GOD

I have bee naccused throughout my life from anyone and everyone around me for being an atheist. Why? I do not know, Don't I even have the right to decide whether to pray or not. Actually there are so many things that I have never understood and why people blindly follows them without applying their brain. it is not the case that if something is there for centuries then it is going to be correct.
For example, Its been said that God is everywhere then why we only bow our heads only in front of idols in temples(I am ready to bow my head in front of the pig's shit also because God also resides in that(According to our Holy books, everywhere means everywhere naa)).
In Islam, They say that God is delighted and will fulfill your wish if you sacrifice bulls, Do you honestly believe it is the case or just doing it because your parents are doing it, How can one be happy when his Own creation is being destroyed.
I have always tried to encourage people to do more work instead of wasting time in rigorous religious activities, If they concentrate and show the same amount of dediction in Hard Work then they are bound to be successful, Just sitting and praying is Going to lead you nowhere.
"God helps those who helps themselves."You need to work hard if you believe God exists, that is the only way to make Him Happy.
My only God is my work. So I just want to say that blindly following any religion or ritual, first analyze it carefully, whether it is ethical or just some nonsense through your own eyes.
Swami Vivekananda said that It is better to be a hardcore atheist than to be follower of religion only from outside without embracing it from the inside.

I would like to end my todays post with the following statement "Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle. Khuda bande se ye poche bata teri raza kia hai."
For some days I will not be able to post as I am going home To enjoy the Holi.
see you after ten days, Till then "HAPPY HOLI"

Controlling Your Mind

Well the most difficult thing in the world is to "Control your thoughts as far as I know."A person who can control his thoughts reaches the state of infinite Intelligence because now nothing in the world can trouble him and He is above all.
such persons are worshipped.
For example, Jesus Christ in my view was nothing more than a common man except that he has contro lover what he thinks. He did not thought anything that he should'nt and that is the reason why he is worshipped. Mother Teresa controlled her thoughts and rose above material possessions of the world so that she can do a great service to the human world.

Everyone respects the person who have full control over his mind, sooner or later.

But the question arises how can we control our thoughts. No scientist can give the answer to this question because it is not the thing that is visible, it is in the inner being of the human world. Well i am a no philosopher but Whatever I write are direct from my heart, so i feel that we can control our thought by regularly following these practises:

1. First try to make a list of all thoughts that are coming to your mind.
2. Out of those select those thoughts that you believe should not arise in your mind, then from the next day if any of those arises just try to replace it with a better thought.
3. Keep on practising it and I know there is a good chance that slowly n slowly you will have a full control over your thoughts.
Just remember one thing that it is very easy to let your mind gets affected by Negative thoughts, our mind is much more prone to it, and it requires a great effort to always have proper thoughts in your mind, For this Always try autosuggestion(A practise where you ask yourselves whether you are on the right track or not).
In my view these are some of the thoughts that you should not allow at any cost to enter in your mind
Fear, Jealousy, Hatred, Revenge, Greed, superstiton, Anger,Worry.

Faith and fear are poor bedfellows, where one exists other cannot.

Failure

I was talking to one of my friends, suddenly he said to me that "Ankit yaar, I have failed in my life."
His statement let me in thinking state. I was wondering that at the age of 23 how can he comment that he has failed in life that he has failed when still there are at least 40 years more in his life.
What is failure, Well In our dictionary there should be no word as failure,
Sachin Tendulkar in an interview said that there is nothing wrong in getting out at 0 because it teaches me more than when I makes a century, so just take every unsuccesful unattempt as a chance to learn. The key to success is persisitence.
You don't believe me, Then you should just once look at Edison, He has actually failed ten thousand times before making the greatest discovery of modern age(Light). When he was asked about this, he very lightly commented, I am the most knowledgeable person in the world because I know ten thousand ways ny which Light cannot be made, is there anyone else with such a great knowledge??

Sorry do not get me wrong , I am not saying that failing is a good thing and should always try to Fail in life, i only mean to say that Give your best at each shot and if things dont turn out as expected, then see how can you improve the process. After all a mistake is only a mistake if it gets repeated.
So, failure is only a state of mind and nothing more than that. You have not failed until you have quit trying, The only mistake we do that we see failure from other's people view, not from our perspective. others say, You have failed, We start to think that yes we have failed.
So evrytime you are not successful, think of it as oppurtunity provided to You by GOD to learn more and more so that you are successful in future and rise to great heights that others can only dream off.
Well in the end I would only like to comment(I have to go as now the time of my class has come)
"A person who says he has not failed in Life menas to say that he has never tried anything new in his life."

