" VENGEANCE FOR FULL 21 YEARS FOR INDIA "

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2010 - "A must know for every indian"
" VENGEANCE FOR FULL 21 YEARS FOR INDIA..."

As Indian's most of us would have forgotten and forgiven the Jaliianwala Bagh massacer by now. But there was a person who did not forget nor forgive Michael O' Dwyer {The then Governor General of the State} who was the prime person for orchestrating and executing this massacre on Indian's. What Dwayer called “TO TEACH THE INDIANS A LESSON, TO MAKE A WIDE IMPRESSION AND TO STRIKE TERROR THOUGHT - OUT PUNJAB". Today The December 26th is 111th Birth Anniversary of Udham Singh; The great Indian whose sole purpose of life was to restore the honor of INDIA because of this massacre.

Udham Singh who was serving water to the crowd at Jaliianwala Bagh was greatly shaken by the great massacre. After which he bathed in the holy sarvor {Pool of Nectar} and took a vow and solemn pledge in front of Golden Temple to wreak a vengeance on the perpetrators of the crime and to restore honor to what he saw as a humiliated nation. He followed Michael O'Dwyer for almost 21 years after Jallianwala Bagh killings and killed him in Caxton Hall near to Westminster in Great Britain. After which Udham Singh voluntarily surrendered to the police and when questioned in the court about the killing of O'Dwyer, He said: -

“I DID IT BECAUSE I HAD A GRUDGE AGAINST HIM. HE DESERVED IT. HE WAS THE REAL CULPRIT. HE WANTED TO CRUSH THE SPIRIT OF MY PEOPLE, SO I HAVE CRUSHED HIM. FOR FULL 21 YEARS, I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO WREAK VENGEANCE. I AM HAPPY THAT I HAVE DONE THE JOB. I AM NOT SCARED OF DEATH. I AM DYING FOR MY COUNTRY. I HAVE SEEN MY PEOPLE STARVING IN INDIA UNDER THE BRITISH RULE. I HAVE PROTESTED AGAINST THIS, IT WAS MY DUTY. WHAT A GREATER HONOR COULD BE BESTOWED ON ME THAN DEATH FOR THE SAKE OF MY MOTHERLAND? "

Reactions for this killing poured in fast: -

* Amrit Bazar Patrika wrote, "O'Dwyer's name is connected with Punjab incidents which India will never forget".

* New Statesman observed: "British conservatism has not discovered how to deal with Ireland after two centuries of rule. Similar comment may be made on British rule in India. Will the historians of the future have to record that it was not the Nazis but the British ruling class which destroyed the British Empire?"

* Indians all over regarded Singh's action as justified and an important step in India's struggle to end British colonial rule in India. At a public meeting in Kanpur, a speaker stated that "at last an insult and humiliation of the nation had been avenged".

* Most of the press worldwide remembered the story of Jallianwala Bagh and held Michael O' Dwyer fully responsible for the events. Singh was called "fighter for freedom" by The Times, London, and his action was said to be "an expression of the pent-up fury of the downtrodden Indian People".

* Bergeret, published in large-scale from Rome at that time, ascribed the greatest significance to the circumstance and praised Udham Singh's action as courageous.

* Berliner Borsen Zeitung called the event "The torch of the Indian freedom"

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* German radio repeatedly broadcast: "The cry of tormented people spoke with shots". and "Like the elephants, the Indians never forgive their enemies. They strike them down even after 20 years".

Jaliianwala Bagh is indeed an HOLLOCAST of highest order. I do understand the gravity of the word HOLLOCAST and have used it with complete intent and purpose; So that we Indians do not forget Udham Singh or SIX AND HALF LACK freedom fighters who willing gave their lives so that we can see an independent INDIA!

Here is an effort to portray the incidents and life of Udman Singh in the form of pictures.

Udham Singh

In this photo Udham Singh is standing right at the back.

Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar

Narrow passage to Jalianwala Bagh Garden through which the firing conducted

The Jallianwalla Bagh in 1919, months after the massacre.

"The Martyrs' Well" at Jallianwala Bagh.

Entrance to the present-day Jallianwala Bagh.

Bullet marks, visible on a preserved wall, at present-day Jallianwala Bagh.

Caxton Hall

A photo exhibit shows Udham Singh (second from the left) being taken away from Caxton Hall after the assassination of Michael O’ Dwyer

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Rajhashekher B C - Raj
Sun, 26 December, 2010 5:04:06 AM
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" THE QUEST " - WISH YOU A HAPPY, ENCHANTING AND PURPOSEFUL 2011

Exactly four days from today “January 5th” will be the death anniversary of Sir Ernest Shackleton. He died while steaming southward on the ship “THE QUEST“ to explore the Antarctic. One of the first things which attracted one's eyes on the ship where the below lines of Rudyard Kippling engraved on a brass plate. I find these lines very apt as we embark into yet another unknown new year. { I know most of us .....OR Should I say, All of us would be remorseful of losing one more year from our quota of life before our goals where meet }. “THE SPIRIT OF QUEST " Shackletion called these verses; and truly this is proper spirit with which we have to start out to achieve goals of 2011.

" The Spirit of Quest "

If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster;
And treat those two impostors just the same,

If you can force your heart, and nerve, and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone;
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will, which says to them, “Hold On?”

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds‘ worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it ,
And, what is more, you’ll be a man, my son.

Let me end with two prominent questions which stares at “US” year after year..." Did we add LIFE to YEARS in 2010? Or B. Did we add YEARS to LIFE in 2010? ". Irrespective of the answer each of us should be elated since we have another chance of adding LIFE TO YEARS in 2011.

I wish each of you a happy, enchanting and PURPOSEFUL 2011.

