A Talk with Almighty

Sitting despair on the porch He was near the End…

The Almighty was on a stroll only to find Him Cluttered…

Ignoring The Lord seemed to Him as a mean to surpass the Fate…

Smiling at His agony The Divine made the way near the Gate…

Him: At last you are here to take me away (and the anger had its way out)…

Lord: Calm down my Son, need not worry until I have your acceptance (a gentle pat on the head)...

Him: Are you mad to ask me the same and take me to the place where I have never been (unable to understand the purpose)…

Lord: Were you here ever before the day I sent you, and that day too you cried (understanding the nature within)…

Him: Because you threw me away from your own closet, and now you want me to be taken aback…

Lord: They were ready to accept you then, and now the rejection is on the upsurge, I cannot see you like that…

Him: It is the part and parcel of life, which you have only created, but, now I be love them the most…

Lord: You are my instrument to spread the word of Values; Ideals; and Wisdom to the mankind…

Interrupting the Lord

Him: Still you want me away from the one where I have my own purpose created by you…

Lord: Shall I complete my Son, you have worn out in the way of making people learn and I need to overhaul you for the same…

Him: Do it right away, and I will be back on my mission…

Lord: I can sympathize with you, but, you are old and they need always new to learn…

Him: It means you will change me…

Lord: No my Son, the flesh has rotten and it needs to be pulled off, but, the soul is intact inside the frame…

Will give you the new skin, but, with your own self beneath, to be on the mission again…

Him: What if, till then others lose out the purpose of living…

Lord: Are you confident enough of your teachings, then that won’t be the case…

Your heart is meant to stop, but, not your Wisdom… Let the thought prevail and you be remembered for a long way, until you come again with a renewed passion and you would never know you will be praising your own self along with others for the deeds in the past…

You have ingrained your soul in hundreds of them, and let them carry forward the goal…

A day will come when their flesh will rot and till the time, you will be in the charge again…

The life is meant to enjoy at fullest with a purpose and you have completed the same early, for which I am proud of, as you can work upon new things quicker than others, as and when you are back…

Him: Is it true that I would be back…

Lord: Trust me Son, your soul is needed here, and I just want you to be in a renewed frame…

I want this creation of mine to sustain for a long time, and that is why I created you to be into Start – End mode, but, not the creation itself…

I again repeat: Let the Values; Ideals; and Wisdom prevail for each and every one to understand the purpose of this creation and make it always as a Happy; Healthy; and Evolving destination for the innumerable soul created right there up above…

Shall we then make the way my Son…

Him: I am here Almighty at the Gate…

As I have already submitted the Fate…

Sitting despair on the porch others witnessed His End…

He was all smiles for now the secret being known…

As He will be back soon with a renewed frame only to sustain the Creation He loved…

P.S:

Sharing a recent incident happened with me, to think upon our Intellectual Abilities rewarded with Degree:

I was travelling back from office in company’s bus… Roads were crowded as usual… At one of the cross road, when our bus was waiting for its turn to go ahead, I noticed something unusual…

An elderly couple was trying to cross the road from the half way, but, due to traffic found it difficult… Literates in terms of Degree like: Men, Women, Youngsters, and Couples, were in hurry on their respective vehicles to reach their desired places early… When, a person of age around 50, looking like a construction worker, seemingly illiterate in terms of degree, did his bit in helping the elderly couple to cross the road…

My heart saluted the illiterate and felt ashamed of knowledge we get in our aesthetically designed course curriculum…

I got my turn the same evening, when I was able to help an elderly uncle to cross the road, where situation was the same in my neighborhood… Then only I realized being worth Literate of Course Curriculum called: Life…

Take care and have a nice time…

What to Follow

It has always been my passion to see myself: Standing in front of crowd, giving them a talk about: Right and Wrong of Life (Though everyone else is aware of the same better than me); Management Ideas to keep the System Sustainable and Progressive at the same time (This is something most Simple and a salt of common sense is required).

