Thursday 30 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI

माँगन मरण समान है, मति माँगो कोई भीख ।
माँगन ते मारना भला, यह सतगुरु की सीख ॥
Here too Saint Kabir ingeniously touches one another aspect of human right which stands firm as a cardinal matter for all of us.

Kabir lays emphasis on the fact that the day you start begging for things, you become obsequious and servile, you indeed stop living at all. The moment you ask others to do anything for you, at the very moment you lose out on your self respect and once self respect as well as reverence vanishes away, they continue to be evasive throughout the life time, leaving a lacuna in your life which would continue to serve as a stigma and hence in short, it's a sin to implore and beg.

The main question that arises here is, why Kabir termed dying as a better alternative to begging. The answer is simple, if you die, you die once; if you beg, you die a thousand times. In this world the respect, we hold up is truly priceless, nothing exists that can compensate for its loss. The moment we beg to  others for anything, we indeed lose our respect, as we are giving the other person a complete authority over us and hence the mutual respect is in-toto lost. The other person would never ever look onto you with respect but you will always find a feeling of either sympathy or contempt, both of which are indication that you are being considered fragile, meek and trivial.

Being born into a human soul, we all can do anything we want to do in this world. Being blessed with almost all the perquisite things, we can do each and everything and hence begging has truly not been embedded into our program and hence a true Guru would always proscribe imploring as one of the biggest sins of human life.

You have been blessed with a great life. Go out, and take each and everything that fascinate you or you want to have because you are truly worth it.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARIT

Wednesday 29 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI

                                                      दुर्लभ मानुष जन्म है, देह न बारम्बार,
                                                   तरुवर ज्यों पत्ता झड़े, बहुरि न लागे डार।

In this world, the biggest power that we all have been accommodated with is of being a human and without any skepticism, with great power comes great responsibility. This human life is very difficult. All the species in this universe have been bestowed with so many different features but only the Homo sapiens are the ones who have been given the blend of almost all the powers and also with the mind to artificially create the powers with which we have not been allocated. Hence, this human life is truly an advanced as well as great one. Being the most intelligent species in the whole world, we rule this universe and just like everywhere else; here also the rulers have so many responsibilities.  Saint Kabir, therefore, dubbed human life as the difficult life, because just like other creatures we can't waste our precious privilege by doing almost nothing but eating and sleeping (which is a hallmark of an animal's life). Being the rulers of the world, we have to lead the way by being an epitome of humanity, but if we continue to waste our this great life by doing almost nothing; this would elude us forever and never come back just like a plucked leaf from a tree which can't be pasted back again. 

Hence living our life constructively is the way to living the life to the fullest. We carry the responsibility of doing something remarkable. There is something in this world, that can be done by only one human being; all of us have been blessed with some great quality that's pretty rare; some of you can be an epitome of art, some of dance, some of music, some of literature and  other innumerable things. All of us have been gifted with a thing that nobody else can copy. Being the actors on the world stage, we all carry a personal charisma that no other actor can even copy to even a good extent and hence, realize your potential and how you can change others' life and this would be the best work for you to do in the universe.

                                                                       JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
                                                                           JAI MA BHARTI

Monday 27 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI

रात गंवाई सोय के, दिवस गंवाया खाय ।
हीरा जन्म अमोल सा, कोड़ी बदले जाय ॥

Each one of us has got 86,400 seconds in a day, and how we actually use them define whether we would be the crackerjack or the follower, whether we would lead like a lion or be a bandwagon like a sheep, whether the world would make us immortal or whether we would die oblivious and forgotten. 

Life is actually the most precious gift that has been bestowed on us and how we use it is, hence a matter of great concern. As Saint Kabir signifies, most of us just waste our previous life. We spend the nights sleeping worthlessly, we spend the days sans doing anything good and at last nothing remains and we just waste the most amazing gift that can be given to anybody. Actually the above mentioned things are the true works of animals and hence people who conduct their daily things in such a manner are living no differently than animals and hence this great wonderful life is truly futile to them. Their main aim is just to 'survive' and frankly, they don't live, they survive.

In contrast to that, there are people who have unraveled the perplexing mystery of life, the ones who rather than subverting life, actually know the true vitality of this great thing and hence do remarkable things. In this world, we all were born equal but we are not supposed to die the same way. Ask yourself who will cry when you die. Your answer would surely notify you about the category you are pertinent to. 

Now if you belong to the second category, you are immaculately nice and my best wishes stand with you but unfortunately if you stand in the first queue, change the way you life. Listen to me, you are not going to get the same life again. If you waste it in just carrying out trifles, partying etc. which are of no use to the world, believe me, one day you will regret your choices. It's good to enjoy life, but wasting it to enjoy the same is truly something not to be condoned off. Do something at which you are really good at and through that thing, do a bit to change the world. Even a small step taken by you would affect the universe and if you can put a dent in the universe (no matter how small or how big it is) you have truly lived to the fullest.

