THE COMMON MAN AND THE SPIRALING PRICES.

Spiraling Prices and Common Man. “Misery acquaints people with strange bed-fellows.” ManMohan Singh was then in the Planning Commission. It was in the year 1983. He was in the lawns of Circuit House. I asked him. I :- “Today the rupee is worth 22 paise, a Rupee. What happens when rupee will be zero paise a Rupee? He looked at me if it was the silliest question he was asked. With his hand on his beard, and a cup of tea in the other, he replied. ManMohan: “Nothing happens.” “The Unit will be two rupees.” “It will be two rupees worth hundred paise and so on.” He was unmoved with the falling of the unit of currency, the rupee. Today the unit of currency is ten rupees worth a hundred paise. The rulers do not bother. It is taken as a natural phenomenon. The downfall of the unit of currency has taken a toll of the common man. Sugar is sold at Rs.40. In Morarji’s time it was Re1.75 a kg. in 1978. The Agriculture Minister is the Sugar King. He is responsible for the rise in prices of agricultural commodities. Food items are the basics for a population of a billion. There is an all round increase of prices in all fields. Government raises their hands in helplessness. Then what for the government is if it can not address basic ill of the country?

THE Basics of Share Business.

Sound Portfolio Management. A Cistern contains and a Fountain overflows. It is not 2+2 = 4. It is 2+2 = 22 business. It is not the school and college education that counts in life. In practical life something more than just grades is required. It is your guts, insight, audacity bravado daring way that counts. It is not important how much money you make in life. It is important how much money you keep in your life. We come across cases of stock market winners who were poor. Suddenly stock market winners become rich, then poor again. They win millions and were soon back to where they began. If you want to be rich you should be financially literate. You have to lay emphasis on the art of mastering financial literacy. You have to have a solid foundation of financial insight into it. One has to master the art to learn the intricacies of financial trend. The words assets and liability makes sense only to an accountant. Asset is your capital having commercial or exchange value. Liability is the claim on your assets. In actual life definition of asset is in numbers. What defines an asset is not words but numbers. If you cannot read the numbers, you cannot tell an asset. It is called the need of learning the art of comprehension. Therefore the successful ones acquire assets and we acquire liabilities. Asset is something that puts money in my pocket. Liability is something that takes money out of my pocket. Therefore you have to master the art to buy asset and not liability If you are having difficulty in your business, you are not reading numbers. To be rich and to stay rich, you have to be financially literate in numbers. You have to monitor the cash-flow like a flow of drinking water in a cistern. Profit and loss measures income and expenses. You do not work for money but money works for you.

OPPORTUNITY COMES RARE IN LIFE. GRAB IT.

Opportunities in Life. During his life-span man comes across opportunity. He has to be alert or receptive to grab the opportunity. No man can climb the ladder to success without a basis. An opportunity in life gives you the basis for a successful life. Many men have been seen grumbling about having no opportunity. Many men wait for opportunity happen to them in their life. Everyman’s innermost desire is for something to happen. They turn a despairing gaze over the solitude of their life, seeking some white sail in the masts of horizon of life. But nothing happens. They have been saying that God had willed it so. To them their future is a dark corridor with its door closed. What you have to fear is fear itself. You are afraid of the insecurity of life. You do not take an initiative or risk in life. Take a lesson from the life-style of others. Give yourself a position not less than that of Anil. Try to respect your self first and foremost. Behave like Anil. Anil is no God. He had a handle, Dhirubhai was his handle. Create a handle. Life is easy. Do not wander about here and there aimlessly. Take a tour of the country. See everything. You will find your way.

SILENCE IS GOLDEN.

Importance of Observing Silence. “Mahatma Gandhi during his lifetime, observed Monday as the day of his observing silence. He spoke nothing at all for one day and observed silence. He believed that keeping himself silent was a way to bring order to the Mind.” If circumstances required the Mahatma to convey something, he would write it on a paper. No talking for 24 hours is an impossible job unless one has an iron will and steel determination to observe silence. No talking is extra hard for regular people who are talkative. People are seen to talk about almost anything and everything, Including baseball, basketball, cricket, music, movies, politics and anything under the sky. In reality, if one has to shut up for five minutes, it is very difficult, if not impossible. You will feel the top of your head about to explode. People keep talking for the sake of talking so that their presence may be felt. He feels by talking he is in charge of the situation. It is sort of like behaving like a police officer out in the middle of the traffic. After passing a full day of silence, your mind will enable you to speak the right words. Your small words uttered in a routine way will sound to others as orders. Every word you speak counts. Choose power words. Singing is not talking. We can sing together. We can not talk together. Silence is golden. Silence is eloquent. Too much of talking drives the other people crazy. Do we call ourselves civilized? We would project as a miserable aimless directionless mob. When we are together in a procession, we do not shout, wave, yell and hoot at friends who are passer-by. At a meeting we do not whisper and giggle and point out and wave and laugh at our silly jokes. And when we are together at the lunch table, it is not free-for-all festival to blab. Lunch is a time to sit and be quiet and eat.

COLLEGE EDUCATION. HARVARD HOLDS ITS NAME.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.Freshmen Arrive at the HARVARD. Best Education Faculty. Route 495 East. Exit. 29. Harvard Complex of Education. Harvard College. Cambridge. Boston. MA 02138 Regarding admission. Phone: (617)495-1551 (617)495-8821. e.mail:- college@harvard.edu Application for admission has to be made on a plain paper. There is no printed prescribed form for admission. You have to furnish details in your bio-data. All emphasis is on the tran-script and your performance. You have to enclose your views on any one subject, on a separate paper in the style of an essay. You have to attach a separate sheet stating your extra-curricular activities. Obtain recommendations of two of your teachers. Get recommendation of one Counsellor to fill out your recommendation. MIMP All depends on who recommends you. All depends on who your Counsellor is. Recommendation from a Senator or a Congressman or Governor helps.

YOU AND YOUR HOROSCOPE.

Horoscope The Stars and Planets impel. They do not compel. What does compel is the force of your will. Astrology helps to get in control of it. Astrology is necessary, not because it reveals what is happening, But rather astrology illuminates what is already in store for you. Planetary forces are like waves of an ocean. They can bring about, movements, tension, and dynamic turn of events in your life. It is up to you where you let them take you. It is not a story of your fate or the pre-determined future. Astrology is a key to a creative, disciplined and more meaningful life. With the available latitude of your place of birth and time of birth, the astrologer engages himself in mathematical calculations. He refers to the astronomical charts and he prepares your horoscope. The astrologer calculates the relationships of the planets and its effect, An astrologer can predict special facts about your life. Each of these planets represent a specific energy field. All the planets are confined in a tabular chart to study their energy field. Every person has his destiny shaped and fixed long before the body came into being. Each individual has the energies reflected as per the placements of the planets. The astrological chart is the sum total of potentialities of your life. See the oceans. The moon rules the ocean tides. There are up and downs as per the lunar vibrations. In the same manner our lives are governed by the movement of the planets.

