A LITTLE BOY AT A BIG PIANO

Wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were seated, the mother spotted a friend in the audience and walked down the aisle to greet her.

Seizing the opportunity to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the little boy rose and eventually explored his way through a door   

marked "NO ADMITTANCE." When the house lights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and discovered that the child was missing.

Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights focused on the impressive Steinway on stage. In horror, the mother saw

her little boy sitting at the keyboard, innocently picking out "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

At that moment, the great piano master made his entrance, quickly moved to the piano, and whispered in the boy's ear, "Don't quit. Keep playing."

Then leaning over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in a bass part. Soon his right arm reached around to the other side of the child and he added a running obbligato. Together, the old master and the young novice transformed a frightening situation into a wonderfully creative experience. The audience was mesmerized.

That's the way it is in life. What we can accomplish on our own is hardly noteworthy. We try our best, but the results aren't exactly graceful flowing music. But when we trust in the hands of a Greater Power, our life's work truly can be beautiful.

Next time you set out to accomplish great feats, listen carefully...

You can hear the voice of the Master, whispering in your ear, "Don't quit. Keep playing ."

Do it now.

Rajiv Gandhi we miss you

 21^st of May is the day when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated leaving the entire nation in shock. Rajiv Gandhi as a person and as a Prime Minister was always adorable. He is one of the youngest leaders India has ever produced. His style of speech was unique and one could easily identify his voice on radio or on television. Scions of the Nehru-Gandhi family have contributed significantly to the political history of India during the freedom struggle and after gaining independence. During the India’s freedom struggle, Motilal Nehru & Kamla Nehru played pivotal roles. Their son, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi were very popular and distinguished leaders who became Prime Ministers of India. Their styles of work and leadership qualities were entirely different. Especially, Mrs. Indira Gandhi was very aggressive in her approach. Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, was also a young, passionate leader who was very down to earth. His vision and aspirations were different and his tenure as a prime minister was also in different era as compared to former two Prime ministers of Gandhi family. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became India’s first Prime minister after Independence. His tenure was in between poverty, financial crisis and attack from China. Even after so many challenges he was still able to prove to the entire world what a terrific leader and a tough human being he was. India’s first woman Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, on the other hand, was passionate, aggressive and disciplined leader throughout her life. In 1971, she took a bold decision to save Bangladesh from Pakistan’s attack. She sent her troops in Bangladesh and freed Bangladesh from Pakistan’s domination. It is still regarded as a great gesture and we all salute what she did for Bangladesh. This act of her also sent a strong message to other neighboring countries that India couldn’t be considered as underdog any more.

Rajiv Gandhi became Prime minister after her mother’s assassination in New Delhi. It was a tough time for him as he himself was not in India at that point in time. He had by then married Sonia who was from Italy. Rajiv Gandhi also faced huge challenges in his tenure but never surrendered to any of the challenges he faced. Rajiv Gandhi, for the very first time, went beyond borders to modernize India. He also worked towards making India as one of the most powerful nation in the world. He is also considered as “FATHER OF COMPUTERS IN INDIA”. He was the one who brought the concept of computers to India and made people aware what a magnificent machine it is and how India could benefit from it.  Rajiv Gandhi also forged new friendships with different developed countries and bought Bofors to strengthen India’s military power.  This Bofors played a major role in cornering the enemies in Kargil war. Unfortunately, Bofors also brought a lot of criticism with it for him. Later in the court it was proved that nothing wrong was done by Rajiv, which I am sure would have helped his soul to attain tranquility and serenity in the heaven. Rajiv was attending all his goals year after year and was a respect icon in India, not because he was a Prime minister of our country but because of his hard work, perseverance and for achieving all his goals. As they say, good people unknowingly develop a lot of hidden and unwanted enemies and that’s what happened with him. In Coimbatore, on an official tour to address an election rally for the ongoing National elections, he was assassinated by a lady human bomb and she was member of LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam). It was yet another bad day for Gandhi family and for India as India lost yet another of its patriots which left a huge void in Indian politics.

 On this day, we salute Mr. Rajiv Gandhi for what he was and what he did for India. His wife, Sonia Gandhi is doing well as the President of Indian National Congress and that day is not far when we will see Rahul Gandhi, son of Rajiv Gandhi on the seat of Prime Minister. We all Indians are with Sonia and entire Gandhi family on this day and we wish them all the best for their future endeavor!!!!

