Do thy duty !

“Action is thy duty and the reward is not your concern.” You know who said so? Lord Krishna and it is his birthday.
                            Happy Janmashtami ………

               
I take Lord Krishna as a Personality mentor. He taught so many secrets of life by living it. In one way his life is a living example of the way we should live.

                People like so many things about gods but I see them not following themselves. They like the child Krishna because he was naughty and they worship him for his nature and act but in the temple when a child, a son or a daughter does a little mischief, it’s mother slap him tightly. We tell one thing but we don’t act like that. Are we he hypocrite?

                The religion in my opinion is the art of living but due to our priest and religious businessman it becomes like a trade. Now we sell and purchase God. We gift him in expectation of reward. We offer oblation because we need something from him. That is bad and sad.

                Actually we couldn’t use god in the proper manner. We made the idols and put him in a temple or mosque, but we forget the God within.

                God must be our friend. We must reflect god in our living. Modern age is a lesion told in the Mahabharta. How would people behave, what would be the role that ambition would play? How would be the shape of relationships?

                I respect Krishna not for what he was but for what he lived. He lived like a mentor, like a fun Programmer, like an Example, I also celebrate Janmashtami but I don’t take fast, I enjoy my birthday by enjoying party so why should I be fasting on the birthday of Lord.

So take fast or not is all upto you. But you better find Krishna within yourself.

                                                                   -Gappu Chaturvedi 

A Bit of the Whole…

Is the freedom necessary?

I quite often realize that people can’t manage power and pelf. They get bog down with the pressures of Mr. Market. Mister Market that is time, world and the Life.

                We need to snatch the moment from the river of time. We shouldn’t keep flowing with the river; rather we are programmed for reaching somewhere particular.

                Are we reaching anywhere? Are these Saints are doing right thing in Ayodhya? Are these congress leaders worthy to be at where they are? Is Akhilesh Yadav the same young and dashing as it looked before UP assembly election?

                I know that the things change but why do the change for bad? Why not there is change which brings good to the common men. I feel a sense of education will do good to India.

                Mother India is in Pain for so long. First it was brutalized by the foreigners and now it’s own children are vandalizing it’s reputation. Sorry Mom! They don’t worth you.
                Now the game and the ball are in our court. We have to manage because our representatives are folly and care about you but they don’t, they play the game in which you are always bound to loose.

                Will Indian Rupee raise again? And will we ever be a happy citizen? Only by unfurling the flag we don’t become the free nation. But then who is responsible for all this.

                A Bit of our Leaders and a bit of our people or a bit of you and I.
India is our country and the responsibility lies on every one of us. A bit of you and a bit of me and a bit of all and a bit of the whole.

                                                                                                                                     -Gappu Chaturvedi 

Turn the tap off!

Suppose it is a perfect day. Good weather and the friends around. You are watching your favourite soap opera. You wish it keeps on going like this forever.

                Imagine a day that is perfect. Your favourite characters are showing on the tube but suddenly you listen the voice. You feel it’s the inner voice but when you close your eyes to find the source. You feel it is not inner rather it is coming from the wash room.
                You know there is a bucket and that has gone full. You know that the tap is running on and on. Drop by drop it had filled the bucket and now the bucket is oozing out.

                You turn your attention back on the T.V. you see the bigger picture of Life. You try to ignore the voice that is coming perennial to your ears but you are fed up with the drop that is falling down in the bucket and disturbing you time and again.

                Your friends tell you not to worry. Your mind is telling you to ignore but the ears can’t run away. They go back to that little noise coming from the wash room.

                You get up now and in the sprint of a second you reach the wash room and turn the tap off. Now you come back with tranquil state of mind and start enjoying the beauty of fun.

               
                                           Think Twice!

                Your mental tap is on and so is your emotional tap, dip, dip, dip drop by drop time is running out. The worry tap keeps flowing and so is the tap of anxiety.

                You feel life will get solve it’s problems one day. You feel this inner noise will stop sometime. Your friends and foes keep telling you this and that. Let me tell you the Golden words “Turn the tap off, and enjoy the melody of inner peace.”

                                                                         -Gappu Chaturvedi

Success is not about ___________

Not about fame, Not about Money nor is it about Ambition, not about winning, Success is not about ONLY this.

                The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and become the best you can possibly be.

