Success and struggle

SUCCESS IS GETTING UP
JUST ONE MORE TIME 

THAN YOU FALL

-   Oliver Goldsmith



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BE POSITIVE

Every adversary has a positive opportunity hidden beneath it.


BE POSITIVE, THINK POSITIVE AND POSITIVE WILL BE YOUR WORLD OR THE WORLD YOU WILL CREATE. VISIBLE WORLD IS THE WORK OF POSITIVE THINKING PEOPLE

A 4 yr old boy was in the market with his 6 yr old sister..

.Suddenly the boy found that his sister was lagging behind.

He stopped and looked back.

His sister was standing in front of a toy shop and was watching something with great interest.

The boy went back to her and asked,"Do you want something?" The sister pointed at the doll.

The boy held her hand and like a responsible elder brother, gave that doll to her.

The sister was very very happy...

The shopkeeper was watching everything and getting amused to see the  matured behaviour of the boy...

Now the boy came to the counter and asked the shopkeeper,

"What is the cost of   this doll, Sir!"

The shopkeeper was a cool man and had experienced the odds of life. So he asked the boy with a lot of love n affection," 

:Well, What can you pay?"

The boy took out all the shells that he had collected from sea shore, from his pocket and gave them to the shopkeeper. '

The shopkeeper took the shells and started counting as if he were counting the currency. Then he looked at the boy.

The boy asked him worriedly,"Is it less?

" The shopkeeper said," No,No... 

"These are more than the cost. So I will return the remaining." Saying so,he kept only 4 shells with him and returned the remaining.

The boy, very happily kept those shells back in his pocket and went away with his sister...

A servant in that shop was very surprised watching all these.

He asked his master," Sir! You gave away such a costly doll just for 4 shells???

"The shopkeeper said with a smile," Well, For us these are mere shells.
But for that boy, these shells are very precious. And at this age he does not understand what money is, but when he will grow up, he definitely will. And when he would remember that he purchased a doll with the Shells instead of Money, he will remember Me and think that world is full of Good people.
He will develop positive thinking..Thats it..."

So always be positive and behave positive.
Wish you all a nice week ahead. 

Dr A Jagan Mohan Reddy

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GOAL OF LIFE

EVERY TRAIN

HAS A DESTINATION

TO REACH      

- IN TIME OR LATE.



DO YOU HAVE ONE

FOR YOUR LIFE?


IF NOT, HAVE ONE

OR LATER ON YOU

WILL FEEL

I HAVE WASTED MY

LIFE.

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MIND AND MEDITATION

Mind is a good servant but very bad master. Mind is like a monkey that keeps on jumping from one branch of tree to another branch of tree. 

A person asked a wise man: Can you tell me what is the form of God?

The saintly wise man thoughtfully with his one finger on the chin said: Do you know who are you? The person nodded in negative. The wise man said: Know thyself and you will know the world or the creator of the world. If you could not know about yourself in your life till now, how can you know the creator of you? Go and first know about yourself and then come to know about the creator.The creator is within you. No need to find HIM outside thee. 

Isn't it the nature of human being to keep on asking "Where is God?" The human beings are more interested to find out what the others are having. Rather than feeling pride what he has. 

Comparison is hell. 

To elaborate more: On the eve of New Year, the management of a company gave gifts to its employees but it was observed that the most of the employees instead of focusing on opening and enjoying own gift were busy in asking others "what have you received as gift." 

In life too, we are mentally busy to know the net worth of the people known to us. First we endeavour our best to know what the others have and then we start feeling jealous of them by storming our mind with the thoughts: How has he accumulated all those possession or wealth?

We keep on troubling and torturing ourselves with those inefficient thoughts without any reason.

WHY?

The simple answer is "the minds of majority of the people are filled with greed."

What they see, they love to have. Can every thing owned by others be had? No. Not at all.

What gives happiness in life is FREE. For example: air to breathe is Free. Love of mother, father, brother, sister and friends is FREE.

