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Cleanliness

The most important places to keep clean and tidy are my mind and heart. If I allow thoughts to flourish that I wouldn't want to see the light of day, I can never have any real self-respect. By starting each day in quiet reflection and pouring positive, loving thoughts into my mind, I gradually clean out cynicism and unkindness.

Spaces Of Silence

Push yourself like a machine and you will eventually run low on energy. Love your mind by allowing it spaces of silence and it will serve you tirelessly.

Enemy of Happiness

The enemy of happiness is wasteful thoughts. To stop yourself from thinking wasteful thoughts focus your mind on God.

Solutions

We are never without the solutions to our problems. It's just that sometimes we may have to wait a little. Learn how to remain peaceful and patient.

National Youth Day-12 January

National Youth Day is celebrated in India on 12 January on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda. In 1984 the Government of India declared the day as the National Youth Day and since 1985 the event is celebrated in India every year.

Swami Vivekananda, known in his pre-monastic life as Narendra Nath Datta, was born in an affluent family in Kolkata on 12 January 1863. His father, Vishwanath Datta, was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects, and his mother, Bhuvaneshwari Devi, was endowed with deep devotion, strong character and other qualities. A precocious boy, Narendra excelled in music, gymnastics and studies. By the time he graduated from Calcutta University, he had acquired a vast knowledge of different subjects, especially Western philosophy and history. Born with a yogic temperament, he used to practise meditation even from his boyhood, and was associated with Brahmo Movement for some time.

Swami Vivekananda's lectures and writings, deriving their inspiration from Indian spiritual tradition and the broad outlook of his Master Sri Ramakrishna, are a source of inspiration and have motivated numerous youth organizations, study circles and service projects involving the youth. All his teachings can be found in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, in nine volumes, published by Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata.

It is well known that the Government of India had declared to observe the National Youth Day every year on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda on 12^th of January. It was decided by the Government of India in order to inspire all the youths of country towards the philosophy of Swami Vivekananda and his ideals. The birthday of the Swami Vivekananda was decided to be celebrated as the National Youth Day to complete the aim of making better future of the country by motivating the youths through the way of life and ideas of the Swami Vivekananda.
It is the aim of great importance of distributing the ideas and ideals of the Swami Vivekananda among the youths of India. It is the great way to wake up the eternal energy of the youths as well as their big efforts to make the country developed.

National Youth Day Quotes

Following are some famous quotes on national youth day said by the Swami Vivekananda:

• “Choose the highest ideal and live your life upto that. Look at the “ocean” and not at the wave”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “Struggle hard to get money, but don’t get attached to it”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “Each soul is potentially divine”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “Talk to yourself once in a day…Otherwise you may miss meeting an EXCELLENT person in this World”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers!”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “Work, work, work – let this be your motto”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “The earth is enjoyed by heroes—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear””. – Swami Vivekananda
• “Feel that you are great and you become great”. –  Swami Vivekananda
• “My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient – good to themselves and the country at large”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “Death being so certain, it is better to die for a good cause”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “It is best to work among the youth in whom lies our hope — patiently, steadily, and without noise”. – Swami Vivekananda
• “The child is father of the man.” Would it be right for an old man to say that childhood is a sin or youth a sin?” – Swami Vivekananda

Reference:

http://www.vivekanandahouse.org/about-vivekananda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Youth_Day_%28India%29
http://www.indiacelebrating.com/events/national-youth-day/

Be At Peace

You spend most of your life running after things, doing things. You forget that being comes before doing. Those who remember this secret make an effort to "be" and discover that when they stop and observe, life helps and brings whatever is needed. Learning to be is learning to be at peace. It is our most fundamental nature.

Today Message for the day

A deep understanding and an attitude of pure feelings results in positive thinking.
Projection: When we talk about positive thinking, it is usually just 'think positive' and 'be positive'. But just saying this, either to others or to myself, doesn't help to change my thoughts permanently, in fact usually, not even temporarily.
-BK Shivani

Bryant McGill

Disappointment is coming, for sure! People are going to hurt you in ways you would never have believed even possible. You are going to be let-down and deeply betrayed. And there is only one thing to do when you are tragically let down — let-go. No matter how wrong they were, holding on will not make it right, it will only eat you alive over time. You are worthy of not reacting negatively to negativity. Don't let them kill you twice. Letting go is the only way. Quit hanging on to the past; fantasizing, dreaming, wishing and replaying it. You can't change it. You just haven't realized it yet, but you have moved on. You are different now; not of the past, but of now — a different person. You don't need whatever the past had — it's gone. Your life is here today. Your greatest moments are ahead of you and are right where you are now, so seize them while you can, before it is too late. Quit the endless worrying about the future. The way you get through life is one day at a time; even one hour at a time or one moment at a time. Start by finding, creating or noticing one good moment. Even in the darkest of times, if you look, you will find one. Being more positive just takes practice. You can retrain your mind to see the best possibilities in everything. A good moment in a bad day counts. Begin with this moment, and make it count.

