HAPPY NEW DAY

Lets go through some of the Interesting New Years of various calendars:

New Year's Day in the Sikh Nanakshahi calendar is on 14 March.The Iranian New Year, called Nowruz, is the day containing the exact moment of the Northward equinox, which usually occurs on 20 or 21 March, commencing the start of the spring season.The Balinese New Year, based on the Saka Calendar (Balinese-Javanese Calendar), is called Nyepi, and it falls on Bali's Lunar New Year (26 March in 2009). It is a day of silence, fasting, and meditation.Ugadi, the Telugu and Kannada New Year, generally falls in the months of March or April.Kashmiri Calendar, Navreh (New Year): 5083 Saptarshi/2064 Vikrami/2007–08 AD, 19 March. This holy day of Kashmiri Brahmins has been celebrated for several millennia.Gudi Padwa is celebrated as the first day of the Hindu year by the people of Maharashtra, India. This day falls in March or April and coincides with Ugadi.The Thelemic New Year on 20 March (or on April 8 by some accounts) is usually celebrated with an invocation to Ra-Hoor-Khuit, commemorating the beginning of the New Aeon in 1904.The Assyrian New Year, called Kha b'Nissan or Resha d'Sheeta, occurs on the first day of April.Thelemic New Year Celebrations usually end on April 10th, after an approximately one-month long period that begins on March 20th (the formal New Year).Tamil New Year (Puthandu) is celebrated in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on the first of Chithrai (சித்திரை)(13 or 14 or 15 April). Punjabi/Sikh Vaisakhi is celebrated on 14 April in Punjab.Malayali New Year (Vishu) is celebrated in the South Indian state of Kerala in mid-April.

Financial New Year is on April 1^st. would you like to wish anybody on an April fool’s day?

So my thought is, don’t wish anyone just because it’s a new year, wish whenever you feel like wishing, on birthday’s, on achievements, more customized wishing’s.

So wish you a Happy New Day because every day is New and let it be Happy.

DREAM WAVE

For the first time when a black man rose up from the population of America to be its first citizen, Lincoln’s dream came true.  He was the trending wave with the only word “change”. Is it so because we never knew such a word before? Definitely the answer is no. But the word said the unsaid and the listeners gave it a meaning relating to what they dreamt of America.  Truly he was so influential that he won.

In the recent past, his highness Sir APJ Abdul Kalam said about “Dream”.  Dream is not what you see in sleep, it’s the thing which doesn’t let you to sleep. That’s what he has said, but conveyed much more than the words.  Similarly, an American Comedian Steve Mazan said – “it’s never too late to chase your dreams”. It’s one of the best quotes I have had heard of dreams.  The reason being that: dreams move away as we try to achieve them or vice versa.  But if we are determined to chase it, then it works quite positively.

Like a driver for a car, there must be a driver for life.  And it must be the dream and not the emotion.  Sometimes in life, we don’t have a dream, that phase of life may be felt to be the worst when we get one ultimately.  Now there is a dream wave, move on with it immediately.  We can never share the dreams of somebody.  It’s an awesome feeling if our dream is also to help many others to dream.  I am truly working on it. Are you? Let our dreams be not subjective to any constraints.  Law of attraction is apt to the context.  Once we dream and if it repeats, then we come closer to its achievement.

Once we considered dream to be of no much use.  But now we have identified its true potential.  So we must not let our conscience repent later for not letting ourselves to chase our dreams.  An idle mind is a devil’s workshop; we can’t let it to be so.  Let our mind be full of dreams but never let it fade away.  Chase it soon. 

Sweet dreams.

MUST LEARN

Can we learn, unlearn and relearn?  A few may respond positively.  But it’s too tough to do so.  Human brain has been evolving over millions of years.  We all learn and adapt to situations. Some learning’s are subjective in nature hence there are situations where we must unlearn the preconceived ones.  It provides a scope for relearning.  Our brain is not an artificial electronic data storage device wherein data can be stored, deleted and later recovered.  But we may find a few similarities, though, in remembering, forgetting and recollecting information.