                                                                            JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
                                                                                   JAI MA BHARTI

Sunday 26 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI

जो उग्या सो अन्तबै, फूल्या सो कुमलाहीं।
जो चिनिया सो ढही पड़े, जो आया सो जाहीं।
In this couplet Saint Kabir touched a very sensitive issue of the world, the topic which culminates with sorrow and grief as well as the quintessential and indispensable circular rotation of the soul from one body to another. Though truly it would be very naive of me to pen down anything on such a vital facet but I believe that its necessary for all those who have a sense of being imperious in everything they do and a low content of knowledge pertinent to this topic also stands as the root cause of all our sorrows and punishment. If the human beings unravel this issue, no extirpation, no annihilation would carry on but unfortunately, its not at all that tractable but in contradistinction, its much abstruse. 
Human beings are the paragons of errors. All of us are bound to do so many errors in life and that's why 'to err, is human', but sometimes we go on to botch up so many things that at last our life becomes worthless and nothing remains, but regretting for our actions. 
The sole cause of all of our disasters is the avarice and cupidity we hold in our heart, which was actually meant to engender love. We become attracted to so many things that our greed continues to soar up and ultimately, we carry out so many actions which we would have never wanted to. When such things happen, this impetuous life, never gives us any chance to atone for our actions. Hence the main thing to be focused here is, why do we become so much greedy? 
Greed actually comes when we curb our inner conscience and start pressing up our immoral side which is never meant to come up. We start thinking about materialistic and aesthetic things as being the supreme goal of life. We start following them, with so much attention that we ultimately snub away almost everything in our life and at last we are left with nothing. But while all such things are happening, we just forget that nothing in world belongs to anyone, what ultimately counts is happiness. If you have any kind of greed for something and you achieve it, believe me the happiness that it would provide you would only be evanescent and momentary happiness never yields peace. After conquering the thing you wanted, your heart would again catapult some more hormones in your body propelling you to find some other things so as to invest your greed. This cycle would go on and when you would realize that this indeed was a 'rat trap', you would realize that you are not even left with the time to expiate. It's always good to be ambitious, it's nice to try to change the circumstances you were given when you were born by doing something extraordinary, but it's never good to compromise your inner peace and happiness behind following such things insanely.
The  most sagacious thesis ever written, The Bhagvad Gita, is all about learning the ways of living and hence is the most beautiful version of God explained. It moves past the bounds of religions and the imaginary axes of caste, creed, religion etc. After reading the complete  Bhagvad Gita, I realized one thing which truly, in  the simplest manner, expounds to us the most enigmatic thing of life, that in this life, nothing is permanent. 
Everything has to fall down. Kabir says, the thing which has grown up, would be obliterated; the thing which has blossomed up, would be plucked up; the thing which has been build up, would be bulldozed; and anyone who has taken birth would ultimately pass to nothingness. Hence ultimately, everything satisfy the simple equation  that we were born without anything and we would die experience the deja vu . All the pleasures and luxuries of life would one day pass into nothingness and that which passes into nothing would never be a thing of beauty and hence all the materialistic things you see around would never be of any help when you die. Anything that would count would just be, your attitude and benevolence towards the world. 
Imagine a situation when I give you $1 billion, but on the very next day your mother dies; would you be happy? Certainly not! Notwithstanding being among the richest people on the earth, you would be excessively tormented. 
Imagine one more situation, when you have lived your life as a despot, you have taken up all the pleasures of life from travelling around the world to living like a true king, but you have been so much vehemently cruel and indifferent towards others, that when you are on the deathbed and you could be saved if you are rushed to the hospital but there is no one out there to give you a helping hand. Though you have a lot of servants, but because you have disparaged them so much that today they are not even ready to take you up to the hospital and you are lying starving, waiting to die. Just imagine for one moment ,what would you think at such an arduous moment? Would you think about your richness, beauty etc.? Would you be happy then, watching all your materialistic wealth around you? The answer truly lies on you to ponder on. 
In life everything has to break down. All the things that you gather up would be burnt down with your biodegradable body. And when, the messenger of death strikes, your whole kingdom would strike down and nothing would be left. Whatever remains behind is just your memories in others mind and it depends on you whether you give others the worst nightmares or the sweetest memories of you. Man is mortal but not his soul. If you are good to people, if you do something that changes other's life, that can paste a smile on even one face; the day you  carry out any such action, the same day you would become immortal and your soul would live forever and when you get the rendezvous with death, you depart away with a grin on your face replenished with satisfaction and contentment. We got nothing from the world and we can never give it anything. We came nude and we would all go the same way when we die, but one thing that we can surely do is to change somebody else's life. Swami Vivekananda once said, "They alone live who live for other." A life lived for only materialistic gains would be contemptible while a life lived on principles would truly be a wonderful one. So live for sentimental gains and to be immortal in others' memory not is statues and monuments.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI


When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Life is never about how hard we can hit but it’s all about how hard we can get hit and keep moving forward. Indeed, life is not always about merry times, joyous days, cheerful rainbows and inspirational sunshines, its more about the gloomy winter, the tough time and the harsh weather which creeps in most of the time and the ones who don’t let such things get in their road to success, the ones who carry a resolve mightier than the world are the ones who at last breathe the air of greatness and feel the warmth of success.
In life there would be plethora of situations in which you would be left with nothing,  notwithstanding of all the efforts you put in, many a times the results engendered are literally nihil or not upto your expectation, and at last you are stricken hard with grief, pain, sorrow and regret. Failure sweeps up everything and not even a single pinch of motivation is left in your heart. We all might face such hard and gross circumstances one day or another and when we would face such crushing and harsh defeats we all would be dashed to the ground, but my friends, that’s the actual fight that you need to combat.
Paulo Coelho, the famous novelist, penned down in his famous work, “The Alchemist”, that “the universe conspires to help the dreamer. When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”  Whenever we embark on a great journey or whenever we set sail to our destiny, the whole universe comes close to help us out, but it only helps the true dreamer and in veracious sense, it helps the one who works the best with humongous motivation and extreme passion and to choose a person with so much will and resolve the   universe, the energy or the God, has devised its own ways.  If things would have been easy, if becoming great at something would have been a child’s play, nobody of us would have waited to achieve it and each one of us would have been extraordinarily exceptional and greatness would have lost its charm and therefore life is not at all that tractable and gullible and you need to outshine even the best, or perhaps the best of all, to achieve, what we call “greatness”.
Hence in your way there would be innumerous hurdles. Whenever you try to achieve something, there are thousands of people or even millions of them, competing against you to achieve the things you desire for and hence for the selection of one out of those thousands or millions, tests have to be taken and obstacles that you actually face in your life are just these tests. As I mentioned earlier, greats are not those who know how to punch but are the ones who know how to suffer, the ones, who know how to carry on even when they might be facing the biggest disasters of their life, would come out victorious. I am not saying that in your due course of journey you must never lose any battle but what matters in the long term is how much we persevere.
Failure is inevitable. Even the bests have failed miserably, much more than you would ever will but what counts more than your defeats is the desire and passion to hold on and be persistent despite of having all the odds against you. Let me elaborate my point through a true story. It’s about the year 1832.  This guy lost his job and then also the state legislature election. In the succeeding year, he set up his own business but failed miserably to the extent of starvation. Just after two years when he had not even recuperated from this disaster, he lost his beloved wife due to which in 1836 he suffered a fatal nervous breakdown. After two years in 1838, he fought for the speaker’s election in parliament but was defeated, in 1843 he lost the nomination for Congress, in 1848 he lost the renomination to the Congress, in 1849 trying to get back to normal life he didn’t even qualify for the job of a land officer, in 1854 the guy lost the United Senate election.  After such a great list of defeats of the guy, you must have thought till now that he was a dumb and foolish person and amounted to nothing, and moreover in 1858, just as per your perception, he was defeated in the election for the Vice President. So, was this guy a great looser? Certainly yes! But, didn’t he amount to anything? Certainly “not”!
Just two years after this incident, in the year 1860, he became world’s most powerful man, the President of the United States of America, Mr. Abraham Lincoln, one of the most legendary speakers (his Gettysburg address changed the course of history), one of the most powerful leaders of the world and above all perhaps the most tenacious person in the world.
Despite of facing so many tough times, in which most of us decide to leave and forsake what we had been doing, this guy carried on and at last got what he deserved truly.  When everything in life became tough nobody could even dare of moving ahead, this guy stood up and every time, when defeat tried to subdue him, every time he recovered with even more fervor and beat all odds to get what he desired. And this is certainly the most exemplary and paragon example of how much perseverance, success demands.
There would be times when luck would elude you, there might be times when situation would not allow you to move ahead, there might be times when you, yourself would doubt you passion, there might be times when success would appear almost unattainable, there might be times when your opponents might seem invincible and there might be times when you would cry hard but my friend don’t let your tears fall away. Breed these tears inside your heart and cultivate more and more passion. Use every brick thrown at you to transform them into the pillars of you success and when your passion would be able to even outdo the courage and patience of universe, the gloomy clouds would themselves veer away and the bright warmth of success would touch your feet but till then wait and don’t let anything else beat you. Work hard in silence and let your success roar for you.
Remember, you are already in pain, it can last for a day, an hour or a year and later on success would suffice it but if you quit today, it will last for lifetime as a lacunae in your life and this would ultimately transform you to a dejected person in complete despair, and you surely are not born for that.  So just use your pain, move ahead, no matter how hard it is to carry on, just use every minute you have, use everything  you have and move ahead and success would certainly follow your footprints.
So rather than taking your defeat as a major setback, learn from it, have so much passion that you could even change the future, even when the going gets difficult have so much courage that you surpass you difficulties and transform them to milestones of success because “great” is that one victory, which has been achieved through persistent hard work and keep in mind, “losers quit when they are tired but winners quit when they done” and you are the born winner……
At last I would just conclude by saying that,
“Winning means you are willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anybody else.”
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Saturday 25 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI

                                                 कबीर कहा गरबियो, काल गहे कर केस.                                                    
 ना जाने कहाँ मारिसी, कै घर कै परदेस. 

Here also Saint Kabir articulates a very vital front of human life. There are times in our life when we just lose down our control and become so much proud over our achievements, commodities, money etc. that we indeed forsake the world behind and start soaring in a myriad of dreams and forget everything else. Sometimes we become so much blind in the beauty of money and power and almost everything else appears to be lackluster and subfusc. We become so much haughty that we breach all the limits and do so many actions which must never have been done. 

Kabir truly smashed our ego by telling us a very obvious but latent thing, that the man is mortal. Nobody knows whether we would breathe air the very next second or our soul would escape out and hence we never know anything about life. When it would terminate is truly a mystery and this provides that we are just small puppets being handled up the almighty and when we are just small puppets, then what's left there to be proud of? No amount money, achievements, medals etc. can stall your death. In the eyes of the Lord of Death, each one of us are equal and a fair and sophisticated process would be followed for each one of us and hence out of this materialistic world, in the true realm of universe, we are just the actors who are there on the stage while the director is none among us, its the supreme God, energy, nature (whatever we would love to call it). And actors can never go beyond their roles and moreover the on-screen things are not at all the veracious truth and hence whatever we have is just an evanescent illusion and what would remains inscribed on the stage would be just an expression of our attitude, benevolence and humbleness but if we continue to be arrogant, even that inscription on stage would continue to show our countenance replenished with a worthless conceit.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Friday 24 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI.

                                                निंदक नियरे राखिए, ऑंगन कुटी छवाय,  
                                             बिन पानी, साबुन बिना, निर्मल करे सुभाय। 
Its always a nice thing to keep your critics near you, the people who thrown so many predictions on your extirpation need to remains with you, because they are the ones who are going to be the most endsville motivation of your life.
Its a pellucid fact that nobody (excepts a few people in whom we can confide) wants us to move ahead in life. Nobody would like to see you coming as a gush of greatness and forsaking everybody else behind to win the title of success, hence you are bound to get so many people who will always criticize you to the level of condemnation, if you ever fail, they would always try to augment your failure so that you stop moving ahead. Any chance of catching your faux pas would always be their most revered one and truly such people are abound in the world. These people might be your relatives, your classmates, even you friends. At every moment of time, they would be finding reasons in order to disparage and subvert you and many a times they would defy past all the limits to do their most adorable work.

