By Neeraj Bajpai
Strong
winds were buffeting a
humongous white tent where an avalanche of thought provoking sentences was quietly
pummeling minds of a sea of humanity.
At Kanha Shanti Vanam on the outskirts of Hyderabad recently,
At Kanha Shanti Vanam on the outskirts of Hyderabad recently,
A Simpleton,clad in yellow kurta, was sailing
against tide of technology intensively contemporary life styles, and was profusely
batting for use of technology like a salt in a lentil soup.
He spoke about
tension ridden lives of people, caught in cleft stick of daily pressures and
pulls both at working places and domestic fronts and panacea for such ills,
assailing the international community.
It was the morning
of July 23, 2017 and Master Kamlesh Patel,
current head of The Mission ,which is spearheading global programme of heartfulness meditation, wanted this civil officer to share his thought process
with the gathering which was overflowing with young ,many of them were IT and
other professionals from all walks of life.
The assembly
at the Kanha center of the mission had rainbow presence of various castes,
creeds, regions and countries on the occasion.
The Bureaucrat,
currently posted as Additional Director General of Police, Mumbai, unveiled a
prescription for people to rid themselves of tensions while instilling virtues
in children and discharging their duties as parents to make the generations
strong and healthy.
Asking youth
to make a definite plan of value addition in their personalities, he recalled
famous story of America’s Basketball player Michael Jordan.
When the player
was very young his father summoned him and handed over a one Dollar worth
Jersey. He commandeered him to sell that in two Dollars. The perplexed boy
strained nerves to accomplish the task and went to the market place with a
friend who used to play guitar. The duo performed with Jersey at the center of
attraction. A customer emerged from gathered onlookers and bought that at the
prescribed price. The elated boy ran to father with two dollar bills as a trophy.
The father
had a different plan and he gave him another jersey and asked to sell that with
a tag of one hundred bucks.The young boy wondered how could it be, but did not
give up. He painted Mickey Mouse cartoons on the Jersey to capitalise Kids’ craze.
No sooner, he landed in the market, the Jersey was sold off on the desired
price.
Next time, His
unrelenting father convinced with latent talent of his son’s cutting edge
abilities, presented him a jersey and said it should be sold at a whopping
price 500 Dollars. That was the challenge but Casablanca in the boy decided to
carry out the orders. He toyed with an idea while flipping through morning
newspaper reports that American Pop Singer Michael Jackson is staying in a
hotel in his township. He set himself at the gates of the hotel.
As Michael
Jackson emerged from the hotel, he spotted the boy with the jersey. The singer
casually asked him why he was there. The young boy handed over him a marker and
sought his autograph on the jersey. The moment he got jersey signed by the
world famous singer, he went to market flaunting that like a plaque on the
sale. He soon got the desired price.
Narrating
the story, the senior cop said it was the typical case of value addition. Each time,
value was added to the jersey ,its price shot up.
In the same
way, each youth should explore ways to add value to their personalities on
daily basis. One day, they will realise, he or she is a different personality.
He asked
them to imbibe spirit of taking their mental selfie every day to assess growth. They should try mental selfie should be brighter with every passing
day with value addition. They should nurse ambition of having their own photographs
in text books rather than pasting and enjoying their selfies on Facebooks and other social
media handles.
Laxmi
Narayana said recently he visited a school and interacted with students. He
asked them how many of them had face book friends and a student of class eight
standard said he had 1000 friends. He enquired how he managed them.
The boy innocuously
replied that he spends two hours daily on face book and says good morning to everyone,
and this is how the list is swelling.
The speaker ,in return, advised him to post mail on the Facebook that his school had hiked the
fee by Rs.50, 000 and his father could not afford that so each one of them can
share the burden a bit.
The student complied
the advice, but after a few days he told Laxmi Narayana that the list had shrunk
and hardly a few give reply to him now. The student realised the reality. The speaker
advised youth to have limited friends and felt even four true friends who could
read his face can be the real ones.
He said the
technology should be used like a salt in lentil soup He advised youth to read
books daily rather then remained glued to computer screens and if they develop habit
of reading good and healthy books, they will soon find that their stature is
rising. And, people will be commenting Look here! , A moving encyclopedia
is passing through.
He advised
women with folded hands to impart best virtues. For example, they can add
one additional bread to their Kids' tiffin every day with an advice share that with
any classmate or schoolmate who could not bring the lunch box because of any
reason –like his or mother was ill that day. This drill instills a feeling of sharing in
kids and it will remain with them as lifelong virtue.
He recalled
teachings of former President Late APJ Kalam who was
advising to youth to create center of excellence around them by following four
mantras .Each one should respect parents, teachers, read good books and develop
good and healthy friendships.
The speaker
asked youth to nurse ambition that they should develop personality in a
manner that one day he should address the gathering as chief guest in the institution
from he or she had passed out, parents should be proud of them to bring laurels
to the family, city and nation.
Rather than
running after celebrities for autographs, they should nurse a dream that those
celebrities should pine for his autograph while standing in the queue.
He said The
BMI (body mass index) should be less for each individual, but here (The
Mission) participators should have maximum BMI (body, mind and Intellect) because
of meditation.
He told the
assembly that the mediation works wonders and if they want to up check its
efficacy vis-à-vis adverse impact of electronic gadgets like mobile phones,
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi etc, they should place plants in different environs for a month
. Later on, they will find that the at the place of mediation, the plants’ growth
would have been most healthy.
He said
Youth should take pledge of making the country as best in the world. The
whole world should say country should be like India and citizen should be like Indian.
APJ Kalam had that vision and was always envisioning to accomplish the goal by
2020 when the international community should feel proud to sport Jerseys
emblazoned with word “India”.
Drawing an analogy,
he narrated another story. A street beggar was sitting on a small wooden case
seeking alms from passersby for 30 years
.One day,a man came and enquired whether he ever bothered to check what was
their inside well chiseled wooden box .
The beggar
said he was focused on seeking alms for years and he had nothing to do what was
inside. The man insisted and gave a hundred rupees note to him to open the case.
To his utter surprise when the lid was removed, the case was full of jewels,
golden coins, silver bars and diamonds cut diamonds. Human beings are like
that, they are full of all potential and only thing one has to introspect and rip
open hidden treasure to make society and nation strong.
According to
him, each country has got its own USP (Unique selling proposition) Like in US,
the government always tries to find ways to improve lifestyle of common people
and that is their USP , in UK, It has different … USP ,and India’s USP is spirituality. He said seeing god in other individual and
work with dedication and honesty, is the spirituality.
He aired
concerns over rising cases of suicides
and other social tensions and said In civil services, officers were supposed to
undergo annual medical examination .he took such tests and medical experts parroted
same question whether he was having deep sleep or not . According to them, if
you have mental peace then only any individual can have sound sleep and health. He said meditation
imparts mental peace – key to success and health.
Winding up,
He commended spirit of humanity in the sea of humanity in Kanha Centre and said
he was moved by way volunteers were working with dedication may it be in massive
kitchens, toilets or any other services
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