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Rajhashekher B C - Raj
SAT, 01 January, 2011 12:01am
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No communication is complete until few lines are said about INDIA. Hence in the words of Winston Churchill {FYI - He did NOT like India even after which one of the finest lines ever written on INDIA where his lines}: -

"INDIA" said he "is merely a geographical expression. It is no more a single country than the EQUATOR"

NATIONAL YOUTH DAY - 12th of January

"Our YOUTHS are not hopeless; But they are Hoped Less" "Our YOUTHS are not useless; But they are Used Less";

Hence they are going to Wine Centers instead of Divine Centers...

These were the first lines which came to my mind when I came to know that we are 4 days away from celebrating National YOUTH DAY on 12th of Jan - 2011. I did a curious Google search on National Youth Day and to my astonishment there were about 88,30,000 ( EIGHTY EIGHT LACK AND THIRTY THOUSAND ) results; So let me not give any more information as there is enough means available to educate oneself if little time is spent on knowing the intent and purpose of this day.

However my recent interactions with people of professional diaspora has made me to believe the ardent perspective of E.P. Thompson that " All the convergent influences of the world run through this society: Hindu, Moslem, Christian, Secular; Stalinist, liberal, Maoist, democratic socialist, Gandhian. There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or East that is not active in some Indian Mind”. True that Indian Youth's Mind and its potential is very much alive and active but is not well channelized towards the right cause. And for certain I do not possess the sensory acuity nor acumen to channelize the mind of India Youth. But for sure, I can pave a path for each of you to reflect on the below transcript of Swami Vivekananda which was written on 1st July, 1895 to one of his Indian disciple by name Alasinga.



And how relevent is these words of his to this day for the YOUTH of India and for resurgence of India from the deep slumber which each of us have knowing or unknowing have pulled INDIA to.....!?

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1st July, 1895.

Dear Alasinga,

I received your missionary book and the Ramnad photos. I have written to the Raja as well as to the Dewan of Mysore. The missionary pamphlet must have reached here long ago, as the Ramabai circle controversy with Dr. Jane savored of it, it seems. Now you need not be afraid of anything. There is one miss-statement in that pamphlet. I never went to a big hotel in this country and very few times to any other. At Baltimore the small hotels, being ignorant, would not take in a black man, thinking he was a Negro. So my host, Dr. Vrooman had to take me to a large one, because they knew the difference between a negro and a foreigner. Let me tell you, Alasinga that you have to defend yourselves. Why do you behave like babies ? If anybody attacks your religion, why cannot you defend it? As for me, you need not be afraid, I have more friends than enemies here, and in this country one-third are Christians, and only a small number of the educated care about the missionaries. Again, the very fact of the missionaries being against anything makes the educated like it. They are less of a power here now, and are becoming less so every day. If their attacks pain you, why do you behave like a petulant child and refer to me?.....COWARDICE is not virtue.

Here I have already got a respectable following. Next year I will organize it on a working basis, and then the work will be carried on. And when I am off to India, I have friends who will back me here and help me in India too; so you need not fear. So long as you shriek at the missionary attempts, and jump without being able to do anything, I laugh at you; you are little dollies, that is what you are ……What can Swami do for old babies!!!!

I know, my son, I shall have to come and manufacture men out of you. I know that India is only inhabited by women and eunuchs. So do not fret. I will have to get means to work there. I do not put myself in the hands of imbeciles. You need not worry, do what little you can. I have to work alone from top to bottom….” This Atman(self) is not be reached by cowards.” You need not be afraid for me. The Lord is with me, you defend yourselves only and show me you can do that: and I will be satisfied. Don’t bother me any more with what anyone says about me. I am not waiting to hear any fool’s judgment of me. You babies, great results are attained only by great patience, great courage, and great attempts….Kid’s mind is taking periodic somersaults, I am afraid…

The brave alone do great things, not the cowards. Know once for all, you faithless one, that I am in the hands of the LORD. So long as I am pure and His servants, not a hair of my head will be touched….Do something for the nation, then they will help you, then the nation will be with you. Be brave, be brave! Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

Ever yours with love, VIVEKANANDA.

" WHEN PEOPLE START SPEAKING AGAINST YOU BE CERTAIN THAT YOU ARE PROGRESSING IN YOUR LIFE "

"When people start speaking against you be certain that you are PROGRESSING in your life“ For “without persecution no beneficent idea can enter into the heart of a society”
– SWAMI VIVEKANANDA


One day a father took his son to the head master of the school seeking advice on which field should his son be put into after his high school education? Head Master’s reply was very astonishing. He said “You can put your son in which ever field you want; It does not matter. For in which ever field he is put into he would NEVER come up in his life“. The son heard this blatant insult. This blatant insult invigorated in him so much so that he became the recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his services to Theoretical Physics {Especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect} ". Who was this person? Yes, it was Albert Einstein.

In today’s date it is quite rare to find people who can STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING. However it is very easy to find people who can STOP LIVING AND START WORRYING on the insults which were bestowed on them by others. Need to have a little bit of logical understanding to get out of this grand identity spherical which circumferences the human mind without faintest shadow of logical reason. Remember this: Insults are better teachers than happiness. Disgraces are better teachers than happiness. Humiliations are better teachers than happiness because they bring out the inside greatness more powerfully than a felicitation - This is the unfaultable truth.

Each of us should be insulted IN PUBLIC to come up in life - MORE INSULTS MORE GROWTH!!!. So, Next time if someone insults you in public, Be sure to go and shake his hand for he has made you to log on to that infinite hidden potential which would make you a person which world would see with WIDE OPEN ASTOUNDING EYES and say : -

“Is this the same person whom I had met last time!?”

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Rajhashekher B C - Raj
Sunday, February 06, 2011 2:08:20 PM
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“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made” - Albert Einstein

WHO IS DISTURBING WHOM ?

