CULTIVATING “MIND FARM”

It is only in right soil and with right seed, a healthy plant grows. Even if, a healthy seed is planted in unfertile sand, an unhealthy plant grows. Similarly, if mind is unenlightened, even if good thoughts are seeded, the actions will be negative.

Mind has to be cultivated first and then thoughts are to be sown. “Environment, education and experience will teach us in maintaining fertility of our mind”, says Shiv Khera.

Every men has right cultivable mind but they don’t have knowledge to maintain fertility. Even with positive “mind farm”, due to the action of negative environment, there will be development of useless “thought weeds”. Alienating ourselves and thinking inner into our mind through mediation will aid in shifting toward right path even with wrong belief. So, maintaining fertile mind is interminable continuous training process. It is difficult to follow but endless is useful advantages that accrue to us.

Books are valued based on contents they own. Similarly, people are valued depending on beliefs they imbibe.

QUOTE: “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” - Brian Tracy

PRESCRIPTION TOWARDS BETTER LIVING

A doctor was met by a patient; he spoke to the doctor as follow, “Doctor, my health condition is very weak. I couldn’t feel energetic and interested in any activities. Due to this, I fail in every accomplishment.” The doctor made complete medical check up and found no problem with his physical health but his problem was with mental health. The doctor said that the problem his patient face was universal phenomenon which every people afflicted on earth and he gave a prescription sheet and asked his patient to follow until his death.

The prescription sheet had following description:
“Be strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
Make all friends feel that you appreciate their good qualities and strengths.
Look at the sunny side of everything.
Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.
Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the achievements of the future.
Give everyone a smile.
Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”

QUOTE: “All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination; Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.” - Napoleon Hill

POSITION, BIRTH DOESN’T DECIDES DESTINATION

A poor student was often humiliated by his rich friends, “Hey, You will not achieve above us, because, you are from a poor family. You should be always below us.” This continuous abusing made this ignorant child to become educationally and emotionally weak. One day, the principal of the school call upon the poor boy and queried about his ill-performance. The student replied, “Respected sir! Since I am an offshoot of a poor family, my performance is poor.”

Principal moved by boy’s ignorance, replied with empathetic smile, “Son, you know, it is not the colour of balloon that makes it to fly high, but the gas inside the balloon propels it higher. Colour, sects, status, religion etc, doesn’t decide men to achieve indomitable feats in life, but it’s their intrinsic drive that vitalizes them to achieve insurmountable achievements.”

The boy understood his capability and rose higher beyond his peers in education, sports, etc, and in every competitive accomplishment.

What is capable by one human is capable by all! The only difference lies in positive qualities for success, which we need to possess, to achieve like our forerunners. For achieving average success, we require average talents. But, for achieving super success, we require super talents. The super talents are acquirable through positive character and attitudes like honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, love and the like.

QUOTE: “What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.” - Anthony Robbins

EFFICIENCY WITHOUT GOD’S SUFFICIENCY IS DEFICIENCY

Life is not a bed of roses. It is filled with conquerable challenges, not difficulties. Most of them fail to realize that there is an omnipotent power to guide us throughout our life. It is pervasive soul GOD, THE ALMIGHTY.

In Mahabharatha, at the start of the war, Duryodhana and Arjuna went to Lord Krishna, to seek his support in order to empower their army strength.

Since both Duryodhana and Arjuna were Krishna’s relatives, he couldn’t support any one side. But, he gave an option; one can opt for mighty unconquerable armies or lonely unarmed Krishna.
Since Arjuna was the younger of the two, he was given first priority to select the options.

Arjuna opted for Lord Krishna and spoke, “Lord, you are the only mighty power in this world. I seek your guidance throughout this battle.”

Duryodhana overjoyed in observing Arjuna’s action and immediately selected, “Lord, I want the mightiest army with powerful horses, elephants and heavier weapons to manipulate my strength.”

Thus Lord Krishna was there with Arjuna throughout the battle by serving as a chariot rider and also gave Bhagavad Gita to the world. He was sole responsible for Pandavas defeating Kauravas with warfare stratagem. This is the reality. Though, one may get submerged into the ocean of troubles, Lord, The ALMIGHTY act as a life ship to recover us from disturbing pains. Man has to think that whenever they feel their life as a struggle, they should surrender themselves to God. He will guide us throughout our life. We have to do our duty constantly; Lord will lend his guiding hand surely. This is only way to succeed.