When we encounter such people in life (actually when we have a rendezvous with them which is actually planned by our fate), we revile at them. We start abiding them so much that we evade even coming in the contact with their shadow. We try to elude from them, but these people still continue to sting on us, making us feel dismayed at almost all the time. But let me tell you one thing, if you are following the strategy of avoiding them or just snubbing them up by starving them of your attention, you are actually committing a motivational suicide. In our life, as I talked in the previous post, everything must be balanced and hence these people too are very much crucial in our life and actually they would always fill up the motivation gap that you would feel at various times of life between you and your dreams.   Because when you feel worn out and fatigued and no longer want to carry out the procedures that would take you towards the success, such people are pretty much needed because through their insults and other processes which they carry out to belittle you, they would actually invigorate in you a feeling of want for you dream. Indeed these people would always tell you, why you started on a particular goal and believe me above all, they would prove to me the biggest motivators who would motivate you with all the powers they have. They will shed away all their energy in order to brace you for the action ahead.


   JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Thursday 23 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI-9

                                              अति का भला न बोलना, अति की भली न चूप,
                                             अति का भला न बरसना, अति की भली न धूप।

Saint Kabir, catches up one more intriguing facet of the human's life. The problem of doing things in excess. Indeed, we all have the penchant to take things to excess. Some have a proclivity to converse in excess, some have the tendency to work in excess while some continue to take almost everything they do to excess and this is also one of the problem that continues to haunt us. But contrasting to that, not even doing things up to the normal standards is too a disease striking most of the human beings. Being a complete contrasting thing to the previously mentioned ones, some like to be excessively taciturn (up to the level of vexing others to the paramount form of anger, they can ever achieve) and some, most often the big procrastinators who don't even do the required things are too perennial around the world.
If we try to analyse the situation, then both the situations seem to be equally unjustifiable and must be truly denounced. If you are any one of the two mentioned people, sufferings are inevitable for you. 
The one who speaks a lot loses his value, the one who studies a lot (caution:by this I  means, the one who defies past all the normal or even exceptional standards to study) becomes fragile by body, one who devours too much, will lose his fitness, one who listens too much will lose his own sense, one who believes too much, will get duped numerous times, one who is credulous will lose his own things, one who rebukes too much, will never be loved and one who loves too much, will lose the value of his love, many more examples continue to throng the normal world but one thing is truly common, anything that is done is excess would surely be detrimental.  

Now the one who doesn't speak at all will never be heard and will ultimately lose his/her value, the one who doesn't stand up for himself will often get subjugated, the one who doesn't study will become fragile by mind, the one who doesn't eat will lose his fitness, one who doesn't believe anybody will never get a friends, the one who always condone everything will be thought of as weak, the one who doesn't love anything will ultimately never live.

Hence in this world, everything needs to be in the right proportion. A perfect blend of things is needed to live a perfect life. We only love food which has all the ingredients in the optimum level, no one loves too much salty or sweet things which outnumber the required and tolerable levels. The same thing applies to life which must be balanced in each and everything in the right proportion, otherwise you would lose your value and life would lose its meaning.

                                                                     JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
    JAI MA BHARTI

Monday 20 June 2016

KABIR, THE ENLIGHTENED GURU.

Saint Kabir has always shown the world a path of peace and love. He spearheaded the campaign to spread the essence of love and brotherhood. His teachings still continue to act as words of utter morality and acumen and his unparalleled sagacity still dominated the world through his two-liner couplets.

Saint Kabir is remembered as a great saint, point and above all an enlightened human being. At a time when the whole nation stood divided in the context of religion, Kabir preached humanity and never advocated any particular religion; his words guided all regardless of gender, caste and creed and no doubt his couplets are still showing humanity the path to the people around the world. His respect for teachers and elders define a student and children's ideal life while his other couplets mark the guidelines of a well-lived life. His teachings on curbing anger, pride etc. still continue to portray us all how such things can deracinate us and his wisdom is truly par excellence. 

Kabir was a 15th-century Indian poet and saint, whose writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Adi Granth. His early life was in a Muslim family, but he was strongly influenced by his teacher, the Hindu bhakti leader Ramananda.

He profoundly believed in just one religions i.e. the religion of humanity and always considered that both the Muslims and Hindus who were continuously at loggerheads at that time, were completely misguided and never understood the real teachings of God. Kabir continued to give the same message even after his demise. When Kabir's dead body was lying on the ground waiting for funeral ,both Hindus and Muslims claimed that Kabir was theirs and soon the arguments started taking the form of a significant scuffle. Amidst the argument, Kabir's body vanished away and there lied only the pall. People from both the religions were astounded to see the miracle. When the pall was moved away it was observed that beneath the cloth, lied two symmetrical roses, out of which one was given to Hindus and the other to Muslims and a message of equality and brotherhood was passed on to the people. In one of his couplets, question the divisive teaching of misinterpreted religious books Kabir said, 

Kabir suggested that True God is with the person who is on the path of righteousness, considered all creatures on earth as his own self, and who is passively detached from the affairs of the world. Kabir always believed that each one of us has a god inside our heart, our inner consciousness that helps us distinguish between the right and the wrong, and truly we needn't go anywhere else to worship because the God lies in nowhere but our heart. 
Kabir is widely believed to have become one of the many disciples of the Bhakti poet-sant Swami Ramananda in Varanasi, known for devotional Vaishnavismwith a strong bent to monist Advaita philosophy teaching that God was inside every person, everything. 

