SIMPLE LIVING AND HIGH THINKING

Simple living and high thinking...


The greatest people in the world who have ever achieved anything beyond our imaginations have always followed a pretty simple and frugal lifestyle and this in fact is one of the biggest reasons behind their success, because to reach the top, you have to sacrifice a lot of things. I have seen a lot of people who have been talented, who have been exceptionally good at something they used to do but when they just started tasting success, they became so much enamored by small things that they just couldn't step out of its glamour and they continued winding up in such traps that they could never come out and reach the top but those who don't deter from their path and continue doing what they love rather than being tangled into the perks of the world, at last reach the top.

It is a human tendency that we have a great proclivity for so many things around us that we actually don't do what we must do for ourselves. We confine ourselves to so many stupid things(which the world considers as pretty good etc.) that we stop doing what's good for us and start doing what pleases others. Even before achieving great things, just after getting a small success, people become completely replenished with ego, pride etc. that they stop learning. Even if they fail, they try to hide their failure owning to their excessive ego and the who process of learning from the mistakes is eradicated and at last the person goes nowhere, because the person who thinks he knows the most is the one who actually knows that least.

Vishwanathan Anand, the famous Indian chess grand master, once said ," Never think that you have learnt more, because when you start thinking that you have learnt so much, you stop learning and you get confined to a limited knowledge which is in itself a disaster."

The Greatest Indian political analyst and kingmaker Kautilya wrote in his great book Chanakya Neeti, "Our life is not that much great that we do all the mistakes ourselves and learn from them and hence its necessary to learn from other's mistake." But actually a person who believes he knows the most turn a blind eye onto things which he could have learnt from others (because he believes that he knows more than anybody else and hence nobody else could teach him anything new), at last falls in the trap of one of the those things that he could have learnt before and passes away.

Haughtiness is one of the greatest disaster that a person can commit. This is the deadliest blow that a person can fire on himself and its a common trait of all the successful people to be simple in their attitude, appearance and nature and this quality which others think is a normal character trait is actually the reason behind their success.....

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Work Hard, Dream Big.

We all cherish some great people, we emulate them and in every sense we want to be like them. We love the way our idols do things, think differently, do almost everything they are given in a sort of new view and we just love such things so much that the biggest wish that we ever have would be to be a replica of our idols, but let me tell you a deeper truth, beneath the great popularity that they hold, beneath the greatness that emanates out of them, beneath their great, ingenious and genuine pondering of each and every situation they combat with, beneath the craft at which they are termed great by the world, there is so much hard work and sweat that others can hardly imagine. We undermine their hard work by calling them pure god gifted geniuses but actually they are the best hard workers you can ever get in the world.

Let me give you the example of one of the greatest football players who have ever existed, Cristiano Ronaldo. Today so many people want to be like him, play like him and they just love his greatness. Some call him god-gifted while some just believe he was born to play football. But the truth is that he had to go away abroad, leaving his family to learn to play well. All the other players called him too much "skinny", made fun of him and tried to demotivate him. But this guy kept on playing, he carried on doing the thing he loved and today we all know who this guy is, world's greatest soccer player.

Every great person on this earth is just a product of great hard work and talent actually doesn't work for anybody in the world. The word "god-gifted" has been adopted by those who couldn't do something themselves and wanted to find a reason for their own defeat and in actuality the god-gifted people are not created, they are carved out of many years of hard work, hundreds of hours of perspiration and then more than tons of motivation which actually lead to the formation of great people and this actually makes the difference between the losers as well as the winners.

Remember, that greatness is not a god given, elusive gift that only a few amongst us can have, it is actually a common thing that we all have in our heart, the only thing is how we ignite that greatness and that can only be done through hard work and dedication.

So keep doing that things you love, one day you will defeat everybody else to get what you have always wanted......

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Change is permanent.....

The one thing that will always remain constant in the world, the one thing that's never going to mutate and the one thing that will never change is actually the "change" itself. Nothing will ever remain constant, the world is in itself dynamic. It's indeed the biggest truth of life that nothing can ever be constant. This world is just like the atoms, which are randomly arranged array of things which despite of pretending from outside as if its a constant mass of thing undergoing zero motion but actually, it is and will always be in the most dynamic state.