We have to put at least a little faith on God and this will make the world a better place to live in.

Success equation:
SUCCESS = HARD WORK (20%) +CONFIDENCE (15%) + TALENT (15%) + FAITH IN GOD (50%).

There may be hundred supporting pillars in life like constructing a building but God’s guidance will be the foundation pillar.
- K.V.O. DIVYA LAKSHMI

QUOTE: “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.” - Norman Vincent Peale

DISCRIMINATING SELECTORS

When 1 rupees and 1 crore rupees is spread before us, which will be our selection option? It will be our tendency to select higher monetary value. This is in the case of tangible situation.
In intangible instance, why do we select a negative thought which doesn’t value even 1paisa over positive thoughts which instigate actions towards earning large quantum of riches?

Thoughts are powerful impulse which helps us to achieve impossible accomplishments. Thoughts initiates, action follows. Meditation is a process of creating a dominating thought in your mind. So, through meditation, we can maintain positive thoughts or attitude to dominate over others.
Such practise is simple to teach but difficult to follow. People, who understood such concepts and followed, achieved success beyond others.

Once we become good selectors of thoughts, we achieve good guiding intrinsic personality. Continuous selection of positive thoughts will conquer negative deleterious thoughts and will aid our innate character. Destination towards success will be smooth and joyous, if the path is easy to traverse. Positive thoughts and attitude will modify difficult path into simple one.

This will be one of the best prescriptions towards imaginary illness afflicted in our society. Last but no means least, conquer our thoughts to conquer our life.

QUOTE: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

RESERVATION TO HEAVEN

Swami Vivekananda advocated a special form of worship which he prescribed as “Service to man is the visible manifestation of the Godhead.” God decides position in heaven not how much a person devoted to him but how much he is devoted to his fellow members. God acts as our saviour by his incarnation as our fellow-men. Worldly existence estimates us through external expressions while super-natural existence determines us through internal expressions.

A perplexed angel went to Godhead and asked, “What are the deeds a man should perform to attain God’s abode?” The God directed the angel to observe two men on earth. First man was a rich, God fearing, and a self-centred personality. But, second man was a poor, an Atheist, and a benevolent personality.

Usually, rich man devoted most of his time, money towards adoration to God. But, he never utilised his money in charity. His devotion towards God was basically a selfish motive. However, poor, atheist person visits temples forsake of his family, but never used his meagre income on oblations. However, whenever possible he devoted part of his income toward well-being of his fellow-men. The two men died in their old age. First man attained hell while the second attained heaven.

QUOTE: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle

RIGHT VISION GIVES RIGHT DIRECTION

“G O D I S N O W H E R E”
When an atheist is asked to read above letters, he may read it as “GOD IS NO WHERE.” However, a religious follower may read it as “GOD IS NOW HERE.”

Everything depends on the way, we view our life. Life on earth may be a heaven or hell depending on the direction of our vision.

A leading electronic company was making phenomenal development in every sphere. There were large number employees devoting themselves for improvement of the company and received higher income compared to its competitors. Due to recession in country’s economy, the company’s uprising profit margin recessed and it started to show negative growth rate. Observing loss of opportunity and fall in income, large number of employees relinquished their job and moved towards a better opportunity. But, a group of employees observed recession as an opportunity and started to work with greater intense than before. They utilised new ideas which was earlier refused by stubborn employers. The falling company now started to rise from its recession slope. The visionary group promoted new products and introduced new ventures. After continuous hardwork, the company attained a higher position which it once envisioned. The group of opportunity seekers now attained formidable position in the company eventhough, they didn’t have appropriate educational qualification.

Success accrues to one who observes failure with right attitude. With persistence as one limb to success, attitude is the other. Stronger our vision towards our destination, stronger is our possibilities towards our destination.

QUOTE: “Our greatest glory is not ever failing but in rising up every time we fail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

SUPERSTARS OF LIFE

How certain people deviate themselves from others and achieve indomitable feats in life? Such people are called super-achievers and if we observe closely, they will be conquerors of their life. They enslave their mind and make it work for them. Scientific advancement helped us in the materialistic knowledge of various devices, machines, etc, similarly, spiritual advancement will help us to conquer our mind and help us to steer in the right direction.

