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April 11 Better Choices ! Wiser Choices !!! At the Aprtment where I am staying, I came across a free magazine NATURAL AWAKENINGS published from Fairfield, CT.
Even at a glance of thismagazine,I was spell bound to observe that really this magazine stood for creating a new world which would live in harmony with all that is created by the Almighty, for, the very motto of this magazine, as it appears on the front cover, reads FEEL GOOD, LIVE SIMPLY, LAUGH MORE.
A scholarly article by a Tibetan Buddhist LAMA SURYA DASS calls for unconditinal acceptance to reach contentment n or lives. It adds " Unconditional acceptance is not sttic, but ecstatic, vibrant, dynamically engaged in and connected with reality. The spiritual hero strides fearlessly into life's depths, faingits incessantly undulating waves, without holding back. Unconditionalacceptance is the kind of loveJesusspoke of when he taught us to love our neighbour, and what Buddha meant, when he said that an enemy,adversary orcompetitor can be one's greatest teacher"
What wisdom these words pour into one's inner intellect !
Whether we live a life ofpeaceful coexistence with others is onething. Whether we are ableto beat peace with ourselves is the foremost thing to reflect. Once we are at peae with ourselves, and that means,to see and accept us as we are, we shall reach thegoal of contentment indeed.
So,as is found a quote from Robert Redfrd, in yet another page of this magazie, we have to make a choice and make it quickly too.
' WHAT WE ARE LIVING WITH ISTHE RESULT OF HUMAN CHOICES AN ITCAN BE CHANGED BY MKING BETTER WISER CHOISES "
THE QUESTION STILL REMAINS: WHETHER WE SHALL BE COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE ? February 04 It is not the problem of Economy, it's the problem of the way we live.It all started last year around June 2008 ( or is it even earlier? ) when we in India heard that a few investment concerns failed, following their revelation of being sick beyond recovery. Sooner, we heard of bigger banks failing followed by credit crunches, cries of Help! Help! from the very financial institutions that once appeared to be greater than Himalayan Might. The markets were crumbling and the middle class investors losing their entire savings, the multi millionairres not losing much though, still had enoujh to complain and call for interventions from Gsovernment. The situation in American economy was seen spreading throughout the world where we saw with awe one economy after another succumbing to the pressures.
In just over nine months, it dawned on everyone thate ?
economy of most of the developed nations, if not all, were in dire straits, and needed an intervention unparalleled in the annals of past economic history of any nation.
President Obama promised revival of economy through greater investment in infrastructure, spending on building roads, spending much more on education, much more on ealth insurance for the have-nots who never had anything to access the bigger rising costs of medical benefits.
Discussion in the Congress is still on and on and on and on... A figure of ONE trillion is being talked out. Analysts in CNN discussing how big is this amount. Democrats and Republicans are seen negotiating negotiating, with all the sincerity in their wisdom to save America from the present gloom.
Will the pacakage save or not save? And if it saves also how far?
It may. But that is not our premise here.
The premise here is whether we are getting back to the situation which gave rise to all this pell mell.
And the situation that gave rise o to all this pell mell is the very greed in the minds of a few individuals who bought credit much more than what they can afford, and also another set of individuals who provided credit to those who cannot be expected to repay what they beorrowed.
Simply said, it was bad judgmen
The question is whether that was bad judgment or something more?
What is there in the system to check this malaldy?
If not, are we planning to build systems and procedures which could bring back sanity in the accodunting standards ?
The question is not how many dollars or millions of dollars the package would contain.
The real question is whether the lpackage will strive towards bring back public confidence in our financial system.
And if the rulers are successful in this, possibly , they would have done what they committed to the Nation and to the World.