Exaggerated expectations from others and mental possessions are the cause of  mental unrest.

MEDITATION 

Meditation helps in settling down these kind of untameable temptations. Bad is in our mind. But instead of throwing it out our minds, we keep on nurturing it in our mind and result is the collapse of character. 

Wealth is lost, nothing is lost

Health is lost, something is lost

Character is lost, everything is lost, says Mahatma Gandhi.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016

TIME ONCE PASSED CANNOT BE RECALLED. TRUE! BUT THE GONE TIME TEACHES MANY LESSONS AND ENABLES US TO BUILD NEW HOPES ON THE BASIS OF OUR LEARNINGS WE RESOLVE TO IMPROVE AND MAKE OUR ,OUR DEARS LIVES, OUR SOCIETY AND WORLD BETTER.

New year celebrations throughout the world bring hopes to ALL.

New year, new resolution.

This year my resolution is " I will listen more and reduce my talking by half."

I have observed that when I listen, I learn new things but when I speak, I repeat what I know from my education, my experience, my experiments.

All others too have done so. Why not benefit from their learning? 

I realised the benefit of listening from others from an incident that happened in my life. 

I met an M.C.A (Master of Computer Application) person. She narrated and taught me  in 10-15 minutes conversation what I could not learn in 15 years BY juggling through books. 

This incident changed my view and I resolved: Now onwards I will speak less and listen and learn more from others.

Just 10 hours back was the entry of TIME into NEW YEAR 2016. 

The children of my neighbourhood having age range 3-14 years had arranged a dance party. 

I was invited as chief guest. Their parents around 250 two had gathered in the park in front of our houses. 

At 8 pm  of 31st December, 2015  the dance party started.  All had brought chairs from their homes. Elders were seated on the raised concrete built in the park. Light and sound system and self-made LCD using flex on wooden planks was done excellently well by the young children. 

Throughout the dance party, coffee and eatables were served without break. All the people - elders, children, young, old, ladies and gents enjoyed the programme of the children. 

Dance by a child of 3 really mesmerised ALL. Even now after 10 hours the song upon which she danced is stilling ringing in my ears. Whenever, we talk about that song and her presence of mind, we cannot control laughing and wonder how such a little child would have crammed the song and learnt to dance. Her steps and lip singing of the song was really beyond comprehension. 

For 4 hours we were entertained and the cost was not more than Rs. 4000/- (Quite below US$ 100) for 250 people.  I was thinking, if a couple would have celebrated NEW Year in a hotel or any other hill station, it would have cost far more than Rs. 4000/- but here in the comfort zone of our homes, we have enjoyed the best. 

At the end of the programmer, I was invited to distribute the medals to the performers. I invited 5-6 other elders of the area who were sitting there.  We all honoured the performers with the medals.  Children were happy. I was thinking who knows that from these children after a period of say 30, 40 years can be an IAS, IPS, IRS, Minister, Chief Minister or President of India or any other country.  Nobody can predict the future of the child. But this kind of foundation will definitely make a child confidence. Confidence creates reality beyond predications. 

At 12 + New Year celebration was over and elders left the place. Now was the turn of the mothers of the children. 

I saw it from the lobby of my house. I was wondering that even the seemingly less talking and generally known introvert ladies were dancing with full vigour and the full of their heart.

They were laughing, dancing, pushing, cuddling and cajoling each other.

And that too in a public place.

I had never seen those young ladies earlier laughing and dancing to that pitch. I thought, everybody has a talent, only opportunity is to be made available.

HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2016.

EDUCATION EMPOWERS

VALUE OF EDUCATION

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Roots of education may seem bitter but fruits of education are really sweet and last for whole of life.

I categorise the human beings in 3 categories generally:

1. Unemployable: Those who do not possess any skill or education and look for job as a daily wager.

2. Employable: Know the mother tongue and are employable in their own states where mother tongue is spoken and written and their maximum job market is their own country. 

3. Globally employable: Who know their mother tongue, national language and international language like English. They are educated and command employability throughout world.