Many times, we get enslaved to foods, electronic gadgets, drugs etc, which shows we get defeated in an intangible dispute. We get conquered by such weak forces, just like an ant destroying a lion.

Senses are our slaves, we should make it work but not we get worked by it. All negative influences like anger, jealousy, procrastination etc, would be pleasing to senses under certain situation will conquer us and destroy us.

We can divert our thoughts and promote it in right direction by a management strategy. When we experience certain thoughts, observe whether it has any monetary value to us at present or future. For instance, viewing sensually appealing pictures never value a paisa to us, so prevent such vision. Recurrently, following such practise will yield a better personality compared to our native personality.

An automobile will move towards desired destination only when it has a complete controlling mechanism. Similar behaviour occurs with mind. We are the drivers of “our mental vehicle”. Destroy every intuition created by senses and promote thoughts by our head power. We are kings of senses and not its slaves.

QUOTE: “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.” - Earl Nightingale

PURITY OF MOTHER’S LOVE

A mother had an obsessional intension of making her son a collector. During kinder garden school, her son didn’t show any phenomenal growth in intelligence as his peers. He couldn’t comprehend even simple alphabets, numbers, her teachers teach. One day, the principal of the school called upon the farsighted mother and said, “Madam, your son seems to require some special education. I think our school doesn’t have efficient trainers to educate your son. So, we kindly request you to quit your son from our school.”

The mother’s dream was demolished by the principal’s request. She couldn’t understand her son’s incapability. She consulted with a pioneer psychological physician in order to identify his incompetence. After complete analysis, the physician diagnosed a problem of chronic dyslexia. The doctor then informed the mother that her son didn’t have sufficient inborn intelligence as normal child.

The mother’s dream was shattered into pieces as a rain drop in ocean water. She didn’t want her son to be segregated in life compared to others. Unlike normal mother, she developed an action plan which revolutionized field of education to dyslexic children. Using internet as guidance, learning medical concepts about learning difficulties through books, and with complete faith in love, she designed an education pattern which transformed a dyslexic child into a normal child capable of achieving indomitable feats in life. He completed his schooling and graduated through his mother’s training.

He came out as a successful candidate in public service commission examination and achieved once insurmountable destination with fervid guidance and love of his mother.

After he became a collector, he explained his mother achievement to one of the pioneer university in India. The university honoured the mother who had never graduated with an honorary doctorate degree.

Though this is an imaginary story, it is designed to deliver purity of mother’s love. Mother’s love uplift human in character and destroy insurmountable feats.

QUOTE: “The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.” - Napoleon Hill

ABODE OF GOD

A perplexed man went to his spiritual teacher and asked, “Would you define a place, where I could find the presence of God?” The teacher requested the man to proceed towards the highest altitudes, where scriptures describe the God’s presence. The student followed his teacher’s direction.

He travelled towards the highest terrains of snow clad mountains and he was overjoyed in observing real abode of God. After reaching the highest summit, he observed God’s form available in the top peak. He was unsatisfied in viewing God’s figure. Again his mind got confused in God’s presence; he started to travel down the snow covered mountains.

Then his region experienced a heavy snow storm. He got struck under the heavy snow formation and he was about to die. He believed in God’s guidance and cried continuously, “My dear God, save me!” Our Government had earlier deployed some military rescue personnel to save the trekkers who have got struck in snow storm. They saved him from death.

As he was travelling towards his native town, he was deprived of money needed for his daily sustenance. His health condition became so weak and he begged God to save him. Within viewable distance, he observed two religious men providing free meals to the needy and they saved this starved soul.
Then a spark struck on his mind, “God’s form is available in high peak of mountains but his soul lives in every heart of humans.”

People are in search of God from the highest peak of mountains to deep trenches in oceans. It is sure; they couldn’t find one, since he lives in form of living organisms. God’s human-like figure in churches, temples etc, portrays his real abode in human’s mind. Our worldly attachments have made our senses to lose the conscious to observe God in minds of men. God guides us through his presence in form of parents and teachers, saves us in his manifestation in form of doctors, police, military, politicians etc,

QUOTE: “Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.” - Jim Rohn

PEACE IN LIFE THROUGH PEACE IN MIND

Every religion describes attainment of God’s feet after death will be the highest purpose of human life. Similarly, during our life, our highest purpose should be attainment of peace of mind. Peace of mind guided by attitude and character is needed for better living. Attitude and character are two limbs of complete formation of peace of mind. Making our mind void of thoughts through meditation is one way towards peace of mind.