I do visualize sometimes: Having loads of followers and they cheering/applauding for each and every word of what I say from the stage. Sounds like a dreamy affair :)

Way back, when I started this blog on 2^nd June, 2010, I really never expected to have 61 followers. Did create Facebook page, but, in terms of future prospects, and it got around 41 people known to me liking the same.

Sometimes, I do feel proud about the same, though there are millions of Blogs and Facebook Pages, which have Fan Following and Likes uncountable, and the reality is: I don’t stand anywhere in the crowd, let then my dream of standing in front of the crowd.

But, at the same time, a question arises at the threshold of my brain and it pops up: Does mere listening/applauding to someone’s talk or appreciating someone’s work make you a follower of the same, or is it walking on the same path as of your role model, which in true sense makes you a committed student of his/her.

Now, again don’t misunderstand the concept of: Walking on the same path. Most of you must be having your role model as: Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, or someone else. But, it doesn’t apply that you should take up your career as: Acting or Sports, etc.

Rather it would mean, to perceive the passion of fighting back from dire circumstances of life, slowly, but, diligently, as most of our role models (including the 2 listed above) have done in their life, be then that related to personal or professional trauma.

A talk on this title had seeds sown, during the recent drive of ‘Anna Hazare against Corruption in India’. As they say: ‘Charity begins at home’, the first person to receive criticism on the concept of ‘Followers/Likes’ from me was my father only.

Now, my father is a 55 year old person, who has fought his own battle through lows of life and who better than his son would be a witness for the same. He has always kept pace with modern times and is ardent user of Social Networking sites for spreading of ‘Philosophical Messages/Criticism of Government Policies’ etc.

One fine day, I just checked out him visiting the Facebook Page of ‘Anna Hazare’ and ‘Quit Corruption India’, and while this was happening with lakhs of supporters of the grand old man fighting for the noble cause of the country, I gave it a thought.

Does Liking the Facebook Page/Follower of Blogs, in relation to or by your role model, make you a person of Integrity, and Character as same as of your role model? How can you guarantee a person pressing Like button on Facebook, is not indulging him/herself in corrupt practices in his/her real life. Also I don’t want to criticize the person for his/her past deeds of corruption, as it is always good to start at some point of your life, but, are these people or so called followers were/are following the same path, which Anna was/is asking the Government of India to follow. I want to question the same to all of those who did the same by just Liking that Networking Site’s Page or certain Blog on the topic or even to them who participated in huge rallies conducted across India.

I am not against the usage of Social Networking Sites for spreading messages, which I am also using nearly from last 1 and half year period, but, I am against the mentality which is driving us today. At the end of every day I like to question myself, if I have followed what I have written in my Blog.

‘Gandhigiri’ doesn’t mean just having a Wall Paper/Wall Portrait of Father of Nation in our home or office, but, to follow the path of Truth in each and every act and word of our life.

As rightly quoted in one of the Scenes of: Lage Raho Munnabhai:

“Woh naujawan ke haath main patthar dene ka, aur bolne ka ke bapu ka full putla gira do… Yeh full country main bapu ka jitna bhi putla hain na, sab ko gira do… Bapu ki jitni bhi tasveer diwar pe latkeli hain na, sab ko hata do… Woh kya hain ke har building, note, board, road se bapu ka naam nikal do… Agar bapu ko rakhne ka hich hain, toh apne dil main rakho na… Samjha kya idhar rakhna mangta heart main heart main… Arey kya nahi kiya usne apun ke liye, jail gaya, fasting kiya, ek dhoti pehen ke akhey country ka round mara, goli bhi khaya idhar idhar… Aur apun ne uske liye kya kiya, ek tasveer banakar diwar pe latka diya, aur uske niche aaram se rishvat leta hain”

While reading one of the posts on HBR (Harvard Business Review) Blog, I came across a recent article, which was written after tragic death of the legend Steve Jobs. I would sincerely recommend all of you to go through that post once, and you would then only be able to appreciate the thinking which I am trying to imbibe in your mind.

