Competitiveness a blessing or curse.

Ravan is the most intelligent person having fine intellectual skills, acquired the knowledge of all the Vedas and considered as the great learner, having a fine understanding of discrimination between right and wrong but only one thing became the cause of his fall i.e. his lust for women.  He raped his own Bhabi the wife of Kubera, raped all the appsaras lived in the Heaven, Killed his own brother Kubera, killed all the Rishis doing yagya for gods and put their blood on a pot.  Then dumped it in the ground. Later Janak worshipped for a child.  Lord Brahma told him to plough the fields without dress during the morning time, then they found a little girl child crying in the field.  This Girl child was no one but the blood of rishis collected in the pot.  Thus the real mother of Sita is Earth and Father is all those Rishis who were killed by Ravana.  And later, this girl became the cause of the death of Ravana.  Those who said Ravana is good are mistakenly exploring the wrong information and showing their intellectual bankruptcy.   Whatever, He did due to his competitiveness.

       Lucifer becomes Satan due to his competitiveness and rebeled against the God.  Then turned to be a serpent and betrayed Adam and Eve. Son of God was sent to save the children of Adam and Eve who is now worshipped as Christ.  He didn't compete rather enhance his True self and led Himself toward Self realization and later turned to be selfless and philanthropic.  Whatever arguments anyone can give and whatsoever anyone tends to justify but Right is right and wrong is wrong.  Due to competitiveness, Suyodhana turned to be Duryodhana, due to competitiveness Lucifer an angel turned to be Satan the Master of Demons, due to competitiveness Kansa killed six sons of Devki, due to competitiveness people are creating a conspiracy.  Due to competitiveness Cassius plotted a conspiracy against Ceaser.  Competitiveness is a crime.

      Do we really need to be competitive to be successful?  I don't think so because in actuality there is only one truth that is God or we can say the pure self.  If everything is one then why to compete and with whom to compete!  Lord Krishna in Mahabharata told Arjuna that his duty is just to do his work and nothing else because every action leads us toward somewhere.  He very wisely told Arjuna that though with doing krama one cannot be influenced by its impression because then detach ourselves from the result of the krama and consequence is, we keep remain free from our all actions or we can say krama Mukta just like Janaka.

     I can simplify it with the help of one of the stories which I read in a book written by Swami Shivananda "Karma Yoga."  In it, he told us about a story of two young men.  Both are strong and healthy and living a life of Bhramcharya.  One day both are doing Pranayama in the riverside of Kashi suddenly they found two women drawing in the river.  Both of the young boys jumped together and save the life both of the women and took them towards the riversides.  The first young man said, "Almighty has given me an opportunity to serve you.  Thank you very much for providing me with an opportunity to help you."  After saying these lines he left the place.  But the second young man said to another woman,  "Because I saved your life and according to shastras those who can save your life can be able to be your husband.  So I am offering to you to marry me."  The woman decided to marry the second young man.

     Now the actions are same but the Bhavas or intentions are different.  The first one though did the same action which the second one did.  But the first one is not influenced by his action whereas the second one is badly tied himself with the result of his action.  So, friends, this is Nishkam karma yoga.

     Thus competitiveness need not be required for performing an action and with the help of Karam yoga, we can save ourselves from the result of our action either good or bad.

Thank you 

I hope you will like it.

     

Insight - Divide and Rule

DIVIDE AND RULE, many times we hear about this phrase and often use it also in our day to day life.  Though society and people seem to be the same and just like the one group i.e. humanity but still something enforces us to avoid humanity and give emphasis to the self-made groups.  These groups are certainly made due to the feeling of separatism and egotism.  If we erase these two things then perhaps there will not be more than one group i.e. human race.  But due to our personal benefits and satisfaction of our ego, we made groups based on religion, language, region, culture, and country.  The thing which we need to comprehend is that we all are the different leaves and flowers of the same plant.

We are the different flowers of the same plant

And the very common thing in all of the groups which are being made due to the upper mentioned frictions i.e. an individuality or we can say a mind. Don't we ever try to understand that on somehow our own ego is forcing us to make different groups??

For the exact amplification, I would like to share one of my personal life experience.  As I belong to a Rajput(Agni vansha) family that is why the people of my village are having a great sense of egotism regarding their caste.  They consider themselves as brave and superior.  Recently my nephew is arguing with my sister that the Surya Vanishes(Rajputs) are the greatest and there is no one like them.  She told me regarding his opinion.  I just laugh because I was thinking about who give us a title that we are Rajputs or Brahmin.  It is the diplomatic game of the people of the higher class to acquire the benefits.  First, we are human and our duty to save the rights of human beings. 

Therefore, the first thing first is that we should not be violent or aggressive just because someone has hurt our religion or belief rather be thankful to them for providing us with an opportunity to judge our power of tolerance, and if somehow we fail to tolerate then try not to harm anyone because God lives in his body also. And moreover, bravery is not the inheritance or copyright of a certain race or a group. Rather any person who has guts and also having a feeling of diligence, industriousness, and honesty toward his or her task or deeds can acquire it.  

