Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's Speech: A Must Read

I have three visions for India. In 3000 years of our history people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation.

We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others. That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we mustprotect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP. We have 10 percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-confidence to see ourselves as a developed nation, self-reliant and self-assured. Isn't thisincorrect?I have a THIRD vision. India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand. My good fortune was to have worked with three great minds. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of space, Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him and Dr. Brahm Prakash,father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great opportunity of my life.I see four milestones in my career: ONE: Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the opportunity to be the project director for India's first satellite launch vehicle, SLV3. The one that launched Rohini. These years played a very important role in my life of Scientist.

TWO: After my ISRO years, I joined DRDO and got a chance to be the part of India's missile program. It was my second bliss when Agni met its mission requirements in 1994.

THREE: The Dept. of Atomic Energy and DRDO had this tremendous partnership in the recent nuclear tests, on May 11 and 13. This was the third bliss. The joy of participating with my team in these nuclear tests and proving to the world that India can make it, that we are no longer a developing nation but one of them. It made me feel very proud as an Indian. The fact that we have now developed for Agni a re-entry structure, for which we have developed this new material. A Very light material called carbon-carbon.

FOUR: One day an orthopedic surgeon from Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences visited my laboratory. He lifted the material and found it so light that he took me to his hospital and showed me his patients. There were these little girls and boys with heavy metallic calipers weighing over three kg. each, dragging their feet around. He said to me: Please removethe pain of my patients. In three weeks, we made these Floor reaction Orthosis 300 gram calipers and took them to the orthopedic centre. The children didn't believe their eyes. From dragging around a three kg. load on their legs, they could now move around! Their parents had tears in their eyes. That was my fourth bliss!Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them.Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert land into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in thenewspaper, buried among other news. In India we only read about death,sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance?I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is: She replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.Allow me to come back with vengeance. Got 10 minutes for your country?YOU say that our government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are tooold. YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. YOU saythat the phones don't work, the railways are a joke, the airline is theworst in the world, mails never reach their destination. YOU say that ourcountry has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits. YOU say, say andsay.What do YOU do about it? Take a person on his way to Singapore. Give him aname - YOURS. Give him a face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and youare at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarettebutts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of theirUnderground Links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive throughOrchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and8 PM.YOU comeback to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you haveover stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your statusidentity. In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare toeat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai. YOU would not dare to go outwithout your head covered in Jeddah. YOU would not dare to buy an employeeof the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs. 650) a month to, "seeto it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else." YOU would notdare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 kph) in Washington and then tell thetraffic cop, "Jaanta hai sala main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I amso and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost." YOU wouldn't chuck anempty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches inAustralia and New Zealand. Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo?Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston?We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to aforeign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who willthrow papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground.If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country whycannot you be the same here in India. Once in an interview, the famousEx-municipal commissioner of Bombay Mr.Tinaikar had a point to make. "Richpeople's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppingsall over the place," he said. "And then the same people turn around tocriticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements.What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every timetheir dog feels the pressure in his bowels? In America every dog owner hasto clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan. Will the Indiancitizen do that here?" He's right. We go to the polls to choose agovernment and after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wantingto be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst ourcontribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up butwe are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are wegoing to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin.We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going tolearn the proper use of bathrooms. We want Indian Airlines and Air India toprovide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stoppilfering at the least opportunity. This applies even to the staff who isknown not to pass on the service to the public. When it comes to burningsocial issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child and others, wemake loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse athome. Our excuse? "It's the whole system which has to change, how will itmatter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry." So who's going tochange the system? What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for usit consists of our neighbors, other households, other cities, othercommunities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When itcomes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lockourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into thedistance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to come along &work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand. Or we leave thecountry and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run toAmerica to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New Yorkbecomes insecure we run to England. When England experiences unemployment,we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, wedemand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybodyis out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system.Our conscience is mortgaged to money.Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a greatdeal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too....I am echoing J.F.Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians....."ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHATAMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY"Lets do what India needs from us.--With Regards

