Birhday on 5th May 2011

क्या कुछ लिखना है इकतालीस वर्षो के बाद,

लगता है कि जीवन का एक अध्याय पूर्णता की ओर है ?

कुछ लोग, कभी - कभी कहते है हास्य में,

कि ईश्वर ने आदमी को ४० वर्षो की आयु ही प्रदान की थी |

मुझे क्या लगता है इससे किसी को क्या फर्क पड़ता है ?

लेकिन आदमी की तलाश सारी उम्र इसी हालात की है,

कि उसके अच्छा लगने की लोग चिंता करे,

आए और पूछे कि आपको क्या अच्छा लगता है और फिर वैसा करे |

कभी कभी लगता है कि क्या मेरे भीतर भी कुछ होता है ?

या सब कुछ सिर्फ बाहर ही होता रहता है ?

लगता है कि केवल भावना है भीतर और तथ्य है सारे बाहर,

लेकिन सब कहते है कि भावुकता में कुछ नहीं रखा है |

भावना को मिले समष्टि का आधार, तो फिर बन जाती है सवेंदनशीलता,

और इससे ही खुल जाता है द्वार, मानव मस्तिष्क के विकास का |

भाव की व्यापकता से प्राप्त हो सकता है बोध इस ब्रह्माण्ड का,

और हो सकता है ज्ञान निज स्वरुप और अपनी आत्मा का |

जानना क्यों चाहता है मानव कुछ और, क्या पर्याप्त नहीं है अपना घर-परिवार,

क्यों भटकता है मन किसी और के लिए, जबकि व्यस्तता पहले से ही है अपार,

सीमित है संसाधन, ढूंढ़ता किसे यह मन, प्यास बुझती क्यों नहीं है ?

इतना सुख चारो ओर से, लेकिन आवाज कहीं ओर से आती क्यों रही है ?

कुछ ऐसा करने की तमन्ना है जो कि अब तक किया नहीं है,

घर से, ऑफिस से, कुटुंब ओर मित्रो से, मिला क्या नहीं है ?

कुछ मिलने से ज्यादा सीखने की चाह है,

पाने से ज्यादा मिटने की चाह है |

अपनी चाहत को पाने की राह पर, चलने में अभी देर है,

सात वर्ष और अभी करना यहाँ उलटफेर है |

हर दिन सिलना और हर रात उधेड़ देना,

हर दिन वही पुराना, खेल, खेल लेना |

अभ्यास से पूर्णता और फिर निवृत्ति,

ऐसी ही बनी रहे यदि वृत्ति,

संभव हो सकेगा अपने लक्ष्य को पाना,

और समय आने पर दूर चले जाना |

स्थान, समय तो हमारी भाषा है,

हमें जीवन के परे भी जीने की आशा है,

लेकिन इस जगत के विद्यालय से आगे बढ़ने की आशा,

खत्म कर देगी इस जीवन की शेष सभी आशा |

Past Life Regression

Last week on 30th April and 1st May, there was an interesting workshop in Hotel Fern, Jaipur. Dr. Newton Kodaveti (www.liferesearchacademy.com) and his wife Laxmi conducted this workshop to make the participants learn and have a glimpse of past life. Out of curiosity, I also joined. If you have watched a TV serial on NDTV 'Raj Pichle Janam ka', it was something like that. There were different sessions to identify and link your present time illness, fear and relationship issue with your past life.

Some of the participants were really enthusiastic and were able to identify themselves as soldier, boxer, healer, attorney or saint in past life. With many different sessions for meditation, it was a good start for many participants. By linking your present life problems with past life, you may learn acceptance and feel that you are getting fruit of your own deeds. It will help you in handling the situation in better way in present life.

Most of it is what our elders talk in general. When a child is young, looking at his or her traits, elders comment that he was this or that in his past life. Looking at extraordinary knowledge, it is considered to be from past life. There are many instances when people remembered their past birth and facts could be verified as well.

Anyways, it's a good idea to know more about what's happening around us in present life. It may not be right to assume that there was nothing before this life and nothing will be after this life. Hindu, Jain, Boddha always believe in rebirth concept. A person may get a lot of clues about his past life by looking at his interests, dreams, familiar feelings about places, people or objects.