“THE WORLDLY PEOPLE SAY SO MANY THINGS! BUT LOOK, WHEN THE ELEPHANT MOVES ALONG THE STREET, ANY NUMBER OF ANIMALS MAY CRY AFTER IT. BUT THE ELEPHANT DOESN'T EVEN LOOK BACK AT THEM"

Question : - IF PEOPLE SPEAK ILL OF YOU, WHAT WILL YOU THINK?
"Ans : - I SHALL THINK THAT DOGS ARE BARKING AT ME"

- SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
AT THE AGE OF 19 YEARS { March 5th, 1882 }

Most of us...Oh No, Let me rewrite this again!!! It should be....All of us face this question on a daily basis as to what would world think about ME ? Below is a transcript which would act as a solace in answering this grand dilemma of human mind......

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A group of people who happened to be members of a choir were practicing songs and hymns on the stage. At the same time, it so happened that a carpenter was repairing the stage driving nails with his hammer and thereby creating noise. At every stroke of the hammer, the leader of the choir looked at the carpenter who was busy repairing the stage. After some time, the carpenter looked at the leader of the choir and said, “Sir! Continue your practice, it is not disturbing me."

This sounds rather strange. Naturally, one wonders, “Who is disturbing whom? " Similarly, we do not realize that the world is not disturbing us, but only our ignorance is the cause for our sorrow. It is the inner noise of unhappiness that causes agitation in us.

Lord Krishna, in the Gita Says, “It is because of ignorance that people experience all kinds of agitation. Due to this reason and because of ignorance, people are deluded people are miserable, they are victims of ignorance; and therefore, unless this ignorance is totally dispelled, one finds that however, skilful one's actions may be, they will be utterly superfluous and wasteful. The message of the Gita is “The cause of sorrow is delusion. One can achieve one's objective of dispelling sorrow only when one discards and destroys one's delusion. The whole message of the Gita is that we should dispel or get rid of this ignorance. By discarding this ignorance, sorrow, the offspring of ignorance, can be automatically dispelled.

As a great German psychiatrist rightly said, " The pathology that humanity seems to be suffering from is Robot pathology". We have become robots - more mechanical. We have become unaware and that leads to mechanical-ness; thereby, we have become machines and we have become unhappy. It is very essential for us to discard the ignorance or unawarenss of insensitivity. The extent to which ignorance is discarded determines the quality of improvement in one's life. The greater our freedom from ignorance, the greater is our happiness.

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Rajhashekher BC - Raj
Sunday, february 20, 2011 10:36:14 PM
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NEVER MIND FAILURES; THEY ARE QUITE NATURAL,THEY ARE THE BEAUTY OF LIFE, THESE FAILURES.

"NEVER MIND FAILURES; THEY ARE QUITE NATURAL,THEY ARE THE BEAUTY OF LIFE, THESE FAILURES "

If a lay man ventures into a public domain to get an insight view of any great personalities; He is for certain in a jungle full of dead wood and often he would find teak or rose wood but even before getting there he might be eaten by a tiger or bitten by a snake. That is what happened when I tried to get myself aquatinted with today's personality upon whom today's article is based. After spending time on the abundant resources available on today's personality; I did consider if I stand a chance even to think of writing an article on this person. But after a much of consent and delibration came to a conclusion if not an article on this personality who else does stand a chance to write an article on ?

A LIFE OF FAILURE : -

Today is the birth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln - February 12, 1809. Whose father was a shiftless, illiterate carpenter and whose mother was woman of no extraordinary attainments. And his life’s first 50 years was a legerdemain of failures which never seems to end starting from the age 22.......

At the age of 22 he lost in job - The Year was 1831;
At the age of 23 he was defeated in running for the Illinois state legislature - The Year was 1832;
At the age of 24 he started a store in New Salem, Illinois. He failed in this business and later had to pay the whole debt for his failed business - The Year was 1834;
At the age of 26 his sweetheart died - The Year was 1835;
At the age of 27 he had nervous breakdown - The year was 1836;
At the age of 29 he was nominated for Illinois House Speaker but did not win the election - The Year was 1838;
At the age of 34 he was defeated for nomination for congress - The year was 1843;
At the age of 40 was rejected as land officer - The year was 1849;
At the age of 45 defeated for U.S. Senate - The year was 1854;
At the age of 47 was defeated for nomination for Vice President - The year was 1856;
At the age of 49 he was again defeated for U.S. Senate - The year was 1858;

What was the secret of his enduring spirit which did not allow him to bog down to failures of his life ?

THE VALUE OF DEMOCRACY : -

This awkward pioneer used to shuck corn and butcher hogs for 31 cents a day on the Pigeon Creek Farms of Indiana. He had attended school less then twelve months in his entire life. When he was elected to Congress he described his education in the official records at Washington, with one adjective: “defective ". Even after which at Gettysburg, delivered an address which still stands and will stand as the best addresses ever spoken by mortal man.

" Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth "

Time stands still when I read this address of his. Charles Sumner who heard this speech at Gettysburg shortly after Lincoln's death said: - “That Lincoln’s address would live when the memory of the battle was lost, and that battle would one day be remembered largely because of the speech ". True, who can argue with the correctness of his prophecy? To this day, Lincoln’s address has been cast in imperishable bronze and placed in a library at Oxford as an example of what can be done with English Language. It ought to be memorized by every student at the university.

What was his secret for writing such immaculate words with such precision and with such harmony?

THE SECRET OF SECRETS : -

It was three simple words spoken by his dying mother to him which stood by him during his times of despair and turbulence and changed his life forever. What were they? “BE SOMEBODY, ABE!!! ”. These words inspired him so much so that he went on to become the sixteenth president of the United States at the age of 51 { The year was 1860 } and left behind an legacy for the world to contemplate on....

Are we going to become SOMEBODY ?

