Emotional for Bihar

Its election time again for Bihar and even not a part of Bihar now after formation of Jharkhand, I feel satisfied with the way Nitish government has performed in the last 5 years .
My only pray is that Lalu should not come back again even by mistake.
There are people who don’t even know what’s good for them which ultimately helps people like Lalu to come to power . We have to vote sensibly and help Nitish continue with the quality work he has been doing right now . Its exciting to see the changes he has done in the past 5 years which were not done in 15 years time .
Even though he might not be good in all the areas Nitish has worked on, but even a score of 10 on a scale of 100 is more than 0 which Lalu did in the last 15 years .
Hope to have a clear mandate for Nitish and party and may the good work continue

My Angle My Mother

It always happens in life, when you lose someone soo special, the only thing left is "memories".
Every day I go to bed and wakeup, with my mother at the back of my mind and there are always reasons which connect me to her.
Today morning as well, the old songs on TV connected me to her. She always used to be so excited hearing songs since she was always cheerful and delighted.
Even those happy days don’t make me happy any more.
Her smile, bangles, sindoor, yellow and red sari ....all just remind me of her lively act .She was the force behind all our actions .......but the truth is ....we have lost her.

THE MOTHER

LIKE a flame that burns in silence, like a perfume that
rises straight upward without wavering, my love goes to
Thee; and like the child who does not reason and has no
care, I trust myself to Thee that Thy Will may be done,
that Thy Light may manifest, Thy Peace radiate, Thy Love
cover the world. When Thou wilest I shall be in Thee,
Thyself, and there shall be no more any distinction; I
await that blessed hour without impatience of any kind,
letting myself flow irresistibly toward it as a peaceful
stream flows toward the boundless ocean.
Thy Peace is in me, and in that Peace I see Thee alone
present in everything, with the calm of Eternity.

Law - Lawlessness

The headline of news papers yesterday was, release of Ramalinga Raju from the jail on bail. The famous tainted founder of one time most admired company Satym Computers.
Its really horrible the way law works and shows the world that do what you want, but please don’t leave any evidence behind. With such a massive fraud, which actually damaged our nation’s global image, how can he be even send out on a bail?
This is sad and is sending wrong signal to the society. Thousands of people lost their hard earned earnings, many lost there livelihood, still the court didn’t had anything to prove guilty. I really wonder, cant we have exception for cheaters like Raju.
Its acceptable that no innocent should be declared guilty and so the law needs proof for everything. But cant we have exception, so that one things twice before doing anything as Raju did.

Indian Priority

Is really commonwealth games a nation pride??
I don’t think so .There are other things on high priority , but the way other issues are handled , seems we are only left with one issue , ie "Commonwealth games " . No one even bothers to see what’s happening around. Issues like Maoist , Leh mishap etc are far below on priority .
Its evident again that we hardly care for human life . National pride on the cost of common lives doesn’t makes any sense to me .
And the reason for all these is "WE"
We have really lost that emotional link in this fast moving world around us and that has made non emotional issues more important. We are more concerned about the result of a match or commonwealth games update rather than issues which should have actually touched us .
May be that’s the reason we are taken on ride now by the government specially on the rising prices, since they know, we are busy with something else and wont resent.

Ultimate aim of life

The soul derives immediate pleasure in righteous deeds (satkarma). After decease of the physical body, in jivas securance of emancipation (sadgati), the agency is again these deeds. Thus, both in this world (loka) and the other (parloka), inner happiness depends on acts of righteousness. The soul’s interest, therefore, consists in acquisition of spiritual merit (punya-prayojana). Interests of the gross body lie in a contrary direction; the external senses and the mind long for worldly enjoyments to the maximum possible extent. By adopting this course of action, man spends his whole life trying to satisfy the insatiable appetites of the mortal body and, in the process, goes on sinning and accumulating demerits. The senses do get entertained this way, but the soul has to suffer both here and in the hereafter. When interests of the soul are catered to, the body is put to discomfort. It has to endure the rigours of austerity, sacrifice, continence, sense-control altruistic service, charitableness etc. Thus, we find that interests of the body and that of the soul, are mutually exclusive; in the pleasure of one, lies the pain of the other.
----From Upnishad

One & Only Paulo Coelho

Amazing writer ….hehehe ..i know you might be thinking that Maneesh has started reading Angregi ( English ) books , but its not…the fascination is only due to my wife …who just loves reading his books and is mad about it.
I have also tried sometimes and its really amazing . He unknowingly touches your life and don’t even know when you have started following your dreams ( as he says ) . I have found that he talks a lot about dreams . May be its true not to give up on the dreams , just need to follow the signs .
About Paulo : Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an Engineer. He's a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?"After researching, Coelho concluded that a writer "always wears glasses and never combs his hair" and has a "duty and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation," amongst other things.