 While emphasising on education, one simple sentence is used:

Education is a better guard of liberty than standing army.

 As seed grows into a big tree of different sizes and colours, so is the education gives the fruit throughout life in different ways. One fruit is you belong to the world through internet and without spending a dime, enjoy meeting kith and kin, friends from different countries. Who does not like having friends from different countries!

Another couplet impresses me:

Formal education gives living,

but self-education gives a fortune.

So, never stop learning even after leaving school, college or university. Reading 5/6 pages a day will make you better than those who do not read. Start is difficult. Muster the courage to start and your interest will grow. 

Education adds value to you. How?

Scrap of iron is sold say price is  1 cent per kg.

But when scrap is sent to the furnace, it is burned in the furnace. Good quality scrap turns into steel while bad quality scrap is burned during the process. 

Steel sells 10 times costlier than scrap.

From this steel, very costly products are manufactured. Value addition keeps on adding at each and every step. 

Now, steel when turned into "magnet" costs 1000 times more than steel.  Magnets run the turbines that generate electricity and electricity is life line of humans and industries.

Applying the same to humans:

1. As a child, we go to school. Some bear the pressure and continue the education. They are good scrap. Others don't discipline themselves for any reason whatever it may be  and drop. They are bad scrap.

2. Many complete schooling but do not join colleges. Those who join college are like steel i.e. they have better value and work options. They have employment opportunities - nationally and internationally.

3.  The third level is steel turned into "magnet". Applying to the same yardstick to humans, the growth oriented minds who have been sharpened in schools, college or university keep on becoming better and better. They do not compare themselves with others or fellow beings but keep on improving their levels of learning. This makes them "magnets" or experts in their field of work. 

Education enables a person to differentiate between "good" and "b ad" , ethical and in-ethical, moral and immoral, legal and illegal and many more. Education is the best gift to be given to the kids. All other gifts are perishable and but gift of education is imperishable. 

Education is self-acquired skill. Certificates can be given to the children or others but the knowledge and skill acquired through those certificate cannot be transferred. 

Education empower, education elevates. Be educated. Age does not matt r for learning. A 92 years old lady, said on TV in reply to a question of the anchor: So, grandma, you have finished 10th standard. Now what is your dream. She replied in fumbling broken words:  I,  I, I  w   i     s   h          to   b  e       g r a d u a t e    b e f o r e      I     c  l o  s  e    m  y      e   y  e s.  Who teaches was the next question?  M  y  g r e a t   g r e a t   g r a n d  d a u g h t e r.

77 years old Vinodji from Patna is doing Ph.D. 

Value yourself and value education. 

Here is a story from a student who had completed his +2 from Punjabi medium school from a village. He told:

I paid you Rs. 2200/- as fee for English Speaking Course  but it will pay me over 1 crore in life. I was surprised and asked: How?            He further told: It is a long story. I belong to a village. My father is a village head. I passed my +2 from Punjabi medium school with 80% marks. An advertisement from a bank said candidates with 60% marks in +2 can apply for the posts of Clerks. I was happy and applied for the post.

The word of my applying for the bank spread in the village and the villages around as my father used to tell each and every person he met.

With great zeal and zest I prepared for the exam. I took the exam. The result was FAIL. I  was discouraged.  My mother boosted my morale and father  too said that it was first attempt, don't bother.

Next time too I failed. This time my father was angry. I felt frustrated. But I attempted 3rd time and this time too I failed. I reflected upon the reasons of my continuous failure and found that my English was poor.   I worked very hard on English. 4th time I attempted and I failed. 

This infuriated my father and he threw me out of the house. My mother wept a lot. 

I came to your city and started working in a factory. I was paid Rs. 4000/- per month. I stayed in a dingy room. 

I joined 2/3 institutes to learn ENGLISH. But at the time of admission, they said: You will write and speak ENGLISH well but the course ended they said: You are from Punjabi medium school and that too from a village, hence you are very weak in ENGLISH.  These words hurt me a lot. But I could not speak back.

