Jouranal O Ram

Focused Energy leads to achievement of Purposeful Goals!!

Leaders Believe and the rest have interest!

Asritha Srimaye as Chinni Krishna

Sunday, August 24th 2008.

The world is celebrating Sri Krishna Jama Ashtami. Asritha Srima adorns Chinni Krishna Avataram.

























Rara chinnanna, raarori chinnavaada raara muddulaada
raarori balakrishna raaraa... krishna raa raa... balakrishna raa raa...




















Krishna Nee begane baaro.... krishna nee begane baaro...

Journal O Ram

Happy Independence Day!

Freedom is one of the things which I love. I love my Independence. I celebrate Independence Day in my own my way. My grand father was a Police Officer. So, there were so many values which I received from him. That's why I always keep remember him and keep referring to him when there is a context. Some of the values I can out-rightly list is self-discipline, discipline, punctuality, patriotism, spirituality, travel, joint-family living, family values, respect for elders, fearlessness etc etc etc. Before, I mention how he influenced my life, I must give a little background. Our home "Sri Venkateswara Nilayam" at 50-44-1, P&T Colony, Seetammadhara, Visakhapatnam - 530013 is has 3 large bed rooms, veranda, hall, dining room, kitchen and pooja room. A big car shed good enough for indoor cricket. A huge terrace with space enough to hold a wedding reception. There were 2 water storing tanks above the ground and one huge overhead water tank. All this has relevance at a later point in this journal. A block behind my home is a big play ground.

Discipline / Self-discipline:
When it is comes to discipline, I mean every one among the kids has to get up early in the morning and recite Sri Venkateswara Suprabatham. It has become a natural for all the kids (I was in my 1st standard at school) to brush teeth, take bath on their own, get dressed up, 'definitely' polish ones own shoes, clean and pressed clothes. When we go on tours, everyone must carry at least one luggage and he is responsible for the luggage till the end of the journey. Even the youngest kid is responsible may be for a water bottle or a pillow to carry it. All were so well tuned that everyone used to pick one luggage without a need for continuous instructions.
Shoes are kept at a designated place. Everyone has to fold his bed sheet and place it at a designated place.

Punctuality:
In the childhood days, I remember 6pm to 8 pm was definitely reading time. 8pm to 9pm is definitely dinner time. 9pm to 10pm is fun, chatting, music, tv or whatever before going to bed.
There used to be a routine schedule which was followed without even being aware that it is followed. Never late to school. We used to be in train station well in advance to comfortably catch the train without any rush.

In between, I have lost track of this value and the results have been terrible. I remember, we missing train, or catching the train while it is running when I am first time taking Swapna to Chennai after my wedding, going almost an hour late to train station to receive my mom in Chennai, going 3 hours late to the airport to receive Swapna and Srimaye when they came first time to USA, missing so many time lines.

Now, the important thing is to retain the value called "Punctuality!"


Health:
Once in three months all the kids have to get a dose of 'Aavadham' for cleaning the stomach. That would really be a fun and run weekend. Fun to catch the guy to give him a dose. Then the guys run to the restroom, for the whole of morning session. Then for lunch it will be rasam, mutton curry and rice. Unforgetable! It definitely cleans the whole stomach.
Applying oil to the hair and keeping it clean and combed. That brings a strong nourishment to the roots of hair and gives it a strong texture. Fruits for the season are definitely part of the family daily meals. Indeed is a wonderful way to live life.

Frequent indigestion, loss of hair, laziness and other side effects for not having a balanced diet and maintaining health.

Now, the important thing is to be aware health and become health conscious. Fit body can be maintained with healthy food. Applying oil to hair is key to keep the hair roots strong and healthy. It also prevents any headaches that are likely by cooling the head.

Patriotism:

I heard one saying which, I am not sure of the source. It says, in a family if there are three boy kids, the eldest is to protect the home and manage the family by staying at home. The elder is to get out of home earn money, get food and wealth to the home. The youngest is to protect the nation. That is the kind of contribution from each of the family towards nation and it is an unstated commitment. If it were not so, then I don't thing India would have achieved freedom. And imagine, even women equally participated in the freedom struggle. The patriotic spirit is unimaginable. With the population issue in India, now there is little chance of having three kids at home and on the contrary, the protection of the one kid (boy or a girl) is at the highest risk for terrorism, accidents, illness or whatever the reason.

