BlissTarang

In the gaze of the tangible and intangible pursuit in the world…one thing that is being taught from day one and it sort of stays with everyone is the fact that we have to be different because if we are not different, the world as taught to us will choose our substitute and we become redundant. Redundancy threatens survival. Be different, Be different Chants and echoes our ears, Be different, be different, Becomes habit, trait over the years The quest wipes the shame The quest fires for the fame   Request becomes command Love, peace no longer an available virtue but a hopeless demand What so different can we be When eyes turn wild, tongues turn bitter,   What so different can we be When homes turn asylum, world goes shatter Different…sure we ought to be Different…else scary it is for “naught” to be Different…not in every sense Different…while maintaining purity, peace, bliss, loving, happiness as common sense Different…sure we got to be Differen...

We are all subjected to reviews in every moment… in all places…in all matters of life. Some reviews are structured [repeatable, reproducible, over time, over different people], periodic while some are ad-hoc, one-off, unstructured. Then again some reviews are personal while there also are professional reviews. Each passing moment of review is actually a  moment of judging or analyzing where our chitta [awareness channel], jnanedriyas [sensory organs] interplays with the vivek [discretion],  memory bank and the unfolding ever-growing “desires”. If at several times the reviewer is not anybody else, then for surely it is our self reviewing self. Communities in ancient times inquired, imbibed, assimilated,  handed-down several ways of making -sense of life, nature, cosmos in chaos. Some of them became foundational texts of “way of being” and  some of them later got wrapped in the womb of religion. These texts even articulated modus operandi of an institution. Such ...

Difficult to remember, easier to forget Difficult to concentrate, easier to wander Difficult path to success, easier path to status quo Difficult is to discover, easier is to cover Difficult to stand and for truth, easier to lie and lie Difficult to stand up for a cause, easier to “because” Difficult to think institution, nation first but easier to think about self first Difficult to tolerate, but easier to blame Difficult to stand criticism, easier to criticise stand Difficult to think…but easier to think it is difficult Definition of Difficult is nothing but opposite of “cult”…diffi + cult. Cult is culture…beliefs, thoughts, feelings, manifested in various “forms” of behaviour. Anything which is against the erstwhile or “used to” or “habituated” becomes against or new to the cult or culture. Hence to push oneself out of the cult is something that is difficult. In ageless wisdom it’s called the “sanskara”  संस्कार  which gets programmed over many lives ...

An Interesting article from the fast company, published last week Guest contributor Roberta ChinskyMatuson is an internationally recognized expert on increasing profitability by maximizing employee contribution. Her website is www.yourhrexperts.com . She is the author of  Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around , a Washington Post Top-­5 Leadership pick. Download a  free bonus chapter . Her new book, The  Magnetic Workplace: How to Hire Top Talent That Will Stick Around  will be published in 2013. Sign up to receive a subscription to Roberta’s complimentary newsletter . ARTICLE BEGINS Sometimes we forget that the most productive people in an organization aren’t the ones who make the most noise. In fact, it’s often the quiet ones who out-produce everyone else. Here are some reasons I think this is so. Being quiet strengthens focus.  It’s hard to focus on the task at hand when you yourself are making so much noise. The...

 The more of what you do, the more it comes natural to you and it becomes your habit…it becomes your behaviour…your character…your trait. If one does more cycling…he becomes a good cyclist, If one does more driving…he becomes a good driver, If one does more criticism…he becomes a critic…criticising everything and every time, If one always looks at only the problem…he becomes a problem manufacturer, If one always looks and thinks solution…he becomes a solution finder, If one always believe and spreads rumours…over a period he loses face and credibility, Recurring thoughts results in reinforced belief resulting in repeated actions (behaviour). Robin Sharma calls the mind a garden and says that each of us can decide what to plant in it. If we plant in it seeds of negativity, out of it positivity can’t be grown and reaped… If we plant in it seeds of failure, success can’t be resultant… If we plant in it seeds of disturbance, peace would not be a guest… So on and so...

Rings…five of them Rings…entangled of them Rings…enticing of them Rings…competing of them Rings…Citius (faster) Rings…Altius (higher) Rings…fortius (stronger) Rings…bringing world together Rings…measuring world together Rings…suffering for larger goal Rings…striving for patriotic dole Rings…body sport Rings…mind court Rings…narrator of victory Rings…moorings of creating history Rings…life and death for a many Rings…can be a story of any Rings…bring home golds even for Kazakhstan Rings…elude hope for a massive Hindusthan Rings…what’s lacking in our mass-vast-country Rings…it’s bundle of excuses and blame-lame-factory Rings…country please pull up the bearings Rings…country please dull up the bickerings Rings…you can win too Rings…we don’t need once in four years’ Olympic’s woo Rings…aren’t restricted to sport, with a few day’s strife Rings…are a lesson for life Rings…YOU can be RINGS too Rings…perform everyday you Rings…cheer self and every other you ...

