Change the World by Changing Me

The Sufi Bayazid says this about himself:

I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was: ‘Lord, give me the energy to change the world.’  

As I approached middle age and realised that half my life was gone without my changing a single soul, I changed my prayer to: ‘Lord, give me the grace to change all those who come in contact with me. Just my family and friends, and I shall be content.’  

Now that I am an old man and my days are numbered, my one prayer is: ‘Lord, give me the grace to change myself.’ If I had prayed for this right from the start I should not have wasted my life.

 SOURCE : “THE SONG OF THE BIRD” ANTHONY DE MELLO, S.J. (ANAND: GUJARAT SAHITYA PRAKASH), 1987

Journey so far...

Became passionate believer in helping others dream big, I live by a very simple philosophy that guides my work: always work deliberately and hard, do good and disappear, in the long-run no one works with a jerk, trust but verify, and people are at their best chasing their dreams (help them do so).a love of learning, a willingness to ask questions, a desire to know what I don't know and relearn what I know incorrectly, a desire to be and do good things, and a love of others. Know yourself , Your likes, dislikes , what brings you joy. Time never comes back, enjoy the present and do not dwell on the past but flow with the present and dream about future.Know the nature and understand what it is trying to communicate to you every moment, learn to show gratitude to nature every time anything good takes place in your life and know your talent. take out time for yourself from the busy schedule or work and meditate for at-least for 10 minutes per day and make a difference in life and bring joy to life. Maybe not today,or tomorrow,or even in a year,but eventually things will turn up, you will get better and be able to look back and say with relief: "I made it."  Remember that any time is good to start, And that no time is so good to give up. Words have great power to change your life.wrong words about yourself should not become your reality of life. so choose them wisely. Finally happiness comes when you serve others without any expectations be it your friends or strangers. So don't expect anything in return from anyone just share your love unconditionally.

The story of recent times

It's all about bringing things into light those happens every now and then. A sneak peak into the new generation and there expectations with life. They cannot digest a simple fact that every day is not theirs, failure is inevitable. If such thing happens they get into deep depression following with endless misery that continues forever. Hardest moment is not that when u lose something & tears come out of your eyes,but its the one when u lose something and still you have to manage. People don't have patience to respond to the problem they keep reacting over it. Oh this is not happening ... i am in complete mess.. They are losing their capacity to accept the failure as a result several people gets frustrated and commits suicide. Now to understand this there can be many more factors pertaining to it like family expectation, peer pressure , unrealistic ambition , common human tendency to acquire things that other's have and huge generation gap causing disconnect with senior ones. As per hindu mythology whatever you achieve in life finally boils down to zero or nothing. So experience the nothingness and be happy. But this does not mean that you stop putting your efforts. So start moving your body .. try try but don't dare to cry.

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You Are The Result of Yourself

Don't blame anyone, never complain of anyone or anything
Because basically you have made of your life what you wanted.
Accept the difficulties of edifying yourself
And the worth of starting to correct your character.
The triumph of the true man arises from the ashes of his mistakes.
Never complain of your loneliness or your luck.
Face it with courage and accept it.
Somehow, they are the result of your acts and
It shows that you'll always win.
Don't feel frustrated of your own failures,
neither unload them to someone else.
Accept yourself now or you'll go on justifying yourself like a child.
Remember that any time is good to start
And that no time is so good to give up.
Don't forget that the cause of your present is your past,
As the cause of your future will be your present.
Learn from the brave, from the strong,
From who doesn't accept situations
From who will live in spite of everything.
Think less of your problems and more of your work.
Learn to arise from your pain,
And to be greater than the greatest of your obstacles.
Look at the mirror of yourself and you'll be free and strong
And you'll stop being a puppet of circumstances.
For you yourself are your destiny.
Wake up and stare at the sun in the mornings and breath the sun of dawn.
You're part of the strength of your life now,
Rise up, fight, walk, be sure and you'll win in life.
Don't ever think of 'fate'
For fate is the excuse of failures.

Religion and Us

Most of the time there is a madness associated with a religion. People hate people of other religion not because other religion is bad but because of people's very nature of individualism. People hate people of other cast, other country, or the ones which have different ideology, thoughts or status. Every person likes or dislikes things based upon his experience or self set criteria. This is not religion but people (I would not call them followers, because they are not) who hate other people. Teachings of religions are spread either by books or by its teachers. Religion as itself is inert or has no power to work on its own. Religion is a power (power of people, who say they are of this religion) like atomic energy, which can be used either for construction or for destruction. If this knowledge goes in good hands, it serves the mankind; and if it goes in wrong hands, it spreads communal violence and hatred. This world was created with 'interdependence'. Nobody can survive on its own. And for maintaining harmony in daily life, people must learn to live with interdependence. Removal of people of different thoughts is simply not possible and will never happen. Mind is provided for thinking in either direction; upward or downward. Due to diversity and versatility of the world, climate, culture, race and nature etc, one size can never fit all. One University can not teach every student on earth. One mother can not give birth to every child on this planet. Whole world can not claim one place and so is true with one religion. Religions were taught/preached/spread keeping the audience and society in mind. Change is the nature of the world and if it stops changing, it will destroy itself. World still existed before the existence of any religion existing today. People were still there and so was the nature, climate etc. It can easily be concluded that this world can run without religion but religion can not run without the world. No religion is bad and it can never be.

Religion somewhat finds us through our parents. Most of us don’t choose our religion; but inherit it from our parents. We start believing whatever is told to us. And we never think of questioning it; either we are not allowed to or we don’t care about it. Questioning something is not abusing as long as it is put in right direction. It will help finding out true teachings of a religion. Regardless of efforts, over the period of time, impurities are mixed in everything. Languages, which were present in earlier times, are now obsolete. Even current languages are changing at a rapid pace. So is true with everything we see or speak. We enquire a lot about everything in life but, for religion, we follow whatever is told to us. Most of the time we inherit or follow rituals, hatred, good feelings, bad feelings about others told to us. Though reinventing wheel is not recommended, yet mind is not given just for assuming everything told. Understanding a religion by reading holy book(s) is limited to ones capability of understanding of such an intense & deep subject. Every student of a class is taught by same teacher and reads same books but exam results are not same. Similarly understanding of a religion of it's followers (practicing and non-practicing) can never be same. That is why there is so much madness and so many mad followers of every religion. Some are mad due to their understanding (very little knowledge) and some are intentionally mad for their individual gain. Difference in understanding will happen when we talk about something which can be understood only by experience. There are millions of colors in the world. For true appreciation of a color one has to see it. Reading only will never help. And it is foolishness fighting over description of a color, which is explained in a book using some text. That's what is happening in this world today.

What is the aim of our life and what is the aim of a religion? Aim of a religion is not to spread itself all over the world, but to make this world a better place and make it's followers life a better life. Making other's life hell is impurity and not part of teachings of any religion. Thoughts, like this, are preached for the benefit of the preacher (past or present) and are not suggested or promoted by a religion, because religion itself is inert. Aim of our life is something we have to find out.

Just getting admission in kindergarten does not make you a holder of Ph.D. degree. Obtaining a Ph.D. takes around 21 years when everything goes right. By just getting admission in a school will not promote you to higher classes. You will have to work in that direction to make yourself eligible for higher classes. A college peon is always a peon; though he belongs to
that school, but he does not study for lifting his education level. You were assigned a religion at your birth; it is your job to get a Ph.D. in it or just stay, wherever you are today, performing some rituals told by your elders. Developing an understanding of a subject will take a while i.e. years and it can take your whole life when you talk about something which is beyond explanation and vision. You have got the life and opportunity to either use it or loose it. Body is yours but you are not the body. So run the body the way you want. You are master of it not the slave.

Worth reading this story

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades.
So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger
and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh.
The Japanese did not like the taste. To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats.
They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers
allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the
Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So fishing companies installed fish tanks.
They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks,fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost theirfresh-fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish.
So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan? If you were consulting the fish industry,what would you recommend?
How Japanese Fish Stay Fresh: To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish are challenged. Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most ofthe time tired & dull, so we need a Shark in our life to keep us awake and moving? Basically in our lives Sharks are new challenges
to keep us active and taste better.....

The more intelligent, persistent and competent you are, the more you enjoy a challenge. If your challenges are the correct size, and if you are steadily conquering those challenges, you are Conqueror. You think of your challenges and get energized. You are excited to try new solutions.
You have fun.

You are alive!

A thought went up...

A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish,--some way back,
I could not fix the year,

Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor definitely what it was,
Have I the art to say.

But somewhere in my soul, I know
I've met the thing before;
It just reminded me--'t was all--
And came my way no more.

by--Emily Dickinson

What Did I Do Wrong . . .

We were so close together
Now so far apart
What happened in between
I can only feel in my heart

I wish you were here
To talk with me today
But I can't give a call
My body won't obey

Things seemed to be so perfect
Now they seem so wrong
I don't feel as though I know you
Where has our friendship gone

You used to be able to talk with me
About everything you felt
Now I feel I'm a stranger
My heart is starting to melt

We always used to talk
Until the middle of the night
I don't know what we talked about
But never once in a fight

I need you in my life
I need you as a friend
I need to laugh and cry with you
Forever 'till the end

I still don't know what has happened
Our friendship has lasted so long
But I can't help from wondering
What did I do wrong . . ?



Poem by - Nimmika

thought

On Friendship

This a chapter taken from Gibran's
famous book The PROPHET


And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

by Kahlil Gibran

Life Still Has A Meaning

If there is a future there is time for mending-
Time to see your troubles coming to an ending.
Life is never hopeless however great your sorrow-
If you're looking forward to a new tomorrow.
If there is time for wishing then there is time for hoping-
When through doubt and darkness you are blindly groping.
Though the heart be heavy and hurt you may be feeling-
If there is time for praying there is time for healing.

So if through your window there is a new day breaking-
Thank God for the promise, though mind and soul be aching,
If with harvest over there is grain enough for gleaning-
There is a new tomorrow and life still has meaning.