Things continue changing. The people who run the world today will fade into oblivion one day and those who are today in the shadows of darkness would one day be the master of the world. In the same manner, our fate works. There may be time when you are destroyed, bankrupt, in the worst state that you can envisage but don't give up, because things will change one day. Its a completely true things that things will pass away. You will one day come out of all the shocks, hardships and adversities of life to conquer everything you had wanted. Just when you are no longer able to work, that's the time when things start changing.

As I mentioned earlier that in this world things will change for forever, now will your conditions change for better or worse lies completely in your hand. We all need to work, that's a reality but to win we need to work a little more, that's again a reality. Whenever you are dealing with the worst times in your life, first of all tell yourself that things will change and then continue doing what you have been doing because just when you step out of your comfort zones, things start changing.

I know it might take some time but one day, due to your perseverance and hard work, eventually the cloud of gloominess would scatter away and you would observe the sunshine on hope. Keep in mind you are already in pain, now this pain can reside in you for an hour, month or year but if you hold on, at last things would chain and these pains would become a great memories of your victories just like a trophy but if you quit today, this pain would be there permanently and that too as a nightmare.

So if you have been working hard for something and have failed, don't quit, believe in yourself because things have to change, that's nature's law, keep working at your craft and consequently all the hindrances would be eradicated and you will emerge out as a champion......

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Never Settle For Less.

  

Let me tell you one thing, the world doesn't count how many times you broken down, how many times you were knocked down but what it does remember is how many times you stood up, it does keep in mind how many time you won when it was almost impossible, it does keep in mind how many times you beat all the odds to show that world that you really deserve the best.

Success is actually a tale of failures ended up with a glorious win. In our lives, we all set out on some journeys but not everybody who sets the sail reaches the shore. The thing that creates a difference between the winners as well as the losers is not actually who between both of them failed but who never settled for less. We all have a burning fire of greatness inside our hearts, what matters most is who doesn't let that fire blow away. The losers after reaching failure would settle for less but the winners don't stop until they have won the game. The real difference between a loser and a winner is not that the winner knows more, is more intelligent etc. but that the winner never settled for anything less.  The two worst words in the history of mankind have been "good enough". There is actually nothing good in something, either there is failure or there is success. We all know that somebody has to win the game ultimately, so why can't it be you! 

The great people in the world, who have actually run the world failed a lot more times that their peers, friends or enemies but what counted at last that all others settled for good and mediocre life but the ones who want to get great things in life continue on. The road to success is indeed a very lonely one and hence its a very risky one. People would come and go but you need to move on and the day you start compromising, that day you start accepting defeat and settling for less that you actually deserve. 
Let me tell you a short story about a guy. He could not complete his study in medicine and was terminated. After giving up his medical career, his father told him, “You care for nothing but shooting dogs and catching rat and and you will be nothing but a disgrace to yourself and all of your family.” After his failure in finishing his studies in medicine, he was sent to the Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1827 to study theology with a view to be intended as a clergyman and he could not concentrate and returned home in 1831. In his autobiography, he stated, “I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect.” This person was considered a failure by almost anybody. He could have settled for a job as the clergyman but he didn't. Even his own father called him a lazy and indolent but he never stopped doing what he loved and at last he came to be known as one of the greatest scientists of 19th century. He is none other than Charles Darwin, the father of Modern Biology.

The only difference why others failed but he didn't is just that he refused to settle for anything less. He just passed all the odds to achieve what he really wanted to and hence at last he became successful. 

Failure is not getting knocked down but refusing to stand up again........

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Dreams.....

  

The above written epigram elucidates in an outright way the best thing that any man can learn in order to achieve success. The message professed in the quote says that just like you can never build a weak and fragile house during the storm just in the same manner it would be a tomfoolery to ever believe that crying will change your destiny. It goes on to add that have the courage to win the whole world and always remember that one defeat can't make you a looser and one victory can't make you world's greatest conqueror Alexander, the Great.