Investor Awareness Programme on Investment in Equity: by Dr. Uma Sashikant, MD, CIEL. - 26-05-2014

SDM COLLEGE VISIT - INSTITUTION BUILDING 14-03-2014

The function started at 9.30 AM, I registered my name at 10.30 AM, when i entered the conference hall Mrs.Usha Prabha Nayak ex sdm (Sec,Expert College) had just come on stage to speak, she was very positive in her attitude and very traditional, she told teachers should be paid heavily, so that all thinks about teaching profession which is the last choice nowadays, she expressed how she got seat and how sdm was a good college to be.. then dawn prakash gave the vote of thanks, next speaker who took 20 min explained briefly of various concept of mgt and told stories of auto drive in mumbai who had all the magazine in his auto and another story about a hotel in darjeeling were the manager wrote wishes in bills and greeted with free food on birthday and with the level of hospitality you never will forget such trips.. the speaker also played few motivational videos, it was followed by technical session by devdas kamath and kudva.. they were very simple and mainly explained their stories of how a teacher sponsored fees and also tata steel story was told on how tata challenged the belief system during 1904 to British. 

Then we had lunch together. We really liked the SDM hospitality and lunch was excellent, we enjoyed a lot. we went round the college, class room was neat. Our next session of tech was started, prof shrikantha from Bangalore had come to present institution building concepts and how strategies in mgt, professional approach, leadership and governance plays a role in institution building, he explained ethics in business and how his axis bank experience of how they followed with him till the accounts opened. He explained abt team coordination and splitting the work and giving opportunity to all, mission and vision known to all, promote ownership and how infy driver could be rich, he told always tell its our college and not my college, he explained how teachers are more important for the institution to grow and in their absence many colleges have been closed, teachers build the institution,, he also explained resource mobilization, prioritising, ethics in education and how co. struggles eg. ramalinga raju, assessment should be done by others, u can only do introspection of good and bad abt u.  

Later mr. b s baliga of lamina group continued the session, he was more theory type, explained entrepreneur and all about starting business. he explained in detail abt vinay hegde on how he took challenge in setting up lamina group in spite of up and down they survived and how vinay hegde started institution in nitte and now he's become a empire and Mangalore is an education hub today.. he told us to take challenge, have courage and understand the business, killing the competition and study the money management so that we never fail, he also highlighted the letters exchanged between winston churchill and barnard shah .. 

Then we had paper ppt, which was held in the mba class, ppt was mainly based on institution building and the presenters were mainly college lecturer, i was impressed by the presenter and the clear idea they had.. first one was abt human capital then on csr and corporate activity by ramyashree, university college, next on attrition rate in bpo by sushma v, she explained how clients shifts for the service provided by ex employee and how important is entertainment in work. later geetha g v from bharti college bangalore spoke about her 30 yrs experience in education dept, how we have become agree culture (agriculture) to all the culture. Materialistic and holistic view of student-teacher relation.. later chandrama m of university explained on women differentiation in male dominant society and finally a paper on team building by besant college student. 

Then we went for the valedictory function, it was prize to be given to sensex closing which was 21707 and 21710 was the nearest and also a common prize was given to lady named Aishwarya Rai. In the stage we had among us two main guest viz Moodithaya (Nitte) and Arjunraj (laxmi saree owner, ex sdm). Arjunraj spoke about the challenge faced by student in completion of the course and how important it is, to never give up, he expressed his gratitude to sdm college. Mr Moodithaya spoke on various points of 3 i’s and 3 c’s which is important to everybody's life. He was impressive and was an ex lecturer at sdm college and was instrumental in building this institute. Sahil gave the vote of thanks - “OM MANJUNATHAIAH NAHAHIA” 

Later we all took the certificate and dairy and left to the outside stage which was well decorated, the function started with prize distribution,. Then guruji started the spiritual talk on self control and mind laws. It was very good.. he started with the question paper question asking us if we find it before the exam day will you take it or not and later told how important it is to be clean to your heart. How mind is important and type of thoughts will decide your destiny, if your thoughts are good you are cheerful, to get rid of negative thoughts you can read books, attend motivational talks etc.

