Success is a public celebration and Failure is a deeply personal affair. The burden of which a person has to bear Silently on his own shoulders.
It’s feel a sense of unease Like everything is out of control It’s human to feel lost somewhere Unable to understand the situation in which he is stuck deeply.
May you feel sacred about circumstances, change, stillness, and how you will face the challenges that await you.
It’s human feel uncertain to your decisions, planning, stretegy, every step you take and every choices you made. What would the path be like, would it reach its destination.
You will never find the perfect situation you are probably waiting for. You don’t have all the answer when exactly you needed that But you have to move forward You have to face next step and continuously next.
The Immortal Story of Sevagram, Mahatma and Humanity’s Test.
Parchure Shastri, a profound Sanskrit scholar, was suffering from leprosy. He had been ostracized by his family and society due to his disease. In this situation, Parchure Shastri wrote a letter to Gandhiji. When Bapu read this letter in the prayer meeting, silence fell over Sevagram. In that era, leprosy was not just a disease, but a social stigma. People used to run away from leprosy patients.
Breaking the silence of the prayer meeting, Gandhiji said that if your heart does not feel compassion for the immense suffering of a leprosy patient, then I will only say that Parchure Shastri will stay in the hut next to mine in Sevagram, and I myself will serve him. Leprosy is not impurity or contagiousness, but a test of our compassion.
A few days later, Parchure Shastri arrived at Sevagram. Gandhiji himself began to serve him. Serving Shastriji, washing his wounds, bandaging them, bathing him with his own hands, feeding him with his own hands became Gandhiji’s daily routine. The eyes of those who witnessed this scene would well up with tears, seeing the Father of the Nation himself washing the feet of a patient and wiping his body with a towel.
In June 1945, during the Shimla talks, when Viceroy Lord Wavell adjourned the talks for 7 days, Narayan Bhai Desai was planning to explore the valleys of Shimla. But Gandhiji surprised everyone by ordering them to return to Sevagram. Narayan Bhai Desai said that Bapu, it will take two days to reach by train and two days to return by train. What will we do by going to Sevagram for three days? Gandhiji said that I will get three days to serve Parchure Shastri. After a long train journey from Shimla, Gandhiji returned to Sevagram. There, Parchure Shastri was in an extremely weak state. Gandhiji placed his hand on his head, smiled, and said, “Shastriji, I have returned. Now my mind is at peace.”
Gandhiji paused his political deliberations for three days and resumed his old routine. Morning and evening, he served Parchure Shastri, cleaning his wounds. “God Himself Has Touched My Wounds”. Shastriji’s condition was serious, but his face glowed with satisfaction at Gandhiji’s arrival. All he could utter was, “Bapu, it seems that God himself has touched my wounds.”
On September 5, 1945, Parchure Shastri passed away in Sevagram. Even today, “Parchure Kuti” in Sevagram Ashram is alive, where every brick bears witness to compassion, equality, and humanity. On his demise, Gandhiji said, “Parchure Shastri taught us that love is the greatest cure for every wound.” From Gandhiji’s life, we learn that greatness lies not in high positions, but in bending down to wipe someone’s wounds. Healing comes not only from medicines but from that touch imbued with ‘belongingness’.
Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.
I headed to coaching today, eager to share a lot of things. With every pedal of my bicycle, I’d find myself dreaming of something new: I’d talk about this, or not that. Well, she didn’t give me a chance to speak, she had to tell me everything, no matter how much I planned to talk.
In the electric haze of teenage, if someone of the opposite gender becomes a friend, then that person remains in your heart and mind whole day and night.
And the weather today had also become a tad dreary. Each drop of rain seemed to generate a new energy, a sense of strangerhood that brought with it a lot of freedom, a vision of a golden future, as if the whole world was in my hands and I am the boss.
We both arrived almost together and ran towards the stairs to escape the rain. I grabbed her hand so she wouldn’t slip. She turned back, looked at me, and said, “Now that you’ve held my hand, don’t let it go.” Since it was raining, no one had come yet, we had ample opportunity to talk.