As he was a retired police officer, in our drawing room, we used to have huge framed pictures of
Mahatma Gandhi - Father of the Nation
Dr. Rajendra Prasad - First President of India
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishna - First
Motilal Nehru - First Prime Minister of India
Dr. Subash Chandrabose - Freedom Fighter


I think it is very fortunate to be grown along with Grand Parents. Any body who is grown up in a joint family will have a fortune of values, which otherwise can not be obtained. Leave alone a joint family, a single family itself is not able to keep tightly integrated to live together. In the modern world, the families are disintegrated. And this is becoming more unavoidable situation. Husband, Wife and Children of the same family find it impossible to live in the same home together for reasons of education, work, earnings, business or what ever be the case. So, it is like best of the worst when one is to have the same family integrated and live together in the same home.


Freedom is not in doing whatever we like.
Freedom is in doing what is right with a strong will to do it, whatever be the case.
Freedom unlimited is best experienced in abundance and when the limitless boundaries are kept in mind and discipline in maintained.
Freedom is very personal to ones own self, yet the restrictions would come into play when one the freedom of others is intruded.

Journal O Ram

Song of the day
Om namaste bolo... from the movie Ready.

Swapna has shared this song with me. It is wonderful music and I specially liked the lyrics. It is simply a great dance number and I can imagine Swana and Srimaye how they both would entertain me with their dance. I love to dance with them. I am just thinking of how wonderfully they dance for "my hump" song which, another great dance number.

If you are nterested in watching the song... scroll down.

Lyrics of the song Om Namaste Bolo... written by Ramajogayya Sastry.
From the Movie: Ready
Music by Devi Sriprasad; Singer(s): Divya, Neeraj Sridhar

Om Namaste Bolo Baby Om Namaste Bolo
Dilme Dash Putte Party Timelo,,
Om Namaste Bolo Baba Om Namaste Bolo
Neeto Partner Avuta Pretty Crime Lo,,
Pillo Pillo Pillo Naa Pillow Lanti Pillo
Morning Coffee Avutava Naa Manly Chetullo
Hello Hello Hello Chepesta Nee Kallo
Tutty Frutty Avuta Ne Pedaalalo,,
Laila Andhala ATM La Any Time Muddichela
Nuvvunte Chale Kissu Banku La,,,
Hoyila Love Ade Pentium La
Muddane Museum La
Plus Avuta Neeku Blank Checkkula,,,

Sidney Shildon Fiction Nunchi Shirley Poy Entry Daaka,,
A to Z Ennenno Crazy Books Chadivane
Etta Uriche Literature Pichekkinche Okko Feature
Neelone Choosane Choostu Statue Ayyane,,
Hey Trendy Trendy Trendy Ne Made In Paris Bandhi
3D Loni Body Language By Heart Chesesuko,,,
Chubby Chubby Chubby Naa Chubby Cheekse Pindi
Noppantunna Pappilenno Panchuko,,,
Namaste ||

Hot And Sour Soup Vi Nuvve
Salt And Pepper Nenavutale
Candle Light Dinner Lo Neeku Company Nene,,,
Robin Hood La Vachestane Beauty Mottam Dochestane
Nuvvante Padi Chache Naato Panchukuntane,,
Thanda Thanda Thanda Nerpistava Fanda Magic Edo Choopistava Harry Potter La,,,
Thoda Thoda Thoda Chesestale Theda
Nee Edo Meter Speed Ey Peridentala,,,

Om Namaste||




Om Namaste!! from Ram

Journal O Ram

Never give advise or suggestion to anyone voluntarily!

Beware of people who frown-up people who act innocent!

"Babies are a buzz on the blogger!!"

So on blogs where babies are a buzz, in life Srimaye is the fizz. She is amazing and really a darling of hearts. I miss Srimaye so much.


Regarding Dreams:

Infact, dreams have a very significant place in my life, specially Divine Dreams I dream of by God's grace. Interestingly enough, to enhance the importance of dreams in my life, my wife's name is "Swapna". Swapna is a very sweet (మధురం) person. Having said that, I must say that Swapna is a "Sweet Dream" in my life. Having Swapna with me in my life, I always have a very "Sweet Dream" with me.

Journal O Ram

Hi Friends,
Firstly, Happy Friendship Day! No one can stop thinking of friends, specially when one comes to know / hear that it is friendship day. 1st Sunday of August. However brighter and better the future, they always say "Good old days!" I still have to figure out why it is so?

I am good here and in the phase of the forced bachelorhood. Enjoying it! I understand that all of us are busy in our own way and our own world. As we belong to the same planet, let us make sure we do not become alien. Though busy with the routine here, I definitely miss all you guys. It feels good when I connect to you guys sometimes on phone or sometimes on chat or sometimes with occasional jottings like this.