THE ETFs. EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS.

Exchange Traded Funds. (ETFs) How Times Have Changed? Forget All That America Does Is Good. US stocks for the last five years are on a decline. This is uncommon since great depression of 1929. Some Basic Reality. In 1970 US Stock represented 2/3 of World’s Equity Market. In 2009 US Stock represented 1/3 of World’s Equity Market. Giant Companies based out of USA, dominate World’s major Industries including Cars and Electronics. 8 out of 10 Automobile Companies are located out of USA. 8 out of 10 Electronics Companies are located out of USA. China and Japan have largest economy after USA. China and Japan companies have low correlation with US Companies than European Stocks. An Investor achieves greater diversification benefits by Investing in China Japan and India. The fulcrum of economy has shifted from USA to China Japan and India. 21st Century belongs to Asia. 20th Century belonged to USA. 19th Century belonged to Europe.

HUMAN LIFE OF HE Vs. SHE.

HE Vs. SHE. Adam Vs. Eve. The wise never marry. After marriage they be otherwise. Love ceases to be pleasant when it ceases to be a secret. I am not a jealous woman but I don’t know what he sees in her. Give me that man who is not passion’s slave. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. A Woman seeks a Tiger in her Man. Forewarned is Fore-armed. A woman wishes a Tiger in her life. They will not admit. That is the beauty of it. They will deny and deny. No is no negative in a girl’s mouth. That is the beauty of it. They can offend and will make up at their pleasure. She wavers, she hesitates; in a word, she is a woman. They win the battle of love mostly at college level in their play-fields. Seeing is believing. Gold and woman attract everyone. Girls pull the boys to them as a nail is pulled by a magnet. What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expect happens. The Boy is hooked, booked and cooked. As unto the Bow is the Cord, So unto the Man is the Woman. Though She bends Him; She obeys Him. Though She draws Him; She follows Him. Useless Each other without Each. Love sought is good but given unsought is better.

SCRAP-SHIPS

SHIP BREAKING YARDS. At the end of their sailing life, ships vessels and floating structures are sold as scrap for their steel. Greece is the place where auction of such ships takes place. A ship for breaking is sold ordinarily between two to five million US dollars. The Principal purchaser are generally shaikhs in Dubai. They buy such ships for ship-breaking, making payment in US dollars. Such ships are sent to ship-breaking yards-say Alang ship-breaking yard, Bombay, Sachana etc. In India they have their syndicate in New Delhi runs this business. The Syndicate pays the Principal in kind by exporting equivalent valued foodstuff butter cheese,grains pulses-in short everything as indented by the Principal. After fulfilling customs formalities ship-breaking takes place in under-developed countries Bangladesh, Pakistan India China etc. Such ship breaking activity turns our green good sea-beach into dirty graveyards. Such ships brought for ship-breaking also contain hazardous material like asbestos lead paint,PCBs (poly-chlorinated biphenyls) in engine oils. During the process of scrapping hazardous poisonous gas is found released in the environment. Every year about 700 such ship are taken out of actual sea-faring and put into auction for scrapping. About 300 such ships account for our share in ship-breaking approximately. Such ships ordinarily travel under flag of convenience available at cheap rates from countries like Panama, Malta Cyprus etc. Ship masters have the right to sail under any flag they choose. Ships are registered in such countries where rules are not strict. Shipping companies and ship-owners remain incognitio -their origin can not be traced. Everything is done by petty contractors middlemen etc. They make huge profits from selling such old ships but do not bear the burden of undertaking a follow-up clean break-up of the ship. Here they raise their hands. The International Maritime Organization has issued clear cut guidelines for follow up action till completion of the breaking process by the sellers of such old vessels. In our country, the Honorable Apex Court of India rendered yeoman's service by issuing guidelines on lines of the IMO plus the Lordships have also issued directives that prevents dumping of hazardous wastes in the country, and the ship has also to be delivered with 'gas free for hot works' certificate as per Indian Laws. Their Lordships have stressed that the Basel Convention was applicable to export of such ships to our country as it amounts to one and the same thing like export of hazardous materials to our country; and that 'gas-free for hot work' should be made compulsery for the ship owner and that no ship be given permission to beach unless such certificate is produced. Any explosion irrespective of the certificate should result in cancellation of the plot holder's license and the Explosives Inspector prosecuted. The Pollution Control Board has issued instructions to observe the said precautions. It has also directed to remove asbestos and other hazardous waste on board of the ship and store it at a landfill in the hinterlands adjacent to the ship-breaking yards. This directive is uncalled for as it does not address the illegalities of import of such hazardous wastes into the ship-breaking yards. Many agencies have visited the ship-breaking yards of Alang, Bombay to monitor environmental pollution. Syndicates have very long hands and everything has remained on paper. There is complete ban on diamond polishing in the western countries being hazardous to health. They send all their diamonds for trimming polishing shining to underdeveloped countries. There is complete ban on manufacture of synthetic organic dyestuffs being hazardous to the environment. Such SODyes are manufactured in India. They import it from India. Pollution Control Board and Courts have issued innumerable guidelines but they are of no avail. Time is now ripe for public awakening. At a little distance from Alang, at Pipavav, the Japan Car manufacturing company financed the Delhi syndicate for establishing a modern ship breaking yard. This ship-breaking yard is now ready but it is delayed for want of last minute green signal from the Government. As per arrangement, every year Japan renders 200 vessels for scrapping. These vessels would be scrapped at Pipavav. The cut steel would go Japan for use in their automobile plants. This arrangement was done during the earlier regime between 1985 to 90. Now that this party has come to power, it will be shortly commissioned. In short it is time now to enforce the directives issued by the Honorable Supreme Court of India. In Japan their Government have refused permission to establish a ship-breaking yard in Japan sea-waters. India welcomes everything. This state of affairs has to stop now.

ENORMOUS SCOPE OF MEDICAL TOURISM IN INDIA.

