how, it touches to all..!!!

Life is slow and sensible. But still my eyes are seeing some of the best things which are happening in the world. Here you can consider the dramatic revolution on technology or on the mindset of people. Observation is kind of become habit and analysis, thoughts has linked to that as well.

May be this one is kind of weird, but we always have mass communication system in the city, in the building or offices and sometime in whole country (developed country). And for that we all need to know about the frequencies and gadgets which does all of these things. All these are kind of artificial communication. People listen, obey the command and leave it. What if I want to make the sensible communication with the people? Of course for that we require sensible audience. In my opinion, everybody is sensible at some or other point in time. They just don’t keep that sensitivity forever or they don’t feel that they have become sensitive at that point of time. My actual argument is here that without gadgets, people listen very sensibly on some frequency. I don’t know how that is happening and I think the technology has not yet figured that out, but it’s actually happening by some of the trials and error.

Hereby, maybe I will give you an example, like how those National Anthem words generating vibration in everybody’s body when you listen to it or heard a tone of that. How come on that particular song our patriotism becomes active. Who has found that these words only will be consider in National Anthem and tested it before using them. They are just a normal word but somehow touching it everyone’s sensitivity. Here if you see, language is not a barrier. Sometime it does not have meaningful words to your mind, but still you feel all those intentions behind that (Like unity and brotherhood)

Similarly, there is some kind of music which touches all the generations, but some are applicable to few in generations. This thought has just come in my mind due to one song from some south Indian movie, which has totally different music and language, although people are mad at it.

I always wonder about prayers’ words as well. Prayers have simple words but create vibration when you do with total inclination.

We have not yet discovered such communication techniques in details which GOD has developed. During our creation of something, by trial and error, we may have touched it many times but not having hold on it.

we only decide the level of happiness...

“Nothing is important than the happiness at the heart level. “

Life will pass through many ups and downs but only few can feel the true happiness (which I couldn’t describe it right now). Somehow, I believe that as person evolves they set the standard for the exact meaning of their happiness or satisfaction. This might attract an indirect problem for us. So, if you taste some particular food-dish with its very excellent taste or in a particular way, you hardly continue with the half better taste of it. In direct language, if you have ever felt happiness, you will never compromise to match that standard. You keep on searching for the exact match for the very same happiness. On top of that, whatever pursuit happens on your front, it holds very negligible meaning to you if that was not matching to the require standard. In a way, you are becoming an addictive to that and you keep on remembering the same state and situations which has made you happy in the past. You will put them all into category of "not up to the mark". If we realize here, indirectly we are setting the standards for the happiness and become addictive to it.

 Thoughts passed through very dense network which we hold in our mind and question to me, does this happiness hold that much value that you are putting everything in the game? Is it that much precious, invaluable and crave of happiness is such an unavoidable or it has to match the exact pattern which you have felt in the past?

people, who belongs to different clan..!!

'Just Married'

Kite seller looking for customer

a devotee to GOD

a lady villager who is selling fruits

a foreigner's boldness 

An innocent lady villager offering me fruits

Perfect family -  capturing their happy moments with
Mount Batur in Bali

PS: I have captured these photographs during my visit to Bali, Indonesia .

Malaysia,Indonesia,Singapore - Part 1

 

kuala lumpur, Malaysia



Colorful Hotel at Genting Island, Malaysia



Temple at Bali, Indonesia

Tanah Lot Temple, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia



Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia



Tanah Lot Temple, Bali, Indonesia



some Gujarati quote

"જીવન માં ફક્ત એક સારી વ્યક્તિ નો સાથ હોય તો આખી જિંદગી જીવી શકાય છે ,
પણ ક્યારેક ફક્ત એ એક સારી વ્યક્તિ ની શોધમાં આખી જિંદગી વીતી જાય છે ."

Trek to DeoriaTal,Tungnath and ChandraShila Peak

What will be our life if we stay away from the gadgets and internet world (especially social networking) for few days?

A break for few days and trekking into Himalaya’s gave me such feelings. Leaving all artificial life and concrete jungle behind, passing through the sharp curvy roads which revolves around mountains on one side and the death defining valleys on other, we reached the Sari village near Ukimath in Uttarkhand state.