God Bless them. December 16 The One Problem We all Face It suddenly dawns on me this day that we are all, without any exception, sick, sick beyond any remedy or cure. Sick not physically but in our relationship with the rest of mankind whom we are destined to live in this earth. The sickness is related to our attitude to others with everyone of whom we can live peacefully if only we care to do so. But we are adamant, obstinate, clicking to our own domain, sticking to our belief systems. This belief system of ours tells me that the other man is bad. And we are good. And this belief system tells us also that we are to restore that other man from his state of mind and make him believe what we would belief as the right state of mind. And this belief system goads us to adopt means and methods as to anything to achieve what we feel right. Why this state of affairs has crept into almost all of us? Why can't we change our frame of mind to even think for a while that we could be wrong and that the other man could also be right, or at least, as right as we ourselves are. Why not we try to begin to probe ourselves before probing others? Why not we try to cleanse ourselves before we cleanse others? If only we attempt to think this way, possibly this Universe will be a better place to live in with peace, harmony and dignity. Let God give us the Courage to think amidst the darkness that surrounds. November 24 It's ROLE that makes RELATIONSHIP happier For the last several years, i have been talking to several executives of my own organisation about ROLE PLAY. I have equally been listening to various lectures on ROLE PLAY by different management gurus at various levels. All of us who talk on RELATIONSHIPS equally have a word on ROLE. It is the understanding or the lack of it that is cause of all happiness or sorrow in relationships. And, make no mistake, this concept of ROLE PLAY operates not only in your official role, but in your familial as well as social environment also. I should not be mistaken if i stretch this concept to religious beliefs also.
What is this ROLE? Every one and each one of us have various jobs during the course of a day. These jobs are essentially duties, functions, obligations, responsibilities as voluntarily taken by ourselves or imposed on us by familial, social or professional environments. Take your professional environment, for example. You are an official at some stage in the hierarchy of your organisation. You are the boss of several but at the same time,you have a boss also. As a boss, you will have to plan, organise, staff, delegate and gather valuable data from subordinates whose compliance you insist. At the same time, you are reporting to your superior, who trusts that you will be managing the show on his behalf. You are a delegator as well as a delegatee at the same time. Can you afford to talk to your boss in the same way as you talk to your subordinates? Think for a while.
Enter a familial environment. Ram is the Head of a family. Ram has wife and two children. His aged parents live with him. Now, Ram is a husband to his wife, father to his children, and son to his parents. As a Head of Family his role is something that rules over all the rest. Nevertheless, observe his interactions with his parents vis-a-vis his children. What is perceptible is the difference in his ROLE. The needs of his aged parents quite vary with the needs of his children, and it is his imperative duty to synchornise his time energy resources as to suit both. He has to set priorities. He has to understand what is important and what is urgent.
Me and my wife have recently been hospitalised . The director of the clinic is a well known cardiologist also functioning as a general physician. His clinic employs a little more than 60 employees of various denominations. A few doctors, lots of nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, auxillar staff devoted to maintenance of infrastructure, maintenace of building, etc. Now as a director he manages the entire show single-handedly. At the same time, he oversees the functions of his immediate fellow physicians ensuring that they attend to the immediate needs of the inpatients, ensures that the nurses pay undivided attention to the in patients. A lot of delegation is essential, but whether the delegation is full or exhaustive decides how far is he successful in the running of his clinic. His ROLE towards patients, co-doctors, nurses, lab technicians, supportive staff vary . As they vary they must all synchornise also, and unless he ensures that this happens he can never be complacent.
Now, when this doctor goes home, he attends to his mother who is ailing. There he becomes a son who fondly tends to the needs of his mother. Here he is not only a doctor, but a nurse, a care provider as equally a health provider.
