ESSENCE OF LIFE (ft.Sandeep Maheshwari)

Imagine, i have a machine which if i plug into your mind and your memory is gone completely blank.
Everything is forgotten. then at this moment, is there any problem in your life ?
E.G.O
'I' is nothing but your past experience
From childhood to this day, whatever you've gathered in your mind
an entire story you've created to which you associate yourself
All of that is the 'I' (ego)
This 'I' (ego) isn't letting you live freely
Everything is made up by the mind
Our mind keeps labelling everything as good and bad and that's the reason for all our problems
problems of good things not happening and problems due to the fear of bad things happening.
and we're getting crushed between the conflict of good and bad.
So, you only have to learn to live in the present moment which isn't being taught in any school and college
Till the time you don't learn this, doesn't  matter what you create in the world,
it is bound to perish someday
someday, it would be too late to realise, when you see yourself in the mirror and your hair have begun to turn grey.
Someone in your childhood  told you - "this is you."
if that be removed from your memory, then you won't even know if it's your body or someone else's
It's true that the reflection you see in the mirror is yours
but if you say that the reflection is me, then that's a problem
So, if you're not the body, then what are you ?
then who are you ? you are the presence.
Presence which never fades from existence
What remains in the present beyond the body and mind
The one who is watching, listening, feeling and experiencing through your body
That is the real you.
There is a misconception because of the egoic past that we're seperate from one another. No one is seperate.
Neither scientifically we're seperate nor spiritually w're seperate
only in our mind and imagination, we are seperate and we ourselves are suffering because of it.
The day you realize that we're all one
There is nothing seperate from us
You'll realize that the one who is seeing through me is the same one seeing through you
The one who is listening through me is the same one is listening through you
It is the one thread that binds us all together
So what you'll experience is what is known as God, Soul and the Supreme Self
Those who realize it through devotion will known it as God
Those who realize it through knowledge will know it as the Self
When you complete comprehend and realize this
then it is called Self-realisation. It is called Enlightenment
Buddha described enlightenment as "the end of suffering"
Neither will there be a greedy desire to get something nor will there be any fear of losing something.
But still, you'll have everything
This is real spirituality and it is the ultimate goal of meditation.
"There is no reality except the one contained within us..."   

Károly Takács (The man with only hand)

Károly was the top pistol shooter of the country back in 1938 (age – 28 yrs). He won most of the major national and international championships. He seemed closest to winning the 1940 Tokyo Olympic Games gold medal. All the dreams turned to dust one day. A hand grenade exploded in Károly’s right hand, his shooting hand at an Army training session. That hand grenade ended up destroying his shooting hand and his Olympic dream.
“Of all the people in the world, why me?” Like most of us Károly could have asked this question “why me?”. But he didn’t. Now I am not very sure what happened during the time he was hospitalized. But chances are people were discussing about the tragedy that has fallen on him, about how cruel can the creator be?, about what will he do in future. I am pretty sure people would have discussed these things. But not Károly, he had nerves of steel, stainless steel. He could have looked for sympathy. Instead he looked for ways to convert his dream into beautiful reality.
After spending a month in hospital, he decided not to feel pity for himself for the rest of his life. He held on to his Olympic dream. He had the will, he had the attitude, he had the determination to succeed, and he figured he had a healthy, fully functional hand. He decided to practice shooting from his left hand. Despite the pain he had to undergo, despite the fact that he was not left handed, he focused on his goal and practiced. To achieve anything worthy in life one needs attitude and will. Skills and techniques can learned, can be taught, but not will. He chose not dwell in the world of facts, he chose to explore the world of possibilities. He was determined to make his left hand the best shooting hand in the world.
One year later Károly resurfaced at a National shooting championship in Hungary. His colleagues were delighted to see him and complimented him on his courage to come up at the championship to cheer for them. But Károly surprised them by saying he was there to compete with them. And he won. One year after losing his right hand and he trained himself and won. Who in the world except Károly himself would have thought this was even possible. People who believe in facts will never be able to explain this. Facts leave no room for possibilities.
Károly’s Olympic dream could not be fulfilled for quite some time as two Olympic Games were cancelled due to world war. In 1948 Olympic Games were held in London. Károly was chosen to represent Hungary in pistol shooting event. Károly never felt he was beneath any individual. He practiced, he participated, he WON. Shooting with his left hand. Imagine being a gold medal favorite, losing your shooting hand in an accident, yet picking yourself up from a shattered mess, training your left hand to shoot as well (or better), and going on to win the Olympic gold medal.

