My Son had off due to the Palkhi procession on Friday and Monday. So yesterday, on Monday, 27th June 2011, I went to see the CARS - 2 movie in 3D along with my son as I had promised him. His face had bloomed like a Sunflower. I was feeling so good. We went to the theater, Big Cinema, Kalyaninagar, Pune to see the film at 8:45 AM as the show was for 9:15AM. The other best thing about this event, was this was my sons first film in a theater.
Long back when he was around 4yrs we took him to a theater for one of the films he saw at home and had liked. But that turned out as a real disastrous event, as my son got scared of the darkness and the loudness. He howled at me to reduce the loudness and wanted the lights in the theater on. Thus me, my wife and mother all pulled out of the theater. :) Funny enough looking back.
After the usual stuff of buying tickets and being ushered into the theater armed with food stuff and 3D goggles, we sat at our seats. The usual advertisements of up coming films, etc happened and then we saw the instruction to stand up for the National Anthem. I was expecting the usual song for "JANA GANA MANA" with people being lazy to standup etc going in my mind.
I remember telling myself to see if in todays india People would actually stand up. And i was wrong. Every single person stood up. :)
Then the Anthem began and I had a shock of my life. Maybe its been many ages since i went to a theater, hence had never seen this version. By the time the Anthem ended, I was in my tears and thanks to the darkness and the 3D goggles, no one saw my tears.
I have pasted the link from you tube to see the Anthem and my humble request. Please do stand up when u watch it. http://youtu.be/Kk02qPlnS2E
This was the Best National Anthem i had ever witnessed being sung. The emotion on each of those kids faces were very genuine and I whom GOD has been given everything felt ashamed of not being so proud enough to show my emotions!
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
17th June 2011 -- Today is the Punya Thithi (The Death anniversary) of Gopal Ganesh Agarkar. Rings a bell in mind? Who is he? What did he do? No??
That's the sorry state of our country today. Most of us have read history more as another subject to pass rather than actually understand the people and its struggle or the great contributions of the children of this country. Ironic is it not. Many other countries, like US and Germany, make history of their country more fun for generations to remember and not another subject to score marks to improve over all percentage. :)
Don't worry even though i am writing this blog even i was not sure who he was and what contribution he did. All i remembered vaguely was he was also a freedom fighter in Maharashtra. That's all. So how did I stumble upon this date? I just was checking Marathi Kaal Nirnay calender and low behold on today's date it mentioned Gopal Ganesh Agarkar's Punya thithi. So thought of looking up some details off the net.
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| Gopal Ganesh Agarkar |
Name : Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Father : Ganesh
Mother : Sarswati
Wife : Antubai
Date of Birth : 14 July 1856
Education : B.A. M.A. [History]
Death : 17 June 1895
His Social Work include the following
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| Any one know this building? |
- 1880 : Establishment of New English School In Pune with the help of Lokmanya Tilak & Chipalunkar.
- 1881 : Start of "Kesari & Maratha" news paper.
- 1881 - 87 : Editor in The Kesari. 1887 Resignation from the post of Editor.
- 1884 : Take interest to establishment of Deccan Education Society, Pune.
- 1885 : Establishment of Ferguson college.
- 1888 : Started "The Sudhakar" weekly.
Teaching and Preaching
Whats Preaching: A way to put across your thoughts in words.
Whats Teaching: A way to experience it yourself and not be able to describe it to any one else, except guiding in the other, so that the other too can have a similar (NOT SAME) experience. No words can be used here!!
Whats Teaching: A way to experience it yourself and not be able to describe it to any one else, except guiding in the other, so that the other too can have a similar (NOT SAME) experience. No words can be used here!!
Vat Savitri
Many of my hindu friends would laugh at me for sure because i am writing about Vat Savitri. Yes its a festival for women, a day where many hindu women pray for the long life of their husbands in this life and expect the same husband for the next seven life!!
We all know Savitri went along with YAMA to get back her husbands life. She had to go through many hurdles and hardships to get her husband back. And all along she never left the path of Dharma. One should also remember that Narda had told her that Stayavan is going to be alive for a year and yet she marries him our of her love towards him.
Just imagine her life. Knowing every day that her husband would be dead in less than an years time, she marries and never once lets him or his family know through her action that her husbands days are numbered. What courage to deal with this hurdle. This thought made me write this post. How do i deal with hurdles far smaller than Savitris?
Life, everyone would agree, does have hurdles and hardships, and we in our own ways solve, overcome, go around these hurdles. But are we actually seeing what do hurdles do to us? How do we react and relate to them? I have used the words react and relate with a specific reason.
Whenever a situation arises, we react and with reaction comes feelings and emotions. These can be either negative / positive feelings or emotions. But what matters the most is how we relate ourselves to these feelings and emotions, especially the negative ones.