Kabir has been showing the path of humanity to us all. Since time immemoral his aphorism have been storing so much of world's treasure that none can ever assume, today to effect a change into the world we need to harness their energy. Kabir's wisdom was truly the blessing of almighty God. His teachings on teachers, respecting cows, loving the siblings, working towards helping others still continue to be the best path of life. During his life he suffered so much resistance and persecution because of his candid beliefs, just because he wanted to show us the path to God and godliness, he was disparaged and maligned by those who didn't want people to get enlightened. Just for our sake, Kabir bore so much pain that once he said that, when tried to show the world, the truth, the world the world abjures him and when he tries to walk on the false path, the world extols him. 

Today, its a matter of shame for us all that we have forgotten that such a great soul walked on our land. Despite of following such a great disciple of God ,we have commence taking his aphorisms for granted and antiquated. Today, we need to take up his quotes and put life in them again, because his quotes defies time and applies to all. Today we need to learn to live the right way. Crimes, felonies and hatred are burgeoning in the world because we have forgotten the joy of contentment. All of us are dissatisfied to ourselves and indifferent to others. All our us are just flowing with the trend, trying to inure ourselves to the world, not even knowing whether its justified or not. We have stopped living because we have forgotten Kabir, we have stopped being happy because most of us don't even know about Kabir, almost each one of us is lost in the world and all of us need a teacher and above all an enlightened person like Kabir who can lift us up.

JAI HIND , JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Sunday 19 June 2016

KABIR-DOHAVALI-8

                                                 जिन खोजा तिन पाइया, गहरे पानी पैठ,
                                                     मैं बपुरा बूडन डरा, रहा किनारे बैठ।

Whenever you work hard at something, you can never plunge down, if you really want something, things would match up themselves and its impossible that you recede away sans glory. 
Most of us don't know because of the parasite of the fear of failure residing in our heart, most of us never think of doing great things because great things require a much greater passion above all, an indomitable spirit of taking risks in life. The people around you, would never thinking of changing their world because its never easy to go back and change everything through persistent efforts and passion and hence life will bestow no rewards on them, they would pass away without a single trace of their greatness, but the ones who are ready to take the risks, the ones who are willing to change the world that was given to them, the ones who don't want to live a life shrouded by filth, the ones who are restless and replenished with passion and the one who are relentless in their efforts as well as their vows of changing their lives would one day conquer it all. 

Kabir expounds this thing lucidly. He says that if you toil at something, it never happen that you get nothing out of it. If a swimmer dives into a river, its impossible that he would come out with nothing in hand and the ones who would continue to fear the water by just standing on the banks would surely miss the rewards.

                                                                   JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
                                                                            JAI MA BHARTI

Saturday 18 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI-7

                                               दोस पराए देखि करि, चला हसन्त हसन्त,
                                               अपने याद न आवई, जिनका आदि न अंत।

In this world, all of us are great a criticizing others, we learn to revile about others from the very beginning of our life. All of us are masters at deprecating others and finding their faults. Take for example our own country. Our country is not clean and we attribute this thing to civic bodies, our country is corrupt, we impute the blame to politicians, our country has a large proportion of unlettered people, that's because of government, our country is not a developed country, that's too because of government, our jobs are not increasing, that's because of government. But just tell me one thing, if all the people in our nation are so much upright and above board that no stigma can be attributed to them, then why does felonies take place in our country? If the people are so much outright and candid and the whole blame needs to be given to all the authorities and our government, then why does our country suffer from so many malpractices. 

In actuality we all know the answer and Saint Kabir leaves no stone unturned in letting the cats(of our minds) go out of bag. We all have a proclivity to laugh at others' faux pas. We all love to attribute the blames for anything bad onto others and concomitantly we never miss any chance to take up the whole credits ourselves. This is a natural human tendency of almost 99.9% people in the world (that's the true reason why we have only a handful of true leaders). Kabir aptly says that we all have a penchant to find fault with others but, we ourselves commit so many faults which neither have an end nor a starting id est infinity. We all know actually how to point fingers onto others but don't know how to transform ourselves, and this stands as the biggest paradox in every human's life. 

Leaders are different, because they have the courage to get the blame imputed on them, they don't point fingers on anybody that they couldn't be successful because of him or her because cowards do that and leaders are not recreants. So if you want to move out of the shadows of cowardliness, learn to take up the blames when you are wrong and also credits when you are right. Life needs a perfect equilibrium to do thing and you just need to establish that.
                                                                       JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
                                                                         JAI MA BHARTI  

Friday 17 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI-6


                                                        धीरे-धीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय,
                                                    माली सींचे सौ घड़ा, ॠतु आए फल होय।


Patience is truly the key to each and everything in the world. Rome was not built in a day and similarly your future, your success, your fate can't be engendered in just one moment. 

In this couplet Kabir asks you to be patient, because patience is one of the keys of success. When we are trying to get good at something, many a times when we are not being able to perform as per our expectations, we become very anguished at ourselves and forsake following that thing with the same passion. Most of us, after being disappointed or defeated, stop trying due to the fear of failure and at last nothing happens, we continue to be at the same spot where we started. Its in toto true that when we step out to do something unprecedented, to do something to change the world around us, we are bound to deluge of defeats. After being at the receiving end for so long, we would start being skeptical about our virtues and qualities; with more and more defeats, our confidence and more importantly our vision, would plunge deep down into an irrecoverable state if we let if reach the crescendo of the pits. During such moments, only our patience works out. It happens many a times that most of the people quit and when they have quit, they realize that they were just one step behind success. They quit because they didn't have patience, despite of trying so hard they failed because they didn't carry perseverance. Thomas Edison thrived on making bulb for more than thousands times and then he became successful. Imagine that just like others, if he would have quit the 999th time, the world might not be so much technologically advanced today. 

