Why do we need a guru?

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Hope you all are doing well.

A plane is always safe on the ground, but it is not made for that, always take some meaningful risks in life to achieve great heights.

-Sri Chandra shekhar Azad.

What is the first thought that you get when you think of your teacher. Well my answer is, respect, a feeling of gratitude. I am sure even you will have an answer in mind.

Many teachers have taught you numerous subjects from your school till now.

Now if you ask me if I am just talking about the class teachers who were handling your courses in school, actually it's not because I am talking about all the teachers in your life.

What do I mean by all the teachers in your life? We all know teaching is a profession and I feel it is beyond that word it builds a solid bond between the student and the teacher, which lasts for a long stretch.

So why do we need a guru?

Actually guru or a educator is just not that person who teaches you lessons or your subjects.

In olden days the gurus' or popularly called as acharyas were  also an advisors  to the king, he was treated with great respect by the king until he was ruling the kingdom and the same formality would be handed over to the next generation.

The gurus had great respect in the Indian culture and before the British education invaded India, we had schools which were called gurukuls where the students used to reside for long years and learn the various subjects both as an educational purpose and also the societal purpose.

So answer to my question is little bit clear that you need a teacher for enlightening yourself in life and for your self-development.

There is another aspect where the teacher becomes more than what you think, that is when you ponder that once a person who was your teacher at your school is something more today, there are many situations in life where we see some students who get brilliant teachers  and will become the best of friends in life. I have seen some of  my friends who entirely give the credit of their success to their teachers.

Every person can become a teacher in life, not necessarily that he should come to class and teach you using a black board, any stranger who warns you when you erred is your teacher, your parents are your first teachers, and then that friend who thought you how to ride a bicycle is also your teacher.

When you end up in an challenge in life and when you look up the board, you hit a Google search for suggestions within your brain, and you return with some answers, from your past experiences , in those results you also get some advices that your teachers gave you.

I feel we all need that one guru in life who is always ready to guide to the correct lane when you want to decide to which lane you want to take and which direction you want to go, I am not saying that you lack the ability to judge yourself, but the charisma of the guru is required as he is a divine being according to me.

I say divine because he is one of the few people in life, who feels happy by seeing your progress in life, well ahead of him! How many of the people around you do that?

The world needs more good teachers to drive this great planet in the path of peace and compassion.

I take this opportunity to thank all my teachers who have come and gone in my life, and all those lovely people in my life, who had the humility to correct me when I was wrong.

Have a great day and a week ahead.

Feather Light.

Hello there! Good morning.

He who can listen to music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

-Dr. Vikram Sarabhai.

We all get feelings all the time, even this moment when I am composing this blog I am in a feeling and you when you are reading it I am sure you’re also expressing an emotion.

Well what are these feelings, emotions or sensations that we experience, can we say that it is like another sense organ? Soon the answer I think is going to be an affirmative, because there are many behavioural study scientists who are trying to prove the reactive pattern in humans and some species of primates when they are exposed to different environments and also when they are not exposed to any of this scenarios and record what they feel when they are idle.

They have given certain conclusions to their on-going like you know…. They say a feeling or an emotion is triggered definitely as the first response to our five sense organs and now the sixth as the brain is also considered as a sense organ, and the way we show our emotion towards any situation is triggered by a catalytic reaction in the medieval cortex of our brain.

I was particularly interested in this one: We feel lighter after we speak to someone or give a speech, just think about that talkative guy in your college or school or at your workplace, don’t you feel he is always jolly and bright compared those who hardly speak or popularly called as introverts.

I am sure you would have experienced this,  you are walking on the road alone suddenly a passer-by asks you the directions to reach the gas station, and after you complete, the person may thank and just leave or even crack a joke like: “well this city is a maze, thank you good sir” you smile at that person  after he or she leaves you would feel jolly and relived, the amazing part is your emotion was triggered and do you know the reason behind that brief smile was not that joke, but you felt happy because you helped someone that day.

You get the similar feeling when you feed stray animals or even feed birds or give them water, there is a study which says when you interact with animals you seem to be happy and healthy, I feel this is so right because we belong to this nature, it is like the circle is complete when you take such initiatives, because your body expects you to be natural.

When you give a speech to a large audience or may be class elocution, you come out with that glow in your brain which reflects on your face, just recollect that confident face after you finished a speech which you spent some quality time to prepare.

We hardly sit on our seats when a rock band is playing because they make you feel totally stress free with their music. So we all need to talk more to people build new networks, help animals and also humans, take part in discussions which will help you mature as person and discuss challenges if you wish to,  it helps you to feel lighter and clears your brain from the dirt made by your worries and your stress.

Talk more, help the needy and spread happiness. Thanks for your time have a great week ahead.

End of Line

Hello readers 

Hope you all are doing well.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

-Bob Marley

We all have a breaking point in almost all things we do every day, the simple reason is that we all are material beings and we tend to bend and bow and again straighten up.

