ಅನಿಸಿಕೆ
ಇವತ್ತು ಯಾಕೋ ಏನೋ ಬರಿಯುವ ಆಸೆ ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಈ ಪತ್ರ.
ನಾವು ನಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನವೆಲ್ಲ ಬರಿ ದುಡಿದು ದುಡ್ಡು ಮಾಡುವ ದಲ್ಲೇ ಕಳೆದು ಬಿಡುತ್ತೇವೆ, ಆದರೆ ನಾವು ಒಂದು ಜೀವನದ ಮುಖ್ಯವಾದ ಗುರಿಯನ್ನೇ ಮರೆತಿರೋ ಹಾಗೆ ಅನಿಸುತಿದೆ. ಅದು ಏನು ಎಂದರೆ ನಮ್ಮಗೆ ಬೇಕಾದವರನ್ನು ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುವುದು. ನಾವು ಆಧುನಿಕ ಯುಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಯಷ್ಟು ಮಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ತ ಲಿನರಾಗಿದ್ದೇವೆ ಎಂಬುದು ನಮಗೆ ಅರಿವು ಇಲ್ಲದೇ ಇರಬಹುದು. ನನಗೆ ಬೇರೆಯವರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ಆದರೆ ನಾನೇ ಹಲವಾರು ಬಾರಿ ಹಾಗೆ ನಡೆದು ಕೊಂಡಿದೆನ್ಣೇ ಅಂತ ಹೇಳಲ್ಲೂ ವಿಷಾದಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.
ನಮ್ಮದು ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಬದುಕು, ಅದರಲ್ಲೇ ಹಲವಾರು ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆಯ ಕಾರ್ಯ ಮಾಡಬೇಕೆಂದು ಯಲ್ಲರ ಆಸೆ, ಅದು ತಪ್ಪಲ್ಲ, ಆದರೆ ಮಿತ್ಯ ಜಗತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವುದೋ ಶಾಶ್ವತ ಅಲ್ಲವೋ ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಮಯ ವ್ಯರ್ತ ಮಾಡಬೇಡಿ ಅಂತ ಹೇಳುವ ನನ್ನ ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ,
ನನ್ನಿಂದ ತಪ್ಪಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ,
ಇಂತಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ,
ರಾಜೀವ
Even the slightest things matter
This is a real story that happened between the customer of General
Motors and its customer-care executive..
A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:
"This is the second time I have written to you, and I don't blame you
for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we
have a tradition in our family of ice cream for dessert after dinner each
night.But the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we've eaten,
the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I
drive down to the store to get it.
It's also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since
then my trips to the store have created a problem. You see, every time I buy a
vanilla ice cream, when I start back from the store my car won't
start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine.
I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no matter how
silly sounds: "What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I
get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?"
The Pontiac President was understandably skeptical about the letter,
but sent an engineer to check it out anyway. The latter was surprised to
be greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man in a fine
neighborhood.He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time,
so the two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream
store. It was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after
they came back to the car, it wouldn't start. The engineer returned for
three more nights.
The first night, they got chocolate. The car started. The second
night, he got strawberry. The car started. The third night he ordered vanilla.
The car failed to start. Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to
believe that this man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream.
He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took
to solve the problem. And toward this end he began to take notes: he
jotted down all sorts of data: time of day, type of gas uses, time to drive
back and forth etc. In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time
to buy vanilla than any other flavor. Why? The answer
was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most popular
flavor,was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. All
the other flavors were kept in the back of the store at a different
counter where it took considerably longer to check out the flavor. Now, the
question for the engineer was why the car wouldn't start when it took
less time.
Once time became problem - not the vanilla ice cream, the engineer
quickly came up with the answer: "Vapour lock". It was happening every night;
but the extra time taken to get the other flavors allowed the engine to
cool down sufficiently to start.
When the man got vanilla, the engine was still to hot for the vapour
lock to dissipate.'
Remember: Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all
problems seem to be simple only when we find the solution with a cool thinking.
Don't just say its "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort...
