Knowing the risks is the key.

"Never do I fish as attentively as when I’m on the North Umpqua. I feel I owe the river the very best I have to offer, after all, the river has given its very best to me.  The North Umpqua makes me want to be a better fly fisherman.”
Have you ever felt this way about anything?  just browsing the shelves at library an interesting book title caught my eye: “Being, Nothingness, and Fly Fishing”. Michael the lead took a journey that included dropping everything and moving to the West to fly fish ,fly fishing has been a process of refinement and personal introspection .


 I frequently meet people in my hospitality profession ,some of them I think are stuck.  Often, the truth  isn’t that they’re stuck, it’s that they just haven’t found something that demands the very best they have to offer – something that makes them want to be a better person.


Most of them are too busy to think the other way out .The blind race of superiority in whatever we do and how much we want to grab had made the men a machine with little time for the community that's why the community service can also be hired on your behalf !

 A small exercise can help us I suppose ,Just wake up with the attitude that no matter what happens throughout the day,you are going to give your life the very best you have to offer! You are going to live your life in a way that makes you want to be a better person.

Be forewarned (get informed of all risks), this new approach could change everything!   

The best feeling

Thinking about the best feeling a man can ...or when I felt best is a vague thought .Well our best feeling can be sitting in a plane and flying on the clouds or helping a beggar get his food or even getting hold of a pick pocket at a station .For a person who is in jail may be the best feeling will come when he will be released .


I love it when people read things that I’ve written.  I don’t always know when that’s happening, but I like imagining that it’s happening often.Someone encourage me and I am on the seventh heaven .May be I share the same feeling which a teenager felt when she is in Love with her school mate.But the best of the best feeling probably in my opinion for any man or women is when their baby is born the feeling is indescribable and stunning I can't even do what I thought will when the moment arrived and I can and will never forget that moment in that hospital .



I personally feel that that this best feeling concept is wide some people can get it in even all the small things they do in day to day life whereas someone may never achieve it through out his life.For one of my buddy the greatest things in life are eating ,sleeping,exhausting in bed and taking a great shit.


Laying down on bed after a long day of work for another one .For a mother whose daughter is in bed the best feeling ,besides the sheer euphoria when she laid eyes on the newborn the second they were born ,was when she felt peace ,gratitude and calm for the first time when the doctor said the operation was a success and the cancer is gone.

The Ram Niwas Baikunth Dhaam

                                    
Ramsnehi means "People who love LORD Ram" and in a simple way of worshipping God by chanting "ram "they advocate saying राम राम (Raam Raam) as the way of reaching the ultimate.             


Ramsnehi Sampradaya is a spiritual and religious tradition originated in "1817 Bikram Samwat" in Bhilwara city of Rajashthan by the disciple of Swami Shri Ram Charan Maharaj. The Shahpura Ramdwara was sponsored by the contemporary King Amar Singh of Shahpura, and his brother Chattra Singh. It was built by constructors named Jarror Khan and Kushal Khan. This is also a great example of the brotherhood of Hindus and Muslims in India.There is a speciality in all used marble stones that each marble stone has a picture and stone mark on it as of Hindi (Devnagari) alphabets of the construction of word "Ram" (Lord Ram), bow, saint, India's map, sword, lion, monkey and other natural pictures.
                                                     
The main (and base) structure of Shahpura Ramdwara is a octagon shaped shiny marble pillar which is about 12 feet long. This pillar is situated at the cremation place of Ram Charan Maharaj. This pillar is called the Samadhi Stambh.The floor above the pillar is called Baradari (a kind of summer house with several open marble gates ). A rectangular stone is placed in the center ofBaradari which is just over the main pillar.The Baradari has 108 small pillars which make 84 open gates.At the place where Swami Ram Charan Ji Maharaj's body was cremated, a giant Ramdwara has been built. This is now the chief Ramdwara of Ramsnehi Sampradaya.This Ramdwara is also called Ram Niwas Dhaam or Ram Niwas Baikunth Dhaam.
                                                               
The monks of RamSnehi Sampradaya are identical by their dressing code. After taking oaths, monks can not return back to their family and must treat the whole world as equally and fairly, without any prejudices.They promoted Bhakti in general, trying to eliminate conflicts between Saguna and Nirguna types. They are supposed to follow all the defined rules strictlyRamsnehis just do Darshan of the chair of current Acharya and respect all the monks and loving and chanting the name of lord "Rama" . There is famous fair called PHOOLDOL MELA  for 5 days after Holi by Ramdwara .
                                                                          