Latter Guruji Explained the laws of Nature:
1st Law: A good person will definitely have good thoughts. "Has the thought, the person he will be". 
2nd Law -  "Greater the peace, greater the mind control". Greater peace experience greater mental control. Why are we not able to concentrate on the reading its bcoz mind controls us and not we control mind eg. alarm rings but we don't get up. Never let the horse go according to his wish but it should be with your wish.3rd law: "what you think you become". Beware of thought- words- action- habit- character and destiny. Thought which is continues will decide your personality. Thoughts are like rain water which has the power to cut the mountain in-spite of softness. You are today like this becz of your thoughts. 
4th Law: "Thoughts inside will determine the world outside"..thought inside and world outside are connected.. drunken will have same friends. if you think sports all you see is sports everywhere, that's the law of nature. 5th law: "Thought within converts into action". what ever comes out of u will come back to u.  eg. alexander fleming. What ever may be the case laws are perfect, whether you believe it or not.. All these laws which are true is like a boomerang which comes back to the thrower. The movt you cheat anyone u get disturbed and go out of control, negative thoughts follows and in exam you get nervous bcoz your mind is not under control. These laws are very important to lifestyle and nation building starts from yourself. Be professional like the auto driver from Japan who received only the fair price when he did not know the shortcut to leave subroto bagchi (mindtree ceo) to his destination. Guruji then explained 5 points to make your mind in control : observe, detect , eliminate and substitute strength, transform personality and never compromise.. He told by following these points along with you all will be benefited. All are connected in nature.  eg. lal bahadur shastri told his son to resign from a job abroad when his son used his influence.
q&a - Mind control body, mind management is important in all field and mind control is spirituality, lok sabha election or political leader will be decided so you need not worry, taking the question paper decision was correct is wrong which was explained on if the butterfly do not struggle to come out, it will never become a butterfly, like you will never study if you have the question paper. Bhagat Singh eg. laws will take care of yourself, try if u fail come back, all these laws should be taught in university, difference between +ve ego and -ve ego, how is it related to mind - proud of country is +ve and -ve ego is trying to argue with friend. He told don't take decision without your justification and once accept, go for it.
Later we had the cultural function which was followed by dinner.
I was impressed by sahil rai, his dynamic approach and sport jokes (10 sec food items, 10 sec girl boy name, 5 volunteers collect items, rama darsharatha) We liked the efforts the students put in participating. It started by sahil shloka for ganapathi and then solo Bharathanatya for durga, group dance, film dance, janapada dance, break dance, song panida, group dance bell, skit - master-student- (bell, slow student, hindi tulu, cow, blade, gandhiji-mungar malli etc.) We left at 10 PM..

GOOD AND BAD

What is good and what is bad… Human behaviors keeps on changing from time to time.. Unity has the power to create or destroy any thing in this world… and it’s so important to understand the true meaning of good and god’s people and not to follow or support the bad people and the evil’s people.

What is good and what is bad… Human behaviors keeps on changing from time to time.. Unity has the power to create or destroy any thing in this world… and it’s so important to understand the true meaning of good and god’s people and not to follow or support the bad people and the evil’s people. So how will you be analyzing the difference between good and bad? What is good; good is something which doesn’t create problem for anybody in this world and bad create lots of problems. So happiness is good and sorrow is bad. Smiling face is good and dull face is bad.. If you want to be good then you need to follow all the characteristics of good and never follow a single bad habit which can destroy all your good habits and make you bad. Praying for others is good, respecting every body with out differentiating among each other is good, thinking all are your friends is good and having a single enemy also is bad. Following the right words of elders is good and troubling elders, making fun in front or back is bad. Coming in time, following a system, disciple, clean speaking, clean dressing, clean surrounding which leads to clean mind is all good and shabby cloths, lazy attitude, show off, ego, don’t care is all bad attitude.