We learn at all stages of life.  In many humans, learning of the childhood stays till death.  A strong reason being the inability to unlearn and relearn.  Thus making them stubborn upon their decisions over which they repent later.  There’s a question which may arise in this regard: Whether learning is to memory or to subconscious mind? If one had to be chosen, preferably it is the subconscious mind.  Because there are situations in life where we react before we think purely based upon past experiences.

Learning is an art.  Learn not to forget but give space for unlearning it. We may find people with memory but learning is not purely remembering things. Sometimes forgetting is a boon since it helps us to forgive others for their mistakes.  So here comes the second question; what is the difference between forgetting and unlearning?  Unlearning is to put out of mind or undo the effect of something.  But forgetting is the inability to remember or to treat with thoughtless inattention.  First one is intentional and the second being unintentional.  Life is quite smooth for those who can forget bad memories, unlearn the learnt and relearn the needful.

A failure always gives a new learning or proves any previous learning to be wrong.  So we must find failure, as a reason to celebrate rather than to weep upon.  It’s so because failure gives us a chance to learn, unlearn and relearn.  A true winner always searches for someone tougher to beat.  Otherwise the scope of learning diminishes.  The further the competition higher is the chance to learn, unlearn and relearn.

WHAT IS RIGHT?

This question strikes every time when I think, say or do something. In certain cases the thoughts, speech and action are not coordinated and thus are independent of each other.  Every bit of energy we spend over it may not be necessarily based upon any preconceived notion that we have.

Anything is right or wrong for anybody.  Neither all the things on earth are right for all or otherwise wrong for all.  The thought, speech or action which is right for an individual becomes wrong for another.  It is quite subjective to a cause, person or intension.

That’s why certain religious beliefs are right for the followers and at the same time wrong for people from other religions and for the atheist. This helps us to believe that nobody is right or wrong for themselves unless they are influenced by anything and that’s why people break rules.  But look at people who break rules and successfully justify it and be proved right.  For instance, killing a person is said to be wrong. Killing a person as a punishment given by the government is said to be right by the government. Again it is subjective in nature.  So is it that everything is right if justified properly? Don’t have an exact answer to say. Even terrorists have a strong reason for their act and are justified in their group. But the opposing parties state their activities to be wrong.

We can find one thing in common, i.e. majority decides what is right or wrong.  In a few cases, a minority which can influence a majority also can decide what is right or wrong for them.  Ethical code of conduct is followed by many Corporates.  It states the right or wrong code of conduct within their premises and never a standard rule being followed everywhere.

If anybody wants to be right always, learn from the chameleon which changes its colour according to the environment it steps on to.  Think on it.  Because for those who are always right are the persons who are tricky enough to change as per the environment who can justify themselves well or otherwise are able to influence and convince others.  They are right not because they do right things but everyone else believes their acts, intentions or speeches to be right. Or else they only do the things what the majority in their group does. Hence anyone can prove their part to be right if strategically thought upon their actions before they are done. 

LIFE EXPECTS

Expectations never end usually. When we analyze the psychology of various stages of a human life, we may come to know that expectation of result is one of the factors which motivates everyone.  Expectation is not just what we expect from others but also what we expect from ourselves and what others expect out of us too.  Identifying our true potential helps us to put expectations on ourselves.

A new born baby doesn’t expect the outside world to be like this, so it’s difficult for it to accept the reality and thus it cries.  When the baby grows, its first expectation is from his/her mother, to provide milk, love, affection and care.  As a normal human tendency, there would be maximum expectation from the one who is most important in their life at that moment.  So it is for a child, because a child doesn’t know about the God, so mother is its almighty or the guardian instead.

When the child reaches the age of 3, it finds or identified the world filled with love, happiness, hatred and sadness.  It slowly starts grasping the habits, behaviors and character of its parents or guardians and they learn to adjust according to it.  Now it is true that even gender of the child has to do a lot with the range of expectations they have. Suppose if it is a boy, then he expects more from his mother and if it is a girl child, then she expects more from her father. It is a commonly seen case in a majority of families but there may be variations according to the situations in which the child has been brought up.