Recently I also read a statement by the legendary footballer Lionel Messi in which he said that it took him 17 years and 114 days to become an "overnight" success. This guy who is admired by millions for his dribbling talent had to work continuously for 17 and a half year. There might have been so many ups and downs, he might have lost many games, but his patience never let him give up and that's why the world admires him today.

All these things clearly proves, Kabir's aphorism on patience. So just follow Saint Kabir and be patient if you want to achieve success.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Thursday 16 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI-5

                                                      
Kabira in this couplet too says a great thing and exposes one of the greatest enigma of life i.e. one day we all will be judged according to our deeds and as we sow, so shall we reap.  Kabir says that never be angry at anybody's work, never be disheartened when somebody is doing a wrong work because one day we all would get our due share of our works and nobody else can share that thing. Our life is truly a journey, which we complete by carrying out a lot of deeds. Some deeds may be good, some may be horrible, all in all it depends on us, but one thing that always remains sure is that we will one day, get the true result of our deed. If today we do a bad thing onto somebody, one day we might get the same thing retorted to us and if we do a nice work, one day our work would pay off. If you work hard at your studies, you would become good at study, if you work hard at any game, you would become good at it; if you work hard at wasting your time, you would become an expert in making excuse, it all depends on you. Nobody else can be attributed for anything you do, you would certainly get the result of your own deed.

So always just continue doing good work because one day your deeds would pay off and thing would become better.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Wednesday 15 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI-4



There is a wonderful book by Robin Sharma whose title has always intrigued me and the first time when I read the title of the book, it was just an extraordinary thinking going through my mind, though the title is short but its meaning runs deep explaining the true ethos of the world. The title goes like this, "WHO WILL CRY WHEN YOU DIE".

Actually one thing is certain that we all are going to die one day. Nobody knows whether our breathe is going to carry on till the next moment or will it recede in between the passage but one more thing that is certain is that we all will die differently. I am not talking about physical reasons but I am actually talking about the emotional content. When some people die, people become so much happy that they have been redeemed from the barbaric soul, while on the other hand when some people die, people cry because they have lost the one who stood by them ; in this manner we all would die differently and hence it lies totally on us what happens to us after our death, whether we would be immortalized in people's thoughts as a redeemer or as an oppressor.

Kabir too clearly expounds this thing. Kabir says, "when you come into this world, the whole world in laughing while you were crying (just after coming out of the womb, but do something that when you go, the whole world will cry." Actually in life, even animals live for themselves, so what would be the difference between humans and animals, hence I believe, they alone live who live for others. We all have got the biggest gift from God i.e our life and if we just waste it doing almost nothing to ameliorate others life, to give others reason to cry when we die, we would be a stigma on life itself and hence just think over whether you want to waste your life at small things or do something large.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Monday 13 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI-3

                                           

This above-mentioned DOHA is truly one of the most charming and true thoughts expressed by the Saint Kabir. If we go according to the literal translation of the couplet, it would go like this,
                     "The world has grown old reading but still none of them could become learned,
                But the one who has just read the four words of love automatically become the learned"

The true meaning behind the quote is truly vast and profound. In this world, we all are running behind something, it can be money, fame, knowledge, work, family, children etc. Though we are doing almost all the required work but still none of us is happy. With the decreasing technological distance between people, our emotional distance is observing a huge increment day by day and this is leading to pure discontentment in life. Despite of doing so many things everyday, our heart is not happy; despite of studying for so long, we are not becoming good people; crimes and felony are at crescendo; pain and suffering are demeaning each and every human being day by day; the dearth of values in people is truly seen in our society; the number of crooked people using the society for their reprehensible uses is on a high tide while those who truly want to help the society are nowhere to be seen; despite of being in the most technologically advanced century today we feel a dearth of contentment and patience in life, despite of having all the modern gadgets we feel disconnected from our own people.

All these things are happening because, though we have learnt everything else, from connecting people on social media to going to Mars, though we are learning so many languages today but still the language of the mankind has been forgotten by us, we have actually pretermitted the language of love and the peace behind it.
Today our lives have become so fast that we have stopped loving the beautiful things in nature, we have stopped getting close to nature and nature is actually the true abode of peace which consequently means that we have stopped living near peace.

Let me ask you a question, you have two people in front of us, the first one is a very famous, learned and intelligent soul and the second one is an illiterate one; the first one is going to treat you as if you are his slave, you deserve contempt while the second on is going to give you love and treat you as if you are his brother. Who would you choose to accompany you? The answer must be clear you to.

What you chose above is truly the distinction between becoming a man of love and becoming a man of (just superficial) knowledge and let me remind you no knowledge is worth that doesn't carve out a nice human being out of you. If you are a genius without a heart , the world wouldn't care; but if you are a mediocre person with a generous and benevolent attitude, the world would care.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Sunday 12 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI- 2

                            

In this world, each  one of us is busy looking fault of others. Due to our own exasperation and pique, we leave no stone unturned in  finding the fault of others when anything is botched up; our brain might not even take a second to figure out the mistakes committed by others and automatically it would impute the whole credit of failure to others. If you fail in school, you would blame you teachers and parents, if your project fails in your office, you would be eagerly blaming the employees, if you lose one bout you would start cursing your coach and at the end of the day, your mind would always find a way to stop your inner consciousness to blame you. It would cast a somewhat vicious shadow on your thinking abilities that you won't be able to see any of your fault and this is the true reason for our resentments and dissatisfaction.  Soon, when lot of things start going wrong and we develop a mechanism to blame everybody else (due to which nothing changes and things continue devastating), one day we would become discontented with our life and life would seem like a hell. As long as you try to put the blames on others, success, happiness, contentment and joy would always elude you in the best possible manner.

