Life's purpose is universal love.

In life what things has to be held preciously? It is not fame, nor wealth, nor luxury, nor power, nor position. These things in life can give a temporary satisfaction but it can never provide the inner calmness of a fulfilled living. Life is a gift hamper of few moments on earth. And each moment of life will be truly lived if it is attached with pure thought of love towards all. The desire of human beings to become recognised and wealthy seems very insignificant to the joy of a life administered by love. Life has to be lived on the principles of love alone. Because every persons you meet on earth is fighting a hard battle. And (s)he needs love, not apparent lip service , nor paper works. Moreover, life will fulfill its targeted purpose if simply it is guided by love. That is why sri satya sai baba has told, "Start the day with love. Fill the day with love and end the with love."

True efforts

True efforts never go unrewarded. A temporary set back is never a permanent failure. Everything passes on, nothing is permanent and so are your problems and troubles too. Hence, life can be celebrated as a continuous thread of hopefull moments.

Apathy towards education: A real danger.

" A teacher affects eternity, he doesn't know when his influence stops." But in india the paradox is that the education system and the teaching community is sadly neglected. The number of teachers in the universities are progressively reduced by the unconcerned political heads and apathetic bureaucrats (as it is the case of universities in Orissa). It needs to be mentioned that the English department of Berhampur University is run by only one professor. All the other posts are lying vacant & the department is reduced to a one man industry. This marks an utterly woeful neglect to our education system. For the Politicians the vote box assumes more importance than education. As a result, they can shamelessly go to any extent to declare populist policies with a view to ensuring their votes. But the political heads lack the will power to reform the education system because it has least to do with vote politics. Moreover, the spread of education means the emergence of analytical minds & a growing distrust towards the so called political figures. Therefore, it is natural on the part of the politicians to be unconcerned towards education. But a perfect education system is absolutely essential for our country when the world is landing in an era of unprecedent cut-throat-competition.The best minds are never allured to a career in teaching but now the trend has to be otherwise to infuse strength in our country's stand in the world stage.

A Habit of CONTEMPLATION

For the last few days I was regularly updating my blog. But yesterday I missed. I did not care much to sit silently for a few minutes and make any attempts to catch a few noble thoughts that might be surfacing in my mind.Although this had been a regular activity , I broke the continuity.But I was really pained afterward because a healthy activity which helped me understand myself better was discontinued.
The mind missed the peace of a contemplative exercise and its spiritual effects.Moreover, the feeling of loss was exacerbated at the thought of  the lapse of regularity in a healthy activity. The feeling of guilt about not maintaining a good habit prompted me to strongly realize that IT IS ALWAYS WISE TO REGULARLY CULTIVATE GOOD HABITS AND STICK TO THEM RELIGIOUSLY & CONSCIENTIOUSLY. Because habits  forms the character and the character, in turn, the man.Therefore a  journey in this direction is nothing but a process to manifest a perfected living and should be always welcomed.

Life without understanding is a desert.

Man shows an irresistible hunger for dominating the world around and satiate his egotism.In this process many constructive and noble ideas get crushed by the opposing and canceling forces of antagonistic human faculties.It seems as if the world was full of many little Hitlers all around us.Nobody is ready to listen what the other person is imploring for.We are deaf ,blind and dumb to recognize the stand of another contemporary human being.We are cocooned, insensitive and numb.  We love to be an exception to the laws of life.But life compulsorily teaches us  that "FIRST SEEK TO UNDERSTAND AND THEN EXPECT TO BE UNDERSTOOD." If not, our lives will soon turn into a  thorny cactus standing still and alone in the midst of a Desert like life.

A fallout

With a rude speed I snatched the computer mouse from PRADEEP & after copying the required file, saved in my pen drive, to the pc I removed the pen drive, put the pen drive in my pocket & left the office computer room without any word to Pradeep. I was unfriendly and blunt because for the last few days we were not in talking terms. And the last traces of sentiments between our relationship also started to vanish with my apathy and arrogance. . . . . . I held such a coarse reaction because often I had been a victim of such treatment by him. Although, I was pained for being ungentlemanly, I was strongly carried by the principle of TIT FOR TAT. But as every action has an equal and opposite reaction, my unkind behaviour also triggered an equally intense soft feeling in my heart. And that softness of heart compelled me to realize that "Friendship necessitates a sense of mutual respect. Lack of it wears away human relationship. Further, the world is a great mirror it reflects what you put in. Life is too short to entertain rancour and ill-feeling towards each other." At last Let me end the post with a question, "WHO WILL CRY, WHEN I DIE?" I expect that the answer of the question will ever remind me to be better and better till love finds a synonym in me. . . . . begging an excuse from my beloved colleague Mr. Pradeep Pradhan. Let us LOVE the world unreservedly without any expectation of being loved in return.