Control your state of mind,

In any situation, control your state of mind, then look for an alternate way of thinking and delete the emotional baggage held against people.
If we hate someone, when we leave the costume we carry the imprint of hatred, and when the two souls meet again they experience hatred.

Every time we carry forward the unpleasantness, the magnitude and complexity increases. To change the quality of the interaction right now is only one thought away.
If someone has cheated or betrayed us, one option is to create hatred and carry it forward. Other option is to create forgiveness and change the quality of interaction.
Whatever others are doing to us is a return of our past karma, they are not wrong. The response we choose now will create our present and decide our future.

BK Shivani

Determination

You have the determination to plant seeds of change now, and the wisdom to wait for the fruits to emerge.

BK Shivani

चलने की कोशिश तो करो,
दिशाएँ बहुत हैं!
रास्तों पे बिखरे काँटों से न डरो,
तुम्हारे साथ दुआएँ बहुत हैं!
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बेशकीमती तोहफा

एक राजा ने दूसरे राजा के पास एक पत्र और सुरमे की एक छोटी सी डिबिया भेजी।पत्र में लिखा था की जो सुरमा भिजवा रहा हूँ वह अत्यंत मूल्यवान है।
इसे लगाने से अंधापन दूर हो जाता है।
राजा सोच में पड़ गया। वह समझ नही पा रहा था कि इसे किस किस को दे।
उसके राज्य में नेत्रहीनों की संख्या अच्छी खासी थी, पर सुरमे की मात्रा बस इतनी थी, जिससे दो आँखों की रोशनी लौट सके।
राजा इसे अपने किसी अत्यंत प्रिय व्यक्ति को देना चाहता था ।
तभी राजा को अचानक अपने एक वृद्ध मंत्री की स्मृति आई वह मंत्री बहुत ही बुद्धिमान था मगर आंखों की रोशनी चले जाने के कारण उसने राजकीय काम काज से छुट्टी ले ली थी और घर पर ही रहता था ।
राजा ने सोचा कि उसकी आंखों की ज्योति वापस आ गई तो उसे उस योग्य मंत्री की सेवाएं फिर से मिलने लगेंगी ।
राजा ने मंत्री को बुलावा भेज दिया था और उसे सुरमे की डिबिया देते हुए कहा था इस सुरमे को आंखों में डाले आप पुनः देखने लग जाएंगे ।
ध्यान रहे यह केवल दो आंखों के लिए है मंत्री ने एक आंख में सुरमा डाला उसकी रोशनी आ गई उस आँख से मंत्री को सब कुछ दिखने लगा फिर उससे फिर उसने बचा हुआ सुरमा अपनी जीभ पर डाल दिया यह देख कर राजा चकित रह गया उसने पूछा यह आपने क्या किया अब तो आपकी एक ही आंख में रोशनी आ पाएगी, लोग आप को काने कहेंगे । मत्री ने जवाब दिया राजन चिंता ना करें मैं काना नहीं रहूंगा ।
मैं आंख वाला बनकर हजारो नेत्रहीनों को रोशनी दूंगा । मैंने चखकर यह जान लिया है कि सुरमा किस चीज से बना है मै अब स्वयं सुरमा बनाकर नेत्रहीनों में बाटूंगा ।
राजा ने मंत्री को गले लगाया और कहा यह हमारा सौभाग्य है कि मुझे आप जैसा मंत्री मिला । अगर हर राज्य के मंत्री आप जैसी हो जाए तो किसी को कोई दुख नहीं होगा।
Moral:
इसलिए हमें न केवल अपना ही हित सोचना चाहिए बल्कि सबके हित के बारे में सोचना चाहिए। दूसरों का हित करने से ख़ुशी मिलती है।
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BK Shivani-To take control of situations first take control of yourself.

In every situation instead of checking what is right for the situation or the other person, first take care of what is the right way for me to be in this situation.
Going out of control means disconnected from your natural self of purity, peace, love and happiness.

One wrong has no right to correct another wrong, and no power to change them. We have to be in the right before inspiring others to change.
If family or friends are in pain, hurt or anger, we have to first take care of ourselves, remain stable and then help them to come out of it.
When we use love as the way of working, our internal strength, makes people - want to respect us for our inner power, rather than - have to respect us for our position.

Jennifer Weiner

I have learned a lot this year… I learned that things don’t always turn out the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I’ve learned that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I’ve learned that some broken things stay broken, and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

सफलता का सबसे प्रमुख अवरोधक क्रोध है

सफलता का सबसे प्रमुख अवरोधक क्रोध है। क्रोध मनुष्य का एक बहुत खतरनाक अवगुण है। क्रोध वह कीड़ा है जो सूक्ष्म रूप से मनुष्य के अंदर घुसता है और यदि उस कीड़े पर तुरंत नियंत्रण नहीं किया जाए तो वह विकराल रूप धारण कर लेता है और मनुष्य को विनाश के मार्ग पर धकेल देता है।
क्रोध के बढऩे पर मनुष्य का मन, बुद्धि आदि उसके वश में नहीं रहते। क्रोध मनुष्य को असफलता, अपराध और गलत निर्णय की ओर ले जाता है। प्रख्यात वैज्ञानिक जगदीश चंद्र बसु ने कहा है-''नाड़ी मंआ आघात क्रोध से होता है। क्रोध बढ़ा तो आघात भी बढ़ा। जरा-सा क्रोध भी पीड़ा का कारण है। भय से नसें नष्ट होतीं हैं, ताप से और चिंता से झुलसती हैं। क्रोध को जीतना मृत्यु पर विजय है।ÓÓ क्रोधी मनुष्य आवेश में हत्या या आत्महत्या तक कर लेता है। उसके सोचने-समझने की शक्ति समाप्त हो जाती है। क्रोध प्राय: साधारण कारणों से उत्पन्न होता है और साधारणत: ही उसे समाप्त भी किया जा सकता है। क्रोध मनुष्य को असफलता के पास तो पहुंचाता ही है, साथ ही उन लोगों को भी आहत करता है जो उसकी क्रोधाग्नि की चपेट में आते हैं। क्रोधी व्यक्ति का मानसिक संतुलन कभी ठीक नहीं रहता। क्रोध करने वालों से लोग दूर भागने लगते हैं। उनसे बात करने में कतराने लगते हैं। ऐसा इसलिए, क्योंकि न जाने कब वे भड़क जाएं और झगड़ा हो जाए। एक तरह से ऐसे व्यक्ति समाज से कट जाते हैं जो उनकी सफलता के लिए अत्यंत घातक होता है।
अक्सर क्रोध पर नियंत्रण करने के लिए मु_ी भींच लेने या उल्टी गिनती करने की बात कही जाती है। क्यों क्रोध के समय में इंसान विवेक खो देता है? स्वभाव में चिड़चिडापन आ जाता है। बेसब्री में सही निर्णय लेना व उचित व्यवहार असंभव हो जाता है। इस तरह के व्यवहार से लोग खिन्न होते हैं। समस्याएं सुलझने की बजाए उलझ जाती हैं। क्रोध के समय शांत रहने और सब्र रखने में ही भलाई है। धीरे-धीरे समस्याएं सुलझने लगेंगी। एक शांत मस्तिष्क ही सही फैसले और उचित व्यवहार कर सकता है। इसी संदर्भ में किसी विद्वान ने कहा है कि अक्रोध से क्रोध को जीतें, दुष्ट को भलाई से जीतें, कृपण को दान से जीतें और झूठ बोलने वाले को सत्य से जीतें। क्रोध को वश में कर लेने पर क्रोध बढ़ता है और आवेश को आत्मबल के रूप में परिवर्तित किया जा सकता है।
Written by: ज्योतिषाचार्य “पंकज कुमार” 

Positive Thought

Take a few minutes today to reflect on how was 2015, what were the learnings and achievements. Prepare for 2016 with a renewed energy and faith that all will be well.

Don't run after them

 'God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

Rick Warren —

Pharma technology upgradation

Government is planning to set up a Rs 500-crore pharma technology upgradation fund which will facilitate cheaper loans to entities looking to upgrade their manufacturing facilities.

Peace

Ignorance makes you believe that life functions haphazardly. Wisdom teaches you that everything that happens in this theatre of life has profound significance. What you see today is not the fruit of chance but a fruit from seeds planted in the past.
Plant seeds of peace now and you will create a life of peace in the future. http://www.thoughtfortoday.org.uk/seeds-of-peace/