Expanding the mind beyond the 'ego'

Through long years of practice, I have come to a conclusion that 'I' is nothing. By thinking in this way, we can destroy most of our problems. The best way to serve our own ego is being deeply engaged in positive and fruitful actions. There is a clean and pure human in every human being. The environment makes the difference in bringing out the real qualities. To do great jobs, we need only minimum resources,only if we have the will power to cling on to our purpose.

We should have a sense of purpose for anything we undertake. We must have great sense of responsibility. We must keep our commitments and words. We should be heart-oriented, and not brain-oriented only.
Most of our illnesses will be cured by our broad-mindedness, I believe.
If we can go beyond the self-interests, we shall land up in a new world of happiness.
Real happiness lies in giving.
Real happiness lies in inspiring others,recognising talents, and assuring others of your inner goodness.
External goodness is not enough.
We should express our goodness through real-life work.

God bless...

Newer Professional Ventures

Serving an organization as perfectly as possible is the most important for most of the people. But ,if we think beyond, we can find many other avenues in which we can contribute. We can give a lot of other services to the society, if we can retain high level of physical and mental energy. Some services may some money and others may be completely selfless. We need a special attitude to free ourselves from 'frog in a well' attitude. We must break the shell of selfishness and self-interests to expand our mind and vision. Then we shall realise that what we are doing are not sufficient. We need to do more. We need to spread the ideas of selflessness by being selfless. We need to improve ourselves on a continuous basis. We should try to elevate our mind to contribute something for the interests of others. Nurturing of lofty and big ideas are generally not supported by our environment. In that case, we should be tough enough to take forward our ideas and ideals. We must be tough in this matter. Grit and determination are the chief ingredients of holding on to a virtuous life.
The ultimate objective of education is to be good person and a good citizen.
Education never ends.
Learning never ends.
Through application of our education, we can try to be prosperous in infinitely many ways.
We should be successful business-thinking.
We should have a broad mind to be able to absorb lessons from various sources.
At the end, we should apply our education,culture, and taste in real everyday life.
Then only can I try to a complete man...

God bless...

New ventures...

1. I am learning guitar , and recitation at the age of 43
2. I am trying to pursue R&D on Management of Technology.....
3. I am training my two sons on swimming , guitar, soft-skills and computer
4. I am trying to expand my family business
5. I am trying to lead a spiritual life, by using minimum resources for myself
6. I am using a new motor-cycle for commuting to my office
7. I am working as a professional trainer on Soft-skills and Personality Development,as a part-timer
8.Using sense of humor to relax...
9. Drinking large quantity of water for fitness.

Colors of life

Life consists of:
Trying to be out of mental tension;
Trying to fulfill expectations of family members;
Reading the minds of students and interacting with them;
Rectifying the self;
Creating new ideas for research;
Teaching everytime with a newer approach;
Closing eyes for sometime to take feedback from within the self;
Writing the DAILY ACTION PLAN for myself;
Keeping cool all the time;
Not to think much about the obscure future;
Destroying thinking about the past;
Keeping hope alive for God-realization;
Changing myself every moment for the better;
Taking light food and drinking more water for fitness;
Devoting some for yoga and meditation;
Helping others at the cost of my personal comfort;
Finally it is the SELFLESS WORK that keeps me free from all kinds of turmoils of life...
I think least about myself and I should keep it up.
'What others say about me' hardly matters, as I am almost 'all-knowing' about myself;
I know I live for others;
I try to every being as the unique creation of God;
Variety is external, Unity is eternal...
God bless...

A spirit of sacrifice

Nowadays we find that a very few people are ready to sacrifice their personal comfort and happiness for others. Most of the problems in family life originate from thia attitude. People have become very adamant about their pursuit of personal happiness. Marriages are broken. Relations sour.
I have experimented on human nature for last 20 years and found that happiness lies in working selflessly and in sacrificing personal comfort and pleasure for the those scoundrels(who are adamant about their own comfort and happiness) we care for.
Happiness is just a state of mind in which we feel lost in our own world without bothering about what get and what we do not get.
Giving is an art of living.
I try to live with minimum resources.
God bless...

What's life to me?