At the age of six, normally a child starts his/her academics and thus finds friends or classmates who have similar tastes and characters or someone with entirely different nature.  So they start expecting a lot from their peers or friends but do not realize whether the other being has the same kind of expectations over them or not.  Those who identify each other’s expectations and cope up with it are satisfied with each other and become strong friends. Some children are very selective, that is the reason why a child likes a teacher, hates the other and is not in good terms with another.  In these cases too, expectations plays a major role.  Both teachers and students expect something or the other from each other.

The child grows up to reach the age of adolescence, where he/she finds the world to be mysterious.  There comes a situation where it is difficult to accept the truth. There is a hike in their expectations on parents, neighbors, friends, relatives, etc.  This sometimes misleads children of this age as they expect more from the parents or guardian but doesn’t get it up to their expectations.  At the age of maturity, everyone expects a lot from the world.  But if they don’t get whatever they expect, then there will be a diversification in their life as they try to see the world differently.

A man expects a lot from his son or daughter, his wife and also his mother. Similarly a woman expects a lot from all her dear and near.  So expectation remains at every stage of life.  After becoming a grandfather or grandmother, a normal human being expects that their grandchildren should be good, healthy, studious, and energetic and also their son or daughter should look after them. But only a few have their expectations to be realistic.  In old age, people expect the world to be more helping, empathetic and courteous to them.  Expectations have no birth and death.  It is the only feeling that persists in all human beings.  No one can ever claim that he has no expectations on anything.  It is the expectation that makes a family and even breaks a family.

Identify that life expects from us and lets try to expect the least from life.  In this way you and I can find ourselves a step ahead on the ladder of success.

HUMAN HUNT FOR HAPPINESS

Happiness is an “inevitable desire” of every human being. It’s so because all human beings wish to be happy always.  But these kinds of desires are not fulfilled in every moment. We need to be happy, at the same time sadness comes on its way.  Some pretend to be happy while some create happiness out of nothing.  Some are born sad, stay sad, make others sad and die out of sadness.  In spite of all this, nobody wishes to remain sad or be sad.  What is so attractive in happiness?  It can be had any time without a doctor’s prescription. 

A feeling that is partly intangible but creates tangible changes around the world- that is happiness.  The action and intension that gives happiness to an individual or a group could be a reason for dismal for others.  While gaining Moksha, leaving behind all that is materialistic seems to bring grater happiness.  Hence it could be identified that happiness has got various degrees like little, great, sometimes, always etc. and so on. We have got no instrument to gauge the extent of happiness.

Though only a few, we find people who seem to be always happy.  How can we know whether they are really happy or just seem to be happy?  I knew one boy who was well known by all the people in his surroundings.  He was merry in all his ways.  Trying to make every moment happy, he had an aura surrounding him.  It attracted many to be always with him.  Lately we knew that he suffered from cancer stage 4, struggling final days of his life.  But until the day he was no more, no one else knew about it.  He seemed to be happy and tried to be happy but was he really happy?  He must be admired for the way he handled a turbulent situation in life.

We would find men working 24x7 like ants to gather resources without caring for their life at that moment.  They sacrifice their good time expecting a great time ahead, but what awaits them is whole lot of sickness, despair and loneliness at the later stages of their life in many cases. So we need to be different by being happy at every moment and working for making future also happy.  Never search for happiness elsewhere, since it is never outside but is within us, just wake it up.  Don’t ever give yourself a chance to be dismal upon the reasons of this materialistic world.

