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Two Faces of things known and unknown

Like every coin has two faces everything in this universe has its opposite. The day has night, the good has evil, success has failure and life has death. Just like the two opposing faces of a coin, opposites are just on the other side or you may say closely follow one another. Another equally striking thing about these opposites is that the other side is inevitable. You can be certain that night will change into day like life will one day be replaced by death. Death is the most certain among all happenings, in each and every thing that takes birth on earth. Whatever takes life is destined to perish in death. There are two extremely important lessons to be learnt and many of us fail to learn from death, which I would like to discuss here. These lessons, if learned and worked upon, have potential enough to transform into success any form of failure. The first thing is to realize that any problem, any challenge, any tribulation, any scarcity, any epidemic, any catastrophe, any tsu...
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FORGIVENESS I say forgive and forget. You will say ‘easier said than done’. I am the person hurt. I feel the pain. I need something to soothe the pain. I need revenge in one way or another. That’s the least I can do to ease the discomfort. The hurt will not go away unless he or she also feels the same or more pain than I feel. At the most I may say that I have forgiven, but, but forget, I will never. . . But let’s just take a moment to step back and understand why most, if not all, religious books like the Bible or a lot of text from the Buddha and many other such credible sources highlight the importance of forgiveness. We all agree on one thing and that is “everything begins and ends in the mind”. The truth is; it does and this statement requires no proof. Well, if this is the case than it goes without saying that keeping stuff life anger, hate , dislike, revenge, resentment or hostility towards anyone person , place, thing or situation will certainly do a hell of a l...
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HOPE, FAITH AND SUCCESS

I have been thinking of success and failure in terms of the different aspects of life. Recently I realised there had to be a direct connection between hope, faith and success. Listening to my minds voice I keep getting a few ideas and I just wrote down these thoughts about hope and faith a few days back. HOPE is nothing but a HEAVENLY WHISPER in your ear by an unknown entity spoken to you while you are deep in prayer and enveloped in faith. The Faith you have in yourself, faith in your abilities, faith in your dreams, and above all faith in God. This Heavenly Whisper tells you softly; so softly that you can hardly make out the words it says. It tells you to embrace OPTIMISM. It encourages your faith .It gives you the strength to smile when you feel like crying. It elevates your spirits to swim when you want to drown. It pushes you to soar up in the sky when you want to dive into the valley of despair. No sooner do you have a thread of Optimism in your breath, you begin to see a di...
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Shaping Life

Imagine a potter, a person who creates pots out of clay. Most of us have seen him at work, sitting near a potter’s wheel diligently working away, with keen interest to create in his gleaming eyes and wet clay in his hands. He takes wet clay in his hands; first he kneads it, and then beats it and finally gives it the shape of his desire. But in case you have watched the potter keenly you will notice the following: He places the wet clay on the potter’s wheel, swings the wheel around and begins to give shape to the clay. As soon as the clay starts taking shape, the potter begins to gently beat the clay from the outside the entire time holding and providing strong support from the inside. Now take this example and place it plum in the middle of your everyday life. How many times do you feel that life is too tough for you? How many times do you feel that all your efforts are blown away? How many times do you feel that life is unfair? How many time do you repeatedly try, sometimes u...
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The Most Powerful Shark In Your Tank!

Not a long time back, many people including myself, were giving examples of Tiger Woods as a champion, as a performer, as a man who kept sharpening his axe even though he had cut all the trees, as a model to be followed by one and all, as a man who could do no wrong. Numerous companies thought of him as not only a good role model but also as the best brand ambassador available and paid him many millions of dollars for promoting their brands. After the recent few months' events many things have changed specially in the world of Tiger Woods. You could safely say the Tiger has been put into the Woods. Mixed reactions came in a constant barrage from the voices that matter as well as from anybody worth his salt and every form of the media had been flush with not only new revelations but all sorts of comments and information on the Woods saga away from the greens. It would certainly be tough for any one in this situation. Now that the story has ended and the eyebrows have dropped bac...
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The power of giving…

Teaching is a noble profession. The respect and honor a teacher, a Guru receives, has no parallel in the entire history of mankind. From ancient Rishi’s to Guru’s and modern day teachers the one thing common in this profession is that a teacher is a person who always gives something to the student in particular and to society in general and they have always deserved not only the respect and the honor they get in return but much more than that. Till very recently, most of the people engaged in the profession of teaching have had to live a more or less frugal and meager life ( not that it has changed much for the majority of people in this profession) as the returns in form of financial rewards for providing one of the most vital of services on earth have been rather poor. Going back in history to the Rishi-Muni’s of Indian culture to teachers like Aristotle, Socrates, and Confucius all of them lived a very plain, simple and ordinary almost detached-from-worldly-objects sort of lifest...
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Inertia

Inertia, as you may be aware, is a tendency to do nothing or to remain in an unchanged state. Every person has to fight with inertia on numerous occasions in daily life. Suppose your car needs cleaning this weekend and somehow you just don’t feel up to it and put it off by giving some excuse, or your wife asks you to clean up your desk or book shelf or mow the lawn but you either procrastinate or give an excuse of having a backache or something else just to put it off for as long as possible. The funny thing is that finally when you do start doing the particular chore or activity you were avoiding, you actually begin to enjoy it and most of the times complete the task in the best possible way. If you start cleaning your car, you find there’s loads of dirt on the carpet and then you clean it up inside out, similarly if you do begin to start mowing down the grass in your lawn, as soon as you see some part of it after it’s been trimmed a little and feel the difference, it egg’s you on ...
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