I can always see that when i relate to feelings or emotions positively, I am cheerful and even more so courageous to take on solving the issue. I am more open to taking feedbacks, suggestions etc from others. Many a time Life does feel like a song at times like these.
When I relate to feelings or emotions negatively, the 1st thing that comes across is fear. With fear of unknown comes, anxiety and with anxiety comes muddleness in mind. What i mean by muddleness of mind is that i am confused, unsure of myself, and lose trust with my own self. Muddleness causes my mind to start imagining things and worry about things that are not real. But this appears so real, that there is a sudden slowdown of energy in my whole body.
Then my mind starts to think RATIONALLY. Starts to analyze events which led to the current situation.I do find myself looking at the situation in various different ways and try to make sense as to why it occurred. Most of than not, I can come up with something to blame and then be a victim of that. It could be fate, stars etc. Once i am a victim, rest is easy. Just Give Up.
What i find commendable of this day is that it teaches us to remember to Face hurdles more positively than negatively. Its all in our mind how we relate to a situation and along with that are our actions associated. Our actions reflect our relatedness to situations.
We all know Savitri went along with YAMA to get back her husbands life. She had to go through many hurdles and hardships to get her husband back. And all along she never left the path of Dharma. One should also remember that Narda had told her that Stayavan is going to be alive for a year and yet she marries him our of her love towards him.
Just imagine her life. Knowing every day that her husband would be dead in less than an years time, she marries and never once lets him or his family know through her action that her husbands days are numbered. What courage to deal with this hurdle. This thought made me write this post. How do i deal with hurdles far smaller than Savitris?
Life, everyone would agree, does have hurdles and hardships, and we in our own ways solve, overcome, go around these hurdles. But are we actually seeing what do hurdles do to us? How do we react and relate to them? I have used the words react and relate with a specific reason.
Whenever a situation arises, we react and with reaction comes feelings and emotions. These can be either negative / positive feelings or emotions. But what matters the most is how we relate ourselves to these feelings and emotions, especially the negative ones.
I can always see that when i relate to feelings or emotions positively, I am cheerful and even more so courageous to take on solving the issue. I am more open to taking feedbacks, suggestions etc from others. Many a time Life does feel like a song at times like these.
When I relate to feelings or emotions negatively, the 1st thing that comes across is fear. With fear of unknown comes, anxiety and with anxiety comes muddleness in mind. What i mean by muddleness of mind is that i am confused, unsure of myself, and lose trust with my own self. Muddleness causes my mind to start imagining things and worry about things that are not real. But this appears so real, that there is a sudden slowdown of energy in my whole body.
Then my mind starts to think RATIONALLY. Starts to analyze events which led to the current situation.I do find myself looking at the situation in various different ways and try to make sense as to why it occurred. Most of than not, I can come up with something to blame and then be a victim of that. It could be fate, stars etc. Once i am a victim, rest is easy. Just Give Up.
What i find commendable of this day is that it teaches us to remember to Face hurdles more positively than negatively. Its all in our mind how we relate to a situation and along with that are our actions associated. Our actions reflect our relatedness to situations.
Why am i blogging??
Today morning i got and thought, I have not been writing enough on my blog. Then i got to the point to think for whom am i writing this blog for?? Was it self gratification, for being a good blogger or something else. Then i thought, what the hell, i should write this blog for myself. Because one thing i found helpful for myself from this Blog was whenever i was down in spirits and i visited this blog, I always realized what my mind can come up with. This helped me a lot of things to let go.
Every time i was down in spirits, I usually found that the main reason for this is my attitude of holding on to something that happened in the past, some fight or some mis-understanding or some hurt, etc. Those things have happened and life has moved on. However I found myself stuck at that position. Though through sheer motion, i may have gone about doing my own things like a robot, my mind and heart as well were stuck in that old position. There was bitterness, sadness, helplessness and many times anger. And most of the time, I found labeling myself as the victim.
But visiting my blog, i get to see that my mind which is capable of doing better things has stopped doing so. This helped me to drop all of the bitterness, sadness, helplessness, anger and the biggest of all BEING THE VICTIM. Hence I have decided to write for myself.
Every time i was down in spirits, I usually found that the main reason for this is my attitude of holding on to something that happened in the past, some fight or some mis-understanding or some hurt, etc. Those things have happened and life has moved on. However I found myself stuck at that position. Though through sheer motion, i may have gone about doing my own things like a robot, my mind and heart as well were stuck in that old position. There was bitterness, sadness, helplessness and many times anger. And most of the time, I found labeling myself as the victim.
But visiting my blog, i get to see that my mind which is capable of doing better things has stopped doing so. This helped me to drop all of the bitterness, sadness, helplessness, anger and the biggest of all BEING THE VICTIM. Hence I have decided to write for myself.
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