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To the sons of India

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We have been celebrating Independence day for many years. But still a question arises in mind: Are we really free and independent ? We are mad about materialism. We abuse our Motherland and fly abroad. We are ready to compromise anything if we get paid high. We do useless tasks in foreign lands for the sake of money and procrastinate India. Braindrain is the critical tragedy of India. Man is becoming more self centered day by day. We are not ready to let go in family. We choose to live in nuclear family now. Human relations have lost aroma. They are more artificial now. Actually we are being professional. We are crazy about Economic development and Technical development. We ignore Human development and Character development for that. Moral and spiritual values have been  degrading everyday. Humanity is being hunted. We are giving priority to foreign languages. We consider the most scientific and rich language Sanskrit is dead now. A few is interested in learning it.

The life heroic

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Heroes! In any field! We watch them, listen to them, follow them. We call them the top influencers of the age. We try to think and act like them. And we hardly give attention to losers. Even we ignore them. Our definition of success is the man with all possessions. We think that the man is successful when he is highly educated, having a high post, having a bang in banking, having a big bungalow and a luxury car, and so on. Let us try to go deep into this. It may be possible that who is having all these, lost his mental balance, or damaged his physical health, or degraded in family values, or descended in spiritual values. They may have compromised many other aspects of life in achieving worldly articles and artifacts. Aren't we find it necessary to think over it? It is very difficult to decide success or failure. What seems to be a success, maybe outer glitter only. What seems to be a failure, maybe an inner ecstasy. In the right sense, success or failure doesn’t matter. Wha

Nay, do not grieve; gay and glee

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Sarojini Naidu was known by the sobriquet “The Nightingale” of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu was a great patriot, politician, orator, and administrator of all the famous women of India. Not only that, but she was truly one of the jewels of the world. Her birthday is celebrated as “Women's Day.” This is a tiny poem written by her in days when India was struggling for freedom. Having new hopes and dreams; everyone was foreseeing India as an Independent Nation. Every Indian patriot was fighting for a new dawn of freedom. Days were deep dark and India lost esteem. In such dead dreamy nights, Naidu wrote wonderful lines and spread new aspiration. These beautiful lines through rays of light in such gloom. It’s ancient, but the poem is relevant today as well. It’s the jewel of wisdom. When we face such gloom in life, it gives a ray of hope. It inspires us to rise above in struggle of life. Trials and trifles don’t sustain forever

Character of a happy man

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Happiness is the at most quality in human life. We endeavor whole life to pursue it. Strange thing is that people sought it in different things. Yet for centuries the standing question in front of mankind is: where is happiness ? Mostly we search for it outside. Spiritual leaders and philosophers have quested a lot and enlightened the mankind. And the answer is: ultimate happiness resides within us all. It is in our perception, in the way of thinking and living. When we process milk we get butter. Same is the case with happiness. When we look within, change within, process within, we get it. When thoughts are sublimed, feelings and experiences are changed. If we have all and yet not happy; need to think over it. Ultimate goal of life and all endeavor can be the happiness only. We must process and develop it within. And one who has developed it, how he acts and how he behaves ? It is very interesting and amusing to know the character of a happy man. Here is a small easy poem

The art of marriage

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The little things are the big things. It is never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once a day. It is never going to sleep angry. It is at no time taking the other for granted; the courtship should not end with the honeymoon. It should continue through all the years. It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives. It is standing together facing the world. It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family. It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy. It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways. It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have wings of an angel. It is not looking for perfection in each other. It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor. It is having the capacity to forgive and forget. It is giving each ot

Waiting

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Patience is not only an ability to wait; but being steady, calm and serene while waiting out of faith. It’s about to withstand with equanimity. In an hour of waiting, we babble against time and fate. It’s nothing but one kind of complaining. We prattle or bloviate; but instead of it we can believe; my shall come to me. Though Burroughs was burdened by many problems and responsibilities at the time, thought the outlook for the future was anything but promising, he did not “rave against time or fate.” He did not become bitter, impatient, resentful. He looked within himself and found his own tranquility. In the midst of turmoil and uncertainty he was able to write, “Serene, I fold my hands and wait.” We reap what we have sown. It is inevitable. We can not avoid it. Fruits will be ripen and meet me at right time and in the right space. It is assured to come. As a brook springs and sprints in the rain; it draws and flows certainly. In this disquieting times, “Waiting” ha