Friendship Silver Jubilee 1989-2014

19th April 1989... 25 yrs before.. A foundation of a friendship has been laid. None of them were aware that it is a meeting of souls who have come together with this goal in this life... I met Reena and she accepted when I am just a sand dirt. She is a live example of my reflection. She is a mentor, a Guru, A follower, a support and best companion. She is the critic when I am alone. She knows my weaknesses and rectify them when I am with her but supports among other w/o questioning them. She is my biggest fan and follower and teaches when I am in her company. She advises me w/o letting other know this. She is like a wall to cover my back. She not only covers me as well as stands for me when I am lonely and broken. She does not believe in taking my fruits rather sharing her fruits with me. I have learnt a lot from her and some of best moments of my life are written by none other than her. I always feel that many of good things blessed by god through her. I would have missed those best fruits if not accompanied by her. Thank you Reena for helping me to have them( blessings of god). Thank you GOD for her presence in my life....
Happy Silver Jubilee...

FUTURE IS IN THE AIR

FUTURE IS IN THE AIR

My dear fellow country men, thy shall know that we are together in our bad and good time. From the day of independence, we are working together for the progressive tone of  'Bharat' in a melodious manner. It has created a song of development and brought 'Bharat' to such a place where it can be ignored neither by our friends nor by foes. This charming progress could not be possible without the trust and sharing measures. You have trusted us and kept your faith in us without questioning our integrity. This has helped us to face many seen and unseen adversaries. All of us have always responded in a tone of unity with solidarity. It is not like this that whatever we had dream at the beginning of this era has been fulfilled. There is much to go and must to achieve. Whatever we have promised has been achieved because of your sheer hard work and our joint determination and hunger for success. The jobs opening, international standards of education, mega transport system, develop housing projects, better life styles, fastest communications, latest agricultural equipment’s, rapid technology are the few consequences and mile stones of the path on which we are walking while holding hands. Your innocent faith in us always assisted us in doing our best without breaking your hearts. As we love each other, the walk is so amazing and wonderful that with in the span of some years, we have achieved what we have dream of but still we always deserve the best therefore this show would never be stopped by any one. 

Dear friends, like every time, this time we have chosen our new targets and we must work hard to achieve them. Corruption and Inflation are the main issues and they must be thrown out from our respective life. I have a dream- a dream of you as an empowered educated citizen. We believe that empowering and educating you will not only help in our respective progress but also in keeping 'Bharat' on the right track. This dream was in the eyes of our great leaders and thinkers. We had been gifted with this dream by them who sacrificed their lives for our mother-land. We do not repent over their death rather we are proud of this. We have decided that we will live for 'Bharat' and if necessary would die for it. Our ancestors might be from any ethnicity, race, place or creed but when decided to serve 'Bharat', they become part of one soul- 'Bharatiya'- An Indian. They never thought of their life-line and have always played a guiding force for our unique universal family and nation. All of us know that we would ready to pay any price for our beloved mother country. For the last one year we are all witnessing several open and hidden agendas just to influence our decision of vote. Some of these paper-saviors will remain on arena till election are here and immediately after elections we will not see them even in the history books. Dear country men, do not encourage those type of people. They are knitting a web around you- a web of false promises, a trap of heavenly dreams, a ring of fake hopes. Do not give them power otherwise they would cut and kill you while shooing away a fly from your head.

My dear friends, Corruption and Inflation are interlinked if one will be reduced the other would be ultimately be under control. Our opponents are trying their level best to keep theses firing problems alive due to their personal and self-motivated interests. Recently a bill has been placed in the name of Lok-Pal. It is in beginning stage. This bill certainly a major tool against corruption and we will see that it should neither become the circus-ring nor tooth-less lion.

The power needs to be transferred in a systematic manner to all weak and poor people and Education is the key for it. That is why the focus is needed to be on education.

Furthermore we are developing a mechanism for removing middleman ship- brokerage by linking manufacturer and consumer. This will help in cost cutting as well as prosper both parties by paying less and getting more thus would make an impact over the inflation.

Keeping 'Bharat' at progress path may be difficult but with our joint humble trust, it will not be impossible. With this positive note I declare this era as a step towards the self-reliance. 
 

May 'Bharat' live long,

Jai Hind.. Jai Bharat !!

- Dedicated to my mother country-India on present need of hour of the day.

*ps: The above speech has nothing to do with the speech of any other person, living or dead. The author endorses the views and thoughts of other w/o second thought. The author further respects the points of difference and contradictory opinions given by any one. This note is personal view of author in any imaginary or fictitious condition. If any one gets hurt or humiliate by reading this note, the author regrets and offers unconditional apology...  