Even a rich man is void without peace of mind. Success achievers devote themselves for their purpose, but never compensate peace of mind for anything. Purpose guided by peace of mind will be their ultimate objective. Water can be compared with mind. “We can swim swiftly only in calm water, but not in an agitated waters.”

A grandson asked his rich grandfather, “Dear papa, what was your secret behind your success?” Grandfather replied, “I don’t know the way to succeed, but I know the way towards peace in life.”

By making our mind peaceful, we make ours and others peaceful. When peace of mind is ultimate objective, money, position, and ego lose its value. Many saints and seers in India, who were opulent once, have sacrificed their riches for sake of peace of mind through religious salvation. Only through clear sky, light penetrate. Similarly, through clear mind happiness flourishes. We are not losers of anything in life except peace of mind. So, we don’t require just rich, prosperous nations, but happy, peaceful nations in the world.

QUOTE:
“You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.”
- Rumi

EMPOWER MIND POWER

We are formed not in the way our mind designs thoughts, but the way we control our thoughts. Mind will produce thoughts depending on situation, but we should use attitude to transmute our thoughts. Mind within us doesn’t represent our original constituent, just like sand mixed with water. We are different from our mind and body.

Saints describe our nature is pure in quality. But, we get biased with mind and body and consider ourselves impure. Just an ignorant considers air inside our body is one of our ingredients.

So, we are not a weak personality, as we think. We are capable of doing impossible feats in life. People who have identified this law have succeeded in life. Those limitations created by our minds are imaginary and self-imposed. But, we can co-ordinate our mind and body, to stimulate it towards particular destination.

“Mind and body will become our subordinates through our will-power”, says Swami Vivekananda. “Joy and happiness incur to one, who eliminates worldly thoughts and makes mind void”, this is principle of spiritual meditation. Similarly, success meditation involves diverting worldly thoughts and concentrating on our purpose. Success is formation of definite aims, with intelligent plans executed with action, guided with mental attitude. Advancement in human civilization was possible by understanding the behaviour of mind. Conquer our mind to conquer our life.

QUOTE: “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” - Buddha

HELPING IN DISGUISE

There were ten street dogs living near our college hostel. Their sustenance was the residues from our hostel mess. Out of ten dogs, one dog had some problem with its leg bone. As days passed, its leg started to bend and it was finding difficult to walk. Other dogs mocked and said, “You are nearing to death!” Worried about its future, it went to an old dog and exclaimed, “Why God is so cruel to me, although I had lived a virtuous life?” The old dog replied, “Whatever difficulties you experience now will have effect in future. God’s intentions are incomprehensible”.

The dog was finding difficult to find food of its daily need while others lived a better life. Taking pity on its physical appearance, a hostel mess worker helped the dog by providing food. The dog started to live along with mess worker while other dogs lived by themselves.

One day, I couldn’t find any dog in our hostel ambience. From my friends, I was informed that college authorities have sought help from municipal to confiscate the street dogs and kill it, because they felt it was disturbing. I feared about the state of the dog with physical deformities. But next day, I could observe the dog playing with the hostel mess worker. The dog was saved by the hostel mess worker from slaying by municipal workers.

There is a truth in above story: We may think, “Why god doesn’t help humans in poverty ridden life? Does God is partial in dealing with humans!”

No, we fail to observe the real expression of the God’s helping hand. Humans who identify his “helping in disguise” will sustain the onslaught of time. A lovable mother never intends her son to have difficult life. When we closely observe our life, we can observe the God’s guidance in every accomplishment.

QUOTE: "To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work." - Sister Mary Lauretta

ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH CO-EXISTENCE

What made much scientific development in world in past 100 hundred years compared to 1000 years? It was collaboration of knowledge across various countries through information technology. Development through isolation is an impossible belief, which had existed during ancient period.