Because honesty and bravery both of the terms are synonyms. Only a brave can be honest and only an honest person can be brave.  

Now, where is caste, religion and race? 

So I just want to conclude my perspective in a few of the lines that these things are made only to divide us so that we can become slaves and ruled by the ruler and mind you every time we are being ruled only in this manner.  So let's join hands together and take a pledge that we are humans and Son of God. 

That's why we are intelligent and brave and no one can divide us on the above basis.

Small things but effective

Our country comes under the list of one of the biggest country in the world and we are also dreaming that one day we will be the superpower.  But let's see if we are exactly able to become the superpower in future.  I don't think so. 

• How can we be a superpower if we are not able to sort out our own domestic problems?  

• How can we be on the list of one of the best country in the world if our people are still fighting for small things?

• How can we be a nation of universal tolerance if our own people are very intolerant toward small things?

• How can we manage to be the superpower if we don't have a sense of driving on the road?

These are some questions which rise in front of us as it depicts that we are still not being able to be on the list of the best nation because we desperately like to be aware of our rights only, not our duty. Let's analyse and synthesis how can we judge a person as if he or she is aware of his or her duties.

 I have a very small but the most effective parameter for testing if we are a responsible citizen or not.  Have you ever seen how people walking on the road?  Only through observing it we can identify them as if they are a responsible citizen or not!  If someone is driving very recklessly then it means he or she don't have any concern with the nation and society rather he is living in his own world of imagination in which he or she is the king.

 If someone is driving very slowly then it means he or she is very submissive and don't have the courage to raise the voice for the wrongdoing as sometimes if anyone overtakes them they just watch as if they haven't seen anything.  It reflects that this kind of people comes under the list of victims whereas the first one comes under the list of culprits.  Now the big question is: Who will do a research on it that in our country the ratio of the people of the first category is more or the people of a second? 

 Who will do?  

I think we need not do it as the people of the first category is more in comparison to the second one.  

That's why there is a lot of accidents in our country. Do we still think that we can be a superpower?  I think first we need to be responsible for our behaviour only then we can be able to be a superpower.  Because only those people can be supreme who have the courage to be responsible for their deeds and only if the citizen is responsible then our country can be on the list of the best nation.

इंटरनेट एक अभिशाप एक नशा

भारतीय युवा आज स्वयं को किसी फ़िल्म स्टार से काम नहीं समझता और जीवन पर्यन्त खुशामती  ही पसंद करता है क्युकि उसे बचपन से ही ये सिखाया गया है, तुम ही श्रेष्ट हो और ऊपर से ये नेट।   अंग्रेजी की एक पत्रिका के मुताबिक आज का युवा वर्ग अपना अधिकतर समय इंटरनेट की सोशल नेटवर्किग साइट्स में गुजरता है।   पत्रिका में ये बात भी सामने आई की जो लोग अपना समय अधिकतर इन साइट्स में गुजरते है  वह धीरे २ वास्तिविकता से कट जाते है। और फिर अपना समय इन साइट्स में लगाना शुरू कर देते है।  अब उनकी वास्तविक पहचान मात्र इंटरनेट ही रह जाती है।   धीरे २ ये उन की एकाग्रता भंग करने लग जाती है।   उनका आधा धयान हमेशा फेसबुक और ट्विटर में ही लगा रहता है।   

      पत्रिका ने ये भी बताया की जो लोग ज्यादा दुखी और उदास होते है वही इन का अधिक प्रयोग करते है।   कई बार तो ये इन साइट्स के माध्यम से खुद को खुश दिखाते है।  जो बहुत अधिक इन का शिकार हो जाते है वो तो स्वयं को किसी ऐतिहासिक फ़िल्म के महानायक की तरा दिखाने से भी नहीं हिचकिचादे। 

    वर्त्तमान समय में हमें इस समस्या पर गोर देने की आवश्यक है।   क्या आप भी कही इसका शिकार.......................................! 

Lost........Self

किसने पाया किसने गवाया,

दुनिया तो है बस एक माया। 

न कुछ पाया,

न कुछ लाया,

फिर भी अहम क्यों कमाया,

इस संसार में क्यों तू आया। 

खूब खाया,

खूब कमाया,

खूब रुलाया,

खूब सुलाया,

माया ने क्या खेल रचाया। 

न अत्ति छाया,

न अत्ति माया,

न अत्ति अहम,

न अत्ति वहम,

करो कुछ खुद पर रहम।

Thinking of a common man based on wrong perception.

समय के साथ साथ व्यक्ति बदलता है पर वास्तविकता वही रहती है।   क्या अपने कभी सोचा हे की व्यक्ति को क्या सबसे अधिक प्रभवित करता है ? उसकी सोच पर वह तो उसने बेच दी!!

Nature and its colors