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Rajhashekher BC - Raj
Saterday, February 12, 2011 11:40:51 PM
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" HANATE \ BEACON - 2011 "

" HANATE \ BEACON - 2011 "

" The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition it will meet with at the outset. It is the opposition which foretells success " - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA









Hanatha 2011 – The Path:
I did hold off previous weeks article; One of the paramount reason was to give an amalgamated live experience{s} of the youths who attended HANATE 2011 which was held by us { The Viveka Hamsa Balaga }. HANATE was scheduled to occur on Saturday 2nd and 3rd of October 2010 but was postponed to Jan 22nd and 23rd 2011 because of Ayothya Conflict. This did not end there Jan 22nd 2011 was also a Bandh. During these instances one thing which stood by us like Himalayan Mountain were these words of Swami Vivekananda which he had resonated a century and a half ago. “The more the opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance ? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition it will meet with at the outset. It is the opposition which foretells success ". I am very happy to acknowledge the fact that we did face hurdles due to circumstances in the country. On the same stretch let me also acknowledge that more the hurdles to this event the more it made me { US } to believe the unrefrainable fact of more the hurdles to this event it is better; For it only facilitated each of us to showcase the collective hidden potential lying dormant in each of us in making this event even more grand success. Which was what was destined to happen; and is what DID HAPPEN!!!! - " THE GRAND SUCCESS ". This article stands as the living testimony to that grand success which HANATE 2011 achieved.

Non – Stop feast for the soul:

Young and elderly connoisseurs of life thronged the event place in great numbers despite the prevailing volatile circumstances of Bangalore City. The morning sessions of both days commenced with exquisite devotional songs of Holy Trio which wakened the “ Soul Consciousness ” of the connoisseurs.





First session was a speech by Dr Gururaj Karajagi who is the Chairman for Academy of Creative Teaching, Bangalore. His voice, his erudition encapsulated the audience with words of Swami Vivekananda which was never heard off or Should I say, Was heard but was not understood and implemented in the truth sense. " How small am I - The Human Being ? - I am but a speck of the microscopic desk in the vast immensity of space but given the power of logic and reason; I - The human being can comprehend the whole universe ". What this means is....The insignificant human being in the vast universe if realises the vast inner potential hidden within can rule over the whole universe. Dr Karajagi's coliseum note of the speech was when he referred to a preface from an Encyclopedia of 1100 sciencetists... " Out of 60 lack human beings born in this world only 1 { ONE } leaves a mark on the sands of time and rest live and die like WORMS! ". This by itself was a wake up call for the audiences about the ignorant plight of human life and where each of us should head too if we do not want to be one among the 5999999 worms !?









This was followed by speech of Sri Holiness Srimat Swami Nirbhayaananda Sarasvati, President, Ramakrishna – Vivekananda Ashram, Gadaga, Vijapura. With his erudite, sophisticated, aesthetical personality aura, Swamiji enthralled the audience with one quintessential maxim of the life....That of " Unlimitedness or The infiniteness capacity of human beings ". Swamiji continues with perfect authority on Great Indian Scriptures delineates further with a quote from Taittiriya Upanishad : - " Man being the emperor of the whole world is only one unite of human glory. And that each man is capable of achieving 10 to the power of 18 such glories [ 1018 ]". He concludes his speech with momentous strength of Indian Blood which is destined to achieve only infinitude goals and not limited small goals.


The Grand Climax:















The grand climax of the event was the emotionally hot charged and lyrically exuberant program { as always } by Sri Sulibele Chakravarthy. " India! india!! iNDIA!!! INDIA!!!! " " Vadha Mataram! Vande Matharam!! Vande Matharam!!! Vande Matharam!!!! " resonated the auditorium. Connoisseurs were dump struck and mesmerized to know what INDIA was and why INDIA stands still undeterred. After which the event ended with the recital of Vadha Matharam. { An slogan which six and half lack freedom fighters used for Indian Independence }

















The Sine Que Non { without which not } motto and result of this event was not just to share information but instead the information shared should act as an impetus for the transformation of mind, body and soul of the connoisseurs.

















I would conclude that this is what this event achieved! The transformation of MIND, BODY AND SOUL.

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Rajhashekher BC - Raj
Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:09:40 PM
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" In a day when you don't come across any problems — you can be SURE that you are traveling in the WRONG path "
- Swami Vivekananda

PS : -
Hanate photos can be viewed by this universal resource link : -
https://picasaweb.google.com/nvini2007/VivekaHamsaAnnualCelebrationHANATE2010?feat=email#

A LITTLE OF HIS {{ Sri Ramakrishna's }} SACRED WATER TO SLAKE THE GREAT THIRST OF WORLD

SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2011 - Sri Ramakrishna Jayanti {Birthday}














- :PRELUDE of this mail : -
The reason for selecting the below TRANSCRIPT:-

There are “N" number of introductions written on Sri Ramakrishna. There are “N" number of prefaces written on Sri Ramakrishna. There is “N" number of preludes written on Sri Ramakrishna. There are “N " number of books written on Sri Ramakrishna; But I considered, decided and selected this particular transcript for the Himalayan humility with which Romain Rolland has written the first few lines of his book. He starts with lines which send shivers into my spinal cords: -

“I must beg my Indian readers to view with indulgence the mistakes I may have made. In spite of all the enthusiasm I have brought to my task, it is impossible for a man of West to interpret men of Asia with their thousand year’s experience of thought; for such an interpretation must often be erroneous. The only thing to which I can testify is the sincerity which has lead me to make a pious attempt to enter into all forms of life"











Roman Rolland categorically is asking our {INDIAN’s} indulgence for mistakes he might have committed while putting forth his interpretation of Sri Ramakrishna. And he further goes on to say that his interpretation MUST be with ERRORS, But I or Any one who has read his book can with complete authority say that his book does not contain a iota of mistake nor does his interpretation of man of Asia is with errors. This is the prime reason for selecting the below transcript from his book.

The reason for not writing my own ARTICLE:-

I see no infinitesimal speck of logic and reason for me to even think of writing another article then what Romain Rolland has already written in the below transcript on Sri Ramakrishna.

Books to buy and read for every indian:-

Before I let you go to quench the thrist; It is of impreative importance for each Indian Or Should I say, For whole humanity {{*}} to buy two books written by Romain Rolland.