The Call of GOD

 
Last night (11/12-01-2014) in the morning hours, I had a dream. I interacted with God, I did not see him but I heard his voice telling me about life and its living. He said that life should be lived like in a ordinary course of nature without any unnecessary commotion. A  life is related with self less karma while giving best to it without questioning the validity or reason for so. Then He showed me a live example of a life. I saw an male ant carrying a grain in its mouth. It was like a life size scene seems like a video shooting from high-end camera. The ant handed over the same to a female ant accompanying a baby ant witnessing the whole scene and understanding the process. The God elaborated that this Earth has many species existing in their own world without disturbing each other. This ant is living a life full of karma's without questioning the self-worth and importance of work. I was astonished but relaxed and was witnessing the whole incident and then I heard the sound of my wife- Reena calling me to have the warm water as my first morning drink. I got up but the whole scene is still remained in my mind........

Parshu Ram- The Saint with Sword

Parshu Ram also known as Bhargava- the great warrior is called to be 6 th carnation of Lord Vishnu in Treta (3rd) yuga, belongs to Bhrigu dynasty and son  of Renuka and Jamagni. He is follower of great father- Shiva. He is a wise man with great courage. His real name is Rama but due to blessed with the divya weapon ‘PARSHU’ (Axe)  by Lord Shiva, he is known as Parshuram. As per calculation made by wise astrologers, he is born in on the pious day of ‘Akashya Tritya’  in shukal paksha (Moon)  of Baisakh (March-April) month. He took birth to fight with ill-will bad warriors who were troubling the mother earth and her people with their proud and bad intention. His martial guru is Lord Shiva-himself and Sage Kashyap taught him about Vedas. His prime target is to take care of people. He is enlightened, orator, spiritual warrior of all time.  He has always opposed the injustice. He has always helped and protected the exploited, sad, oppressed people. His selfless character is an example for all.  It is well said that there is Rama before Lord Rama. He remained active during the period of Ramayana. In that period, Kannauj was ruled by king Gadhi. He had a beautiful daughter named as Satyawati. She was got married with Bhirgu’s son Rishik. Bhirgu blessed her and offered her a boon. Satyawati asked for a brother. Bhirgu got impressed by her and gave her two glasses of sacred water that she and her mother should drink them respectively and by drinking that both would be blessed with sons. He further blessed Satyawati with a pious son. On seeing this Satyawati’s mother changed her glass with her daughter. Bhirgu came to know by this dishonesty through his divine vision. He told Satyawati about that with informing the effect that the Brahmin who would take birth from her would have the qualities of warrior. Satyawati requested that despite having warrior’s qualities he should be a Brahmin by his conduct. Bhirgu happily consented to this. After some time Satyawati gave birth to Jamagni. He was very brave but helpful to everyone. He was married with Renuka and blessed with five sons including of Parshuram. Once Renuka went for swimming in a river where she saw Chitrarath. She got sexually aroused by seeing him. When Jamagni came to know about it, he ordered his sons to kill their mother but except Parshuram refused for doing so. Parshuram cut her head and brought it to his father. Jamagni got impressed by seeing his obedience and asked him for a boon. Parshuram asked that Renuka, his mother may alive again w/o remembering that fateful incident. He further gave him the boon of not losing any war with a long life. After sometime a Chhatriya king Kartvirya came to Jamagni’s ashram. He saw the magical Kamdhenu cow which could fulfill any wish made to her. He ordered to hand over it to him. On refusing, Kartvirya killed Jamagni. When Parshuram came back to ashram, he saw his mother weeping endlessly over the death of his father. He took the oath to kill all bad chhatriyas king who have no kindness for their people. He killed Kartvirya and then 21 times killed all the bad chhatriyas from the earth. It led to filling of five lakes of blood. At last Rishik came and stopped him by doing so. He donated all the winning land to good kings and went into hermit for pray at Mohinder Mountain. He is still to living near Aihole river where he washed his blood stained axe. He is said to be waiting there to train Kalki for martial training.

God - The Key Player

'It is well said, "Himmat-e marda, madad-e khuda"- God helps those who help themselves. Some of the few real life inspiring stories and incidents explain the nectar of life to us. Those who have never lose their heart and face each and every adversity with holding the bull from its horns attitude, are the examples of motivation and courage. Lets empathize their life and after-success. May be some of us facing something like this or went through such phases of our respective life.

• Daniel Craig was once a homeless actor chasing an impossible dream while sleeping on a bench in public park.

 

• Elvis Presley was fired after just one performance telling him, “You ain’t going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.”

 

• Akio Morita- Sony brand's first product was a rice cooker- a super flop, selling less than 100 units.

 

• Soichiro Honda was turned down in interview by Toyota Motor Corporation for an engineer job , leaving him jobless, broken and empty pocket till he started making scooters of his own at home

 

• Colonel Sanders/ KFC started at 65 years old with his fried chicken recipe and drove/ knocking on doors, sleeping in his car, wearing his white suit and was rejected 1009 times by chefs/co.s

 

• Albert Einstein didn’t speak till four yrs and read till seven yrs and he was thought to be mentally handicapped.