Life is almost undefined. To me it means "be yourself". It also means "living in the present". To me it is also a fun. Life is full of extreme humor to me. In every egoistic person, I find a joker par excellence. Life is cool. Life is handling rough and tough people. Life is tackling money-hungry ,blunt-headed so called professionals.
Life means 'betrayal' by the trusted friends. Change of lobby. Reversal of attitude and words.
Life means change of roles.
Life is love defined in terms of 'give and take'...
Life is shameless selfishness to many.
Life is 'ego' that I am extraordinary.
I am never serious about life!!! Serious about what ?
Life to me is a Divine Creation which is nurtured spiritually by a few persons only.
Life is divine.
Divinity is Consciousness and Consciousness never dies.
Hence life is deathless. Bith and death are the changes of states......

God bless...

Treating my students....

I try to treat my students like my children. I personally believe in freedom and liberty. But sometimes I need to be rigid to some students. These are exceptions. I use words of caution for my students occasionally. I think I am punctual. I am fast also. But I have deliberately reduced my speed so that all the students are benefited from my class. I have a desire to be a very good teacher by improving my teaching skills.

I treat my students with impartiality and heart-felt affection. I believe in enormous human potential. It is really difficult to judge a student by academic performance only. I never tried to be popular. But my attitudes as a human being are enjoyed by majority of the students.

No one is so bad,it seems to me.
Hence I take the middle path for taking any kind of decisions.
The attitude of 'forgiving' is my only strength. At the same time, I try to maintain 'strict' personal discipline all the time. My students hence perceive me as a person on whom they can rely.

God bless...

Doing one job at a time is a great philosophy

I am now in the habit of doing one job at a time, by ignoring the ones that will be done in the near future. I also try to apply 'do it now' principle with the great idea of 'living in the present'. In my earlier time I used to waste majority of my time in past-based or future-based thinking. That was a great wastage.
I now carry out 10-12 component-jobs a day and go to sleep by 11.00pm(sharp) by switching the mobile phone. I normally do not deviate from these 10-12 jobs of the day.
I never worked hard in my life.
I do not want to work hard at all.
I believe in systematic work for a few hours of the day, only to justify my salary.
I do work , but I try to avoid pressure...

God bless...

I have increased my patience...

It was long time back when I became impatient for something. I still avoid things which will put pressure on my patience. Things still go wrong. But I have decided not to react to things I can not change. I find that people do wrong things. I keep shut up, thinking that it is waste of time to intervene in ordinary matters. I have changed my attitude because I can not fight alone with the negative and rowdy faces of the changing society and culture. At the same time, I have faith in truth and justice. I know there will be correction and rectification on the part of the wrong-doers. They will be punished in some future time.
I never claim that I am good and that I do no wrong. But I try to do things in a manner in which humanity and human considerations get my personal priority. I am doing it for a long time. I am on the path continual self-purification.
The values and culture we admired so much in the past have changed to a great extent. It is now an age of 'quick money',quick success,quick pleasure,quick communication,instant action,result-orientation in everything,give and take in everything, quick anger,quicker hunger-satisfaction, quick love,quick forgetting, quickest ungratefulness,shameless lies, and shameless self-interests.

I have a different way of living. I am slowed down the pace of my life. I am not in a hurry for anything. My ambition is to lead a slower and simpler life. I have with least number of long-term plans, as I have least faith in future. I try have some faith in the present, as present moment drives all my thoughts and actions. I have now accepted my failures and drawbacks. I now try to live for my family members. I try to keep my mouth shut, as I have been outspoken to the wrong people many times in the past. I want a simple living for myself. I have need for money, still I hate earning money through unfair means. I have lived a full life. Now I want to help others who find it difficult to live with personal integrity.

Living in the present can do the miracle

"Living In the Present" (LIP) has been the best philosophy of my life till now. LIP with Enchanting of Divine Names(EDN) is the only way out of all my problems. I failed many times in the implementation of LIP. I tried again and again to get myself into LIP. I have been successful to a great extent.
Why to bother about distant future ?
Our future is deeply founded in our present actions. Each of the present actions has its distinct future. We must act with great honesty,dedication and sincerity to make our future more predictable. But everything lies in the hands of God, I believe.
Hence my present and future are dedicated to God only.
To me life is a prayer to God and sincere actions with selflessness.

God bless...

Improving myself on continuous basis

I have taken some bold steps in recent times. I am now ready to face the present moment in a way different from my past approach. I have already developed a Present and a Future Action Calender for myself. I have already in research and development activity in HR. I am a better time-manager now. I work on the basis of Daily Action Plan(DAP). I now act on "do in now" principle. I have become more efficient in my professional duties. I am trying to apply TQM in my personal capacity.
I have increased my energy level.
I have stopped talking nonsense with others.
I try to value my time.
I try to keep my words to myself.
I try to live in the present with prayer to God.
I am trying to eliminate the imaginary fears from the mind. I want destroy fear of all kinds. I now try to avoid unnecessary speaking. Sometimes I become a Silent Man (SM) and talk to myself mentally to be self-controlled and self-disciplined professional.
I interact regularly with my PhD guide.
I am also trying to improve my personal earning steadily.
I try to be in a state of Deep Mental Relaxation(DMR) most of the time. I am trying to be prepared for extreme circumstances like possible loss of job for economic recession.