Many of us, why ? most of us have different roles to play. Some of the roles are simultaneous. We must ensure that these roles complement one another, not contradict one another. And this ensures that we live at peace. April 27 One Reason Why All the World Today is Unhappy .It appears to me that the one reason why all the world around is apparently unhappy is that every being that constitutes a part of the world is neither happy with himself or with the ones with whom he interacts. As one introspects, it appears to me that we have chained ourselves, become bound by our own rules, we are so caged by our own actions, that we feel often helpless in getting relieved from situations we have ourselves unconsciously built up unawares in the past. It is therefore necessary that to move on from this present stage of unhappiness all around one must release oneself from the shackles one has built all around oneself. The one question one is to ask oneself is just this: what shall I do to make me happy? Unless one is cleansed of one's own prejudices, past biases of others, one can never hope to come out of this vicious cycle. So let us free ourselves from our past. Begin a new chapter from today, this moment. Begin our lives as if we are born today. And perhaps that will pave a way for a happier world ahead ! February 15 Let there be HappinessIt lies in one's nature that one must always be happy. "Sarveh Janaah Sukhino Bhavanthu " is and should be our Prayer to the Almighty. Since you and I are included in the "Sarveh Janaah" it goes without saying that when all are happy, then, I must bound to be happy. If, despite, this feeling, I continue to be unhappy, it is a warning signal that something inside rebels against the very existence of our belief in God's ways of showering happiness. Possibly I feel that I must be happy to the exclusion of the other, that I must be away from that other and that I should possibly be happier than what other human beings like me feel. This, of course, is a senseless feeling which takes us away from God. If only we feel, we get what we deserve, and we must be ever be grateful to God to whatever He has given us, this feeling of unhappiness will not usurp our inner peace. So, once one feels that one is unhappy, the remedy is to fall at the feet of God, ask for His forgiveness. And again, and again, make a definite resolve to surrender before Him. Noble souls have reiterated the principle of Surrender, which is Absolute Saranagathi. Yoga provides an answer to how u prepare for this Surrender to God. Let us listen to the voice of Sri Aurobindu All our nature must make an integral surrender; that which seems to the unregenerated sense-mind - The Synthesis of YogaJanuary 01 A Prayer for the New Year 2008Oh Lord— Let the breeze of divinity blow here
always A prayer Let none be denied of your bountiful grace. Forgive our ignorance, forgive our
sins To make this a reality, a dream come
true *Slightly Modified to suit all Humanity. Courtesy: www.namadwaar.org
December 16 The truth is .....A bulletin flashed in my email inbox.
It read "Doctors... bend ethics" etc.
For me, it was not a surprise as I am born and bred in a land learnt to live with such un-ethics.
But what was surprising that the survey was conducted in a developed and civilized society and the results were
as good or as bad had the survey been done in our own country.
The reasons are not far to seek.
Whatever be the compelling reasons, professional ethics demand that the welfare of the person who is being serviced
must be considered more sacred than anything else.
Truth is however different, however bitter it may taste.
Doctors who read this may say that the sample survey is not mirroring the overall standard of the medical profession in their land.
They may be right or wrong.
In any case, there is a question posed before the medical professional.
And this question is well revealed in the results of this survey.
Well..Readers may click the above for further news and views.
October 10 Change is not (perhaps) the Order of the Day.There was a question in the Yahoo Answers ! a few days back. The question was somewhat like this: What change would you like to see in the world around around and what you and I should be doing for that? As I pondered over the purport of this question, I realized that it could not be the premises of the questioner that the universe with all the animate and inanimate objects within is not changing at all. That everything changes stands accepted by all. But whether these changes happen to the likes of all is the root on which the present question is based. Do all the changes that happen in and around the world that lead to enhanced levels of awareness, information and knowledge of the people, add to the quality of human life and environment ? Possibly changes are happening quantitatively not qualitatively. When quantitative changes happen there is not much of a strife. But when qualitative changes arise there arises a commotion. It is apparent that human race is divided into two distinct categories: One, who wants swift changes. Another, who is rebellious at any change. We are torn between the two. So, what shall we do to see that the two sections are bridged? And that is what perhaps the big question. What is the change you and I would like to see in this world. July 03 We are More Concerned With ....Often, I get puzzled as I find that more men and women are more concerned with WHAT OTHERS DO than WHAT THEY DO.
Secondly, there is also a conscious effort on their part, to weigh others' actions with theirs, and pass a judgment on whether others' actions are right or wrong.
To me, it appears, this is an unconscious judgment on their part, more a self-belief, that what they they think, what they say and what they do, is right, and as a result, if others' thinking, words or actions do not fall in line with them, others must be told to fall in line with theirs.
Secondly, there exists also a self-belief that whatever one does not perceive does not exist also. And, whatever one does not understand (in his own realm of understanding) does not also exist.
I keep myself wondering whether this could be the cause of all conflicts in our present-day world.
I prefer everyone (which would be an individual, a group or a nation) to allow others to evolve by themselves unless and until actions of these others infringes their own freedom.