Four years later, in Helsinki Olympics. Károly won another gold medal in shooting event. Shooting with his left hand. This is the stuff champions are made of. We all have faced failures in life, we feel defeated, crushed, beaten. The next time you feel that think of Károly. Don’t cry and say why me? Don’t worry about what you’ve lost, focus on what you still have. No hand grenade can blast your will, mental strength and determination.
Don’t lose yourself to self pity. get up quickly and do it now. Many great speakers of the world have confirmed this fact. In words of Confucius “ Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall “. Károly was out practicing in a month after the accident. He never let self-pity to take control.

Be Unique Be Remembering DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM

Remembering Dr. APJ ABDUL KALAM
What is the one action which will make you Great ?
Everyone of you has a page in the history of the world
What is that page?
How do you make that page which is going to be referred by the prosperity
There is a need to give a vision to your ambition
What i will be remembered for ?
Each one of us will ask the question What i will be remembered for
If you find an answer for this question of few lines
that out-of-the-box Idea will drive you for the rest of your life
You will be definitely thinking something different on our out-of-the-box vision
What are they (Visions)?
I learnt every youth wants to be Unique but the world around you is doing it's best, day and night
to make you just everybody else
Whether you want to be you or everybody else?
Everybody else is convenient at the first glance but not satisfying in the long vision
The Challenge therefore my young friends is that...
you have to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can ever imagine to fight
and never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place
that is, the Unique you. To get the Unique you is a Big Battle
The Battle means you don't need to take a gun
The Battle means you have to have 4 Unique things
4 Unique tools you must have in that battle
One is you have to 'Set the Goal'
The Second one is 'Acquire the Knowledge Continuously'
Third one is 'Hard Work with devotion'
And fourth is 'Perseverance'
Where there is righteousness in the Heart
There is beauty in the Character
When there is beauty in the Character There is harmony in the home
When there is harmony in the home There is an order in the Nation
When there is order in the Nation There is peace in the World
BECOME THE LEADERS
A Leader must have a vision without a vision you'll not be a Leader
So, Leader must have a Vision
A Leader must be able to travel into an unexplored path
Normally tendency is to travel the well laid out path
But the Leader takes the Untraveled path
A Leader must know how to manage success
But mostly importantly, the failure
(POEM)
I climbed and climbed, where is the peak my LORD.
I climbed and climbed, where is the peak my LORD
I ploughed and ploughed, where is the knowledge treasure, my LORD
I ploughed and ploughed, where is the knowledge treasure, my LORD
I sailed and sailed, Where is the island of Peace, my LORD
I sailed and sailed, Where is the island of Peace, my LORD
Almighty
Bless my Nation with Vision and Sweat
Resulting into Happiness

THANK YOU, DR. KALAM "TEACHER"

The Great Dictator's Speech

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Take a Backpack

Take a backpack
grab a few friends
look after your safety
Tell your parents "Drop me in Kashmir and After one year pick me up in Kanyakumari"
You look after yourself Travel across the country
go from village to village,
town to town, Meet people
Learn how to deal with people
Learn how to deal with situations
That will teach you
Everything you need to know
You don't have to go to college after that
You don't have to learn anything
It will teach you marketing,
it will teach you everything
In our country often
one thing i always feel irritated with is
that when i hear a person saying
'In India nothing will change'
It's a very cynical thought,
a very negative thought
that in India nothing ever changes
What will you do?
What will happen because of you or me doing something?
It's a very negative thought
Yes, change is possible
We've to just realize
And yes it is possible,
and it is infact possible
When we help someone
It's a great Feeling to
do something for somebody
You guys are really young
and i think that if
There is anyway that you can
Move towards work which helps
Our society, our nation in nation building
So much to do, you know.
so much to do.
Huge amount of satisfaction
And Happiness you feel inside you
So, the day we realize that we all are Human beings
We're all equal and let's hold hands and move together
And let's give strength to each other
Let me make you more powerful
Because if you're more powerful
i'm helping in the long run
Some of us have it naturally
And some of us need to build it once
That is the ability to focus on what you're doing
So that nothing else distracts you
And not waver from that
That not only makes you work in the right direction, work hard
and do the right things but also it helps you make the right decisions a lot of people say I don't like to compromise
Even I say don't compromise
What I meant is don't compromise with your dream
That does not mean that don't compromise
Because compromise is an important aspect of life
Knowing when to compromise, Knowing when to say
'This is a battle I have to let go off'
I've got five bags on my shoulder and i have to jump over a wall
I'm not able to do that I have to leave one of the bags
Or I'll try with all the five bags and I'll fall down
I don't want to fall down. I want to go over the wall
I've to leave one of the bags I've to decide which bag to drop
What is least important to me so the ability that you have as a person to decide that this is the least important right now i can let go off this one
The ability to know that this my limitation so if you are focused on your goal all of this will fall into place so that is something that will help you.
You ability to focus with distractions around you.