As Kabir has already said that when you search for yourself, you would truly find you that you the most crooked, careless and lethargic person. We all make mistakes in life but its a natural human tendency to shift all the bad deeds we do onto others and contrary to that extol ourselves for all the good things that happened and this truly is a sin that most of the people commit in their lives due to which they are not successful. As long as you try to preclude blame from being thrown on you and as long you try to unravel your own shortcomings you would never grow. If you think you can never make a mistake, you can never do anything new, you would just end up being a coward. Accept your part of the things that go wrong and if something goes right then credit all the persons due to which it went that way because the day you start recognizing your problems, your shortcomings, you become a leader; because a leader is one who blames himself for failures and others for success. Actually this is an outstandingly nice strategy; a leader is the most sagacious person because he blames himself for things and then learn from the mistakes. Never get disheartened for making faults, you are a human being and you are destined to be wrong innumerable times. The reason behind the success of all great men is that they have actually started recognizing their mistakes and blamed themselves for their own actions rather than shouting out at someone or something. By accepting their mistakes, they heeded to the lessons of failures, they molded themselves to perfection using each and every stone thrown at them to construct an unvanquishable empire and hence at last they achieves perfectness.

The same thing you can do, learn to credit yourself less and take the appropriate blame when you must. By taking blames, I am not saying that you must take blame onto yourself for each and everything and dive deep into depression and despair but rather than that take the blame on your part and learn to transforms your defeats to failures because we are actually much more crooked in our heart than anybody  else and the one who finds most blames in others is the only one to be blamed.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Saturday 11 June 2016

KABIR DOHAVALI-1

                    

Growing up never means that you have a tall stature, matured countenance  and developed physical characteristics but it indeed means growing up in terms of the values and greatness you hold in yourself. Former Indian president sir. APJ Abdul Kalam once said, "I am not a handsome guy but I can give my hand to some who need it" and what late sir APJ Abdul Kalam said lucidly expounds the ostensible meaning behind the great aphorism from the greatest of all saint Kabir.

Growing up truly means being able to take the responsibility and do mature works rather than just growing up in age. A small child who is able to comprehend other's pains and sorrows is much better than a big boy who is an egoist, a wonderful toddler with no speck of pride and benevolent conduct is much more preferable to a grown up boy who is by heart an egotist. Nature too elaborates this fact in a very beautiful way. Lets take the example of a date palm tree. Despite of being the tallest tree with the biggest trunk length, with enormous height its the tallest tree you would even encounter normally, but what is the significance of such a great height when it can neither allocate a refuge of shadow to any board neither the human beings can normally eat its fruit because of not being in the normal reach. Though the date palm tree has grown up a lot and attained so much maturity but still its not useful to us directly. In fact, a smaller tree would be much more preferable to such unreachable tree, just like that, a person of no moral values and manners is truly worthless in the world's eye. If you have grown up but have not been endowed with a good attitude towards others, you would be just a date palm for others because no matter how much grown you are, no matter how much money you acquire, if you are of no worth to the society, to the people, if you can't bestow on them happiness and compassion, you are truly worthless.

Its good to be great at the work you do but its much more quintessential to be veracious by heart.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

