An ego is a Great servant but a bad Master..............

Once there lived a big poisonous snake in a field near a village. It used to bite anybody who dared enter the field and so nobody went there.
One day a Saint came to the village. Villagers told him not to go to the field where the snake lived. But since the detour would cost him a lot of time the Saint decided to go through the field anyway. Soon the snake approached him with the intention to bite, but as he neared he was overpowered by the spiritual energy of the Saint. When the Saint saw him he advised the snake not to bite anybody and the snake agreed.

After a few months the Saint was on his way back and he decided to check on the snake. When he found him he was shocked to see his state. He was all beaten up and nearly dead. Since the snake had stopped biting, the village boys had thrown stones at it and nearly killed him.
The Saint told the snake, “Look, I told you not to bite, but who told you not to hiss?”
The moral of the story for us is that as we progress into our spiritual journey we will find that our ego shrinks. But let us never forget that we are surrounded by egos and though we should give up biting let us not stop hissing. The ego is a great servant but a bad master. As we grow out of our ego we should learn to use it as a tool without allowing it to control our lives.

Stroy about presence of mind : Boy & Shopkeeper

I live in a small town. This was the time when I was in class 3. My brother and I used to go to school by walk. On the way between my school and home, there used to be a mela every Thursday.
We used to visit the mela and we tried to see every shop.
On one such visit , I went to a toy shop with my brother ,
I didn't have much money to buy anything but pretended as if I had.
I started checking each toy.
After 5 minute , I made a face as if I didn't like any toy.
I started walking away from shop when the shopkeeper called me and started speaking to me:
Shopkeeper,"You have seen my toys , you have to pay ".
Me,"but I haven't taken your toy ".
Shopkeeper, You have touched my toys and you have also wasted our time. I will not let you go unless you pay".
My brother was about to cry and I was imaging how my mother was going to react.

I don't know how but suddenly an idea hit my mind. I found two 25 paise coins(one in my pocket and another in my brother's bag). I took both coins in my hand and I shook my hand so that a jingling sound came from those coins.
Me,"I  saw your toys, you heard the sound of my coins, now we are done ".

I walked away with a feeling of pride and that shopkeeper, well he had a smile on his face.
When i went to home, I told my mother about the incident. She was so happy for me  and for next 2-3 years she told every guest about this incident and how I had used my presence of mind.

"Survive being single", or "Enjoy being single"

For starters,I was in a relationship once. Gotta admit, it was fun. I always knew that I had someone I could fall back upon. Someone to catch me. It's different now. So, basically, either you can "survive being single", or "enjoy being single". I'll do the second one.

    Re-Evaluate Yourself.

    So, what is the one thing people in relationships seem to complain about?
    That's right. Loss of freedom.
    Being single, you have that in spades. So, if you are not capitalizing, not exploiting that freedom, you have no use being single. Now, how do you exploit that freedom? You explore your options. Some people are single because they are impossible to be with. You can't stand them. Find out if that's the case with you. Befriend random strangers, ask out crushes, enjoy your repartee with the hot bartender, thing like that. Make sure that your being single is a choice, and not by force. This realization gives you a tremendous ego and confidence boost. Now you know for a fact, that you are like-able, and you don't brood over being single, because you know you can change it any day, any time.

    Love Yourself.

    No joke, but, being in a relationship can be costly at times. No, no, literally costly, like in financial terms. Even if you each pay your half of the share, you can't just eat at a roadside stall, and save some dough. Being single saves that green. Take yourself out. Rather than 10 dates each costing some money, save that up, and go out some place fancy yourself. Do something you always wanted to do. Buy an expensive drink, shop like a maniac, anything that makes you happy. Personally, I think, a fine meal solves half of the world's problems. Try that.

    Don't Fade Away.