                Success is about using ourselves in the best possible manner. Success is about having fun and sharing it, success is using the time to the full; success is about becoming what we are programmed for.

                Then why do people feel sad and bad, why they are not happy with LIFE, why they don’t get what they want, why there is jealousy and defeat in our World?

                As great R. W. Emerson puts it “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit” we get what we want, we want what our sprit suggests, but we forget our spirit and the so called social sprit and the team spirit and the ambition have taken over our own sense of spirit.
                We should keep dreaming and try to convert our dreams into reality. We should not buy back the junk of emotions and failures what we have sold can always be bought back but actually we pay more price and we get less stuff.

                Investment is not done for the Return on investment, Life and time have invested a lot in our spirit, Parents, Friends and teachers have always been investing in us but what is the result; The Return on investment, The ROI ?

                In holding one thing for too long we loose the opportunity of getting the other stuff. We hold tensions and worries for too long, now it’s the time to clean out your closet and channel your energies right.

                Success is not about loosing our life. Actually we are borne to reap the results and profits.

     Happy Rakshabandhan !

                                                                         - Gappu Chaturvedi 

Happy Independence

I sometime feel lucky, in fact very lucky for I am free:

I am free to roam, to feed, to enjoy and to do my own thing.
                I remember those who didn't have this opportunity, who couldn't have fun of life. Who couldn't encash their time and who did not get what they wanted.

                I salute those martyrs who sacrificed their family, their dreams and their personal life for the country. They put the country above their personal interests, what a great breed of men they were.

                But independence has not served it’s purpose yet. Problems that were there in 1947 are still there; Poverty, Corruption, Unemployment, Nepotism, Castism and so on and so forth. The dream of a happy and prosperous India is still but a dream.

Is the freedom necessary? I ask with myself; yes! An emphatic  yes. Because we can celebrate, we can enjoy, we can unfurl the tricolours and have laddoos. But we have no sense of freedom, many a times we cross the limit.

India is a big network of more than 125 cr people. A few changes are required to fulfil the dream. We can, we easily can but who we are is a question worth asking.

                I am Indian and who you are? Decide and do the required.

                                                                           -Gappu Chaturvedi 

Wild Imaginations....

Man was born wild but the society domesticated him; when at the early age the men was trying to overcome difficulties, he suffered and survived but now when he has got the solution shops for all problems he is not interested in the product .

                When I see modern times I observe that there is luxury but people are not enjoying it; on the other hand these luxury things have snatched the power to survive out of man. Now the men are struggling more than ever:

                The imagination and the dreams don’t die natural death: they carry on in the genes, they come in blood; they go on till the man continues living and even after his death the dreams don’t die. They just go to the other person.

                In our society now a days there is a lot of corruption and sexual feelings, these are wild Imaginations.

               

The power and the energy moves a person and compel him to do those things which they do:

                Should there be any check on our emotional and the sensual tendencies?
Should there be our conscience telling us where the limit is? Should there be a life with wild imaginations roaming free?

               

I can just ask for your feedback as the life does. If people like it life gives it more. We get ultimately what we have asked for.

                                                                           -Gappu Chaturvedi 

Shame ! Damn ! Pakistaan !

Shame ! Damn !  Pakistaan !

                I sometime feel that life is not happy just because of a few whimsy cynical cowards. Cowards who could not win the world so they start crushing the humanity.

The recent events on the border are a proof to this. Pakistan is a coward nation that can’t see beyond it’s jealously; May god gives them some wisdom.

                What about Manmohan Singh , isn’t he the same ? A coward, who speaks nothing without permission of the high command and that high command doesn’t value the Indian sentiments.

                Leave it ! I feel it is not the right time to harp the revenge symphony; it is the festival time Ramadan is just over and our nation is celebrating Eid Mubark .

                Rakshabandhan is also coming near. Swan is the month of festival and people invest a lot of time and money, just to be happy.
                Why these silly fear mongers and the enemy of human goodness and the enemy of human goodness don’t realize a fundamental need of life to be happy. Why they crush happy emotions time and again.

                Damn Pakistaan !

                Shame Pakistaan !

We could be the partners in progress, we could share the happiness, But between the stimulus and the response, life is our own choice. We need a little wisdom to make a proper choice and that wisdom is lacking on both sides of the border.

                God Bless Us.

                God Bless Everyone .