If it were the Wisdom of God that homo species would place themselves in different pockets, (as they are) but none could tilt this, save an Act of God.
And let us not take on ourselves the role of God. I am not trying to be holistic but only pragmatic.
May 30 Let Everyone live happily.Long long ago, when I was faculty at a Training Centre, I was talking to my listeners on HUMAN RELATIONS.
And, during the first few minutes, as used to be my prelude to any program, I gave my listeners an exercise.
I asked everyone of them: "What could be the animal or bird which best portrays their own characteristics?" I told them to write the name of the animal or bird on their own notepad.
Having allowed a minute for this, I again asked to visualise again. This time I told them to spot the animal or bird which their spouses thought exhibits them. Again write it on the notepad.
Having assured them, that I would never be embarrassing them to reveal the answers in public, I asked them to write the names in a paper and look at the names now.
As everyone was looking at, some laughed while some others roared, as some hissed, as some heaved a sigh.
Evidently, everyone had a new awareness. It dawned on everyone that his own perception about himself varies widely with the perception of his spouse about him.
We feel we are lambs whereas our spouses feel that we are lions.
We feel we are pretty smart, when our spouses feel we are but do-nothings.
This exercise was repeated once again, as between self and the boss OR self and his subordinate.
The difference in perceptions were seen to be bewilderingly wide and wild also.
Most of my listeners felt that were doves when they were perceived as hawks by their subordinates.
Most of the listeners (who were knowledge-workers) were feeling themselves as very intelligent and brilliant, when the perception of their managers was "intelligent but useless also".
It is true therefore that the way we perceive ourselves is not reflected either totally or in part as perceived by our own kith and kin.
Is it not high time we reflect on why this happens.
Again, if this perception differs within a well-knit unit, will not the difference widen as the circle enlarges?
It is for everyone in the soceity to reflect.
As we reflect on this more and more, we try to minimise the gap between the differing perceptions.
We make ourselves more receptable or acceptable to others or vice versa.
And this means, that we are moving towards a closer relationship.
And the first move in this direction is OPENNESS in COMMUNICATION.
What is OPENNESS?
It means that whenever i say something, I mean what I say.
And secondly, the person, to whom I speak, also believes in what I say.
But we can be OPEN only when we TRUST that other person.
That is where the element of TRUST springs up.
So Whenever there is trust in communication levels, levels of freedom enhance.
With greater freedom, your discussions enter a new zone or a new horizon.
That means that your spouse or your subordinate talks to you with greater trust and with greater confidence.
Here there is no space which is dark.
The discussion then becomes simple and straight.
You agree or disagree.
Whenever you disagree, that disagreement is with dignity.
You are allowed the choice to ventilate your opinion. Even when your opinion is not followed, at the decision-making level, you have a feeling that you have been heard fully.
For the boss, he has heard all shades of thoughts fully.
Families or groups of whatever denomination or governments which act in these lines can only call themselves democratic.
I do not know whether everyone would agree.
But for all, yes..for all of us under the Sun to live happily,
a strong consensus is very much the need of hour.
And when that consensus develops, it will be HOPE AND HAPPINESS FOR MANKIND. April 27 Searching, searching ....and still searching....Searching, searching, and still searching.
Most of us started searching when we were just teenagers.
From that moment, we started this search for almost
anything.
It's all more than four decades, nay, for some us five,
since we started searching.
And still we search, with no trace of what we seek.
The truth remains that we do not know what we seek.
This unending search of something, that defies a definition,
most of us call as a pursuit of Happiness.
U and I can never be happy unless we know in full
" what " is it that could make us happy.
It sounds ironical, but true, that those who ask, "where is happiness?'
are unable to specify "what is happiness?"
In my search for happiness, amongst the millions and millions of blogs,
I landed on a site (or a blog) which, I thought, provided a
new approach. A very powerful message is in,there.
I thought i would share it with my colleagues.
Kindly get linked to
February 05 Two Existences.Ironical, but it is true, that everyone of us has not one but existences.
One is what we are and the other is how people around perceive us.
We are prone to think that we know what we are.
In fact, "what-we-are" may be different from "what-we-think-we-are".