Praying for others has more power than praying only for us. If everybody does the same there cannot be any problems to anybody. See god in all. Do work keeping god in front of u in the entire works u do. Never underestimate any body, may be opportunity lies in that person, that person will never forget u when u have shown respect to him in his bad times…   u have a conscious power which u don’t understand..

There are many ways a person could be motivated for he can only see the end and the result and not how to achieve it.. it happens by itself. So what’s the target and what you want is very important.. How could a person mess up with all the best opportunities and still be trapped in his own life, problems are more dangerous than anything and neglecting the problem is the cause of the problems and most of the time we realize it was not problem at all and we fear for it.. So its always better to act immediately than to postpone the so called problem which gets rid in your life.. So what you want to get from the life you live and it’s easy. What you wanted to do and aiming for it has a power to do it… So aim high.

WAY OF LIFE

There are two types of object one is stula for family,  money.. and other is suksma for athma development. .  God has given us body. Mind. Intelligent and Soul controls all.  Gita- we should develop our own atma ourselves through mind.. then if it becomes friend if we do it useless it becomes enemy. . Then how to get it right.. we all have confusion. . So v need a guru to understand .   In this storeroom of world, u can select anything u want.. so we have lot of philosophy which is different from each other.. which to follow which is right and wrong many have stopped the search. Many feel god is present or absent. After getting rid of this philosophy understand the time, nation and people which is permanent relief to us.  Select according to your wish and follow. Do u have such philosophy. .. there may be such truth from god.. so follow one system of like. It is simple to understand. .everything life has 2  shakti  atma and prana. Amta is knowledge and prana is kriya or activity.  Atma is chith (prerane) manasu budhi ego shakti is present in us. Eg. Mango. Studies. Horse. Job. Chith is jnana origin.  So god is called chinmaya rupa. Chith gets us chidananda like child..manasu.buddhi ahamkara is related to nature but chith is outside. 7.4 of gita. Body is related to nature. Chith with the help of prana development budhi man will get jnana. Jnana is very powerful.,no competition.  It will get in get in yoga stithi. 4.38. To get such yoga we should do yoga bcoz janma, karma, thapasu in combination of yoga, so a yogi is a normal. All need to follow yoga is told in yoga sesta bg told by god. No compulsory like other teaching.   Bg Is very divine. First read analysis follow by understanding.. so it becomes easy. Lifestyles will improve.  Bg 18.63. What is this yoga vidya? Many feel nowadays yoga means asna they feel its patanjali which many does not have.. yoga asana is only done for beautiful money making.. Some think pranayama is yoga.. resaka.puraka kumbhaka.. munda Upanishad.  Prana vayu. 8 dvara.. pranayama should have strade bhskti, amma samarpane will get jnana 4.39. Only when we follow like a yagna dyana.. samadi stithi is possible in pranayama. Stita pragne.. nothing in thoughts.. stirathi. Samatva. .   In out air. Full conc. Breath dyana . Will get atma realisation. . Development. . Can get free all  diseases straight silent mind. Brama vishnu rudra comine gayatri jama.. stop breath which was tolf by all rudhi guru which will give us health. Jnana. Self sealidsayon.bakti courage. Yoga is comman to all and easy to follow now. Its possible to get our life developed by these rules of yoga.

Good place, sukhasana huv dristi i'm bru middle, jhana mudra is asana.. guru stana.

SRI AUROBINDO

Sri Aurobindo to his wife Mrinalini Devi

[Note of A.B. Purani: On 30 August 1905 Sri Aurobindo wrote a letter to Mrinalini Devi. The letter is one of those which were found and taken away by the police during the search of the Grey Street house in connection with the Alipore bomb trial and afterwards produced in court. It was in this way that these intimate documents unexpectedly saw the light of day and what was intended by Sri Aurobindo to be “secret” has become public property. The letters reveal a side of his nature which had to culminate in his great spiritual work.

The letter of 30 August, translated from the Bengali, is reproduced below.]