As luck would have been, one day I was going back to my room in the auto-rickshaw (3-wheeler) and as usual I was telling my story of frustration to one of my friend. In that auto-rickshaw, a lady professor was sitting. She was hearing all this. She advised me to meet you.  I met you and you gave me hope. You told me that I would learn English writing and speaking. It all heartened me. I joined the 2 month course by depositing Rs.2200 in 2007. I attended the class. I felt a new energy for studying and working hard. Meditation techniques, memory techniques taught by you made me more confident.

Your words: Two characteristics Attitude and Making Efforts are in your control. If you believe you can pass any exam, you must have positive attitude and should "Never Stop Doing" . These words inspire me to work hard. 

As I lived all alone and had failed in the bank exams 4 times, throughout night I kept on reading the books in addition to the SELF-LEARNING MATERIAL, audio CDs, workbook given by you.  This all made me confident and I took the exam of the bank.          This time, I cleared the exam.

"That's true, but how it will give you 1 crore?" I quipped out of curiosity.

"Sir, I am getting Rs. 20000/- as salary and will work at least for 30/35 years. My promotion will be there. Respect and prestige is there. This will make me more than 1 crore in 35 years. "

I gave a loud laugh as this was never thought by my small head.

"Sir, now my father is addressed as "father of bank manager" by the villagers and villagers come to our home for seeking guidance for bank exams for their children. It boosts the heart of my parents. Now my father on the rainy days comes to my bank to pick me up in the car. I thank you a lot. It is all due to your guidance. Your way of teaching is excellent. It generates confidence. THANK YOU SIR, PRANAM."

I was thinking that a teacher can never know how his teaching will benefit the taught. 

So, Rs. 2200/- investment on education will pay the taught Rs. 1 crore in life. This is the value of education.

Success is not tough but it demands:

1. Hard work, continuous focused hard.

2. Positive attitude with end result in mind.

3. Powerful self-trusting self-talk makes you winner.

800 words

Master the 800 words 

that are not taught 

in schools and colleges
and speak and write 

simple but powerful English
everywhere in the world 

i.e. countries like America,

Australia, England, Newzealand, 

Canada, Singapore etc.

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ROOTS

Right roots give right fruits.

CARE ABOUT ROOTS

Prohibition

BAN ON ALCOHOL DRINKING

CONGRATULATIONS TO SHRI NITISH KUMARJI – 

CHIEF MINISTER OF BIHAR, INDIA

Nitishji had promised to the people of Bihar before the election 2015 that there will be complete prohibition i.e. ban on liquor in Bihar from April, 2016. 

Now this promise has been fulfilled as the honorable Chief Minister has made it public that from April 2016, there will complete prohibition in Bihar.

No doubt the state will lose heavily in respect of finances but this decision will

-         -    Improve the lives of the people in the state

-         -   Improve the family life of the people in the state

-         -   Improve the public relations in the state

-         - Improve the image of the people in the mind of the people in other states.  

Family disputes and conflicts will be reduced. More mindful living will be enjoyed by the people of Bihar. Bihar has become the fourth state where prohibition where complete ban on liquor i.e. prohibition has been implemented by law.

Gujarat, Manipur and Nagaland are the other three states.

It is the right time when the Governments of Punjab, Haryana and Governments of other states should also heed to this good gesture and action of Bihar Government.

The governments that in paper preach ‘prohibition’ but in reality promote ‘LIQUOR CONSUMPTION’ (by giving licences to more and more liquor and wine vends)  can never be the welfare wishers of the people and society.

Again: CONGRATULATIONS, SIR.

THINK

THINK WHAT YOU THINK and WHAT YOU DO.

In life, there are BIG challenges and small challenges. If BIG challenges are taken care of, small challenges or problems are solved automatically.

So, to be better and light in life, one should focus on BIG challenges or problems and solve them. In management it is called 80:20 pareto method. Means that BIG problems need your 20 per cent time and 80% problems are solved whereas small problems account for 20 per cent but eat away 80 per cent time.

