Power of those few words... what a transformation..

Once a church had fallen upon hard times. Only five members were left: the pastor and four others, all over 60 years old.

In the mountains near the church there lived a retired Bishop. It occurred to the pastor to ask the Bishop if he could offer any advice that might save the church. The pastor and the Bishop spoke at length, but when asked for advice, the Bishop simply responded by saying, "I have no advice to give. The only thing I can tell you is that the Messiah is one of you."

Reaching out to that lonely boy under the tree

I was invited to be an instructor at a high school leadership camp hosted by a college in Michigan in the summer recess between freshman and sophomore years in college. I was already highly involved in most campus activities, and I jumped at the opportunity.

About an hour into the first day of camp, amid the frenzy of icebreakers and forced interactions, I first noticed the boy under the tree. He was small and skinny, and his obvious discomfort and shyness made him appear frail and fragile. Only 50 feet away, 200 eager campers were bumping bodies, playing, joking and meeting each other, but the boy under the tree seemed to want to be anywhere other than where he was. The desperate loneliness he radiated almost stopped me from approaching him, but I remembered the instructions from the senior staff to stay alert for campers who might feel left out.

As I walked toward him I said, "Hi, my name is Kevin and I'm one of the counselors. It's nice to meet you. How are you?" In a shaky, sheepish voice he reluctantly answered, "Okay, I guess" I calmly asked him if he wanted to join the activities and meet some new people. He quietly replied, "No, this is not really my thing."

Tum Agar Saath Dene Ka Vada Karo

how "bout us...baby

Mera Pyaar Bhi Tu Hai ../ Naan Pesa Ninaippadellaam..

Unsung heroes in uncommon places visited by angels..

During one of our visits to Chennai and after a simple Temple Darshan we entered a Book Store and started searching for this Book on Tattva Bodha.We found many people buying various Books and CDs and from their smart walks and accumulation of CDs from Bhajans to Bombay Jaishree,sent a nice feeling in us,that,we have come to the right place indeed.
I was looking for this Book while my wife started collecting Bharathiar's songs and Ms's Music.I searched everywhere for this Book.There was this girl Kalaivani, standing next to the Cashier, sincerely watching all our movements..a black girl,should be from a nearby Village,might be 17 or 18, should not have crossed 8th Std., might be out of poverty she is here..all my journalist's brain unnecessarily calculated about this gullible girl..and though she was repeatedly watching me, I ignored her and started searching for"Tattva Bodha"

I saw many books from "Sandhya Vandanam" to Swami VIvekananda's Chicago Speech" but having spent a good 40 minutes..I looked at her..she also looked at me curiously.I asked her,knowing fully well that such a girl cannot have any idea of anything,leave alone Tattva Bodah..

Ae mere Humsafar..

Sarah...Bob Dylan

Mella po..Mella Po..

A groovy kind of love..

Koncha neram Koncha neram .. little time for Cooing

Every breath you take

You look wonderful tonight

There is a kind of hush all over the world.

Gunguna Rahe Hain

Hum dono do premi.. the two in love.

I love you more than I can say..

I'll always be there for you.
To make you feel that you're secured. And even if the rain is pouring hard and the sky is almost dark, I'll never leave you just so you won't feel alone. Even if the friends & relatives had left, I would still stay by your side, just so you won't feel alone.
You have me who'll be willing to help you cope up in every frustrations you're having. Every depressing moments, every down moments, every self-worthless-realization moments, I'll be there, not because you want me to be with you, but because I want to be with you.

I'll always appreciate every little thing you do. Even a smile would mean a lot to me, just because you own that smile. And that even if no words are expressed as long as the eyes understand, you'd be able to communicate, just like that. I guess the silent communications would easily outnumber the words.

I love you more than I can say

Pal Pal Dil Ke paas Tum Rehti ho

Aankhon ki aankhon mein

Hello..

Shame is in "Not doing anything about it"..

For decades, Jay Thiessens hid a painful secret as he built his machine and tool company from a mom-and-pop operation into a $5 million-a-year enterprise. During the day he hid behind the role of a harried businessman, too busy to review contracts or shuffle through mail. At night, his wife, Bonnie, would help him sort through the paperwork at the kitchen table, in the living room, or sometimes sitting up in bed.

Other tasks he delegated to a core group of managers at B&J Machine Tool Co. who had no idea their boss couldn't read.

"I worked for him for seven years and I had no clue," said Jack Sala, now the engineering manager for Truckee Precision, a B&J competitor. "I was his general manager. He would bring legal stuff to me and say, 'You're better at legalese than me.' I never knew I was the only one reading them."

Few people knew of his shame and most burning desire: To be able to read a simple bedtime story to his grandchildren. But he couldn't keep his illiteracy secret forever. "It became too hard to continue to hide it," said Thiessens, who has begun to read at the age of 56. "Since I made the decision to let everybody know, it's a big relief."

Lady

And I Love you so..

pyar kiya toh darna kya

Here comes the sun..

Sau Saal Pehle..

Kitna Pyara Wada hai..

Naan malarodu thaniyaga..I brought flowers for you.

Kiss from a rose

Naan oru kulandhai..we are still kids only..

Yunhi Tum Mujhse Baat Karti Ho..and you talked to me..

Deewana hua baadal..me too..

Kehna hain.. I want to say this..

Meeting an Ajanabee ...many years ago

Manifest your Destiny

The Sufi Poet Rumi wrote a poem almost a millennium ago, called "The Seed Market" that reflects a consciousness required to manifest abundance..

Can you find another market like this?
Where,
with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Where
For one seed
you get a whole wilderness?
For one weak breath,
the divine wind?
You have been fearful
of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up by the air.
Now, your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.
It no longer has the form it had,
but it's still water.
The essence is the same.
This giving up is not a repenting.
It's a deep honoring of yourself.
When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry, at once, quickly,
for God's sake!
Don't postpone it!

Your destiny is in your hands

Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a land far away, there lived an old man in a house on top of a hill. He was known far and wide for his intelligence, sensitivity and wisdom. His answers were always correct.
In a village below the hill was a group of boys who played together. Sometimes they climbed the hill to visit the old man and ask him questions, for which he always seemed to have the correct answer. Over time, it became a little game, with the boys continually trying to think of a question that the old man could not answer. But they were never successful.
One day, a boy named Aram called the others around him and said, "I have finally found a way to stump the old man. Here in my hand, I have a bird. We will go and ask the old man if the bird is alive or dead. If he says that it is dead, I will release it and it will fly away. If he says that it is alive, I will crush it, and the bird will be dead. Either way , he will at last have been proven wrong."

Excited about the prospect of finally catching the old man with a wrong answer, they hurried up the hill. The old man watched them coming and noticed the eager looks on their faces. Then Aram stepped forward and asked. "Old man, I have a bird here in my hands. Is it alive or is it dead?"
The old man looked at their mischievous, expectant faces and then quietly said, "Aram, it is in your hands."

The point and moral of this story is that almost everything that happens to you is in your hands. Your destiny is very much up to you. Your future is largely determined by yourself, by your own choices and decisions. What you achieve is the result of what you do , or fail to do , day by day and year by year.
The management guru Peter Drucker wrote, "The very best way to predict the future is to create it."
Hope is not a strategy for success.Your life is too precious and important to be left to chance.Decide today to create your own future.
(Excerpts from: "Create Your Own Future..by Brian Tracy")

Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye..!!!

Why do some people have all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?

Why are some people always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune? Research over the years reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.

The Funny thing about Human Beings.

From Paulo Coelho

A man asked my friend Jaime Cohen: ' What is the human being's funniest characteristic?'

Cohen said: ' Our contradictoriness. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.'

It reminds me of the time we think about the future and take a position without giving due weightage to the present(trend) and end up holding a losing position....

Little Knowledge would do fine, often.

Once upon a time there was a high IQ cheetah who couldn’t run at a top speed of 120 km per hour. As a result, the Thompson’s gazelles that he chose to chase easily outran him and he was never able to get hold of one. Thus, in order to survive, he was forced to catch rodents and frogs and other small animals which lived in the Serengeti.
Of course he had to do this surreptitiously because if any of the other cheetahs ever found out it would be terribly humiliating for him. “What’s the use of being the fastest land animal in the world,” he would often say to himself, “if I can’t even run down a decent high speed deer for dinner?”

The Art Of Trying

Pablo Picasso said:"God is above all, an artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the ant. He never tried to follow one particular style. He simply kept on doing whatever he felt like doing".

It is the desire to walk that creates the path ahead; however, when we set off on the journey towards our dream, we feel very afraid, as if we had to get everything right first time. But, given that we all live different lives, who decided what 'getting everything right' means? If God made the giraffe, the elephant and the ant, and we are trying to live in His image, why do we have to follow any other model? A model might sometimes help us to avoid repeating the stupid mistakes that others have made, but, more often than not, it becomes a prison that makes us repeat what everyone else has always done.

It means making sure your tie always matches your socks. It means being forced to have the same opinions tomorrow as you had today. Where does that leave the constantly shifting world?

As long as it doesn't harm anyone, change your opinions now and then and be unashamedly contradictory. You have that right; it doesn't matter what other people think, because they're going to think something anyway.

So relax. Let the universe move around you and discover the joy of surprising yourself. 'God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise', says St.Paul.

A warrior of light often finds that certain moments repeat themselves. He is often faced by the same problems and situations and, seeing these difficult situations return, he grows depressed, thinking that he is incapable of making any progress in life.
'I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart.
'Yes, you have been through all this before', replies his heart.'But you have never been beyond it'.
Then the warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he has not yet learned. He always finds a different solution for each repeated battle, and he does not consider his failures to be mistakes but, rather, as steps along the path to a meeting with himself.

- From Paulo Coelho..Like the flowing River

Being Spiritual

Spirituality to me means being in balance within myself when all kinds of emotions arising due to our interactions with the external events , people, etc. I have watched many truly spiritual people working in various fields like Dr.Manmohan Singh, Dr.Abdul Kalam, Sachin Tendulkar, Viswanathan Anand, Magic Johnson, Michel Schumacher, Pele, Dhyanchand, Cristiano Ronaldo, Amitabh Bachhan , Swamy Vivekanand , Narayana Murthy, Azim Premji, to name a very few. They excelled in their fields irrespective of any distractions & criticisms and what mattered most in their life was the job in hand and they kept at it with an amazing balance and carried out their work with such SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS which propelled them into the highest pinnacle of their chosen field with an incredible consistency. They were able to filter out the noise around them, stayed focused and above all they were always disconnected from the excitement and the expectant results as emphasised in Bhagawad Gita.

I have been blessed in knowing a few amazing traders both men and women (My Critic & friends) with such high level of intelligence and perception and one of them trades like Jesse Livermore. Inspite of their excellent grasp of the market, they have failed on certain occasions due to inconsistency in applying themselves and disconnecting from excitement & results, though they are capable of much higher reach.And I am seeing them evolving into fine traders everyday.

That brings me to the spirituality factor or should I call it the CONSCIOUSNESS factor. The more conscious you are in the market, evenly balanced as in yogic teachings, the end results are going to be amazing as well. It is very difficult considering that Arjuna who was always mentored by Lord Krishna couldn't keep his EGO in check and has to be brought down to his senses by the Lord Himself on many occasions.
Even the egotistic Arjuna had that Superconsciousness whenever he took his arrow & aimed, he would just see the object and nothing else and he was the Expert Archer.

So the enemy to an excellent trading is not the efficient market or CNBC or hyped up tipsters & the so called operators but within us. We have to handle our inner turmoil, become evenly balanced by increasing our levels of Consciousness by the KARMA YOGA Method. Just keep doing it till you perfect it..and become one day like the character Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon answering to his Master's observations that his Skills are at the point of Spiritual insight.
"What is the highest technique?"..."To have no Technique.."
"What are your thoughts on facing your opponent?".."There is no opponent...."
"Then why is that?"..."Because the word "I" does not exist"..
"A good martial artist doesn't become tense but ready.Not thinking yet not dreaming.Ready for whatever may come when there is an opportunity. A martial artist has to take full responsibility for himself and accept the consequences for his own doing"

And you will become one with the flow of things when you learn to FEEL the Markets...You won't fight it..You will just let it happen to you..

Yen..Yendra Kelvi

Be inquisitive and search out with passion...

Mere Mehboob

Moonlight Sonata

Fifth of Beethoven

Wish You were here..

This world was created for me...

AN INTELLIGENT GAMBLER.

Most people gamble at some point in their lives. For most it provides entertainment, for some it becomes an addiction, while a few become pros and make a living at it. Gambling provides a living for a very small minority and entertainment for the masses, but a casual gambler reaching for a quick buck has the same chance of success as an ice cube on a hot stove.
Some famous investors like betting on horses. They include Peter Lynch, of Magellan Fund fame, and Warren Buffett, who used to publish a newsletter on handicapping. Some card games,such as baccarat, are based on chance alone, whereas others, such as blackjack, involve a degree of skill that attracts intelligent people. Professionals treat gambling as a job. They keep calculating odds and act only when mathematics point in their favor. Losers, on the other hand, itch for the action and enter one game after another,switching between half-baked systems.
When you gamble for entertainment, follow a set of money management rules. The first rule is to limit how much you’ll risk in any given session. On a rare occasion when a friend pulls me into a casino,I put what I am willing to lose that night into my right pocket, and stuff my winnings, if any, into the left one. I stop playing as soon as my right pocket is empty, without ever reaching into the left. Once in a
while I find more money in the left pocket than I had in my right, but I certainly do not count on it.
A friend who is a successful businessman enjoys the glitter of Las Vegas. Several times a year he takes $5,000 in cash and flies there for a weekend. When his bankroll runs out, he goes for a swim in the pool,enjoys a good dinner, and flies back home. He can afford to spend $5,000 on entertainment and never blows more than his initial stake.Lounging at a pool after his cash is gone, he differs from legions of compulsive gamblers who keep charging more chips on their credit cards, waiting for their “luck” to turn. A gambler with no money management is guaranteed to bust out.(Excerpts from "Come into my Trading room"..by Dr.Alexander Elder.)