Development through co-existence is need of an hour. We can’t develop in life without development of others. Mutual symbiotic relationship will yield a higher vitalized life than individual segregated life. Greatly renowned intellectuals are formed by learning from their experience and experience of others, by living in harmony with others. In war strategies, enemy’s stratagem will be to destroy opponent’s army harmony relationship, in order to defeat them. A strong lion fears to attack a herd of oxen. Below is a story which describe the importance of teamwork,

Two unemployed graduates were sitting worried in a park fearing about their future. One was an engineering graduate while another was a management graduate. Observing their frequent presence in the park and worried face, a poor uneducated intelligent youth queried about their grief. After conversing about their past, a bright idea sparked in uneducated youth’s mind and thought of utilising their knowledge. After gaining two unemployed youth’s acknowledgement, he formulated plans for formation of an organisation, which produced products for mosquito culling. With the knowledge of engineer, they produced instrument which destroyed blood sucking mosquitoes and made the products available in market, by manager’s acquaintance guided by poor intelligent youth’s idea. Since, the product was cheap and user friendly, it attracted market and their company grown from single product manufacturer to multi-product manufacturing firm and listed as one of the best from the rest.
From this story, we understand that if an intelligent youth had not taken initiative, knowledge of two youths would have got wasted. Without knowledge of two educated youths, the company wouldn’t have shown any phenomenal development. This is importance of mutual synergetic living.

QUOTE: "The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." – Arthur Brisbane

DEPLETED PHYSICALLY BUT NOT MENTALLY

Mr. Kumar had a daughter whose leg was crippled in an accident. One day, Kumar was chatting with his rich friends. The opulent friends asked Kumar, “Your position in life will be higher if you haven’t had a handicapped daughter”. Kumar unknown of his daughter’s presence replied, “Her treatment impoverished my life.”

This conversation affected physically weak child into a multi-millionaire visionary. She exceeded in every accomplishment whatever she undertook, because her motive was to defeat her father’s belief. Though her limbs were weak her mind was not weak. After her college education, her goal was to start a cosmetic industry to produce world-class products. She was a bio-tech graduate from a pioneer university. She gained exposure about new nature friendly cosmetic products by working in research and development departments of various skin-health companies. She believed her presence advancement would affect her future establishment.

She shared her vision with her friends and conglomerated their talents to form a cosmetic industry. Whenever she felt her body was deprived physically, she got motivated to thrash her father’s words. She envisioned a company which had an interaction between college-industry partnerships. Media propagated her initiative on viewing her mental stiffness.

Her firm developed into a multi-national company in a short span of five years. Her products were encouraged at various countries because of importance on nature friendly, less toxic content, user-friendly approach. Her company was listed as leading cosmetic industry and made her one of the richest woman in the world.

In order to acclaim her indomitable feat, her father organized a party where his friends gathered. In his conversation, he spoke as below, “My opulence in life wouldn’t have formed without my daughter.”

QUOTE: “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.” - Zig Ziglar

AZIM PREMJI'S IDEAS TOWARDS SUCCESS

Above picture depicts a rule to succeed: outward force that propels success is less, but intrinsic drive should be high to aid success. The inner vitalizing force helps us to remove “im” from “impossible”. Strong trees drill deep into the sand to sustain at the top. So, are humans.

Everyone likes to succeed, but certain people succeed in life. Success can be achieved by anyone, if we follow certain principles in life. One way, we can do it to analyse the path put forward by the super-achievers and formulate our own path. Mr. Azim Premji, Wipro chairman, guides us with his ideas towards success:
1.Be alert for the first signs of change
2.Anticipate change even when things are going right
3.Always look at the opportunities that change represents
4.Do not allow to become change
5.Realise that fear of the unknown is natural
6.Keep renewing yourself
7.Surround yourself with people who are open to change
8.Play to win
9.Respect yourself; the world will reward you on your success
10.Never change your core values

QUOTE: "Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can
get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine
their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." -
Stephen Covey

PEACE IS INTRINSIC

A man went to his spiritual master to find a solution to his problem. Paying his obeisance to his master, he requested him as follows, “My lord! My position and environment doesn’t provide any joy or happiness. Kindly Guide me to a place where I can find complete happiness.”

Spiritual master directed him to travel along the northern part of the world. He went as directed by his teacher. But, he returned soon and explained, “The climate in northern part is difficult to adapt than my native environment.” Then his master asked him to move towards southern region. He returned even from south stating that it was infiltrated with terrorist. Then, the guru directed towards west and east. But, he returned stating some difficulties in each direction.

Now, the guru wanted to edify him with knowledge about life. So, he said, “Son, you can’t attain happiness in any place in the world except from your native environment.”

This story is an analogy as searching for peace of mind from outside. Peace of mind is intrinsic and available abundant within us. If we search outside, we won’t face with it. But, if we search it inside, we can experience infinite happiness.