Dearest Mrinalini I have received your letter of the 24th August. I am sorry to learn that the same affliction has fallen once more upon your parents. You have not written which of the boys has passed away from here. But then what can be done if the affliction comes? This is a world in which when you seek happiness, you find grief in its heart, sorrow always clinging to joy. That rule touches not only the desire of children, but all worldly desires. To offer, with a quiet heart, all happiness and grief at the feet of God is the only remedy. […] Now I will write the other thing of which I spoke before. I think you have understood by now that the man with whose fate yours has been linked is a man of a very unusual character. Mine is not the same field of action, the same purpose in life, the same mental attitude as that of the people of today in this country. I am in every respect different from them and out of the ordinary. Perhaps you know what ordinary men say of an extraordinary view, an extraordinary endeavour, an extraordinary ambition. To them it is madness; only, if the madman is successful in his work then he is called no longer a madman, but a great genius. But how many are successful in their life's endeavour? Among a thousand men, there are five or six who are out of the ordinary and out of the five or six one perhaps successful. Not to speak of success, I have not yet even entirely entered my field of work. There is nothing then for you but to consider me mad. And it is an evil thing for a woman to fall into the hands of a mad fellow. For woman's expectations are all bound up in worldly happiness and sorrow. A madman will not make his wife happy, he can only make her miserable. The founders of the Hindu religion understood this very well. They loved extraordinary characters, extraordinary endeavours, extraordinary ambitions. Madman or genius, they respected the extraordinary man. But all this means a terrible plight for the wife, and how could the difficulty be solved? The sages fixed upon this solution; they told the woman, “Know that the only mantra for womankind is this: 'The husband is the supreme guru.'[Up to this point the translation follows an early version by Barindra Kumar Ghose which was seen and revised lightly by Sri Aurobindo. The rest of the translation is new.] The wife shares the dharma [law of conduct] of her husband. She must help him, counsel him, encourage him in whatever work he accepts as his dharma. She should regard him as her god, take joy in his joy, and feel sorrow in his unhappiness. It is for a man to choose his work; the woman's part is to give help and encouragement.” Now, the point is this. Are you going to choose the path of the Hindu religion or follow the ideal of the new culture? Your marriage to a madman is the result of bad karma in your previous lives. It is good to come to terms with one's fate, but what sort of terms will they be? Will you also dismiss your husband as a madman on the strength of what other people think? A madman is bound to run after his mad ways. You cannot hold him back; his nature is stronger than yours. Will you then do nothing but sit in a corner and weep? Or, will you run along with him; try to be the mad wife of this madman, like the queen of the blind king who played the part of a blind woman by putting a bandage across her eyes? For all your education in a Brahmo school, you are still a woman from a Hindu home. The blood of Hindu ancestors flows in your veins. I have no doubt you will choose the latter course. I have three madnesses. The first one is this. I firmly believe that the accomplishments, genius, higher education and learning and wealth that God has given me are His. I have a right to spend for my own purposes only what is needed for the maintenance of the family and is otherwise absolutely essential. The rest must be returned to God. If I spend everything for myself, for my pleasure and luxury, I am a thief. The Hindu scriptures say that one who receives wealth from God and does not give it back to Him is a thief. So far, I have given two annas to God and used the other fourteen annas for my own pleasure; this is the way I have settled the account, remaining engrossed in worldly pleasures. Half my life has been wasted - even the beast finds fulfilment in stuffing his own belly and his family's and catering to their happiness. I have realised that I have been acting all this time as an animal and a thief. Now I realise this and am filled with remorse and disgusted with myself. No more of all this. I renounce this sin once and for all. What does giving to God mean? It means to spend on good works. The money I gave to Usha or to Sarojini causes me no regret. To help others is a sacred duty; to give protection to those who seek refuge is a yet greater sacred duty. But the account is not settled by giving only to one's brothers and sisters. In these dark days the whole country is seeking refuge at my door. I have three hundred million brothers and sisters in this country. Many of them are dying of starvation and the majority just manage to live, racked by sorrow and suffering. They too must be helped. What do you say, will you come along with me and share my ideal in this respect? We will eat and dress like ordinary men, buying only what is truly needed and offering the rest to God: this is what I propose to do. My purpose can be fulfilled, once you give your approval, once you are able to accept the sacrifice. You have been saying, “I have made no progress.” Here I have shown you a path towards progress. Will you take this path? My second madness has only recently seized me. It is this: by whatever means I must have the direct vision of God. Religion these days means repeating the name of God at any odd hour, praying