 

• Steven Spielberg was denied two times to the prestigious University of Southern California film school and then he was awarded with an honorary degree from the film school that rejected him twice.

 

• John Gresham was rejected 28 times for his first book 'A Time to Kill' which sold over 250 million total copies.

 

• Walt Disney was fired by a news editor and rejected 302 times cause he lacked imagination.

 

• Oprah Winfrey was fired from her job and was told that she was not fit for TV earlier in her life.

 

• Halle Berry stayed in a homeless shelter during her struggling time.

 

• Ignacy J. Paderewski- The great pianist later become PM/Poland performed free of cost for paying fee of two students and one of them was Herbert Hoover- (US President) was respectfully paid-back with food grains etc. during the famine period in Poland.

 

• Jim Carrey -a high school drop-out, lived in a bus with his family parked in different places, eventually moved into a tent at his older sister's lawn and those tough financial times got developed his sense of humor.

 

• Jewel-the platinum singer lived on the streets as homeless for about a month after losing her job cos she refused an indecent offer made by her boss. She had kidney sickness but didn’t have insurance and ended up almost dying in the parking lot of an emergency room because she could not be admitted because of no-insurance.

 

• Chris Gardner - The author of autobiography "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be." had a childhood with poverty, domestic violence, alcoholism, sexual abuse and family illiteracy inspired a real life based Hollywood's movie "The Pursuit of Happiness" starring Will Smith.

 

• Harry Houdini knew he wanted to be a magician and when 12 yrs old, ran away from home by hopping a freight car and begged for money in the NYC streets.

 

• Louis Pasteur was mediocre student with ranked 15 out of 22 in Chemistry.

• "Gone with the Wind" -Margaret Mitchell was turned down by more than twenty-five publishers.

 

• "Star Wars" was rejected by every movie studio in Hollywood before 20th-Century Fox finally produced it.

 

• Leonardo Del Vecchio- Ray-Ban and Oakley maker, was an orphaned went to work in a factory making molds for auto parts and eyeglass frames lost part of his finger for earning money to support his life.

 

• J.K. Rowling was divorced and living on welfare with a dependent child when she wrote Ist book about Harry Potter.

  

Life is full of positive surprises!!.... 

The Stone - I know you are not my destination but destiny.

"So you have come….

It is good to see you and especially when the waiting for you have ended today, I feel that the one of the purpose of my life has achieved. You know, Arun this unending waiting is an acid-test as some of times I had a thought to stop waiting for you, feeling that you would never come or you had never existed in this world but I had always kept my faith over the words spoken to me by my creator that one day he (You) would come and take me to the place where I have belonged and that makes me believe in my destiny. This long waiting for you has tested me in different ways and some of them are difficult and unforgettable. The weather was severe with lashes of storms. There were pressures of crushing and fear of losing the directions. There were times when I was covered and buried under snow, leaves, sand and soil. Sometimes the running water made slippery and kept me drowning. I was fearful but somehow hopeful. The lessons learnt during this wait are my asset and I can tell that this is worth. Thank you Arun for reaching and pick me for helping me in onward journey where I will meet with my creator and merge in him to complete my journey. I know you are not my destination but destiny." 

   

"So there you are..

I was looking for you throughout the journey and knew that when I find you, we would recognize each other from our first sight. This journey was not easy but search for you, has made my traveling interesting and worthwhile. During this journey there were times when I was over lured, angered, happy or frustrated. That had diverted my attention from finding or looking you. It was fearful too. We both are connected with each other and without finding each other, our journey could not be concluded and goal achieving. There were the times when I took wrong turns and that could lead me to another direction and that means our meeting might not be happening and then again it would be another long wait for us to meet. There were chances when I walked fast and might reach to you early, when you could be covered under snow, soil or water and we would have missed each other. Now I feel that we have met when it was destined. Now I feel that despite all those short comings and mistakes that we did before meeting would be thing of past. Now I will try to be a better one and worthy so that any of my wrong doings shall not obstruct you in reaching your creator. I will also try to be a better human-being so that you would not feel ashamed because of my deed. I would try to helpful as now I know that being helpful is a sign of God and faith in him. I know that carrying you onward for your journey is one of my purposes in life. You have taught me that waiting and surrender is unconditional love for my creator. We would not forget each other as we have become the best buddies, sharing a common destiny. Thanking you for choosing me as a friend as it is helping me knowing and realizing my importance in this world. I know you are not my destination but destiny. " 

{The excerpts are taken from an interaction between the friends who meet on the tracking path between Sonamarg and Zero Point in Kashmir}