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படித்ததில் பிடித்தது …”நினைத்த வாழ்க்கையா …கிடைத்த வாழ்க்கையா” …

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நினைத்த வாழ்க்கையா… கிடைத்த வாழ்க்கையா…

நினைத்த வாழ்க்கை கிடைத்தால் சந்தோஷமா… கிடைத்த வாழ்க்கையில் மகிழ்வதில் சந்தோஷமா. நிச்சயம் இது ஒரு மில்லியன் டாலர் கேள்வி தான். சிந்திக்க துவங்கும் காலம் தொட்டு சாகும் நாள் வரை மனதை அரித்து கொண்டே இருக்கின்ற கேள்வி இது தான். இந்த கேள்வி இல்லாமல் வாழ்ந்தவர்கள், வாழ்கிறவர்கள் அல்லது வாழ போகிறவர்கள் சொற்பம் தான்.

படித்து கொண்டிருக்கும் காலத்தில் துவங்குகிறது – இந்த ஏக்க பெருமூச்சு. “நினைச்ச கோர்ஸ் கிடைக்கல. அதனால் கிடைச்ச கோர்ஸ்ல சேர்ந்து படிக்கிறேன்” என்பது தான் மனதளவில் மலரும் முதல் சமரச முயற்சி. பிறகு வேலை வாய்ப்பின் போதும் இது தொடர்கிறது. “படித்த படிப்புக்கு வேலை கிடைக்கல. அதனால கிடைச்ச வேலைல செட்டிலாயிட்டேன்” என்று
இரண்டாவது முறையாக சமரச வாழ்க்கைக்கு, மனதளவில் உடன் படுகிறோம். அடுத்து இருக்கவே இருக்கிறது – காதலும், மண வாழ்க்கையும். அங்கேயும் நினைத்தது கிடைக்கிறதா.“விரும்பினவங்க கிடைக்கல. அதனால் கிடைச்சவங்கள விரும்ப பழகிகிட்டேன்”…

ஏமாற்றங்கள் பழகி விடுவதால், பிறகு வரும் ஏமாற்றங்களுக்கு மனம் வருந்துவதில்லை என்று தான் சொல்ல வேண்டும். ஒரு வேளை வருந்தினால், நாம் வாழ்வில் அடுத்த அடி கூட எடுத்து வைக்க இயலாது. இரண்டு பேர் இருக்கிறார்கள். ஒருவருக்குநினைத்ததெல்லாம் வாழ்க்கையாக அமைகிறது. இன்னொருவருக்கு கிடைத்தது தான் வாழ்க்கையாகிறது. இருவரில் யார் சந்தோஷமாக இருப்பது. சந்தோஷமாக இருத்தல் என்பது தானே எல்லாவற்றுக்கும் உச்சக்கட்டம்.

நினைத்த வாழ்க்கை கிடைத்தும் மகிழ்ச்சியற்ற வாழ்க்கை வாழ்பவர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள். விருப்பமில்லாத ஒன்றை கூட விருப்பத்திற்குரியதாக மாற்றி, வாழ்வை சந்தோஷமயமானதாக மாற்றுபவர்களும் இருக்கிறார்கள். அப்படி என்றால் மகிழ்ச்சி எங்கே உள்ளது. மனதில் தவிர வேறு எங்கு இருக்க முடியும். “நான் நினைச்சது கிடைக்கலயே, நான் நினைச்சது கிடைக்கலயே” என்று சொல்லி சொல்லியே கிடைத்த அற்புதமான வாழ்க்கையை தொலைத்து கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள் நிறைய பேர். 

நினைத்தது கிடைக்காதவர்களின் வாழ்க்கை இப்படி என்றால்- நினைத்ததை அடைந்தவர்களின் வாழ்க்கை இப்படி உள்ளது. நினைத்த வாழ்க்கை கிடைத்தும் அதை போற்றி வாழ தெரியாமல்,கிடைத்ததை குற்றம் சொல்லி- “இதற்காக தானே ஆசை பட்டாய்” என்று விசனப்படுபவர்களும் இருக்கிறார்கள். முன்பு பிரபலமாக இருந்த நடிகர் அவர். கல்லூரியில் படித்த நாள் முதல் காதலித்த பெண்ணை மணந்து கொண்டார். கிட்டத்தட்ட ஒன்பது ஆண்டுகள் காதலித்தார்களாம். ஆனால் மணவாழ்க்கையின் ஆயுள் ஒன்பது வருடங்கள் கூட இல்லை. நினைத்ததை அடைந்தும், முழுமையாக வாழ முடியவில்லை.