To facilitate medical aid & get rid of this problem of General masses of this region, Acharya Swami Ji Shree 1008 Shree Ram Dayal Ji Maharaj¬Peethadheeshwar Jagadguru of Ramsnehi Sampradaya in his 'Chaturmas' of 1998 declared to construct a well equipped Tertiary care Hospital in the vacant land of Ramdwara area for the welfare and treatment of sufferings and diseases of the people.This pious thought & determination of Acharya Shree as a bud fastly grew and today has taken the shape of a gigantic tree 'Vat-Vrikasha'Ramsnehi Chikitsalaya which is situated in the heart of textile city of Bhilwara, a Multispecialty hospital building in a large green campus with latest modem machines & equipments and other necessary facilities, rendering services of experienced well qualified & professionally trained medical Specialists.

Guru Gorakhnath founder of Nath sect.

Gorakshanath ,also known as Gorakhnath was an 11th to 12th century Hindu Nath yogi, connected to Shaivism as one of the two most important disciples of Matsyendranath, the other beingCaurangi.Of all the Masters through the ages, there is one acknowledged Master who has been referred to in the ancient scriptures, in legends and mystic tales, in passing mention by many renowned masters. Mentioned in the Puranas and other scriptures, he is known as Guru Gorakhnath. 


The Nath Sampradaya, among many others, revere him as Shiva Goraksha.It is said that seeing Guru Gorakhnath in samadhi, Mata Parvati asked Lord Shiva about the yogi. Bhagwan Shankar or Lord Shiva stated that it was his own yogic manifestation. The Nine Naths and 84 Siddhas are aspects of Shiva himself, and legend suggests that they predate creation.


There are innumerable legends about Guru Gorakshnath, though there are no records of when he was born and where he hails from. He is mentioned with reference to Adi Shankaracharya who lived in the eighth century whereas some believe it to be anytime from 8th century to several centuries later. The Dabistan I Mazahib, the prophet Mohammad is reported as meeting him, Buddha (6th to 7th century), the kings Gopichand and Baratari (8th to 11th century) were disciples, Kabir Das (14th century) mentions Gorakshnath in the Kabir Granthvali and through all the ages. These are the legends where by his existence & references is found in all the ages i.e, Satyuga, TretaYuga,DwaparYuga and Kalyuga.The Nath tradition underwent its greatest expansion during the time of Gorakshanath. He produced a number of writings and even today is considered the greatest of the Naths. It has been purported that it was Gorakshanath who wrote the first books on Laya yoga. In India there are many caves, many with templs built over them, where it is said that Gorakshanath spent time in meditation. Gorakhnath is also a lineage bearer of Buddhist Tantra in Tibet.



Guru Gorakhnath said to be travelled from Nepal to Punjab and Rajasthan to Far south Srilanka.Gorakhnath is said to be the author of the Goraksha Paddhati ("Track of Goraksha" -- also called the Goraksha Samhita, a foundational treatise on esoteric Hatha Yoga.

A traditional story is told about the appearance of Gorakhnath. He was not born in the normal sense. A holy man named Matsyendranath used to go door-to-door to beg for food and, in exchange, offered blessings and wisdom. At one house, the woman asked if she would ever have a child. Matsyendranath gave her some holy ash and said if she swallowed it she would have a child. The woman told her neighbor who derided her naivete in believing such things, so she threw the ash away on a dung heap. Twelve years later, Matsyendranath returned and asked how the child was doing. The woman confessed what she had done with the ash. The holy man went to the dung heap and prayed, calling to the boy. A beautiful 12-year-old boy emerged. Matsyendranath took the boy with him. That boy was Gorakhnath.

Disaster Management .....

Disaster either completely disrupts the normal life or it  negatively influences the emergency systems Normal needs and processes like food, shelter, health, etc. are affected and deteriorate depending on the intensity. We tend to view disaster as an exceptional natural or technical event that interrupt “normal” development but in reality a wide variety of factors may increase the risk of a disaster.

When earthquake hit Gujarat on 26 January 2001and more than 20000 people died, we thought as a society we would learn to cope with disaster better. It seems that 20000 lives were not enough of a price to pay for shaking the bureaucracy and civil society to learn to cope with disasters with greater efficiency. Most disasters after the first 24 hours assume more or less typical characteristics in which the problems can be anticipated and response system can be put in place.One of the major problems in relief is that what is needed where is often not known to the people who want to provide support. The result is that lot of materials get wasted or misdirected. We need to put a spreadsheet immediately on the web pointing out village wise needs, contact person's names and addresses so that civil society efforts can be targeted more efficiently.