Motivation words by Aamir Khan

Right through my life
every important decision of mine
all the people who are important to me and who are close to me
have always told me
You are making a mistake don't do this.
Everyone who i knew and who even cared for me
always told me that i think you are making a mistake
You know all through my career, I've been told that
He is not going to last for more than a year
Because of the kind of - he has picked very unusual films
i'd worked in a very unusual way
and everyone through that this guy is nuts.
If I am clear about what i want to do and i am honest about it
and i am sincere about it
and the reasons why i am doing it is clear to me
Then I must follow my instinct
I've always believed in following my dreams
I don't want to compromise with what i want to do
what is my dream
I don't mind compromising to achieve my dream
But I don't want to compromise the dream itself.
See today I am successful, I may not have been successful but
I am happy that I lived on my terms
And i am happy that i never compromised whenever i was offered something i was not happy with I didn't do it even if I have to go wrong tomorrow I would rather go wrong on my instincts
I don't want to go wrong on somebody else's advice
If i have taken a wrong step, I can deal with it.
It will be a learning experience for me.
I've learnt the maximum from my failures
My failures have taught me the most and so i really value my failures
Whatever i am today is not only because of my success but also because of my failures
I went through a period which was professionally my toughest period
Where my films had started flopping one after other
I knew that my coming next 3-4 films are also not going to do very well
and at that time i would face similar challenges
That i want to do something and i was unable to because people wouldn't listen to me or they didn't have faith in me, they didn't trust me
I used to cry at night because i was so unhappy with the work i was doing I swore to myself, I said
My career is going down, my films are not doing well The coming films are also not going to do well
But i swear, I will never take on a film ever in my life Until i am happy with it
Until i am happy from inside I will not say yes to a film.
It was like I was in quicksand and i was sinking
at that time, if i had compromised
For the rest of my life I would have been compromising
You get tested when you are at your worst
When i am successful, I am not tested yet
it is when you are not successful, when you are up against the wall
When the stakes are against you
That is when you tested. At that time do you break?
Do you say - No I have to be safe
A lot of us think that atleast some money will come
We think of these compromises
Never compromise with what you believe in and what makes you happy. Never !
At my worse if i did not compromise, then i will never compromise and i think each one of us, finds our own path
what drive me ? In my heart, I am so excited about what i am doing
So happy about what i am doing, that's what drives me but, I am also doing stuff that excites me and makes me happy If i am doing stuff that i am not happy doing
Then, when i wake up in the morning, I will be like "Ohh no! I have to go to work" and not be excited
So, if you are doing what you enjoy and what makes you happy
You will be driven, you will be passionate, you will give it your all.

WELCOME TO THE RAT RACE

Life had become some kind of profound competition, where your emotional loss was substituted by your professional success. you became a part of what they call the rat race...
What if you lived your whole life only to realise that it was wrong?
Our greatest fear is not of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter we seek purpose in life but do we seek the rat race. Living life just for the weekend or living life just on the weekend because the other 6 days belong to your manager. the only way to get people to like working hard is by motivating them
today people mist understand why they're working hard often times people make the mistake of getting stuck. your life is certainly some sort of journey and sometimes we might not be aware that we are taking the wrong path
WELCOME TO THE RAT RACE
YOU HAVE A NEW LIFE, NEW JOB AND NEW GOALS
in pursuit of your goals, you are woken up at 6.30am by an alarm
You then drag yourself out of bed. Shower and brush your teeth quickly so you can get to work in time and don't forget to force feed yourself too.
your goal
It's to get a promotion to get a better pay you'll need that better pay to pay off that car you're driving and the rent you owe because you choose to live closer to your work. soon the time will come when you can pay it off then once that's done. you'd want better clothes a better house, a better car and a bigger tv as your income increases, so does your credit card debts. you must work harder the harder you work you are drawn into this busy mechanical world. time seems to go by faster, months come by sooner and you've been part of a machine. A machine that profits for someone else's success. The system has got you thinking that this LIFE is NORMAL you're told to be grateful for your job they have lured you with retirement benefits and told you when and how many weeks each year you are free for a holiday. you have become their slave. It has become a life of fear, you must race in order to pay your debts, in order to sustain what you think is life
The trouble is most people do not live they just RACE
they are trying to reach some goal far away in the horizon that they are focused so hard in getting there that they forget all the beautiful things life presents along the way and when they finally awaken from this race they find that they are too old and worn out
realising there is no difference whether the goal was reached or not unless one is able to live fully in the present the future is a hoax there is no point whatsoever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. you'll never be able to sit back with full contentment and say
"now I've finally arrived!"