Happy like eating Rasgulla.

Sometimes mind gets exalted and starts to dance. The same happened today with me. Pains are there in life but still life provides a thousand reasons to smile At the very moment my heart whispers that in life I am meant to Cry and shed tears only as a means to clean my  eyes and I am here on earth to laugh and spread the message that life is a celebration.

It is never wise to shoot at your head to stop your headache. Similarly the people who feel like putting an end to life should think that life has infinite possibilities and within a moment many things change. So it is better to be happy and feel like eating Rasgullas at every moment the life has to offer.

A day of cheating.

In the morning I rang Ajaya & allotted all my classes for the day. Thus I freed myself to visit gupteswar temple. But in a way I cheated the students by depriving them of my class. Although the journey covers a good deal of sharp curved road and steep ghats, the journey was pleasant because of the panoramic view of the beautiful green hills by the sides of the road. It is true that the road badly needs repairing  and the dilapidated road is really a deterrent to a visitor. However, the cave lord majestically shines among the flames of shining diyas and the benign presence of the lingam relieves the pilgrim of all his aches and exhaustion.    The effect of somberness is further enhanced by the  various formations which resemble our mythological characters on the cave walls  .Despite the natural beauty and spiritual value of the place , the communication modes to this place is wretched out of neglect.

A beautiful sentence learnt.

GOD NEVER MAKES ANYONE SUFFER AT ANY POINT OF TIME.

Spending some time with my soul

Most of the time I think of something or the other.But rarely do I remember when I have spent consciously some time with my very own being.

Things come and pass and hold the centre-stage of mind, create ripples of thoughts but all float away from the self.All the involvements and activities of daily life eventually develop a sheer rootlessness.A rootlessness of being away from the pure voice of the soul.

Mind never stops thinking but it rarely ventures to delve into the soul.Because a glimpse of soul's purity is sufficient to briddle the wondering mind but What is the value of getting all the wealth of the world when we lose our soul laying dormant in the cluttered world.

In silence I become what I am.So let the soul stirring silence sail my mind to a meditative realm to appreciate the rediance of a true living.

Running the extra-mile,only for you.

Somebody has said," When you are alone, nobody can hurt you.".To some extent the idea may hold good  but on the contrary ,a  life cocooned within one's own self is vulnerable to decay under its own weight. Life has its own charm when we follow a  principle of Love by giving 60% and receiving 40%.This concept imperceptibly & voluntarily works in all the relationships which are sweet and ennobling.Man spontaneously runs the extra-mile for the person who is the key to the inner chamber of his/her heart.This adds a new dimension to the process of living.

What I write that my wife reads and this compels me to pen at least a line or two for her sake although I am dead tired after the busy schedules of the day.My point is that the inner-working of love will easily make you to run the extra-mile effortlessly.

I dedicate today's theme to my wife who is there at her parental home for a few days and misses me all the time. 

Lighting a lamp dispells darkness.

It is foolish to curse darkness. What it needs is just lighting a lamp.The darkness will disappear of its own accord.

The darkness which has thickly covered the human life is born mainly out of ignorance, selfishness and ego. A smile on face and a  little love in heart can light a lamp of humanity to dispel the pervading darkness.Similarly, more can be achieved on earth by smiling and not by complaining.

Diwali is a festival when we light candles to spread light but the true light of existence will descend upon earth when we light our hearts with the fire of Love .Fire may be hot but it burns  impurities. Similarly, it pains first to burn our ego with love but the pain ushers a new life with expanded horizons.So the pain is worth bearing for a  higher way of living.

HAPPY DIWALI...

With love
ATMAPRAKASH

Dream

Dreams with open eyes and alert efforts are the navigating compass of life. And dreams with closed eyes are a dive into the unknown. The dreams of man influence his attitude towards life. So dreams are powerful tools. Manage your dreams carefully and never pollute them with external influences.

But sometimes it becomes really astonishing when something you dream and that happens afterward. For example on 15th Oct,2009 at around 5p.m.my wife phoned me from his parental home & reiterated that she had seen in a dream that I had taken liquor. The dream seemed to be very absurd because I never entertain any bad habits. But in the later part of the evening, after a distressful exam work I along with my friends........

 


(SEE HOW YOUR  DREAM PICTURE MOTIVATES YOU TO BELIEVE THAT I HAD REALLY TAKEN A GLASS OR TWO OF ALCOHOL. although my story is yet to be finished.)

Unexpected but happy turn.....