Finally, just would like to add that more emphasis in our country is on the rescue and relief operations and less on the preparedness to minimize the effect of a disaster.a big part of the northern India is in the seismic zone, prone to earthquake,Floods in Orrisa and Bihar are common and not to forget these bomb blasts !

Moonsons at my village

When the dark monsoon clouds gather in the sky, it sometimes takes me back to the good and bad old days of monsoon in our village.we spend our days playing with paper boats in the rain-made streams.We use to see down over the fields and new born streams , peacock dancing ,sheeps crowded and standing together It is the village beauty in monsoon.


One compulsory daily activity was to seal the holes in tile roof. Since the first monsoon arrives soon after a hot summer, tile roofing gets little time to get accustomed to the change in climate and leaks badly. People used  a long stick  to poke the tiles and close the gap between the interconnected tiles, and in this process,They sometimes broke the tile and let rain come in like a water fall which is fun and frustration at the same time.


Monsoon evenings were magical. We sit simply looking out at the rain, sipping on a cup of hot Tea, while Vividh Bharti, the only radio station available in our place at that time, fills our ears with beautiful songs.Sometimes I and my sister splashed in puddles, got drenched in the rain and smelt the earth together with crispy fried goodies, heard the buzz in the air of happy sounds of laughter, shrieks of joy on spotting a rainbow in the sky still today we fall in love with rain.

Worrying thing about monsoon is that most nights are spent in total darkness. Trees have a soul-connection with power lines, and when they fall they take the power lines along with them. We often live without power for weeks.But when the crops of TIL and Cotton along with Pulses ripe we felt thanking the monsoon for the blessings he had on us that year and hope for the same every comming year.

Two 9/11 survivor says after 10 yrs .

{It's ten years since the world trade center attacks.Two foreigners caught in the tragedy tells their stories...}


Elizabeth Turner, Elizabeth was seven months pregnant when work took her husband from London to New york  for a business confrence 
"Simon ,my husband of two years ,worked in publishing and in september2001 flew out with 16 colleagues for a confrence at the windows on the world restaurant on the 106th floor of World trade center's north tower",she says.
"At that time I was working in HR for British television channel 4.I was at the office canteen for lunch when I caught sight of the first plane hitting the tower on the news.Then the second tower was hit and everyone said it was a terrorist attack.
"I panicked and tried to ring Simon.I didn't get through. From that moment everything felt like an out of body experience.
"The pain of losing him was excruciating but I couldn't kill myself as I was  pregnant ."
Thankfully ,Elizabeth carried to full term and gave birth to baby William.

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George Sleigh ,The British born naval architect was working on the 91st floor when the north tower was struck.Now 73 and retired ,he lives in Ohio.
"I was on the phone in my office when I heard the loud roar of a plane,which then hit the building about eight meters above my head.The ceiling began collapsing on top of me ,so I covered my head with my hands and prayed to god to save me.Although I was almost buried under debris,I was unhurt.I grabbed my briefcase and threw my address book into it .My wife,Elaine,had just moved offices and I couldn't remember her number.I left my office within minutes.


"There were three stairwells,two of which were blocked with rubble.I took the third.I wasn't scared and didn't   imagine the building would collapse.The stairwell was well lit and everyone was walking down calmly.I quietly joined them.The heat was incredible as I walk down ,there was smoke and I could smell kerosene.

"When I reached the 35 th floor everything went pitch black .I used my flashlight to navigate through dark. We reached  the 20th floor a female colleague said she would rest for a while .I tried to persuade her to come with us ,but she declined.A passing  fireman said he would look after her.Later I discovered that she didn't make it.At ground level ,I found that two of the four exits had been blocked by debris.I chose to go to the open one on the right ,six of the group went to the left .I learnt later that they had died.

"As I left the tower I heard screams and noises.People were jumping from the windows of the tower.Only firefighters were heading into the tower else everyone were taking the way out . I was dazed and covered with dust and blood .I lost all concepts of time.

Since 9/11 I no longer easily trust people .I worry about anyone carrying a bag in public transport and I still wonder what I could have done to prevent my colleagues from talking the wrong exit and how I could have prevented .

(It is a true story read from Reader's Digest )