Link: http://blogs.hbr.org/hbreditors/2011/10/on_dr_ralph_steinman_and_steve.html

In the post, there is one particular paragraph, which captures the essence of that article and most probably of this one also, which goes like this:

And somehow, Dr. Steinman is not someone we’d choose. Maybe this says more about the perfunctory* nature of social media and its ability to create an echo chamber of thoughtless attempts to be part of the conversation. What does it cost me, really to click like, or swap out a picture, or link to a YouTube video, or profess to the world that a phone has fundamentally changed my existence?

(*The word Perfunctory means: Unthinking)

What We Do?

Place: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Match: India vs Australia

Brad Hogg took Sachin Tendulkar's wicket. At the end of the match Hogg gave that ball to "Sachin" for autograph. "Sachin" signed it with one beautiful sentence: "It will never happen again".

Till this second Hogg could not take his wicket for the second time. After this incident Brad Hogg and Sachin Tendulkar came face to face 21 times. But, he could never get the Master Blaster out.

This is how the status update of one of my connection on Linkedin looked like after the World Cup 2011 Quarter Final Match between: India and Australia.

A brief thought on this gave me a chance to interact with all of you on the title for this post.

Now, how can Sachin Tendulkar or for that matter Brad Hogg be related to: What We Do in our life. But, it is not just about our doing, but, also largely related to our behavior in this society.

Just think about it: Little Master signs a ball with a sentence and he gives his perfect to stick to whatever he had written on that ball.

This news or update might not be holding any truth (I didn’t even try to check about the same), but, at the same time we can just look at the career graph of Master Blaster and indeed he is an example of: Practice makes Man Perfect.

Now, ask yourself a question which forms a title for this post. I asked myself the same and came up with an interesting analysis of human behavior.

Take up an example:

2 friends: A and B. They are fast friends, let say from Graduation days. Now, comes the most hurtful day ever of any graduation student. In a day everything is finished after final examination. Each of them gets on to a different route in search of a destiny. Promises are made: Keep in touch, Stay in contact.

For next 6 months or say 1 year, the contact is kept, but, slowly the link starts weakening itself. A kind of Self Respect gets initiated in each of them which say: Why should I contact, and the count of: Who contacted first to the other one, starts.

Reading this might seem silly to each one of you, but, do agree with this: It happens or is it that we let it happen? Why we expect the other front to contact us at the first place, if we are only not ready to initiate?

There is a saying: Have new friends, but, not at the cost of old ones.

A proverb in hindi: Pyaar karna aasan hota hain, par usey nibhana bahut mushkil.

Sachin did love cricket, but, he didn’t stop at that. He did give everything to the game for last 22 years and is still striving hard to do the same.

Why it happens then with all of us: To make love with friends at the first place and at the time when we are supposed to give justice to the bond made, we just drop off the responsibility.

Again whatever I am saying herein is not applicable only to: Love or Relationships. Look at anything and you would find out that everything under the sun is bound with this.

When was the last time, you gave your perfect to something which was supposed to be done in a team, and didn’t crib about the partner involved in doing it with you?

We always ask someone else to be perfect, but, what about you being perfect at the first place. Do we ever ask our self a question before cribbing about someone: Have we given in our best to the job being done?

I would love to quote herein Peter F Drucker (Father of Management) from his article on “How to Make People Decisions” for HBR (Harvard Business Review) July – August, 1985 edition:

‘If I put a person into a job and he or she does not perform, I have made a mistake. I have no business blaming that person’.

This is my personal favorite, guiding me to try it hard each and every other day of life to be good, I don’t know how much successful I am in this, but, it is never bad to give it in a try.

The quote of Drucker is for professional life. Think of the same in your personal life in a different perspective: If you are not in contact of your very dear friend, for say last 5 years, then: Who is at fault?

I agree other side is at fault, but, at the same time we are also equal shareholder of the wrong done and not the only one side has to be held responsible. But, at the end of the day, it is very easy to crib about someone’s imperfection, than to introspect our own doing.