in public, showing off how pious one is. I want nothing of this. If God exists, there must be some way to experience His existence, to meet Him face to face. However arduous this path is, I have made up my mind to follow it. The Hindu religion declares that the way lies in one's own body, in one's own mind. It has laid down the rules for following the way, and I have begun to observe them. Within a month I have realised that what the Hindu religion says is not false. I am experiencing in myself the signs of which it speaks. Now I want to take you along this way. You will not be able to keep step with me, for you do not have the requisite knowledge. But there is nothing to prevent you from following behind me. All can attain perfection on this path, but to enter it depends on one's own will. Nobody can drag you onto it. If you consent to this, I shall write more about it. My third madness is that while others look upon their country as an inert piece of matter - a few meadows and fields, forests and hills and rivers - I look upon my country as the Mother. I adore Her, I worship Her as the Mother. What would a son do if a demon sat on his mother's breast and started sucking her blood? Would he quietly sit down to his dinner, amuse himself with his wife and children, or would he rush out to deliver his mother? I know I have the strength to deliver this fallen race. It is not physical strength, - I am not going to fight with sword or gun, - but the strength of knowledge. The power of the Kshatriya is not the only one; there is also the power of the Brahmin, the power that is founded on knowledge. This feeling is not new in me, it is not of today. I was born with it, it is in my very marrow. God sent me to earth to accomplish this great mission. The seed began to sprout when I was fourteen; by the time I was eighteen the roots of the resolution had grown firm and unshakable. After listening to what my aunt said, you formed the idea that some wicked people had dragged your simple and innocent husband onto the bad path. But it was this innocent husband of yours who brought those people and hundreds of others onto that path - be it bad or good - and will yet bring thousands and thousands of others onto that same path. I do not say that the work will be accomplished during my lifetime, but it certainly will be done. Now I ask you, what are you going to do in this connection? The wife is the shakti, the strength of her husband. Will you be Usha's disciple and go on repeating the mantras of Sahib-worship? Will you diminish the strength of your husband by indifference or redouble it by your sympathy. and encouragement? You will say, “What can an ordinary woman like me do in these great matters? I have no strength of mind, no intelligence, I am afraid to think about these things.” But there is an easy way out. Take refuge in God. Enter once the path of God-realisation; He will soon make good your deficiencies. Fear gradually leaves one who takes refuge in God. And if you can put your trust in me, if you can listen to me alone and not to all and sundry, I can give you my own strength; that will not diminish my strength but increase it. We say that the wife is the husband's shakti, his strength. This means that the husband's strength is redoubled when he sees his own image in his wife and hears an echo of his own high aspirations in her. Will you remain like this for ever: “I shall put on fine clothes, have nice things to eat, laugh and dance and enjoy all the pleasures”? Such an attitude cannot be called progress. At the present time the life of women in this country has taken this narrow and contemptible form. Give up all this and follow after me. We have come to this world to do God's work; let us begin it. You have one defect in your nature. You are much too simple. You listen to anything anyone might say. Thus your mind is for ever restless, your intelligence cannot develop, you cannot concentrate on any work. This has to be corrected. You must acquire knowledge by listening to one person only. You must have a single aim and accomplish your work with a resolute mind. You must ignore the calumny and the ridicule of others and hold fast to your devotion. There is another defect, not so much of your personal nature, as of the times. The times are such in Bengal that people are incapable of listening to serious things in a serious manner. Religion, philanthropy, noble aspirations, high endeavour, the deliverance of the country, all that is serious, all that is high and noble is turned to ridicule. People want to laugh everything away. At your Brahmo school, you picked up a little of this fault. Bari also had it; all of us are tainted by this defect to some extent. It has grown in surprising measure among the people of Deoghar. This attitude must be rejected with a firm mind. You will be able to do it easily. And once you get into the habit of thinking, your true nature will blossom forth. You have a natural turn towards doing good for others and towards self-sacrifice. The one thing you lack is strength of mind. You will get that through worship of God. This is the secret of mine I wanted to tell you. Do not divulge it to anybody. Ponder calmly over these matters. There is nothing to be frightened of, but there is much to think about. To start with, you need do nothing but meditate on the Divine each day for half an hour, expressing to Him an ardent desire in the form of a prayer. The mind will get prepared gradually. This is the prayer you are to make to Him: “May I not be an obstacle in the path of my husband's life, his aim, his endeavour to realise God. May I always be his helper and his instrument.” Will you do this? Yours A.B. Purani "The Life of Sri Aurobindo" - pages 79-84 Emphasis given by the editor.