IN THE NAME OF GOD

            The ability of mankind to act and pursue in accordance to what they perceived, experienced or conceived makes them unique in the universe.  It is always felt that the scope of development and destruction carried forward by humans are beyond imagination.   Science is a vast discipline that we want to master to some extent in our life.  We have a lot of people who talk against science, but there are only a few human beings on this earth who haven’t followed scientific way of living in any manner.  Exceptions do happen but they cannot be considered along with the massive majority.    Even the religion of latest origin states that it is the most scientific one with regard to its belief and practice.  Perfection is never possible unless and until mankind is concerned within it.  It’s so because human beings are not perfect.  Perfection leads to the end of development.  The nature consists of energy. Energy is the potential of all happenings. Still remember the physics lesson which states energy is neither created nor destroyed; it is transformed from one form to another. The transformation of energy balances everything on earth.   For those who have watched the movie “AVATAR” (A Hollywood movie directed by James Camaron), it Can be observed how energy was transformed in that planet.  Likewise on earth, every living organism starting from single celled organisms to the largest dinosaurs that became extinct in the past had to depend on energy to survive.

           Let’s take us as an example. Every living organism has stored form of energy in their cells. Particularly, in humans there are two kinds of cells namely somatic cells and germ cells. The male germ cell called the sperm has a lot of energy and also information stored in it. During intercourse, the sperm moves with a relatively good speed to compete with the fellow sperms. It ultimately fuses with the ova, i.e. germ cell of the female. Ova don’t move but consists of energy like any other cell. The fusion leads to the creation of Zygote, which later depends on the energy provided by the mother to develop into a baby ready for birth.

          Now the baby is born, it enters into an atmosphere which is very uncomfortable. The first energy drink that it gets is the mother’s milk. Later, the baby is fed with various other eatables. At each growth stage, energy is obtained through food. Does this energy always stay within? No, I don’t think so. It gets either transformed or stored within the millions of cells within the body or otherwise lost due to exercise. Once there is a need for energy, the body gets it from the cells. Talking converts one form of energy within our body to another form. There are several other ways, how energy is transformed within a human body.

         Anywhere we can see that living organisms depend on energy to survive and develop. Now we would be in a confused state, thinking of the reason why these are to be thought upon. There is a strong reason behind all that has been said and whatever is to be. I am not an atheist, neither am superstitious. This attitude helps in identifying the truth.

          Preconceived notions, beliefs and value systems hinder our mind from thinking practically. With God’s grace, human beings were created with a mind setup highly advanced when compared to any other living organisms on earth. Don’t mistake the term God, because it’s not what we visualize. It’s the nature or the center of energy flow. This very almighty is often felt not seen when we visit a prayer hall, a temple, mosque or any pilgrim places. Every center that transforms a lot of energy forms helps balance the positive and negative nature of energy. The proper transformation of energy keeps a balance and helps the mind to relax. Thus the concept of positivity, positive mind and physical well-being arises. Energy centers are always surrounded by an aura, a spherical energy level maintained at equilibrium. Most of the people believe that God is Omni present. It is true to a great extent. The degree of energy flows determines the aura level of energy centers. If energy centers exist within non-living organisms, it could create aura that helps transform energy in its surroundings.

               In our daily life, we find people who are very positive in their attitude, who attract a lot of people. They could be the priests, teachers, parents, comedians or even fellow beings who have a wide range of aura surrounding them. Then we can say that they have the energy centers within them at that very point of time. This is the reason why we feel the difference while we pray. We seek for energy centers and even activate the energy centers within us while we pray. I have nothing to say to those who believe that God is our consciousness since it’s their belief and who am I to question. But my consciousness doesn’t support that statement.

               Religions were created by humans. God may have never had an intension to divide the humans like this and guide them separately with thousand different codes of conduct. The nature just provided a free will to humans, so as to make them think well. But we humans have misused it to a great extent. People are slaughtered in this name; many are tormented or even left homeless. More than 30 percent of the total revenue earned by many nations is used for defense, solving communal riots and protection of religious locations.

               Have we deleted the word humanity in the name of supremacy? We want a better tomorrow free from racism, terrorism, extremism and suppression. An eye for an eye always creates a wound that never heals. So we don’t want to hurt anyone in the name of God, right? Nature has got its own laws. As humans, we must not tamper the nature and get cursed by it. The changing climate, industrialization and all the transformations on globe are the outcome of selfish human activities. This breaks the balance of nature, destroys existing energy centers and troubles every form of living organisms. We must only improve in the name of God but instead we prove our short temper. For those who may conceive these words, please convey it to all.