A happy preparedness for death

Success is the manifest face of several little efforts persistently taken in a single direction. Success needs persistence. On the way to success there may be many petty failures and distractions. However, the final outcome will be determined by an individual’s consistency in his pursuit. But is success all in life?

Life has a beginning and an end. But the time lying in between these two ends must be lived fully and meaningfully. A life well lived is the greatest kind of success on earth. It is true that many times life gets entangled in useless things and considerable time gets wasted. Such entanglements and distractions are a part of life but to rise above them and give a meaning to life is a greater virtue of all undying souls.

Unnecessary past broodings and useless future apprehensions kill a lot of positivity. Therefore, to achieve success and fulfillment in life, one’s life must be lived from moment to moment. On each day set your priority and think of investing the day in the most useful and meaningful work that supplements your life’s ideals and cherished goals. However, everything becomes easy when we start living from moment to moment. Somebody has rightly said that you cannot do anything on two days in your life: One is YESTERDAY and the other one is TOMMORROW. So live your life fully and responsibly for TODAY,

Life is very short-lived. But we normally think & behave as if we would live for centuries to come and consequently fail to understand the value of each moment that God has granted us. The wise thing is to live one’s life so well that he/she is prepared for death at any time and still has no regrets. In this context I would like to quote a line of Amitabh Bachan from the movie “Budha Hoga Tera Baap” because it comically projects a person’s real preparedness for death. In that scene Amitabh stands on the gunpoint of a hooligan. However, Amitabh is seen to prompt the hooligan to fire at him at once. He says,” Fire the bullet at me; I would love to be killed with a bullet and not with sugar or blood pressure.”

The hindi movie, HAUNTED.

Most hollywood films are far from reality but they do well in the box office. Ghost stories, vampire tales, demon fights , magic & sci-fi adventures are popular among the modern generation. This inclination to highly imaginative and unreal stuff is a natural consequence of an era when life is excessively routine bound &monotonous. Watching movies with themes of non-human characters & strange worlds give a temporary relief from the vicissitudes of a day to day life. It also consoles us that everything is not mundane.

In indian cinema this trend is often imitated but the effect of hollywood movies has always been superior to indian movies in this regard. However, recently I viewed the movie HAUNTED & I was quite satisfied with its storyline, way of picturization of real world vs a ghost world. The film projects intermingling of past and present. It has elements of love, ghosts, adventures & the omnipotence of almighty.

Indian audience will surely enjoy the film. The role of the protagonist is realistic and convincing. You won't regret going to watch it.

Sri Ramdev

It is God's design that He accorded an uncommon popularity to a common yogi like Baba Ramdev & transformed the yogi to an atom bomb of mass awareness. Today every common man of India is aware of the huge wealth of India which is lying in foreign banks in the form of Black money.

It is a crystal truth that the life of common man is full of hardship. He has neither time nor scope to understand the loopholes of our political and economic systems.In the stuggle to eke out a living modern man is suffocated and has become so weak that he has lost all his guts to protest corruption,exploitation and oppression.His lack of awareness has bred many brokers who unscrupulously engulf the cream of this country. And this year long process has given rise to a country which is bleeding with a yawning gap of the haves and the have nots.  But Ramdev's present "Political Assanas" have drawn the attention of the aam admi to the serious flaws of our political power holders.The Govt has used the tricks of SAMA, DAMA and DANDA. The use of police to treaten, beat and injure aam admi was the show of DANDA. And now the rule of "confuse and corrupt" or VEDA will be soon enacted. However,Indians will stand in support of Ramdev because aamadmi doesn't have accounts in the tax havens. Only the corrupt business men, corrupt bureaucrats and corrupt political leaders will shrud in fear and can go to any extent with their ill-got money to crush democracy. The governments' oppressive measures to crush the strike nakedly exposes the corrupt inclinations of the government. Baba Ramdev is first an indian and then he is a religious leader so if he stages a hunger strike as an indian, he no way deviates from the principles of a religious teacher. However, religion is for better living. Therefore, any change aiming for the welfare of the common mass is the greatest type of religion.

Personally, I thank Baba Ramdev because he has strongly raised a big question mark against the system.Sri Ramdev has braved to swim against the current where there are  deadly sharks all around. If Ramdev hoodwinked the police under the scarf of a lady then there is nothing wrong in it. It only exhibited the natural defense mechanism of a common man under terrible psychological pressure.

The ruthlessness and threat of an armed police at the midnight can easily draw a simillar response in anyone. The situation reminded me the notorious Jalianawalabag incedent minus deaths. But the brutal act was an inhibition of human dignity.   

Fighting a monolithic corrupt government in empty belly in the midst of Continuous life threats and a day long mental and physical pressures is not so easy as it seems on the TV screen. Sri Ramdev has opened a way through the adamantine wall. Let us stand by him strongly as a protector of Sri Ramdev's life and safety so that he does not need to flee under pressure. "Arise.awake and stop not till the goal is reached....."   

An old couple

The summer sun was generating unbearable heat. As soon as I got into my car, I raised the glasses of the car to turn on the AC. The car rolled few yards.


At the first turn of the road I saw an old couple. The man was very old and his eye-sight had precariously fallen. Therefore, he was led by his old wife. The old man had worn a cotton vest and a dhoti. He was walking feebly. He held one end of his staff and the other end was held by his wife. She was leading him the way. The hot sun rays were directly hitting their bodies.

I forgot my speed. In some corner of my heart I felt something. I thought myself as an old man too weak to move and the hot sun burning my body. I slowed down but I knew I would do nothing for them.

The road was a newly constructed one. It was wide, open and black. Many vehicles rushed past with tremendous speed. And it was natural that the couple’s slow movement could never match their speed.

sincerity in little things counts

One of my acquaintances phoned me in the morning. I was busy. I picked the phone and told him that I will make a return call when I am free.

The sun sat in the evening. Night thickened and I slept after the day’s work but I could not be sincere enough to call back that acquaintance.

This type of lack of sincerity in our day to day life is a common occurrence. But in some ways it degrades the intrinsic human worth. Firstly, I neglected the dignity of a fellow human being. Secondly, I did not keep my words & proved myself to be insincere. Thirdly, I diminished the good rapport between us.

This case can be construed as an example of communication gap despite the availability of Ultra speed communication technologies. Printers, faxes, computers, digital cameras, DVDs, pen drives, mobile phones, internet connectivity and all such modern communication gadgets overpower our day to day lives but with each electronic pulse an admixture of love and sincerity is of enormous importance.