Be a Man

How often have you heard this line, “Be a Man” ? This is famous among all the teens or young wannabes. I myself have heard this, a lot of times, especially when my friends want me to do something mischievous! This one liner changes its role as we move on from being a teen to become young adult of 20’s and then after a decade, we come and knock the door of 30’s. With the growth, we acquire education and become a professional in our respective fields, but that one line remains as it is with almost the same meaning - winning all battles ranging from small to large which also tends to inflate man’s ego from small to medium, then large and finally extra-large. Be a Man also means you need to be perfect at least in all those fields which have been dignifying the role of Man in the world - physical harassment to female, beating someone weaker than you, earning money and showing your partner that you are the leader of your home and you are the only decision making body. You as Man can do everything outside your home, but when you see your own partner doing the same, you think that she has committed a sin. If your partner or someone younger to you gives feedback on any issue, you feel bad and your tons of ego gets hurt and you tend to take action on that person, but why? Oh yes, because of that one line which has been embedded 2-3 decades ago by your friends / relatives / parents. If you are not able to produce a baby for any x, y or z reason, you or your so called society gives you a certificate that you are not a man. If you as a man are not able to support your family with your hard earned money even then you don’t allow your partner to go out to work and help you financially, but why? Because, you think she might get hooked onto someone else, or rather your ego will again not allow you to tolerate this, as you are a man and how can your wife support you or your family or how come she can earn more than you. How disgusting or correct it is from all men’s perspective, probably, I leave this up to all you so called men.

In my opinion, Man is also a human being and a human being will look good, if he does all those things which God has guided him to do. Man is a backbone of any society. We have courageous man like Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi in the history who fought with mighty umpires to throw them out of their respective countries. Dilip Kumar a great Bollywood actor married 2 females in his life with no baby, but does that mean he is not a man, off course not, he is much better than millions of men in the world. Man is the one who, in spite of all sorts of problems, stands straight and fight with them. Man is one who fights with the situation and live like a normal person after loosing both his legs in an accident. Man is one who is extremely kind hearted. Man is one who can forget and forgive. Man is one who never keeps his foot on other’s shoulder to move up the ladder and achieve his personal goals. Man is the one who protects his family, loves his parents, wife and entire human being.

 It is very easy to say that I am a Man, or Be a Man. Be a Man eventually means, something entirely different and out of the world. Man means courage, kindness, understanding, believing others, developing trust, living a differentially-abled life with a BIG smile on your face, living life like a legionnaire on every single day. Respect and love the poor, respect women and trust your counterparts then only one can actually say, yes I am a man, otherwise you don’t have the right to say that you are a Man or tell others to  “Be a man”. Let’s act like a man and be a man, as this world really needs true men to decrease the number of incidents of thefts, murders, rape, molestation and terrorism, because a true man will never think of doing all these cowardly heinous acts in this beautiful world. So, for Jesus, let’s be a Man.

Super Star to Super Goon – Sharukh Khan

Indians Love Cricket, Foods, Films and People associated with them. To name a few when we say Cricket, first name which hits our brain is the Great Sachin Tendular, if its foods then it would be Sanjeev Kapoor and if its films then in the current days it would obviously be Super Star Shahrukh Khan. Why Shahrukh Khan and why not Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar or Amir Khan? Well there is a reason, now a days Shahrukh is the only personality who is associated with both Films and Cricket, so the obvious choice would be him only.

Shahrukh is also in lime-light because one that he owns an IPL team (Indian Premiere League) that is Kolkata knight Riders and second Because of the incident that happened in Wankhede stadium a few days back. His team KKR won a tough battle with Mumbai Indians in one of the IPL matchs and he was so excited and happy that he over-dozed himself with liquor, as per MCD officials he used very foul languages with all the people as he was barging into the stadium even after switching the flood lights off. He was with his kids who eventually were not even understood as what was happening at that point in time, but overall a super star whom so many people around the world see as a role model will not take much of positives with them. As per Media and MCD officials he was not in his senses and not even aware as what all activities he was doing. He was battling with himself and his so called ego.

