Prof. Devdas Menon says,"Remember two things in life:
1) Be relaxed all the time and yet alert, wakeful.
2) Pay attention. Most people attentive towards results. Do best out of you whatever you do even trivial things. Do not think of anything else while doing something. Sweeper when sweeps, the grounds should be free from dust. Then he has done the job with perfection."
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Time Management (VSC)
Time is eternal. So when we say time management, we are concerned of self-management. "Work expands to fill the gap of time available", a westerner. By this he means that we have habit of extending the work for longer time if time is available. For example, if a letter has to be written and posted before 5 days, we do it in 5 days although it can be done within few hours.
Multitasking is a trend popular nowadays. Is that really productive? Its not. We are in illusion to think that we are doing many things at a time. It is switching the mind here and there. At a time mind can take only one task. Bringing back our attention from one task to another requires unnecessary effort and time and the performance is compromised.
Sometimes multitasking becomes essential. For example, when you are driving to hospital in emergency. You have to make calls and look for the patient, etc. while driving. You can not deny it.
We do lots of things which are urgent and non-urgent, important and unimportant.
We are much concerned of works which are important but non-urgent. These require initiative and planning. Fix of long term goals and achieve them by self-discipline. For example, prevention from many things like disease, wasting time, etc. Conscience (vivek) and vairagya is needed to perform this kind of work. When we do not care the important and non-urgent works, these become important and urgent and eat our head. We most often do it. For some people it is life. They say until you get squeezed under dead line, you would not get joy of freedom following. But it is not a healthy attitude.
When we say we don t have time for certain thing that mean we are not interested in that. If we are interested, we definitely find time for it. We set priority of works according to a order of works which we are more interested in.
Ques: I see my rival who has drinking and smoking habits nevertheless getting better grades in lesser efforts. Should I take inspiration from him?
Ans: He may be performing better but in long run he is going to suffer. There are people who have excellent IQ bad EQ(Emotional quotient). EQ determines ones stand in long run. You must have control over emotions. Be child-like not childish. Being child-like means being innocent, expressive, straight forward and being childish means not being able to control sudden release of emotions such as anger, sorrow, fear, extreme joy, etc. So make the character because that only pays in end.
(This post contains contents taken from the lecture by Swami Atmashraddhanand ji at IIT Madras, who is editor of Magazine Vedant Kesari, from Ramkrishna Math, Mailapur, Chennai)
Multitasking is a trend popular nowadays. Is that really productive? Its not. We are in illusion to think that we are doing many things at a time. It is switching the mind here and there. At a time mind can take only one task. Bringing back our attention from one task to another requires unnecessary effort and time and the performance is compromised.
Sometimes multitasking becomes essential. For example, when you are driving to hospital in emergency. You have to make calls and look for the patient, etc. while driving. You can not deny it.
We do lots of things which are urgent and non-urgent, important and unimportant.
We are much concerned of works which are important but non-urgent. These require initiative and planning. Fix of long term goals and achieve them by self-discipline. For example, prevention from many things like disease, wasting time, etc. Conscience (vivek) and vairagya is needed to perform this kind of work. When we do not care the important and non-urgent works, these become important and urgent and eat our head. We most often do it. For some people it is life. They say until you get squeezed under dead line, you would not get joy of freedom following. But it is not a healthy attitude.
When we say we don t have time for certain thing that mean we are not interested in that. If we are interested, we definitely find time for it. We set priority of works according to a order of works which we are more interested in.
Ques: I see my rival who has drinking and smoking habits nevertheless getting better grades in lesser efforts. Should I take inspiration from him?
Ans: He may be performing better but in long run he is going to suffer. There are people who have excellent IQ bad EQ(Emotional quotient). EQ determines ones stand in long run. You must have control over emotions. Be child-like not childish. Being child-like means being innocent, expressive, straight forward and being childish means not being able to control sudden release of emotions such as anger, sorrow, fear, extreme joy, etc. So make the character because that only pays in end.
(This post contains contents taken from the lecture by Swami Atmashraddhanand ji at IIT Madras, who is editor of Magazine Vedant Kesari, from Ramkrishna Math, Mailapur, Chennai)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Emptying the Ma-ind
It was the traumatic period of last month of the semester. Assignments, presentations and projects have been postponed for this month. I was not sure of how much better I could be able to cope up and do everything well, very similar to the previous semesters. "Can I think of anything else at the moment?"
