Category: Messages

  • Dr. Vikram Sarabhai first interaction with Dr. Abdul Kalam Sir.

    One day, a gentleman wearing a dhoti and a shawl was reciting the Bhagwat Gita in while sitting on the sea shore of Chennai.

    At that time a boy came there and said to him :

    “Do you still read such a book today in this age of science ?

    Look, at this moment we have reached the moon.
    And ,But, you are stuck in this Gita, and Ramayana.”

    The gentleman asked the boy : “What do you know about the Gita ?”

    The boy did not answer the question and said excitedly :

    “What will happen after reading all that.
    You know,, I am a student of Vikram Sarabhai Research Institute, and I am a scientist.
    This Gita lesson is useless.”

    The gentleman laughed when he heard the boy’s words.

    Just then two huge cars came and stopped there. Some black commandos came down from one car and a soldier from the other car.

    The man dressed as a soldier opened the back door of the car, knocked a salute and stood by the car door.

    The gentleman who was reciting the Gita,
    got into the car at a slow pace and sat up.

    The boy was shocked to see all this.
    He thought the man must be renowned person.
    Unable to find anyone, to ask…
    Then. the boy ran up to him and asked,
    “Sir, Sir, who are you ?”

    The gentleman said in a very calm voice :

    “I am Vikram Sarabhai.”

    😳 The boy seemed to play a 440 volt shock.

    Do you know who this boy was ?

    Dr. Abdul Kalam.

    After that Dr. Kalam read Bhagwat Gita. Read Ramayana, Mahabharata and other books.

    And as a result of reading this Gita,
    Dr. Kalam promised not to eat meat for the rest of his life. He wrote in his autobiography, Gita A science. The Gita, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata are a great proud pursuit of the Indians’ own cultural heritage.

    How many us do Read Bhagvad Gita or Ramayan or Mahabharat? IF we ask this simple question honestly to ourselves, we will get answer to most of the doubts we have or what we see in our society. I am myself a victim of such thoughts in my youth and used to laugh out at my mother when she used to narate her readings of Bhagvad Gita or Ramayan or Mahabharat. But not anymore…

  • Who am I ? A Story – Thought Provoking – Think Different.

    Who am I ? A Story – Thought Provoking – Think Different.

    Once, a beggar while begging in a train, noticed a well-dressed businessman wearing a suit and boots. He thought that this man must be very rich, so he will surely give good money if I ask him. So he went and asked that man for alms.

    The man looked at the beggar and said, “You always beg and keep asking from people, do you ever give anything to anyone?”

    The beggar said, “Sir, I am a beggar, I can only keep asking people for money. How will I be able to give anything to anyone?”

    The man replied, “When you can’t give anything to anyone, then you don’t have any right to ask as well. I am a businessman and believe in transactions only – if you have something to give me, then I can also give you something in return.”

    Just then, the train arrived at a station, and the businessman got down and left.

    The beggar started thinking about what the man had said. His words somehow reached the beggar’s heart.

    He started thinking that maybe I do not get much money in alms because I am not able to give anything to anyone in return. But I am a beggar, I am not even worth giving anything to anyone. But for how long will I keep asking people without giving anything.

    After thinking deeply, the beggar decided that whenever he gets something on begging, he will definitely give something back to that person in return.

    But now the question was, what could he give others in return for begging? The whole day had passed thinking about this but he could not find any answer to his question.

    The next day while he was sitting near the station, his eyes fell on some flowers blooming on the plants around the station. He thought, why not give some flowers to the people in return for alms.

    He liked this idea and plucked some flowers from there and went to the train to beg.

    Whenever someone gave alms to him, he would give some flowers to them in return. People used to keep those flowers happily with them.

    Now the beggar used to pluck flowers everyday and distribute those flowers among the people in return for the alms.

    Within a few days he realized that now a lot of people have started giving him alms. He used to pluck all the flowers near the station. As long as he had flowers, many people used to give him alms. But when no more flowers were left with him, he wouldn’t get much. And this continued every day.

    One day when he was begging, he saw that the same businessman was sitting in the train, because of whom he was inspired to distribute flowers.

    The beggar immediately reached out to him and said, “Today I have some flowers to give you in return for alms.”

    The man gave him some money and the beggar gave him some flowers in return. The man liked his idea very much and was quite impressed.

    He said, “Wow! Today you too have become a businessman like me.” Taking flowers from the beggar, he got down at the station.

    But once again, his words had reached deep into the beggar’s heart. He kept thinking again and again about what the man had said and started becoming happy.

    His eyes started shining now, he felt that he had now got the key to success by which he could change his life.

    He immediately got down from the train and excitedly looked up at the sky and in a very loud voice said, “I am not a beggar anymore, I am a businessman now, I can also become like that gentleman, I can also become rich.”

    When people saw him, they thought that maybe this beggar has gone mad. From the next day that beggar never appeared at that station again.

    Four years later, two men dressed in suits were traveling from the same station. When both of them looked at each other, one of them bowed to the other with joined hands and asked, “Do you recognize me?”

    The other replied, “No! Maybe we’re meeting for the first time.”

    The first one again said, “Sir, try to remember, we are not meeting for the first time but for the third time”.

    Second person, “Well, I can’t remember. When was it that we met before?”

    Now the first person smiled and said, “We have met twice in the same train before. I am the same beggar whom you had told in the first meeting what I should do in life, and in the second meeting you told me who I really am.”

    “As a result, today I am a very big flower merchant and I am going to another city in respect of the same business.”

    “You told me the law of nature in the first meeting… according to which we get something only when we give something.
    This rule of transaction really works, I’ve felt it very well, but I always thought of myself as a beggar, I never thought to rise above it.

    When I met you for the second time, you told me that I have become a businessman. Thanks to you, from that day onwards, my perspective changed and now I have become a businessman, I’m not a beggar anymore.”

    Indian sages probably put the most emphasis on Knowing Yourself’.

    As long as the beggar considered himself a beggar, he remained a beggar and when he considered himself as a businessman, he became one. Similarly, the day we will understand our true nature, then what will be left to know and understand ?

  • Just that some Company’s Matter More !!

    Just that some Company’s Matter More !!

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a housewife
    you will feel life is too difficult.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a drunkard
    you will feel life is very easy.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a sadhu & a sanyasi
    you will feel like gifting away everything in charity.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a politician
    you will feel all your studies are useless.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a life insurance agent
    you will feel that it is better to die.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a trader
    you will feel your earnings are too meagre.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a scientist
    you will feel the enormity of your own ignorance.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a good teacher
    you will feel like wanting to become a student again.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a farmer or a worker
    you will feel you are not working hard enough.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a soldier
    you will feel your own services & sacrifices are insignificant.

    Sit for 10 mins before
    a good friend
    you will feel your life is heaven!

    Company matters!!

  • The World is a big mirror.

    The World is a big mirror.

    Once a dog ran into a museum where all the walls, the ceiling, the door and even the floor were made of mirror.
    Seeing this the dog froze in surprise in the middle of the hall, a whole pack of dogs surrounded it from all sides, from above and below.
    Just in case, the dog bared his teeth, all the reflections responded to it in the same way.
    Frightened, the dog frantically barked. The reflections imitated the bark and increased it many times. The dog barked even harder and the echo was keeping up. The dog tossed from one side to another, biting the air – his reflections also tossed around snapping their teeth.
    Next day in the morning, the museum security guards found the miserable dog, lifeless and surrounded by a million reflections of lifeless dogs.
    There was nobody, who would make any harm to the dog.
    The dog died by fighting with his own reflections.
    The world doesn’t bring good or evil on its own.

    Everything that is happening around us is the reflection of our own thoughts, feelings, wishes and actions.
    The World is a big mirror.
    Strike a good pose!
    Smile from deep within.
    Life is beautiful.

  • What would my Mom think of that?

    In a race, athlete Abel Mutai representing Kenya, was just a few feet from the finish line,

    but he was confused with the signage & stopped thinking he had completed the race.

