happenings are lessons, costly.

for proactive, how i wish good people, who are in majority, take little step forward in social interactions, encourage goodwill and good humor, 

--sense in advance what is cooking, and do some preventive

--like to control possible disease some anti vaccination done, 

---and nip in the bud the negative trends.

i have seen such initiative from a senior executive in a psu, ie shri Rao C Kasarbada, ceo, ECIL,who used to do very casual conversation with the different section employees and union leaders and 

--without their knowing, used to influence the work community with nice mingling, good jokes and helping in their personal problems, and see that by all means the interests of the company are not put to risk 

--and he did prevent imminent strike, not by some counseling / moral teaching, but involving into them as a family, and appearing to sail with them.

but he was  sincere to the core, not seeking anything to himself, not fame, popularity, promotion

--his sincerity was touching., he virtually was a god for us to whom one can turn to receive help and solace, without his level /status inhibiting anyone.

on a larger scale, purely from humanitarian angle, such social initiative  may prevent negative things .

i repeat the intention must be one of just help, with 100% sincerity.

Freely venting suppressed emotions, thru this social informal communication among the community probably will cool the people to natural good behavior.

Dhanyosmi – The art of expressing Gratitude

Right from the childhood we learn to thank. Parents teach us to be grateful. ‘Say thank you’ is told to every child time and again. So we start using the phrase. So common it becomes that we take it for granted. When the waiter in the hotel serves the dishes you ordered and are going to pay with a handsome tip for him to top it, you murmur thanks. When mother toils to prepare dishes you love, at the dining table you thank her also. Many of our Indian families do not teach children to thank mother, as it is thought that formal thanks are for stranger and not for someone closely related. My mother will have shock of her life if any of us thank her. The shock will not be pleasant but very heart breaking. She would feel a stranger in her own house. This may the cultural difference. But the training to express a sense of gratitude is there in all the civilizations. Coming back to the case at hand; we thank the waiter, air hostess, steward for serving and so we do to our mother. The words are same but are the feelings same?

What is the feeling that we want to express when we murmur Thanks, Thank etc.? What do we want to convey ‘I am grateful!’ ‘I appreciate your efforts!’ ‘I am obliged by your service!’ In a way it is an acknowledgement of the act which has benefited us. It should not become a reflex without any meaning and just a mechanical act. The act of expressing gratitude has a deeper impact on the way of life.

In Hindi and many other Indic languages we use – Dhanyawad, meaning I am grateful or Abhar meaning I am obliged. What is the meaning of Dhanya? In Sanskrit it means GREAT or enriched. So by saying Dhanyawad we are expressing that the transaction has resulted in gratifying me. By receiving your service I have become great or I am enriched. But is it the real case? Who is great one who serves or one who receives the service? So is it better to say “You are Great!” “Dhanya ho!” By this we would be thanking that is acknowledging the greatness in the one who serves, thus giving credence and respect to the act of service. But again there is a dichotomy. A differentiation – you & me. We are different so you are great to have served me and I am obliged!

Is it real?

When one starts realizing that the whole universe is One. It is inter-dependant, Inter-connected and inter-related. I & You, He and It are not different, are not many but only the expression of the ONE.  This oneness pervades. Whom do we thank then? Who is gratified and who is obliged? Does the mouth thanks the hand for feeding it? Or do they thank the stomach for digesting food and giving them energy? The organic oneness of the body is the same in the VIRATA- the large body of the universe. In fact when every act of service is done we realize this Virata. The act helps us realize that we are the parts of the same whole. When this realization dawns we become GREAT.  Every one becomes great, enriched with this experience of the oneness. So the REAL expression of gratitude, acknowledging the act of help, assistance or service would be, “We have all become Great, enriched, Sublime”. All this is perfectly expressed by a single Sanskrit term — DHANYOSMI

  

 My gurus are most ancient to most modern, 

includes all ,you, your guru, every being, every thing, every phenomena in the creation, have been teaching me from anaadi

from before my birth , in this birth, upto this moment and continue to teach me beyond there after. 