In India, we see him as one of the greatest actors which Bollywood have ever produced, but look at the greatest actor. Although, he is dragging the issue further by pulling his kids into it, as per him an old security staff forcefully stopped his kids to enter into the ground, whereas, MCD officials and security staff says that they politely asked the kids not to enter the ground anymore which is quite obvious as per rule book.

Further, Shahrukh has travelled a long distance to became a Super Goon and to add onto his problems MCA (Mumbai Cricket Association) has taken a decision to ban SRK to enter into Wankhede Cricket Stadium for complete 5 years. just think of a situation, a super star, a heart throb of millions, a co-owner of IPL team has been ruled out to enter into Mumbai Stadium where his entire team in the current days and years to come would be playing, what a shame! Hence, it is always advisable not to take liquor in large quantity Mr. SRK, otherwise anyone, even of your stature could lose the impression which you have made in so many years! Mr. SRK, we would love to see the same old Shahrukh whose shoes was completely grounded, passionate about what he use to do, we would like to see that Shahrukh for whom entire country use to take pride and use to fight and raise their voice when American officials stopped you in the airport for the general enquiry. Come back soon, we all miss you!!

A session with Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat is not a new name in the city any more, I have personally read a lot of books and articles that was bestowed to us by him, and he is real and has achieved most of his desires which actually hit his adrenal glands. He is one guy who believes in innovation through whatever he does. He is good author to a lot of books, a lot of films have been made successfully like Hello and Three Idiots, and he has been writing a lot of articles in different newspapers both in Hindi and English.

I got an exquisite opportunity to listen to him in one of our Strategic meet in Taj Hotel in Delhi. According to him he has always made his life exciting by developing a new “S” curve in his life. He started with writing books, initially publishers didn’t liked his write-ups but later on with a lot of persistence and perseverance he finally got a chance and wrote so many good fiction books. When he was in the verge of completing his books he always use to think of writing something new and this is how he uses to keep himself motivated. After books, he thought of seeing his books getting converted into movies, after that he started writing articles, followed by Internet, social networking and blogs. These were the sequence of activities he thought before finishing his current job in hand to avoid monotonous. By initiating all these activities he has been earning good and at the same time he has been able to convey his message and points to 50 million people across the country or rather world. What a way to lead life, he have money, millions of followers and doing great bit of work by educating and transforming his positive ideas among these young wannabes in the country.

Before attending this meeting I was a dull 12 years old employee of an MNC in Delhi and was not able to motivate myself with all possible things which I was doing, finally this idea of “S” curve actually motivated me and paved a path to think out of the box to do something which I really like in my personal and professional life. By the grace of God and with that session of Chetan, helped to start writing my Blogs, I have started taking a flurry of new initiatives in my own company and have been receiving huge appreciations and awards. I have also started taking interest in NGO volunteering works, which I was thinking to join from long time. I have been convincing my friends to do the same to feel that motivation and positive energy. I hope all you people out there will take lesson from this one incident of mine and will start creating so called “S” curve in your life, All the best!! Cheers!!!

Peace of Mind

Most people would be glad to have some peace of mind in their life. They would be

happy to forget their troubles, problems and worries, and enjoy a few moments of inner calmness and freedom from obsessing thoughts.

What is peace of mind? It is a state of inner calmness and tranquility, together with a sense of freedom, when thoughts and worries cease, and there is no stress, strain or fear. Such moments are not so rare. They may be experienced while being engaged in some kind of an absorbing or interesting activity, such as while watching an entertaining movie or TV program, while being with someone you love, while reading a book or while lying on the sand at the beach.

When you are on vacation, do you experience some sort of mental numbness? At this time, the mind becomes calmer, with fewer thoughts and fewer worries. Even while you are deeply asleep, not aware of your thoughts, you are in a state of inner peace.

Such activities, and similar ones, take away the mind from its usual thoughts and worries, and bring about temporary inner peace.

The question is, how to bring more peace of mind into our life, and more importantly, how to experience it in times of trouble. You might also ask whether it is possible to make it a habit, and enjoy it always and under all circumstances.

First, you need to learn to bring more moments of inner peace into your daily life. Later, you will be able to experience these moments in times of trouble or difficulties too, when you really need inner calmness and tranquility.

here are a few simple things that can help you:

• Reduce the amount of time you read the newspapers or watch the news on TV.