Life is filled with many unexpected turns. It takes very little time when a sweet relationship turns sour. A smile changes to a vicious frown or a friend turns into a foe.
Few days ago I was not in good terms with some colleagues but now I happened to be their best ally and the same is true with them. Time changes situations and our attitudes towards life. The friends with whom I was only maintaining a' HELLO and HI' relationship are now besides me doing my office work for me strenuously. This helping hand surely convinces me to stand beside them when needs arise. The best thing is that the committed relationship has its roots from the deepest recesses of heart. Today I realize .....
Life really becomes polyphonic when you are with your friends and the team spirit works. To achieve that spirit of unity a little sacrifice and a little selfless attitude is all that needed. And once the unison is realized in the relationship, the relationship becomes self nourishing and life enriching.
TRULY LIFE WITHOUT FRIENDS AND A TEAM SPIRIT IS TASTELESS.
(This post was posted when B.Sairam and Shirish were typing the Exam Mark-cum-Code  Table )

Friends Forever

Some human relations are so strong that it  never dies. Such relations are born from the deepest sentiments of loving,sharing and caring for a proven period of time.A momentary setback or fallout is  soon dissolved in the warm feelings of mutual love.  Very few people are there who have been gifted with such ideal friendship. The value of such relationship is priceless. When a person  earns such lasting human bonds, he/she is undoubtedly the richest person in the world because the door to heaven runs  through the human heart .A kindred heart is a window to glimpse the divine.
God is invisible but his creation is visible .And friends are the best creation to realize the love and understanding of god towards us.

Knowledge Creation for Excellence.

A great teacher INSPIRES....He/She activates the minds of a students and helps in knowledge creation.

Like a courrier man if the teacher simply brings the informations written in the books before the students, he neither activates creativity nor helps in creation of new knowledge.This type of teaching and learning process is like swinging on a wooden horse with eyes closed.The irony is that all these swinging can not take the ridder even a metre ahead.

As education aims at enriching and refining the existing store-house of knoweldge,teachers need to take initiatives which will trigger the creativities of the students to come out of mental inertia and contribute substantially in the process of knoweledge creation.

With Love.
Atmaprakash

Incapacity to appreciate a fullmoon night.

Atma Prakash Nayak

Junior Lecturer i...

In the world where professionalism is the bedrock of a successful living, we often miss the beauty of a simple & contended life.The glare of a dazzling artificial modern life often incapacitate us to appreciate which is often too immediate and too close to the very nature of our lives from our origin.

Often under the luminous Mercuric bulbs of a city life man fails to appreciate the spiritual beauty of a full moon night.

Also with the passage of time it is vanishing from our minds that a connection with nature and a removal of artificiality can transform the heart from a mechanical blood pumping organ of body to a center of one's fine emotions. However it is certain that the balance and poise of a truly developed mind is achievable only by harmonizing the heart with Nature's ennobling systematic workings.

A life tuned to the tunes of Nature can only remove the jarring notes of the mercenary life so that the beauty of a full moon can be added to discover the splendor of a blooming life.

With Love Atmaprakash.

True feelings of love is a life-long purifier.

Love will bring rainbows even if you do not succeed in getting the object of your love. An act of kindness or someone's love entails the noble virtue of drawing the best purifying feelings of gratefulness & an appreciation of the essential nobility of human beings. This feeling softens the heart to harbor the highest ideals of life more comfortably.

Making a Pond of your House.

Life sometimes issues shockingly unique surprises.

After the Dassara Puja holidays I returned to my service station alone leaving my wife at her parental home. Soon after the onus of responsibilities started to hunt me. I had to manage the Pre-Test Exam as well as the College hostel mess by that time. I could not even find time to cook my meal. Naturally I used to depend on a nearby hotel for my meal.

That day with a strong resolution to cook my meal at my home I left college finishing all my work. I opened the door but to my great surprise I found that my shoes, Pages of old news paper & some household plastic items are floating on the floor. I couldn't make out how the rooms are abounding in so much water. There is no rain. Still the water level was high enough to drown my ankle. Suddenly I realized that the tap water has been left open.

The entire afternoon was spent in removing the water with the help of cloth. Complete exhaustion with an empty belly was the most shocking surprise for me that day.

I scolded myself and wished if i had given due importance to the 'SAVE WATER CAMPAIGN'I would not have been so deadly punished for my negligence

Fatigue and exhaustion

From yesterday evening my journey from Balasore was exteemly painful.The whole night I stood at one corner of the coach with sleepy eyes and a paining body. In the morning also the exhausting episode of journey lingered well beyond my patience. The strike of private bus union had victimised me more than any one else because my wife is from Balasore , I am Working in Malkangiri, and my parents stay In Kandhamal.All these Three places are at a considerable distance from each other. So my movement is badly affected and so is life when the  transportation service goes on strike. My eyes are burning still I mention the feel of the moment because such experiences come occassionally.