QUOTE:"You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life." - John Addison

SELF-CONDITIONED LIMITATIONS OF MEN

Due to conditioned behaviour for many years, we behave in a certain way. When we face with failures recurrently, we start to believe it is our nature and fail to rise from imaginary trench.

Certain behaviour of elephants can be compared with the human attitude. Elephants are biggest and strongest pachyderms which have no natural enemies, except humans. Some elephants are seized by humans for domestication, which are used in temples, circus, and heavy wood transportation. The training for such domesticated elephants involves making the elephant to believe they are weak and inferior in strength compared to humans. An elephant though may be gigantic in size and stronger than humans, but it believes that the mahout (the elephant trainer) controlling him with small stick is far stronger than him. This belief of elephant is exploited by humans in conditioning and controlling elephants.

A free roaming baby elephants are made to stay under restricted place by their legs wound with chains which are fixed to a strong peg, to condition motion until particular age. Later, the tuskers believe even without being chained just with small wound of metals around its legs, makes it believe that it is chained.

This character can be compared with men who believe they can’t rise above the rest in talents. Once we consider ourselves inferior over others, we yield to them even when we are stronger. Imaginary formulation of our own limitation is the cause of every poverty in talents, opportunities, relations, positions, etc. Our first job towards our success will be destroying mental barriers created by “ourselves”. When we achieve this, even so called born genetic conquerors will be our sub-ordinates.

QUOTE: "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself
is mightier still." - Lao-Tzu

POSITION REQUIRES QUALITY IN HUMAN VALUES

When we have to select a man for a position to control others, education can be considered as one of criteria for selection but not an important criterion. Position can be provided to the people who have dissolved themselves in human values in every action. Virtues can’t be decided only through education alone, we requires factors which can’t be easily identifiable.

Mr. Rajagopalachari, only Indian Governor General, says in his book Mahabarata that “learning is one thing and virtue is quite another. It is true that one should know the difference between good and evil, if one is to seek good and shun evil, but this knowledge should soak into every thought and influence every act in one’s life. Then indeed knowledge becomes virtue. The knowledge, that is merely so much undigested information crammed into the mind, cannot instil virtue. It is just an outward show like our cloths and is no real part of us”.

So, to live above others we require education of materials things and education of character.

QUOTE: "Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and whento remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased." -Ralph C. Smedley

CRUSADE OF MILITARY SOLDIERS

A regiment of soldiers were sleeping in their room after long expedition. This regiment of soldiers was known for its smart, dedicated, intelligent warriors. Believing better safety of the place, they made less precautionary measures against any attack of enemies.

Unfortunately at night, a group of enemies attacked them. They had seized all weapons of the regiment leaving only one in their hand. In such a critical situation, the group was planning to face their attack. If they fail, the regiment will be completely wiped off. Out of twenty, one smart, young soldier stood before them and said boldly, “Sir, I will accomplish our mission successfully and save our regiment from collapse.” This youth soldier had made tremendous achievement for his advantage and rose to higher position in younger age. But, what was worrying to the members was the fact that they had only one weapon and facing fifteen enemies at a time will be an impossible task.

But, time was less to decide and they permitted the young youth to proceed with his action. The youth stood in front of the enemy group by balancing himself on the wall. Looking at the fierce expression of youth soldier, the enemies trembled and attacked him intensely. Even with three bullets infiltrated into his body, young soldier stood strong against their attack. He retaliated by firing strongly against the enemy. Bullets came out of his gun as rain droplets from sky. Eight enemies were destroyed into pieces by his intense action. The enemies continued their attack on lonely soldier. Because, he was balancing on a wall, he wasn’t taken aback by the speed of bullets entering into his body.

Even with fifteen bullets inside his dermis, body covered with blood, and his anger grew with the warmth of his blood. His attacked grew severely that the enemies retrieved with all heavily wounded.

Expressing his completion of mission, he rejoiced his members and died with a smile on his face. He died with succeeding in saving 19 lives.

