Nature is a big classroom

Our nature is a big classroom if we want we can learn valuable lessons from it.

Have a big heart

The first lesson which we can learn is to have a big heart like nature. Nature gives place to so many things in its lap without any discrimination. In our society there are people of different nature. We should learn to live with them peacefully in perfect harmony. We should learn to respect other persons.

Give whatever you can

Nature provides its bounties to everyone. The sun gives us light, moon gives its coolness, rivers quench our thirst with their water, trees give many fruits to eat. This tells us to give whatever you can for the benefit of society.

Everything has its own place

From an small ant to big mountain everything in nature has its own place and work according to that. This teaches us a valuable lesson that in society everyone has his role to play. No one is to be discarded as useless. we should give everyone a fair chance.

Coordination is a key word

In the affairs of nature everything is working in perfect coordination. This gives us a message to cooperate with each other. A society can grow only when all its members perform their allotted duties perfectly and help each other to do the same. When task is big co-ordination is a key word.

Change is part of life

In the nature everything is changing gradually. What comes into existence diminishes away with time. Nothing is permanent here and is bound to change. Through this we can learn to accept the changes taking place in our life. Whatever you have today is not going to be with you.

Time is a good healer

Whenever there is a natural calamity huge destruction takes place everywhere. But as the time passes things started to get normal. With time nature repairs all the damage. The lesson is to learn is if something happens to you which you cannot control, leave it to time. Slowly you will come out of it.

Be hopeful

After every dark night there is a dawn. This way nature asks us to remain hopeful.

If I have this.............

We often hear people saying 'If I have this I can do this.' We are never satisfied with what we have. We desire to get more and more.
But can mere possession of things is a guarantee of their proper use.
No it is not a guarantee of proper utilization of things.

There are so many people who are born with certain privilages have so many things but they fail to use them in their progress.
While on the other hand people who are not so fortunate and face scarcity but they have fire to grow use whatever they have in their progress. 

Because to come up in your  life you need a desire to grow. The desire to make progress pushes you to try your best to get your goal. You try to utilixe your limited resources in best possible way. You learn to respect things. You don't complain about your situation but work hard to come out of it and grab every opportunity which comes to you. 

To be successful the most required thing is desire to be successful. Without it no one can become successful no matter how much he possess.

Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya

Diwali is the festival of light. It is celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of KRISHNA PAKSH {Dark fortnight}. It is a moonless night {Amavasya}. There is a significance to light lamps and decorate your house with the row of earthen lamps.
This festival gives us the message to dispel the darkness of ignorance from our lives. It is our duty as human beings to remove darkness from our hearts. To proceed towards light and try to take other persons with us in this mission.

To remove darkness we need to light a lamp. If we just complain about darkness but don't light a lamp we will remain in darkness. Only our own efforts can bring  us out of the darkness. We are facing the problems of poverty, Illiteracy, hatred, feuds, these are all forms of darkness. To solve these problems we need to light lamp of education, love, equality in our society.

Don't stay in darkness. You have the power to illuminate this place. Just a little effort is needed. Promise yourself that you will try not to remain in darkness but will proceed towards light.

Let us all pray to ALMIGHTY GOD

ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ।

तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।

मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

[Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya |

Tamaso Maa Jyotir-Gamaya |

Mrtyor-Maa Amrtam Gamaya |

Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||]

Self belief is a valuable treasure

Have you ever considered what is the most precious thing in this world.

No it is not anything material.

It is the self-belief one possess.

Your self-confidence is most valuable thing you own. If you have this you can conquer this world. All your success is due to the confidence you have in you. Without self-belief everything is useless.

If a person loses everything but has self-confidence he can regain whatever he has lost. But if one loses self-confidence all his possessions have no meaning.

To develop self-confidence one must understand 'SELF'.

'SELF' is the vital force working within you. It is the consciousness which is the cause of your existence. 

The conception of self put forward in VEDAS is that it is our substantial, persistent and non-material entity. This self has unlimited power. This is referred as 'ATMAN' in vedic Scriptures. It can not be destroyed. It is immutable. No increase or diminution is possible in it. 

The Katha and Chandogya Upanishads for example define the self as follows:

The light of the Atman, the spirit is invisible, concealed in all beings. It is seen by the seers of the subtle, when their vision is keen an clear … The Atman is beyond sound and form, without touch and taste and perfume. It is eternal, unchangeable, and without beginning or end: indeed above reasoning. An invisible and subtle essence is the Spirit of the whole universe. That is Reality. That is Truth. THOU ART THAT.