Passing through Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg better known as lbsmarg and crossing one of Central Mumbai Suburbs.. …on 4th August for a meeting …approx 11 45 am …my eyes wandered the several stand alone old format shops…jewellery, paan shop, restaurant, hardware shop, utensil, cloth shop, etc. my eyes were thirsty to find a single shopkeeper with a smile amongst approx 30 shops that went pass by.. … None of the shops were in good shape with positivity, …footfalls of customers… I got down and asked few of the shopkeepers as to how is business coming along? Some of them did reply and then some of them shrugged off in frustration. The replies were as follows (translations) …new formats are fooling customers but the customers are happy being fooled …what can we do, the business is like this only …we can’t reach out the customers and force them to come to our shops …somehow things will change …we have done business in this manner and it has always succeeded and the new way...

One look at Ashtang Yoga which has eight elements of Yama, Niyama, Aasana, Praanayam, Pratihaar, Dhaaran, Dhyaan, Samaadhi. The element of Niyama has again five element of shauch (cleanliness), santosh( contentment), swaadhyay (continuous inquiry and learning), tapas (karma, hard work), ishwapraanidhan ( submission to God). The element of shauch is highlighted frequently and more because it is the easiest to pursue by many. Neuroscience research has done some interesting experiments to prove that if one cleans his work desk or participates in general cleaning of office ( sometimes though) or house, there is an enzyme or hormone generated that finally gives a feel-good factor. Even an interesting experiment where on a periodic basis if the cleaning (done by others) is highlighted in different and intelligent manner…it leads to a better perception and better feeling in the onlooker. In some sense, cleaning in auto mode is in-built in nature. Nature cleans it owns water...

Aristotle  when asked what is human good..”.is it the gratification of appetiser as defined by Plato?” “NO” says Aristotle. When asked if it is the gratification of the spirit, NO says Aristotle. When asked if it is gratification of higher self, intellectual and reasoning…YES says Aristotle. Only that Aristotle differs from Plato in that Plato looks at external form and Aristotle looks within. He goes on to say that the highest good lies in manifesting the functional element of any self …a knife is supposed to cut and that is its functional element, …paperweight has to be apt in its function of lending weight and not letting papers fly ….so what is the functionality of human …he says human has to be good in reasoning and accord with virtues Rene Descartes posit says in a single statement, “I think therefore I am”. Which means that if you cease to think you would cease to exist. Indian word for philosophy is darshanshaastra. The etymology or meaning of the const...

  RELIGION IS BASIS OF MORALITY…true or false? Hearing Richard Dawkins would smell of someone who is a complete agnostic and disbeliever in God. I was Into a self inquiry into his work and he mentioned that there is no evidence to prove that if you take religion away from people then morality would die. I disagree with him and would say that if we indeed look at corporate enterprise and the way they are structured…the morality takes super normal existence where people from multi faith and multi background assemble for economic purpose. But the more closely I see the corporate space in India and elsewhere, there are more people throwing the veil of morality for achieving urgent purpose…so people working in corporate would cheat, would back bite, would spread rumours, would even sabotage somebody else’s hardwork, even weigh every work ( which needs to be looked at as karma) with payscale to the penny…I am not proposing religion to be misunderstood or introduced in...

Yesterday en route to Mumbai from Delhi, we were caught in a difficult air pocket. There was extreme turbulence. …..suddenly the cabin crowded with laughters and whispers hid behind people’s fear … various things inside of the cabinets in the aircraft started tumbling inside and making noises. The turbulence would offer difficult jerk sometimes and then sometimes almost a free fall. God’s name visited the most during that time of the flight. Finally as safe landing. The fear of death exists at cellular level and even at the cognition level. The cells have been programmed to individually analyse fear of different forms…jerk, push, fall, prey-predator, etc. And at the cognition level, the survival has many layers of insecurities that lead to death and direct fear of death itself. A great poet once said: It’s not sad that we all die but it is sad and appalling that we let a lot die inside of us even when we are alive. The same exact thing resonates in the speech give...