    The Spanish athlete, Ivan Fernandez was right behind him & realising what was happening, he started shouting at the Kenyan for him to continue running;

    but Mutai didn’t know Spanish didn’t understand.

    Then the Spanish pushed him to victory.

    A journalist asked Ivan, “Why did you do that?”
    Ivan replied, “My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life”.

    The journalist insisted “But why did you let the Kenyan win?” Ivan replied, “I didn’t let him win, he was going to win”.

    The journalist insisted again, “But you could have won!”

    Ivan looked at him & replied, “But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honour of that medal?”

    Ivan added “What would my Mom think of that?”

    Values are transmitted from Generation to Generation.

    Lets Teach out Children values for Life

  • Don’t make any promises that you can’t keep..?

    One cold night, A billionaire met an old poor man outside.

    He asked him, “don’t you feel cold being outside, and not wearing any coat?”

    The old man replied, “I don’t have it but I got used to that.”

    The billionaire replied, “Wait for me. I will enter my house now and bring you one. ”

    The poor man got so happy and said he will wait for him.The billionaire entered his house and got busy there and forgot the poor man.

    In the morning he remembered that poor old man and he went out to search for him but he found him dead because of cold, but he left a NOTE,

    “When I didn’t have any warm clothes, I had the power to fight the cold because I was used to that. But when you promised me to help me, I got attached to your promise and that took my power of resisting.

    MORAL:

    Don’t promise anything if you can’t keep your promise. It might not mean anything to you, But it could mean everything to someone else.

  • Not Money but Love

    Some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree.

    Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy.” He was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found the box was empty.

    He yelled at her, “Don’t you know that when you give someone a present, there’s supposed to be something inside it?”

    The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, ”Oh, Daddy, it is not empty. I blew kisses into the box. All for you, Daddy.”

    The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her forgiveness.
    It is told that the man kept that gold box by his bed for years and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.

    In a very real sense, as a human we have been given a gold container filled with unconditional love from our children, friends, family and may be from unknown persons. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold than real love. Feel , value and share it always !!

  • Reality Is Priceless

    A teacher was tutoring a class of students when she relayed a story about a cruise ship capsized while at sea, and on the ship was a couple that managed to make their way to a lifeboat but realized there was only space for one. You’ll never guess what lesson they learned from the story.johnny_automatic_launching_a_lifeboat_from_the_shore-svg-hi
    A cruise ship met with an incident at sea. On the ship was a couple, after having made their way to the lifeboat, they realized that there was only space for one person left.
    At this moment, the man pushed the woman behind him and jumped onto the lifeboat himself.
    The lady stood on the sinking ship and shouted one sentence to her husband.
    The teacher stopped and asked, “What do you think she shouted?”
    Most of the students excitedly answered, “I hate you! I was blind!”
    Now, the teacher noticed a boy who was silent throughout, she got him to answer and he replied,
    “Teacher, I believe she would have shouted – Take care of our child!”
    The teacher was surprised, asking “Have you heard this story before?”
    The boy shook his head, “Nope, but that was what my mom told my dad before she died to disease”.
    The teacher lamented, “The answer is right”.
    The cruise ship sunk. The man went home and brought up their daughter single-handedly.
    Many years later after the death of the man, their daughter found his diary while tidying his belongings.
    It turns out that when parents went onto the cruise ship, the mother was already diagnosed with a terminal illness. At the critical moment, the father rushed to the only chance of survival.
    He wrote in his diary, “How I wished to sink to the bottom of the ocean with you, but for the sake of our daughter, I can only let you lie forever below the sea alone”.
    The story is finished, the class was silent.
    The teacher knows that the student has understood the moral of the story, that of the good and the evil in the world, there are many complications behind them which are hard to understand. Which is why we should never only focus on the surface and judge others without understanding them first.
    Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because they are loaded but because they value friendship above money.
    Those who apologize first after a fight, do so not because they are wrong but because they value the people around them.
    Those who are willing to help you, do so not because they owe you anything but because they see you as a true friend.
    Those who often text you, do so not because they have nothing better to do but because you are in their heart.
    One day, all of us will get separated from each other; we will miss our conversations of everything and nothing; the dreams that we had. Days will pass by, months, years, until this contact becomes rare… One day our children will see our pictures and ask “Who are these people?” And we will smile with invisible tears because a heart is touched with a strong word and you will say: “It was them that I had the best days of my life with.”