When we try to discuss about the human nature it too has an end of line, well what is it? Let us find out.

How many of us can say that we are totally selfless and are ready to prove it? Well in this generation I think the answer is almost zero, except for some great souls, whom I won’t name as you know that they live around you and always think for your well-being before they sleep.

So everything will come to halt at one point or we can say a stage that is when you are asked about selfishness. Here the everything that I am refereeing is our normal behaviour.

Of course it is difficult to be totally selfless, only great people could reach that stage which is actually  a honourable one.

What is that engulf the selflessness person in you?  The exact opposite yes you are right selfishness! Let’s define a process here with a simple example.

John wants to eat an apple, at the same time jack his brother happens to meet him and asks him if he could share that apple with him, John does not hesitate and gladly offers him a piece at the same time Jill friend of John  happen to pass by and asks for a share.

John is now little bit reluctant to share it with his friend and replies “I am sorry. This apple is spoilt I was about to trash it” Jill leaves in disappointment. What happened here was a classic case of selfishness.

When you take  this example psychologically, we understand that the subject lied about the apple when the person 2(Jill) asked him for the share, now why did this happen?

We humans are the immediate descendants of the apes. Ok... let me say the mutant relatives of the apes. Our ancestors followed the nomadic culture of gathering food and moving from one place to another.

So when there is a question of food, we always keep our share so that we don’t endanger our own lives!

Scientists have gathered many such  examples on the behaviour pattern of humans in these  weird ways,  the most common place we can observe is when you’re a standing in a queue, I am sure you will remember the quarrel when you saw someone barging in by breaking the queue.

So when it comes to your own life the selfishness in you or the simple 3 letter word comes to picture that is “Ego” the strange part is  we are alive today psychologically only because of ego, because finally you live for yourself because it gives you pleasure in doing things the way you want to do it.

Let me make a suggestion here, agreed we must be egoistic to certain extent  as that is basic law how nature has designed us, but keep your ego in the back seat your car of life strap it up safely and drive your car with the co-passengers of selflessness, gratitude, and compassion towards all creatures on this earth.

Let us all fix a goal today to live in a world with more compassion towards  each other, let go the ego at places where it is not required and go freely enjoy the beautiful earth.

Stop taking things personally when they are told to you and reacting like an ape without even thinking why it was told. Your biological age will earn you respect if and only if it has correlation with your psychological maturity.

Thanks a lot for your time, have a great week ahead. 

The Unknown Groups.

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

“Birth is but the beginning of a trajectory to death; for all their love, parents cannot halt it and in a sense have “given us to death” merely by giving us birth.”
- Anonymous, the Upanishads.

We all enjoy spending time with our own happy tiny groups, and this starts with the first group in almost everyone’s life that is a family, followed by many groups.

But there are some groups which are spread worldwide and you do not know that some random person in some other part of the globe belongs to your group.But still I would say he is in your group.

Does it seem cryptic and change the meaning of a group? Actually yes but I follow an open group policy which extends beyond the boundaries where my voice can reach, or my phone can reach, if you ask me if I am talking about telepathic groups? The answer would be a partial yes, but here the situation is not so hypothetical or some old folk tale where people could communicate in telepathy, this is more realistic.

For instance you are walking past the road, you see a rash motorcycle rider rams a small puppy and just raves his engine and flees from the scene, the puppy is bleeding you see some people just gazing at it like a street play, but when you see it you feel sorry for the poor animal and you give him some water and a group of students see this and decide to accompany you and you all take him to vet and get him treated.

Here we have to infer two aspects of psychology and the doctors call it group formation and dynamics, when the dog was hit by the vehicle, a group of people were just seeing the dog and were still in an apprehension and deciding whether to help the dog or not, whereas you the moment you saw what was happening, it just you hit  like a reflex action hence you did not to think twice and help the dog, and you were later joined by some folks who shared the same common empathy and sympathy you had.

Eureka! There you have the two groups that was formed. The passive group and the active group you are part of the active group, please remember you do not know those school children, but you shared a smile with them and you all coordinated from the starting of the event till the end.

Is that not just beautiful? you helped an injured animal formed a group, now if you and the students pass by in the same street each day may be one day , you would become the best of friends. So imagine in this world the probability of forming of such groups for causes like fighting injustice or feeding the poor and saving the environment and so on is almost infinity, and suppose we all were connected to each other the possibilities are unlimited, imagine how many unknown groups may be present in this world at this moment ? suppose we all were united with a good goal to achieve who can stop us?

Networking is very much important in this era of virtual social networking, because you will definitely feel more happy when you meet a person face to face and accomplish some goal, rather than doing it on a web portal, we need many more groups with great mind-sets and frequencies which have fresh thoughts in their mind, the intention to serve this world and which will definitely make this world a better place to live.

Try to be part of as many groups as you can in this world,  as said in the Maha Upanishad as वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam) which means this whole world is a family. I feel we must all follow this divine thought from one of the world’s most respected books.

Thanks for your time have great week ahead.