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

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

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

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

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

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 21^st 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 21^st century and both the nations must move ahead with this great resonance.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI

Get up.

In life there are hard times. You might lose out many people, while you are on the road of success, the road less traveled, the hard road, you might lost a lot of people, many might die, many might leave away; there are moments when your loved one just go away and you would never see them again, in such moments you would be shattered. The thought of not being able to see them again might disturb to the a horrifying strength, you would be left nonplussed unable to move up ahead in life but let me tell you, you have to get back up. No matter how many doubts, failures, disappointments and vexations surround you, you have to get back up; if you have lost your loved ones, get back up because if that person would be watching you now, he/she would never have wanted you to become stagnant; if you are facing defeats, no matter how many times you try to win, but are always eluded by it, change your strategy, get back up but never accept defeat, no matter how much pain you are undergoing through, get back up because you won't get another chance. If you fail but you try again and again and again ,there is always a possibility that one day your arrow would hit the bull's eye but if you become dismayed by disappointments and stop even taking up the bow, the arrow would never be released and there would be zero probability of your winning. 

Let me tell you, the moment you try to get back up, the whole universe come down to help you in getting back up, you are already in pain; just use that pain in order to change your life for better, if you work again and again one day the whole pain would suffice and you would come out as a champion but if you stop today fearing failure or anything else in your life the pain would double up and haunt you throughout your life. The pain of failure would add up with the pain of not trying at all and nothing would be left behind for you and you would fall down and would never get back up and hence just "GET UP AGAIN".

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI