THE TRUE STRENGTH!

"I believe in God but I believe in enjoying my life too. My motto forever is..

• 'Enjoy life max, see the best of everything and thus expand full and at the end of the day offer Prayers to the Almighty for a better tomorrow!'"

Said one friend at the back of a proud feeling in him who forever believed in the precept..

'Expand and Enjoy!'

"Wherever I go, I'll have only two works with me. Looking out for new business opportunities and visiting the Temples around. My motto forever is..

• 'See myself as a capable Entrepreneur and at the back of that zeal, let me turn out gold wherever I go!'"

Said the 2nd friend at the back of a great energy in him who forever believed in the precept..

'Work hard and Earn max!'

"I'm a man of scientific temper. I do believe in God but I should never fold my hands and keep quite surrendering everywhere. My Motto forever is..

• 'Let the scientific spirit ever burn in me and that attitude alone truly finds out one day why the man suffers in this life!'" 

Said the 3rd friend at the back of intense scientific temper in him who forever believed in the precept..

'Rationalize and Accept!'

"I agree to what all you say. But I sincerely believe that the Almighty alone moves me and propels me to do what I like to do in this life. My understanding forever is..

• 'Let me do all my assigned duties sincerely and at the end of the day let me make an Offering of what all is seen as mine to the Almighty through a Sincere Prayer and Total Surrender for the Ultimate Care!'"

Said the 4th friend at the back of a true humble feeling in him who forever believed in the 

Precept..

'Do your 

DUTY IN FRONT

Comprising of 

Working hard and growing,

Enjoying limited and

Carrying Scientific Temper everywhere 

And beyond 

Remain Prayerful

As much!'

As the 4 were talking thus, suddenly all felt a violent shake and had to hold something nearby to avoid themselves falling. A few items from the walls, from open cupboards and from other places instantly fell to the ground. The shake just lasted for few seconds..

"God! It's an Earthquake. Is everything okay? Why suddenly this one has happened?"

The first 3 friends said simultaneously each looking at one another and

Thus existed beyond with a distinct nervousness on their faces as they were unable to reconcile to what they believed in their life all along!

The 4th one too was instantly taken a back with the happening but soon stabilized himself thru' a silent Prayer to the Almighty and

Thus existed beyond with a calmness on his face as he could quickly reconcile to what he believed in his life all along!

The severe jolt instantly tilted and opened up Srimad Bhagavad Gita book on the table to the page of Capter 9, Verse 34 wherein Lord Krishna Says.. 

Man mana bhava mad bhakto mad yaji mam namaskuru
Mam evaisyasi yuktvaivam atmamam mat parayanah

'Be ever knowing me, be my devotee, worship me, offer respects (Pranaams) unto me; in this way completely dedicating your mind and body unto me, having me as the supreme goal, you will certainly reach me (attain Peace)!'

The Post is in line with this week's IndiSpire Prompt Share what is your source of strength and how it empowers you during difficult times. What helps/helped you find purpose in your life? #EmbraceLife

Keywords: TRUE, STRENGTH

THE END IS TRULY UNKNOWN!

It was one of the days for the daily laborers starting with the tedious work of 

Tarring up the 6 lane wide road for 

A smooth, shining and perfect getup by evening..

The perfection no doubt needed the right effort put together in 

Cleaning the area, 

Clearing the debris, 

Filling up the pot holes and 

Making it ready for tarring and

The laborers were into it with all seriousness..

Soon, the huge automatic tarring machine started rolling on steadily

Dumping the ready mix behind it on the road with 

A group of laborers simultaneously actively working behind smoothing the little up and downs that came up in the process..

In front of the machine, 

An aged frail man slowly lifting and carrying little debris to the side of the road,

A little away a young mother, the first Teacher of her child having listened to the cry of her little one away under the care of an old lady sticking to her work for a few minutes more helping out the tarring process go smoothly before attending her Baby and

An old lady of the group, carefully checking the use of a torn SUITCASE thrown into a nearby garbage bin

were equally seen 

All simultaneously making sure that their activities do not create a Traffic Jam in the already halved road.. 

The usual daily moving vehicles, 

The luxury cars with shutters up avoiding the dust and noise and 

The buses carrying school going children

passed by on the half cleared road with

A huge Billboard near the active working area seen carrying a discrete message of 

The road to prosperity..

As the Clock ticked on thus endlessly, 

A few in a Celebration mood of going on their vacation, 

A few heading Home for rest after their continued work beyond normal hrs,

A few at the back of certain unexpected emergencies and 

The rest on their on daily routine errand

Moved on endlessly with 

A fallen Rose severed from the plant in the near by park next 

Standing as a mute witness to all that happening!

‘This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, 

An initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.

Keywords:

road, tarring, prosperity

THE ABCs.. OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN!

Looking back at 60+, I was ever interested / prepared myself in instilling 3 Basic Values in the minds of my children as I brought them up in my life invariably making them equip themselves with the fundamentals of leading this life happily having a true meaning to it and thus remain fit..

The A,B,C,D,E,Fs of these 3 Basic Values go thus..

• Brighten up the prospects of having the best future thru' dedicated learning and the related training but along with that Express too what you are within to have a meaning to your immediate life!

Here brightening up the child's future prospects thru' good learning/training and subsequent employment in his/her adult life is a must else the basic existence itself is indirectly threatened and I had necessarily taught this Value No 1 to my children from the right age without an exception..

In the process, the children might not find time to express themselves which was their basic gist of this very living and thus I equally made my children do that without losing sight of the higher meaning to their lives..

• Face the inevitable competition with no second thought but along with that Accept too what comes thru' wholeheartedly!

Here, facing competition next to me is inevitable in this life as the concept of 'Survival of the fittest!' ever rules our lives and thus I necessarily imbibed this Value No 2 too in the mind of my children if not directly indirectly from the appropriate age..

In the process, the child should never be put to undue mental stress and thus it was my duty there to continuously make the issue in front look lighter there by tuning my children's minds ultimately ready to accept what comes thru' heroically and thus remain stable!

• Care for and share with others without an exception but along with that Discipline yourself in respect of time, money and energy!

Here, caring/sharing is no doubt the divine expression and one should necessarily get into this habit from childhood. Thus imbibing this Value No 3 in my children again was my responsibility and I never side lined this at any point of time as they should grow ultimately into total personalities in their lives..

In the process, disciplining oneself in respect of his/her time, money and energies is a must and thus it became my duty there to tune up my children's minds to the ever limited availability of these resources and the necessity of doing all that within those limits!

The Post is written in line with the requirement of this week's IndiSpire Prompt What are the 3 most important values that you would teach your child? #responsibleparent

Keywords: children, Values

WATER.. WATER.. WATER.. PLENTY OR SHORTAGE?

• "The precious garden plants need better watering. The heat is more and if we don't water them regularly, I doubt their proper growth. Water all the plants in the front and back yards till the land becomes wet with moisture. In my bungalow

Water is plenty and never in shortage!"

• The family will be sitting in the front open space in the evenings for relaxation and to have some cool air. Sometimes the neighbors drop in. The weather is very hot. Spray lots of water the front area to make it sufficiently wet. That'll sure cool the area towards evening. In my bungalow

Water is plenty and never in shortage!"

• The fountain in front is not working properly. I called the repair person and he may be at anytime here before noon. Be ready and help him out in his job. I want a min height of... ft of the rising waters in front of the house and nothing less. The beauty of rising water jets is the unique specialty of my bungalow. You should guide the repair man and do the required. In my bungalow

Water is plenty and never in shortage!"

• The bath tub is to be filled full with water. Yesterday you missed doing it and left early. When you come for work, you should come prepared to stay full time, isn't it? Today at least, please see that the tub is filled full and kept ready for my bath.. In my bungalow

Water is plenty and never in shortage!"

• The back yard and garage need some floor cleaning. I want you to finish that too today itself with the floor cleaners and water.. In my bungalow

Water is plenty and never in shortage!"

"No problem, Sir! I'll finish all these works. Today, I need to go early for 2 hrs. And tomorrow I need to take half day leave!"

"What, dear? Yesterday suddenly you went early without informing in advance. Today and tomorrow you will be off part of the day. If you go away like this daily, how these works will be finished? What's the urgency?"

• "Sir! In my present rented house, since a fortnight the water supply is affected. All these days, we had to buy water from out side for our essentials. Yesterday, we saw a different house in a new area readily available for rent without this problem and decided to move there. 

• Today evening, we are going there to check once again the position of water supply in that area and move to the area tomorrow. No problem, we'll finish our entire shifting by half day easily. You may know, for people like us,

Water is never plenty and ever in shortage!"

Keywords: water, shortage

..AND SHE IS CALLED THE 'MOTHER!'

Around 50 years ago when telephones were rare in the country and plastic was unknown in food industry, a young man on his official tour took his aged mother along with him to show the temples of pilgrimage importance around the place of his visit.

The son with his mother checked into a hotel in the early morning hrs for their stay in the new place. After readying himself, the son told his mother that he would finish his office work quickly and try to come back by lunch time so that they both could have lunch in a good hotel and then go around the place seeing the important temples in that area. The mother agreed and the son left.

But his office work continued and so the son could not make it out for lunch. When it was nearing lunch hr, he got good hot lunch packed in a steel carrier and sent to his mother through one of his attendants asking him to wait there and get back the carrier after his mother finished eating her food. The attendant being a local had a difficulty of communicating to his mother and so the son sent a chit writing in his mother tongue a short communication which read thus..

• "Ma! I am sending the carrier lunch thru' my attendant for you as I'm busy with my work and can't come now to the hotel to take you for lunch. 

• You finish eating and send back the carrier. I'll eat later after finishing my work.

• Evening we can go out for our dinner!" 

Strangely, after an hour the attendant brought back the boxes intact. The son got wondered and could not understand the reason for that. The attendant informed that he handed over the food and the chit to his mother and collected the boxes when she returned them to him. The son too immediately couldn't do anything as he had to rush for his work.

Finally after finishing his work by evening, he quickly came back to hotel and asked his mother,

“Ma! Why didn't you eat the meal I sent to you?”

The mother replied,

"I read your chit and opened the lunch boxes. After seeing the contents, I felt like not eating and send back the carrier as is!"

"Why? You did not like the items?"

"No.. I thought the quantities are not enough for both of us!"

"Why both of us? I wrote that I'd eat my lunch at my Office!"

The mother showed the chit sent by him. The son read it allowed..

• "Ma! I am sending the carrier lunch thru' my attendant for you as I'm busy with my work and can't come now to the hotel to take you for lunch.

• You finish eating and send back the carrier. I'll eat later after finishing my work.

• Evening we can go out for our dinner!"

The mother said,

“I thought that you'll also be eating part of that food!”

The son instantly understood the way she interpreted his words in the 2nd line of his message. He laughed aloud and said,

"Then at least, you could have eaten half of it and sent back the remaining. Why you didn't eat anything at all?"

The mother smiled and said,

“Dear! Don't I know your hunger? That full carrier food is also sometimes not enough for my son when he is really hungry.. I can never take a chance here and make you go hungry!”

Keyword: mother

THE 'SINGLE INSPIRATION' THAT SURE DOES THE FINAL MAGIC!

The ambitious young Rep of people's group in the province decided on a day to bring to the notice of his Ruler the wrongs being done in his ruling..

Soon with the required info as he reached the venue of seat of power, he found that he had to go thru' 3 Levels of Screening Court Officials..

The 1st Level Officials said,

• "Prove yourself that you are the person as per the papers!"

The young man took pains and proved that thru' certain push and pull. As he moved further,

The 2nd Level Officials said,

• "Why not we ourselves resolve your issue?"

The young man took pains and persuaded them thru' certain push and pull. As he moved further,

The 3rd Level Officials said,

• “Hope the big man will not be disturbed by this!”

The young man took pains and convinced them thru' certain push and pull. As he moved further,

He was finally lead to the Chamber of the Ruler. The young man wished him and quickly presented to him in brief the problems people were facing and requested him to intervene in the matter.

The Ruler listened to all, smiled and said,

"I'm ready to address these issues right now and give a solution but my implementation has to pass thru' the same 3 levels you presently passed thru' to reach people..

Whatever resistance you encountered in meeting me, double of that will be faced by my papers while going out with the same

The 3rd Level Officials saying,

• “Let’s hope the big man has not decided wrongly!”

And delaying the movement giving reasons which none can understand including myself,

The 2nd Level Officials saying,

• "Why not we ourselves decide on the quantum?"

And try to cut down the original proposals to half or less with such an innovative convincing which again none can understand including myself and

The 1st Level Officials saying,

• "Prove yourself that you are the person as per the papers!"

To the ultimate beneficiaries making them go round and round endlessly!

In the process before one evil is controlled, either

• The beneficiaries may cease to exist or 
• They may lose interest or 
• Another new evil enters the system and fills up the place of the earlier one!"

Hearing that, the young man became dull and looked at the Ruler with a blank face. The Ruler continued..

"Do not feel despair..

Ultimately, we the like minded people, the Ruler and the Ruled together with a never failing inspiration in our hearts Viz.,

FOREVER TO DO GOOD TO THE PEOPLE

The Ruled all along doing the max feasible at his/her level fully out of his/her own freedom and 

The Ruler at the earliest be ready to take cognizance of few such inspirations 

Alone can push thru' such resisting system by our side and help address the problems of people in the best possible way!"

The Post is written in line with this week's IndiSpire Prompt My inspiration, my ........? #myinspiration my inspiration forever being that single aim in this life!

Keyword: INSPIRATION

BIG AND SMALL, HIGH AND LOW, TOP AND BELOW.. WHAT ARE THEY?

That evening the boy turned 6+ was unhappy.

• "What's the matter, dear?"

The grandpa asked.

"His class teacher promised to put him on top for the day but forgot to do that!"

The daughter replied with a hidden smile.

• "So another boy's name was there?"

Asked the grandpa..

"No She forgot that and his chance has gone for the day.. And he is pestering me to remind her on this!"

• "Dear! What's the big thing here? If not today another day she'll do that!"

The grandpa tried to console the child.

"No My chance is gone. Grandpa! Will you please talk to my teacher?"

The boy pleaded.

• "No problem, dear! I'll sure ask her. But before that shall we do a funny thing? You sure will like it!"

The boy instantly wide eyed asked,

"Okay.. Tell me that!"

• "Get a paper, scale, pencil and an eraser!"

The boy quickly arranged the 4 and said,

"Here they are!"

• "Draw a straight line of 5 cm length!"

The boy drew the line of 5 cm length and looked at his grandpa..

• "Now Draw a line of 7 cm next it!"

He did that too and looked at his grandpa.

• "Show me the smaller one!"

The boy instantly showed the 5 cm line.

• "Now.. Erase the 7 cm line and in it's place draw a 3 cm line!"

The boy again did that silently not knowing why his grandpa was asking all that..

• "Now tell me which line is the bigger one?"

"The 5 cm line!"

• "See.. 2 minutes back, your 5 cm line was smaller but now it is bigger!"

The boy was instantly mesmerized with the age old trick played by his grandpa..

• "See.. Dear! These big and small are so much changing. One minute it is big and the next moment it is small. Should we really care for these quick changes?"

"No!"

Said the boy with a certain firmness seen on his face.

• "And the top and below are also like that.. We need not bother for them!"

The boy silently nodded his head. The grandpa took the boy closer and said,

• "Dear! You shouldn't bother for these. They'll be changing a little this way and that way. But if you do good work all the year, I'm sure you'll be in the top few.. That's enough for us.. So close your eyes and say..

'I'll study well all the year and do what my teacher and mom says.. That's good enough for me!'

The boy closed his eyes and sincerely repeated what his grandpa had said.. The grandpa patted the boy and said with a big smile,

• "Very good, my boy.. Now.. Take your bike and let's go to our park.. You can practice your learning.. After that, I'll buy your favorite ice cream.. Okay?"

"Yessssss.. I'm ready, Grandpa!"

Screamed the boy with an unknown happiness and ran towards his bike..



Having instilled in his boy the fundamental concept of facing healthy competition thru' good work at that young age, the grandpa felt highly satisfied and the next moment they both moved on towards the park!

Keywords: healthy competition, work