We can have numerous examples like Little Master, wherein, the commitment to something is not just for the sake of it, but, the responsibility is also carried upon shoulder.

To make it simpler and sound better the title of this post, let me describe you in brief: Want and Need.

Would like to point out the ‘Wants’ of human life, and it never has a red signal to it. A human being is always looking in for:

Good Parents; Good Relatives; Good Friends; Good Education; Good Job; Good Life Partner; Good Children; Good Government; Good System; Good Life and at last, we are so greedy that we want A Good Death also.

Now, how about thinking the other way round, or do we ever give it a try about the Need for us to be:

Good Child; Good Relative to someone; Good Friend of someone; Good Student; Good Employee; Good Life Partner of someone; Good Parent; Good Citizen; Being Good to our own Life and Death also.

As it is not in our control regards to, how one should behave with us, but, at least our own behavior should 

be in control of us.

Would like to share with you a story, by which I am very impressed, and will feel really blessed if someday in my life, I would be able to behave the same. This was narrated by: Prof. Ankita Batla, during one of our MBA Lectures in last trimester, for subject: Managing Mind, Body, and Soul.

A child, (we will call him: Ram), was very much fond of sweets, and used to munch upon them twice or thrice in a day. Ram’s mother was worried due to his habit, and always made an effort that he should be able to cope with his health and there should not be any ill effects of the same on her child. But, somehow she was unable to handle Ram’s habit, and day – by – day; she started getting tensed for his health.

Ram was ardent follower of Gandhiji. So, one fine day his mother thought of sharing the anxiety of hers with Mahatma. She did the same by going with her child to Mahatma’s Ashram in Sabarmati. After listening to her, Gandhiji didn’t comment on the same and asked her to come with child the next week.

She did come with her child the very next week, but, again after listening to her same anxiety, Gandhiji asked her to come the next week. This continued for nearly 6 weeks, but, as Ram’s mother was pretty much worried about his health, she would patiently listen to Mahatma’s words and return every next week.

In 7^th week, after listening to her problem, Mahatma asked Ram to sit near him, and told him in a very calm tone: “Ram, listen to me eating too much of sweets are not good for your health, so please refrain from them as much as possible”.

Hearing this, Ram’s mother was astonished, and in an enraged tone, she asked Mahatma: “What is this, you would have said the same to him, on the very 1^st day also, when I visited you with him for the same purpose. Why you kept calling us then every week, and that too after 6^th week, so plainly asking him to stop the sweets?”

On this Gandhiji answered: “My child, I was also very much fond of sweets the day when you came here for the 1^st time. At that time, I didn’t have any right to ask Ram, to stop eating sweets, as I was also doing the same. All these 6 weeks, I refrained from having sweets, and now I am very much confident that I can be away from the same, so I have got this right now only to ask the same to Ram”.

Ram’s mother had tears in her eyes for whatever she just listened from Mahatma, and touched his feet in gratitude.

Just give it a thought after reading this real life incident of Mahatma’s life, and question ourselves: Do we really stand in terms of: Integrity, Responsibility, and Commitment anywhere near to this great persona.

I have been writing articles/poems on various topics from last around 1 and a half year, but, at the same time a sense of responsibility is shouldered upon me, which sometimes ask me: Do you also stick to whatever written in these posts. As it goes very simple in learning curve of life: Practice as you Preach.

Answer this one now: Who is the best person in this world, who can judge you on your every right/wrong behavior and who can guide you on the right path, if and only if this is done without any biasing?

I am pretty much sure, for everyone it would be they only.

So, give it a try and start introspection of your own self, than someone else, and ask every other day of your life: Is it that I learnt/preached to someone, that I am practicing right now, and you will surely go into a deep thought of: What we do?

For the Matter

He fears the Race to Success

For the Matter

He is willing to accept Failure of Ethics...

He fears the Race to Riches

For the Matter

He is willing to accept Rags of Honesty...

He fears the Race to Smile

For the Matter

He is willing to accept Tears of Innocence...

