On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, I was attending 112th passing out parade of the National Defense Academy (NDA) at Khadakwasala near Pune. While the parade was going on the narrator was referring to basic qualities of armed forces, armed forces personnel, and those that are taught at the NDA. One of them that caught my attention was "DISCIPLINE".
Certainly, point since you enter this national academy that has contributed significantly to provide nation military leadership, discipline is evident every where. The neatness, smartness of the entrance gate, sign boards at select and needed locations, cleanliness would not have been possible without discipline. The starch ironed uniforms, smart and alter look of NDA affiliated armed and civilians would not have been possible without strict adherence to discipline. The parade would not have started on time, had there been no discipline in practice. The uniformity, coordination in march past, synchronized movements would not have happened if discipline was not assimilated in blood and mind of these folks.
I think DISCIPLINE is the single most deciding factor of the successful armed force. But most importantly it is single most quality that differentiate between successful person and unsuccessful person. In fact, in my opinion lack and presence of discipline defines and decide looser and winner respectively. Discipline helps you achieve your goals in defined time period. It leads to synchronized coordination in a team, and thus brings in high degree of unity in the group.
I often come across persons who smell and talk of great dreams that even most successful individuals can be envy of - but soon you realize that these individuals lack something that is holding them away from their dreams. In most cases that detrimental factor is lack of discipline. Without discipline it is very difficult to develop and implement action plan with defined timeline. If you can not execute action plan on time, how so ever big and great your dreams are you can never be able to achieve you. Thus, I often think that success is directly proportional to discipline. Higher the degree of discipline, greater is your success.
I have this friend of mine, she is very innocent and wish to do so much for the society, her family, and her kids. Her intentions are so very novel and pure that every one would wish that her dreams may come true. However, she is often very frustrated, as she cannot even accomplish 5% of the planned activities. Reason lack of discipline. One of the major reason for this lack of discipline is ones unpreparedness to pass through hardship and uncommon will power. If you need to get up at 4 a.m. requires determination, and willingness to go through hardship of getting early. If you have these two things quality call discipline would send automatic signals to your brain that it is 4 a.m. and weather you are well or unwell you must get up now. Securing first position in the class means going through pains of studying little more than rest of the others in the class. This calls that you have to sacrifice certain privileges and luxuries now, and postpone them for later time, which means you need determination to resist attractions and comforts till exam is over. All this requires is nothing but loads of discipline. Thus, SUCCESS = DISCIPLINE!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
SUCCESS = ACCEPTANCE
Last night, we were invited to the residence of Prof. Jamal Nazrl Islam, a well known Bangladeshi mathematician, and personality in its own. Two days back Prof. Islam met us at the inaugural ceremony of the Chittagong International Biodiversity Conference which my friend Prof. Badrul Amin Bhuyia of the Chittagong University has organized. Prof. Islam delivered mesmarizing lecture on "biodiversity conservation and climate change". Last night when we visited his maginificant house on top the hill right in the center of Chittagong, each one of us was experiencing magical moments of our life, for nearly 90 minutes of duartion that was we were with Prof. Islam and Mrs. Islam's simplicity and humility. Son of the soil, well reputed internationally, Prof. Islam is extremely high profile person in its own right, however, he made it a point to invite international delegates whom he just interacted 2 days back for about an hour. How many high-profile individuals, do take pain to invite unknown individuals and exhibit the best of nation, region, globe, humanity? It was a great gesture on their part, and me and my colleague were truely neck deep in this hospitability, which I consider as a rare honor.
I realized the ease with which both Prof. & Mrs. Islam were interacting with us, as if they know us for ages together. They also spoke on every aspect with equal, from science, sociology, human psychology, godly attitude, natioanlism, human as species in biotic world, religion, to arts, culture, and music. They could switch between topics, with such an ease and simplicity that I wondered, as to what all they have learned, and experienced. The pinnacle of our meeting was three national anthems that Prof. Islam played on his piano. Truely, great personalities do not have geographic and national boundaries, they are so very global, and international. I think, that is why they are so very successful, as they are so very acceptable across cross-sections of our society irrespective of cross-cultural, national, and religious boundaries.
