "Words".

This immense power can be harnessed by us for the betterment for our lives, our families and the whole world. let us see how.

Words being so mighty forces in human relations and human issues,should be used only sparingly without pre-thought over them. A thoughtless action is called a reaction,while a thoughtful action is called a response. So, a thought is all that makes the difference, and should be used before speech,i,e, before opening the mouth, always engage the mind in gear. This, while being a well known rule is also the most violated rule in our lives, and therefore I need to reiterate. 

• Spread positivism and negate the negativism: Removing the words of Never, impossible, bad, etc from language and our mind. Replace them by difficult, needs improvement etc. this will change your outlook and strengthen your relations. Hardly anything is really bad. Since nobody and nothing is perfect in this world, things should be seen in a relative perspective. Even a rickety stool is better than a two legged one, and a two legged stool might be better than having none at all. Let us develop this approach of seeing things in a positive way, which then will reflect in your language also.
• Instead of rejecting some idea or some proposal altogether, one should think and speak on the lines, that "the idea may be ok, however these and these  issues might come up.
• Similarly for a leader, the use of words should be of positive, deterministic, absolute, committed nature.  Use of words, such as "us", "let us", "why not" etc also make a hell lot of difference in connecting with people.
• For a negotiation of all types, which we have to undergo many times a day, with friends, with family,relatives, colleagues, staff and all the words should not be rigid and closed but open and flexible a way out and for a "win-win" situation.
• There is always a high risk of the words being spoken taken in a different meaning, a different context, a different emotion and this defeats the purpose of the communication itself and is harmful. Therefore the words should be used, while keeping the person(s) in mind and their state of mind and choice of words should be done carefully. There is a joke, where the teeth complain to the tongue that it you who makes mischief,but it is who get broken in return.In fact an old hindi proverb say, " It is your tongue that gets you the sweets, but it can also gets u beaten up."

In short, our policy should be to, "Speak less, speak good, speak with thought!" ,and that should serve the purpose. Raheem has also said," Aise Bani Boliye ,man ka aapa khoye, apna man sheetal kare, auron ko sukh hoye.",i,e, use your words always in a way to give peace and happiness to you and others.

I hope this above set of words, help you in improving your life and your world.

Goodbye disease, welcome health! -1

Jeevet Shardah Shatam, I.e. May we see a hundred winters, has been one of the greatest desire of all times. Unfortunately, not only a long life is hard to get, a disease free life is still getting a lot harder nowadays.

Fortunately, there is a way to good health. It is the natural way of the body, the mind and the life. By understanding the fundamentals of the body we can avoid the maximum inflections as well fight the rest in a lot better way.

Who fight the disease, is it the doctor or the medicine. None, it is the body itself, which starts taking care of itself with the first heartbeat in the womb.

The body has a ultra-mega-hyper-super complex machinery and systems of growth, actions, defense and repair. This system working 24/7 saves us from 99% afflictions that go unnoticed. The rest 1% get expressed in the form of sickness. Our Body gets  over 90% of them by itself. The last 10% diseases need serious medications.

I have nothing against doctors. They are mostly doing their job upto the best of their knowledge. It is the medical science itself, which is far from understanding the body as a whole, instead of in tiny bits and pieces as on date.

However, this system while being infinitely complicated, has still very few basics, which I will rightaway list underneath as,

1. Air- While it will be silly to state how no air means death, we also need to understand that less air means slow and early death. We simply do not breath enough while awake. Try to notice self and others for any movement of breathing. You will find none when no physical exertion. Shocking but true, we don't remember to breath. We spend our whole day with a very shallow breath. A short and frequent exhale with a low temperature, is a symptom of a shallow breath. When talking, working on computers or books, playing computer or mobile games are the periods with the shallowest breathing.
It is not a breath but a controlled suffocation, which causes aging, loss of memory, obesity, loss of immunity, slow recovery, a thousand diseases and an early death.

The remedy is very simply, start breathing, whenever you can. Take time outs during day. Remind yourself and start breathing. Here starts the good health.

Best frequency: an extra high breathing rate has the similar bad effect as suffocation, which is known as hyperventilation. The optimum breathing included in ancient texts and modern knowledge is 4-2-4-2, I.e. 4 second inhale, 2 second pause, 4 second exhale, 2 second pause and repeat. There are apps also available on android for this purpose. This allows not only a deep breath but the absorption of oxygen as well. Being approximately is also good enough. When one has a slow breath, 6-3-6-3 should be tried.

Best technique: sad but we forget how to breath when we start speaking. The optimum absorption is achieved by "The complete breathing technique" of yoga. Steps: start inhalation, extend stomach and push diaphragm down, after full extension of stomach, expand chest to extreme, now shoulders will start rising. When saturated, pause 1-2
seconds, now collapse stomach and them contract chest. Even 5 such breaths can rejuvenate one. Don't bother for being accurate, just do and go on doing. Vayu is pran, hence praanvayu.