MEDICAL TREATMENT IN INDIA. There was a time when you could run a clinic with a doctor and one nurse. But the urban healthcare has undergone such a huge change that the earlier scenario might sound straight from the middle ages. The high-end hospitals are run more like luxury hotels and offer quality treatment. This coupled with cutting-edge research has ensured a plethora of job opportunities for the aspirants. So while the investment bankers or software engineers were left grappling with the pink slips this year, healthcare not only grew but continued spawning many industries. Healthcare IT, health insurance, hospital management, pharmaceutical, medical devices to medical tourism are just some of them. "There are four factors changing the face of medicine - corporatization, availability of high end technology, rise of medical insurance and rigorous government initiatives in the rural India," Currently it is estimated to be a USD 35 billion industry, it is expected to reach USD 150 billion by 2017. While world class treatment is becoming almost a norm in high-end hospitals, the cost of treatment is still way less than the developed countries. It costs a tenth and sometimes a sixteenth of what it does in the West. Thanks to this the medical tourism is the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry. It will attract 1.1 million patients by 2015. This means that healthcare management would become a sought after area as one needs competent professionals to deal with the marketing, operational and administrative side of the high-end hospitals. The areas which are seeing maximum growth and ground-breaking research are reproductive medicine, plastic surgery, endocrinology, oncology and cardiology. Apart from this, newer specialization are also in the pipeline. Emergency service has long been a recognized specialization in the developed countries. Recently, the Medical Council of India (MCI) gave it thumbs up and colleges across India have been notified to offer it as a post graduate discipline. Geriatric medicine or the care of the elderly is another area to watch out for in the future. "While it is already in existence in countries such as USA and UK, in India it would require more attention as life expectancy is on a rise and so are the ailments associated with the elderly," While the cities seem to be getting the best of the healthcare, the government has taken initiative to address rural areas as well. In 2005, the National Rural Health Mission was launched to provide accessible, affordable and accountable quality health services to the poor in the remotest of regions. In order to attract more doctors to the peripheral areas, incentives in terms of salaries and reservation in post graduate seats are on offer. But there is a major roadblock which most aspirants have to deal with - the lack of postgraduate seats. "According to the official estimates one in two graduates gets to do a postgraduate in medicine. But I fear that even these are optimistic figures,"

EMERGENCY FIRST AID KIT IN EVERY HOME.

EMERGENCY FIRST AID KIT. First Aid. What we anticipate, seldom occurs; What we least expected, generally happens. Emergencies can happen any time. It may be the house, the office or when we are in the car. We hear of unfortunate stories of accidents which could have been prevented with First Aid measures. If we know what we can do, it can save lives. Stay calm. Do not loose your patience. What you need to know is easy safety tips, first aid, supplies and awareness till help comes. Some hints may help. They are as under. Keep a first aid kit box in the house and one in the car. Use First Aid and life saving techniques, and call emergency number. Affix on the kit box important call numbers in an emergency. Remember the four B’s. Breathing. Bleeding. Broken Bones and Burns. 3. Make the home safe, against Carbon monoxide, gas leak and fire. If there is heavy bleeding from wounds, stop bleeding. Call emergency van. If there is head injuries, look for lump, wound, cut. pain or unconsciousness. Do not remove objects like glass splinters nail etc from wound. Call medical help. 4.Food poisoning. Food quality, when in doubt, throw it out. 5.Electric injuries. Make sure electric current is off before touching the victim. 6.Allergic reaction. Look for blisters, sneezing red face swelling of tongue ears face. 7.Fainting. let him sit down head between the knees. Do not give any drink. Poisoning. Blood vomit. look for container, keep it. Call emergency. no time waste. Disasters like flood fire earthquakes. Choke out a basic line of action in your mind. It is the job of the head of the family to have plan for eviction in such times. Give a thought in your mind how would you react in an emergency to save family. A thought in this direction will help you to save your family and you will not be taken unawares.

ENGLAND- A KINGDOM WAS LOST WITH FREEDOM OF INDIA.

A kingdom was lost. Jawahar Lal Nehru. Every 14th November we celebrate Pandit Nehru’s Birthday. He was the First Prime Minister from 1947-to 1964. He was the son of Motilal Nehru. He was sent to England at 16. He stayed there for 8 years. He studied Latin, playing Cricket at Harrow. He studied science and read Canterbury Tales of Chaucer at Cambridge. He was great social success in English society. He moved easily through their drawing rooms absorbing English values and culture. So complete was his transformation that he was an English-man when he returned to India at the age of 24. Nehru applied for membership at local English Club, at Allahabad. He may have been a product of Harrow and Cambridge, but to the Club, he was an Indian and was denied admission. And that was the end of the British. This bitterness of rejection motivated him to join Congress. He accepted Gandhiji as Guru. Gandhiji would not accept him so easily. He asked Nehru to tour India and report what he saw, and his views, on all he saw. Nehru set out on a tour of the country which inspired him to write Discovery of India.

WILD LIFE SMUGGLING.

Wild Life smuggling. The Punishment is too Soft. Man Caught at Air Port with 44 Lizards in his Pants. In New Zealand. A German traveller stuffed 44 small lizards into his underwear before trying to board a flight has been sentenced to prison for plundering the country's protected species. He will spend 14 weeks behind bars and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,040) fine before being deported to Germany as soon as he is released. He was caught by wildlife officials at Christchurch International Airport on South Island in December, about to board an overseas flight with 44 geckos and skinks in a hand-sewn package concealed in his underwear He admitted trading in exploited species without a permit and hunting absolutely protected wildlife without authority, pleading guilty to two charges under the Wildlife Act and five under the Trade in Endangered Species Act. He could have faced maximum penalty of NZ$500,000 ($355,000) and six years in prison. The geckos may have been worth 2,000 euros ($2,800) each on the European market. He had also been to New Zealand in 2001, 2004, 2008, and 2009. In 2008, he had been with a Swiss reptile dealer.

A BATH IN COCOANUT OIL-FILLED DRUM.

Cocoanut Oil Bath. A scene on the brinks of (Kozhikode) Calicut, on the sea-shore of Kerala India. “There are sheds wherein one shed is increasingly getting popular. It performs the Kaya-Kalpa (body renovation) ceremony. You are soaked in Oil in a drum for hours. A wooden drum is filled with coconut oil. You are dumped in the drum and soaked and suffocated in oil from head to toe. Two men drag you out. You lie on a mat in sunshine in open in the sands. When the body has absorbed the oil, again the same cycle is repeated. You are put on the mat to dry. In the process you swallow a lot of oil. They clean the nose, ears and the stomach. A thin layer of cloth is passed through the nostrils. When the stomach is washed, you will find sickening sticky cough and beetle nut pieces and such other things recovered from the stomach, weighing about a kilo. This is a process from morning to evening. It is like servicing the human body. The bowels released vicious stored gas and secretion. After the process is over, you are advised to take rest and very light food for a week.” In the olden days before 50 years, the charge was INR 5000. Now it may be ten times. My father had it done. I had been with him in childhood. He lived ten years longer. Cocoanut- is God’s Gift. A boon to us. Green Cocoanut. Cut-opened with a knife, in front of you, put a straw in the carved hole to sip the cocoanut milk. The inner cream can be scraped with a spoon. Dry Cocoanut. When the coconut matures, its sweet water is nectar for human health. The brown fibre, husk is pulled out and used in coir industry. Grated or used for its milk, turned into candies, rice delicacies, and decorating Indian food dishes. When cocoanut green layer turns brown, and dry, the cocoanut surface cover turns hard like a rock. The sweet water inside is life giving water not found in any other fruit. The matured fruit inside has to be pulled out from the hard shell. It is allowed to dry and is the cocoanut fruit which bears coconut oil. The husk has many important uses for ropes. The hard shell is turned into cups, used in many ways. The trunk of the cocoanut tree is used as lumber. The leaves are used to make broom, used for roofing or making bags. The cocoanut tree is called the Tree of Life. Cocoanut Oil is edible and it has many other important uses.