I now try to focus myself on Result-Oriented Professional Actions(ROPA) only.
I try to one day at a time.
"Living in the Present" is a great solution to my personal life...

God bless...

Professional values...

Professionalism means, to me, doing justice to professional productivity with high level of honesty,integrity and responsibility. The very first thing is to justify our salaries by doing enough work and by keeping enough records. We should be worker first and leader later. Working in an private organization is highly challenging, as the situations have less predictability. We must be able to deliver the goods and at the same time, we should be aware of the political undercurrents of the environment.
If we work with honesty,punctuality and responsibilty and keep records of the actions taken by us, we can enjoy a good time.
The secret of success lies in 'Working With Pleasure'(WWP). Any kind of mental or emotional barrier will destroy the pleasure of working. Hence we should be mentally tough to handle all kinds of bad situations. We should try to be a perfectionists as far as possible to keep our mental toughness intact.
We should display sufficient respect to the seniors in the organization. We should explain things with outspokenness , without being rude in any manner. We should have enough self-confidence to face various tough situations. WWP needs a lot of guts and toughness. We must maintain a strong body language that displays our honesty, integrity and sense of responsibility...

Let us work with pleasure and be happy all the time.

God bless...

Clarity

Clarity of concepts about anything is a great boon for living a cool life. Clear concepts and common sense will lead to a better life.
If the fundamentals of anything clear, we shall be able to expand our knowledge any time we want.
I am trying to do the thing in the mathematical laboratory of my brain. I try to review my experience-based concepts on a daily basis.
The greatest challenge of my life is to constantly improve my communication skills. Throwing of words is the most challenging aspect of my personal life. I am trying to research into the subject of Communication Skills, Personality Grooming By the Self, & Human Values and Ethics. I have found that 'power' flows from the emphasised 'words' we can use in practical life. I have also found that self-styled humorist can live a more healthy life. We should have good sense of humor.
To be in peace we should remain silent at senitive situations. To avoid conflicts, we should speak with caution.

God bless...

Dirty politics in teaching profession...

Apparently, teaching seems to be a noble profession. From a distance, it is so. In reality, it is still a noble profession. But we , the teachers, are not free from internal politics. The problems are
1.back-biting
2.high level of ego
3.using students for personal gains and survival in the job
4.greed for cheap popularity and spoiling the academic attitude of the students
5.saying bad things about other teachers to the students
6.trying to establish that he or she is the best and the only well-wisher
7.trying to set up illegitimate source of power in one's self
8.Not imposing any kind of discipline on students to maintain cheap and dirty popularity

and many others...

The teachers have to work under such variety of situations.
Hence teaching is not a benign profession.There are many other professional hazards. Still we should keep hopes alive. We should strong enough to face realities.

A special day...the 9th April,2009

The final year students of Electrical Engineering of Techno India celebrated their last day in college classes with photo session with the teachers ,and cake distribution among all. It was a nice occasion having youthful vibrance and energy. The students were very good in their approach. I rarely find such large number young, bright and smiling faces nowadays. The team spirit , togetherness,brotherhood,and friendship among the students were evident from their behaviours. They got lost in childlike behaviours and funny things.
It was a pure pleasure for all.
To enjoy we need an open heart and a free mind.
In teaching the most beautiful thing is cordial acceptance of a teacher by the majority of the students. The acceptance gives us a lot of satisfaction.
Mixing up with young minds possibly keeps us younger and dynamic...
Life should be full of dynamism and creativity, I think.

Elimination of fear is a challenging task...