One " The Life of Ramakrishna ". Second " The Life of Vivekananda and The Universal Gospel ". Without these two books how can great thirst of the world would ever be quenched ?

































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Rajhashekher BC – Raj
Sun, 6 March, 2011 12:07:36 AM
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{{*}} FOR Indian thinking is never limited to only India or Indian’s but for the whole multiplicity of humanity at large. This is the prime reason because of which the world sees towards INDIA with open eyes not even finding time to blink the eye lashes.

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{{ Below is copy of a transcript from the Book : - " The Life of Ramakrishna - By Romain Rolland " }}

" I am bringing to Europe, as yet unaware of it, the fruit of new autumn, a new message of the soul, the symphony of India, bearing the name of Ramakrishna " - wrote Romain Rolland to this Western Readers.

A biography of anyone is hard to write. But a biography of a saint is the most difficult of all, because most of the drama of a saint's life is lived within - far from the gaze, and even farther from the understanding, of the rest of the world. What then would compel a distinguished, world - renowned French writer - a Nobel laureate, in fact - to write the biography of a poor, almost illiterate priest of a Hindu Kali Temple in India ? And why would he want Westerners to know about him ?

" I have dedicated my whole life to the reconciliation of mankind", Rolland said. He obviously thought Ramakrishna had something extraordinary to say to humanity as a whole; otherwise he would not have spent so much time and gone through so much effort to gather material to write this book. But it was not just what Ramakrishna had to say. It was mainly his life that Rolland wanted to present. Ramakrishna demonstrated in his life that God was a fact of experience - not just for chosen few, but for all who cared to listen, no matter what their race, position in society, or creed was. This is what Rolland wanted to bring out.

As Rolland said, " And in the life of Ramakrishna, the Man - Gods, I am about to relate the life of this Jocob's ladder, whereon the twofold unbroken line of the Divine in man ascends and descends between heaven and earth. " To Rolland, " Ramakrishna is the younger brother of our Christ" " It is always the same Man", said Rolland, " - The Son of Man, the Eternal, Our Son, Our God reborn. With each return he reveals himself a little more fully, and more enriched by the universe. "

Rolland obviously felt greatly enriched himself by his encounter with Ramakrishna. And, like the person who cannot eat a mango without sharing it with other, he wanted others also to have the same experience. As he said to his Easteran readers:-

" And it is because Ramakrishna more fully than any other man not only conceived, but realised in himself the total Unity of this river of God, open to all rivers and all streams, that I have given him my love; and I have drawn a little of his sacred water to slake the great thirst of world.

But I shall not remain leaning at the edge of the river. I shall continue my march with the stream right to the sea. Leaving behind at each winding of the river where death has cried " Halt!" to one of our leaders the kneeling company of the faithful, I shall go with the stream and pay homage to it from the source to the estuary. Holy is the source, holy is the course, holy is the estuary. And we shall embrace within the river and it's tributaries, small and great, and in the Ocean itself - the whole moving mass of the living God."

The man { Sri Ramakrishna } whose image I here evoke was the consummation of two thousand years of the spiritual life of three hundred million people. Although he has been dead forty years, his soul animates modern India. He was no hero of action like Gandhi, no genius in art or thought like Goethe or Tagore. He was a little village Brahmin of Bengal, whose outer life was set in a limited frame without striking incident, outside the political and social activites of his time. But his inner life embraced the whole multiplicity of men and Gods.

It is my desire to bring the sound of the beating of that artery to the ears of fever - stricken Europe, which has murdered sleep. I wish to wet it's lips with the blood of Immortality...

" THE WHOLE EARTH IS MADE FOR MY SAKE "

There was a Jewish Saint. His name was Rabbi Bunam. As he become old many of his disciples went up to him and said “Master, Can you give us a parting message?". For which Bunam said “You will know my parting message when I am gone? ". His disciples where wonderstruck with wonder! How can he give his message after he is dead and gone. Master died after few days. Students and disciples where sad as master was dead. But they were also curious to know what master's parting message was for them. His students went up towards his body and found his both hands closed. One among them opened the left fist and found a small piece of paper. On which it was written “I AM NOTHING BUT EARTH". Another opened the right fist and found another small piece of paper. On which it was written “ THE WHOLE EARTH IS MADE FOR MY SAKE ". They ought what a hyperbolic contradiction? In one hand it is written “I AM NOTHING BUT EARTH” but in another hand it is written “THE WHOLE EARTH IS MADE FOR MY SAKE ". They were unable to decipher the meaning of master's message. Another student in the group took both pieces of paper and conjoined them together and turned it back. On the back side it was written : - "it is true that i am nothing but earth. but if you realise your potential you can work as if whole world is made for your sake".

Psychodrama Of No Faith In One Self
“One is reality. Another is a potentiality ". Whole life's goal is to realize these potentialities.











Swami Vivekananda with his immaculate language { as only he could } say : - “How small am I ?
I am but a speck of the microscopic desk in the vast immensity of space; But given the power of logic and reason, I can comprehend the whole universe ". Each of us should keenly mark the charm of his language. The more you read Swami Vivekananda's literature you tend to be come hypnotic.

The biggest disease which humanity tends to suffer is the lack of realizing the potentialities {Faith in One Self} of human entity. Instead, Humanity tends to transfer it's faith on friends, parents, partners and most important of all on GOD. If I were to ask you - Why do you have faith in GOD? The obvious answer would be " I have faith in GOD because....I am GOD FEARING and NOT GOD LOVING "....We do not bow our heads towards GOD with respect towards GOD but the respect towards GOD is begotten out of FEAR?

Fear of.." Oh, What would happen to me today if I do not bow my head towards GOD? ". This is unfailing truth wither we accept it or not. Because of which lives have become psychodramic battle field of failures. Swami Vivekananda addresses this psychodrama of human mind in the best way possible....

