I am going Digital!

  The flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blossoms.   If it had been compared, then I bet, we would not have seen some of the most beautiful flowers in this world! There would be no exchange of roses between the loved ones, no garlands offered to the God, no such a thing known as Sunflower oil.   Are we like these flowers always? Are we the persons who compare ourselves with the outer world? Are we the persons who sometimes feel insecure? Then we should think of these 5 Ws and 1 H. 1)       Why? a)        Jealousy: We feel Jealous of someone. We think that nobody can be equal to us or rise above us. b)       Insecurity: We feel incapable, hopeless, and unsure of ourselves. In contrast, why we should not compare because we are unique in our way. Appreciate the uniqueness in each person. We try to become like others. Remember that there has been, ...

Do you like sweet?     Are you a sweet lover? But at the same time are you a person who is looking for some sweetness in life and get rid of complications? Then here it is, for you: Complications?    Do we intend to make our life complicated or does it become like that? Find out the answer. But whatever it might be, let me tell you that complications can result from: 1) Over thinking: We have heard that doing anything in excess is harmful. Hence excessive thinking is also harmful.

  Wake up! Do you Wake up by yourself or somebody does that for you? Whatever it may be , how do you feel after waking up? Relaxed, Rejuvenated or Sluggish, foggy? If it’s the first case, then well and good! But if it’s the later, then do you think we should work on that? I understand that your schedule might be hectic sometimes but following a morning routine can help you live this fast paced life yet with a calm, happy state of mind. What kind of Morning routine? 1)       Water: If you want to clean yourself from within before going for a bath, which cleans externally, then a glass of lukewarm water is the best. 2)       Relish the Sun rays: What? Hot UV Sun rays! No way! Morning Sun is devoid of harmful UV rays. So , go there towards the window, get some Vitamin D , make the bones stronger, improve blood circulation, get some Calcium and Phosphorous and produce some hormones of happiness. 3)     ...

  If not Earth then....? Mercury and Venus say Dear, we have hot and Hostile climate, no protection from Sun, no water. Are you ready?   You say no and go to Mars. Mars says ‘Dude, I can give you a space but bring your own life support as I have less Oxygen.s    You are not ready and approach towards Jupiter and Saturn.   They say ,’Man, You can live with me. But you have to fly or float. Are you OK with it?’   No, I can’t do this at all and then you ask Uranus, Neptune.   They also kind of deny telling that they have Hostile and extreme environment with no water and and Oxygen on Uranus.   Then, you go for Pluto but it says that you have to live around 200 Earth years to celebrate your first birthday. Lastly, you request Moon, but it was weak atmosphere and lacks   water.   You are not okay with anything and turn away feeling disappointed. No body is ready to take you.   But then, who is that person who shows up w...

  When mobiles were born?      Do you know when mobile was born? In 1984. Ask your parents or grand parents , you will be surprised to know that they were carrying   this heavy weighing 1kg Motorola DynaTAC 800x’ with talk time of only 30 mins! Nevertheless,   now they have become small but smart with booking tickets online,shop in for grocery,   garments and accessories, dine at a favourite restaurant, video call the friends and family living at a long distance. C an it be folded?      Having said this, not any common man would really think that in the coming years, even like our clothes, we can fold and pack the mobiles! Yes...you read it correctly...Folding the mobile? How it’s possible?   Indeed it is!!!! You might have heard Samsung Galaxy Fold, Samsung   Galaxy Z Flip...right? What are these? These are foldable mobiles..Wait a minute....Foldable means like those flip mobiles for e .g Nokia 2720, Blackberry pea...

      We all like to click photos. But most of all what we see in the image is 2- Dimensional. Have you imagined a 3- Dimensional photographic image!!?? Is it a reality or not?? Yes, I say, a reality. What is a Hologram?     The 3-Dimensional image which I talked about earlier is possible through Hologram. Then, what is a Hologram? It uses light scattered from an object to form a 3-D image. What do we need for that?     We need a source of light such as a Laser, projector laser, beam splitter, mirror, lenses (diverging lenses) the surface on which we are going to display it and of course the object itself!!!! And what else is remaining? Ohhhh!!! We forgot the Holographic film!!! Otherwise who is going to record light patterns coming from the target object??!! How Hologram works?     It uses the principles and the concepts of light waves. Basically, there is a beam of light rays coming from a laser light source. Then...

 Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small' - Ruth Hendler  Yes! Do you know? In the afternoon time, our shadow becomes longer and larger than us? In fact, we are small but our shadowy image is big! This is because of the direction of Sunlight. It makes us look bigger whereas we are actually small.   Fear is like our shadow. What did I just say?? What is this sort of comparison. My logic is that as Sunlight makes the shadow look bigger, our thoughts makes the fear bigger; whereas, in reality, it is smallest of the small.  Fear is incarnated from our previous birth or is imbibed in our mind, indirectly, from our surroundings. Surrounding here means the way people around us, think. If we are surrounded by positive, charmastic people then we will be Whether any fear- incarnated or influenced by surroundings- can be cured. There are two ways!  Either by 1)  Preparing: For e.g. fear of exams by studying 2) Practicing: In this case, we have no ...