Though somehow the beauty of the quote is lost in the translation but rather than focusing on that, what we must ponder on, is what's the true hidden meaning of the aphorism. 

The first and foremost thing is that, our destiny lies not in the stars or planets, but in our own hands. We all have great power in us. Whatever our mind can think of, it can actually create that and hence we are the ones who can change things. Expecting others to come and help you out of your trouble is never going to fetch you anything except heartaches. The biggest enemy that you have to fight against is actually the inner you, your own soul. If you defeat the enemy within, no enemy outside would be left. So first of all, accept the two thing. Nobody would ever come and help you. You are responsible for what is happening to you. No other person on earth would ever take pains to change your life, because they can't. Your destiny depends on your work, your deeds and only you can change it. 

The next question arises that if we can change our destiny, then how do we do it! There is only one and one answer to the question- by trying to change your destiny... The most important thing that you have to do is to first recognize what you want to do in your life. Mark Twain once said, "The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why." If you have found out what you really love to do, not for other's happiness but for your own joy, you have already won half the battle of your life. If you love what you do, you are destined to become great at that thing. Most of the people in this world are not happy just because they are not doing the things they actually want but they are still doing it. This is the reason they come, they see and they go while those who have the courage to follow their dreams follow a different path. They come, they see and they conquer. So, if you ever want to live a distinguished life, then do something for which you are really passionate. Les Brown once said, "If you don't follow your dreams, one day when you die and go to your graveyard, those ideas, those dreams would come to you and will say, we only came up to you and only you could have given us any identity, but you did nothing and today we have to die with you." You are surely made for one purpose in this world and only you have the chance to do something about it and you surely are made for that one thing and it lies on you to complete those dreams. Many people might come in between your dreams, this may include your family, your spouse, your friends or anybody, just think if you leave your dreams for anybody today, would you be happy five, ten or twenty years after the incident. Will anybody else do something for that at that time if you leave what you have always wanted to do. When you go to your deathbed, nobody else will go with you, hence nobody else will ever answer to your dreams and only you have to face it all. You have got just one life, don't waste in on living the way others want you to live, its your own life, go and do something for yourself because nobody else will ever do anything for you.

The next thing is when you move ahead in your life, even if you are doing what you truly love, many a times you will fail. You have to fail in order to succeed ultimately, because failures are actually lesson to you by none other than the nature. None of us has ever been born perfect and hence when you prepare for success, sometimes we commit mistakes and to rectify those mistakes, you need to fail, so that you find the reasons why you failed and ameliorate your strategy so believe me never be disappointed at your failure. Its a natural human reaction that when you will fail, you would feel as if you are destroyed and nothing remains, in some failures where you would have risked everything you had, you would just feel as if you are not talented, you are not destined to do that things you want to, but trust me, after you come out of those moments of intense exasperation, analyse why you failed and then you would come to know about your shortcomings which would at last become the pillars of your success. 

One more thing that you need to take care of is about getting overconfident. While you prepare for the ultimate battle, you would see many ups and downs. So whenever you face the downs, don't feel defeated or upset rather than that take lessons from your mistakes and when you reach the summits never let you become overconfident. Because when you tell yourself that you know everything, you stop learning things and at that time you start loosing out on important things which might be crucial for your success. You don't become great by one victory and one simple victory just doesn't mean that you are to that thing as Mozart was to music. So, always be eager to learn from others and the day you kill your ego and start learning from the people around you, you start stepping on the ladder of success......

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Greatness in you....

Sometimes despite of trying hard you fail, sometimes despite of risking almost everything you had you fail, sometimes despite of taking all the optimum steps you fail and sometimes you fail really really badly. Though no one can actually feel how you feel after being defeated at something which you really wanted to win but let me tell you something that you must know, if you have failed, you have already achieved greatness by 50%. There is a famous quote in Hindi which goes like this,
                               

The quote is a very powerful and veracious one. It says, only those people can fall down, who dared to stand up and fight in the battlefield, because those who are creeping on the ground (just like small children) can never fall down. And hence to fail at something, you need to have greatness. If you really worked hard at something and despite of that you failed, actually you have achieved half greatness and this world has given you one more chance to win with much better results as you would have earlier because you are not born to settle for less.