my heart flows out in blissful gratitude, to recall my great guru parampara starting from

narayanam pamabhavam vasistham 
shakthim cha thath puthra parasharam cha
vyasam shukam gaudapadam mahantham 
govinda yogeendra madasya shysyam

shrishankaracharya mathaasya padma
padam cha hastha malakam cha shisghyam

-----thus flows the parampara 

lokaagnyana payodha paathana dhuram
sri shankaram sharmadam
brahmananda saraswatheem guruvaram 
dhyaayaami jyothirmayam

to the present times brought down to the earth , like a bhageeratha , the greatest,
making possible for me to get in to my heart , the great wisdom of the great souls, 
adishankara, tulasidas, rk/ vivekananda ,ramana maharishi, jk, ugk, rajaneesh, maharishi mahesh yogi, srisri ravisankar, rishi prabhakar, steves, ayn rand, shakespeare, wordsworth  milton, kabir, guru nanak, maa amruth, gurumaa amrit, geetha, bible , khuran, engg, sciences, maths, literature, vemana, bharthruhari, bhaskara, sumati, purandara dasa, tukaram, meera, theresa, my preceptor balagopal, brahma chari parthasarathi, and many more 

nothing confuses me i have no confusion 

i have placed every one in their places 

like in chemistry periodical table, seeing all elements at a glance 

and at individually in depth and in perspective of unified vision 

without losing sight of the relative merits and uniqueness of each one.

my mind is rishi parishath, all rishis dialoging and refining their understanding in the presence of parabrahma the supreme moderator . 

i have no questions

  my guru Maharishi Mahesh yogi

taught me in 7 days what all life's lessons

not by words, nor by explanations, nor exclamations
not by notes nor notations nor by annotations

but by silence thru TM  [transcendental meditation]
thru my inner perceptions

he stayed far away , 
yet i feel his sway

never he talked to me , never did i meet
yet he is my constant hearts beat 
. 
he is farthest , but nearest to me in my insides 
fully guiding from within ,one with me in me resides

staying in me since that time till now and for ever,
though he is now no more , on earth, unseen for ever

he made me so --- i need not look
or read million books, 

nor learn, or recite scriptures. 
nor attend, listen lectures

neither there is a need for me to go to temple
church mazid gurudwara ashram matt or any prayer hall

ganga snan, bhajan keerthan gunagaan 
nor any kashayambar , haar, siro mundan, 

i am a great atheist 
and equally great theist,
 
neither i care to see tv 
nor to read news daily

i skip / ignore --all news views, 
comments criticisms, complaints, suggestions, 

discussions, debates, agree disagree, 
like unlike , approve disapprove,
 
advice , preaching or teachings 

   meditation is meant to lead the ignorant to light, previous experience not a requirement, even a child can  [6 years up].

meditation is –taking a  thought [meaning less one ] and gradually experiencing subtler and more subtler levels of it, reaching the subtlest and going beyond into nothingness –called transcending.

it is not concentration, it is  rather experiencing  gradually the more subtler levels, you may call deep thinking, but is –going deep, deeper, deepest and beyond.

any animal/object /word with a form and meaning  leads to contemplation ,does not allow  to go beyond it –keeping the mind on surface., hence the need for meaningless thought, manthra.

you will come out after diving in–but cleansed.

being a subtle teaching, to be learnt from qualified teacher[i am not], to gain knowledge and the experience –with appropriate checks and follow ups initially, –all easy.

 miracles

 the miracles of miracles,--- ie instant materialization of wishes just by one wishing -----is natures support

fortunately our traditional teaching preserved in purity has given the knowledge to fulfill the desires to the ultimate extent of becoming god himself and there by lead a contended life

desire is not obstacle, every fulfillment is a step of progress.

discontentment is due to the inability to fulfill desires in total and at the fastest rate.

solution is to enhance the ability by contacting the field of creative intelligence within, which enables one to gain natures support and cooperation thru which his wishes become actualized with leas effort and fast

formula is

yatheenaam brahma bhavathi sarathi

reaching a state of tranquility within thru meditation which alone can provide ultimate contentment since one has the support of god in every endeavor turning it into instantaneous success in all fields of life

most intelligent way of life

do less accomplish more

do nothing accomplish everything

the secrete of miracle, most see it as sleight of hand

it is in fact the skill of the doer , thru getting directly god's help

 my views are in my blogs, they will be there you may always see at your time  

i delete the posts on seeing response, if i  surmise that they are not useful ,or not served the purpose ., or if they are not read , if they have no effect

not a question of manners, but of wisdom not to waste any one's time by my rants

i am present here learning a lot more from my own inner exploration, and posting as per my joy and inspiration , and at three more as rishi vasanth ii iii iv, and also at blogger, wordpress, msn, fb.

and i am happy at what ever responses i get / do not get, with only single concern not to waste readers' time,

hence i delete my useless stuff , while i retain my blogs and keep on updating , and i keep on participating .

 i repeat--- i write for my sake, for my joy, for discovering more myself , not much on others' .every one has his views, i respect all views, if some one reads , it is incidental. i am not particular. people have their own priorities

 let my wisdom guide me to act as per my inner call , as a prasad from my all great gurus.