AGRICULTURE REFORMS ARE OVERDUE.

RAIN RAIN RAIN..NAUGHTY RAIN GO AWAY. SACHIN WANTS TO PLAY. Loud roared the dreadful thunder, My cotton on the field was my blunder. Rain is unpredictable as her. I knew she will come; she knew it would rain cats and dogs. Nothing can make her pause or stay. She has her own way. Rain or shine, to her, they are fine. Where it rains, it pours. Where it is dry, it is real dry. There is no season for rain. It may rain, It may not rain. Life magazine has forecasted that on account of melting glaciers of the Himalayas, entire North India will have dry spell within the next 30 years. On account of construction of dam on the Brahmaputra river, there will be water shortage all around the north-eastern states, within the next ten years. The first floor neighbor does not want that India should get river water from rivers originating from Tibet. China is strategically situated on the head and shoulders of our country. It can cause any mischief any time any where all along the North East of the country. Reason? You have not to go to find it. India has more agriculture land than China. That’s it. China says Indian methods of agriculture are age old and outdated. The output is much more less than worse backward countries. Agriculture is concentrated in the hands of rich Land Holders. There is no progress to go in for collective type of Agriculture. China says China could feed the whole world out of the produce of agriculture from India based on modern and collective farming.

BE HEALTHY. KEEP HEALTH THAT MOCKS DOCTOR' S RULES.

Have Health That Mocks The Doctor’s Rules. No more coffee, no more tea for me, Milk and banana is good for me. No much sugar, no much salt for me, Honey cheese and pepper is good for me. No more potatoes, no more fries for me, Vegetable salad and butter-milk is good for me. No more medicine or sleep pills for me, A cup of warm milk at night is good for me. No more health club exercise for me, A hectic day in court is enough for me. Herein below is a list of items which are God’s gift. Coconut.Green. Coconut dry. Banana Tomatoes Carrots Potatoes Cabbage Coli-flower Spinach All Dry fruits. All sprouted pulses (specially wheat.) NB. In case of almond take about 20 dry almonds. Dip them in water for 2 days. Peel its skin. Then eat.

CHARMING INDIAN CITIES.

CHARM OF INDIAN CITIES. KOLKATTA MAD RAS CAL CUTTA MUMBAI BENARES People go to Mumbai to make money, To New Delhi to get power, To Kolkata, to survive. Benares excites our senses. Kolkata deadens our senses. In no other city on the earth, you can see tens of thousands sleeping under the stars, on the pavements. A constant flow of humanity jams the miles arcade along the Chaurangi street. The miracle is that this huge city with millions unemployed, functions. It has not become ungovernable. It somehow transports millions to and from work, water gurgles from the standing pipes in the slums. Electricity goes on and off during the day is common. In the midst of odds, they find work in hundreds of thousands of workshops, small cottage industries, tiny stores and stalls, shoeshine kits, and rickshaws. There are many thin, underfed people about, but no one is starving. Even more remarkable is the fact that human conduct in Kolkata despite its cracks and difficulties, has not degenerated. It is a big cultural centre of the country. Bengali poets dramatists, dancers have surpassed everyone in their creativity. Crime in Kolkata is minimum in comparison to other cities. The street sleepers do not cause trouble. They save every rupee to send their family in the villages. An enormous sense of responsibility guides the lives of these poor people and gives Kolkata a soul that other cities might envy.

INDIAN CRICKET TEAM IS A GANG OF 6 +6 PLAYING AGAINST EACH.

INDIAN CRICKET. “BOYS WILL BE BOYS.” Even that would not matter if The Coach had a tight rein over them. Take Dhoni, Rohit Virat for example. They were good chaps when they came. But fame and publicity spoiled them. They got around their own group of flatterers. They went so big by themselves, that they do’t practice. They and the Weed sneaked security on the Match night. The players do not heed their Coach. They are uncrowned kings. They are lacking in discipline. The team has turned out a gang of careless weeds. There is a split within. They are a six on one side and half a dozen on the other. If one group plays the other one is dormant and watching. If the other group play the first one do not play but watch. They don’t bother a billion hearts which are throbbing. They do not play as Team India. It is Team Dhoni Rohit Virat etc. There should be a tight rein of the Coach to check them.

FREEDOM DID NOT CHANGE THE COUNTRY.

AFTER ^* YEARS OF FREEDOM THE COUNTRY HAS NOT CHANGED. OUR COUNTRY AFTER 68 YEARS OF FREEDOM. One half of the nation is ill housed. One half of the nation is ill clad. One half of the nation is ill nourished. One half of the nation is ill looking. So little done; so much to do. Those in power fight like beggars. They are beggars sitting on the horseback. Every nook and corner Ascetics and Sages have gripped the nation. New and newer kinds of God and temples mushroom. When we see serpent carved on a stone, we pour milk. When we come across real serpent, we shout, ”KILL.KILL.” To a hungry man if served, he would eat, we say, GO AWAY. GO AWAY.” But to the Image of God, which can not eat, we offer dishes of food for him.

FASHION CHANGES FASTER THAN TIME.

FASHION TRAVELS FASTER THAN TIME. NEW FASHION IS OLD AGAIN. IT IS A CYCLE MOVING EVERY PERIOD. Big dignitaries right from Tokyo to Hong Kong to Singapore to Berlin to Paris to London to New York to Los-Angeles, - all wear the same fashion shoes. Fashion travels fast, faster than Time. Wrist-watch, hand phone, Goggles and pen have to be the costliest. Cartier gent’s sets of complete out fit were popular. Now there is some change. Artists and film stars have no standard. At dinner party or public-function, they are clad in suits. Otherwise they are seen in jeans and tee-shirts and Reebok shoes. You are known by the quality of your shoes. In college days, teddy boy pants were popular.. Then came the bell-bottoms, lasted for five years. In the matter of shirts, double cuff sleeves with Cuff-links was the order of the day. Then double-cuff sleeves with cuff-links gave way to plain Sleeve buttoned was the fashion of the day. In the matter of shirts size of the collar was important. Checks shirts were in fashion. In the matter suits double breasted suit was forefront. Then came the fashion with coat with three buttons and a slip at the back. Two buttons and one button fronts were in fashion. Now again three buttons coat is in fashion. Checks suit were in demand. Now dark suit with blue or grey check-shirts is in fashion. Different designers have different ideas about norms in fashion. In fact there are no such water compartment norms. What sells and what is popular is the norms. They change the collars in size and slips in the sides and so on. In the matter of Men’s Suits, every country wise fashion is different. Paris stitched suits are prominently identifiable, as Against conservative London tailored suits. In America suits come from China duly stitched, in all size and different price-range. They can be altered and adjusted as per one’s size. Neck-tie denotes the mood of the wearer. Red is for aggressive mood. Blue is for conciliatory mood And green is for peaceful mission.

WINNERS PASS COMMENTS, LOSERS STAND BYE WITH NO COMMENTS.

WHO CAN PASS COMMENTS? WINNER CAN MAKE COMMENTS. LOSER KEEPS MUM-NO COMMENTS. “We lost the match in the first fifteen minutes.” so said the defeated Captain of the Indian Team. The World hears what the Winners Speak. The Loser team should keep mum. A huge good story was lost because media printed his sob-story, how he lost in much detail. Life is a story of Winners. Winners take it all. Winners have a hay-day to tell anything. We like to hear what the Winners say. Losers have to hide behind their backs. Losers have no place in the world. Losers do not show their face to the world. Losers drowned in the first puddle they came across. If they can not drown, they should keep mum. People forgive twice, never thrice. Now go. Silence is golden. No comments is the best policy.

FOR ATTENTION OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA.

Country needs a Strong Finance Minister. To, the Prime Minister. Please start acting right now. You will be involved all the while in IS -terror field expansion. World Five don’t want you. You disturbed the World Balance of Power. You will be busy with world affairs India needs tight administration. To understand the problems faced by the common man, The PM needs to look out for a strong well-versed Finance Minister. If you want to stay in power, or win the elections, please note: You have to control the prices. You have to control the party infighting. Maharashtra and other states infighting for posts is everywhere. You have to find out other sources of income. No more taxes at any level centre, state or local. Make all work, run and deliver and accountable. Open counters at post offices to buy people’s scrap gold. Nationalize all temples and take the gold into custody. You select a devil strong FM if you want to survive next election. People forgive and voted for you once; never twice, unless you begin now.

WHITE AND COLOR MANIA.

We are mentally still suffering from inferiority after 60 years of freedom. We have to come out of this poor mentality. Even Anil has this defect. Both these brothers have studied at Wharton but has not come out of it. We suffer from inferiority complex. England could absorb royals church high dignitary kids in England. Kids of second class dignitaries were absorbed in services in India. In the pre-independence days brainless 25 year Boys ruled over India. Indian Kings and all used to fall at their feet for favours. England is just like say one of our states in area. These Boys arrived in the docks of Bombay at an age of 18 or so, to rule. There was no place for them in England. It was all filled up with progeny of Lords and all big dignitaries. These young boys were given a chance to prove their ability. They gave vent to their whims and imagination. They were about 3000 ICS officers and 20,000 army personnel as officers. The field and clerical staff etc were recruited from within the country. The soldiers were recruited from within the country. Battalions were put under charge of such army officers through out the country. They represented challenge, adventure and found the fulfilment of dreams. This was denied by their country because of their limited resources. These 23000 fellows governed the length and breadth of Greater India. These fellows emptied the treasures of India. They organized to send ship loads of opium tea, antiques, jewels, gold etc. The returning ships brought cigarettes, whisky, textiles etc. to sell in India, so to say ruin India by supplying hard drinks and smoking stuff and luxury goods

EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS.

The emerging middle-class. The degenerated middle class has to be regenerated. The religious institutions, charitable institutions, The big business houses have also a duty towards the working middle class. They have the ambition and aspiration and dreams to join the elite class of the rich and the elite. The IMF report indicates that by the end of 2020 300 million of the poor, shall cross over to the group of Middle-class. This translates into at least the need of 30 million houses, cars, ACs, Fridge, phones, computers. This is the reason that foreign countries like IBM, GE, And foreign car companies have rushed into India to sell their product. The UK and Hollywood film industry is suffering from the outcome of the present recession. The CA state has gone bankrupt. The Governor has issued IOUs as salaries to the staff. He visits every department and sorts out surplus items and puts them on sale with his autograph and all that stunt to raise money. The Butlers and Julia Roberts are jobless and hunting for roles in other countries. The Pats and Priyankas and SRKs, in awe of their white skin, pamper and dance and entertained them in their houses. In the past, these celebrity never looked, even glanced, at our people in their hay-day when they happened to stumble into each other at film festivals at Cannes, Berlin, Oscar.

THE TOTAL ECLIPSE.

THE ECLIPSE. IN RAINY WEATHER WHO CAN TELL, WHETHER WE WEEP OR NOT? WHO CAN SEE OUR TEARS? I DREADED THE SUN FOR ITS FIERCE HONESTY, I LOOKED STRAIGHT IN ITS EYES FOR BEING NASTY, POOR FELLOW COULD NOT MEET MY FIERCE GLANCES AND WAS SO AFRAID THAT IT PUT ON GLARE GLASSES. SO FIERCE WAS MY ANGER, SUN SAID HE WOULD SURRENDER. MY MOTHER SAID THE ECLIPSE WAS TOTAL, AND HAPPILY WE RETURNED TO OUR HOTEL. P.S. I ran to Mexico to write something tangible for the readers as a Gift. The glowing landscape where the flat figures move in ritual pattern, is one of Nature’s great creations. Places, people action all comes from a trip to Mexico. In the vividness and actuality of these elements, I found expression of my feelings and desire. I returned to my childhood days. It was an Eclipse day which I remembered in the midst of all the grandeur and beauty of Mexico. I jotted down the lines and it is my Gift as a gift to all READERS.

GOLD IS GOLD AND NEVER OLD.

GOLD IS GOLD. IT IS NEVER OLD. “Gold is the child of Laxmi.” “Neither moth nor rust can devoureth it.” “Gold is Gold. Everything else is rolled-gold.” “All that glitters is not Gold.” Gold is world’s rare metallic element. Chemical Symbol of Gold is AU. AU derived from Latin Aurea i.e.=Glowing. Gold has melting point at 1064 degree Centigrade. Several properties of Gold, its inability to react with water and oxygen. has made gold immortal in our life. World countries hold Gold stock as external official reserves. Stock of gold-holdings by Central Banks and International Organizations, Such stock works out at 32000 tons according to world council reports. Private holding of gold held by individuals, private organizations works out to 145000 tons. India is largest repository of gold stock in the hands of private individuals and organizations. It is rumoured that a member of royal family in India holds hundred tons of gold. Temples are reported holding gold stock in large quantity in different forms. GOLD ALCHEMY. Indians have claimed to have made gold by refining mercury and experimenting its liquidity by adding certain specific metals and minerals. Elixir experiments are reported in reality by RajVaidya Charanteerth Maharaj at Gondal Ras Shala in India. He was 92 in 1962., wearing saffron working 2 shift a day, with stenos changing every four hours. He was authority on Indian calendar. He has in his library 1000 years old manuscript and ancient documents of important events of India. Metals are made-up of certain quantity of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons in different properties in different metals. Theoretically speaking it can be possible to change base metal into gold by nuclear reaction where heavy radio active metals would get burned including some isotopes of gold. In practical field no experiment has so far proved successful. It is not possible to convert theoretical arithmetic into reality.

BEAUTY SLEEP.

SLEEP “Labour after soil, and sleep after toil.” “Sleep of the labouring man makes me boil.” “God be blessed for bestowing sleep.” “I slept and dreamt that life was beauty,” “I woke and found that life was duty.” Sleep does not come at the call of the kingdom Nor will sleep come when you asked it to come, Sure sleep shall come when you do not ask to come, Sleep is a Queen, shall come, unannounced, yet welcome, But to the labouring, hard working, sleep comes without said Sleep shall spring up unannounced, waiting like a maid, That is the glory and story of sleep as my teacher said. This is the glory of sleep which I have narrated not-paid.

MONEY GIVEN IN THE TEMPLES MUST GO TO THE NEEDY AND POOR.

TEMPLES HAVE TO HELP THE POOR. “Tell me, Priests of Religion !” “What is gold doing in a holy place?” Religion is one. It has many version. It is not understood why people throw money in the name of religion, in the temples ? Religion has not involved itself into welfare of the poor and needy. The money never goes to the poor and the needy. What is the use of construction of new temples? As it is, we have enough temples. Why that money should not be spent for the poor and the needy? The poor people have no houses to live by. Religious institutions should provide drinking water to the poor. Solving the drinking water problem is easy. In every village, there were old wells, step-wells, artisan wells which have become obsolete because of lack of maintenance. They have to be located and repaired and made fit to store water. It will cost less than to make new wells, step-wells or artisan wells for the village. Old wells, step wells have to be recharged so that water-streams that brought water in the well could be revived. This would cost less than making new wells. Depth of old wells and step wells has to be bored deeper to reach lower level of flowing water inside, to fill them.

WHERE THERE ARE DIAMONDS THERE ARE SCORPIONS.

WHERE THERE ARE SCORPIONS THERE ARE DIAMONDS. DIAMONDS and SCORPIONS. It is reliably learnt that where there are scorpions, there are diamonds. Mostly scorpions live in groups, in sands. These sands have gold or diamonds. Take for example in India. In Kutch desert, you can not move because of scorpions. Many camels are reported dead because of scorpion bites. It appears Africa and India’s western coast have similarity. It can be said that both were one-part, once upon a time. They got separated on account of geographical changes. In Gujarat there are descendants of negro community. They are called Siddis. They have been rehabilitated in Modasa. There is similarity in their culture custom and tradition of Negroes of Africa. In Africa on the Congo river-bed, in the sands, nuggets, granules of gold and diamonds are found. South Africa is the house of world diamonds and gold.. It is reported that the British company owned the sands of river-bed of Congo. On the river sands, huge force of labourers was engaged to sieve the sand. The sand was also washed with the river waters. There was an army of security staff to supervise the operation. The sand contained gold and diamonds. The labourers were checked at lunch hours. But they, used to clandestinely fill-up sand in a match box. Far-off, the Inn-man accepted it. They deposited the match box to the inn man. In return they were given a lavish food plate free. The security staff also, was engaged in availing a free lunch by carrying a match box full of river sand. An African-American now settled in USA narrated above incident to me.

DEVELOPMENT IN THE BRAIN-FAST TRACK MEMORY.

TRAIN THE BRAIN TO WORK FASTER. DEVELOP MORE MEMORY AT FAST SPEED. History is a story of winners. Their life is history. History is written by winners. They are the brains of the nation. Brain is a part of the human body, just like other parts. It is a muscle just like all other muscles in the body. It can be trained taxed taught worked upon, improved charged, recharged, pressurized, used, reused, burdened, in order to bring it to the level of perfection. For example for illustration: You do not get the name of the place you have visited. It has disappeared from your records, from your memory. Devote a few minutes, solely to remember that place. Ask the brain when, where, why, what, who was with you? Exert your brain cells on this issue. Concentrate on it for about a minute. Still nothing is forthcoming? No problem. Forget it. Leave it. Resume your normal life. Your sub-conscious mind is at work to find out the details and name of the place visited. In the midst of your normal life, you will get a flash. You will get an e-mail alert. The name will come back in your mind, within 24 hours. Try it. Computer is an improved version of mind only. It knows how the mind works, how it forgets etc. they are meant to assist the mind, anticipating his weakness follies and forgetfulness.

ARE WE SURE WHAT WE NEED?

ARE WE SURE WHAT WE NEED? We need religion for religion’s sake. We need morality for morality’s sake. We need art for art’s sake. We need sports for sport’s sake. We need films for film’s sake. We need politics for politics’ sake. We were like the four serpents, “Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow,” “for nothing, for no purpose, not to eat, not to love,” “But only gliding.” “Nature is a wise father, that knows its child.” Nature said “they must not do things for fun.” “Nature felt that they should work.” “He created the woman.” ‘Love ruled the world” ‘Jealousy, envy competition began.” “Now they needed homes to keep their dames.” “So homes were made.” “Women and elephants do not forget injury.” “Man was engaged in revenge and killing.” “Nature felt now they will keep busy” “In the wanted works of art,” “The master’s stroke is Nature’s part.” “At last man realized that kissing did not last. Cookery does.” So man searched for food. “There is no love sincere than love of food.” So they were made to work. So they were taught to develop agriculture. This is how life developed. Man invented the tools. Without tools, man felt himself helpless and useless. With tools he is everything. They were taught to draw images on the wall. And the world of all art developed. Everything is necessary to keep him busy. Man invented machines and that is how Fabrics and clothes were made. Blessed were they when they had no talent.

THE PRESENT DAY MONKS SAINTS AND SADHUS.

