SHORT STORY: POWER OF KINDNESS

That was sixteenth century, when medical and technological advancements were in their formative days. During that age, a 12 year old boy, when playing with his friends got injured severely in his hand by getting stabbed by a sharp metal point. The boy was hurried towards the physician for treatment. The mother soothed her son saying, “Dear! Don’t worry about this wound, you will convalesce soon.”

But, the wound got festered and the boy started to face severe pain on his limb. Without pain subsiding, the mother ran towards the doctor for seeking urgent treatment. The doctor diagnosed that the wound had become septic and his son’s limb has to be severed. The doctor murmured helplessly, “I tried many medicines I know but everything went futile. God only have to save your son’s life!” These words of doctor struck a thunder in the heart of the compassionate mother.

After someday, when doctor came to make normal check-up, he was astonished to see what had happened. The wound which might have destroyed the boy’s limb was recovering and he felt boy’s condition was safe. The doctor being the best in the country queried enthusiastically towards the mother, “What treatment did you give? It is surprising to observe the development!” The mother with ecstasy replied, “Doctor, you don’t know, I was crying for past five days near my son on observing his pity driven situation.” The doctor understood the reason behind his recovery: “In the darkness, the immense emotional expression of love of his son as expressed as tender tears got sprinkled on the wound and it made all the difference.”

I HAVE A VISION! IAS

When I was interacting with my uncle in Dubai through email, he insisted that I possess every talent to satisfy the qualities for a successful Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. Indian Administration Service (IAS) is considered as a highly respected, powerful central government job in the Indian constitution. The process of selection for IAS involves selection through the Civil Service Examination (CSE). The CSE is considered as one of the toughest examinations in the world. The candidates who compete for this exam have superior skills and it requires strenuous effort to succeed. When my uncle requested to make a try, I hesitated, even to make a try. Because, I felt I didn’t possess any talents as it compels (I believed myself as a mediocre with medium grade in academic performance).

But, deep inside me responded, “You may be filled with mediocre success in your past history, which may find yourself incapable. But, you are definitely not lagging in character, which might help you to develop the required talents for Civil Service Examination. It is better to endure great failures than to enjoy small success.”

So, dear readers my future post will be focussed on my preparation strategies for Civil Service Examination. I will also describe about the new ideas and new information from preparation process towards IAS, which will be definitely useful to you. I seek your blessing for my success in IAS examination. I am going to invest only one parameter to highest dimension for my success: MY HARD WORK.

EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL MAINTENANCE

When I was 10 years old, I used to play with my friends cycling game in the streets of Madurai. We roam across the streets, making visits to every street near my house. At the end of the day, we conduct cycle races in the nearby ground, where we move to express our cycling skills.

Moved by my eager request, my father bought a new, famous sports cycle for Rs. 2000. With the new capability, I intensely desired to win every forthcoming race. With the costly asset, I was winning consequently in every race, we had.

One of my friends, living opposite to my house, from a poor family bought a second-hand cycle for just Rs. 200. He too joined our races with his new asset. I felt, “Rs. 2000 and Rs. 200 worth difference will be visible in the races.” As I expected, he couldn’t win matches as I was making. But, after some days, to my astonishment, he was winning the races even with his under-value cycle. Surprisingly, he was winning continuously as I done before. I couldn’t understand the possibilities behind his success.

Filled with confusion, one day after completing race, I went to his house to know the secret behind his success. As I went inside, I was surprised to see, he was performing every small maintenance works for his cycle like removing dirt, oiling the spare parts etc. after he returned from ground.

Maintenance with hardware is openly visible from the above story and even from our experiences. This applies even to our emotional-ware. Achieving success “once” is simple, but, “maintaining” achievement is not simple. For this, we require physical, emotional, and mental renovations. Recreation is as important as working. Through recreation, we perform maintenance to our mind. We end with a simple belief, “Small men enjoy in single success, but, super men enjoy in maintaining success.”