It was a dialogue from a movie, the punchline of which she uttered. In that very movie, the leading actors were childhood friends and then drifted apart, but never forgot each other. They met again many years later.
While narrating the story of that movie, she said randomly, “Let us become strangers once again, we will meet again when both of us have established our careers”.
Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.
The people in my life who shape my world, actions, and perspective, making my life feel meaningful, gives me a purpose, fueled it with the vision and courage.
Not only every direction is guided by them but they also pays the expenses incurred in going on that direction, whether I reach the destination of that road or not. They only can be my parents.
How I describe one positive thing, every positive thing that has happened in my life, from birth until today, has happened because of their love and inspiration. They both spent more than they could afford on my upbringing.
How do I count their endless efforts that shape my life. I must have heard their taunts and scolding to protect me, but it was all for my betterment. Where else will you find such selfless love, who never expect any thing in return from you.
In the present age, man has become alienated from himself, completely disturbed both from outside and inside. He’s lost his direction, he doesn’t know where he’s going. He’s achieved a lot, but that could also be his destruction. He wants to love and be loved, but something has become unsettled.
Instead of loving and receiving love, he hates and receives hate. The problem of human interpersonal relationships is the most pressing issue in this time. The mutual relations between individuals and individuals, between nations, are entangled in suspicion and distrust.
There is no peace anywhere, at home, in society, or internationally. Humans are threatened by their own restlessness, greed, anger, hatred, and jealousy. In this age, humanity can only be protected by the path shown by Ramakrishna. His path is one of love, attaining the highest values. That highest values are within you, not outside.
Many times, people without knowing the seriousness of situation and circumstances of the other person, people unconsciously do something repeatedly that never improves the relationship again. Many people don’t realize that it’s possible to push someone to the point where they no longer want to interact with you in any way.
This can happen in any kind of relationship, whether it’s with friends, family, or a romantic partner. There’s a limit to what one person can handle. If someone is constantly faced with negative or stressful interactions, they might reach a point where they decide it’s better for their well-being to step away completely.
This means they might choose not to be involved or communicate at all, as a way to protect their peace and mental health. It’s important to understand that everyone has their boundaries and breaking points.
What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?
In Avadh region (a part of Indian state Uttar Pradesh) people who live near the bank of river Ganga. Ganga Snan (bath) is a sacred morning ritual involving a pre-dawn bath in the Ganges to cleanse sins, usually performed before sunrise.
A slogan of Har har Gange is very famous people use during dip in river. My father practice this ritual every morning for years. He have to walk daily approx 2 Km to reach the bank of river Ganga and take a dip then return to home.
This practice is very famous in Hindu religion, for those people whom this is not possible to take bathe in Ganga daily because they live quite far away, they used to take bathe in their home by mixing few drops of Ganga water.
If you could have something named after you, what would it be?
My name is Shashwat which means eternal. Eternal can only be God, so this name is very close to him. You can name this place after a religious site or a natural locations such as a lake, waterfall, forest, mountain, sea route, etc.
It could be the name of a star or a group of stars. It could also be the name of a route within space missions or the name of a planet or its moon. You can name after any mission related to time travelling or any new universal law discovered related to that.
Or, in chemistry research, it could be the name of a particle that is ubiquitous. It could also be the name of a new element in the periodic table that has some unique supernatural properties.
Each project offers a different experience, and each time it brings new challenges that must be addressed with a new strategy. It be loading, unloading or shifting of material, if everything is not done systematically then the cost increases.
Road repair or renovation work is really challenging anyway because there is already traffic on that road, traffic diversion is managed so that people agree to co-operate. And this time it’s more challenging because it’s a CC road or all weather road.
It takes more time to build a cement concrete road than others because it needs time to dry and then needs to be watered for at least a week. Only then does it become strong according to its required standards.
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