Choice lies with you. Whether to focus on 80% or 20% in life.

Here is an example: A professor was giving the demo of this 80:20 pareto method.

He took out a jar of glass. Placed it on the table. Now he took out some big pieces of stone and put them in the jar, Jar was full and its cover was not fitting it. Professor asked the students: Is there any space to put something more in the jar. The loud reply was: No, sir.

Professor took small pebbles and put the same in the jar. The small pebbles were fitted well in the jar. Again the same question: Is there any space to put anything more in the jar? Again the loud reply: No, sir.         "Good", Professor said.

He took out a handful of sand and dropped in the jar. The sand settled in the jar well.
All the students were awe stricken.

So, what you learn., dear students.

Jar is your mind. If you fill with big problems and say: No more space, then you are wrong. Mind has a large space to accommodate many more things. It is you, who says: It is enough. Stretch yourself and see the wonder your mind can do for you.

Next he empties the jar and places it on the table.

This time fills the jar with sand i.e. small problems of life. The jar was full up to the top. No space was there.

Now what have you learnt students: If you will fill your mind with solving little and small problems of life, the big problems will not have space for solution in your mind and throughout life you will keep on thinking that I am troubled and troubles don't leave. In reality, you have not known the root of the troubles yourself and keep focussing on the branches of troubles.

So, focus to solve the  BIGGEST problems of life first.
Then  priority is : BIGGER, BIG, SMALL, SMALLER AND SMALLEST problem.

You will enjoy the life.


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Marriage School

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Marriage School 

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THE SCHOOL CALLED MARRIAGE

Marriage is the only school where 

you get the Certificate before you start. 

It's also a school where you will never graduate.

It's a school without a break or a free period.

It's a school where no one is allowed to drop out.

It's a school you will have to attend every day of your life.

It's a school where there is no sick leave or holidays.

It's a school founded by God:

1.On the foundation of love.

2.The walls are made out of trust.

3.The door made out of acceptance.

4.The windows made out of understanding

5.The furniture made out of blessings

6.The roof made out of faith.

Be reminded that you are just a student not the principal.

God is the only Principal.

Even in times of storms, don't be unwise and run outside.

Keep in mind that, this school is the safest place to be.

Never go to sleep before completing your

assignments for the day.

Never forget the C-word...Communicate.

Communicate with your classmate and with the Principal. 

If you find out something in your classmate (spouse)

 that you do not appreciate,

Remember your classmate is also just a student not a graduate, 

God is not finished with him/her yet. 

So take it as a challenge and work on it together.

Do not forget to study the Holy Book 

(the main textbook of this school).

Start each day with a sacred assembly and

 end it the same way.

Sometimes you will feel like not attending classes,

 yet you have to.

When tempted to quit find courage and continue.

Some tests and exams may be tough but remember, 

the Principal knows how much you can bear and yet

it's a school better than any other.

It's one of the best schools on earth;

joy, peace and happiness accompany each lesson of the day.

Different subjects are offered in this school, 

yet love is the major subject.

After all the years of theorizing about it, 

now you have a chance to practice it.

To be loved is a good thing, but to love 

is the greatest privilege of them all.

Marriage is a place of love, so love your spouse. 

More - grace from God.

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This is an email received from 

 

Dr. K. Sampath Kumar
   B.A. (Economics), BGL, M.Com., M.Phil., Cert. A.I.I.B.,
                                        MBA (Finance), MBA (HR & Marketing),  ACS, FCMA, Ph. D., 
Professor,
Success consists of getting up
just one more time than you fall
-- Oliver Goldsmith

Prof P.K.Keshap's view:

      Marriages are settled in heaven but celebrated on Earth
      Union of two souls is written right from birth.

     Those who believe and trust in this, live a far more successful married life than others who believe that the grass is greener on the other side of the wall. Grass is greener where you will water it.   - Prof P.K.Keshap