Though it may be an imaginary story, it is just a comparison between weaponless regiment members with lay people of a country and youth soldier with strong military warriors of the country. In above story, the young youth has saved 19 lives but in real life military soldiers sacrifice their life for sake of billions of men. They fear not for their life, but the life of billions of people. We salute their dedication, self-less sacrifice and stand along with them to aid their cause

QUOTE: "When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I
did ten times more work." - Bernard Shaw

MAHABARATA DIRECTIVES

Mahabarata is considered as one of the sacred book of Hindus. It has rich collections of right human conduct engraved in it. Below is a conversation between Yudhishthira(the virtuous personality in Mahabarata) and the God of Death, when Yudhishthira’s four brothers were made unconscious due to consumption of poisonous water. In order to save his brothers, Yudhishthira answers the questions asked by the God of Death as below,

What makes the sun shine every day?
The power of virtuous person.
What rescues man in danger?
Courage is man’s salvation in danger.
By study of which science does man become wise?
Not by studying any science does man become wise. It is by association with the great men in wisdom that he gets wisdom.
What is more nobly sustaining than the earth?
The mother who brings up the children she has borne is nobler and more sustaining than the earth.
What is higher than the sky?
The father
What is fleeter than wind?
Mind
What is more blighted than withered straw?
A sorrow-stricken heart
What befriends a traveller?
Learning
Who is the friend of one who stays at home?
The wife
Who accompanies a man in death?
Righteous behaviour, that alone accompanies the soul in its solitary journey after death.
Which is biggest vessel?
The earth, which contains all within itself, is the greatest vessel.
What is happiness?
Happiness is the result of good conduct.
What is that, abandoning which man becomes loved by all?
Pride, for abandoning that man will be loved by all.
What is the loss which yields joy and not sorrow?
Anger, giving it up, we will no longer be subject to sorrow
What is that, by giving up which, man becomes wealthy?
Desire, getting rid of it, man becomes wealthy
What makes one a real virtuous personality? Is it birth, good conduct and learning?
Good conduct alone does. However learned a person may be he will not be a good personality if he is a slave to bad habits.
What is the greatest wonder in the world?
Every day, men see creatures depart to God of death’s abode and yet, those who remain, seek to live forever. This verily is the greatest wonder.

QUOTE: "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not aboutyour frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself notwith what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you todo." - Pope John XXIII

MOTIVATING FACTOR

The type of motivating factor, we encourage decides our path towards success. Motivating factor is one of the criteria to describe our end. Attitude with which we express our action is motivating factor. Motivating factor propels our action and thoughts towards success. Quality of motivating factor decides whether we rise from defeat or not.

Adolf Hitler used vanity and ego as a motivating factor. Observe his end. He rose to the highest position in his country with help of ego and pride. He displayed his arrogance through killing of Jews to confirm that his race is superior over the rest of the race in the world. His action resulted in World War II. When he was defeated, he couldn’t rise from the failure because his vanity and pride was defeated, which was used as a motivating factor. He found his end by killing himself.

Now, consider Mahatma Gandhi, he used non-violence and peace as a motivating factor to fight against British for freedom of India. Even when he failed in hands of British, he rose from defeat because of the quality of the motivating factor he selected. He attracted large number of people because of quality of motivating factor with which he motivated people. Gandhi stills rises against any discredit towards his name, even after 50 years of death anniversary.

Quality of motivating factor determines quality of our life. Attitude and character should be used as a tool to form motivating factor.

QUOTE: "All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is
the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into
accomplishment and wealth." - Napoleon Hill

ATTITUDE DECIDES RICH OR POOR

A student went to his spiritual teacher and asked, “Why my lord! A poor becomes weaker day by day, while a rich becomes stronger as day passes?” The guru smiled and answered, “Son, you fail to understand the real meaning of their life.” Since the spiritual teacher was talented in prophesies, he directed his student to observe two families in order to find solution to his problem. One of the families was rich and the breadwinner was making cross-nation marketing. Another family was poor and head of the family owned a small wayside hotel.

Rich family was making profit through business without failures for years. The poor family was finding difficult to develop from present situation. Though with poor life, head was rich in character and determination guided with good attitude wife. Even in this pathetic situation, they had faith that they could find a bright future.

The country faced with successive famine. During such difficult situation, rich family failed in business many times and they couldn’t withstand such successive defeats. While the poor have had accustomed to such difficulties, was making living even with difficulties. In order to find a better living, the rich family migrated to neighbour country after selling all their properties.
Next year, the country became prosperous with better economy. The poor family was waiting for this opportunity and developed in their business with sheer hard work. They became prosperous and owned a hotel in their own place.