This whole experience makes me to feel that success if all about acceptability, which is directly proportional to humility and simplicity. Many great visionaries are great, because they are able to explain much complex topics, with so much ease, and in such a simple manner that even the common citizan can understand it without slightest efforts. Thus, I believe that success is not only intelliegence, but it is intelligenece with simplicity, and humility. Thus,
SUCCESS = ACCEPTACNE!
I realized the ease with which both Prof. & Mrs. Islam were interacting with us, as if they know us for ages together. They also spoke on every aspect with equal, from science, sociology, human psychology, godly attitude, natioanlism, human as species in biotic world, religion, to arts, culture, and music. They could switch between topics, with such an ease and simplicity that I wondered, as to what all they have learned, and experienced. The pinnacle of our meeting was three national anthems that Prof. Islam played on his piano. Truely, great personalities do not have geographic and national boundaries, they are so very global, and international. I think, that is why they are so very successful, as they are so very acceptable across cross-sections of our society irrespective of cross-cultural, national, and religious boundaries.
This whole experience makes me to feel that success if all about acceptability, which is directly proportional to humility and simplicity. Many great visionaries are great, because they are able to explain much complex topics, with so much ease, and in such a simple manner that even the common citizan can understand it without slightest efforts. Thus, I believe that success is not only intelliegence, but it is intelligenece with simplicity, and humility. Thus,
SUCCESS = ACCEPTACNE!
Saturday, May 12, 2007
SUCCESS = DARE GREATLY
Every one of us wish to be successful, that others would be envy about. But what I have observed in common with those who do not succeed, is that they fear to get into the center of action. However, what is uncommon with those succeed and we envy is that they get into the middle of the ground, at the core center of the action and act on what is needed for to be successful - they dare greatly. Those who dare greatly, live life to their fullest.
What is a fun being at the fence of the ring of action, and keep thinking about how painful the action and efforts would be, and would it be really cost-effective to put in those efforts to be successful. There is fun in jumping into the arena, getting pain of doing right action to be successful. I believe you enjoy being into action, and being successful, than repenting for not acting later. You can not cross bridge until you don't walk it! You can not cross the ditch, unless you do not jump over it! It is thus immensly important to be successful to dare greatly. Thus,
SUCCESS = DARE GREATLY!
What is a fun being at the fence of the ring of action, and keep thinking about how painful the action and efforts would be, and would it be really cost-effective to put in those efforts to be successful. There is fun in jumping into the arena, getting pain of doing right action to be successful. I believe you enjoy being into action, and being successful, than repenting for not acting later. You can not cross bridge until you don't walk it! You can not cross the ditch, unless you do not jump over it! It is thus immensly important to be successful to dare greatly. Thus,
SUCCESS = DARE GREATLY!
Thursday, May 3, 2007
SUCCESS = GODLY ATTITUDE
These days my daughter surpirses me more often with some punching statements that she makes. Last week, while we were playing in the garden, I was kind of hanging to a tree and shaking it. She was on the slides about 15 feet away from me. She screamed, "Daddu! don't harm the tree, there is GOD inside the tree!". I was not only surprised but kind of ashamed of myself that how did I forget that there is GOD everywhere and that we must treat every thing with great respect, and handle it with utmost care so that we don't heart anyone, as every form of life, nature, living and non-living is very godly, that only has created it. So very creation is so very special as we ourselves are!
On May 2, it was Buddha Poornima. I was having holiday, and sitting in my bedroom, I was playing teacher-student game with Maitri. She was teacher and I was a student. She gave me some assignment, and I did not do it properly. She was upset, but told me not to repeat it again. However, I did the same mistake again. She came close to me - looked into my eyes and with a very authoratative voice said, "Don't be like Devdutta, Be like Buddha!". Both me and Pradnya were shocked with her use of example. We have taught her this story of Devdutta and Buddha some days back - which she told in her story telling competition at School and won first prize. This story is about Devdutta shooting the bird with an arrow, which falls in fornt of Gautama, which he picks up and strats treating a wound. Devdutta order Gautama to give back the bird to him, as it is his catch.......".