The Magic of slowness!

Dheere Chalo bandhu, Dheere Chalo re,

Dheere Chalo bandhu, Dheere Chalo re,

Jab Chalo dheere Dheere, aur Dheere Dheere,

Jab kadam chalen dheere,
To badan chale dheere,
Fir saans chale dheere,
Fir nadi chale dheere,
Fir hriday chale dheere,
Fir vichar chalen dheere,
Fir Samay bhi chale dheere,

Fir dhyaan rahe achchha ,
Fir saans chale achchha ,
Fir svasthya rahe achchha ,
Fir man bhi rahe achchha,
Sansaar lage achchha,
Jeevan bhi bane achchha,
Achchha aur bhi achchha.

Bas,

Dheere Chalo bandhu, Dheere Chalo re,

Dheere Chalo bandhu, Dheere Chalo re,

The first day outside the prison!

Today is the first day i really feel alive,
almost the same as i felt when i was maybe four or five,

i have been released out of my prison today ,
after spending my whole life in a jail locked away,

it was a house of misery and pain,
outside the jail, here i find all the happiness again,

as i grew up in the jail, i knew of no other place,
the scale, the wonders of world i knew not a trace,

now i leave my fatigue, my old age back there,
as i discover the child in me here,

full of pain, anger, sorrow was it inside the jail,
as each and every misery of life resided in that hell,

do u know the jail i have been telling u about,
its the smallest ever cell, a dome of nine inch about,

friends, its our own mind and nowhere else,
and we life the whole life trapped in our own mind space,

of the life we dont see the beauty or the wonder,
as inside the mind we keep counting every fault and every blunder,

do you know where to find the sorrow of any sort,
yes no where else only inside the mind's fort,

all fears of future, all the sorrow in the past
they live and multiply in our mind till the life itself last,

chained by your thought and held by fears as bars,
can u recall the last time you ever saw the sky or the stars,

to find happiness and to live you must realize,
stop brooding and brooding, let your awareness externalize,

see the trees, the butterfly, the moon and sun,
be the child again and start having fun,

children by nature are highly aware,
thats what keep them smiling everywhere,

a soldier, a singer, a surgeon, a racer or a player,
losing awareness can finish them,right then and there,

All happiness and every sucess, material or otherwise,
are outside the mind, dear, step out and externalize!

The Jouney of the Soul!

5x1 then 1x5,
Again
5x1 then 1x5,
5x1 then 1x5
........................

Till,
3rd I cn C
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10000000000000000000= 1

How to be Sad and Miserable!

The shortest way to be sad, miserable, angry, disaatisfied, depressed, melancholy and poor health:

1. Trust no one. Doubt the motive behind every action and every word of every friend, relative or everyone.

2. Have a very good memory. Remember very clearly every sad moment, each loss, each defeat and every painful moment. Remember every hurting action and word of every one very clearly.

3. Have an utmost negative, pessimistic, and hopeless outlook of future.

4. Be very rigid in your beliefs and believe only your beliefs, thoughts and way of life to be true and right.

5. Always justify your action to be flawless and question the motive of others, when in contradiction.

6. Never extend the first step in relationships. Only react as per your perception of others actions.

7. Never Forgive, never forget.

The way to Bliss:
Simply do none of the above!

Equillibirium

Balance is the key word. The gate to perfect life.

Equillibirium between extremes of,

1. Obsession and Renunciation,
2. Expenditures and savings,
3. Plannings and actions,
4. Isolation and Interactions,
5. Pleasure and pain,
6. Impulses and thoughts,
7. Rigid beliefs and no beliefs,
8. For children, Excess Love and excess strictness,
9. Excess physical activity and excess mental activity,
10. Excess attchemnt and excess detachment.

And when one finds himself in such a balance, then actually he starts to finds himself!

Enlightenment!

Way to the Enlightment:

1.Closing the one and opening the two & Closing the two to open the Third
2. Closing the five and open the sixth,
3. Silencing the one and listening to 100 Billion,
Finally,
4. Silencing the 100 Billion to hear the One!

Hardly I lived!