Again, the men and women, with whom we are privileged to live, interact, have their own perception about us. And this need not tally with either "what-we-are" are "what-we-think-we-are".
Quite often we believe that people around us feel about us in the same way we perceive about ourselves. More often, than not, this is not true. People perceive us not only by how and what we interact with them through our words, body language, mannerisms but also through their own levels of understanding of our language, ethnicity and culture, not to talk of other denominations.
So, therefore, it is quite possible, that if a hundred men and women know you, their perceptions about you are varied. In order, their perceptions synchornise, you must not only appear what you are but also be accepted as such.
It is therefore necessary that our thoughts, words and acts synchornise and lend sufficient credibility to "how-we-want to project-ourselves-before-others". When our acts do not follow what we speak, there is dissonance. Slowly but surely, we fall from the level of acceptance of our own people, not to talk of people who belong to other groups of varied denominations.
Credibility rises when there is consistency. Credibility levels are high when people around not only hear the truth but accept what they hear as truthful words.
Men with low credibility levels may thrive for sometime, but not for long. Most times they are listened to not for what they talk, but for the positions from which they talk. Once away from their positions they are forgotten.
Let us therefore endeavour to enhance our own credibility levels.
And let us practise this before we preach anything to others.
November 04 Talking about Frugal woman dies at 100, donates $35.6M - Wonderful World - MSNBC.com
Quote
October 15 We have one Life to Live and Love.On and on and On
We have been dwelling on the theme of Love and Happiness.
A panorama of Happiness envelopes all around us,
and enhances the quality of Happiness,
once we get to know really what
really takes us to be
Happy
Happier
Happiest.
True my earlier postings reveal a lot about this,
nevertheless,
when I stared at
what goes on in the blogs at random,
I found to my EUREKA
a sentence which
I hardly afford to forget.
It reads something like this:
I love my mom, dad, family and friends,
teachers, village, the gardens and.....
and the list gets larger day by day
What ? Did u ask : I hate whom?
Dear, When I start loving,
I do not have time to hate.
Let us all learn from this teenager.
To love and love and love,
and continue loving
All that we see
and shall see
till the day when
we cease to see.
Let the spirit of this youngster
Pervade all through the
Kingdom of God.
Love all
You Have Only One Life to Live
Let us live that life in a way to be remembered
by posterity.
The Only Way
L O V E A L L
October 07 What we understand by LOVE ?When you decide you will have to be happy,
there can't be any other road towards happiness,
except the one, when you seek the
Path of Love.
For generations, we have been discussing this LOVE.
Everyone says I love my wife, children, parents and friends.
A little more extended, he says, I love my house, my garden,
the roses, jasmines, the lillies and all that smell and smell not.
As we look at him in his eyes, and give a feeling of being happy at
his replies, he carries on:
I love my school, the teachers,
I love my village, the pond and the bunyon tree
which gives shade to all the passers-by.
I love the curvy paths of the stream
full of water leading to the greeny fields nearby.
Now, you ask him what he means by all these things,
he is not blinking but searches for an answer .
Mostly, the answer is :
I don't know. But I love.
What do we understand when we say
We Love ?
Outwardly, an answer may not be available.
If you search inward, an answer is readily available.
In most cases, it happens:
I love since I am loved by men and women whom I love.
Will You and I love others if we do not get that LOVE in return?
On the other hand, think of the other situation:
I love my family. What I mean by it, is
I CARE for my family. And when I care for something
that feeling of caring comes with a lot of affection, kindliness and
generosity and magnanimity, grace and hospitality.
This feeling of caring when not dictated by circumstances,
not dictated by what you get in return,
not dictated by a feeling of possessiveness,
this feeling is the real love.
Let me add that without the element of care, embedded in
what you call LOVE,
all other forms of behaviour, politeness, consideration,
charity are just superficial .
Again, when your feeling of caring stems out of your affection,
kindliness leading to
politeness and good manners, and later generosity or charity,
it means that
you are thinking more about others
less about yourself, and
you are free from yourself.
You suddenly possess all the freshness .
The skies, the hills, the waters, the gardens around
and the people who inhabit they look differently.