Many of us don't have time for meditation or any such thing. But when we want to make best use of our time, we must remember there is only one life and check our day that we are repeating the same routine for most of the day. Then why don't we take a chance and try something new, even if it has no meaning. Life's meaning is within us and meditation is only way to go inside. All other methods of knowledge are talking of outside world. The whole universe is inside us and what we see outside is just reflection of the same. That's the only reason that the same situation is interpreted in different ways by different people.

Pearls of wisdom from Warren Buffet

"I look for three qualities in people I do business with - intelligence, passion and integrity. But God forbid, if the integrity of the person is questionable and the man is highly intelligent, it can lead to worse scenario".

IS SALARY PAYMENT ENOUGH FOR AN EMPLOYEE ?

An employee gets salary against his time devoted to his company, but the question is that if it is enough to get salary against time?

To answer it, let's look at - Time. Time is essentially LIFE in other words. LIFE is TIME available to a person in his lifetime. So the question is what is real value for LIFE. Life's purpose is ENJOY THE MOMENT. To deliver value out of life, one has to enjoy it.

Now the question is how does one enjoy. The universal phenomenon is that one enjoys while one learns. That's why even the best enjoyment gets boring after repetitions. The feeling to know something, still unknown is the cause of enjoyment.

So the value of time can not be adjusted with salary payments. The only way to get paid for time, is that the employee is learning at his job. So the key is to learn, if you want to get real value out of your job.

HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY WHEN NEWS ARE GETTING WORSE!

If you read history, you will find nothing new!




HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. THE LIFE GOES IN CYCLE.



The universe is always same. A continuous stream of events is happening and repeating again and again. The whole purpose of this universe is to let us be happy forever. To reach to ultimate joy, is the whole purpose of life.



'Getting sad over what's happening' is not different than 'getting sad during a bad dream'. According to Hindu philosophy this whole world is a dream with open eyes.



Nothing is permanent here. So when you are so happy about some thing, just remember that it will pass away. When you are so sad about something, just remind yourself that it will pass away.



Big events/ articles/ achievements can make you happy for sometime but only after a long period of struggle and with passage of time, the happiness evaporates.



On the other hand there are so many small things/events which can make you happy again and again. At some point in life you find that there is less struggle and more peace. Getting happy with small things and ignoring what makes you sad, is the key to happiness. In the disasters, when you feel an urge to do something, do your bit and you will be happy. Life is difficult when you try to live with your mind. It becomes easier when you ignore bad and get happiness from small actions/events. There are many creatures like honeybee who have shorter life span and bigger struggles, still we praise them. Our happiness is an internal matter and it has got little to do with external events.



When we raise this question, why is it so and feel helpless then we become sad. If we accept that it is so because it is to be so, then we are just calm and will see what should be done at our end. Some of us are happy with leading people to change, some of us are happy contributing some money to needy ones, some of us are happy to contribute time (voluntary services) and some of us just keep on talking or keep on thinking about it. We have to understand our own nature and act accordingly. When we act according to our nature, we become happy.

Bhagawat Katha Programme at Badrinath (Uttarakhand) 2011

Women’s tears kill men's sex drive

(ANI,Jan 7, 2011)

They say tears are woman's best arsenal – and they probably are – for they are powerful enough to dampen a man's sexual arousal, according to a new study.

According to Noam Sobel, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, tears contain chemical signals that decrease sexual arousal and testosterone levels in men, reports Nature.

In the study, men were asked to sniff vials containing either the women's tears or saline that had been applied to their cheeks.

Results showed that men who sniffed the tears perceived those women as sexually less attractive than did men who sniffed saline.

And men who took a whiff of tears (and not saline) reported a decrease in sexual arousal. These men also reported reduced activity in the areas of brain that are associated with sexual arousal, such as the hypothalamus.

"I think the study has used sound methodology and the results indeed are fascinating. But as far as I know, there is no clear logical, theoretical or empirical justification to design a study on the effects of tears on sex," Nature quoted Ad Vingerhoets, who studies emotion at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, as saying.

Interestingly, on the other hand, tears are considered to heighten empathy and induce caring behaviour, and they act as sexual attractants in mice but decrease sexual arousal in humans.

Denise Chen, who studies human olfaction at Rice University in Houston, Texas, said that to explore whether tears evoked by different emotions have different effects, the researchers should also perform experiments in which they elicit happy weeping, or neutral tears caused by allergens or irritants such as onions.

She concluded, "overall, as a first study, it's very exciting and it suddenly opens the door for a lot more studies in the future".