    A phenomena that I notice among single people is a huge disregard to personal hygiene, and appearance. Some might call it being lazy. Fine by me. I am the laziest SOB on the planet. I've been a couch potato for so long, that I think I am growing roots. But, when you go out, at least take a bath, comb your hair, put on something nice. Don't be acting like a hippie just because you don't want to be in a relationship. Trust me, being single, and then being the most unattractive person in the room, doesn't help a lot. You slowly start to grow more and more apathetic towards yourself. Not a good sign. This is how you go into the depression limbo.

    Socialize.

    Remember one thing loud and clear - never let go of your friends when in a relationship, because if it doesn't work out for any reason, you'll be left alone, and you just might not want to handle the dual rejection simultaneously. Being single gives you flexibility. You can now volunteer to host a party with your friends, or help them move. Since you don't have prior engagements, and you get the weekend off, help out a friend in need. If you don't have friends, go to the nearest Soup kitchen, or anything of that kind, and volunteer. You were spending your time making someone else happy. Now, you're single, don't change that.

    Self Investment.

    So you say, you don't have hobbies. Cultivate them. Find something that gives you pleasure, and indulge yourself in it. For me, it was writing. I didn't know it when I was in a relationship. After, we broke up, one fine day, I realized, why don't I use all the fancy vocabulary I used with her during chats and write something actually useful. I started with long Facebook statuses, then Facebook notes, and finally I hit the Quora jackpot. It's never too late to learn a new language, or learn how to dance, or play the piano, or work out, or learn to cook. That way, you stop "looking for the right girl/guy", and focus on "being the right guy/girl".

    Adventure.

    With no one and nothing to hold you back, it's time to take some risks. You can do something I used to do a lot. What you do is, take some bare minimum cash, (remember bare minimum), and travel to some place you've never been to before. I remember the time, I went over to a nearby village which didn't even have cellphone reception. If possible, stay away from phones. Take a day or two off work, and just go out. You'll be surprised at the number of places you can visit to calm down your soul which aren't too far away. Just buy a bottle of whiskey (or whatever drink you like), a bag of chips or any snacks, and get lost. I asked you to take very little money because that spikes the adventure factor. You try to find your way back while fitting into your stipulated budget. Trust me, it's fun.

    Stop Whining.

    Now, the harsh point. You choose to be single. So, don't bitch and whine about it. There will be lonely nights, awkward afternoons, and single serving dinners, but, remember, you chose your path. There are bigger problems on earth than being or not being in a relationship. Trying learning about them. Read blogs, read the news, and pretty soon, you will actually be afraid of talking to people, leave alone being in a relationship. And don't ever, ever confuse boredom or lust with being lonely. Some people are in a relationship only because they're horny or they're bored. Read a book, or masturbate. Don't waste someone else's time for your amusement.


Guess, that's about it. Have fun.

Source:Internet

PS: "This is not My Story, But Story from Internet"

Beautiful game called "CHESS"

The beautiful game called "CHESS"

There is an interesting story about the man, who invented chess coming from Persia and this story is around 800 years old.

Long time ago a king named Shihram ruled over India. He was a despot. Around this time a wise man invented the game of chess to show the king how important everybody is, who lives in his kingdom, even the smallest among them.
The king on the chess board needs his queen, his rooks, bishops, knights and the pawns to survive. This is like in real life. The king should learn this.
Shihram, the king, understood this very well and he liked this game very much and he became a chess player and ordered that this game should be played by everybody in his kingdom.
The king was very thankful, let the wise man come and went with him to his treasures to give him gold and silver or other valuable things.
"You are allowed to choose what you want!" he said to the man who invented chess. "I will give it to you!"
The wise man thought for a while and said to the king. "I don't desire any of your treasures. I have a special wish!" And then he went with the king to a chess board.
"My wish is to get some wheat! Please put one grain of wheat on to the first chess square and two on to the second and keep doubling up the wheat until the last square!"
The king became angry and shouted: "I have offered you all my treasures and you want just wheat? Do you want to offend me?"
"Oh no!" said the wise man. "I don't want to offend you, my king. Please respect my wish and you will see that my wish is truly great."
The king called his servants and ordered to put the wheat on the chess board exactly as the wise man wished. The servants brought a lot of wheat. It soon filled many rooms but they realized that they could not fulfill the wise man's wish.
They went to the king and said: "We are unable to fulfill the wise man's wish."
"Why not?" asked the king angry.
They answered: „All the wheat of your kingdom and all the wheat of other kingdoms is not enough to fulfill this wish."
The king realized that the wise man had given him a lesson again. He learned that you should never underestimate the small things in life.
The chess board has 64 squares and if you put just one grain on the first and double up on the next and so on, you will reach an enormous amount of grain.
1 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2
If you work this out you get an incredible amount of grain something like this: 18.446.744.073.709.551.61