அப்படி எனில், நாம் தேடும் ஆனந்தம்- நினைத்த வாழ்க்கையிலா… கிடைத்த வாழ்க்கையிலா…”, இதற்கு பதில் என்ன. பெரும்பாலோர் – ஆசைகள், கனவுகள், தேடல்கள் என்று பேசி பேசி நம் பலவீனங்களை, தோல்விகளை மறைக்க விரும்புவதாகவே தோன்றுகிறது. “எதுக்கு இத்தனை அரியர்ஸ்” என்று கேட்டால் – “நான் விரும்பின கோர்ஸ்  கிடைக்கல. எப்படி இத படிக்க முடியும்” என்று தன் தோல்விக்கு காரணம் சொல்பவர்களை என்ன சொல்ல முடியும்.

வேலைக்கு சரியாக செல்லாத ஒரு மனிதரிடம் “ஏன் வேலைக்கு ஒழுங்கா போக மாட்டீங்கறிங்க” என்று கேட்கும் போது, “நா விரும்பின வேலை கிடைக்கல. அதனால் எந்த வேலைக்கும் போகல” என்று பதில் வந்தால் என்ன செய்வது. 

நினைத்தது கிடைக்காத வாழ்க்கை சூன்யம் என்று நாமாக கற்பித்து கொள்கிறோம். அதையும் பெரிது படுத்தி, பெரிது படுத்தி பேசுகிறோம். நம் மீது ஒரு பரிதாப உணர்ச்சி ஏற்பட கூட இப்படி பேசுகிறோமோ. “எனக்கு தான் நினைச்ச வாழ்க்கை கிடைக்கல. உனக்காவது நினைச்ச வாழ்க்கை கிடைக்கட்டும்”
என்கிற ரீதியில் பேசுவது. இது குழந்தைகளை அல்லது வளர் பருவத்தினரை திசை மாறி போக ஒரு வழி அமைத்து கொடுப்பது போலவே உள்ளது.

“என் இஷ்டத்துக்கு என்னை இருக்க விடுங்க. அப்ப தான் நா நினைச்சதை அடைய முடியும்” என்று பேச துவங்கிவிட்ட குழந்தைகளை பார்க்கிறோம். நினைத்த வாழ்க்கை கிடைப்பதற்கு – அடிப்படையில் ஒரு தகுதி இருப்பதை யாரும் மறந்து விடக்கூடாது. அந்த தகுதி குறித்து மறந்தவர்களே, நினைத்தது கிடைக்கவில்லைஎன்று அரற்றுபவர்கள். அந்த தகுதி இல்லாமல், நினைத்து கிடைக்கவில்லை என்று வெதும்புவதில் என்ன உள்ளது. இந்த தகுதிக்கான அர்த்தங்கள், இடத்துக்கு இடம் மாறுபடலாம்.

வாழ்க்கையை முழுமையாக அறிந்தவர்கள், நினைத்தது, விரும்பியது கிடைக்காமல் போனால் வருந்த மாட்டார்கள். ஒரு சந்தோஷமான நாள் முடிந்து விட்டது என்பதற்காக வருந்த முடியுமா. இன்னொரு சந்தோஷமான நாள் வராமலா போகும். ஒரு புகை வண்டி பயணத்தின் போது, நமக்கு பிடித்த ஒரு நகரம் கடந்து போய்விட்டது என்பதற்காக வருந்துவோமா.

விரும்பியது பிடிக்காமல் போகலாம். பிடிக்காதது விருப்பப்பட கூடியதாக மாறலாம். இந்த உண்மை மனதால் உணரப்பட்டால் துன்பமும் இல்லை. சஞ்சலமும் இல்லை.

source::::input from a friend of mine

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How to Achieve 101% Success !!!

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Beauty of Mathematics !!!!!!!

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10=  1111111111  1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn’t it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

 

Now, take a look at this…


101%

 

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:

 

What Equals 100%?
What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to
GIVE OVER 100%.

How about ACHIEVING 101%?


What equals 100% in life?


Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help
answer these questions:


If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.


If:


H-A-R-D-W-O- R- K

8+1+18+4+23+ 15+18+11 = 98%


And:

K-N-O-W-L-E- D-G-E

11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5 = 96%


But:

A-T-T-I-T-U- D-E

1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%

 

THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:

 

L-O-V-E- O-F- G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+ 6+7+15+4 = 101%


Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will
get you there, It’s the Love of God that will put you over the top!

 

 

source::::input from a friend of mine

natarajan

Message For the Day…” Take Good Care of Your Mind …”

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Consider your physical body a chariot. Just as the horse is important for the chariot, your mind is the most important thing for your body. What is the point if the chariot is very tastefully decorated and the horse is starved? Today, many of you are caring so much for the body and entirely neglecting the mind. Many have a very good, soft bed and stay in air-conditioned rooms, yet their body feels the heat and the mind is suffering from restlessness, with no peace of mind. Why? You are caring so much for the body and neglecting the mind. Take good care of the mind. If you do so, even if you go to a forest, it will be for-rest! The most appropriate food for your mind are virtues, good feelings, good conduct and good thought. Feed the horse well, the chariot will run! So too, take good care of your mind, you will be happy and peaceful

Sathya Sai Baba

Message for the Day…” God is Giving us Everything with many Hands…”

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There was once an old woman in Paris. It was winter and December was around the corner. Many poor people were sleeping on the streets and shivering with cold. She went around the streets and covered them with a blanket. She completed the job without any fuss or noise. Over time, the people in the town came to know about it. They wondered why this humble old woman who was herself struggling to make her ends meet setting out to help others! When children used to ask her, “Grandma, why are you walking with your head down? You are a great person!” she would respond humbly, “God is giving us everything with many hands, and I am giving with a single hand. Is that not a shame for me?” Many great people world over, have placed before us the high ideals of charity  

Sathya Sai Baba

Who are The Happiest People in This World ?…

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Why Some People Have All the Luck
By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire
 
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?

A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.

Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.

Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.

The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.

I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $50.”

This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.

Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.
As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties’ intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.

Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.

Dramatic results! These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck. One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.


The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky.

Finally, I had found the elusive “luck factor”. 

Here are Professor Wise man’s four top tips for becoming lucky:

 1) Listen to your gut instincts – they are normally right
2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well
4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.

Have a Lucky day and work for it. 

The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems,

but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.
source:::: input from a friend of mine
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Message For the Day…” Cultivate the Habit of Sharing with others…”

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Always help the poor and those suffering and in distress. Once upon a time, in Tamil Nadu, lived a poet saint who squatted on the small veranda of his hut and chanted beautiful songs to the Lord. One day, it was raining heavily. Another man came and asked him if he could also take shelter there. The devotee said, “There was place just enough for me to stretch out, but now that you are here we will both sit erect.” Later, another man stopped by and asked for shelter. The devotee again agreed saying, “There was place for the two of us to sit. Now that you also have joined, let us all stand.” He thus taught the principle of helping everyone and not sending anyone away who needed help, even when the means are limited. Cultivate this attitude of sharing with others any good thing you have. Thus you can practice daily, the great principle of finding God in every being.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Message for the Day…”There is Only One Language…The Language of Heart …”

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God dwells in each and every one of us. Do not criticise anybody, you will accumulate sin. Do not hate anyone. Never deride anyone’s action or ridicule them on the grounds of caste, race, gender, religion or community. There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. There is only one religion, the religion of love. There is only one language, the language of the heart. All of you must understand and internalize this. Become an ideal person from today. Develop faith in the ‘Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God’. Do not worry about the past, forget it. This will lead you to real bliss. Thus I bless you!

Sathya Sai Baba

5 Small Stories with Big Lesson to Learn !!!

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A child told the mother “Mum you are very beautiful today.”
Replied the mother “Why?”
The child said “ Because you did not get angry today .”

Moral of the story
1. It is easy to possess beauty- do not get angry.
2. Anger is temporary madness.
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A man attended an interview for a job.
Along the corridor, he picked up a piece and threw it into a dustbin.
The interviewer passed by and saw it.
This man got the job.

Moral of the story
Live with good habits, and you will be recognised.

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A small boy worked as an apprentice in a bicycle shop.
A man sent a bicycle for repair.
After repairing the bicycle, this boy cleaned up the bicycle and it looked like a new one.
Other apprentices laughed at him for doing redundant work.
The second day after the owner claimed the bicycle back, this boy was pinched and offered a job.

Moral of the story
1.Go the extra mile to be successful.
2. Doing more gains more & Doing less loses more.

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The owner of a farm asked his child to work everyday at the farm.
His friend said to him “ You do not have to make your son work so hard. The crops would grow just as good.”
Owner of the farm replied “ I am not cultivating my crops, but my child.”

Moral of the story
1. A simple way to groom a child is to let him experience some hardships.
2. If not cut, jade would not turn into useful ware.

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A shop is always brightly lit up.
Someone asked “What brand of bulb are you using It is so lasting.”
The shop owner replied “Our bulbs blew out frequently. We replaced them once a bulb blew out.”

Moral of the story
1. It is simple to maintain brightness , change the bulbs regularly.
2. To brightening up everyday life Endeavour to abandon unwholesome states of mind and make an effort to encourage wholesome states to grow.

source::::: unknown…Input from a friend of mine

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Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO …

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From: Satya Nadella
To: All Employees
Date: Feb. 4, 2014
Subject: RE: Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s New CEO

Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very first day at Microsoft, 22 years ago. Like you, I had a choice about where to come to work. I came here because I believed Microsoft was the best company in the world. I saw then how clearly we empower people to do magical things with our creations and ultimately make the world a better place. I knew there was no better company to join if I wanted to make a difference. This is the very same inspiration that continues to drive me today.

It is an incredible honor for me to lead and serve this great company of ours. Steve and Bill have taken it from an idea to one of the greatest and most universally admired companies in the world. I’ve been fortunate to work closely with both Bill and Steve in my different roles at Microsoft, and as I step in as CEO, I’ve asked Bill to devote additional time to the company, focused on technology and products. I’m also looking forward to working with John Thompson as our new Chairman of the Board.

While we have seen great success, we are hungry to do more. Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation. This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

As we start a new phase of our journey together, I wanted to share some background on myself and what inspires and motivates me.

Who am I?

I am 46. I’ve been married for 22 years and we have 3 kids. And like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experiences. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.

Why am I here?

I am here for the same reason I think most people join Microsoft — to change the world through technology that empowers people to do amazing things. I know it can sound hyperbolic — and yet it’s true. We have done it, we’re doing it today, and we are the team that will do it again.

I believe over the next decade computing will become even more ubiquitous and intelligence will become ambient. The coevolution of software and new hardware form factors will intermediate and digitize — many of the things we do and experience in business, life and our world. This will be made possible by an ever-growing network of connected devices, incredible computing capacity from the cloud, insights from big data, and intelligence from machine learning.

This is a software-powered world.

It will better connect us to our friends and families and help us see, express, and share our world in ways never before possible. It will enable businesses to engage customers in more meaningful ways.

I am here because we have unparalleled capability to make an impact.

Why are we here?

In our early history, our mission was about the PC on every desk and home, a goal we have mostly achieved in the developed world. Today we’re focused on a broader range of devices. While the deal is not yet complete, we will welcome to our family Nokia devices and services and the new mobile capabilities they bring us.

As we look forward, we must zero in on what Microsoft can uniquely contribute to the world. The opportunity ahead will require us to reimagine a lot of what we have done in the past for a mobile and cloud-first world, and do new things.

We are the only ones who can harness the power of software and deliver it through devices and services that truly empower every individual and every organization. We are the only company with history and continued focus in building platforms and ecosystems that create broad opportunity.

Qi Lu captured it well in a recent meeting when he said that Microsoft uniquely empowers people to “do more.” This doesn’t mean that we need to do more things, but that the work we do empowers the world to do more of what they care about — get stuff done, have fun, communicate and accomplish great things. This is the core of who we are, and driving this core value in all that we do — be it the cloud or device experiences — is why we are here.

What do we do next?

To paraphrase a quote from Oscar Wilde — we need to believe in the impossible and remove the improbable.

This starts with clarity of purpose and sense of mission that will lead us to imagine the impossible and deliver it. We need to prioritize innovation that is centered on our core value of empowering users and organizations to “do more.” We have picked a set of high-value activities as part of our One Microsoft strategy. And with every service and device launch going forward we need to bring more innovation to bear around these scenarios.

Next, every one of us needs to do our best work, lead and help drive cultural change. We sometimes underestimate what we each can do to make things happen and overestimate what others need to do to move us forward. We must change this.

Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it’s not just work, but something that will improve other people’s lives. This is the opportunity that drives each of us at this company.

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources, and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance. And as the new CEO, I can’t ask for a better foundation.

Let’s build on this foundation together.

Satya

source::::Microsoft NesCenter….  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/feb14/02-04mail2.aspx

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Message For the Day…” God is With You…”

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Do not think that God is at some distant place. He is with you, nearer than your most beloved family. Develop good qualities. Be a part of the society by undertaking noble activities. God (Bhagawan) does not expect anything from you nor does He need anything. All He cares for is your good reputation. The body is bound to perish. No one can escape death, even if they hide themselves in a forest. Do not worry about it. Continuously develop virtues as they will remain with you and protect you always. Use your discrimination, but this should not be individual discrimination, but be discrimination at the societal and universal level. Only then truth and right conduct will prevail. This should be the barometer for your conduct.

Sathya Sai Baba