Observe the word "IMPOSSIBLE" carefully... You can see "I'M
POSSIBLE"...
What really matters is your attitude and your perception
Priceless
Martin wakes up very late at home with a huge hangover. He forces
himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of
aspirins and a glass of water on the side table. He sits down and sees
his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed.
Martin looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order,
spotless, clean. So is the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins and
notices a note on the table - "Honey, breakfast is on the stove. I left
early to go shopping. Love You!" So he goes to the kitchen and sure
enough there is hot breakfast and the morning newspaper. His son is also
at the table, eating. Martin asks, "Son, what happened last night?" His
son says, "Well, you came home around 3 AM, drunk and delirious, broke
some furniture, puked in the hallway, and gave yourself a black eye when
you stumbled into the door."
Confused, Martin asks, "So, why is everything in order and so clean, and
breakfast is on the table waiting for me?" His son replies, "Oh, that!
Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants
off, you said, "Lady! Leave me alone! I'm married!"
Moral
Self-induced hangover -- $100.00
Broken furniture -- $500.00
Breakfast -- $10.00
Saying the right thing while drunk -- PRICELESS!
Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
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Choose the highest ideal and live your life upto that. Look at the "ocean" and not at the wave.
- That which tends to increase the divinity in you is virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice.
- He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva.
- Purity in thought, speech, and act is absolutely necessary for anyone to be religious. Purity is strength. Spiritual truth is purity.
- The ideal of the man is to see God in everything. The real evil is idleness which is the principal cause of our poverty.
- Everyone should know that there is no salvation except through the conquering of desires.
- Death being so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
- Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
- Your country reqires heroes, be heroes!
- To me the very essence of education is concentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts.
- Each soul is potentially divine.
- Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God.
- All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that.
- Work, work, work - let this be your motto.
- Now the only way out is to listen to the words of the Lord in the Gita.
- Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear".
- Struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it.
- Feel that you are great and you become great. /
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- To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
- At my will mountains will crumble up. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.
- It is those foolish people who identify themselves with their bodies that piteously cry, 'Weak, weak, we are weak'.
- Keep the motto before you: "Elevation of the masses without injuring their religion".
- Man never progresses from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lesser truth to higher truth.
- Avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is death.
- Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that.
- I shall inspire men everywhere until the world shall know that it is one with God.
- Let us go forward and do yet greater things.
- The more selfish a man, the more immoral he is.
- Give to the weak, for there all the gift is needed.
- Knowledge exists, man only discovers it.
- Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven.
- Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them.
- Be the witness and do not react, only thus can you be happy.
- None can help you, help yourself; work out your own salvation.
- Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.
- Try to love anybody and everybody.
- You have to go from the inside out. None can teach you, non can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
- Know it for certain that you are in everything.
- Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year.
- Let all your nerves vibrate through the backbone of your religion.
- Do not talk much, but feel the spirit within you.
- If you want to be spiritual, you must renounce.
- Your way is the best for you, but that is no sign that it is the best for others.
- Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher.
- Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?
- Your work is to serve the poor and miserable, without distinction of caste or colour.
- Help another because yu are in him and he is in you.
- The poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the afflicted,...let these be your God. Know that service to these alone is the highest religion.
- If I am in the dark, let me light a lamp.
- The earth's bravest and best will have to sacrifice themselves for the good of many, for the welfare of all.
- Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.
- We only get what we deserve. It is a lie when we say, the world is bad and we are good. It can never be so.
- You will understand the mighty strength of Krishna better with a little of strong blood in you.
- It is struggle against nature and not conformity to nature that makes man what he is.
- Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition and then acceptance.
- First there should be strict integrity...Secondly, entire devotion to the cause
- The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
- You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power.
- Whatever you do, devote your whole Mind, Heart, and Soul to it.
- Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
- Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life - these failures.
- He works best who works without any motive, neither for money, nor for fame, nor for anything else.
- The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
- Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
- You should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do a slave's work
- Believe that the soul is immortal, infinite and all powerful.
- Even if the order be wrong, first obey and then contradict it.
- Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear".
- Our first duty is not to hate ourselves; because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God.