The rich family who had migrated found difficulties in making living in new country because of restriction to immigrants.

Poverty in life could be a place like “metal moulding” for “bright metal constructions” in future. We can be deprived with money and talents but not with character and attitude. Poor is state of mind but not a state of life. Poor mind will fail but not poor life.

QUOTE: "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of
having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If
you don't, life controls you." - Anthony Robbins

HABIT FORMATION THROUGH SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND

What is the difference between an ecstasy a mother obtains through feeding her child and a man obtains through intoxicating drugs and drinks? The joy of a mother acquired through her service to her child tends to infinity with time. While a joy a man attain through drugs and drinks will tend to zero with time.


Mother helping her child can be compared with a man being useful to others. So, helping others help us to attain a joy which increases manifold, as day passes. Helping others results from good attitude towards others, an attitude to do good even when others are bad.


Attitude development begins with habit formation. We have to be good persistent actor to develop habits. We have to act as if; we are innate with particular character. We should not drift from our actions. Later, we can observe what we acted would have become our character.
We look into a psychological concept about attitude development using conscious and sub-conscious mind. We are completely involved in conscious mind while sub-conscious is involuntarily involved. Our daily actions are controlled by our conscious mind and we have less control over our sub-conscious mind. But, sub-conscious mind is highly powerful and stronger. Habit formation is done through sub-conscious mind. What we started as an action is made into our eternal character through sub-conscious mind. One peculiar quality of sub-conscious mind is that it doesn’t reason, anything whatever we give to it as input through conscious mind. It stores the input and motivates the conscious mind by providing processed input whenever situation requires.


For achieving simple success, we require normal human character and attitude. For achieving outstanding achievements, we require superior character and attitude. Character and attitude can be developed through persistence. So, in life, anyone can achieve anything.


QUOTE: "It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief
becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." - Claude M. Bristol

LEARNING FROM CHILDREN ATTITUDE

My “hero” was a man of failures. His experience in life was dumped with rich of failures. With the guidance of a relative, he got a job in a company. Even there, he was an ill-performer in workplace. He was rebuked by his boss since he didn’t show any improvement. He failed in expressing his love to his parents. He lost company of his friends, due to his ill-tempered attitude.

Bearing his heavy, troubled, and perplexed mind, my hero was moving slowly in a street. Suddenly, his eye caught a park, where he could find a group of children playing cricket. After a long time, he was entering a park. At first, he couldn’t evade his thoughts of failure from disturbing him. But, the hyper-active children playing cricket caught his attention. He felt a change, on looking at the enjoyment of tender souls through games.

Suddenly, he felt an impression of small hand on his shoulder. “Uncle could you accept a role of an umpire in our match!” asked a small boy. Though, he hesitated, the kind request of the boy attracted him to accept the invitation.

Next two hours, my hero literally became a child with the group of children. Because, he was placed as an umpire, he was used to dispel disputes arising in the game. He learnt how to attain happiness in simple things, from the children. After the match was over, my hero was returning to his home. Strikingly, he felt he had left something in the park. After a minute of thinking, he understood that had left his rich store-house of failures. Those misunderstanding will not follow him, since he understood real meaning of life from children.

When he understood happiness through simple life experience, his attitude changed and he became a sweet conqueror in his and other lives.

Polluted mind can be purified by transmutation of thoughts in right direction. Here my hero’s right direction was diverted towards child’s attitude.

QUOTE: "A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't
particularly feel like it." - Alistair Cooke

QUALITIES OF WORLD LEADER - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

1. The power of self-realisation
2. The power of rishihood (attracting the power of purity and holiness)
3. Fearlessness based on spiritual strength (the quintessence of the Vedas and Vedanta and all lives in one word – strength. Strength is felicity, life immortal, weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death)
4. Power of organizing people with tremendous dynamism and unselfish action
5. Power of faith (faith in self, in god, in Rishis, and the essential divinity of all souls)
6. The power of awakening excellence in others in order to help them rise above competition)
7. The power of sacrifice, love and service
8. The power of positive thinking
9. Practical approach to action
10. Releasing human energy through freedom and equality
11. The power of knowledge for unerring decisions
12. The strength of visionary
13. Success by turning all work into worship
14. A harmonious combination of western organization and eastern spirituality.
- Compiled from swami Jitatmananda, Indian Ethos for Management.

QUOTE: "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his
power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." -
James Allen