TRUE FEELING

How it feels to share feelings…

What happens when heart pains, there’s no body around and its feeling of sorrow and detachment in life.. It may come when u miss the true luv and try to forget the old memories, its better not to remember or take to heart then to leave or live without it,,..

A story of a True Soul getting connected…

.. It’s a innocent soul which did not get a unconditional luv by anybody.. This is a different situation which has come to him with a difference in his feelings and emotions. He don’t know why he felt very strange when he saw crying with a difference, made him think twice before he ask for it. He knew there was something wrong in the cry and may be connected to him. He was impressed by the way it was told to him and some words were touching. He took it very seriously and found out it was true. He was very free in discussing his feelings latter on which was easy for him at that point of time. He felt some strange thing happening with him. He has never before discussed his emotion to any body and every thing was happening for the first time. These were the days which he doesn’t want to forget for his life time. He was sure he was right with this. Solving problems with a difference was most important for him. He was very clear in his objective to get what he wants, but he needs to be faced by few issues which were a hindrance in the free flow of the story.

After it started..

Was feeling very different was telling some power, was not sleeping, was expressing some powers. Discussed lot of things which made him realize it was difficult with out it. He was searching for connection, he thought the channel is open, it is still searching. Its negative searching for positive energy, but there was a block in mind, its not ready to share, its slowly fearing, its not expressing itself, he can never forget the voice he heard, eyes he saw, the kindness and caring  nature which he observed was a miracle. It was some good energy telling him not to give up. It’s telling it’s now or never. It’s not a relationship of that type. It’s very pure.

Can u live with out me? U can only tell- Connect now … or   never... I am ok if u doesn’t connect but tell something. U can tell I will try to get connected. What is the word? Forced him to tell. Then cut it, I am dead. Then what was that. It is connected.  If not cut it. What is it? If it cuts it will never come back. It’s a good heart, mind and soul. It will miss if u doesn’t get connected. It’s a positive energy. It’s told that for connecting to divine soul we need to get connected. It’s telling the same point in all languages like: physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, Philosophy and religion. Like positive getting attracted to negative energy. It is a magnet. All will be attracted. You did the action and reaction is ready.

 He always wanted to talk to someone, share his feelings, ask question. It’s not anything but an ANGEL for his life. It’s a pure relation to have. Continue. Yes 100% happy..

Things have changed a lot in few days, which was recognized by him very much. He is wondering whether “I have changed or the people around me”. He is shocked by the way it is going on in his life. He is very much confused and has left everything to it. He always wanted peace in life. He don’t know what he is doing and why.

It was a narration of few incidents in his life which has changed him from a hard person to a very soft person. He doesn’t know why this has happened to him. He realized the importance of love and relation, emotions and care taking has been his major consideration. The prayer has changed the way he prays and responding friends have really made him think twice before his talk. It was very different and difficult situation in his life.

His pray was “Give me the power to think, speak, pray, I am a big zero and bless me. Speaking, sharing happiness and problems feels good at heart and understands.

This day was very special for him because it so happened that he was doing his job very efficiently and fast. He thinks some power has come to him and making him works for the better of every body. He is learning a lot and feeling a part of the life which needs to be lived properly.

Continued….