This leads to an irreversible feeling that gets rooted within:
I am for others and this "others"
include all and "all" means all,
even the ones who look at you with
some indifference,
hatred or jealousy,
even the ones who look at you with suspicious eyes.
When you free from yourself,
you start caring ,
you start loving,
you are on the right road towards
Happiness and Bliss.
God Bless You.
September 30 To be Happy or Not..Lies in Your Will.Yes. It lies in one's will whether one needs to be happy or otherwise.
The moment, you and I decide that happiness is in our hands,
the whole world around us undergoes a metamorphosis.
Here then again, your will to be happy requires a strong base, a strong conviction.
That you will not look back once you decide.
That you will be happy henceforth depends purely on how
you will love everyone around you UNCONDITIONALLY.
And that unconditional acceptance of others around you requires some sort of bravery, a courage, which rarely
we might have exhibted in the past.
A courage to detach ourselves from our past biases, prejudices, experiences, of all others around us..
So, it is not going to be easy to love everyone around you, unless you decide that you will be streadfast in
your commitment that your love will be unconditional, irrespective of the responses you may get.
To be unconditional meansand includes not to expect anything in return as a reward.
Towards this notion, when I started, I came across a quote from a no-less a person than Madonna, the great
Pop Star, reported in THE HINDU, the popular South Indian Daily. It reads :
TO BE BRAVE IS TO LOVE SOMEONE UNCONDITIONALLY, WITHOUT EXPECTING ANYTHING IN RETURN. TO
JUST GIVE. THAT TAKES COURAGE, BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO FALL ON OUR FACES OR LEAVE OURSELVES
OPEN TO HURT.
Great Indeed to have started the day with a great quote from Madonna.
As the lines blew me into the ecstacy, I turned the pages on to find an article from CRAIG:
Believe me, Today is a Wonderful Day, for I am listening to wonderful voices from the Western World.
Craig is on a different subject and on a different issue:
It deals with the right age to start a love affair.
(Is it right to start when you are 13 or wait upto 21 or 23..like that?)
But the Concluding Lines are just brilliant.
I read it and read it again.
For you I shall read it once more.
Read it once and read it once more
So loud that All the World around you hear it this very moment.
"LOVE REQUIRES SACRIFICE AND SUPPORT"
Friends! You need to be in a sacrificing mood, a supportive mood, if u feel you love others.
And when you are in that mood, be assured that
your love leads you to happiness.
Good Luck.
.
July 31 To be Happy Resolve to be Patient.Yes.
In our earlier columns, we had been discussing, and quite frequently too, that the quality of your life could enhance only on your loving your environment. Unless you have love and most times this means compassion for the people amidst whom you are living in, you will not find a meaning for your life.
But, when you start loving people or developing compassion for the less privileged ones amidst you, you come to know of certain things which you can never tolerate. These things are too legion to elaborate, but putting it in a nutshell, these things mostly belong to hygien facotrs, body language, linguistic expressions, especially in an angry mode. When you feel you can do little to mend these factors, you stay away, leaving them as they are.
So what do you do at the first instance? Can you love people whose ways of life, whose personal hygiene, whose body language, whose ways of communication you can hardly tolerate?
So, it is apparent, that unless you develop a sense of emphathy in your hearts you may not be able to step ahead. And this needs a lot of patience. You cannot change anyone overboard overnight.
It is said, that patience is absolutely necessary in dealing with human beings, and without love, patience is impossible. That is why the great saints of this world of ours have been so loving - because without it they could never have embarked upon the tremendously difficult, almost impossible job of bringing transformation in human beings. Love has been, and must always be, the sole instrument of human transformation. If love is there, all the other things such as patience, forbearance, self-control all become possible.
So Decide today that we will enhance the threshhold of tolerance in us first.
AND THAT WILL BE THE FIRST STEP FOR LOVING PEOPLE WHICH WILL, AS I HAVE SAID EARLIER, ADDS A MEANING TO YOUR LIFE.
For greater awareness on this subject, please move on to:
GOOD LUCK.
May 30 A new virus vaccine - Boon to Mankind !Quote
FDA approves new shingles vaccine - More Health News - MSNBC.com
AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS COMING IN.