To reach Deoria Tal, we started trekking from Sari Village near Ukimath. Gaining height on trail with step by step and experiencing the nature’s beauty on both the sides of pavement we reached to the top. On top, a big plateau with a small lake (Tal), which is covered on one side with dense jungle and Himalayan mountain on the other side. Misty weather and heavy rain we couldn’t identify the Himalayan peaks on that day but the next day the morning was very pleasant and crystal clear. We observed Chokumba, Kedar Dome, Hathi Parvat, Nanda Devi (India’s highest peak) and Kala khadak peaks in the Himalayan range. As the rays of the Sun started coloring these peaks, they have started glittering as gold and the reflection of these mountains in the Deoria Tal adding the beauty in this scenery. Apart from this, we saw jackal (which gave us a thrilling experience as well as tension), fingerprints of leopard, many birds and their chirpy sounds, red flowers - Rhododendron, which has medical values – completed our package for this trek.

Spending a wonderful and thrilling night in the tent and with sky full of shining stars, next day we started descending to the base village – Sari. Then, we started moving towards the village called Chopta. It’s a base village to start our second trek for Tungnath Temple.

– which is one of the Punch Kedar and consider being a part of pilgrim trip in Hindu Culture. Tungnath temple is the only temple in the world at this much height (source Wikipedia). Leaving all jungles behind and passing through the meadows we reached to the top after 3-4 hours of steep trek. Here, the atmosphere was rapidly changing – sunlight, cloudy and thunder storms. During the discussion about weather with the local people, we get to know that they compare the weather with the Mumbai’s Fashion. They said that “As Mumbai’s fashion change rapidly, so the weather changes here. Luckily, the Tungnath temple was opening on the next day. So on the next day we covered the Chandra Shila peak

– where Lord Ram had done meditation after defeating Ravana and we did puja at Tungnath temple. Then we started descending. During this trip, talking with the local people and hearing their stories and myths about the places like Deoria Tal and Tungnath temple was very interesting to us, whereas a talk about the new technology and gadgets which we used here in metros was very surprising to them.

That’s all we covered in this 4-5 days trekking. Such a mind refreshing treks and stunning view of nature’s beauty brought lots of serenity in us. Nature, trekking, photography and Writing about such places are all going hand in hand.
To see more photos for this trip click here

whatever it will be... will be..!!!

Wind was flowing, thoughts were blowing,
Mind was poaching, heart was weeping,
Sitting atop mountain, looking at sunset,
Attempted to draw picture of my future,
No clarity, no omens, just full of mystery,
And nothing came as concrete as this mountain..!!!

Looking at sky, questioning the almighty,
What is my future?
Where is my life heading?
Give me chance to see my life designed by you,
Through the window of intuitions and senses;

Bewildered, discouraged and whispering
Prayers of hope headed towards my home,
Whatever it will be …will be...!!!

Necessity and act of adapting new Technology

Its Saturday afternoon, I visited the most popular telecom operator’s gallery to change my mobile billing plan. It’s heavily crowded. There are people come with their application forms and supporting documents for the new connection happily standing in a queue and on the other corner there are customers shouting on the representative as it’s complain handling desk. It seems to me a very balance atmosphere out there…!!!

In this chaos, I happened to observe that an old age uncle was chit-chatting with customer care representative in very annoying way. He was fighting for the extra amount added in his mobile bill for some unwanted service. I get to know from the conversation that they have activated some service by mistake on their touch screen mobile (which they are not so familiar) and because of that the amount was added in their bill. Customer care representative was trying to convince them and making them understand that this has been activated from the customer side, so they were helpless and couldn’t revert it.

This was just one observation, there are ample such observations you can find in our daily life. Such incidents make me think, these new technologies are boon or curse for the people? In a way it’s solve the problem or some time crates problem for the people who are not so good at adapting new technology.

As and when the new Technology is introduced to the market, people become crazy in buying such new stuff. They just bought it for the sake of keeping themselves with pace of new technology or may be some time they are just do show offs. They hardly know about the technology or its actual usage or even their own need. Being into telecom technology, I have observed many times that people are buying new flunky mobiles by spending many thousands, but they hardly know how to feed the contact of the person into address book of mobile. I have seen they keep the additional telephone pocket diary for just noting down the numbers.

Ahhh..!!! Look at this race for newer and newer technology..!!! Where and when it will end or what direction it is taking? Is there any one to guide this or question them that “Do we really need all such high end technologies?” It’s surely debatable.

Innovations are happening due to requirements and problems face by certain category of people or due to some situation. Those categories of people or situations have actual requirements of such technology and innovations, as it solves their problems. There is no mandate that everybody must use all technologies available in the market just because those gadgets are falling in their buying capacity even if they don’t have any hardcore requirement.

Hindu Mythology and their Lessons..!!!

Some of best epic stories which we have studied during our childhood in the history books and a lot we have heard from our granny and grandpa. These stories are still around us in some different format.

Holy books Ramayana and Mahabharata are some the best written stories in the world. Some says its real and some says it’s totally mythology. Let's not go into the discussion about the reality of their existence or maybe we are not supposed to. However, the essence of these stories is much deeper and very helpful to many of us.

Ram's character of being "maryaada purushottama" - supreme glory of mankind, whereas on the other side the supreme politician Krishna's Character are truly create affection in you to read more about the situation they were passed through and the life they have lived. These mythological stories are vast source of lessons if you understand comprehensively and relate them with the current situation of our life and corporate culture.

As a part of my reading material, I used to read “management mythos” in Corporate Dossier supplement of Economic times on every Friday. They have these mythological stories and relate them with the office environment, corporate culture and even our life’s principals. They are worth reading and we all should imbibe them in our life.

These days, i am not able to catch-up with ET paper, so found the e-link of the "Management Mythos" author “Devdutt Pattanaik”. He is great mythologist and his articles are available here.

A usage of word 'hallucination'

I came across a new word “hallucination", while writing in Microsoft word and using the synonyms application.

Fantasy of using different new words makes me feel proud or sometimes make a foolish out of me among the others. But, who cares attitude give strength to my unbound courage each time and I am keep attempting on new words. Hereby, describing one of the occurrences of such thing.

Passing through a little confusing and unclear state of my mind, made me use of word “hallucination” in my status of Goggle Talk. And the show has begun. Many of my online friends contacted me asking what hallucination is. I have been proudly explaining them about using my shallow understanding about word and projecting my extraordinary knowledge in English vocabulary to them, until one dear friend of mine broke my understanding about word.

He started to ask “what happened to me? And why hallucination?”. Similar to others, I have explained him about word and told about unclear state of my mind. But this dear friend of mine was having deep understanding about this word and its usage. So, he understood that I am passing through the mental disorder (a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders – which is the actual meaning of this word). He has also suggested me, it’s not good to be in such hallucination state and don’t update such status in Google talk. On top of that, he was trying to help me out to come out of this state; he recommended a course of ‘Art of Living’ which he has attended.

On the other end, looking at the chatting window I was laughing, that my interest of using different word, without understanding them properly, pulled me in such troublesome situation.So, even if I was not in such a mentally disorder condition and not seeing any imaginary things, the world got to know that I am in hallucination condition. Ohhh GOD...!!!

PS: for better understanding of the word click here

visit to Butterfly garden in pune

Wandering on city streets

New City, new people, new surroundings – hundreds and thousands of observations. One of the obervation was little funny, describing here.

A number of advertisement boards and billboards about new construction sites and new home schemes on our way to the office and even everywhere in the city. From this anyone can easily make out that, the city’s real estate is booming and lots of construction work is going on in the city. So you might mislead yourself that houses may be cheaper here because of so much construction work and new areas are developing. But when you look at the prices, one quote can easily describe it – “Sky is not the limit”.

On the other side, What will you think; when you were travelling in a local city bus and you got to see the doctor’s advertisement for the diagnosis of piles in almost all the buses (specially on all handles of the bus, where we hang for support). Next thought was, "Does this city have lots of piles cases? Or there may be plenty of doctors who are really good in diagnosis of piles and may be because of that they are having blood shedding competition?" Whatever is the case, I got little scared and nervous about my own digestion system.

Plenty of advertisements on the same topics or subjects are sometimes very misleading...!!!

Bored with own character-behavior-personality

Thought provoked me during the morning meditation session and made me write on this.

We easily get bored with our work, life, people/relatives/friends, hobbies and activities in few days or may be in few years. Is that any time happened that we have bored now with our personality or behavior? “Just want to clarify that getting bore does not mean you started disliking our own self, but just want to try different stuff. It is also not that we are not happy what we are.” So, it means that any time it has happened that I have just bored now being so rude with others, I have bored now being angry all the time or sad all the time. I have bored now being so kind all the time, I have bored now being so emotional all the time, I have just got bored now being follower all the time, I have bored now being so caring person all the time, I have bored being so perfect and meticulous all the time, etc, etc...And the list goes on.

Other side, I think we never get bored with our personality or we never get a chance to get bore with it. Because surrounding environment do not allow us to change it. It keeps reminding us about the older things and we keep on retaining it for life long, years on years. Of course, the passing time and a shift in responsibilities will definitely change our character/behavior/personality, but this is not just because of we have bored now and you changed it. It’s a gradual, necessary and situational change.

May be its difficult or may be its just impossible to change it when you bored with it?

I think , I should experiment such things someday, because I felt really bored now.

Snoring of My Roommate

Does anyone think that how he/she can generate or make sound while he/she is sleeping? Isn't it very interesting to know and sometime very irritating to handle? Yes, specially when your roomate is snoring while you are sleeping.

The most important part is that person who is snoring, not even aware about his snoring activity. Very unlikely that snoring is not even disturbing his sleep. He/she will be in a very peaceful sleep. When you inform them next day, they are in a shock and not even ready to accept their noisy and non-human activity. For such cases, our very much realtime handy and helping tool - mobile - captured the video/sound of the person who was snoring and we showed it to him. Caught you..!!! :) :)

Jokes apart, but It really make me curious that what does make us to snore while we are sleeping and I end finding below details and stats from my favourite search engine.

"what causes snoring is simple. While asleep, the tissues of the throat and nose vibrate because of the air flowing through them. The volume of the snoring sound can therefore be largely dictated by the turbulence of the air flowing through the throat and nose. The more turbulent the airflow, the louder is the snoring and vice-versa; the lesser the turbulence, the more likely that the sound would be more tolerable for a bedmate or roommate."

"Statistics on snoring are often contradictory, but at least 30% of adults are snoring. 60% of men and 40% of women aged 60 to 65 years are snoring. this suggests an increased susceptibility to snoring as age increases."

And unfortunately, my roommate is a part of this snoring community. :)

Thanks to medical science that there are many such solutions like nasal sprays, nasal strips or nose clips are available in the market for snoring treatment which helps you to reduce snoring. So, my roommate do not have to worry much about, as he is getting married in few months.

This post of my blog is actually dedicated to him. Because of his snoring ,I couldn't sleep many nights and end up reading many good books (after giving him so much galis). Today, as he is leaving our room, I will wish him all the best for his future endeavors on his last day and wish to myself a very happy and peaceful sleep now onwards.

Ethics of a Roadside Key-Maker

Some of my observation and incidents help me to fetch some of the best things out our society.

Few days back, I have lost my cupboard keys. Unfortunately, I did not have duplicate key for that cupboard. So, I went to the Key maker’s shop which is at the end of my street. Hundreds of keys and locks were hanging in his small shop’s front door and the guy was engrossed in his special art of making keys. He has noticed me that I was standing in front of his shop. I asked “Can you help me in making of my Cupboard key? I don’t have duplicate key for that.”

Wiping the sweat of his forehead on his shoulder, he showed affirmation for help. Then, he put on his shirt on his sweat t-shirt which he was wearing, took all necessary equipment in a small cloth bag, put on his thin slippers and asked me “Where do you stay, sir?”
I told him, “nearby, just five minutes’ walk.”

We came to our home and I showed him the locked Cupboard. He took out some blank key from (Blank key – without any cuts or notches). He put that blank key in the cupboard lock and started to understand the lock’s movement by putting his ears very close to cupboard lock. After that he took out the key and started making cuts and notches (bitting) on the blade of a key. After doing some cuts or notches, again he tried to open lock and try to understand the next movement of lock. Again he took out the key and started making cuts and notches on the key. This procedure continued for almost half an hour, until he opened the cupboard with that new key.

Seeing this procedure and his skills, I was surprised and really happy too. I thanked him for all his efforts and paid him the amount that we negotiated at his shop.

Later, when he was leaving, one question struck to my mind. If he can open cupboard in such a short notice, he can open any damn lock in considerable timeframe whenever he wants. With the curious face, I asked that guy, “You have such a great skill, is that happened any time that you have to use your skill for the wrong purpose?”

The guy answered it very well. He said that when my father taught me this skill, he told “if you use this skill for the right purpose, someday you may have to sleep with empty stomach, but when you use it for wrong purpose, there is a definite chance that you don’t get sleep even if your stomach is full”

“What level of ethics and honesty this guy has” I whispered internally...!!

An Old Belief and Today's Scientific World..

Interesting old beliefs which we easily pass on to the next generation without questioning them in today’s modern world reality, such is the incident I am briefing hereby.

Few days back, in the night, I was cutting my nails using nail cutter. My mom saw it and she started screaming on me. She didn’t like that I was cutting the nails in the night. I asked with curiosity, "why?”. She didn’t have a proper answer, but she said “Don’t cut the nails in the night; it’s not good for your fortune/planets and not even good for our house’s fortune”. I was surprised that “Cutting nails is such a dangerous activity”.

My curiosity didn’t stop there. I have searched on the internet and found that, it’s a myth. The actual reality is different. In earlier days, neither there was electricity available in home nor was nail-cutter invented. At that time, they usually use kerosene lamp for the light inside the house and the blade instead of nail-cutter. So there was a high chance that the person who was cutting his/her nails may hurt fingers because of the usage of blade. Before the Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric bulb, this belief was very true and needed to stop ones from cutting their nails in the night. But now, it is not holding any weightage.

When I explained this to my mom, she just started laughing on her old belief and accepted the new reality.

I found that with every new invention and innovations we need to brush up once again on all those old beliefs which we have and remove if they are not applicable in this modern world. So that, these wrong believes shall not pass to the next generation.

I am sure there are many such old beliefs still pass on to the next generation without questioning them in today's world reality. Would like to know such beliefs and investigate them in detail..... :) :) :)

wait...till the quality matters

Business minded people have eyes of observation which can see the business opportunities in every situation. But there are many unknown parameters affect to the business which took them to the top of the success ladder or in deep failure.

Tea stall (in a slang way we called "Tapari") outside my office provides wonderful tea with all Garam Masala and ginger. But it seems that his business is limited and not creating worthy revenue. On the similar side, our office has average kind of canteen. Our office canteen is not providing a quality food as well as tea. But the company is paying for all employees; everybody insists to take the tea from office canteen only despite the tea quality is bad.

Few days back, all of a sudden our management has decided that the employee has to bear their own cost for the food. This has made a drastic change. Everybody has realized the need for the quality, as the money is now going from their own pockets. So they felt that if they are paying then the quality matters. So, everybody shifted to that Tapariwala for the Masala Tea and Maggie. And, immediately that Tapariwala's business shoots up. That canteen wala got a tight slap on his chick and realized that he was earning just because of the employer was paying. No employee was actually interested in his degraded tea and other unhygienic food items. So, due to his degraded quality, he has reported a loss in his business.

Now that, Tapariwala is also thinking to extend his business to meet the requirement. I also appreciate Tapariwala's ethics that he didn't change the price of tea even though the demand has increased tremendously.

In the business clouds, when and which parameters change suddenly we never know. We just keep following the path of ethics and provide the good quality products even if the revenue earning is less initially.

Why only Money for Donation..

Why do they only ask Money as Donation? Or why do beggars always beg for Money? Money is just a medium of exchanging your needy things. There are many other things which are possibly to be donated and there are hundreds out there in a need of that. Like books, knowledge, your time and the last things is usage of your mind or your ideas (which put you in position to donate other things). Why can't we donate our senses (of course, only if it is alive) for few days to someone? At least he or she can improve using those senses and will make his or her life better. That is the actual things which we need to pass on. Awareness and alive senses are the need for everyone.

There is a reception on the other side is equally matters. If you want to pass on something but the reception is not tuned, it is just a waste of effort. That leads to me to conclude that we need to provide the basic things to the person first and then pass on awareness. Without food, shelter and clothes, you can't even teach simple things to someone. Those untuned person will never even listen to you and it looks them as if it is very complicated. That is great saying that “A hungry stomach cannot hear”. For Food, shelter and clothes, you need money. Because of that only passing money to this needy people as donation is required. After the person is at sufficient stable stage, they start accepting knowledge and accept those awareness fundas. Later, if the person is lucky enough, he explores and try to understand the spirituality concepts to make life even much better.