• Stay away from negative conversations and from negative people.

• Don't hold grudges. Learn to forget and forgive. Nurturing ill feelings and grievances hurts you and causes lack of sleep.

• Don't be jealous of others. Being jealous means that you have low self-esteem and consider yourself inferior to others.
• Jealousy and low self esteem, often lead to lack of inner peace.

• Accept what cannot be changed. This saves a lot of time, energy and worries.

• Every day we face numerous inconveniences, irritations and situations that are beyond our control. If we can change them, that's fine, but this is not always possible. We must learn to put up with such things and accept them cheerfully.

• Learn to be more patient and tolerant with people and events.

• Don't take everything too personally. Some emotional and mental detachment is desirable. Try to view your life and other people with a little detachment and less involvement. Detachment is not indifference, lack of interest or coldness. It is the ability to think and judge impartially and logically. Don't worry if again and again you fail to manifest detachment. Just keep trying.

• Let bygones be gone. Forget the past and concentrate on the present moment. There is no need to evoke unpleasant memories and immerse yourself in them.

• Practice some concentration exercises. This will help you to reject unpleasant thoughts and worries that steal away your peace of mind.

• Learn to practice meditation. Even a few minutes a day will make a change in your life.

Inner peace ultimately leads to external peace. By creating peace in our inner world, we bring it into the external world, affecting other people too.

OOPPPSS WHO STOLE MY ENERGY?

One Fine morning, I got up and said,” ohhhhh I am not feeling well, severe headache followed by body ache, I said to my self probably today is not that great day for me…..

Believe me, as soon as I said, these words within my self in my brain, I started feeling drowsy and also started seeing every thing negative, starting from my mom-dad, to my maid to my sister, every one got bad treatment from me………

In the office I shouted on my juniors, I argued with my seniors and on my way I scolded my driver for every single wrong turns and red light jumps, however on the other days, I would have given him a 50Rs. to bring me in the office on time….

In the evening after returning form my office, I was not feeling well, mom-dad and my sister, no one was entering my room and I was feeling a bit left out…I thought of doing a bit of REKI and Meditation. After sitting for 10 mints, I was just analyzing as what went wrong and the WORD "FRUSTRATION", "ENERGY", was hitting my brain time and again….

I again gone into my deep brain and soul and was trying to find out the answer and finally realized that no one in this world can stole any one’s energy, while I was diving again and again into my sub conscious mind,  picture was getting more and more clearer….

Finally, I got the answer, that it was me who tackled the situation wrongly and created a bad mood for my self and finally messed-up with every single person who touched my life on that particular day. I tried to further analyze my mistakes and found that I was the only one who stole and wasted my own energy….

Next Day, I was again not well, but this time, I changed my whole perspective and said few words to my self, today the day is really going to be rocking, this is the best day, I have been allocated by my Jesus and I will take full advantage of this day, I also murmured few sentences like “day by day by every way I am getting better and better” also “If God be for me, who can be against me”…..

Then what, I started feeling a bit energetic, My body ache started reducing, I kissed my Mom and said sorry, My sister Hugged me and said, we love you, My colleagues, juniors and even my driver was giving a good look and was talking to me with full cream voice, I started getting my answers, picture was quite clear and I thought, probably, I am the best person in this world with so many people loves and cares about me….

In the evening, after returning back from my office, I was just talking to my self that only uttering few positive words, exactly after waking up in the morning and by keeping my head cool has lent me so many good things in my life, then why do we say, I am totally drained and lost all my energy after coming back from office or even just before waking-up in the morning…….Eventually, no one stole any body's energy, it is we who mess around with nature and our sub-conscious mind and loose every single thing which we already posseses….Our subconscious mind is the most strongest part in brain which works 24*7 and 365 days in a year, whatever thoughts we generate, it keeps on working till the time it gets finished. It also does not understand jokes, so, never even in jokes say any thing negative and if you do so then it will be you who is gonna pay for the consequences.

Friends, Keep this factor in mind, no one frustrates you, no one steels your energy, it is you, your nature and style and the way you see your life sucks your energy, more like a vacuum cleaner, so keep your vacuum cleaner away and try to live life with all positive thoughts in your mind….

Hope to see you all taking positives from this story and will take full advantage and will rock every single day in your respective life. All the best!