  • The 99 Club

    burger_king_1955-1968Once upon a time, there lived a King who, despite his luxurious lifestyle, was neither happy nor content.
    One day, the King came upon a servant who was singing happily while he worked. This fascinated the King; why was he, the Supreme Ruler of the Land, unhappy and gloomy, while a lowly servant had so much . The King asked the servant, “Why are you so happy?”farmer-148325_960_720
    The man replied, “Your Majesty, I am nothing but a servant, but my family and I don’t need too much – just a roof over our heads and warm food to fill our tummies.”
    The king was not satisfied with that reply. Later in the day, he sought the advice of his most trusted advisor. After hearing the King’s woes and the servant’s story, the advisor said, “Your Majesty, I believe that the servant has not been made part of The 99 Club.”
    “The 99 Club? And what exactly is that?” the King inquired. The advisor replied, “Your Majesty, to truly know what The 99 Club is, place 99 Gold coins in a bag and leave it at this servant’s doorstep.”
    When the servant saw the bag, he took it into his house. When he opened the bag, he let out a great shout of joy… so many gold coins!
    He began to count them. After several counts, he was at last convinced that there were 99 coins. He wondered, “What could’ve happened to that last gold coin? Surely, no one would leave 99 coins!” He looked everywhere he could, but that final coin was elusive. Finally, exhausted, he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to earn that gold coin and complete his collection.
    From that day, the servant’s life was changed. He was overworked, horribly grumpy, and castigated his family for not helping him make that 100th gold coin. He stopped singing while he worked.
    Witnessing this drastic transformation, the King was puzzled. When he sought his advisor’s help, the advisor said, “Your Majesty, the servant has now officially joined The 99 Club.”
    He continued, “The 99 Club is a name given to those people who have enough to be happy but are never contented, because they’re always yearning and striving for that extra 1 telling to themselves: “Let me get that one final thing and then I will be happy for life.”
    We can be happy, even with very little in our lives, but the minute we’re given something bigger and better, we want even more! We lose our sleep, our happiness, we hurt the people around us; all these as a price for our growing needs and desires. That’s what joining The 99 Club is all about.”

  • Farmer Vs GODS

    Once, Lord Indra got upset with Farmers, he announced there will be No rain for 12 years & you won’t be able to produce crops.
    Farmers begged for clemency from Lord Indra, who then said, Rain will be possible only if Lord Shiva plays his Damru, but he secretly requested Lord Shiva not to agree to these Farmers & when Farmers reached Lord Shiva he repeated the same thing that he will play Damru after 12 years.
    Disappointed Farmers decided to wait till 12 years but one Farmer regularly was digging treating & putting manure in the soil & sowing the seeds even with no crop emerging.
    Other Farmers were making fun of that Farmer.
     After 3 years all Farmers asked that Farmer why are you wasting your time n energy when you know that rains will not come before 12 years
    He replied ” I know that crop won’t come out but I’m doing it as a matter of “practice”. After 12 years I will forget the process of growing crops n working in the field so I must keep it doing so that I’m fit to produce the crop,t he moment there is rain after 12 years.
    Hearing his argument Goddess Parvati praised his version before Lord Shiva & said You may also lose the practice of playing the Damru after 12 years.
    The innocent Lord Shiva in his anxiety just tried to play the Damru, if he could,  and hearing the sound of Damru immediately there was rain n the farmer who was regularly working in the field got his crop emerged immediately n others were disappointed.
    It is the practice which keeps on making you perfect.
    The game is won during the practice Not during the performance.
    You become even diseased or old just because you don’t practice on your body or mind.
    *Practice is the essence of quality survival*
    Relevance us – periodic competency certification is a must.
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