Have fun!

Happy Friendship day!
Ramji

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An article I received as chain email, on History of Time which is interesting to me.

A Brief History of Time - The Real One!

Modern man is in a dire predicament. Living a day-to-day existence, he always thinks about the `now', the `today' and perhaps the `tomorrow'- but can hardly bring himself up to anything in the distant future or the distant past. Living in tiny cocoons of time, he has little knowledge or appreciation of recent history, not to speak of ancient history. Tightening his time- cocoon is the present-day European-influenced notion that human civilization itself is worth studying only after itgot `modernized' in the last 4 centuries. And the Semitic religions(Judaism, Christianity and Islam) have added their part by treating the advent of their masters as the worthy beginning of any serious study of the world. (One Christian saint went as far as to mention that Creation itself happened only recently in 4004 BC.). Thus man tightens his time cocoons and suffocates himself.In contrast to this normal view of humanity, is the modern view of scientists (such as Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and many others) in which the universe is conjectured to have passed through many millions,perhaps billions of years in existence. This brings in a tiny ray of light into the otherwise narrow notions of Time held by contemporary man. In striking contrast to both the above groups of people are the Bhagavathothamas who incessantly serve the lotus feet of Lakshmi and Narayana. In them there arises a Total Illumination, called para-gnana,by which the Truth of the Totality of Existence is revealed as a fruit in one's own palm. One such Bhagavathothama, who intimately knew Time as well as its Master, is the sage Vyasa, to whom all of us owe our very breath. He too has written a "Brief History of Time" - but this one, unlike its secular counterpart, is supremely Real and has the sole intention of generating in the hearts of listeners, parama-bhakti, supreme devotion to Mahavishnu. The merciful sage has written about Time and its Ruler in many of his Sookthis, one of which is Srimad Bhagavatha Purana. Here is a brief summary of Vyasa's wisdom on Time culled from thatdelightful text.
1) We are currently living in Kali Yuga, the fourth of Yugas, which is constituted of 4,32,000 years.
2) Twice the duration of Kali Yuga, that is, 8,64,000 years make up the third Yuga, Dwapara Yuga.
3) Thrice the duration of Kali, that is, 12,96,000 years form the second Yuga, Threta Yuga.
4) Four times the duration of Kali, that is, 17,28,000 years go intothe first Yuga, Sathya Yuga or Kritha Yuga.
5) These four Yugas put together constitute one Chathur Yuga,which is 43,20,000 years (43.2 lakh years or 4.32 million years).
6) One thousand such Chathur Yugas constitute one day for Brahma which is 4,32,00,00,000 years (432 crore years or 4.32 billion years). A dayof Brahma is called a Kalpa.
7) At the end of a day of Brahma, there is a Pralaya called Naimittika Pralaya meaning Occassional Dissolution, in which the whole universeis dissolved into the elemental condition and Narayana reclines on Adi Sesha. This Yoganidhra of Ranganatha is considered the night-timeof Brahma, who is said to sleep or take rest in Emberumaan.
8) The night-time of Brahma, that is, Perumal's Yoganidhra, continues for the same duration as a day-time of Brahma, i.e., for 4.32 billionyears.
9) One full day of Brahma (day-time + night-time) therefore comes to8.64 billion years.
10) At the close of Brahma's night, Padmanabha rises from Adi Seshaand recreates the universe (Shristi) starting with the same Brahma and thus another Kalpa follows.
11) One year of Brahma is constituted of 360 Brahma days (or 360Kalpas) which totals up to 3,110,400,000,000 years (3.11 trillionyears).
12) 50 such years of Brahma constitute a Parardha (half-life) forBrahma which boggles the mind at 155,520,000,000,000 human years(155.5 trillion years).
13) 2 such Parardhas constitute a lifetime for Brahma and comprises311,040,000, 000,000 human years (311 trillion human years). Alifetime of Brahma is called a Maha Kalpa.
14) At the end of a Maha Kalpa, that is, at the end of Brahma's lifetime, Narayana, the Kaalaswarupi, engages in Prakritha Pralaya, Total Cosmic Dissolution, in which the whole universe including the elements are dissolved in Vasudeva.
15) At the close of this Cosmic Night, Sriman Narayana initiates a new Maha Kalpa by recreating the universe along with a new Brahma.
16) The Supreme Being, Narayana, has created an INFINITE number of such Maha Kalpas in the past. Hence there is no absolute beginning for creation.

The Maha Kalpa is the highest unit of time for even Brahma. It comes to 311 trillion human years. To give an idea about how this stupendous amount of time relates to the Supreme Being Vasudeva, sage Vyasa, at first, remarks that it is the time that "Mahavishnu takes to wink His eyes". But he quickly admits that even this analogy is imperfect, for Narayana is the Eternal Being, Narayana is that Infinity in whose fear even Time functions.

Such, then, is Time. Such, then, is Time's Master. Thus ends Vyasa'sBrief History of Time.

There are also accounts of Sandhis or intermediate periods mentioned in some texts. Already blown out by the stupendosity of Time, they have not been included here.

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Another interesting article I found, which is funny and the on that is to my interest God.

IS GOD THERE?

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair and his beard cut as always. He started to have a good conversation with the barber who attended him. They talked about so many things on various subjects. Suddenly, they touched the subject of God. The barber said: "Look man, I don't believe that God exists as you say so." "Why do you say that?", asked the client."Well, it's so easy; you just have to go out in the street to realize that God does not exist. Oh, tell me, if God existed, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't think of a God who permits all of these things." The client heard it but kept quiet. The barber finished his job and the client went out of the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with a long hair and beard (it seems that it had been a long time since he had his cut and he looked so untidy). The client entered the barbershop again and said to the barber: " You know what? Barbers do not exist." "How come they don't exist?" asked the barber. "Well I am here and I am a barber." "No!",the client exclaimed. "They don't exist because if they did there would be no people with long hair and beard like that man who walks in the street." "Ah, barbers do exist, what happens is that people do not come to me." "Exactly!"affirmed the client. "That's the point. God does exist, what happens is people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world".
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Journal O Ram

BALANCE IS A JOURNEY NOT A DESTINATION

Lot of people talk about work life balance. I think, work is part of life. So, it is not that you are balancing between work and life. It is that you are balancing life itself. When we say balancing life it includes balancing work, family, health, wealth, prosperity, progress, safety, risk and the whole host of things we can think of. I think it is all put together to give a holistic view of Life.

How do we balance.
We can balance by doing many things at the same time focusing on one thing at a time. How is that possible. It is natural for humans. For instance, we do multiple things naturally, breath, think, see, listen, act, react etc. If you notice all these are running in parallel. But at any point in time there is a focus on one particular activity. For instance, during Pranayama, your focus is on breathing. When you are exercising, your focus is on the physical strength of the body part you are working on. When you are eating you are focused on your food. When you are watching a movie you focus on the movie, synchronizing the voice and visual.

There by, to balance the several things in life, one need to have patience to start, act and complete the activity. For instance, when you want to bring balance by spending time with your family, spend it with the primary focus on family. In the modern work culture, work from home is part of life. So, when one is working from home, the focus should be on work, though you may have a reason to work from home and that becomes the second priority. Similarly, if you are handling an important role in an organization and can not be away from work activities. Or if nature of your work demands your attention most of the time, then when you are on a vacation, one must be available to attend and preferable make arrangements for backup. So, that only minimal attention or minimal or no time of your vacation is used for work. This way, one is focused on vacation and thoroughly enjoying the vacation. At the same time, when one is back to work after vacation, the focus is again at work. This leads to prioritizing the tasks at hand.

When it comes to prioritizing, it needs a lot of discipline. It reminds me of our school days. during our schooling, we have 7 sujbects.
Telugu (Prose and Poetry)
Hindi (Prose and Poetry)
English (Prose, Poetry and Non-detail)
Social (History, Geography, Economics and Civics)
Science (Physics, Chemistry and Biology)
Mathematics and
Moral Science.
Apart from this we also have one PT (Physical Training and not play time) period per week.
We also have one SUPW (I don't remember the abbreviation for this). The abbrreviation as I Rajesh reminds me is that it is Students yoUthful Productivity Work. I know it is a fun period on Friday afternoon last period. It is for singing, music and fun activities.

We have 7 periods in a day with 4 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. There is a lunch break, there are morning interval and evening interval, each coming after two consecutive periods.

Exams used to be 1st Unit Test, 2nd Unit test, Quarterly, 3rd Unit test, Half Yearly, 4th Unit Test and Final exams. All this in just 9 months with three months in a year, overall going for vacation.

There are also school events like sports day, teachers day, children's day, inter school competitions, picnics too.

Imagine, as kids each one of us did it for 10 years achieving so much in the time span in a very systematic way. And if you ask, majority of the people would say that "school days are the most enjoyable days or the best days in life!" Think of it, why is it so??

