Showing posts with label mahtma gandhi. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH



Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth, if you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Let me share few experiences of shy and ordinary kid

This kid In spite of being warned by his family he continued to be in bad company of friends, he said that he wanted to reform them but instead got transformed himself.

Though hailing from a strict vegetarian family a friend of him convinced him to eat meat stating that people who are stronger were because they ate meat and there is no other alternative to be strong.
He told his mother cock - and - bull stories for skipping the dinner at home. For a year, his friend arranged to eat meat in secret for which he had to lie frequently.

His friend once took him to a brothel. It was all prearranged. The bill had already been paid. He almost went into the jaws of sin, but somehow could not proceed any further.


They simply imagined a sort of pleasure in emitting clouds of smoke from their mouths.  They desperately wanted to smoke but for that they had no money to buy cigarettes. So eventually they decided to steal from the servant's pocket money in order to purchase cigarettes.
As an act of awakening, At last, in sheer disgust, they decided to commit suicide but feared death too so their attempt to commit suicide was unsuccessful.

He looked like a lizard on a rock — alive, but looking dead.

When grew up he was married at a young age. For him wedding meant no more than wearing new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives

Initially he was jealous and possessive husband, sometimes also used to beat her up. During this time he faced his first great conflict between duty and desire.  

His father was very ill and had to be at his service and regularly gave him massage.
One night while nursing his sick father he slipped upstairs to share his wife’s bed, At this moment his father died, the servant comes to him and says your father is no more.

His first impulse was "My god what have i done, the animal passion has blinded me”, I should have been massaging him, and he would have died in my arms.
He was as shocked as a bird landing on a live wire.

Later when he returned after the higher studies abroad after 4 years he learned that his mother is no more and his family had not informed about this to him. The pain was as if someone has cut a deep hole in his heart.

Though coming from a fairly well off family .As he grew older he realized the importance of life and he had decided to dedicate his life to social work.

At that time plague had broken out , so he offered his service for improving the sanitation. He took the broom cleaned the public toilets which were filled with filth and dirt.
All this was not being liked by his elder son and he rebelled and when his son broke away from the family, he was dejected disgusted and devastated.

In order to set an example to himself he took the vow of celibacy to save money he had to cut his own hair and wash his clothes.

Who would have imagined that this disappointed, shy, soft-spoken, average student, who at one point experimented with eating meat, smoking, stealing, lying went on to become the a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful than empires.

a living legend. a living legacy.-- --- The great soul   - the Mahatma

Albert Einstein added, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."
Each of his experience was inevitably an experiment with truth and each experiment had its results –

Learning to experiment is the learning to fail and also the learning to lead

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Because when we live life as an experiment, we are far more willing to take risks, to acknowledge
failure, to learn and develop. That's what experiments are all about: discovery and growth

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Life is too short not to experiment.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live,
to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

Explore the experiment to experience and exceed the expectation

Past is Experience...!

Future is Expectations...!

Present is Experiments...!

Learning about Gandhi has stressed to me the truth that one person can make a difference.

Yes one person can make a difference.


That the person you see in the mirror everyday while brushing your teeth and combing your hair is the person responsible for your life. Yes.

That, is none other than yourself.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Believe in Youself , Your Moment is Comming .........

A piece of cotton when held close to the eye will cover the entire sun. Hold it at a distance and it will only be a piece of cotton. So often you hold certain issue too close to your heart and it blinds you of everything else. Give the issue its rightful place and you will be able to see how blessed you are.


It is not the outside of a gas balloon but it is the inside of it that takes it to the top and all balloons are made of the same inside stuff. Extending this analogy, it is not the outside of you and me, but it is the inside that takes people to the top and all human beings are made of the same inside stuff.

That morning he was only a barrister. While entering the train he was still a barrister. While the verbal abuse began from those whites in South Africa, because a colored man had entered their compartment, he was still a barrister. While he was being thrown out of the railway compartment in spite of having the lawful ticket to board the train was still a barrister. Lying down on the platform absolutely humiliated, vanquished, and abashed was still a barrister. But then, in a moment it all happened. The Father of the Nation was born out of a Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

The difference between a legend and an also-ran is the difference in the manifestation of the latent potential within them. Every human being is a sleeping volcano. Every human being has within him the seed of greatness. Each one of us has within us an unwritten autobiography. Every history reader can be a history maker.


On an October afternoon a 12 year old black  kid from a lower income class family rode his new bicycle to the Columbia Auditorium, Later, when he went back to get it, it had been stolen. Someone told him there was a police officer in the basement, so this ferocious, stormy, perspiring kid went down there and instead of inquiring about bicycle said  “Give me the thief, I want to beat him up” , to which the policeman smiling at the innocence of the kid replied   “Well, you better learn how to fight before you start challenging people”,
The kid never got his bicycle back, but he instead became the athlete of the century, the greatest, the Mohammed ali, the champion boxer of all time.

But understand, deep inside the core of earth there is gold and there is rock. As long as they remain within the core of earth there is no difference in their value; it is only when they are excavated from the earth, one gains a higher value over the other. Similarly, there is no difference between one human being and another human being as long as the potential is sleeping within.

Every morning looks similar but it is not. Every moment of life looks similar but it is not. A zillion forces - known, unknown and unknowable, are acting upon this one moment of life and you being present in it with intense awareness will make all the difference.

You never know which day. You never know which moment. It can be this, it can be the next, it can be a decade from now… but it will happen in a moment and it can happen to you, only if you can embrace every moment of your life with intense awareness.

Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints; the world is your canvas. Believing is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.
There is a hidden meaning in every moment of life.



Mohammed Ali once said
“I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights. I hated every minute of training, but I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”


Believe in Youself