THE NEW VACCINE REPORTEDLY GIVES IMMUNITY FOR A MINIMUM OF FIVE YEARS FROM HERPES ZOSTER COMMONLY KNOWN AS SHINGLES.
THIS PARTICULAR VARIETY OF CHICKEN POX (CHICKEN POX INCIDENTALLY STRANGELY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BIRD-FLU) CAN VISIT ANY ONE WHO CONTACTS WITH AN AFFECTED PERSON AND GIVES FREE THE EXPERIENCE OF A CHRONIC PAIN , THAT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD ONLY BY THOSE WHO SUFFERED FROM IT.
OUR CONGRATS TO MERCK TEAM AS WELL AS THE VOLUNTEERS WHO SUPPORTED THE EFFORT. WE HOPE THE MEDICAL TEAM WILL KEEP UP ITS OFFER TO TRACK THE PEOPLE WHO WERE GIVEN THIS VACCINE FOR A DECADE AT LEAST TO STUDY ITS SIDE EFFECTS.
EVERY ONE TALKS OF SIDE EFFECTS OF A DRUG AND WE KNOW THAT IT IS LEFT TO THE DOC WHO WEIGHS (OR SHOULD BE WEIGHING ) ITS PROS AND CONS BEFORE SUGGESTING IT TO THE BLINKING PATIENT .
BUT HOW MANY OF US KNOW THAT THE DISEASE (OR THE INJURY) , FOR WHICH THE DRUGS ARE PRESCRIBED, IS ITSELF NOTHING BUT THE SIDE EFFECT OF OUR OWN ACTS, PAST OR PRESENT. (high cholesterol levels, for instance ! )
UNLUCKILY (OR UNFORTUNATELY) A FEW DISEASES ARE SIDE EFFECTS OF THE PAST ILLNESSES SUFFERED BY OUR ANCESTORS TOO. ! ! ! ( diabetus mellitus for instance)
WHAT SHALL WE BE DOING TO FREE OURSELVES FROM THESE DISEASES ?
Again, viruses not only attack one's physique (body) but psyche (mind )too.
Greed, Jealousy, Anger are a few of them.
Where are these vaccines for these viruses?
Will mankind wil ever be l free itself from this viruses?
PLEASE PONDER OVER FOR A MOMENT AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF
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May 16 Happiness SR*Happiness SR*
What is SR* ? We have heard of many drugs with a tag SR* which means SUSTAINED RELASE !
Can you gain happiness and sustain it too in the long run ?
That's what is Happiness SR*
In the earlier blog, I spoke of enhancing your own inter-personal skills to a level that you are perceived bo a useful and good person by the society so that you may reap happiness.
Now, I am imparting another technique.
You might have heard of the Great Sufi Saint Kabir, who proclaimed many hundred years ago:
CHAH GAYEE CHINTHA MITI, MANUVAN BEPARVAH
GINKO KACHOO NAA CHAHIYE, WO HI SHAHUN SHAH.
WHICH INTERPRETED LIBERALLY WOULD MEAN:
" AS DESIRE GOES, WORRIES DIE, MIND TURNS CARE-FREE
ONE WHO DESIRES NOTHING, HE IS INDEED THE EMPEROR OF EMPERORS"
So, the emphasis is on abandoning or abdicating desires.This is not an easy prepostion.
But can we not lessen our expectations from others?
That means not isolating from you from others with whom you have a natural or acquired relationship, but minimising the nature of expectations to something which is normal, ethical, legal and moral.
When we have few expectations, we have fewer demands from others.
When these demands are not met, we shall develop a culture within ourselves not to get upset, not to frown, leading to pangs of anger and jealousy, but to reconcile with what is available.
That is to be content with what we have and what we get.
That would also mean living within the four walls of our OWN efforts, sweat and perspiration.
When we spend what we got thro' our own sweat and suffering, we live with dignity.
And Dignified Living leads us to happiness. The inner feeling which is continuous elevates the levels of happiness and this happiness is sustained.
None can break your thought processes which release happiness in their sustained releases.
AND THIS IS THE SECOND STEP IN OUR JOURNEY TOWARDS HAPPINESS.
GOOD LUCK AND GODSPEED .
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