  You must be feeling some ambiguity while reading this line. What this lady will be talking about? Comfort is Danger…sounding a little confusing. In fact, why did I say this??? I would like to share an experience.  In 2015, I was geared up to join Infosys. Initially, I was against accepting the offer as the training location was Bhubaneswar instead of the much expected Mysore.  Bhubaneswar is very far away from Mumbai as compared to Mysore. In addition, I had to stay far away from my home for 3 consecutive months. It was a long period since I had never stayed away for such a long period of time. Further, getting adjusted to a  new hostel life, coping up with the tight schedule ( as we had training sessions the entire day for 5 days a week ) was another challenge. Later on , I changed my mind set. I decided to get out of the danger zone in which I was since last 20 years. With mixed feelings, I left my house and went there for training.   What does this danger z...

                    Am I looking Good?   Every time we dress up, we might be thinking several times and repeat to ourselves 'Am I looking good?'  But the thought in the back of our mind goes like this 'What people will think of me in this dress, hairstyle etc.? ‘ Control thoughts?   As we all are aware that in India 'Right to freedom of speech' as one of our fundamental rights. A speech stems from the running thoughts in our mind. Can we have any control on our thoughts? Most of us believe that no but I say 'Yes'.As we have The Right to freedom of speech so the Right to think. Listen to the heart.  I really feel that often we are too carried away by our thoughts regarding how people judge us. We accept the fact that not all the persons are alike and even we are one of them. In addition to this, to be honest to ourselves, don’t we also judge or comment about other people? We have our own freedom of thoughts. Like this,...

                 Not only devotion but also seva.  What is devotion?     It is love, loyalty towards anything. It might be towards a person, job, hobby, God. Yes , the last one strikes me to write this blog. Some people are more devoted towards God while some are very less. Devotion and seva.  But does mere devotion create a good human being in you? I believe, certainly not. No offense, some people have been really good and devoted to God also. But, my line of thought is that along with devotion there should be some kind of eagerness to do seva (social service). Seva, our very own nature . We, as a human being, are defined by our nature which is basically a permutation and combination of different good and bad qualities we possess. Our intrinsic nature is to do seva. Help on the way  God will be more happy if we help someone in need of money, food, clothes, medicine, water or even mental support, rather ...

    Dreams they are! What are dreams?   According to me,they are a series of images which flash in our mind when we are in a deep sleep. It occurs during the REM ( Rapid Eye Movement )stage of the sleep. Mostly, they occur on the basis of our thoughts. Types of dreams   Daydreaming   It is when we dream when we are semi awake. It starts with a thought and then turns into an imagination.   Normal dreams    These are the standard dreams that everybody has every single night and we have no idea that we are dreaming until we wake up.   Lucid dreams    In this while dreaming you know that you are dreaming ! So, you can be aware and in control of that dream.   False awakenings   Sometimes you are awake but unaware that you are still dreaming. For e.g. You will get up, brush your teeth, have a breakfast and get ready for the office still being unaware that you are still dreaming ! Nightmares ...

What is happiness?   Happiness is the state of the mind. It is when we are fresh, relaxed, calm, composed. When we are happy?  When the things go as per our requirement. When we are going out for a movie, when people clap and cheer for us, when we get good marks, when we are in a family function, when our favourite dish is being served. We are happy when our surroundings are happy. And the real happiness is…   Real happiness lies within us. It means that happiness lies inside not outside. Many of us, most of the times, find the happiness in the materialistic things. However, the real happiness lies in small things.Small things means observing nature, spending quality time with family and friends, exercising, helping the needy people, planting saplings or doing anything you like but creative. Thus I end this chapter by saying that happiness has no conditions. We can be happy anytime, anywhere. Will be coming back in a couple of weeks.

What is belief?      It is the trust and confidence you put on someone or something. Why should we believe?     Without putting confidence on something we cannot complete our task with that person or thing. When and where should we believe?     Every time! Everywhere! Whom should we believe?     Yes! That is the biggest question! Now, this question may contradict with the statement which I made  above, which was 'when and where should we believe…every time and every where.’ Therefore there lies some caution. We should understand the difference between believing and blindly believing. We have to figure it out. Ok. Let’s take a few examples. We sit in a flight having the confidence in the pilot. That is blind belief. We get a call from a person claiming to be a bank employee and he asks for your account number and credit card number. Now, this person might be a fraud. Hence, we should cut the conversation immediately.   B...