When I remeber both of these interactions with my daughter, I realize that this girl is talking about an "ATTITUDE" in life. She is referring to "GODLY ATTITUDE", an attitude which is so very positive in its implementation, and outcome that success is guaranteed. I wonder, most of us why fail to succeed? The major reason I believe is our attitude is not godly. In godly attitude there is nothing impossible, there is no probability, there is no space for doubt. Most of the time when we initiate something we always doubt our own capability, thus our attitude never remains godly.
Most of the time when we mean success, we mean defeat to someone. Our purpose of sucess is never so very pure like a flowing water, there is always some hitch and thus our attitude is never so very godly. With an attitude to defeat someone or creating loss to others, you can never be successful. Most of the time we are part of a team that aspires to achieve some degree of success, but we always have inbuilt plans not be be 100% team player, might be that we don't like the leader or his leadership. How can such a team where few or most of its members do not have 100% dedication and confidence to the cause for which they swear by. The team and members of the team fail simlpy because they lack goldy attitude. Most of the time we study hard, work hard not to shine but often to get more marks than one of our fellow classmate or to show to our teachers that I do have an ability to be successful - how can you ensure that such a success becomes permanant feature when your attitude is not very godly, but is filled with revenge in it.
It is very imporatnat that our ATTITIDE is GOLDLY, without any prejudice, without any -ve ideas, with 101% dedication to expected outcome, without any purpose to harm anyone directly or indirectly. With such a GODLY ATTITUDE success is guranteed. There could be no better example of this GODLY ATTITUDE in recent time than Mahatma Gandhi. He was clear when he shoulder the responsibility, it was not to harm the regime that has inavded, and neither to prove his sumpremacy in Indian politics, it was just very simple - to make this country and its people free of occupation and lead them to republic independece. Thus,
SUCCESS = GODLY ATTITUDE!
On May 2, it was Buddha Poornima. I was having holiday, and sitting in my bedroom, I was playing teacher-student game with Maitri. She was teacher and I was a student. She gave me some assignment, and I did not do it properly. She was upset, but told me not to repeat it again. However, I did the same mistake again. She came close to me - looked into my eyes and with a very authoratative voice said, "Don't be like Devdutta, Be like Buddha!". Both me and Pradnya were shocked with her use of example. We have taught her this story of Devdutta and Buddha some days back - which she told in her story telling competition at School and won first prize. This story is about Devdutta shooting the bird with an arrow, which falls in fornt of Gautama, which he picks up and strats treating a wound. Devdutta order Gautama to give back the bird to him, as it is his catch.......".
When I remeber both of these interactions with my daughter, I realize that this girl is talking about an "ATTITUDE" in life. She is referring to "GODLY ATTITUDE", an attitude which is so very positive in its implementation, and outcome that success is guaranteed. I wonder, most of us why fail to succeed? The major reason I believe is our attitude is not godly. In godly attitude there is nothing impossible, there is no probability, there is no space for doubt. Most of the time when we initiate something we always doubt our own capability, thus our attitude never remains godly.
Most of the time when we mean success, we mean defeat to someone. Our purpose of sucess is never so very pure like a flowing water, there is always some hitch and thus our attitude is never so very godly. With an attitude to defeat someone or creating loss to others, you can never be successful. Most of the time we are part of a team that aspires to achieve some degree of success, but we always have inbuilt plans not be be 100% team player, might be that we don't like the leader or his leadership. How can such a team where few or most of its members do not have 100% dedication and confidence to the cause for which they swear by. The team and members of the team fail simlpy because they lack goldy attitude. Most of the time we study hard, work hard not to shine but often to get more marks than one of our fellow classmate or to show to our teachers that I do have an ability to be successful - how can you ensure that such a success becomes permanant feature when your attitude is not very godly, but is filled with revenge in it.
It is very imporatnat that our ATTITIDE is GOLDLY, without any prejudice, without any -ve ideas, with 101% dedication to expected outcome, without any purpose to harm anyone directly or indirectly. With such a GODLY ATTITUDE success is guranteed. There could be no better example of this GODLY ATTITUDE in recent time than Mahatma Gandhi. He was clear when he shoulder the responsibility, it was not to harm the regime that has inavded, and neither to prove his sumpremacy in Indian politics, it was just very simple - to make this country and its people free of occupation and lead them to republic independece. Thus,
SUCCESS = GODLY ATTITUDE!
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