Unhealthy Strikes

It has become a common characteristics of the masses in India to resort to Strikes,Bunds and Gheraos for convincing forcibly the justifiability of their causes. The recent strikes of the private bus owners' association in Orissa has shattered the public life very unhealthily at the time of the year when the travel activities reach to the top in the aftermath of Dassara holidays.

In a welfare state the situations like this is really contemptible. The Government must not sleep like a Python forgetting the responsibilities of the seat of power.Now-a-days the distrust towards the Government machinery is growing day by day because of the obvious apathy of the people in the helm of power.

I and my world silent to each other

These days I am Cultivating a habit of introspection and attempting to listen to the beats of my heart so that I can amplify those fine beats of feelings into the beautiful form of a blog.... I am not sure to what extent the adjective 'beautiful 'can be applied to the few lines which ,as a habit now-a-days ,I am scribbling on the pages of my blog but this is a process which connects me with myself.

I dream to become a good orator,a skilled speaker and a perfect man....and through this blog I proclaim my inmost feelings in the loudest voice to the still world which goes on its process without heeding my voice and in the same manner I am also engaged in my own pursuit without caring for the world's views or reviews.......This is what I have achieved in these days .Standing tall, perfectly balanced and free from any expectations. So it is what I can say that the first step to maturity or a move to become more like a stoic.

A worthy goal

In life something must be written which is worth reading or something done which makes it worth writting. The Soul's Light- Atmaprakash

A few moments being disconnected from the World

In the morning from my father's in law home I set out with my brother in law to the nearby internet cafe with a view to updating my blog. Leaving me at the cafe my brother in law went away ridding his bike to attend his appointments. As he had left his mobile at home,he carried my mobile with him. Simply giving an assurance that I will be picked from the cafe after one hour. But........At the net cafe
the electricity failed just when I switched on the computer. I wanted to contact my brother in law from the P.C.O but I had no coins. My wallet contained only a Thousand Rupee Note.And It was quite unbecoming to ask for change in the morning hours of the day. I waited and waited having nothing to do except emptily looking at the strangers, vehicles,and the passerby on the road.

Those minutes greatly annoyed me but I had to bear the pangs of a disconnected life.

At last I threw my self respect to the nearby pool and shamelessly asked a gentle man for his mobile to make a call to my brother in law so that he can pick me up. And the disconnection was turned to reconnection by the unreserved help of a man who I didn't know.

The interesting part of the experience comes when I dithered about to ask for the mobile from a stranger and at last hiding my shame with a sycophantic smile made the request for help although that place abounded with a dozen of P.C.Os.


The Soul's Light- Atmaprakash

Channelizing The Creative Force for a Better Life.

All motivations are temporary in nature. They last and remain active for a while and then fade away. Therefore, a constantly conscious motivation for a meaningul life is a sine qua non for a better living. A friend's smile, a delicate rose, a beautiful quote, someone's kindness or simply the inner fire of one's essential nobility can broaden the perspective of life on a divine scale. Never miss the simple and the marvelous joy of being simply simple with the simple things of life. Appreciate it that you have the heaven in and around you.........

Teasing of a Dear Friend

Sometimes the monotony of life breaks in a superb manner by the teasing of your bosom friends.Today  during the hours of a busy typing of the question Papers of my college, where I teach, my attention was called by the beeps of my mobile. When reluctantly I opened the inbox of the electronic gadget, I discovered the teasing message of my dear colleague B.Sairam Patra which equated me to a Snake or at the best to ants. The message ran like this: "WHEN A SNAKE IS ALIVE. IT EATS ANTS.WHEN DEAD,ANTS EAT SNAKE. TIME MATTERS........TIME ALWAYS GIVES A CHANCE TO EVERYONE." JUST WAIT FOR YOUR TURN......, I went through the lines and was forced to conclude myself with a smile that in the monotonous hectic schedules of life I have forgotten to ring him up for the last 3 days. Let this love always break the hard covers of utilitarianism to walk on the earth with human sense and sensibilities.

A harmonious alliance for life's motivation.

Many people do not get the opportunity to express their creativity constructively. As a result they remain deprived of the joys in engaging a life of creativity. There is neither productivity nor appreciation in such a static life.. . . . . .BUT the cold and dead ice of inertia melts when there is fellowship of human beings to appreciate and inspire each other to achieve the noblest and highest ideals of life. Life necessitates to be lived in positively appreciating even the tiniest things or the trivialest incidents so that one of the prime motives of human beings to get appreciated can be best exploited to bringing fullness to life and existence.

Rolling on a Rickshaw

In the 11pm of night Out of compassion towards the rickshaw puller I with my wife opted to go in a rickshaw instead of going in an auto from the station. It started to rain in the mid way and we got sprinkling of water which the auto would have deprived of us. Rickshaw was more romantic as it lengthened the journey and the romance as well.