Faith, Faith, Faith In Ourselves, Faith, Faith In God - This Is The Secret Of Greatness











" If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological gods, and in all the gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need. Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not. What did I learn in the West, and what did I see behind those frothy sayings of the Christian sects repeating that man was a fallen and hopelessly fallen sinner? There I saw that inside the national hearts of both Europe and America reside the tremendous power of the men's faith in themselves. An English boy will tell you, "I am an Englishman, and I can do anything." The American boy will tell you the same thing, and so will any European boy. Can our boys say the same thing here? No, nor even the boy's fathers. We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is, therefore, that I preach this Advaita; and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds " - Swami Vivekananda.

Quintessential Need Of Every Human Entity And Need Of World IS : -

" Faith in realizing the possibilities of one's potentialities and use it for the well being of the entire humanity is the need of the WORLD; Without which each of our lives would be a victory but it would be Very Shallow !? ".

















As Pascal Calls it...The lurking of the earth !!!

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Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:25:28 AM
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" PEOPLE WHO LIVE FOR THEMSELVES WILL NEVER BE REMEMBERED WHILE PEOPLE WHO LIVE FOR OTHERS WOULD NEVER BE FORGOTEN "

" They Alone Live Who Live For Ohters, Rest Are More Die Than Alive " - Swami Vivekananda


Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia Of Science And Technology














Isaac Asimov is a science fiction writer. Noticed one of his books titled “Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology “in the biggest book stores in Bangalore. This encyclopedia is considered as the highest ranked book amongst 515 books written by him. It contains the lives and achievements of 1510 scientists starting from ancient history to present date. To complete this book he took and gave life's blood of 12 - 15 years to encapsulate every minuscule life description of each of these scientists. After completion of the book he has written a preface which stands as a quintessential exponential view of human life in few sentences. He says: -












“When the book was ready I was both Happy and Sorry. Happy because I was able to study the life's of 1510 scientists. Sorry because I was able to study only life's of ONLY 1510 scientists considering the inadequacy of my time and research " And he further goes on to say: - " Most hearting fact of sorry and sadness for me is the fact that even though there were so many people who have come and gone from the day of human existence only few people have left their mark on the sands of time ". As per his statical research he says : - " Out of 60,00,000 lack people who walked this earth only 1 person lives mark on the sands of time - And REST DIE LIE WORMS ? ". Off - Course, Very very harsh statement indeed; But is it not true? When each of us die even the person in the next door does not know who we were and what our achievements were in the long life of ours.

" People Who Live For Themselves Will Never Be Remembered While People Who Live For Others Would Never Be Forgotten "

Couple of days back I attended a student’s seminar on personality development. One of the speakers of the conference asked a question and let the floor open to answer the question. The question which was asked was “Can you let me know the name of your parents?” All hands went up. Before any one of the students were able to answer; The questioner said “Wait, Let me not ask this question as I am certain that each of you would be able to answer with proficiency. Instead can you tell me the names of your great grand parents? "

None of the hands went up. When asked why none of the students were able to tell the names of their Great Grand Parents Names? One among the crowd stood up and said in the most intriguing manner “NOT WORTH REMEMBERING, Sir!!! ". In continuation to this question the questioner asked one more additional question "Do you remember the names of Chandrashkher Azad, Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru, and Sukhdev?”Each of the students started shouting Yes, We Know ): - !!!

When asked why they remembered these personalities? One student said: - “People who live for themselves will never be remembered while people who live for others will never be forgotten ". The speaker closed the seminar with a high note which would stand as an eternal wake up call for each of us. Remember this he said : - “If you do not want your great grand children to say what you just said about your great grandparents then lead a life which is WORTH REMEMBERING FOR YOUR GREAT GRAND CHILDREN AND WHOLE OF THE HUMANITY ".

February and March Should Be Considered As The Months Of Infamy In Indian History

Before I conclude this article let me heighten the node of view as to why this article circumferences around 5 personalities. First, 3 days from today; The April 6th is the death anniversary of Isaac Asimov. Second, February and March should be considered as the months of infamy in Indian History since India lost its 4 sons without their sacrifices history of India would have been written totally differently. Among them would be Chandrasekher Azad who shot himself on February 27, 1931. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were executed by the British Empire on March 23rd 1931. If I keenly observe India lost 4 sons within a time span of 25 days and all them were between the age group of 26 years {Bhagat Singh's age was 23. Chandrashekher Azad's age was 25. Sukhdev's age was 24 and Rajguru's age was 22}. Even if each of their age was less than 26 years they are being remembered by every youth of India even to this day for reason they lived and died for India and not for themselves.

Let me end by the few parting words of A P G Abdul Kalam “Lead a life such that you live a mark on the sands of time ". Are we going to lead such life is a persistent urgent question which each of us can answer during our last moments on our death beds! Is it not?

Or

Is it that we should ask this question at the end of each day so that our funeral will be a festival celebration for the world to enjoy !?

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Sunday, April 3, 2011 5:29:01 PM
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MAN BEHIND THIS PERSON

Man Behind This Person



A boy born in a very poor family could not get proper education. He had to make his living by selling flowers on the road side and from going house to house. He could not get a proper job. Hence finally joined the india army as a soldier and fought against pakistan in 1965 war. Even after which he felt that all his dreams were crushed. Hence was returning to his home and spent some time at Delhi railway platform. His mind was so stressed that he decided to end his life of failure by committing suicide. As he was about to commit suicide he saw a book sales person trolling a trolley filled with books. Among the heed of books he noticed one book called “ CALL TO THE NATION of Swami Vivekananda "; Picked it and started reading it as he was standing on railway platform. He read this book 3 times at a stretch and decided there is nothing great in dying but real greatness lies in living for the country. Who was this boy ?

Yes, it is same person around whom whole of India is rallying around from past 5 days. It's Anna Hazare.



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Transcript Of " Call To The Nation " Can Be Accessed By Clicking On This Universal Resource Link : - http://www.scribd.com/doc/10094818/Call-to-Nation-Swami-Vivekananda

WHAT IS EDUCATION ? ARE WE EDUCATED ?

First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day by day; and those who can judge situations appropriately as they arise and rarely miss the suitable course of action.

Next, those who are honorable in their dealings with all men, bearing easily what is unpleasant or offensive in others, and being as reasonable with their associates as is humanly possible.

Furthermore, those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not unduly overcome by their misfortunes, bearing up under them bravely and in a manner worthy of our common nature.

Most important of all, those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves, but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men, rejoicing no more in the good things that have come to them through chance than in those which through their own nature and intelligence are theirs since birth.

Those who have a character which is in accord, not with one of these things, but with all of them, these are educated - possessed of all the virtues.

- Socrates { 470 - 399 B.C )
Sat, 30 April, 2011 11:11:49 PM

" TOO DEEP FOR TEARS " - AN EQUATION HAS NO MEANING UNLESS IT EXPRESSES A THOUGHT OF GOD

“You know how many sciences had their origin in India. Mathematics began there. You are even today counting 1, 2, 3, etc. to zero, after Sanskrit figures, and you all know that algebra also originated in India” - Swami Vivekananda


Indian’s Are The One’s Who Taught The World How To Count

When people say there is no scientific rationality in India I remain silent. My uniform silence is always intermingled with deep sense of remorse. For the reason that world would not have known what science IS, but for us {The Indian’s}. Another coliseum subject which is the undercurrent of science is Mathematics and came into existence in this very land of ours. To which - " World should owe a lot to us. As we taught the world how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have made“. These words were not echoed by me but by Albert Einstein.






TODAY'S ARTICLE is based on one such mind shivering personality from the never ceasing lineage of Indian Mathematicians from the annals of known history.

So Poor For A Sheet Of Paper But So Rich So, That World Is Still Baffled By His Notes.

Two days from today - 26th April, Is the death anniversary of Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan.



Ramanujan who was born so poor that he did not have reserves to buy a sheet of paper to record his formulae's. Because of which he used to write many of his calculations on a slate with chalk and used to erase them with his elbow for want of space; Sometimes he would write in red ink on paper already written as he could not afford another sheet of paper. This poor boy working at accounts department at port trust office of Madras {with no university education} sent nine paper of closely written mathematical formulae to Mathematician G.H. Hardy of Cambridge University. Notes which contained starting conclusions as diverse as divergent series and the negative values of gamma function. Some of them even refuted Hardy's own papers. By general glancing at those conclusions, Hardy thought the author might be a Crank and Sysco. But deep study of those conclusions reveled and made Hardy to realize that they “Could only be written by a mathematician of highest order. And they are bound to be true because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them".



Those notes were only the foretaste of the prodigious calculations to come. So vastly prodigious was Ramanujan’s insight that even to this day mathematicians across the globe still remain confound; NINETY DECADES after his demise. Many of his ideas are used today in cosmology and computer science. His farsightedness was so vast that theorems written by him during his life time {In between 1887 - 1920} are being applied in areas of polymer chemistry, computers, cancer research now; which in those days were not even thought about. His insights were so rich so that world is baffled that anyone could even think to derive them in the first place.

Short Striking Stories Of His Life – Too Deep For Tears

* Ramanujan had these childish questions “ How far is it between clouds?”. His headmaster seeing his caliber declared that he “Deserved higher than the maximum possible marks".

* Ramanujan once said “An equation has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of GOD“.

* During his first Cambridge lecture he was asked by a professor whether he wanted to add anything ? Ramanujan, went to the black board and wrote results the professor had not yet proved – and which he could not have know before.

* Once Hardy visited his ailing protégé in a nursing home and commented that the license number of the cab which he came in, 1729, was “rather a dull number ". For which ailing Ramanujan reacted instantly. “No. Hardy. It is very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways".

When Ramanujan died { @ the age of 32 } at the height of his powers, he left a final note book full of formulae - 650 theorems as his body was being inexorably consumed by tuberculosis. His doctor’s words “TOO DEEP FOR TEARS“ would remind us of the phenomenon called Ramanujan.



Is it not!?

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Sunday, april 24, 2011 11:13:16 PM

WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR

Where The Mind Is Without Fear

" Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action into that heaven of freedom, my Father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE......."

May 7th, Is the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore and above lines of his could well be his epitaph. And, I have never found answers to the below questions and stands as a constant reminder that humanity en masse has a long way to travel!

Is the mind without fear and is head held high? Is knowledge free? Is the world not broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls? Are the tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection? Does the clear stream of reason not lost its way the dreary desert sand of dead habit? Is the mind led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action into that heaven of freedom? Is my country is awake!?

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Sunday, MAY 8, 2011 1:22:32 PM

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Renaissance Man - By Shashi Tharoor

“Nobody has excelled in so many fields or dominated his culture to the extent that Tagore has"

Towering Talent: Rabindranath Tagore

It is genuinely difficult to explain to foreigners the scale of Rabindranath Tagore’s accomplishments. Some have made glib comparisons to Shakespeare and Goethe, but neither man, despite his undoubted greatness, excelled in as many fields as the Bengali Thakur, nor dominated his culture to the extent that Rabindranath has. Think of it: he was not merely an extraordinary poet, the only Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1913, for his Gitanjali). He was also a prose-writer and essayist of the first rank, whose articles, books and monographs commanded a wide readership around the world. As a philosopher and mystic, he was perhaps the first to develop a synthesis of Eastern and Western approaches, and he developed political ideas of great depth and humanity (of which more later). He was a great, if uneven, novelist and short-story writer who produced several masterpieces that continue to be read a century and a half after his birth. He was also a playwright of rare distinction: “The Post Office”, for instance, was one of the most popular plays in the world before the Second World War.

