Human life is the biggest gift of God to Man-kind

Since my childhood I was having the habit of asking my God for every  small thing, right from a pen, magazine, book, movie ticket and  every other thing which was not easily available to me. later, when I grew old the list of  my demands kept on increasing and one day the list became so big that I started writing  it on paper and in the morning when I used to sit for my morning-prayer, I used to read that list in front of my  God with a request that he must fulfill all my demands immediately.

Fifty years have passed since, but I have not stopped asking my God for big and small things and  in this  process, I never realized when I became a lousy-beggar from a disciple in front of my own God and I  never ever felt sorry about it.  I  have no rational reasons for my demand, and yes, it is also true that earlier, I used to ask for myself, then for my wife later I started asking for my children and today the ratio of my demand  is 70:30 [family:self] and I keep asking my God for materialistic things without any hesitation or regret.

Today when I look back, I feel so ashamed, guilty and have no hesitation in calling myself a most selfish man on this earth, I feel pity on myself and I know for sure that my Lord will not pardon me. I do not deserve  his mercy and  I cannot be excused by simply saying  sorry to him. My sins can be wiped-out only if I feel the same from the bottom of my heart and I will stop asking and start saying thank you to my God Almighty for every thing that is happening in my life. 

Moreover, to be honest with you, whatever I have asked for in my life, I got more than what I expected and deserved; what I planned for my future, it never happened and whatever  has happened in my life was never planned, and it were all beyond expectations. He gave me more than what I deserved but I was never  satisfied in my life and my demands never stopped. But today, when I look back and see, I feel like a stupid idiot who lived his whole life simply begging for more and more and there was no end of  my expectations,  needs, wants and desires.

Today, I have decided, once and for all, that I will not ask for any thing more from my Lord,  be satisfied  and condensed with whatever I have in my life, thank him for  every thing and simply do my part of  the job/duty, fulfill my responsibility and follow his instructions without asking any questions. I do not know for how long I will be able to perform this unselfish act; and whatever time I have  in this life time, I pray to God Almighty, to at-least give me one more chance, to live my life like a perfect gentleman and a good human being with dignity, humbleness and love;   therefore, please pray for me, so that I must not beg  in this life again.

With Prayers,

Gurcharan.     

The real Jewels of my life

This world is full of great peoples, good souls, perfect gentlemen and women; since my childhood, I had met many such personalities in-person, but in some cases, I have not been very lucky, and I could not meet them till date, but yes I have seen them, watched them and have read about them. You can call me crazy, nuts or my sheer madness, but yes,  I used to adore them, worship them, watch them very closely and love them, even today, from the bottom of my heart.

1) Mr.. Gurcharan Das (Ex-President of Procter and Gamble), writer and marketing guru. I always admired him as a marketing pandit and wanted to meet him once in my life time.

2) Mr. Gulzar sahib, great lyricist, writer, producer, director and editor of Hindi-cinema. I love all his songs, movies and poems. And his one particular song from the film Khamoshi sung by Ms. Lata Mangeshkar, is very closed to my heart, (Humne dekhi hai in-akhon mein).

3) Ms. Kiran Bedi (Ex-IPS Office) who was a performer through-out her career and what-ever work she has done, it was done with her hard-work, dedication, determination and completed with her full mind, body and soul and she gave her hundred percent to every assignment she took and the results were beyond comparission and she excelled in what-ever work she has ever-done. For me she has always been the source of my inspiration.

4) Sardar Khushwant Singh, the great journalist, novelist and writer of many books on Sikhism and I became his fan when I was in School and I started reading " The Illustrated Weekly of India" magazine.

5) Ms. Megha Patkar, who lived her whole life for others without any ambition or any personal gains  such people are here in this world with us who taught us how to live for others; and I always take strength from her, when-ever I feel low in my life.

6) Mr. Manishankar Mukhopadhya, known as "Shankar" in the Bengali literary circle and he has written many great Bengali novels including Chowranghee. I have read all his books but his novel "Jana-aranaya" is very closed to my heart till date.

7) Mr. Pranoy Roy, the great TV journalist of India, who gave us many  "First" in Indian  TV-entertainment world, to begin with The World This Week [TWTW], Star News (presented by NDTV in early days), Election news analysis, NDTV 24X7, NDTV India and NDTV Imagine etc.. etc... But till date his first weekly news programme TWTW is my favourite.

8) Mr. Shiv (HCL) Nadar, an Entrepreneur, perfect businessman and an IT-tycoon who made an Indian company at par with top-class IT companies of the world. I wish, we must have many more like him in this country.

9) Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, a leader of Mobile-sector and first generation businessman who made history in Indian telecommunication world, he was, he is and he will be the King of Telecom-Industry in the world. 

10) Mr. Ratan Naval Tata, Chairman of Tata empire, perfect Businessman and a Gentleman. 

And few good men and women of God with whom I could not meet in this life time, may be,  when I will leave this world and meet my God in heavens,  (I am sure and confident), I will find them their with  our God Almighty, Amen!

1) Ms. Ayn Rand

2) Ms. Amrita Pritam

3) Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani

4) Shri Ghan Shyam Das Birla

5) Sardar Gurbaksh Singh (Preet-lari wale)

6) Sardar Bahadur Sir Inder Singh

7) Shri Jamshedji Narsevanji Tata

8) Shri Jaddu Krishna Murti

9) Shri Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi

10) Lala Shriram

With Prayers,

Gurcharan

Love is not relationship it's the enroute to meet the God Almighty

The one word which has been misrepresented, misunderstood, (and if you may allow me to say), misused by ages and every time when we liked some-one, developed a soft-corner for him/her, feels like talking to that particular person uninterruptedly, again and again and last but not the least, feels like spending our  rest of  the life with him/her, in today's world, it's called, Love, prem or preet, but I strongly believed that it's not love actually, it's adjustment, infatuation, developing a liking for a particular person and it is a deal where we look forward to expect the same in return and when the targeted person does not respond the way we wanted him/her to act upon; or not accept our proposal in totality; we call him a betrayer, the person who is so insensible, unromantic, introvert, selfish, self-centered, self indulgent, can not be worth loving and we discard him/her by saying; he/she does not understand me and my inner-feelings,  not mature enough to be my partner, not of my standard and finally not worth loving, at all.

I am afraid, it's not true and it would be totally unfair on my part if I call it love. To be more specific, it's an adjustment and you can call it a social-settlement, it's like, you choose some-one and then settled down with him/her; fair enough, no-issue at all, I accept, so far so good. But my only apprehension here is, where is the actual Love, Prem or Preet, we talked about earlier?

To begin with, love is the way of living in the instructions of our Maula/Rab/Babaji/Ishwar/God Almighty (Jis haal mein Maula rakhe, us haal mein rahna hai) and doing our duties (what ever jobs we do), we do it hundred percent with our mind body and soul, . Neither I am talking about imaginary things nor it's my illusion, no not at all. Here I would like to refer to the relationship of Shri Radha Rani vs. Lord Krishna; Sudama vs. Lord Krishna; and Meera Bai vs. Lord Krishna; in case of Meea Bai, one exception here, Lord Krishna was not present in her life, but in case of Shri Radha Rani and Sudama, Thakur ji (Lord Krishna) was very much there in their lives. 

By any chance, if you are really in love with some-one, by default, you are in love with his creation, the whole-universe and his biggest creation is: Man-kind, you are in love with human-beings, to be more specific, you are in love with what-ever you see, touch, feel and hear; you start seeing him in each and every shape, size, colour and object, for you, he becomes a way of life and you always communicate with him, one to one. Here, your self-esteem merges with his super-power and all your needs, wants and desires are full- filled in totality, you left with cent percent fulfillment in all respect and you forget the hunger of mind, body and soul because he is within you and you are within him and there is no difference what-so-ever between you two.  

 

This becomes your new incarnation, where your Ambitions, Dreams, Family and Future has no relevance and your only job left is to sing in his gratitude. Since you are no more thirsty, you start giving love to the whole world, because for you he is every where, and for you the difference of sex, cast, creed and religion gets abolished and vanished automatically, all boundaries are broken and you becomes truly independent, a self- sufficient man with no Desire, Dream and Destination, but like a true Karma-yogi, you continue your journey of your life till your last breath, under the influence of his Love.  

With Prayers,

Gurcharan.

 

     

"KRISHNA and KARNA" a true Friends, Philosopher and Guides of my Life.

I m seriously thinking about a word Friendship, I strongly believed that we have not yet understood the actual and full meaning of the word Friendship, at-least I can say the same about myself. Friendship's first glimpses I have got when I first read about the friendship of Lord Krishna vs. Sudama and Karana vs. Duryodhana of Mahabharata. Today, when-ever I sit back and rewind my life and think, oh my God, they are so big, great, a real friends in-deed in each and every aspect of my life and I became so small in front of them that makes me  feel shy and ashamed of myself but they have never-ever made me feel like Sudama they always treat me at-par with them, but I know from the bottom of my heart that they are much more superior, bigger, better and great human beings, God bless them all.