One day when last exam of the semester got over, I sat on the ground in veranda in front of my room swinging my legs below the plinth. I felt quite different at the same place where I had stayed for long. I saw the trees around and leaves flattering in joy. The breeze humming. I looked up in the sky. It was long since I have seen the blue clear sky. I made up my ecstatic mind which was estranged for long to see the stars that night.
Distinguished Prof. Dr. Devdas Menon usually talk about emptying our mind. By this he means forgetting everything of the world and look at the sight before you as a gift. "We are usually so much occupied and concerned by pressures created by us which blame to be imposed by the world. We are receiving certain demands. We do everything but cry. There is another way of doing these. Get at least few seconds for yourself and forget everything. You have the privilage of living in such a wonderful campus. I have travelled across places and have never found such a beautiful campus. Look at the nature which is graciously and fervently calling you for your mere attention. Listen the voice of the birds creating non rythemic music. Then come back to your work and feel the differnce in your productivity. The letter you write would seem to be much different."
"We have got tremendous capacity for everything but we fail to utilize it. There is a fixed demand from us. If you enhance your capacity (to carry stress or loads), DCR(demand to capacity ratio) would be neglegible and you will be able to deal with any situation by not even using your single hand. This is the purpose of the education not the book learning."
Med-it-tation (med-it-stable) seeks the same idea of achieving thoughtless state of mind for mental heeling of stressed mind.
One day when last exam of the semester got over, I sat on the ground in veranda in front of my room swinging my legs below the plinth. I felt quite different at the same place where I had stayed for long. I saw the trees around and leaves flattering in joy. The breeze humming. I looked up in the sky. It was long since I have seen the blue clear sky. I made up my ecstatic mind which was estranged for long to see the stars that night.
Distinguished Prof. Dr. Devdas Menon usually talk about emptying our mind. By this he means forgetting everything of the world and look at the sight before you as a gift. "We are usually so much occupied and concerned by pressures created by us which blame to be imposed by the world. We are receiving certain demands. We do everything but cry. There is another way of doing these. Get at least few seconds for yourself and forget everything. You have the privilage of living in such a wonderful campus. I have travelled across places and have never found such a beautiful campus. Look at the nature which is graciously and fervently calling you for your mere attention. Listen the voice of the birds creating non rythemic music. Then come back to your work and feel the differnce in your productivity. The letter you write would seem to be much different."
"We have got tremendous capacity for everything but we fail to utilize it. There is a fixed demand from us. If you enhance your capacity (to carry stress or loads), DCR(demand to capacity ratio) would be neglegible and you will be able to deal with any situation by not even using your single hand. This is the purpose of the education not the book learning."
Med-it-tation (med-it-stable) seeks the same idea of achieving thoughtless state of mind for mental heeling of stressed mind.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Health
To insure good health: eat light, breath deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. - William Londen
Thursday, May 28, 2009
घातक व्यर्थता
कभी अत्यधिक व्यस्त हो जाना फिर कभी अत्यधिक व्यर्थ हो जाना हमारे जीवन की तरंग बन चुके हैं. तरंग की आवृत्ति और आयाम परिवर्तित हो कर हर दोलन काल में नयापन की अनुभूति कराती है. खाली रह कर कार्यशील रहना एक आदर्श है पर काम रहते हुए खाली रहना एक अलग चरमोत्कर्ष है.
पिछ्ले कुछ दिनो से दूसरे चरमोत्कर्ष पर गतिमान हूँ. ताश के पत्ते मुझे इसमें सहारा दे रही हैं. दो दिन में एक खेल सीखना मेरी लालायित प्रवृत्ति को प्रदर्शित कर रही है. दिन में भोजन के बाद सोना और रात में अंग्रज़ी टीवी सीरियल देख के सोना कुल मिलकर सोने में एक अपना स्तंभ स्थापित करता हुआ मैं शेष समय व्यर्थ गवाने का साधन ढूंढता रहा हूँ.
कोई मुझे प्रेरित करे कुई मुझे जगाए. मैं मानव से पत्थर बनने में अग्रसर हूँ.
Separation
21 May 2009
I can not explain what is happening to me since yesterday. I tried to do many things but feeling like I am not in me. And I have to bear that for a month seeing everyone leaving one by one. I have been restraining myself to write this kind of thing but this time I wrote.