5 around 18.446.744 Trillions of wheat grains. The man, who invented chess, whoever he was, has done a great job.

Source: Who Invented Chess Game?

Top 10 things that we should be informed about in life

  

 

 

#1. Fail early and frequently

Your greatest asset is not your talent, not your ideas, not your experience, but your time. Time allows you to have the opportunity to take big risks and make big mistakes.

When you’re young, you have nothing to lose. Possibilities are you aren’t strapped by all of the financial responsibilities that come with later adulthood like mortgage payments, car payments, tuition fees for your kids etc.

When you have the least amount to lose, take some long-shot risks. Because its the disastrous failures of these years that will set you up for your life successes down the line. They are the best lessons of your life.

#2. Avoid assuming you can attain all of your goals.

You set out to do A, B or C and either you accomplish all of them or you don’t. If you do, you’re GREAT. If you don’t, you fail .

It's agreeable to always have goals and have something to work towards, but attaining all of those goals is beside the point. Life doesn’t actually work that way all the time.

As you grow, you will discover that some of the life goals you set for yourself are not the things you actually wanted, and most of the things are just not important.

The whole point of goals is to get up and to hit some preferred benchmark. The value in any enterprise always comes from the process of failing and trying, not in achieving.

#3. You can't forcibly retain friendship

There are two subdivisions of friends in this life: the kind when you go away for a long time and come back, you feel nothing's changed, and the kind when you go away for a long time and come back, you feel everything’s changed.

You can’t force a friendship with someone. Either it’s there or it’s not.

You can't predict which friends will stick with you and which ones won’t. It’s not that those other people are bad people or bad friends. It’s not their fault. It’s just life.

#4. You will not have any idea what you are doing.

Nobody has any idea what they’re doing in their early life, and that continues further into adulthood. Everyone is just working off of their current best guess.

You may change your jobs, careers, industry at least once in your 20s. You will rarely have any clue what you are doing.

The truth is you will never know what things will happen. You pay attention to opportunities and act on them. Things just happens.

#5. Majority of people essentially want the same things.

From a broad perspective, people around the world are basically the same. Everyone spends most of their time worrying about food, money, their job and their family, even people who are rich and well fed. Everybody is afraid of failure. Everyone loves their friends and family yet also gets the most irritated by them.

Humans are, by and large, the same. It’s just the details that get shuffled around. Roses are not red but the details are. Judge people not by who they are, but by what they do. This world has all kinds of people. Some are gracious people and some are obnoxious people. And you don’t know who you’re dealing with until you spend enough time with a person to see what they do, not what they look like, or where they’re from or what gender they are.

#6. Thinking and doing are two very different things.

Success never comes to look for you while you wait around thinking about it. You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Good things don’t come to those who wait; they come to those who work on
meaningful goals. Ask yourself what’s really important and then have the courage to build your life around your answer.

Remember, if you wait until you feel 100% ready to begin, you’ll likely be waiting the rest of your life.

#7. Internet is full of extremes.

Your life will immediately get better when you realize that the information you consume online is greatly influenced by the 10% of each extreme view and that 90% of life actually occurs in the silent middle-ground where most of the population actually lives.

When you read the internet, you will legally start to think that World War 3 is close at hand, that Ebola is the end of the world, that corporations rule the world through some illegal act, that there’s a war on Christmas, that all women are lying (which is fairly accurate), that all poor people are lazy and destroying the government, etc.