Here I lie on my deathbed n my life I  review ,
The End of the life gives you a nice birds eye view,

I had a long life, I am aged seven sevnty,
Still i cant recall a day, when I had time plenty,

From my days as a child, my days of school,
Thought only the big ones had fun, I was a fool,

As I joined the college, my goal was a career,
For years and years, I worked hard as much i could bear,

I joined a job and soon I had married,
Here was some years I was not harried,

Then I joined the race, the race that
Led me to deathbed,
Money, power, respect and to be always ahead,

It was to be a 'Have', and not to be a 'Have not',
This was the real game, but see it I did not,

The best car, the best villa, the best suit, the best gadget,
I burned my life for them, now can only regret,

Now it looks as if the years went in a flash,
My health, my youth, with them I was very rash,

Now though i have stacked property of many a million,
Time, I need most, alas that I have none,

Doctors say I may live months four or five,
You fools, my worries and attachemnts do only keep me alive,

It may all go waste, what all I  had achieve,
Others will soon blow it for fun, I can only now grieve,

Overtimes, weekends, holidays I burnt for carreer,
I made injustice to those I held dear,

My family they missed me on many an evenings,
Just as I miss them, I can feel their yearnings,

Time the only treasure, as a fool I threw away,
Millions that I have, now can't buy me even one more day,

I was young, could enjoy, could dance laugh n sing a lot,
That was my life, the life live i did not,

Family and friends, hobbies and passions,
Weekends, holidays, going on vacations,

These were the days, only worth a counting,
The race ate up the rest, the huge loss is now haunting,

Life is made of years, years made of many such a day,
So Only way to enjoy life, is to enjoy 'Today'.

If only I knew and lived so, now I would not have repented,
Could have been happy a lot more, by being just a little bit contented,

Time and youth, health once lost no one can regain,
Are the real tresures of life, that dont ever come again.

Life would be like pardise, if I knew it before,
Life is the only thing, worth ever living for,
Today is the day, worth ever living for.

एक

एक,
एक दो, दो एक,
एक तीन, तीन एक,
एक छत्तीस कोटी, छत्तीस कोटी एक,
एक छह अरब, छह अरब एक,
एक अनन्त, अनन्त एक
एक आदि, अन्त एक
एक बस एक बस एक । ।

The Real El dorado!

The expedition to locate and unearth the greatest treasure in all world will be very long and very very difficult. After many sleepless nights it will lead to some great revelations and the trail, after passing through all over the world,will finally end at your own doorstep!

शुद्ध विचार शुद्ध कर्म सुखी जीवन ।

पहला  माने तारो और ग्रहों की चाल,
दूजा  माने की हाथ लकीरों में है भाग का हाल,

तीजा करे तीरथ चौथा करे दान,
पंजा खोजे जंतर, तंत्र , मंतर में निदान,

छठा  माने शुक्कर, सात माने मंगल,
 आठ माने शगुन नहीं तो बड़ा अमंगल,

नौ करे जग, दस करे बिसेस पूजा,
गारह कहे मेरे गुरु सा कोइ न दूजा,

बारह बदले आपन नाम, तेरह बदले खिड़की द्वार,
 चौदह बने बैसनब जब न कैसे भी हो उद्धार,

 पंद्रह बांटे तिल तेल,  सोलह बांटे पिली राइ,
 कोइ न जाने कुछ भी बांटे से न मिटती भाग लिखाई,

करम के फल से कौन बचे हैं, कौन बचेंगे,
देव, नर, प्राणी, करम फल तो सब भोगेंगे,
  
जब बस तेरे कर्मो का  फल ही है तू पाता,
 फिर क्यूँ न अच्छे कर्मों से तू जोड़े नाता,

करम करे जो, फल पाये सो, प्रभु बचन है गीता में,
सत्य यही है मान ले बंधू, फिर मन काहे को चिंता में,

तृष्णा, द्वेष, मोह, भय, चिंता और हंकार, 
बुरे करम व् दुखी जीवन के बस इतने  हैं द्वार ,

ना  कर  चिंता, भय, डर , ना करना मन को निरास ,
 सुद्ध बिचार से सुद्ध करम कर, कर ले प्रभु में बिस्वास,

सार यही है , बोध यही है, सब ग्रंथों में बस इतना ही ज्ञान,
बस अच्छे कर्म से ही सुखी जीवन का है विधान ,

 छोड़ उपाय सब, मान यही बस, कर ले बस इतना नियम,
'सुद्ध बिचार- सुद्ध करम',  'सुद्ध बिचार- सुद्ध करम',
'सुद्ध बिचार- सुद्ध करम' , 'सुद्ध बिचार- सुद्ध करम'

Saving Money and Spending Life?

Money Money Money!
There is no other thing that occupies so much space in our Life.

In fact from the childhood to adulthood itself, we learn the importance of money everyday.
By the time we grow up, we think money as the most important purpose of life. We think Money will buy be Joy, peace, security, power, respect, Health even friends and family. That is why in most of our calculations money is the most deciding factor.
We tend to make mostly that choice which maximizes money in short, medium or long term, if the choice is approved by society, peer groups, law etc.

This is the "Maxima and Minima" of money in making choices. These choices start from which school we attend, what studies we take, what carreer we take, what job we take, whose friendship or social circle we aspire for, sometimes, whom we marry, who is friend and who is enemy et cetera et cetera.