Enormous Range

But, added to all that, were other talents: he was a painter of high quality and perceptiveness, an artist with a poet’s eye. He was a composer of over 2,000 immortal songs, of which he authored both the lyrics and the tunes, and through which he essentially founded his own branch of Indian music, known as “Rabindra Sangeet”. He is the only person to have created the national anthems of two different countries (India’s “Jana Gana Mana” and Bangladesh’s “Amar Sonar Bangla”), though both nations were born after his own death. (Even greater than both official anthems is his “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high,” an inspirational poem that could serve as the anthem for any nation seeking freedom.) And he was an educator of great vision and courage, founding Vishwa Bharati at Santiniketan to offer an authentically Indian experience of higher education, following systems and approaches of his own devising. It educated the likes of Satyajit Ray and Indira Gandhi (not to mention offering a cradle to Amartya Sen, whose first name was given by Rabindranath — probably the only instance of a Nobel laureate baptising another!)

If all this were not more than enough — representing a level of achievement so towering that it is difficult to imagine an individual in any other culture who comes close — there is also the remarkable fact of Tagore’s huge worldwide impact, which even today’s Indians may have difficulty imagining. Tagore was a global giant before the era of globalisation. When he was to speak at New York’s 4,000-seat Carnegie Hall in 1930 (itself a rare enough honour, since the hall is usually reserved for concerts, not orations), more than 20,000 people were turned away from the sold-out event, creating a mass of humanity on the streets outside that blocked traffic for miles. No living writer on the planet had ever had something comparable happen, and what’s more, Tagore was handsomely paid for his speeches. One American critic, not without a tinge of jealousy, wrote acerbically that the Indian “scolds Americans at $700 per scold”. (By today’s standards that would be more like $7,00,000in purchasing power terms.)


But the chauvinist glee with which I, as an Indian writer, am celebrating Rabindranath Tagore, would not particularly have appealed to him. Though his decision to return his British knighthood after the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre led Indians to regard him as a great hero of the nationalist struggle, Tagore did not really believe in nationalism but in the values of the human spirit, transcending all national boundaries. At the same time, he was not exactly an internationalist in the classic sense beloved of U.N. types like myself. He died before the United Nations was created, but he did not think highly of its forerunner organisation, the League of Nations. Tagore wrote of the League that it was well conceived in theory but not in practice, because it was an institution in which the world was represented by national Governments and nationalist political leaders. “It is,” he wrote, “like organising a band of robbers into a police department.” There is no reason to believe he would have felt any differently about today’s U.N., which is also an organisation of States rather than peoples.

The Archetypal Sage

With his long beard and his flowing white robe, Rabindranath Tagore epitomised for many the archetype of the Indian sage, the precursor of so many godmen and gurus who have followed his footsteps to the West. There is little doubt that his magisterial mind and his authoritative presence did a great deal to inspire admiration across the world, and to spark a revival of interest in Hinduism and in the teachings of Hindu spirituality. Tagore’s Hinduism had little to do with the Hindu-ness sought to be promoted by today’s Hindutva brigades; it was a faith free of the restrictive dogma of holy writ, untrammelled in its yearning for the divine, and universalist in its conception and its appeal. This is what made his ideas so attractive to non-Indians. When the great British poet Wilfred Owen (author of the greatest anti-war poem in the English language, “Dulce et Decorum Est”) was to return to the front to give his life in the futile First World War, he recited Tagore’s “When I Go From Hence” to his mother as his last goodbye. When he was so tragically and pointlessly killed, Owen’s mother found Tagore’s poem copied out in her son’s hand in his diary.

With his typical generosity, Tagore said of the artist William Rothenstein, “He had the vision to see truth and the heart to love it.” The same was true of himself. It is reason enough, today, to pay tribute to the greatest Indian who ever picked up a pen.

WHAT EVER YOU TOUCH BECOMES GOLD

“If a man is called to be street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as MICHELANGELO painted, or BEETHOVEN composed music, or SHAKESPEARE wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well”

- MARTIN LUTHER KING. Jr



On the first day, as President Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address, just in the middle, one man stood up. He was a rich aristocrat. He said: - “Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make shoes for my father". And the whole Senate laughed; they thought they had made a fool of Abraham Lincoln.

But Lincoln - and that type of people are made of a totally different mettle, Lincoln looked at the man and said, " Sir, I know that my father used to make shoes in your house for your family, and there will be many others here....because the way he made shoes; nobody else can. He was a creator. His shoes were not just shoes; he poured his whole soul in it. I want to ask you, have you any complaint? Because I know how to make shoes myself; if you have complaint I can make another pair of shoes. But as far as I know, nobody has ever complained about my father's shoes. He was a genius, a great creator and I am proud of my father”

The whole Senate was dumb. They could not understand what kind of man Abraham Lincoln was. He had made shoe making an art, creativity. And he was proud because his father did his job so well that not even a single complaint had ever been heard.

It does not matter what you do. What matters is how you do it - of our own accord, with your own vision, with your own love. Then what ever you touch becomes gold.

- Anonymous
Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:36 AM

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Perpective Of India



“I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad - Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us. "

“The Indian teaching, through its clouds of legends, has yet a simple and grand religion, like a queenly countenance seen through a rich veil. It teaches to speak truth, love others, and to dispose trifles. The East is grand - and makes Europe appear the land of trifles. ...all is soul and the soul is Vishnu...cheerful and noble is the genius of this cosmogony”

“When India was explored, and the wonderful riches of Indian theological literature found, that dispelled once and for all the dream about Christianity being the sole revelation. - Nature makes a Brahmin of me presently. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Four days from today, May 25th is the 211th birth anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson. That Emerson who if not the first, was the chief exponent who impregnated Indian thought into the western minds during 19th century. 21st century India has reached a stage where present Indian minds needs to be re - impregnated by the same Indian thoughts which western minds had been impregnated two centuries ago.

Is it not our genetic responsibility in lending our hands in building that collateral bridge of connecting the present generation with the greatness of Indian wisdom; Which stands with complete mutedness, awaiting for rejuvenation of Indian minds!?


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Saturday, MAY 21, 2011