It is because we balanced life in the most efficient way and thus we enjoyed every moment of it and we relish on those memories for a life time.

When one is able to continuously prioritize the tasks / activities balance is possible. Balance is like slow cooking or like delivering a baby. It requires the due time that is needed to achieve balance. It is a continuous process or rather a never ending process because balancing life is required all through ones life. Balancing life is for a life time. It is a journey and not a destination. If that is the case, then where are the results / fruits in Balancing life. The fruits / results in balancing life are in that very instant. They are in each and every moment one balances life. And according to me, those are the moments, in which one is actually living life.

Balance is enjoyment!
Balance is results!
Balance is completeness!
Balance is Living!
Balance is Life!

Idea:
Like I mentioned sometime earlier in one of my previous, Idea of "Rama Koti". Because it is difficult in our busy life style, my friend Sridhar has given an idea we can do nama smarana instead of writing "Rama Koti". As it is said that in Kaliyuga, people can attain salvation through Nama Smaranam. That is great idea infact. Later I saw in one of the orkut groups on Lord Srirama that there are some messages which say lets us write Rama koti. And everyone contributes in their own way to Ramakoti. I remember participating sometime earlier also in such messages of writing Ramakoti. Suddenly it struck my mind that, why should I not write Ramakoti in my own blog. Great! It just struck my mind. Here I am starting Ramakoti on my blog. I am excited about it because I love to type faster. It is type writing Rama Koti. The modern way of writing Ramakoti. It also gives me great feeling for the auspicious endeavor.
I will write it in Telugu as google provides me this option to write in telugu and the label will be ramakoti. Lot of people, I have seen in the recent times have written as Jai Sriram, Jai Jai Sriram etc. If I am not wrong, while building the Varadhi, vanaras have engraved the name శ్రీరామ on the stones and have dropped them in the water. Because of the power of this name శ్రీరామ the stones started to float in the ocean thus making the bridge. Such is the power of taraka nama శ్రీరామ. The word as I have seen Ramakoti written by my Grand mother and Grand father is శ్రీరామ. So, I will use the same word శ్రీరామ. I will write it on my devotional site.

Jorunal O Ram

In an attempt to self check and evaluate on how I am able to manage my life and myself, I have tracked some activities which I felt need attention. So, I tracked my activities for in the month of July. And it is not a surprise that the results are pathetic. If you see the score sheet, out of 31 times, I could perform task 1 is only 10 times whatever be the conditions, time lines etc. In an idealistic scenario I should have done Task 1 for 31 times in July while I did it only 10 times in a realistic scenario. So is the case with counts of other activities. The statistics below.

TASK	JULY (31)
Task 1	10
Task 2	5
Task 3	13
Task 4	6
Task 5	6
Task 6	15
Task 7	5
Task 8	4
Task 9	1
Task 10	NA

Now, this has become an awakening statistics. So, that I keep my activities, tasks or objectives realistic, practical and achievable. Hence, I move forward with my tracking for August. I am waiting for the scores at the end of August.

The lessons from July, I think are:
Balance is the key
Realistic goals
More commitment and dedication towards the goals
Do not make false assumptions
Do not restrict the mind for innumerable possibilities

Most importantly, if you one needs to make a choice between a) to go for it or b) not to go for it, choose to "Go for it!". For instance, one of these days, I wanted to go to the gym. Time was already 9pm on a weekday. So, I was really thinking if I should go for it or not go for it. I looked out of the window and it was dark and I did not see anyone around. I thought it was too late. Then, I anyway had to go out to drop the trash. So, I eventually chose to go to the gym while I dump the trash. And when I was at the gym, I was astonished at the number people that are working out at that hour in the gym. It was maybe a little less than the peak hour. And there is a 60 years old lady who has her skin and muscles sagged due to old age. And she is working out
on the biceps machine with a 10lbs weight. I admired her commitment to health and felt greatly motivated. At the same time, I felt ashamed for thinking of not going to the gym. Anyone, who is lazy, please go to the gym and see with your own eyes how people are working towards a healthy life. You will be inspired to keep yourself healthy. Good Luck!


Key words:
Single minded determination
Focus to complete

The four C's which Rajesh once told me:
Confidence
Commitment
I will update the other two later. Not able to recollect.
C??
C??
Yes, I got the one of the two. (After a weekdays. Today is 7th, while the original post is on 1st.)
Conviction
Now what is the one which is remaining.
C??

I got this other C. Rajesh reminded me that it is Courage. (Updated this on 31st August 2008).


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