Be it a Marathon or Yoga or learning new skills for your profession, here are the five Ps:
– Participate – meaning enroll first and start going and learning, ensure your momentum is there and you are not procastinating
– Prepare – start getting involved and getting to know the nuances of whatever you want to acquire or learn, be interested and stay in the game.
– Push – try hard, push yourself and continuously improve day by day
– Persist – there would be times you would think to quit but do not – be there, and continue to excel and get better,
and
– Perfect – with usage and experience (time in job, they say), you get to perfect what you do.
And at last , be Proud (the 6th P !)
Month: October 2024
My poetry on Kanchi Bala Periyavaa (Oct 2024)
அன்னை காமாட்சி அனுக்கிரகம் அருளான குருவே
இந்த காஞ்சி தெய்வீக நகரை ஆளும் மன்னனே
எங்கள் மஹா பெரிய அவ்வாவை தீர்க்கும் அரசனே
எங்கள் ஜெயத்துக்கு துணையாக இருக்கும் இயந்திரமே
நாலா திக்கும் பள்ளிகள் உருவாக்கும் தயாளனே
நாட்டில் சனாதன தர்மத்தை ஓங்குவிக்கும் விஜயனே
எங்கள் வாழ்க்கை விஜயத்துக்கு வழிகாட்டும் விளக்கே
இன்றைய மண்ணுலகில் சிறந்தோங்கும் வேத வியாசரே
பல தர்ம காரியங்களை பூர்த்தி செய்யும் சன்னிதியே
மக்கள் துன்பங்களை துரத்தி அடிக்கும் தூயவனே
வியாதிகளை தீர்க்க மருந்தும் மனையும் அளிக்கும் தெய்வமே
எங்கள் பாரத்தை பாலமாக தாங்கும் பால பெரியவாவே
நான் கேட்க, நீர் குடுக்க
நான் சொல்ல, நீர் கேட்க
நான் இருக்க, நீர் சொல்ல
நான் வந்த, நீர் இருக்க
நான் அமர்ந்த, நீர் வந்த
நான் வேண்ட, நீர் அமர்ந்த
நான் குதுகலக்க, நீர் வேண்ட என்னை உன் பக்கம் ஈர்க்க உன் கண்ணும் புன்னகையும் போதும் ஐயனே
Work, results and adversity, as per Gita
An interpretation from Bhagwad Gita:
A man who works for himself or for others or for God. In these three cases, he does things for himself, he does things for others and he does things for God. IN the first two, some metric is defined for success but when he works for God, that success metric is NOT defined or unknown or will not be realized in a quantitative sense. Working for himself makes one selfish but working for others or for God, it makes himself unselfish.
One goes from attachment to semi detachment to total detachment in these three scenarios.
Gita also talks about motiveless result that goes against any business objective of the today’s corporate world – simple put, grow your expertise, your skills (like a soldier has to be fit and should practice his skills daily for an eventuality) and pretty much results would follow. Your skills and expertise applied properly will eventually lead to a guaranteed result.
Same way, three kinds of adversity: Adhyatmika, arising from disorder of the body, Adhibhautika, arising from external objects such as tigers, snakes, road accidents etc, and Adhidaivika, arising from the action of great cosmic forces, such as those that cause natural disasters. A man who is not perturbed by any adversity and who is free from attachments is the wisest of them all.
Coincidence between 2nd and 3rd USA Presidents
It is unbelievable to note that the 2nd and the 3rd President of USA – both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both died on the same day – July 4, 1826. Both were the sort of the founding fathers of USA and co-authored the Declaration of Independence for USA which was adopted on July 4th, 1776 – the same day they both died exactly 50 years later.