QUOTE: "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." - Basho

TEACHING – AN ACTION OF EXPRESSION OF CARE

A teacher with 20 years of teaching experience was asked by a student, “Don’t you get bored by teaching the same subjects for children for several years. Even we get bored of learning, when concepts are studied twice or thrice.” The sympathetic teacher replied, “Dear child! Never my objective was focussed on deliverance of subjects but focussed towards expression of my love towards my students. So, I don’t get bored.”

Class rooms are the foundry where students are moulded by the mixture of love from a teacher. Teachers are figured equivalent to parents in the sacred Indian epic, Mahabharata. Rabindranath Tagore portrays with reference to ancient Vedas, the objective of a teacher, “A teacher has an ultimate responsibility of selfless deliverance of his accumulated knowledge resource to his students, without expectation of any material gifts.” Our thoughts are organized, purified, manipulated by our teachers. Teacher’s directions can create new direction in our life. Teaching is a noble action, which create noble men.

Identifying perfect teacher is the greatest hurdle, we encounter in our search of enlightenment. Once Swami Vivekananda said, “Give me a dedicated youth, I will revolutionize the world!” But, at present, we have number of dedicated youths, but, we couldn’t find a dedicated teacher like Swami Vivekananda to direct.

QUOTE: "A day will never be anymore than what you make of it." - Josh S. Hinds

MOTIVATIONAL SENTENCES

Perfection not only means doing things rightly, but, it also means understanding things rightly.


We become more beautiful or handsome not by our appearance but by our action backed with our intensions.


If we don’t fall, we won’t learn to rise up.


Expression of love requires expression of thousands of words, but, it just requires an expression of single unadulterated smile.


“I can’t,” makes us limited, “I can,” makes us unlimited.


Rigidity and flexibility are opposite terms, but, knowing circumstances when to be rigid and when to be flexible will make a change.


QUOTE: “The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” - John Ruskin

SUBLIMINAL TOOLS FOR SELF-DEVELOPMENT

Our actions are formed by our habits. Our habits are rooted in our sub-conscious mind. Influencing the sub-conscious or subliminal region of our brain requires greater mental discipline or guidance from trained psychological practitioners. The experienced men know the way to deal with life which is controlled by our mind. Look at a story of restoration:

A father was worrying about his son, who was adulterated with negativities in the world. The father felt his spiritual guru might renovate his son’s life with worldly wisdom. He expressed his pain to his guru and sought solution to his problem.

Next day, the father without expressing the reason for visit, took his son to the abode of his guru. The guru in presence of the son placed a cup full of sweet honey and added a drop of deadly poison. The guru requested his students to bring 10 or 20 ants. The ants got attracted by the sweet aroma of honey and started to move towards the cup. When the first ant had a sip of the honey, by the action of poison it died instantaneously. But, the other ants continued to march towards the honey and get destroyed, even after observing the death of others.
On seeing this, the guru asked the son about his inference from the ant’s actions. The son replied, “Dear Guruji, How foolish the ants are! Even when the ants observe the death of their kith and kin through the poisonous juice, they continue to consume it and find their death-end, Brainless creatures!”

The Guru with kindness in his expression said, “My son, in human society too, we can observe such instances like those we observe in the ants, just directed by senses. Humans are endowed with capability to divert their life consciously for their betterment. But, other creatures aren’t gifted with such capability. Understanding this difference will make our life different. I think you won’t be like the “Brainless Creatures,” because you are my son.”

This experience left deep subliminal changes in the son’s attitude and perception. Great constructions have great foundations. Similarly, our actions have their foundation in our sub-conscious mind. With technology growing before us, achieving holistic betterment in life will be simple and will cost less. Just listen to motivating speeches from subliminal tapes which unconsciously restore our sub-conscious foundations towards right direction. Gift your friend mixed with bad habits with subliminal CD to observe beautiful changes in his life and in your relationship.

Do you face continuous stimulus from wrong habits, plug your ear with IPods loaded with subliminal MP3 to choose your own response. If we want to see change, be the change. Subliminal tools will foster changes in our life.

QUOTE: We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. - Buddha