Bhale and Bhond left and we were weaving off. I saw everyone wet in eyes and why not. some of us discussed about our friend circle how unique it was I tried to think more what had made this friend circle such a lifetime memorable identity to be with. I concluded with a thought that God had taken so many forms and came to me, stayed with me, shared my happiness and sorrow, encouraged for higher values, shared a high spirit, inspired in numerous ways directly and indirectly at different demanding times, taught many things most credible of which is how to be as a friend.
Oh God I feel you still with me formless.
I can not explain what is happening to me since yesterday. I tried to do many things but feeling like I am not in me. And I have to bear that for a month seeing everyone leaving one by one. I have been restraining myself to write this kind of thing but this time I wrote.
Bhale and Bhond left and we were weaving off. I saw everyone wet in eyes and why not. some of us discussed about our friend circle how unique it was I tried to think more what had made this friend circle such a lifetime memorable identity to be with. I concluded with a thought that God had taken so many forms and came to me, stayed with me, shared my happiness and sorrow, encouraged for higher values, shared a high spirit, inspired in numerous ways directly and indirectly at different demanding times, taught many things most credible of which is how to be as a friend.
Oh God I feel you still with me formless.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The Absolute
All the worldly things are relative, the only ever-present spirit, and the self is absolute because it came out of the absolute. We cannot say ourselves as wealthy or poor, intelligent or stupid, knowledgeable or innocent, selfish or unselfish, etc. because these words have meanings relative to the viewer and also the surroundings. Without the comparison of surroundings the word which claims to be defined and meaningful deserves to become absolute.
These worldly words mentioned above can be digitalised as one at one end say zero and the other at the other as one. All the states of the world lie somewhere is between and we rate them accordingly from the position we stand. This digital world is called dual world in Vedanta.
We can say that we, in self-realized state, are the absolute. The omnipotent, omnipresent, the father of the creation, the source of all the cosmic energy (spiritual and physical) of the universe or whatever one call with a form or formless is absolute because it has got only one state of being. This mastery of rising from comparison to the absolute is called non-dualism. After reaching in the absolute being we perceive everything apart from us. Each sensation what our senses sense becomes equal we fall apart the bondage of fruits of our actions. This is called equitable state.
We are surrounded by our restless mind caught in dual nature of the world which stops us to recognize our true divine nature. When we recognize ourselves, mind becomes calm and we are aligned ourselves with the bigger absolute, the God, natural and world forces seems always favourable to us giving joy and finally we merge into that bigger absolute. "soi jaanahu jehi dehi janaayi, janat tumahi tumahi hoi jaayi"- raamcharitmanas
Swami Ramakrishna said: On the rolling plain, seeing the lowly grass and the mighty tree, one said,” How large is the tree and how tiny is the grass!” But when he ascends the mountain and looks from high peak to the plains below, the mighty tree and the lowly grass blend into one indistinct mass of green. So, in the sight of worldly men, there are differences of rank and position, but when the divine sight is opened there remains no distinction of high and low.
These worldly words mentioned above can be digitalised as one at one end say zero and the other at the other as one. All the states of the world lie somewhere is between and we rate them accordingly from the position we stand. This digital world is called dual world in Vedanta.
We can say that we, in self-realized state, are the absolute. The omnipotent, omnipresent, the father of the creation, the source of all the cosmic energy (spiritual and physical) of the universe or whatever one call with a form or formless is absolute because it has got only one state of being. This mastery of rising from comparison to the absolute is called non-dualism. After reaching in the absolute being we perceive everything apart from us. Each sensation what our senses sense becomes equal we fall apart the bondage of fruits of our actions. This is called equitable state.
We are surrounded by our restless mind caught in dual nature of the world which stops us to recognize our true divine nature. When we recognize ourselves, mind becomes calm and we are aligned ourselves with the bigger absolute, the God, natural and world forces seems always favourable to us giving joy and finally we merge into that bigger absolute. "soi jaanahu jehi dehi janaayi, janat tumahi tumahi hoi jaayi"- raamcharitmanas
Swami Ramakrishna said: On the rolling plain, seeing the lowly grass and the mighty tree, one said,” How large is the tree and how tiny is the grass!” But when he ascends the mountain and looks from high peak to the plains below, the mighty tree and the lowly grass blend into one indistinct mass of green. So, in the sight of worldly men, there are differences of rank and position, but when the divine sight is opened there remains no distinction of high and low.
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