One who understands the 'SELF' knows that he is not limited to his physical body. This gives him enthusiasm to overcome all his difficulties irrespective of his physical, financial or social condition.

The strength to remove the barriers come in your way to success is within you. What you need is to develop confidence in yourself. The firm belief in your abilities can bring out the strength hidden within you. Self-belief is MANTRA of success.

Cultivate qualities like conviction, hard work, will-power, and self-respect to develop self-confidence. The difference between a successful and  Unsuccessful person is level of self-confidence. The lack of self-confidence makes one weak and low. To remove weakness one needs to believe in his real self. Think that you are not weak but have unlimited strength hidden within you. You just need to bring it out. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness. 

Remember self-confidence is a power which leads you in life. Never think you are weak. You are a power house not just a current.

YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE IS A VALUABLE TREASURE. FIND IT WITHIN YOU.

The treasure hunt

The digging which is going on in UP's Duandia Kheda village in Unnao district in search of 1000 tons of gold has become talk of the day. Everyone is talking about this treasure hunt. Media has given much hype to this digging. 

Many people are eagerly waiting for the day when the treasure will be found. They think that this will end all their problems. No doubt if gold of such a large quantity is obtained from there will strengthen our economy to some extent. But my point is this that why we always depend on some miraculous situation to come out of our problems.

Our problems can be solved by our own efforts. The treasure is within us and the key to this precious treasure is our own KARMA [Deeds]. If we want to bring any change in our lives we need to work hard for this rather than to depend on some miracle to happen.

Swami Vivekanand said " If you have faith in all three hundred and thirty million of your mythological gods,......and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. Have faith in yourselves and stand up on that faith and be strong, that is what we need." So powerful words. 

What we lack is will to bring a change. To change your situation you need to combine your strength with your determination. This is the only way.

Take example of Japan. The country was devastated in bombing in World War 2. But with determination of its people the Japan became a developed country.
Arise, awake and don't stop till the goal is achieved.

Don't waste opportunity

There are so many living beings on this earth but humans are superior of all. What makes us superior to all other living beings. Only human beings are provided with the intelligence to grow in life. We have the power of discrimination, the power to think which helps us to contemplate on our situation. Our senses are much finer than the senses of other living beings. All this is given to help us to  find the goal of our life.

Human body is a boon because only in this body JEEV [Being] has a chance to get emancipation from the cycle of repeated birth and death. It is our duty to get the full advantage of this chance.

But most of us are wasting this boon in mundane things. We are the part and parcel of God. He has given us all his qualities but in  limit. Therefore we qualitatively equal to him but not quantitatively. 

We must utilize these qualities in best way that is in self-realization. We should try to find our real identity. Our real identity is that we all are servitor of GOD. 

The supreme reality of this universe is GOD. So know GOD. Apply your intelligence to know GOD. Your power of discrimination to ascertain what is helpful in knowing GOD and what will impede your progress. 

ALWAYS THINK ABOUT GOD AND HIS GRACIOUSNESS ON YOU. THE MORE YOU WILL THINK ABOUT HIM THE MORE YOU WILL FEEL  HIS PRESENCE IN YOUR LIFE.

Be tolerant

In the present time we are facing so many feuds in the name of religion. when it comes to religion we become over sensitive. Most of us consider our religious identity as our real identity. So if someone says anything objectionable about our religion or does anything to defame it we feel offended. There is a visible increase of religious intolerance among us. This leads to communal riots.

Religious diversity is not a new thing for India. People of different religions and faiths are living here for centuries. This society had adopted them and allowed them to follow their customs.

Why are we becoming so intolerant about other religions. Why we think that the religion we follow is the  best religion and no other religion is equivalent to it. Everybody has a right to live according to his faith. He has a right to feel proud about his religion but no one has a right to claim that all other religions are inferior. One should never say or do something against other persons faith. We try to maintain religious harmony and allow other people freedom to practice his religion.

Religion is integral part of our life. It regulates our life so we can prepare ourselves to connect to GOD. This is the only object of any religion. If we follow our religion without intention to connect ourselves to GOD then it becomes mere dogma and loses its meaning.

A person who follow his religion to know GOD can never do anything which hurts another person's feelings. Our religious identity is not our real identity. We all are creation of GOD. In this way we all are related to each other as children of GOD. Therefore if someone Incommodes other person he commits a crime against GOD.

It is our duty to follow our religion so we can get closer to GOD. But our foremost duty is to serve GOD. The best way to do this is to serve HIS children.