EDUCATION

I have always wondered throughout my life. What is real education?
and honestly speaking, I think it is a very tough question to answer, far difficult than my all engineering assignments.
I continuously think about the times when Gurukul system was prevailing in various parts of the world where the students were taught about compassion, justice, discipline. No bookjs were there and students only need to follow GURU's instructions. But slowly and slowly as time passes, As European Countries gained control, they started modifying the whole education system in their culture and the whiole education system went under revolutionary changes.
  Nowadays, Education basically means having bookish knowledge, Competition is taught over compassion, selfishness is preferred over co-operation, meaning of diiscipline has also changed.
I agree that as far as bookish knowledge is concerned, today's students are far ahead but what about - Compassion, Love, Co-operation, Justice? Where are these taught? Nowhere.
So what is the use of education without these human values, these principles actually governs one's life. The real education is one which imparts these essential features in one's subconscious mind.
I am quite sure that you must have observed in day to day living, that An academically brillant student is treated with more respect as compared to others despite the fact that others may be faer ahead in human values.
do not get me wrong, I don't mean to say that it is wrong to be a topper, but not at the cost of human values. Sorry , but I rejects that kind of education.
Today's education system is introducing kind of inferirity complex in the youth. That is why suicide rates have jumped and they are bound to increase if we allow the same education system to continue. today, failure in exam is treated as failure in life. But is it so, in reality , NO.
History have shown that there have persons Like Henry Ford who have reached greater heights without any proper SCHOOL Education. I have highlighted school to make a point, that actually , he is one of the most knowledgeable persons in the world Because he has knowledge about persistence, attitude, and various other qualities that actually governs our life.
So there is much more to the scene than the things which are taught to us in scholls and colleges.

WHO AM I??

This title might seem a little bit weird But before you start making any prejudices, let me first explain to you what exactly I mean, n=by this question.
I mean to say that we should ask ourselves a question ("WHO AM I ?")
and believe only youknows the answer to this and no one else. Perhaps, in my view, this is the most important question in my life. So, it is time for introspection and time to awaken your spirit and live life in the way you like it.
Wha tmistakes that we all generally make, we always live other's lives.For example, I mean it may be the case that when you are a child, you wanted to sing but you didn't thinking others might make fun of you and your singing capability have now become extinct, similarly it may be that you wanted to make a career in sports, but everyone around you is studying so that is the only reason you also started to study. i agree, this is the mistake I committed in my childhood.

"Our greatest loss is not the `death but what dies inside us , while we are living.
Imagine what could be our present if Bill Gates have not left school just to pursue his own interst or spirit, if Sachin Tendulkar would have gone in the field of study then who would have created all cricketing records, and so on, list is endless.
History is created by those persons  wh oare able to awaken the sleeping giant (spirit) within themselves and for that, ask this question to you if you have not till now.
 

STUDY

No man can ever succeed in life without studying, studying is must.

By study i do not mean the classrooms study or study of books, study in simple terms just means acquiring knowledge and this can be done from various things that surrounds us. we have to understand that universe is a great kindergarten for us. For example, The mountain teaches us stability and grandeur, the ocean immensity and change. everything can teach us. even the bee and ant biught with them the great lessons of industry and economy.
As everything and everyone has the capability of teaching us so never consider them small.
It only requires that our mind should be open because we have to understand that mind is like a parachute,
 "It works only when it is open."
Try to learn from each and everything around us and use that knowledge.Afterall whatever you are going to get does not depend on how much you know but it depends on that how you have used that knowledge of yours.

I personally believe that it is not possible to be get educated in best manner while sitting in the class.As John Nash said  that  " Classes dulls our mind and destroys our potential for authentic creativity ".
This doesn't mean that if you are a student then you stop attaining classes, I mean to say that there is a lot to learn outside the classes as well and so explore as much as you can.
To be successful in life you have to be a Master of One subject, let me tell you about the principle of 10000 hour,
It says that you can excel in anything if you devote 10000 hours of your life to that thing. Every successful man has followed this principle,
Example Sachin Tendulkar In Cricket,Zinedine Zidane in football,
           Bill gates In computers,  the list is endless.
So just decide what you want to do in life and devote these much hours to it, and I can guarantee that success cannot be away from you for much long.