It’s important to sometimes withdraw to that quiet 90% and remind yourself that life is simple, people are good, and the deep opening in the earth's surface that appear to separate us are often just cracks.

#8. The world seldom think about you.

No matter what you do, one day it will be forgotten. It will be as if you never existed, even though you did. Nobody will care. Nobody seldom think about you. Nobody cares what you actually say or do with your life.

The good news is you can get away with a lot of stupid things and people will forget and forgive you for it. It simply means that there’s absolutely a reason to be the person that you want to be. The pain of un-blocking yourself will be short and the reward will last a lifetime.

#9. The result of small things matter more than the big things.

Once a interviewer asked Dustin Moskovitz, the co-founder of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate, what it felt like to be part of Facebook’s “overnight success.” He replied, “If by ‘overnight success’ you mean staying up and coding all night, every night for SIX years straight, then it felt really tiring and stressful.”

We have a natural inclination to assume, things just happen as they are. We tend to only see the result of things and not the difficult process and all of the failures that went into producing the result.

We have this idea that we have to do just this one big thing that is going to completely change the world, top to bottom. We don't realize that those “one big things” are actually composed of hundreds and thousands of daily small things that must be silently and consistently maintained over long periods of time with little outward display.

#10. Your parents are people too.

See your parents not as protectors or uncool authoritarians but as friends, who are doing their best despite often not knowing what they’re doing.

Possibilities are your parents screwed some things up during your
childhood. And you will start to notice all of these screw-ups while you are in your adulthood. It can kick up a lot of bitterness and regret.

Acknowledge, accept, and forgive your parent’s flaws. They’re people too. They’re doing their best, even though they don’t always know what the best is.

Attitude!

   

A Man saw a poor young boy looking at his expensive car. He was in a good mood that day and so he offered him a drive. The Boy couldn't believe his luck and joined him.

    Boy: Car is marvelous...its so huge. What's the Cost ?
    Man: I don't know exactly. My friend gifted it.
    Boy: So nice of him!
    Man: I know what you are thinking. You also want to have a friend like him right?
    Boy: No, I want to be that friend..!!

A girl with no ticket.....

A girl was hiding under a train' first class compartment' berth when TC caught her. Her clothes were torn from some places, eyes red and swollen portraying her weeping and sleepless night.

TC - Where is your ticket?

She - (crying) I don't have it.

TC - (trying to force her out of the compartment) then get out of here or I shall handover you to police.

(Meanwhile a lady was looking at the scene very keenly)

She - please don't do so sir.(still crying)

TC grips her hand and that lady calls upon TC and asks him to leave the girl and prepare a ticket for the complete journey of that train. TC pleads that she should not waste her money on such girl but lady asks him to give the ticket so that the girl may travel and leave the train at any station she pleases.
After getting the ticket girl comes to sit with that lady and upon asking the reason for her situation she says that her mother died when she was born so her father married another woman who was cruel to her. So she ran away from home. While listening to the story the train reached bangalore(last station). The lady and girl both went out of the station. The lady sat in her car and the car started moving but when lady turned around she saw that girl still standing on the street. She had a change of heart and took that girl with her. She admitted her to a help home being run by her friend.

That girl leveraged the opportunity. She studied hard got good marks at school and admission to a reputed engineering college. Completed her degree in Computer science and got placed in a multinational company.
After few years company sent her US to work.
One fine day that lady went to US to give a lecture over management. She called for bill after a lunch at a restaurant but was surprised to hear that bill was already paid. On asking about who made the payment the receptionist pointed towards a young and beautiful couple standing at her back. Lady turned and asked them why did they pay her bill. The girl said because you once paid my mumbai to bangalore rail fare that changed my life.

That lady is Mrs. Sudha murthi wife of Infosys' chairperson Mr. Narayan murthi.

Moral- when life gives you lemons, make lemonade