Creating Excellence

Here is the secret of 'Creating Excellence' in life. 
If you are able to find out  -

"Activities that generate 'Joy' from within yourself?"
"What is it that you can do better than others can do?"
"What is it, where you don't need appreciation or reward from others ?"
"What is it, where you don't  notice the duration of time spent as you do it ?"

If you find this fields or activities, know that this is the 'Purpose of your Life' !! This is the field where you can excell. This is the field where your contribution will make the world a better place.

The big merit of this concept lies in the fact that it turns you internally focused. It generates joy within. The joy boosts positive attitude. When you are engaged in activities you love; you would develop an internal locus of control. You will begin to believe that you are responsible for your own success. This will reduce excuses and complaints for others.

On the way towards creating excellence, one needs to keep an eye on ones attitude.To keep us aligned with the goals we have set, we need to have a mechanism for self appraisal and audit.You will agree with me that we get derailed often from the plan we have chalked out for our wholistic and poised living.

So, take a break - ask yourself, 'Do you enjoy life?' Introspect. These breaks are important to take stock of the direction of our life and guide it towards achieving joyous life. Through introspection we can know whether we are running after pleasures or we are following Joy ?

Introspection is a mechanism to analyze our inner trends, the transactions and state of mind and to evolve perceptions that can enable him attain his desired way of living . Evolving a plan to develop potentials and achieving balanced development is the first step; periodical introspecton is the next.

In quest of fuller life.

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied" said Socrates.

This speaks about the value of human happiness over the pleasure of sensual gratification. Through this platform, its our endeavour to bring in the consciousness amongst the educated urbanites towards this distinction.

Its heart burning to know, according to a latest survey, that only 20% of Indian population is honest. However, if one wishes to take out positive output from the survey; it is found that 49% of population is in favour of 'keeping subjects like moral studies and human values in acedamic curriculam.' This indicates that people do appreciate the value of morals and ethics but they don't find opportunities to learn them in the schools.

          

With the increasing trend of specialization, academic education is becoming more and more focused on vocations. We have been producing great number of Engineers, Doctors, Financial Analysts and business Managers. While, with their unquestionably high professional competancy, their contribution in country's GDP remains praise-worthy; together, they do not form a happy and cultured society. The lack of moral education has made them 'money makers' and they seldom feel the need to appreciate the value of humane faculties. The question remains, where do we wish to take the human society ? Leave aside cherishing life, can we expect people with such a training to even know other higher dimensions of life ?

Have Fun

It has not remained just a matter of belief now, it is being supported by scientific studies that fun enhances the value of life. Whether at home or at workplace, regular exposure to fun increases productivity.  It recedes mental stress and the resultant better internal environment decreases the physical fatigue. Fun is normally shared with others.  It is contiguous. It spreads among others present at the scene. This way, a happier person improves  environment  of the place, be it home or at the work.
We need to appreciate ‘Fun’ as an important characteristic of a healthy human personality. However, irrespective to the benefits, we don’t allow fun wherever we need better results. We discourage an attempt to invoke fun with the stricture to be ‘Serious..!’
This way, we have created organizations that negate ‘FUN’. Institutes : schools, Church  or business  they all create ‘anti-fun’ environment. Think of busy professionals. How badly they need fun..!  Working with serious attitude throughout the day, their hair turn gray and they look more than their age.!
It is wise to form a habbit to include repeated breaks in our daily schedules. If organizations accept to include Fun on the workplace, they wont need to spend on arranging Stress Relieving workshops and seminars.
Taking 'Fun' along our way will help us realize our Goal of 'Joyous Living'..!

The Purpose of Life

You ask:  what is the meaning or purpose of life?  I can only answer with another question:  do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? 

                                                                                                                               -Freeman Dyson

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If you randomly stop any man on the road and ask him as to where is he going and why; you will get a reply without delay. However, if you ask a person 'What for he is living?" or 'What is the purpose of life?' you will, most probably find ignorant faces. An average person seldom knows the answer. Even there are millions of us to whom the question never arises. What a fun that everyone is living but no one knows ‘why?’  

The question is quite simple and yet the most puzzling one. As we enquire, we find different answers from different sources. The religions have their own but different answers. The philosophers have their own ideas. Mythologists view it differently and so do the sociologists. Rather than indicating the ‘purpose’, each presents different perspectives of life. An answer that can be accepted by all unanimously is yet to be found.

We are not able to find most convincing meaning of life because we don’t know whether our birth is our own selection. We try to find the logic of our existence. However, It would be natural for logical mind to be ignorant about the meaning of ‘life’ because it developed much later after our birth.

The subject of ‘understanding or finding the purpose of life’ is taken up very seriously by people with religious and spiritual bent. How strange, it could be that the same people strive throughout their lives not for ‘Life’ but for ‘Getting rid of Life..!! Don’t they strive for ‘Liberation’, ‘Emancipation’, or ‘Nirvana’?

At this point, we can make out that the exercise for finding ‘Purpose’ or ‘Meaning’ of life is very complex. No two intellectuals would ever accept each other’s point of view. On the other hand, for the majority of common men, the best option is to find ways and means to live life happily.

“What is the purpose of life?” -  We don’t know.

“How long is the journey?”    -  We don’t know.

“What is the destination of this journey?” - We don’t know either..!

So, in the face of these major uncertainties, it’s only wise to enjoy every moment of it (of course) without hurting others..!!

On the Path

My personal exploration in search of answers to questions like What is the purpose of Life ? Does God Exist ? How to live life to the Fullest ? etc. led me into spiritual domains. On the way, I studied various schools of thoughts and found that the religions and the Ashrams have messed up the simple and easy things into most intricate concepts.

While demystifying the spiritual concepts, I realized that to get the answers, I need to unlearn a lot that I gathered during my journey. Living a meaningful life is in deed a simple task. For an ordinary human being, the lofty concepts and theories and mystrious Kriyas hold no practical utility. On the contrary, these are the points from where his innocense pushes him in the vulnerable zone of falling prey to the mentors who are good for nothing.

During this time, I was exposed to writings of OSHO, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Orison Swett Marden, Stephen Couvey, Dr Annie Besant, and Vivekanand ji. I have great sense of gratitude for what I learnt from them.  I love watching Eckhart Tolle, Amit Goswami, Sirshree Tejparkhi ji of Tej Gyan Foundation and Acharya Yogeesh ji on youtube.  

 

I would humbly admit that my thoughts would reflect the glimpses of the teachings of these personalities and scripture. As a matter of fact, I believe that there can never be anything in the world that could be claimed to be 'Ones Own'. At a subtle level everything is 'One'. Cosmos is a reservoir of intelligence and we are all floating in this ocean of energy. The human brain is a multi-channel receiver-cum-transmitter and any one, in a fraction of second,  can get connected with the reserves of thoughts having simillar frequencies. This is the reason, at times you find exact copy of your thoughts said by a celebrity who lived on the earth much before your birth. Our present mind is always busy manipulating upon the captured traces of thought vibrations and releasing them back into the space.