He fears the Race to Love

For the Matter

He is willing to accept Hate of Selflessness...

He fears the Race to Settle

For the Matter

He is willing to accept Sweat of Work...

He fears the Race to Life

For the Matter

He is willing to accept Fate of Death...

Still His Quest is

He never knew it would Strange...

Still His Quest is

To keep it Known...

He never knew it would Fly...

Still His Quest is

To keep it Embrace...

He never knew it would Hate...

Still His Quest is

To keep it Love...

He never knew it would Stale...

Still His Quest is

To keep it Fresh...

He never knew it would Gloom...

Still His Quest is

To keep it Glad...

He never knew it would Die...

Still His Quest is

To keep it Alive...

Sometimes....

Sometimes...

A Sweet Defeat

Defy

A Bitter Victory...

Sometimes...

An Unknown Smile

Defy

A Known Gloom...

Sometimes...

A Word of Love

Defy

An Action of Hate

Sometimes...

A Valiant Death

Defy

A Coward Life...

Sometimes...

A Moment Together

Defy

A Lifetime Separation

Sometimes...

Should We?

There is only a single truth in this world. It is applicable to everyone. The way leading to might be different. The paradise might have been full of Success, Failure. But, the agony followed is the same.

The preceding chapter is called as: Life and the inescapable Pain is: Death.

But, do ask yourself a question before giving this post a read:

What causes Death? End of Breath or End of Inner Self which happen uncountable number of times. So, if you chose the former one, you die only once. But, if the later one is your answer, then do keep on counting: The number of times you have died till now and will die in the coming future of your life.

What do you want out of your living? You want it to be a simple routine one or will it hold a substance if your existence on this planet becomes Meaningful.

A must watch movie to understand the very essence of what I am trying to quote here is: A Wednesday. I am highly impressed by the versatile act of Mr. Anupam Kher and Mr. Naseeruddin Shah. What more encourages is the theme which serves as a background for the whole plot.

I hope every one of you reading this post must have watched this movie, and to cut it short, I just want to refer few of the intriguing discussion, all of which are sensible, if we behave as human beings and do what God has gifted us with i.e.: Think.

No. 1: Aapke ghar main cockroach aata hain toh aap kya karte hain Rathod Sahab, aap usko paalte nahi marte hain.

How many problems you have in your life? Is the number on the upward trend as you progress in life or has it taken a south direction or is the number stagnant?

How many of us really like to finish off our problems at one go, and not keep on playing with them. We can make ‘The End’ of them, but, we don’t want to become a bad person in front of someone. And these human beings are called as Smart.

Would like to share with you an interesting story told by my very dear friend Mr. Bharat Pande:

In the times of Chanakya, there was a small plant in his city, which was poisonous in nature. It had also taken life of number of people residing in the vicinity, whenever they came in the contact of plant unconsciously or knowingly. Many of them tried to uproot it, but, to vain every other time a new plant with same characteristics would emerge after few days of evacuating the previous one.

This came to the knowledge of Chanakya. One fine day he went near the plant, uprooted it and poured some Curd at the place where it used to grow. Curd has some exceptional qualities and it killed the very character of the soil, where the plant used to grow. Never again a plant was seen on that place.

The root cause of the problem was Soil and not the plant. How many times in your life have you actually attacked the root cause of the problem and not the problem itself?

In our life time, a same problem arises many a number of times, but, we just think of the time being and celebrate our victory over the problem, while the root is busy breeding seeds of similar nature.

No. 2 (a): Aur tab tak marte rehenge jab tak hum in logon ko jawab dena nahi sikhenge.

No. 2 (b): Rathod sahab mujhe yakin hain ke jo train blast hue woh sirf ek terrorist activity nahi thi, woh ek bahut bada sawal tha, aur woh sawal yeh tha ke bhai hum toh tumhe isi tarah marenge, tum kya kar loge.

How many times have you given into the wrong done to you by someone, and then let it even be your parents, relatives, siblings?

