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Who is mightier, God or Guru?

2021-12-02T21:54:00.001+05:30

Greatness doesn't come from the name, it comes from deeds.

In my opinion, God and Guru is the way of defining a person who helps an individual in achieving the intent or purpose in life.

Some might consider their Guru equivalent to God, as they guide us towards our life goals to an extent where we can believe ourselves and give our life a purpose to do the best deeds possible,

on similar lines,

We often, see the holy texts mentioning God as a constant Guru in one's life, the energy of the so-called self-confidence which leads one to achieve prosperity and salvation.

let's understand these analogies with the help of examples

The best example can be that of Mahabharata (Indian epic) where Arjuna considers Lord Krishna as his Guru on the battlefield, thus justifying how a “God can be a Guru”.

The second example can be that of Eklavya who despite being unaccepted by his Guru Dronacharya mastered the skill of archery by practicing it in front of his guru’s statue, and later offered his thumb as a thank offering to Guru Dronacharya, thus justifying how a “Guru can be equivalent to God”.

Summing-up

God and Guru, both play a significant role in bringing enlightenment in one's life as:

If one helps in your self-realization, then the other helps you to apply your realization practically.
If one helps to build your self-confidence, the other helps to build your self-awareness.
In simpler words, if one is your bow then the other is your arrow, one can't hit the target if either of the ones goes missing.

Is being Smart the same as being Wise?

2021-04-23T10:00:00.005+05:30

Smart people use their brain

Smartness is when you are working with your brain. It purely depends on one’s analytical and logical thinking. To excel in the social and professional environment, one tries to be smart. This can majorly help someone understand the social culture present in his/her surrounding. It’s like using your intellect in making informed decisions.

Wise people use their heart

Your confidence and passion exert you towards deciding from the heart. There are times in life when we make decisions purely based on faith. They are rare but important. They help you identify the strategic objectives. Your faith builds your self-confidence, and your self-confidence is what essentially shapes your ideology and makes you a better being.

All in All, humans have two psychological approaches in making decisions of their lives, one being informed and the other being intuitive. Contrary to what some might believe, I believe both are equally important. To get ideal results, one needs to be smart and wise both.

Wisdom does not just mean following your heart or brain. It’s about learning to unite both your informed and intuitive approach.

When I Read Your Eyes

2020-07-09T17:48:00.003+05:30

Hello Readers,

This was my very first composition in my collection.

I hope you enjoy reading it and get through the idea of "Eyes being the window to one's heart".

Do let me know, what you feel after reading this piece of work in the comment section.
Stay tune for freshly brewed content.

See you soon.

WHY WRITE?

2019-02-02T23:04:00.005+05:30

So WHY WRITE??

By writing, I don't mean uploading WhatsApp status or updating twitter posts.

Write to discover yourself, write to tell stories, write to account experiences of your life may it be best or the worst, write in any language, any form, may it be a poem or blog or a personal diary. Write to reflect, not just to inflect. Write to discover the fire in the darkness, because the only reason to define light is due to the mere existence of darkness.

You know what when it comes to the literary world, the notion which I follow in my personal life is :

"Read to Escape the World and Write to Understand your own World"

If we say that a person's brain has got the greatest intellectual power in the universe then it would be no wrong to say that his words have got the most influential power in the universe.

Our words can be the greatest Shastra and Asthras.

Shasthra (knowledge based on the principles that are held timeless) which will help you drive your emotions and opinions with the help of Asthras (supernatural weapon) here being a writing tool-pen.

There is no one who doesn't like to express, we often talk to our friends and family, we speak with them to share our stories, so why not share them with ourselves.

People say, they click pictures to capture the memories, same goes with our words, they have the power to capture all those emotions, feelings and moments which makes these memories perfect.

Holding a blank sheet of paper tells me that, this is the only place where I can come at any point of time, with endless states of mind, the only place where I can carve my interests, share my ideas, reveal my secrets, share my stories of success and failures without the fear to being cheated, defeated, misjudged or being ignored. I can share all those tits and bits of my life which may sometimes sound tasteless to others but never to me and my sheet.

These lines may sound too philosophical and clumsy but being philosophical will help you be grounded, and connect to every aspect of your life.

Not just on personal aspect,writing helps us trace time too.It helps individuals to showcase their culture and connect to people all over the world, just like I am doing right now.

CONCLUSION

Keep looking for the fire in the darkness my dear friends

When you find it, it may never leave you cold.

WHAT IS SOMETHING WISE AND SIMPLE

2018-11-23T01:16:00.005+05:30

WHAT IS SOMETHING WISE AND SIMPLE

The topic of this blog is to know how do we analyze or recognize ourselves, with this small piece work let's make our thought process simple and easy going, in more simpler words lets meditate through words which relates us to ourselves.

So before starting, let me ask you a question, how do you define the word "SIMPLE". I define it by breaking the word into two...actually correlating it with "SEEING AMPLE" i.e. when I am happy in discovering what's around me, and not running after what I want but what I need.

So if I was to answer what makes our lives simpler.... then the answer would be we ourselves.... because it totally depends on us how we take things.

It's totally on us what we prioritize and with what perspective we do so. So if at any point of time any of us fails to achieve something don't blame yourself or the circumstances in your life just remember this quote.

"Life does not give us what we want....it gives us the best we can have"

Everything which all of us should know is that we have the hidden scientists within us...and that is because we experiment with our lives, and the best part is we don't require any type of academic qualification in this field of human sciences. We create, discover, implement, manipulate and even destroy some instincts of our lives knowingly and unknowingly to invent our better version. Also, don't perform these experiments with the spirit to get positive results in first attempt, perform them with the mindset to discover all the possible mistakes so that the next very time when you are there, on with your experiments you know what you don't have to do in order to avoid your previous mistakes. In casual words, people call this phenomenon as "Learning from your Mistakes". Now you can think how preciously you can spend each moment of your lives.

Coming to wiseness one short and crisp view according to me is that a smart person may know what to speak and when to speak but a person becomes wise only when he /she knows what not to speak because it helps him to acquire the positive culture of his surrounding environment.

Sometimes it's just better to sit back, relax, observe and learn from each and every element present around us. Everything has a purpose for its existence and they do so because of their potentials.

To maintain the neutrality there always has to be bad with the good so never think that evil exists for the bad causes, it exists for the good to happen, they are the best examples for natural forces and hence are impedible forms of energy.

So every dark tunnel ends to bright light only when you find your way out.

KRITI KAKKAR

STEVE JOBS-The Motivation Industry

2018-10-14T06:51:00.005+05:30

STEVE JOBS-The Motivation Industry

Steve jobs “the name in fame”. The world know him as one of the biggest and successful business executive, computer programmer, entrepreneur and what not…..but he is much more then what he is being considered just professionally.

Before we get into it…..lets just catch the glimpse of different phases of his life.

EARLY PHASE

For those of you who don’t know STEVE JOBS was an adopted child. But he very proudly states that Paul jobs and Clara Jobs were his real parents. His mom was an accountant and was a very enthusiastic teacher as well, she made Steve learn to read even before he started with his kindergarten. His dad worked in laser industry, he made Steve get acquitted with machine and technology and made him learn to enjoy whatever he does.

He was 12 years old when he first encountered a computer machine and decided to do contribute and apply skill in this field.

CREATING COMPUTERS-(JOBS AND WOZNIAK)

In 1971 , the 16 yr old Steve was introduced to 21 yr old Wozniak and then together in 1976, they both started their own company and named it APPLE, APPLE – in memory of a happy summer Steve had spent picking apples. There start up investment was of $1300 which they managed by selling Job’s micro-bus and Wozniak’s calculator.

COMPUTER RIVALRY

The biggest name behind personal computers is APPLE. Analyzing the huge gap between market requirements and technology available Steve and Wozniak came up with personal computers for individual use and hence Apple II went into market in 1977. The company sales went from $2.7 million to $200 million in three years.

Then in 1980 Apple came up with Apple III in the market, being not so successful, due to technical and marketing problems it was withdrawn from the market and was reintroduced after clearing all the glitches.

Apple’s biggest competitor in International market was IBM and by 1983 Apple lost half of its share to IBM.

