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It is strange, indeed!

Isn't it strange how Rs. 20/=
seems like such a large
amount when
you donate it to temple, but
such a small amountwhen you go shopping?

Isn't it strange how 2 hours
seem so long when
you're at place of worship, and how
short they seem when you're
watching a good movie?

Isn't it strange that you can't
find a word to say when
you're praying, but you have no trouble
thinking what to talk about
with a friend?

Isn't it strange how difficult
and boring it is to read
one chapter of
the Gita, but how easy
it is to read 100 pages of
a popular novel?

Isn't it strange how everyone
wants front-row-tickets
to concerts orgames, but they do whatever
is possible to sit at the last
row in a holy place?

Isn't it strange how we need to
know about an event for temple 2-3
weeks before the day so we can
include it in our agenda, but we can
adjust it for other events in
the last minute?

Isn't it strange how difficult it
is to learn a fact about
God to share it with others,
but how easy it is to learn,
understand,extend and repeat gossip?

Isn't it strange how we
believe everything
that magazines and newspapers
say, but we question the words
in the Gita and other holy books
of Acharya Madhva

Isn't it strange how everyone
wants a place in
heaven, but they don't want
to believe, do, or say anything
to get there?

Isn't it strange how we send
jokes in e-mails
and they are forwarded
right away,but when we are
going to send messages about God,
we think about it twice
before we share it with others?

IT'S STRANGE ISN'T IT?

PS: Borrowed from forwarded mail.

Time Management

Remember the toughest time you had gone through? You will recall at least one incidence where you had 48 hours a day and your potential of handling things was quadrupled!

You now find that you have become lazy and are not able to give time to so many things you wanted to do. Why does this happen? Don't we know how to manage time? Nah! We all know it. But... Most of us start our sentences with "But", "If only I"!

The reason is we are tamed to yeild to pressure. We give our 110% only when we have a knife rolling above our head. Remember where it starts? Yes, starts from our childhood. We study 95% of the book only the day before exam. :) These habits have developed into strong roots and become a part of our character! How much ever you try with tips and tricks, they last only till the enthu lasts. It will be at maximum for a week, month or max 2-3 months.

Remember the famous 80-20 rule? 80% of the work will be done in 20% of the time and 20% of the work will occupy 80% of the time!

We are also tamed to give reasons because of this "11th hour rush". "If only I had got time". "I would have done that but for..." We can't imagine the world without if's and but's.

Will we able to re-tame ourselves?

News Capsule

Remembering collating and reading news in the school? Somehow today I was reminded of doing it. Here goes the news capsule for today! :)

Ebay will be acquiring Skype for $4 billion, both companies announced Monday. Way to go!
More news on Skype buyout
Go Skyping!


SFDC is welll known for its CRM products. Salesforce.com(sfdc) CEO talks about their new product AppExchange.


What if Sania weren't beautiful?. A quick and crisp food for thought!
One more feather in the cap of Sania! Sania jumps to 34th Ranking!

More later!

A refreshing sunday!

For a change, I got caged and felt happy seeing the cruel animals taking a stroll in the "limited" forest! I had been to Bannerghatta National Park, yesterday. A few rare moments to see the wildlife so close, in their originality! I have visited many zoos earlier but this one was a refresher.

The "grand safari" took us to Bear, Tiger, Lion dens. The rare moments were when:

1. We saw to bears playing and having a “friendly” fight. They were so much engrossed that they did not even bother to know that a huge van was just by their side. For more than ten minutes people were “silencing” each other to watch them play! Finally, we gave up and carefully crossed them.

2. We spotted a Tiger relaxing “royally” in the woods. We were busy taking photographs and the tiger was busy giving different poses. The tiger wanting to give more poses got up and started taking a stroll, just a touch away from us. A Royal walk. There were few kids in the van, who got scared seeing the tiger approaching them so closely, started crying. I don’t know what amused the tiger and it started moving towards the side of the van where the kids were crying. It was searching for ways to reach the kids. Its fierce looks were enough to make the bones shiver! I could not make out if it was disturbed by the “noise” made by children or it wanted to soothe the crying children. Driver took the van back instead of inviting danger into the van!

3. I, for the first time enjoyed seeing the most beautiful bird - peacock dance with its feathers open. Wow! That was awesome! For a moment, I was thinking if all the animals in the park were trained to pose! (Seems a poor joke for you but not for me. He he he) I guess, the peacock had the perfect weather to dance to the tunes of the monsoon. She opened her feathers, saw a few of us, then in slow motion took one round so that people standing in different sides could see her and enjoy. After five minutes of dancing she calmed down. Two minutes later she repeated the dance. It was wonderful!

There was one funny but “real” thing. One board said “Want to see the cruelest animal in the world? Open the door”. Behind the door, I know is a mirror.

You like animals? Take a day off and visit them.

An IT Pro's Reflection!

Friday, I got to read one article. I will try my best to give the gist of it.

One of the state ministers had called the IT majors to come and “help/adopt” the water clogged villages in Belgaum, Karnataka. The IT majors did not “bother” to help. The sad(!) minister vented out his pain about the “helpless” attitude of the IT majors. In reply, the author was transformed that pain into an article to IT majors.

The author, in his article, talks about the rapid growth, endless money and lifestyle changes IT majors have brought to the society. He accuses that the IT pro’s lag in “giving” back to the society. He says that IT people complain a lot and do nothing on their part. He gives an example about a small company like Kirloskar, when would start its office, it would give back to the society by developing a park or so. But the IT companies take 1000 times more than what they did, from the society and give almost negligible amount, most often an eye-wash, back to the society. I am not pro/against the article. Certain things were true, some exaggerated and many facts hidden.

What I want to come to, is about how much we “give back”. We certainly lag in that. We have the capacity to go to “outings” every weekend but we don’t have the capacity to help more than on “tsunami” a year or more than one “earth quake” a year. We want something of “high” tide as of tsunami to donate. The small things that happen in and around our vicinity don’t catch our eyes.

The giving and taking is a “hot” property for a long debate. So I will leave my questions as they were before and as the topic is.

Devotion

Devotion means "giving complete attention without expecting anything in return". The first part of the devotion means concentration. Second part talks about selflessness.

Five to ten years earlier, there were few things to be done in life. With the few choices left, then, people would have to concentrate on something and sometimes this would lead to devotion in one of the things they did.

In contrast, today we are heading to 48 hour a day. Even 48 hours seem to be less for the amount of work, attractions and things to be done in a day. Everyone wants to out-do in everything and in a miraculously short duration. Not only that, people started to look down on someone who is going through a normal course for success! People want instant success! I wish there was one such recipe for instant success.

With such rampant for “instant” success, will people ever want to know what devotion means?

PS: I’m definitely not of the opinion that devotion is not meant for today’s world. I believe in Exceptions! :)