The problem lies in:

(A) We understand many things in our life, because, we are bound to understand them i.e.: Understand because of Binding.

(B) And not bind ourselves to something, because, we ourselves as a human have understood something right or wrong for us i.e.: Binding because of Understanding.

Do give it a thought? What would be your preferred choice in life: (A) or (B)?

No. 3: We are resilient by force, not by choice.

How many times in your life, you have been forced to make the choices; you are having at your disposal right now? Accepting those choices must have been dramatic or even traumatic for you, but, it would have been really difficult for you to then get out of the suffering, and then be it mental or physical.

There are some pains in life which you can heal only with time, but, how many times you have been made to heal the pain sooner than later, and the sooner part landing you into a deeper trouble.

You might not accept it at once, as in Hindi, there is a proverb which goes like this: Jo hota hain woh acche ke liye hi hota hain, and we just get away with this one.

But, give it a consideration: If everything which is happening in life is good, then why not the choice, of which you were deprived of at the first place, would have been good in your life.

No. 4 (a): Galti hamari hain, hum log bahut jaldi used to ho jate hain, ek aisa hadsa hota hain toh channel badal badal ke sara majra dekh liya, sms kiya, phone kiya, shukar manaya ke hum log bach gaye, aur phir hum us situation se ladne ke bajaye uske saath adjust karna shuru kar dete hain.

No. 4 (b): Kyun mujhe us din ka intezaar karna chahiye, jab mera koi apna bewajah is tarah ki jaleel maut mare tab mera yeh kadam aapko jayaz malum hoga.

We feel the heat only when we are suffering it. How many times do we raise our voice against the wrong done with someone else?

We are least bothered with anyone else and their problems in this world. We don’t even have a common sense to understand that: If someone can feel the pain by something, then that something can also make us feel the pain some or the other time in our life.

People in Gujarat, Japan suffered the worst earth quakes of their life time. Sorry to make it sound negative, but, can everyone of you reading this post give me an assurance, that you will not be suffering such kind of trauma ever in your life.

And this I am not talking only about earth quake, but, every other possible wrong thing under the sun. Let that be then applicable to Personal or Professional Life.

No. 5: Lekin sahab yeh acceptable nahi hain, lekin koi m*******d button daba ke mere liye yeh faisla nahi karega ke mujhe kab marna hain.

I would love to write over three SMS’s which were sent to me, by two of my very dear friends:

Aditya Bakle (My Elder Brother):

The toughest task in the world is to remain as yourself, when people are constantly trying to make you someone else.

Ketan Agarwal:

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.

If we carry on the way, guided by someone else, we are sure to find a Hopeless End. Better to carry on the way, guided by ourselves, to find an Endless Hope.

I have never understood this in my life: How someone else can, then let it be the most important person of your life, take decision on your behalf for your life. Someone else is not going to live out your life, do agree with this fact.

My father always quotes me an anecdote, which goes like this:

You can take a Horse to riverside to drink water. But, you cannot force upon a Horse, the quantity of water he is willing to drink.

This is applicable to everything in life. Just consider this: We do the same education as our friends, let that be then in School, Graduation, Post Graduation, but, everyone’s life is different. Most of our parents do advice us to be away from Alcohol and Toxic substances, but, still many of us do have a habit of them, and many of us still refrain from them.

The problem lies in: Everyone is eager to share his or her experience of life with someone else, but, at the same time, a person feels that if something good or bad happens to him or her through that experience, then it will be applicable to everyone else. We are just unable to understand the difference in life’s of us and our close ones, then let the matter of relatives, friends, be kept aside.

To sum up this one, I would again like to write down a message sent by, Ketan Agarwal, and it goes like this:

Opinions are like Wrist Watches. Everyone’s watch shows different time. But, everyone believes that their time is correct.

At the end of this post, it would be appropriate then to ask ourselves a question to think upon:

Should we have an opportunity of death every other moment in our life? Or is it sufficient to be satisfied by the only one occasion provided by The Almighty.