Handling Criticism

It is our common experience that evryone around us has a habit of critcizing for most of the things that we are doing. Well I guarantees that if you are doing anything that others in the society are not doing, You will be criticized.
Just remember this, that if you are thinking to do something that is really commendable then first prepare yourself mentally to rise above what others think about you. Whatever great has ever been done, it has to pass through these stages

1. Ignorance(Nobody is goint to notice you).
2. Ridicule.
3. Acceptance.(When you have acheived what You said.)

One difference between winner ansd loser is that how much criticism one can handle. Whenever you are criticzed just think that at least you are being noticed. So , its better to be criticized than not to be talked at about all.

let me tell you about Marconi. when he suggested the idea of transfering messgaes through the air(ether in scientific terms), everyone made fun of him.
He was sent to mental hospital when he announce that he has discovered a technique in reality to transfer the signals throught the air. But, look at todays world, can it be imagined without his contribution. If Marconi would not have been so great to handle criticisms, then today our world would have been without radio, tv, etc,etc. Great things are acheived at Great costs.

I am also telling you by my personal experience that whenever I share my dreams of being an enterpreneur(as I believe in Thinking Big) among my friends, they do make fun of me, but it is only making me stronger everyday and I am more determined to acheive my aim.
So make criticism your power and show the world what you are capable of, afterall the Limit of what you can acheive in your life is defined by you only and no one else.
Its your life, live in the manner you want to live and do not give the fuck what others are thinking about you.

Complain

Well very often we have said that the food that we are getting is not  of good quality, or complains that we do not have money to buy good clothes and so on.
Well, you should remember that in the present world more than 70% of the population is under-developed, and we should remember this fact. Even in our India, which is 7th in the world as far as GDP is concerned, in this around 70% of children below 5 years is malnourished, 40% of other population is not properly fed.
So whenever next time you complins about food just think about this child and Thanks GOD that you are lucky enough to have food, never waste it and never complains about it.
So, just accept whatever GOD has given to you without any complains or regret because if you are able to read this blog, then you are one of the lucky few 10% of the world who actually have an Internet access.So always Have a feeling of Gratitude instead of the Attitude.

I was complaining about my torn shoes till I saw a man without a feet. look at this image it shows that a vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. It won the Pulitzer prize and the person who has taken it died after three months due to depression that this image induced in him.
So just realize how lucky you are, stop complaining and start working in the manner so as to make the world a better place to live in.

Also remember that if you are able to read this pos tthen you are also very lucky as you are among the few whos has Internet Access and is educated. 

MEDIA ROLE

My this post has nothing to do with the ways of living.Yesterday I saw the movie RANN, and it left me in thinking state.So, I just want to share my thoughts related to the role of media and politics in country's development.

Today, I personally feel that instead of providing news, Media has become an entertainment channel, for e.g I have never understood the logic behind the serials 
like saas-bahu ki saajish, whole coverage of serials like laughter challenge and other reality shows like Indian idol,etc.

We should look towards the west in this field and see that how sophisticated their channels are, like BBC,CNN,etc. The programs that they show even not related to news are also very revealing. Look at our channel,For e.g INDIA TV which has no other job except to increase the prevailing superstition in Indian Society, well I believe that there should be some censorship should be induced on the type of programs because today Media is very powerful and we cannot allow this power to be used in wrong direction.
Nowadays their is a trend of breaking news in indian TV , the first I saw this term was when Trade Tower was blown away and now we are having breaking news even if a child falls into a hole and all channels have no other work except to focus on that child. Dont get me wrong, I cannot understand directing the whole attention to that child in the time when everyday pur brave soldiers I ding in Kashmir.
I asked one of my friends in media about this, His reply was that Now everybody in India has become adjusted to the things prevailing in Kashmir and they do not want to listen to it anymore and are more interested in child like Prince. His statement mad me to remark that what has become of Indian Society, we are not feeling sorrow for the great martyrs of India in Kashmir and just directing our whole attention to the child.The only point I want to make is this that everynews should get attention according to its merit.
Previously only entertainment channels were in the TRP race but now News channels have also jumped into it.
I also wonders that News channel give due attention when some Neta is involvd in some scam, But when any politician does something good then there is no praise for him, Why? Argument is that he is only performing his duty. One time on one channel I heard that parliament is nothing more than a House of criminals and my most of the friends agreed to it, but I donot because if this were the case then Our country would not be developing at all, and Law and Justice would have no value. The only thing is that media gives lot of attention to negative aspects without paying due attention to positive aspects. So it i s my humble request to all media persons that if you have time then think about this, the exact role of media in country what should media exactly do for development of country instead of just thinking about the TRP.