MACINTOSH-(THE TURNING POINT)

Now in 1984, Apple came up with a revolutionary concept in computers where the screen display consisted of small icons which could be accessed with the gadget called mouse, thus making the computer system very user friendly and improving the Graphical User Interface. But getting success was not so easy, the model could still not be as successful as it lacked the features that personal computers had such as high quality printers.

Sometimes great ideas can lead to great failures in life, somewhat happened with Jobs too, Sculley (CEO of apple) considered Jobs ideas to be hurting the company success scale and it was when the company’s executives too started phasing out Job’s and he was demoted from his job profile thus causing him to part his ways from Apple.

NEXT WHAT??

Situations were testing Jobs patience and now Jobs started his new company NeXT where he hired some of his old employees. In 1988, NeXT grabbed a chance to showcase their product in one of the biggest formal events of San Francisco aiming specifically to educational market. The product received great reactions in the market due to its high processing speed and user friendly display but could not make much due to its high pricing issues.

Now NeXT helped Job’s grab next opportunity and he purchased a small film making company called PIXAR specialized in computer animation. Later Pixar went on to make two Blockbuster films TOY STORY -2 and A BUG’S LIFE.

EARTH IS ROUND, HENCE DISPLACEMENT=0 (GETTING BACK TO APPLE)

In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for $429 million and in 1997 jobs was back as Apple’s CEO. Now in the same year the rival company Microsoft and Apple came up to do partnership and agreed to cooperate on several sales and technology fonts. Now the partnership worked very well and the duo came up with several new products and great marketing strategies.

CONCLUSION

“Sometimes Life hits you with brick on head, Don’t lose faith” -STEVE JOBS

We don’t always read the biographies to read what exceptional things people have done in their lives….but we do so to understand how they dealt with conditions in their lives which eventually made them do something exceptional.

It tells us success need discipline, patience, determination, diligence, perspiration and most importantly faith. Most of us know the successful side of Job's story but what made him great was how he reacted in difficult times.

“Reading success stories can help us get message, but reading failure stories can help us get idea to be successful”-

Dr. Abdul Kalam

That’s the reason we believe that discovering 99 ways of doing mistakes is better than discovering just 1 way to solve our problems because these 99 ideas will always help us avoid doing mistakes once we discover them.

KRITI KAKKAR

WHO IS THE RICHEST PERSON IN THIS UNIVERSE

2018-09-20T18:32:00.004+05:30

WHO IS THE RICHEST PERSON IN THIS UNIVERSE

Richest Person....... a very Economical Question..... No Offence Please!!

But I will try to answer this in a philosophical manner. I would rather justify my answer by quoting that “Richest person is the one who finds happiness in every moment of his life,because the one who is happy can grab all the satisfaction in his/her life. People think or rather estimate that being economically wealthy can help them diffuse happiness and love in their life, but Life plays some other strategy with us (in my perspective). Just try to remember the happiest day of your life.Was it because of the money in your pocket or because of the feelings in your heart? We can find and create happiness at any moment in our life without any conditions but when we try creating happiness with money there are limitations.

In today's hard and fast life we work for money which eventually makes us helpless because subsequently it's makes us work according to the conditions existing around us, but instead if we prioritize our job for learning before earning we eventually start feeling relieved and satisfied. These actions may not give us instantaneous results but slowly and steadily we learn to make time and profit out of them.

And this is that moment when start realizing our potential and start being happy and satisfied with all that we have no matter how much the world is earning, no matter how much your junior is earning.We start our day with happy mood carrying that bright smile which gives us motivation to move ahead.

I know, the more easy it is to write, the hard it is to realize. But my dear friends, this is what we have to come up to. Our EMOTIONS are nothing but our ENERGY IN MOTION. Sometimes they have to go through a friction less path.... Sometimes it becomes very hard to drive through a path full of potholes , hurdles which reduces our speed. But the thing we need to remember is the speed of our motion is relation with an independent quantity which is time, which waits for nothing. It's the time only which sometimes heals and also sometimes gives very harsh learning in our lives.

CONCLUSION

I would measure richness of a person on the scale of emotions, maturity, understanding, liveliness and mostly importantly with the spirit of sharing, learning and spreading love.... Because a person's intentions always overpowers all the physical resources present around him/her..... The unseen and mystical form of energy.

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