See, I don't know you, I don't know from where you are reading this post, but one thing I know is that you have in yourself that element of greatness. Because greatness is not something elusive, its present in each one of us. The greats are great just because they had wanted things with more passion, ardor, desire and had worked even harder. Let me give you an example, we all learn to write when we are small children, but our handwritings are mostly unique. Some write so much good and some write in illegible manner. So, are those who write beautifully great? Certainly not, its just that when they started writing they used to write with more feelings and practised more than you and nothing else. Similarly, if you keep working hard on something day and night you would become exceptional at it because greatness is no talent and all hardwork.

Talent actually doesn't exist in the world. Its all about our desires. Great scientists became great just because they loved their subject more than they loved sleeping, talking, chatting and playing. Micheal Jordan wad ousted from his high school team, but he worked hard and became the greatest basketball player of the world. This truly shows that he didn't possess talent but he possessed a huge love for the game and worked hard than anybody else in the whole world to become better at at. So, just find the thing you love and if you fail at it, rather than being discouraged try to find out the reasons why you failed. Because you failure is just a nature's cue to you that you are lagging on to something. When you love something the whole universe would conspire to help you achieve it and during this process when you fail, that's universe's game plan to make you realize your mistakes so that at last when you win, you would have no shortcomings. Believe me, you can't see the future today but carry the potential to make it. In the fame of great people on earth, there are unknown stories of persistence, hard work, failure, losing love etc. but they carried on despite of all the hardships and got everything they wanted to have. You, too can but it won't be easy because if you want to shine like a sun, you need to burn like a sun. If you want to defeat a world of 7 billion, you need to work harder than those 7 billion people, if they invest one hour you need to invest ten hours because greatness is just about becoming the invincible at something.

So, if you have decided something for you, go and get it. Don't ever let anybody come between you and your passion and believe me, even if talent exists in the world, it is negligible in front of the skill, which is developed and not gifted. You can beat the talented ones (the people around you  who are good at something you want to become great at). Your persistence must be so much that their being gifted becomes a past and your hard work becomes the future. And yes, if you truly love something, if you are ready to die to just live that moment of greatness at something you really want, no matter how many difficulties come, no matter how many people forsake you, no matter how many times  you are rejected, one special day would be yours when you would defeat every person on the earth at something you really love. So prepare for that day because I believe that one day, you will get to that day..............

 "The world can tell you who you are, but not what you can be...."

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI 

Revelations in Ishrat Jahan encounter case...

One of the biggest sin that a person can commit would be a betrayal to one’s own nation, the nation that gave him birth, the nation that brought him up and the nation that allocated him with all the resources that needed to survive on and move ahead, the nation which gave him the opportunity to do something for himself and the nation which is equivalent to his own mother. But this world is truly replenished with such crazy people who commit the betrayal and continue doing that till the day they are not exposed and the biggest thing is they don’t even feel shameful about the matter.

The whole plot started at the time when the prospects of Mr. Modi’s fighting the election to the country’s most premium position i.e. the Prime Minister of the nation gained weight. The opposition became highly wary and careful of the rising popularity of this leader and that of his most trusted companion and minister Mr. Amit Shah and to restrain Mr. Modi to get the top job, a complete plan was hatched in order to sabotage all the prospects of his becoming Prime Minister and the plan was so much meticulously designed that it could immensely malign the image of the two leader and could even send them to jail.