What else in the lockdown? Oh my God! 2 months of this lockdown have already passed! You might be getting bored at home! Wondering what else to do! Everyday doing regular activities like cooking, reading, watching TV, surfing the net. But, is there anything beyond this? Boredom? Then, I gave a deep thought. What is boredom? When you don’t have anything in your surroundings to entice you. You are fed up of doing the same things every time. So how to get rid of this?? Don’t think of getting bored! One thing is for sure. That is, it will be only a few moments that you will feel bored. Otherwise, in doing the daily chores, which you used to do before also, you might not feel bored. My opinion is ,staying at home, keep yourself engaged in something, even if you do that everyday. Don’t keep on thinking that, I am getting bored. By doing this, you will feel more bored. Energize and engage! You have to energize yourself. This will happen when you do yoga, pranayama and meditation...

What does this represent? How you see this kind of figure? It reminds you of what? For me, it reminds me of a set theory in mathematics. The outer circle is the universal set and the inner circles are the subsets of it. Analogy? As I write this, I came up with an analogy. The entire human race is the outer circle and the inner ones are the human social groups such as religion, culture. Our human society is divided inyo religions and these religions are divided into castes which gets divided into sub castes. Are we one? I do not understand for one part, who created these divisions and why? Even though it is a case, then why we humans are not matured to look beyond it! We are still in the mesh of it. We should better understand that the entire world is becoming a global village. The once geographically separated lands are now coming closer. No!!!Not at all! I am not here to say that don't follow your religion. Instead practice that and have a respect for other cultures...

 Once, there was a rich businessman leaving a five-star hotel. He saw a beggar sitting by a roadside. The man started walking towards him and became aggressive saying “Hey man! How can you rest here in front of a hi-fi hotel! This place is for a rich not for a poor beggar like you!   Upon hearing this in a harsh and an accusative tone, that beggar got up and started walking away. After he took a few steps, the man called him saying “Hey you! Come back here.” The beggar turned back walking towards the man. Then the drama begins…. Man: How you came here? Are there any beggars other than you , roaming in this area? Beggar: I went begging the entire day. I came here to rest. Further, along with me, there are a few beggars in this area but they might have gone away! Man: Ohhh I see!!! Let me take out ½ an hour from your schedule. I want to ask a few things to you. Beggar: Sure, sir. Man: Ok. Here I start. How do you earn your living and manage to live your life in spite of...

See, listen, breath in, nurture only the……                        Gaze at a rising star, Dismiss a warlike war. Listen to a musical voice, Tune out a piercing noise. Breath in the pure, Breath out the sour. Nurture the positive, Rupture the negative. Pleasant and unpleasant?    There are many pleasant and unpleasant things around us. This definition of pleasant and unpleasant varies from person to person. Even our memories are sometimes memorable or sometimes sad. Some colors are bright while some are dusty. A smell is sometimes fragrant, sometimes rodent. A sound is sometimes melodious , sometimes noisy. A surface is sometimes smooth, sometimes rough. A taste is sometimes sour, sometimes sweet. Different situations and different reactions   Like this, the situations in our life are either in favor of or against us. Everybody is happ...

Busy Monday morning!      After a relaxing Sunday, I got up on busy Monday morning. I saw a plethora of things starting from curtains, room doors, clothes stand, wall, lights, bed, fan, ceiling etc etc etc!!! I thought that if I would have been some 500-600 years back then I would have seen a completely different   picture. These things are the technology in itself or are created by technology. ‘We are changing the world with technology’-Steve jobs     The growing technology has completely changed the face of the world. It has put our lives completely on a new track. It has provided much more comfort in our lives. Most of the activities in our life are driven by this advanced technology. Technology like an art is a soaring exercise of human imagination:      Innovation is a by product of human artistry. Humans have gone out of the way to expand their imagination! Thus, through this, technology has taken a birth. ...

Why I fell ill?     Pardon me for being late! I suffered from a little bit severe cold-cough and was not in a mood to write anything.But I soon recovered and started thinking ‘Why I fell ill’? The main culprit was the changing surrounding temperature. I was not the only victim but among many others in the city who suffered from this. I wondered, are we serious about our own health? Or even for that matter about our own surroundings and society? Today’s mankind is using all the resources it gets from the society to fulfill its needs. The quote   As rightly said by Fredrick Lenz in his quote,       ‘The rhythm of life is giving and taking. It is necessary to put things back in the system. To not do that is to foul our own nest, to use up all the natural resources greedily’.    Dr. Fredrick was an American spiritual teacher who dedicated his life in enlightening people by teaching them meditation and mindfulness.   ...

The film and the song!!! That was a period of time when I was in 10 th standard. I hardly took out time for any entertainment shows or films for that matter. By the way, I am not a film-fanatic. I do watch films but a selected few. One of the films which I watched at that time was 3 idiots. It had an altogether different subject! It is a dramatic film based on the friendship of three engineering college students.   Upon thinking about the film, I quite naturally remember the joyous and the cheerful song ‘All izzzz wellll!!’. As I was a school kid at that time, I just looked towards it from a perspective of an entertainment song. But now, having faced with the real world and the complex problems, I not only enjoy the song but literally go deep into it!! I meant to say that I now I understood the real meaning of that! How I feel about that song now?? Really, this song has left me with this trail of thoughts. Life is full of ups and downs. But we should find out a way ...