In short it is the money that makes most of our choices and it is the money that runs our lives.

There is a fable of a wood cutter who lived in his small hut near a forest. He earned just enough to maintain his family. He was poor but did not complain and took life as it came.
One day, in the forest, as he selected a large and very old tree and lifted his axe to make his first hit, a 'Yaksha' appeared. The yaksha requested to the wood cutter to spare the tree, which was his home. The wood cutter replied that he had to fell this tree to buy food for his family. Then the Yaksha promised to give him a horde of Gold, of seven Urns. When the wood cutter returned home he was euphoric to find the seven urns full of Gold. One moment, one of the urns was only half full. The half urn disappointed him a bit, but not much. He spent the day in euphoria, but in the night as his excitement kept him awake, a thought crept into his mind. "If the seventh urn was also full, won't that be fabulous. Won't that make me the richest as well as the happiest." By the time he left his bed in the morning his mind was made. He would fill the seventh urn also. Buy working just a bit more and spending a bit less he planned to accomplish it. It was a matter of 2-3 months he thought.
He started going to forest half an early and returning half an hour later. It was exhausting, but just a few more days. He kept his spirit up for a few weeks, till he realized that level of gold had not increased much. "Ok!" he thought, " A bit of economizing and a bit more slogging is needed." He further increased his hours and rationed his food. It went on for a couple of months. He had to gradually increase his log again and again. He was still not getting any where. The magical urn was still not full.
One day as he bent down on a stream to drink water,  he was shocked to see his own reflection. He saw himself  aged, frail and sad. He was way off worse than he was before he found the urns. There was sadness and quarrel in the family too. It dawned on him that the chase of gold had destroyed his life altogether. He went back to the Yaksha who agreed to take his 'Boon' back.
His old life was back. Now he had less, only, he was enjoying it more.

Money is neither everything nor is money nothing. Money, as we should recall, is just a mode of exchange for goods that we need or want such as food money, clothes, comfort etc. Without its value as exchange, a kilogram of Dollars has the same value as a kilograms of old newspapers.

In transaction money can become everything available in the market, yet without transaction money is nothing. So, if  I am working day or night for an huge amount of money, which is way beyond my needs and requirements, which would remain un-exchanged at the end, perhaps I am making a Big mistake!

If Life is like a home than Money is the fuel that keeps the appliances of the home running. No fuel, no electricity, no appliance, no food or clean cloths or hot or cold air, or entertainment. Therefore money is absolutely essential to keep the home from coming to a standstill.

On the other hand, how much fuel you actually are going to need. You need the fuel to run the house lifelong, you need a bit more for contingencies also, yet can you afford to spend all your capital (time in this case) into fuel for the generator and have nothing left to buy any appliance or actual needs like food or cloths etc.
Also would like to convert all your capital into fuel only. Would you like to keep a million gallons in your storage and worrying about its safety and security or whether it would evaporate and therefore keep continuous adding up.
Just like for a household a million gallons are not a requirement but a burden, same is a billion rupee bank balance. Which car needs a thousand liter petrol tank in a car. The car will be constantly burning fuel, only to carry the excess fuel.
We need money to maintain life, yet why spend the life earning and accumulating money, till you have no life left to maintain, only money left.

It is better to have money for a decent life, a bit more for contingencies and then divert the time we have to ourselves, our own health, our own family, our own friends, our own comfort, our own peace and happiness.

Maintain your liquidity. Like a hill station, In life also, The journey is meant to be much much more enjoyable than the destination.

 The Time is the actual asset in our life, which depletes constantly and is irreplaceable even for the King of the earth. We earn money only by giving our time. Time is the youth, time is the age, time is the seconds, minutes and hours that add up to our life.
Family is the tree that should be nurtured with time and money.
Health is the actual property which should be cared for and protected with time and money. We learn this very late and then we have to we spend all the money we have accumulated to purchase health, the same money for which we earlier spent all our time and health.
We spend our millions in old age, just to give our aged and frail bodies a few more days to live, while when we had youth, we spent all of it and countless days to accumulate money.

Ask a man on a death bed, does his money give him health, life, time or happiness. No, it only gave him worries. Who will capture and waste my money, which I accumulated through my lifetime of misery, suffering and effort. I suffered and they will enjoy. Oh my money!

So Health for Money, and then Money for Health, funny ain't it!

So friends, earn money and save money, but save time also, time is the actual treasure. Spend your days wisely, to enjoy, to love and to be loved, to be at peace and to be happy. To care and to be cared. For self, family and friends. Live and Love your life. Enjoy today, it wont come back. See the sunset and sunrise, the rainbow, the chirping of birds and the flowers. The laughter of the child and the smile of the life partner and love of the parents.

Don't Save money and spend Life. Save Life and spend Money instead. Enjoy

Lost and Found!

Losing the self and finding oneself!