NO OFFENSE BUT THIS IS NOT YOUR LIFE TO SETTLE DOWN IN PALACE-LIKE ABODES. FOR PUBLIC GOOD AND SPREAD OF RELIGION YOU RENOUNCED LIFE. A REMINDER WAKE UP. RELIGIOUS MONKS SAINTS AND SADHUS OF TODAY. Present day Sadhus have been businessmen. They have CEO To arrange their schedule and their affairs. In the scriptures, the Sadhus sages are meant to keep moving. They have no fixed place. The world is their place. Now the pattern has changed. Every sage has a fixed headquarters. He has telephones cell-phones internet and fleet of cars, provision of security guards. They enjoy all luxury of life. All sages have arms-licence to hold arms pistols and revolvers in the name of self protection. Religion has turned out a profession. It is a business service station and a repair shop. Now temples have turned out places of business. They are not places of religion. In the name of religion it is a meeting place of people to trade business talk business and conduct business. They have politicians as their supporters. The government machinery is at their disposal. Everybody is subject to religion. No man is above religion. Religion is inter-woven in the life of every one. None can dare to oppose the religion. The sky is the limit for the religious heads for everything.

SMALL MEASURES DON'T HELP. DRASTIC MEASURES ARE THE NEED OF THE DAY.

COUNTRY NEEDS DRASTIC OVERHAUL. Can anyone remember and tell? “When times were not hard?” “When money was not scarce?” For chaos in the country, at the back of everything, the political leaders are responsible for everything. “NO becomes YES for money.” “Our country has to be the source and fountainhead in the world arena. In all matters it has to excel all others.” No businessman would invest his fortune in a place, where the government skims 20% of the top, or, where the top of the port authority is corrupt. Laws were made like cobwebs, where small flies got caught, and the big ones broke through. Parliament has turned more or less an expensive big house, where more or less it is a resting place of idlers. Country expects everyone to do his duty. If this dictum were followed, Country will be at the TOP. India has not asserted itself as a world country in International matters. Indian Diplomats have failed to project India as a super power player in the 21st century. At the back of everything, there is lack of diplomacy and farsightedness in each issue.

BE A WANDERER- MOVE EAST WEST NORTH AND SOUTH.

BE A WANDERER.GO EAST WEST NORTH AND SOUTH. WISDOM COMES FROM SUFFERING. In common parlance, wisdom is judgment, insight, will, common-sense, rationality, sapience sagacity, profundity, enlightenment, erudition, knowledge intelligence, learning prudence, intuition. Suffering is agony, anguish, distress, misery, pain, grief, torment, woe, heartache, affliction, trial, ordeal, burden, torture, injury, wound, hurt, pain, ache, pang, stab, and sting. With a plate of coarse rice for eats, With a jug of water for drinks, And my bended arms as pillows, I have joy in the midst of sorrows. “What is time for supper?” For Anil, whenever he chooses. For Arun, whenever he can. Poverty has kept more homes together, than divided. Wealth has divided more houses than kept together. Ambani’s houses are new, prejudices are old. One half of the nation is ill-housed. One half of our people are ill-clad. One half of our people are ill-nourished. So little done, so much to do ! What crimes are committed in the name of progress ? What money is collected in the name of religion? What scams are operated in the name of prosperity ? Oh ! my country, when and where will all this end?

TATTOOING- SKIN PAINTING.

TATTOOING- SKIN PIERCING -SIGNS- AND EMBLEMS ON THE BODY. Boys may go. Girls may go. Friends may go. Lovers may go. Wives and husbands may go. But tattoos are for ever. The tattoo marks are the memory of their company and good old days they passed together. Tattooing is for self-protection. An emblem of a deity on the arm endow him with courage. He is not alone. The deity is with him to protect. Hanuman on the wrist is a common sign in India for men. A tattoo is a girl’s friend. She does not feel lost and lonely. The tattoo sign of her faith is present to protect. Some pierce their skins with different signs and figures of past memory. Tattooing was an ancient custom as a mark of identification of a particular person. Now it has turned out a fashion. Some do it as a token of love for her lover to emboss his or her name on her body. They take pride in exhibiting such tattoo marks. Some hide it but all have it these days. The Pain. They undergo pain to express their love. Big stars, singers have prominent tattoo marks on their body. They all love tattoos as they love their lover. They take a plunge in the world of pain. Prominent starlets have at least about ten tattoos inscribed on her body. Images of Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, Elvis, James Stewart and so on. Fans of movie-stars, singers get the images of their favourites tattooed on their body for inspiration. Tattooing has turned out a very lucrative and roving business. Angelina Jolie carries on her body a dozen such marks. Most of them relate to different culture and known places. She exhibited on her bare back a Buddhist prayer in Cambodian script. Similarly Jessica Alba has a tattooed figure of a bow and arrow on her back. She has a sign OHM on her wrist. Some stars claim that they were infected with Hep C an infectious disease causing inflammation in liver. This can be caused by contaminated needle while piercing the skin and inserting pigment for colourization. According to Health administration rules an artist has to have a diploma from a recognized tattooing institute to practise this art. He is supposed to take out a licence and is subject to frequent inspection by the health authority. But all these rules are on paper and no agency takes action against unlicensed shops.

PUBLIC LIFE- THE FIRST STEP TO PUBLIC LIFE BEGINS FROM SCHOOL DAYS.

