Attempt

Only when you really attempt to do something will you come to know your ability. Even though you may be in doubt initially before starting a task, when you complete the task you emerge successful and stronger. You feel happy and satisfied. Even if you fail do not be disappointed because you can learn from your mistakes. This will add up to your experience. If you don't attempt you won't come to know what you are capable of. Think which is better :)

Authored by GANDHARV

If Life is Water

 

Then the jobs, money and position
We hold in society are the cups.

They are just tools
To hold and maintain our Life;
But the quality of Life doesn’t change.

If we only concentrate on the cup,
We wont have time
To enjoy or taste the water in it.

Source: mail

The Game of Chess

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. -- Romans 8:18


Few days ago, I downloaded a chess game onto my cell phone. Whoever has created this game must be extremely clever and artful.  It has several levels of difficulty from level 1 to level 10. I found it easy until level 4 after which each level became more difficult. I was able to win up to level 7 and presently I am stuck at level 8. The computer plays so skilfully and its each move has an intention or a strategy behind it. Every time I play this game I wonder at the way it is created. There is so much to learn from it. It teaches the importance of patience, strategy and perseverance. It reminds me of the struggle and problems in life, the real deeds that we do in life and sacrifices that we make.  Also, another important lesson it teaches is that it is not only about winning or losing the game, but the joy of playing the game. In life we set worthy goals, but in our race towards achieving them it is important that we do not miss the joy of the journey. The more you think and prepare yourself the better you can handle the situations that you come across. It is also necessary to understand that these struggles and difficulties prepare us to become tougher, tolerant and more stable people.

Authored by GANDHARV

Photo courtesy fsclchess.org

Mistakes

A jug fills drop by drop.

--Buddha

I think that every person is in their own growth state, each takes his/her own time to learn and grow. So we need to respect that fact and allow nature to teach him/her or if we can help we should help and encourage him/her to grow. And I think it is very natural that we may be childish and immature during the growth state where we may commit mistakes without proper understanding or reasoning. Every person commits mistakes. It would be a miracle to find a person who has not made any mistakes in his life.

Committing a mistake is just one side of the coin; it has meaning only when you consider the other side – realising your mistake and correcting it - else it remains as black dots in your journey.

But once we have progressed in life towards a state of understanding, realizing or more mature thinking, it is important for us to introspect deeply about the mistakes that we have committed and if it can be fixed it should be fixed. One should make sure that he does not take it negatively and blame himself, because this will only damage his progress, instead he needs to take it in the right perspective and move ahead.

This is the positive side of mistakes, if a person realizes his mistakes truly and can change himself to become a better person then the learning that he gets from the mistakes he has committed becomes his wisdom.

Past is past, we cannot change the past. But we can change our future to become pure souls, better human beings by moving towards Divinity. Choice is yours!!!

Authored by GANDHARV

Photosource : courtesy blog.caplin.com/2011/07/27/the-psychology-of-ux-part-3/ ,Vanessa 

Intelligence

Seek Within,

You are the emblem of peace,

You are the ocean of love,

You are the fountain of bliss,

You are intelligence.



You can ask a question about something only when you know about it. If you don’t know anything about it what question can you ask? This is the state of unknowing. Knowledge takes you from state of unknowing to knowing.

Never fear or worry if you don’t know something, because you have immense potential and power in you to know and learn whatever you want in life.

Knock and the door to knowing will open for you. There is nothing that can stop you from understanding. Understanding is the basis and fundamental essence which gives meaning to life. Without understanding we are as good as any inanimate object.


"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
-Matthew 7:7-8

Authored by GANDHARV


Photosource : courtesy Elena Ray

Tree of Knowledge

The Tree of Life

You, the human race are the best of my creations,

You will live and live,

And give and give till you are untied,

In happiness and pain!

My bliss will be born in you,

Love is a continuum,

That is the mission of humanity,

You will see every day in the Life Tree.

You learn and learn,

My best of creations.

---APJ ABDUL KALAM

Life is the biggest teacher.

When learning stops, you stop growing. You start to lag behind. You start to get frustrated with limited thought pattern. You start to lose interest and feel everything boring. You start to become dull. You start to become depressed. You don’t feel freshness in life.

There is no age limit for learning. Love learning, experiment, always be in learning mode. Learning should be a lifelong companion. Think that you are a student of life. Never have “I know everything” attitude.

Don’t learn for the sake of learning. Don’t try to compete with others. Learn because you want to learn and evolve. Learn because you want to truly understand about the subject at hand. Take your own time but learn it. Understand that each person is in his own stage of learning. So respect everyone. There will be something to learn from everyone. Each person is unique by himself.

Start the day by praying and with a thought to learn something new.

Learning is growth. It is very important for us to realize that there is learning in everything. Every struggle and situation you come across in life has something to teach. Learn it. There are 2 ways you can look at these situations

1. Grumbling, blaming and making noise about what happened and not learning.

2. Trying to see the positive aspect and inner workings, learning from them and moving ahead. You are the owner of your life and your life path depends on the choices you make. It is up to you to choose.

There is a Chinese proverb I remember “learning is a treasure that follows its owner everywhere”.

A wise man is one who uses all his energy towards growing and becoming an evolved being.

THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!

Authored by GANDHARV

Photo source: courtsey http://themachoresponse.blogspot.com

Self- Knowledge Simplified

Meditation is the first step in the path of realization of self, realization of GOD and being in touch with the soul. This is the path to Enlightenment.

When the person’s awareness level is at SOUL, then the person is said to be an Awakened person, a Complete Man- A person who remembers everything about himself ( about all his lives) and his connections with everyone and everything. This entire process of realizing or becoming aware of his true nature is Realization of the Self. This is Self-Knowledge. After this a person can become aware of his true connections with the Creator. And the process of realizing GOD or CREATOR is known as Realization of GOD. After all these a person is said to be liberated Soul. Such a person is out of the cycle of life and death, a person who has gone beyond life and death by decoding the secret of himself. Such a person is called Enlightened being. This is also known as Nirvana or Moksha or Liberation or Enlightenment.

Evolution-Growth- Knowledge, Self-Realization, GOD Realization, Our Connections (with everyone, universe) are the four important fundamental things that a person should explore in life. Only then can a person truly can know himself the TRUTH of reality and existence. 

Authored by GANDHARV