Early on the morning of 15 june 2004,  Ishrat Jahan, Javed Sheikh, Zeeshan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana were shot dead on the road leading to the Kotarpur waterworks on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. This is one of the most debated encounter in the Indian history. Soon after the encounter, the whole political system of India was shaken and those trying to gain up the Muslim votes banked hugely on this matter as this became the key to their political success ahead. After the Gujarat riots in the year 2002 and some cases of encounters out there, of people who were trying to kill the then Chief Minister of state Mr. Modi, various human rights commission had been complaining of the state’s unacceptable behavior towards Muslim (which itself is completely baseless and even Muslims of Gujarat claim that the amount of economic well being they experienced during the time of Mr. Modi’s government has been unprecedented) and the issue of Ishrat Jahan came as a breather for those who were annoyed at the huge progress the state of Gujarat had made.  CBI( Central Bureau of Investigation) in an outright manner blamed the Gujarat police officials saying that the encounter was done just to gain promotions but never spoke anything about the alleged relation of Ishrat Jahan with LeT terrorist organization of  Pakistan.  On 15 July 2004, The Indian Express,  The Times of India,  Rediff.com, Outlook  carried news reports that "the Lahore-based Ghazwa Times, mouthpiece of the Lashkar-e-Taiba" had acknowledged Ishrat Jahan as a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative. According to these news reports, the Ghazwa Times had published an article on the "Jamat-ul-Dawa"  website stating that "the veil of Ishrat Jahan, a woman activist of LeT, was removed by Indian police and her body was kept with other mujahideens (terrorists) on the ground", and that "Ishrat was with her husband, sitting on the front seat of the car". In June 2007, the Business Standard reported that the "global terror group Lashkar-e-Taiyba" had apologized  to Indian muslims on 2 May 2007 on the Jamaat-ud-Dawah's website "for causing them problems due to an inadvertent mistake", with the article implying that mistake in question was the claim that "Ishrat Jehan Reza had been a Lashkar operative". The whole plot was actually a plan of this deadly terror group in order to take full benefit of the game that Indians were themselves playing against India.

In between the whole drama, the Metropolitan Magistrate SP Tamang, himself gave his report claiming that the encounter was staged one by officers who wanted promotion and Ishrat Jahan had nothing to do with LeT and interesting he even concluded the time when encounter took place despite of having any witness of the encounter.  Even the Gujarat high court acknowledged that fact stayed the Tamang report on 9 September 2009 but gave liberty to Ishrat's mother to produce the report before the three-member committee constituted by the High Court to investigate the encounter. Justice Kalpesh Javheri said the observations made in the report were beyond the jurisdiction of the judicial magistrate.  The Division Bench directed the Registrar-General of the High Court to institute a departmental inquiry into the conduct of Mr. Tamang in holding a parallel inquiry into the encounter, when the High Court was already seized of the matter, and submitting the report without its permission.

In the year 2010, David Headley, one of the masterminds of the 26/11 attacks, imprisoned in the USA, claimed that, Ishrat Jahan was a LeT “fidayeen” (suicide bomber) deputed to kill the then Chief Minister of state. NIA (National Intelligence Agency) called its all false and baseless but later IB (Intelligence Bureau) stated that the whole thing was true and NIA had deleted these comments of Headley from its reports and that the UPA government knew of it but hid the fact from the court as well as the nation.

Though the matter had now come to a still rest with normal proceeding going on but, as they say, the truth can never be hidden. Just as Mr. Modi took the PMO (Prime Minister Office) NIA, informed him that they had complete proofs to prove that Ishrat Jahan was a LeT operative and shockingly, an affidavit signed by then Home Minister Mr. P Chidambaram came up in which he testified that Ishrat Jahan was a terrorist but later Mr. Chidambaram got the affidavit changed and said that Ishrat Jahan had no links with LeT. Headley has also lately confirmed his previous statement that Ishrat Jahan was a LeT operative working for the terror organization.

Mr. P Chidambaram’s affidavit as well the UPA’s governments act of concealing the true facts from the nation clearly portray one thing that the UPA government has cheated with the nation with an intention to divide the nation to get its vote bank and besides that there was complete planning to get Mr. Modi behind the bar. This itself is not the only such case. The “Samjhauta express” blast in which the word saffron terror was coined by the UPA government too is a replica of this case.

These things lucidly portray, how much people can fall down just to play the politics of divide the rule.  I would just advise such people to play for nation, rather than playing against the nation. They carry the onus of taking the nation ahead rather than breaking it up in fragments. So rather,  than playing such games, go and do something constructive for the nation and its people.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI