HAPPY DIWALI

Happy  Diwali

It’s the “Festival of Lights” today,

It’s again the day of Diwali,

It’s time to dress up folks,

It’s time to adorn the thali.

It’s the occasion to throng the temples,

Pray to the Gods and give them offerings,

It’s an opportunity to entreat the deities,

To bless us all and rid us of sufferings,

It’s the day to light the diyas,

Ignite the rockets and burst crackers,

But it’s also the time to be safe,

From the fireworks and all the sparklers.

It’s the season to pay a visit,

To all our friends and relations,

To hand them over sweets and presents,

Diwali is our splendid chance.

But while you spend a time of joy,

Don’t think it’s merriment all the way,

Out there wait many of those,

For whom it’s no time to be gay.

Denied of laughter and smiles for days,

They know not what it is to enjoy,

Can you not share something you have,

Can you not bring them a little joy?

When you can make someone else smile

When you can be someone’s ally

That’s when you can yourself be glad

That’s when you’ll have a HAPPY DIWALI!

On the auspicious festival of lights,

May the glow of joy,

Prosperity and happiness

Illuminate you life and your home.

Wishing you a HAPPY DIWALI.

Regaurds...

SANTOSH HAVALE

Who you Are,Who You Are Not ?

 

Who You Are, Who You Are Not:
A New Meditation for
Challenging Times

For the worried, the stressed, the overwhelmed, the lonely, the displaced, the desperate, the sick, the heartbroken, the confused, the paralyzed, the angry, the lost, the human, I created and offer this meditation. My hope is that reading it, re-reading it when necessary, and passing it on to others will be a powerful and very positive intense experience for you.

I accept responsibility for my human being, because only I am responsible, but I take comfort in and rejoice that I am so much more.
As such:

I am not the circumstances around me.

Where I believe I can make a positive impact on the circumstances, I will try. Where I cannot change circumstances, I will accept that they are so, and how they impact my own circumstances is so. But I will not let them bring me down. Instead I will rise above them, as they are not me.

I am not my money.

And the gain and loss of my money is not me. I respect the good that money can help do, but I also recognize its limitations and how easily it can cause harm to others and to me. I will control my money to the best of my ability, but whether I gain or lose it, I will never let it take control of me.

I am not my possessions.

The material goods in my life include tools that can help me do and achieve things, and ornaments that can make me feel a certain way. But while I may choose to assign symbolic value to some of these things, I realize they are all still mere things, mere dust, but I am so much more.

FEAR OF DEATH

Fear of Death Means a Partially-lived Life

		Often the fear of death comes up, intense and strong, and the fear of having to leave all this beauty, this friendship and love. How is it possible to relax in this certainty of death?
		First, it is possible to relax only when death is a certainty. Relaxing is difficult when things are uncertain. If you know that you are going to die today, all fear of death will disappear. What is the point of wasting time? You have one day to live: live as intensely as possible, live as totally as possible. Death may not come. Death cannot come to people who live very intensely and very totally. And even if it comes, those people who have lived totally, welcome it because it is a great relief. They are tired of living, they lived so totally and so intensely, so death comes like a friend. Just as after the whole day’s hard work night comes as a great relaxation, as a beautiful sleep, so does death come after life. Death has nothing ugly about it; you cannot find anything cleaner. If the fear of death comes in, that means there are a few loopholes that are not filled with living. So those fears of death are very indicative and helpful. They show you that your dance has to go a little faster, that you have to burn the torch of your life from both ends together. Dance so fast that the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then it is not possible for any fear of death to visit you. “And the fear of having to leave all this beauty, this friendship and love.” If you are totally herenow, who cares about tomorrow? Tomorrow will take care of itself. Jesus is right when he prays to God, ‘Lord, give me my daily bread.’ He is not even asking for tomorrow, just today is enough unto itself. And you have to learn that each moment has a completion. The fear of having to leave it all comes only because you are not completely living in the moment; otherwise there is no time, and there is no mind, and there is no space. Once a merchant was asked, “How old are you?” He said, “Three hundred and sixty years old.” The man could not believe it. He said, “Please, repeat it. Perhaps I have not heard rightly.” The merchant shouted and said, “Three hundred and sixty years old!” The man said, “Forgive me but I cannot believe it. You don’t look more than sixty!” The merchant said, “You are also right. As far as the calendar is concerned I am sixty. But as far as my life is concerned I have lived six times more than anybody else. In sixty years I have managed to live three hundred and sixty years.” It depends on intensity. There are two ways of living. One is the way of the buffalo. It lives horizontally, in a single line. The other way is of a buddha. He lives vertically, in height and in depth. Then each moment can become an eternity. Don’t waste your time in trivia, but live, sing, dance, love as totally and overflowingly as you are capable of. No fears will interfere and you will not be worried what will happen tomorrow. Today is enough unto itself. Lived, it is so full; it leaves no space to think about anything else. Life unlived, worries come and fears come. Just live, love, and make each moment a deep ecstasy. All fears may disappear. Osho,The Golden Future

STAGE FEAR

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world

 - Emerson

STAGE FEAR  : 

To start we must first understand ‘Fear’. The Webster’s Dictionary defines fear as “dread, alarm; unpleasant emotion caused by coming evil or danger.”

Manifestations of fear

Fear manifests itself in three different forms:

Physical

Mental

Emotional

Physical symptoms of fear

Rapid heart beat.

Trembling knees.

Quivering voice.

Feeling faint.

Nausea or tightness in the stomach

Tears from the eyes or running nose.

Mental Symptoms of fear

1.         Repetition of words or phrases.

2.         Loss of memory.

3.         Overall disorganization.

4.         Blockage of thought flow.

Emotional symptoms of fear

1.         Feelings of terror.

2.         Overwhelming feeling.

3.         Loosing control.

4.         Feeling helpless.

5.         Embarrassment.

6.         Panic.

7.         Feelings of shame and humiliation following the presentation.

Brief physical symptoms happen even to the most accomplished speakers. However, our victory lies in mastering the art of getting ourselves back under control.

Why does a person feel afraid to face an audience?

Why are people so anxious when they have to speak in front of a crowd? After all, the group they may be addressing may comprise not more than four or five people and possibly the speaker might even know a few of them. Why then, the nervousness?

Whenever you face a group, whether you are sitting or standing, you become separate from the people you are addressing. They are listening to you and looking at you. They are together as a group but you facing them, are alone.

The audience has the anonymity of a group, while you have the high visibility of one standing apart. You are “on trial.” Everything that you do in front of the audience, whether running a hand to your hair to the way you stand is magnified a hundred times in size and importance. It is no wonder that so many people who speak in public feel vulnerable, even threatened. Anything you say and do is definitely going to be picked up and analyzed by the audience.