There are many slips between a cup and a lip...
I had one today...I was not offered the long awaited and Promised Pre Placement Offer (P3O) from maruti udyog...
a cause of transition from "amusement" to "bemusement"
However, it reminded me a long forgotten lesson (taught by my elder brother)...
The Response to Change
The change I meant here is the (unexpected) slip!!!
-The fastness in "response to such change" determines your future
My intution added some more words beyond this...
-Respond in a fast, efficient and effective manner!
Now that I should sit for the final placements (NITIE's formal battle field), my efficiency in "response to change" determines my future...
How to justify my intuitive frat (efficiency and effectiveness)?
I found these steps to answer this:
1. Explore (the options)
2. Prioritize
3. Act
...and then the statement is proved -
"You are the creator of your own destiny" (Vivekananda)
Now, I would like to point out the hidden "strategy" aspect.
The perceived "change" is after all an outcome of strategy...and this change can be:
1. Expected - This means that initial strategy was correct!
2. Unexpected - This means that somewhere initial strategy had a flaw!
A correct strategy gives an expected(sometimes desired) change.....and a normal response will suffice...
But if the strategy had a flaw...we face an unexpected change and in such a situation, above protocol should be followed... :)
Too heavy to be called a dose?
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
Mind manifestations
Today, I read an article which says about the mind and it's different states...
I'm very much convinced with the analysis and thus presenting it here...
It says that the mind manifests itself in five conditions:
1. Scattering
2. Darkening
3. Gathering
4. One pointed
5. Concentrated
Scatering form of mind is activity. It's tendency is to manifest in the form of pleasure or in the form of pain. It can be said that in this state of mind rajoguna which resembles passion is dominating among the three characteristics of the mind.
The darkening form is dullness which tends to injury. This state can be said as a tamsik state of mind. In this state one is in a terrible ignorance.
The gathering form is the when the mind struggles to center itself.
The one-pointed form is when the mind tries to concentrate and develops the art of focussing towards the goal.
The concentrated form is what brings the mind into the so called samadhi (as called in yoga)...
or we can understand this state in the situation when arjuna was asked to hit the eye of the bird by draunachaarya and this saadhak saw nothing else other than the bird's eye!!!
The terminology is meant for Yogic practitioners....but this applies to us as well!
Till the stage when we are in the first two states, we can never succeed.
Most of us are in the third state...where we always 'try to gather'....but in vain
Finally when we get into the fourth state, we learn the art of focussing and this always leads us into the shortest and glorious path to success.....
Thus the final state reaches... for which I've no words to write about!!!!
I'm very much convinced with the analysis and thus presenting it here...
It says that the mind manifests itself in five conditions:
1. Scattering
2. Darkening
3. Gathering
4. One pointed
5. Concentrated
Scatering form of mind is activity. It's tendency is to manifest in the form of pleasure or in the form of pain. It can be said that in this state of mind rajoguna which resembles passion is dominating among the three characteristics of the mind.
The darkening form is dullness which tends to injury. This state can be said as a tamsik state of mind. In this state one is in a terrible ignorance.
The gathering form is the when the mind struggles to center itself.
The one-pointed form is when the mind tries to concentrate and develops the art of focussing towards the goal.
The concentrated form is what brings the mind into the so called samadhi (as called in yoga)...
or we can understand this state in the situation when arjuna was asked to hit the eye of the bird by draunachaarya and this saadhak saw nothing else other than the bird's eye!!!
The terminology is meant for Yogic practitioners....but this applies to us as well!
Till the stage when we are in the first two states, we can never succeed.
Most of us are in the third state...where we always 'try to gather'....but in vain
Finally when we get into the fourth state, we learn the art of focussing and this always leads us into the shortest and glorious path to success.....
Thus the final state reaches... for which I've no words to write about!!!!
Friday, August 18, 2006
Inspiring...
The following was actually written for publishing in my new blog...
But somehow, creating the new blog failed and I copied the content here again...
When my ideas siphon out of me....I loose the control
Thanks to google for providing a container to my mind that always is on an urge to go hither and tither!
This flow on this page is triggered by a caption in gtalk -
"Defeat is a temporary situation, its giving up that makes it permenant"
As rightly said, defeat is like a cloud which is a temporary phase...
and every cloud has a silver lining....that is what is hope...
When one looses the hope and gives up...thats the end.
Loosing hope closes the options and puts us in a help less, panic situation
It is like a vicous circle that gives the vicious kicks all through the panic situation...and it succeeds to continue...
Swami Vivekananda rightly said the "Monkey" example:
Once he faced a situation where he had to pass through a bunch of monkeys on his way. His 'serene' mind was disturbed and lost the balance which made him stumble and he started moving in a rampant manner...The monkeys increased their pace of disturbing actions and it continued until a saviour came and energized the yogi with words that taught him not to swerve what come may...
He realized that their energy is in his weakness...
Same thing applies in real life situations also...
We can realize that even the great saint Vivekananda was like you and me when his mind lost the balance...
None is impeccant in the present life or in the previous lives...it is our resolve that makes the difference...
But somehow, creating the new blog failed and I copied the content here again...
When my ideas siphon out of me....I loose the control
Thanks to google for providing a container to my mind that always is on an urge to go hither and tither!
This flow on this page is triggered by a caption in gtalk -
"Defeat is a temporary situation, its giving up that makes it permenant"
As rightly said, defeat is like a cloud which is a temporary phase...
and every cloud has a silver lining....that is what is hope...
When one looses the hope and gives up...thats the end.
Loosing hope closes the options and puts us in a help less, panic situation
It is like a vicous circle that gives the vicious kicks all through the panic situation...and it succeeds to continue...
Swami Vivekananda rightly said the "Monkey" example:
Once he faced a situation where he had to pass through a bunch of monkeys on his way. His 'serene' mind was disturbed and lost the balance which made him stumble and he started moving in a rampant manner...The monkeys increased their pace of disturbing actions and it continued until a saviour came and energized the yogi with words that taught him not to swerve what come may...
He realized that their energy is in his weakness...
Same thing applies in real life situations also...
We can realize that even the great saint Vivekananda was like you and me when his mind lost the balance...
None is impeccant in the present life or in the previous lives...it is our resolve that makes the difference...
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