I was shy in my school days. We had a man servant Abdul. He had to drop me to school and pick me up from school when the school time was over. In the school I was considered an average shy type of a boy. I was not recognized in the first ten of the boys and girls who got special attention by the school authorities. I remember one incident that I can not forget. In the school debating competition, at the school level boys and girls from all elementary level were asked to speak their views, for and against a given subject. The subject was about the country attaining independence. All the participants spoke in praise of the subject and about the progress the country made after independence and all that. The Principal commented that there was no participant to speak against the given subject. This stirred up my blood. I marched to the stage and started addressing the students against the subject. I criticized the administration for indecision, chaos and lack of law and order, lack of basic amenity for life to most of the people of the country. I insisted that there should be compulsory military training for all from the school level. I spoke ill about a few leaders for scandal and scams as I knew from general talk, about their personal life behaviour and scandals. This inflamed the audience. The Principal was annoyed and asked me to sit down. After the debate was over, the class boys hood-winked me and beat me and torn out my books and cap and clothes and manhandled me for my disrespect for the country. At the relevant time in Parliament debate had lasted for four days about the national slogan Satyamev Jayate or SatyamevJayati. I said they should toss the coin and decide it and do not waste public time for such issues and it should be used for other good work for the people of the country. When I came home, seeing my condition in torn clothes and torn books, mother straight away beat me without asking what had happened. Till date I do not know what was my fault. I started writing a wall paper. I would take a full size art paper. From the newspapers like Blitz, Illustrated Weekly, Film Fare, Times, Express I would write important news, items of joke, thought of the day, and some college news, a cartoon and other items. I would paste it on the notice board for readers’ views. Boys used to take it out and tear it off. And all sorts of comments were made about me to stop me to write the wall paper. This did not deter me. On the other hand it gave me strength that the boys were scared of the idea of a wall paper with news about the school and their turn may come too. The wall paper daily was seen on the notice board with date day and title TORCH was a Daily item on the notice board. I had to keep awake myself late night to prepare the wall paper and it was really a problem to carry such an oblong piece and affix it on the board. In the week-end days I used to bring old issues of Readers Digest and important weekly papers for my material for it. I purchased some books on jokes and crossword puzzles. One day I published news about a professor summoning a girl in the reading room and his favourable treatment to her. Gradually my presence was recognized. The boys and girls were all from princely states, children of famous doctor, lawyer, judge, police chief and they had their own group and gang. I took part in elections. In the first instance I was elected as class representative. Thereafter I was the Secretary of the English Study Circle and then a general secretary. Thereafter my progress knew no bounds. This turned me into a headstrong fearless chap not in the say of anyone in the college. I earned wrath of the Principal professor and everyone in the college. I was an outcast from their circle. I was not welcome in their group. I did not take heed of them. I used to meet high dignitary ministers and invite them for functions and all that. They did not like but they were scared of me that they did not harm me. I knew what I wrote was never appreciated. But I learnt that work was worship. It pays. It did pay in the long run. In my life. I advocated that honesty was not restricted in terms of money but honesty in food behaviour living eating was applicable and all that. With all such activity I became good at inspection that is finding fault. I mastered that I art. What others overlooked, I kept a note of it and used it at a proper time. Such Information in the form of a bombshell created havoc. In practical life too I unknowingly followed this art. I do not speak, I observe. I watch. I wait for him or her to make a mistake. Till then I was silent. Finding a lapse I was the lion and the lion was the lamb. One has to work hard to find mistakes, and once it is found, he is gone. I had an upper hand. I have never stopped.

STOP THIS ONSLAUGHT OF DUMB ANIMALS.

DO NOT KILL THE ANIMALS. In the name of mad cow disease, in Europe and in the USA million cows were slaughtered. What right human-being has to outright slaughter million cows. Is it not genocide? Nature has made cows for a purpose. Similarly in the name of bird-flu billions of chicken all over the world were killed and slaughtered mass-scale. Innumerable poultry farms were destroyed in the name of bird-flu by using carbon monoxide. Is this not genocide? We have no right to destroy on mass scale animals for our selfish ends. What were the save-animals activists doing? Who are we to disturb the balance of Nature? National Geographic Report says that we have exhausted quota of sea-fish. Demand is more than new fish growing under water. We have put huge trawlers in mid-seas. Huge nets are spread to catch tons and tons of fish. They are unloaded in the trawler. A fleet, an army of men is ready to behead them and store it in cold storage. The waste goes back in the ocean. The trawler returns to the shore with tons and tons of ready stuff for use. They make enormous money. In short what I mean to say is we have disturbed the balance of Nature. We will have to pay for it.

HUMAN BODY. WHERE IS MIND? WHAT IS MIND?

WHAT IS MIND ? WHERE IS MIND? Why do we say “What do you mean in your mind?” Why do we not say “What do you mean in your brain?” Why do we not say “What do you mean in your heart?” Difference between mind heart and brain. Mind is with us. Mind is in us. Mind is in the body. Mind is everywhere in the body. When mind is gone, life is gone. Brain is the administrator of the body. Brain is in the Head. Brain controls the body. Brain helps to remember. Brain stores memory. Heart is in the chest. Heart is a mere blood pumping pump. It supplies blood in the body. In Europe, Rene Descartes doubted traditional and theological dogmas. He sought to find why anything can be said to be true. Meditation and thinking on this aspect, revealed a fruitful thought. COGITO ERGOSM I think therefore I am. I exist. This was an attempt to separate Mind and matter. But it was not an answer to the question what is mind? Where is mind? Brain is a thinking machine. It is an administrator of the human body. It has no sentiments. It is a calculator. Heart beats. Heart has sentiments. Heart feels. Heart weeps. Heart loves. Heart hates. Heart is angry. Mind is in the body. It is flowing in the entire body cells. Mind is the supreme self in the body. Mind is life. When man dies, in post-mortem we do not find mind. We find brain. We find heart. There is no mind available in a dead body. Mind is energy. It evaporates with the man’s death. Mind flies away to a distant destination. Indian philosophy calls it rebirth.

DO NOT MISS OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE. GRAB THEM.

LOST OPPORTUNITY Never lose opportunity when you happen to get it. Opportunity comes rarely in your life. Do not miss it. Lady Luck favours you once or twice in a lifetime. Lady luck favours once or twice, not thrice. Take it. Grab it. Do not let it slip from your hands. Make followers. Make a group of your own. Alone you are nobody. In a group you are somebody. You get voice. Do not spend the time in the house. Move out. You see. House in only for sleep. Do not feel surrounded by your circumstances. Make a way out of it. Come out of everything. Do not carry lot of luggage of worries and ideas and future. Be a judge of your problems. Problems of unimportance be put in cold-storage. All problems cannot be put in cold-storage. You sort out the problems and classify them, whether it is wise to sit tight or take action. Evaluate each problem, try to tackle it.

THE BLAME GAME. ARE CIRCUMSTANCES COMING IN OUR WAY TO PROSPERITY?

Circumstances in life. People are funny. They are impossible. We all come across many of them. People have the tendency to blame all sorts of circumstances for their shortcoming. People believe in luck. Many of them are a bundle of inconsistency. They jump the fence in no time where there is chance. They change like a weathercock. They are simply impossible. It is agreed that luck plays a role in a man’s life. It is not true to credit or to blame luck hundred percent. To blame luck or circumstances wholly, for man’s failure or success is preposterous. Ninety- percent perspiration and ten- percent inspiration is the proper ratio. People always blame circumstances for their ups and downs. Alone circumstances are not responsible. He has to put in his best efforts and mind. People always consider circumstances responsible for their failure or success. We see this factor everywhere. Circumstances are not responsible for man’s ups and downs to the extent they are given blame, or credit. It is our weakness if we blamed circumstances for our failure. People shield themselves by quoting circumstances that caused their ups or downs. They hide themselves behind them. People quote different circumstances the way they want them to be. We all know about it. They are sob-sisters who grumble constantly. People, if they can not find circumstances, they make circumstances to support their case. She was responsible for her circumstances. Her hasty nature was responsible for the mess. She wanted to change her circumstances. She had ceased to believe in luck, or miracles. Not that she had actually believed in miracles. She was a rationalist. She had strong opinion about things. Human being is a rational animal. She had always agreed with her mother’s remark who when once had asked her if she believed in luck, miracles. She had said: She: “No, I am worried of them.”