Paradox of our age

This is a beautiful poem written poem written by Dalai Lama. I encountered it a yesterday and I thought  of sharing it with my readers.

We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbor.
We build more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies then ever,
but have less communication;
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods
but slow digestion;
Tall men but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It's a time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room.

TIME MANAGEMENT

During my life, I have often found the persons saying about that we don not have time for this or this, etc,etc.
Well In my View That is totally wrong, My brother always says that

 " A busy man always has time to spare while a lazy person will never have time for anything."

We have to remember that Time Management in one way is Life Management.
Planning is perhaps in my view is the most important aspect of time management.
What should we do, We just need to plan that how we are going to spend the next day the day before(probably give 15-20 minutes before going to sleep).
Well I have been implementing this on myself for the last two months and rthe results have been very exciting for me. I have now started to feel that I have now time for each and everything in the world and this has increased my self-confidence also to a great extent. Now i am more full with energy, never in confusion because I know that what I am going to do in the next hour and  afterwards.

If you have some bigger task at hand, then plan for the whole week and for a grand task, plan for whole month.
it must have happened to each one of us, that sometimes we go to a function and if something wrong happens, we use to say that the "function is not well planned."
Well we know the importance of planning but still very few of us actually implements it on their own life and just complains that the things are not going well for them, Well my only answer to them That things are not going well for you because you have not made plans for those things that in your view are bad.

Well at the end I will say that

"Never Prioritize your schedule but always schedule your priorities"

ATTITUDE

To begin with, I would like to say that whatever you have achieved is only due to your attitude.

"Your Attitude determines your Altitude."

Attitude in my view is nothing more than your response to various circumstances that you encounters in your life and your actions that are going to help you in achieving your destination.
Having a positive attitude is very very important as if you are having a negative thoughts in your mind then I can Guarantee that you shall forget about your goal because you are never going to reach your desired destination.The governing body for success is only good attitude.

Let me give you an example(I am really sorry as this one again is from the sports.)

When Lance Armstrong was asked how he practised in order to become worlds greatest Cyclist(He broke all records of Tour De France). His Response was -> It is only due to my attitude. I did not break the record today,I broke it the day when I was practising in the mountains while everybody was resting, He said that whenever I feels tired I imagined in my mind what my competitor is doing, If I sees him practising I again goes to practise and so on, But he said that I gained the advantage when I see that the present number one is not practising and At that moment I decided to practice, That little extra practice made me for what I am know.Well for information, I should also mention that he was a cancer patient, sojust imagine that only due to his positive attitude what he has done in life.

So my only suggestion is this
" Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." So If you want to awaken the great giant that is sleeping within you then Change your attitude towards it, Only in this way miracles can happen.

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost.
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are.
You’ve got to think high to rise.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win the prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

 

Choosing your Goal

Many persons experience great confusion in choosing their aim. They say, I want to do this, do that also like if they have been given power then they are going to do each and everything in the world,Well that is next to impossible to achieve I suggest the following method:
You make cards, write on them what you want to experience in life and divide them in the following three categories:

1. Things you must do in life.
2. Things you want to do in life.
3. Things you will do, if you have time.

Its a great technique as one of my friends actually implemented it.Five years ago he made a list of 60 things that he is going to experience, and tioll date he has experienced 54 of these. Many might be wondering that now what will he do after he experiences all, I posed the same question to him and his reply was,
" A new list Will Arise".
Then he continued that a life without aim is like a footballer running in the field without a goalpost.
So friends, I want to conclude by saying that give your life a purpose so that whatever you do will be in a directed manner and only this will give you fruitful results. That is why it is always said that Smart work yields better results as compared to hard work as it is kinda more directed approach.