Message to Batch 2009-11 young managers of Sri Balaji Group of Institutes, Pune

You are unique with your own inner brilliance. Let it shine day after day. It is a gift you give to yourself, your family,and the community you'll serve.
There are many of us behind you who are loving you and supporting you as you begin this new stage in your life
Know that you are not alone. Know that you are blessed.Know that you are good enough. Know that the world is a much better place for you being in it.

My wish for you all is that the years beyond, will bring you a wondrous song in your heart and a lively dance in your step. You are very special. May all your dreams come true.

Last but not the least  not only you are to be acknowledged and congratulated for your graduation but also Prof. (Col) A. Balasubramanian, President Sri Balaji Society and his whole team for grooming you all so well that you all got placed.

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                                                                                                          ( Nagina)
                                                                                                        F/o  Shaswat Kumar
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The Charity & The Altruism

The Gita says that there are three types of charity, the tamsic,the Rajasic and the Sattavic.
Tamsic charity
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It is performed on an impulse. The doer thinks of nothing but his own impulse to be kind.

Rajasic charity
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It is what a man does for his own glory.

Sattavic charity
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 It is that which is given to the right person in the right way and at the proper time.

But why does charity begin at all? Why does charity begin at home? Is charity the short-cut to an internal bliss?

Altruism
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Whether or not altruism is the by-product of an spiritual inclination can not be ascertained with certainty but it is sure that  it is the By-product of Altruism which is  the genetic trait. in animals as well as  humans.

Altruism from a socio-biological point of view
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Personal fitness of performer is reduced while that of recipient is increased.

Why charity begins at home?
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Because species exhibiting altruism are more likely to discriminate against outsiders (non-relatives) and to recognize insiders (relatives)

Feeling nice
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It is always nice to be nice to some one else.But it is unlikely to be adaptive.
If helping another involves some cost to the helper, the helper is harming itself and that is sacrifice and that is true altruism. True altruism that is giving more than one gets, should have never evolved because such individuals will be less fit than their competitors. And yet altruism goes on in animals and humans.

Reciprocal Altruism
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"You help me today, I will help you later whenever you need" "You scratch my back today and I will scratch yours" These two statements make it understandable.
Factor against its evolution is the danger of cheating. Individuals accept the altruism from others but fail to reciprocate. Socio-biologists believe it is most common in Homo sapiens.


Conclusion
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The validity period of the old saying " UPKAR KABHI BEKAR NAHIN JATA" is very short.

But never mind, go on displaying altruism. This will give you a sense of feeling nice and internal bliss.

A phone call

I am a simple teacher. I live at Darbhanga. I have neither money nor fame. No one was ever afraid of me. Now when I am 62 years old, I got a phone call from a St. Xavier's Alumnus who also probably worked in a parish and opted to settle in a village decades ago. "Have you ever heard this voice?" I replied in affirmative. He spoke "We hear that you will soon be retiring",the man spoke further. "Would you come and settle here? We feel that we'd be a better community and better neighbors for having a man whose life is so genuine living among us"

I was touched.
Imagine changing a community just by being oneself.

But that is power.

A page from Grand Dad's Diary- Sri Satish Chandra Dubey,Rtd. Inspector of Police and Advocate, Godda Court

Date-21-10-1958

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At- Bandanwar

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The sky is still cloudy. People are after Pujas to dedicate goats. A goat was sacrificed in my house. This is the last day of my Navratri  "Brata". I did not go to see the field and directed "Hurwa" to see and watch it.

I did not go to Barkope to have a "darshan" of Goddess Durga.

Prof. Bahadur came to my place and Babu remained engaged with him till late in the afternoon.

All the members except Babu, Fateh and myself went to Durga Asthan. Madho after great pursuation followed them.

Date- 22-10-1958                            Day-" Vijaya Dasmi"

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This is the last day of the Pujas. Two goats were sacrificed at Durga asthan last night and brought in the morning.

I will make "Parna" of my "Brata" by eating meat.

None went to see the field.

Went out to see Nilkantha but to no effect.

Had a darshan of Goddess Durga and then returned.

Again tried to see Nilkantha and saw it.

Where to live - In a village or City?

Reaching an age of sixty is not very comfortable. By this time one has traversed a million phases and borne the brunt of ages. By this time one feels aloof and isolated. World is not beautiful for them.

Human life under ideal conditions is 120 years.

Do you know that relatively long lived people lived in three regions of the world

1. In Hunzaland ( An isolated area of Pakistan )

2. In the high lands of Georgia and

3. In the village Vilcabamba (in southern Ecuador.

Common Characteristics
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• All the three areas------  mountainous and remote
• All three---------------- relatively untouched by modern life.

Findings of scientific expedition in village Vilcabamba

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• 15% of the village's 814 people -- over 90 years
• 14 people ----- over 100
• oldest person---a 132 year old man
• People in general ---energetic and vigorous
• Dreadful diseases---- unknown to them

Secrets

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• Eating pure food
• Drinking pure water
• Exposed to very little pollution
• Fewer than 20 cars and no industry in the area
• no need of exercise, most worked on unmechanized farms high on the hill side
• Diet - fresh fruits and vegetables picked from the wild
• no meat or little meat

Message to people in general and Es & CEOs of MNCs

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• Return to your root (native village) --- when the work is over there
• Relive each moment with simplicity and dignity
• Get self satisfaction, enthusiasm and renewed vigour

BANDANWAR

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What is your opinion about village Bandanwar of Dt. Godda  of Jharkhand State of India ?

Any idea ,any comment will be greatly appreciated.

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Ajay Kumar Jha --- A Sanyasi

William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and is a renowned author of a no. of highly acclaimed best sellers including "Nine Lives".When he was travelling to Kedarnath he fell into conversation with an ash smeared and completely naked Sadhu probably in the year 2008. He had always assumed that most of the Holy man he had seen in India were from traditional  village backgrounds But soon it was apparent that Ajay Kumar Jha was in fact

 a far more cosmopolitan figure than he had expected. Ajay and he walked together along the steep ridge of a mountain. When  Dalrymple asked him to tell his story after some initial hesitation, he agreed.

'I have been a Sanyasi only for four and half years' "Before that I was a Sales Manager with Kelvinator, a Bombay consumer electricals company. I had done my M B A at Patna University and was considered a high flyer by my employers. But one day I just decided I could not spend the rest of my life marketing fans and frodges. So I just left. I wrote a letter to my boss and to my parents, gave away my belongings to the poor, and took a train to Benares. There I threw away my old suit,rubbed ash on my body and found a monastery'.

It was a very sudden decision , said Ajay. I have never regretted it for a minute,even when I have not eaten for several days and am at my most hungry. Of course at first it was very difficult, he said.  But then every thing  worthwhile in life takes time.
I was used to all the comforts: my father was a politician and a very rich man by the standards of our country But I never wanted to live a worldly life like him'.

When you walk on the hills your minds become clear, he said

'All your worries disappear. Look ! I carry only a blanket and a water bottle. I have no possessions, so I have no worries

He smiled: "Once you learn to restrain your desires," he said 'any thing becomes possible'


William Darymple says, The sort of world where a committed, naked naga Sadhu could also be an MBA was something I was to become used to in the course of my travels for the book 'Nine Lives"


Can any body give clue about this great renunciator of Bihar who must have his roots in Mithila?

Freedom

We seek neither misery nor happiness,but freedom.You are always looking for more pleasure,more enjoyment. you can not be satisfied because what you seek really is freedom. What then can satisfy man? Not gold. Not joy. Not beauty. One infinite alone can satisfy him, and that infinite is himself. When he realizes this, then alone comes Freedom.

Fear and desire are the two causes of all this. But who creates them? We ourselves. Nothing external can be eternal!

I am the infinite blue sky. Over me pass the clouds of various colors,remain a moment,and vanish. I am the same eternal blue. I am the witness, the same eternal witness, of all. I see, therefore nature exists Not  one of us could see or speak, if this infinite unity are broken for a  moment.

Freedom Oh Freedom! is the cry of life. Freedom, Oh Freedom! is  the song of the soul But Nature  has no freedom She is all law, This is why the idea of God is essential to the mind.