I have got few very good friends and Rehnumas who are more than Krishna and Karna to me but I could not even became Sudama for them ever and if I judge myself on the scale of 1 to 10, you bet, I will not even score 1 mark, its not just that simple to become Sudama; I have spent 50 years of my life to come closer to Sudama, but I am sorry to say that, I could not justify the role of Sudama and even come nearer to Sudama, forget about becoming Sudama; but my God has always been very kind to me and he has sent so many Krishna's and Karna's in my life, who have made my life much-more meaningful, lovable, worth living and I would like to continue to live with the warm, affectonate and protective-shield of their friendship.

Today, in presence of you (as my real Judge), I want to say "Thank You" to all of them for making my life more meaning full, peaceful, smooth, happy, lovable and joyful. I can't stop mentioning few names which are blessings of Lord Krishna to me:

Mr. Arun Ahuja, Mr. Ashwini Dhawan, Mr. Awtar Singh, Mr. Alok Kumar, Mr. Ajay Chabra, Mr. Bablu Mishra, Mr. Devinder Singh Khanna, Mr. Harjinder Singh Toffee, Mr. Harbhajan Singh,  Mr. Hardeep Singh, Mr. Harjeet Singh Saggu, Mr. Hari Prakash, Mr. Mangat Ram, Mr. Milind Sampat, Mr. Naveen Nehra, Mr. Pargat Singh, Mr. Prakash Asudhani, Mr. R.K. Vasani, Mr. R. P. Yadav, Mr. Ramesh Singh, Mr. Saran Singh, Mr. S. L. Narayan, Mr. Satpal Khanna, Mr. Sathya Brato Sahu, Mr. Shyam Narayan Sharma, Mr. Tejinder Ghai, Mr. Vijay Kumar and Mr. Vikram Das.

Mr. Ashok Kumar Nandwani, Mr. Ajit Naik,  Mr. Chandra Mohan, Mr. Gautam Das, Mr. Gaurang Pandya, Mr. R. K. Malhotra, Mr. Ram Mohan Kapoor, Mr. Ravi Varma, Mr. S. K. De, Mr. Sethu Chakraborty, Mr. S. Thyagrajan,  Mr. Shishir Gupta, Mr. Ravi Inder Singh, Mr. Rahul Garg, Mr. Sudeep Singh Gill,  Mr. S. Murlidharan, Mr. Sundeep Mathur, Mr. T. Sheshagiri Rao, Mr. Vikram S. Shriram, Mr. Vinod Khetawat and Mr. Zubin Irani.

Mr. Arvind Kumar Jain, Mr. Arun Seth, Mr. Anil K. Beejawat, Mr. Alok Tibrewala,  Mr. Gurmeet S. Singh, Mr. K. K. Kapoor, Mr. M. Sri Hari Nair, Mr. Mohit James, Mr. Mukesh Khetrapal, Mr. Narinder Mohan Mittal,  Mr. Pankaj Chandra, Mr. P. Vijayraghavan, Mr. P. V. Balasubramanian, Mr. Ram Rakesh Gaur, Mr. Rajan Bahri, Mr. Sujit Bakshi,  Mr. Sundeep Agarwal, Mr. Rajesh Ghosh, Mr. Subash Singh Virdi, Mr. Sanjay Monga and Mr. T. K. Ghosh.

Prof. A. K. Kamlani, Prof. Akshey Kumar, Prof. Ajay Chowhan, Mr. Ashok Tiwari, Prof. Amit Paul Singh, Mr. B. K. Pandey, Mr. Dilbagh Singh, Mr. J. Shiva Subramanian, Dr. Mukesh Chaturvedi, Prof. Prem Mohan Lacotia, Mr. Prem Singh Bains, Dr. R. Joga Rao,  Dr. S. K. Kaushik, Mr. Shyam Makhija,  Mr. Sekhar Chandrasekhar, Dr. S. K. Pandey and Mr. Virender Kumar Shrivastava.

Dr. Amit Arora, Dr. (Mrs.) Manjari Tirpathi, Dr. Prabhat Goel, Dr. Rakshit and Dr. Sukhwant Singh

They are my Friends and well wishers who have made my life worth living, I can not pay back the help, support and guidance they have provided to me from time to time and I will always be indebted to them for-ever. At the end I pray to God almighty to Bless all my friends and give them what-ever they have ever think-of in their lives and make them the most happiest human beings and great Friends on this Universe.

With Prayers,

Sudama-gurcharan