Fear is a complex combination of our emotional perceptions. We perceive things in our own different ways. Our unique nature defines the way we look at things. I have experimenting on fear of objects,events and people. Fear had been the most dominating component of my life for majority part of my life. Fear of 'anything can happen'. The imaginative bent of mind is mostly responsible for such constant fear. The real thing mostly different from what I imagine. Then I had a lot of self-talk about the whole thing. To live with courage and alertness is real living, I realised much later in my life. Then I decided to face the situation and I believed in 'realism' about all things about economic,political ,legal and social aspects of living. I am trying to live now 'one day at a time' at a medium pace. I was a very fast man once upon a time and I used to take a lot of hasty decisions. I used to commit a lot of mistakes also. Then I changed myself a lot by adopting a 'middle path' for all kinds of realities of life. I still have fear reigning over my mind. Most of the fears are somehow related to 'bad' people in the society. I decided to be bad with bad people. I could not become that. I then tried to face them. After one or two failures, I became successful. The more I fear, the greater the pain I receive. I used to believe in 'compassion' in a human heart. I still believe in that. But I accept that all human beings are not in the same level of 'compassion'. The brutal nature exists almost everywhere. I know I need to stand erect and face the situation. There is no alternative/option. Facing the tough people with equal toughness is the only solution. I need to create a drama of being 'bad', though I know I am not bad. I constantly try to live in the present and try to face the realities without inviting imaginary fears. Spiritual Living is the only solution to all such problems. I try to live a life of my personal choice by consatantly improving the level of my personal honesty and integrity. Self-purification and self-discipline have become a part and parcel of my life. I have reached a state of tastelessness about living a life. Life makes so happy and nothing makes so depressed. Happiness , to me, is just a mental state in which I feel I am OK. That's all. I accept myself as I am. I bother least about what others think about me. I am not here to please everybody. I try to become well with almost everyone. I have no such practical role models or heros. I believe in God. I try to leave all the results of my duties and responsibilities to God only.

Finer qualities of life needs more attention...

In all our actions we should try to have a fine touch of the following human qualities:
1. Selfless love
2.Good Manners
3.Compassion
4. Commitment
5.Responsibilty
6.Duty
7.Self-esteem
8.Affection
9. Honesty
If our search for money is coupled with these attributes, we are bound to be happier. Success of a person should not measured on the basis of money earned by a person.
Everyone needs money. I also need money. I should not be blind to all other aspects of life. Money is bad, when it is in wrong hands. It is always better to earn money with honesty. Having huge money does not ensure a good life for ourselves. It needs some more inner qualities to enjoy life with perfect harmony,happiness and peace.
To Be happy all the time, we need to ask ourselves continually " Are we honest to the core?".
"Are we Greedy?", "Are we dutiful?"

God bless...

Words are very powerful...

Properly selected words in our speech can do miracle for the audience. Appropriate stress on the selected words will be highly effective. A single wrong word can massacre the whole speech. Speaking is an art involving the use of power of words.
We should be extremely cautious about use of words. Public speaking is like playing with fire of words.
An aspect that needs our attention is the attitudes of the speaker. A good public speaker always speaks with energy, enthusiasm and a sense of responsibility.
Words can do a lot of harm, if we do not use them with extreme caution.
It is better to speak as less as possible keeping in mind that we have to speak with force and vigor as per the need of the time and place...

God bless...

Any kind of misunderstanding?

I am trying to write things which seem relevant to me. Nobody should misunderstand me in the sense that I am trying to influence them in any manner. I never say I am the only good man living in the world. I am an ordinary spiritual seeker who wants to think differently. I write only to search for some like-minded people. I write because I feel that writing keeps me engaged in some sort of creative action.
Who am I to impose my opinion on even a single person?
I write to generate food for thought for others.
I talk straight from my heart.
I never claim I am right.
I am possibly writing for the sake of writing...
I feel good. I write to share ideas with my students and friends. I have least faith in commercialised approach to writing. I am certainly not a money-hungry person thinking of money and its power.
I really think beyond money...
That's all...

God bless...

Money is powerful...

Money matters a lot in having a decent living. From morning to evening, we hear talks about money. Hunger for money keeps many people survive. Many people can go to any extent to earn money. Many people get rich overnight by adopting dishonest means and become God-like figures to many. Through money power, they want to earn name and fame and power. I am personally least bothered about such people. I do not want to know whether they are happy or not.
I believe money can not buy happiness for me.
I believe that I should earn money through honest means only.
Being rich is not bad. Being rich by adopting fraudulent means is really bad.
Being rich ensures social security!!!
No problem.
I personally try to be distanced from the rich.
Richness in money does not guarantee richness of the heart, I believe.
But earning money by honest means is possibly good.
Creating huge wealth only for personal good is no good.
Having large amount of money in the bank does not ensure our happiness.
Everything does not happen as per our wishes,hopes and desires.
We need to think beyond...
Do we have the time to think beyond ?
Time is money, a saying goes.
I am trying to think beyond...

God bless...