Thursday 9 June 2016

The India US partnership

It was indeed an overwhelming moment to see our nation’s Prime Minister stealing the show in a foreign country and when the foreign country is the United States of America, the overwhelming experience turns into a pride. Yesterday, the whole world, especially the 1.25 billion people of India who have chosen Mr. Modi as the representative of our nation, were engrossed to see Mr. Modi taking up the stage in the joint session of United States Congress and albeit this incident is in itself a matter of great historic significance, but what ensues ahead is much more crucial for both the great nation.
World’s oldest and largest democracies, have so much in common. Though the history we share is not that great but still the future seems much more opulent and optimistic. It won’t be incorrect to dub India as the Asia’s budding America (those who don’t concur with this sentence must know that the USA became independent 240 years ago and we got the gush of independence just 69 years ago). The way our nation in progressing ahead, breaking all the stereotypical barriers of past is matter of envy to all the nations around the world and the pace we are recording day by day in our growth is truly reaching paradigm level. The GDP growth of 7.6% in the previous quarters truly proves the potential our various economic sectors especially manufacturing and designing sector has and truly envisages a bright journey ahead. Though even today a lot needs to be done but still coming up to the league of top nations around the world and matching up to the standards of the United States as well as other super powers in big deal for a nation which has long way to even reach the centenary of independence.
The 21st century is going to be the century of three nations India, the United States of America and People’s Republic of China. All the three nations’ peace of growth is a paragon and the signs ahead even cue towards a much more holistic growth of the three nations. This century is also a century of togetherness. It’s clear that no country can ever develop in this century in an insular atmosphere and as all the nations have already realized the fact a long ago, everyone is busy looking up strategically for partners which can help their growth. While talking about the three fast growing above mentioned nations, one can easily deduce that permutation China with either India or the United States has never been a cordial and developmental one and hence for both the US and India, there leaves only one combination and more propitiously, this combination is favored by the both the nations and is much more useful and powerful that than of any other nations.
It all started after the Indian Independence. Politically, economically and strategically the world had two big powers the United States of American and the USSR. The cold war was marred by complete bipartisanship of the world leading to low trade and also numerous number of problems in various facets of relations. As our nation went on to take the NAM (Non Aligned Movement), the India US partnership never came up, because of the strategic conditions of that time. Time went on and the relationship remained cold, things deteriorated further during the time of Richard Nixon and after him the relationship didn’t take up until the end of the previous century. When the relationship started taking up again, India’s nuclear test, again set the things out of motion and everything came to a stalemate, but finally as time went by, today the US recognizes that it need a top regional power cooperation in Asia and India too has much to do with the United States.
Keeping aside the political relationships, our relationship go back to days immemorial. Swami Vivekananda promoted Yoga and Vedanta in America at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, during the World's Fair in 1893. Mark Twain visited India in 1896 and described it in his travelogue Following the Equator with both revulsion and attraction before concluding that India was the only foreign land he dreamed about or longed to see again.  Mahatma Gandhi had an important influence on the philosophy of non-violence promoted by Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1950s.
In the 1930s and early 1940s the United States gave very strong support to the Indian independence movement in defiance of the British Empire. The first significant immigration from India before 1965 involved Sikh farmers going to California in the early 20th century.
Everything changed in World War Two, when India became the main base for the American China Burma India Theater(CBI) in the war against Japan. Tens of thousands of American servicemen arrived, bringing all sorts of advanced technology, and money; they left in 1945. Serious tension erupted over American demands, led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, that India be given independence, a proposition Prime Minister Winston Churchill vehemently rejected. For years Roosevelt had encouraged Britain's disengagement from India. The American position was based on principled opposition to colonialism, practical concern for the outcome of the war, and the expectation of a large American role in a post-colonial era. However, in 1942 when the Indian National Congress launched a Quit India movement, the British authorities immediately arrested tens of thousands of activists. Meanwhile, India became the main American staging base for aid to China. Churchill threatened to resign if Roosevelt pushed too hard, so Roosevelt backed down.
But after independence the things could not go right, as I mentioned above due to various inevitable and ineludible circumstances. Though the charismatic Sir. John F Kennedy, the former US president did a lot to help India but soon after his assassination everything changed and the destruction of relationship only aggravated but with the dawn of this century came a new revival of the relationship.
Soon after Atal Bihari Vajpayee became Indian Prime Minister, he authorised nuclear weapons testing at Pokhran. The United States strongly condemned this testing, promised sanctions, and voted in favour of a United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning the tests. President Bill Clinton imposed economic sanctions on India, including cutting off all military and economic aid, freezing loans by American banks to state-owned Indian companies, prohibiting loans to the Indian government for all except food purchases, prohibiting American aerospace technology and uranium exports to India, and requiring the US to oppose all loan requests by India to international lending agencies. However, these sanctions proved ineffective - India was experiencing a strong economic rise, and its trade with the US only constituted a small portion of its GDP. Only Japan joined the US in imposing direct sanctions, while most other nations continued to trade with India. The sanctions were soon lifted. Afterward, the Clinton administration and Prime Minister Vajpayee exchanged representatives to help rebuild relations.
India emerged, in the 21st century, as increasingly vital to core US foreign policy interests. India, a dominant actor in its region, and the home of more than one billion citizens, is now often characterized as a nascent Great Power and an "indispensable partner" of the US, one that many analysts view as a potential counterweight to the growing clout of China.
In March 2000, U.S. President Bill Clinton visited India, undertaking bilateral and economic discussions with Prime Minister Vajpayee. During the visit, the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum was established.
Over the course of improved diplomatic relations with the Bush Administration, India agreed to allow close international monitoring of its nuclear weapons development, although it has refused to give up its current nuclear arsenal.
 After the September 11 attacks against the US in 2001, President George W. Bush collaborated closely with India in controlling and policing the strategically critical Indian Ocean sea lanes from the Suez Canal to Singapore.
Since 2004, Washington and New Delhi have been pursuing a "strategic partnership" that is based on shared values and generally convergent geopolitical interests. Numerous economic, security, and global initiatives - including plans for civilian nuclear cooperation - are underway. This latter initiative, first launched in 2005, reversed three decades of American non-proliferation policy. Also in 2005, the United States and India signed a ten-year defence framework agreement, with the goal of expanding bilateral security cooperation. The two countries engaged in numerous and unprecedented combined military exercises, and major US arms sales to India were concluded.
After George W. Bush, the Obama Administration has left no stone unturned in changing the way the two nations interact. Mr. Obama visited India in the November 2010 and also addressed the joint session of Indian parliament in which he bolstered India’s stand for a seat in United Nations Security Council (UNSC). In his administration only the US cleared $1.2 billion sale of P-8 Poseidons to India while the General F414 engines and C-17 Military aircraft sale to India established the US as one of the top three military suppliers to India. US military too has its ties with Indian military by carry through various defence engagement programs. US Undersecretary of State William Joseph Burns also said, "Never has there been a moment when India and America mattered more to each other."

After the arrival of Mr. Narendra Modi in the power, the relationship saw a new beginning. With Mr. Narendra Modi’s visit to America in 2014, new horizons opened up in the relationship. With manufacturing sector in mind Mr. Modi struck so many big deal with the US that are truly indispensable for our growth ahead. Mr. Modi in his trips tied deals with big corporate houses of America regarding investment in India propelling them to pledge investment worth billions.

Today India imports commodities worth $20.5 billion from America. The imports include machinery, military equipment, aircraft etc. and on the other hand America too benefits a lot from us. It imports from India almost double the amount of its export. It imports things worth $46.6 billion. The United States is also India's largest investment partner, with a direct investment of $9 billion.

This is just a short overview of the great relations between the two countries. The need to today, for both the nations, is to strike the right chords because this partnership is the authentic partnership of the 21st century and both the nations must move ahead with this great resonance.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI