Adversity is The Knock at the Doors of Opportunity !

Be the type of person you want to meet.Face the adversity in life boldly for the Life's best years of learning happen in the University of Adversity !

Adversity is the weakest camp and once you come out of it successfully you are a stronger person.Everyone is born with some characteristics in their genes.Till one is exposed to adversity,the parents and teachers are responsible for the development of character.

Unless someone is unfortunate enough in childhood to face adversity,it takes some years in life for the character to be tested by adversity.And if someone is exposed to adversity at young age,he has normally grown to be great and inspiring personality in life.This may not be true to full extent for the favorable circumstances normally test the character of the youth inherited or formed till that age.The real test of character begins when one is in a position to think and take independent decisions even when not in adversity.And then game of life throws bouncers of adversity and how you deal with those bouncers tells how good you are as a batsman with character.Once the nestlings fly out of the comfort zone of the nest, they are on their own to show their strength, their true colours and test the tenacity of the wings of their dreams.

Opportunity & adversity always come hand in hand in your life !
Adversity is always Handy to KNOCK the DOORS of Opportunity !!

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it.

.....~James Lane Allen 

A Good Captain adjust the sails without losing sight of the destination in the storms of adversity.He knows that he can not sail in two directions at the same time- he does not have the option have to go back in mid-sea.Life is no different.He may sail against the storms but does not let adversity harm his confidence.He keeps the mast of morale flying high in the winds of adversity and propels the boat of life in the direction he wants with grit, determination and persistence in the journey of life. 

If you turn your back to adversity and take a U-turn , 

you get way farther and farther from the truth.

The expansion of minds takes place only in the heats of adversity. 

Be there in the Now.There only the sense of discrimination develops to identify the truth in absence of any fear or expectations.One cannot be courageous without overcoming one's fears and the biggest fear is the fear of losing what one thinks as owned.

Health, Wealth ,Loved ones and your own life -

all are souls treasures which play a role in evolution of soul 

to realize its destiny of God Realization.

Once you realize this , you become aware of the challenges life offers 

in truest sense and it becomes easy for you choose the challenges offered.

Truth makes the job of meeting your destiny so easy 

for it becomes so easy to choose as it is the only option available.

Once born you are destined to die.

That is the only certainty in life.Once the biggest fear of this destiny is overcome , 

one starts living one's life to the fullest. 

The Sword of Truth is your Armour and 

the soul's defense to take on the challenges.

The Sword of Truth can pierce the Mountain of all 

The Adverse Circumstances of destiny 

and the change of destiny is in your own hands.

Once you start living your life in the Light of the Truth,

Challenges are identified by The Inner Instinct & 

Intuition helps you to See The Outcomes in advance.

Only the Sword of the Truth can fight with any challenge 

The Destiny has laid on your path.

Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- 

the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, 

the help you give, even your suffering. 

....~Bhagavad Gita

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Adversity is the best teacher 

provided you are not missing the class.

No one can proxy for you in this class.

One by one all the pride wears off and 

one finds The Truth of One's existence !

When in times of calmness , 

you offer your happiness and that is accepted ;

then God takes no time to accept your sufferings and 

mitigate it in the times of strife.

That is the State of Active Detachment 

one aspires for in one's spiritual life.

The state of maintaining the equanimity -

being unaffected by all conditions;

neither glad or sad in adversities and favorable conditions , 

in the praises and criticism and in happiness and sorrows.

.....~ ashok "anubhav"

The Concrete Jungle

It has been some time that I blogged due to my preoccupation with new office, new responsibility and trying  adjusting to the city I have come back to after 20 years. I feel like a stranger to the place of my birth when I see around the life moving at the hectic pace.It is such a contrast life in metros.I see youth moving around but rarely I find them belonging to the city in reality. With their hands holding the mobile , the ears plugged with earphones and eyes glued to the various apps , they seem to be lost in their own private virtual world.They are virtually or rather on three legs.

The one hand holding the mobile or being held by the mobile is virtually chained and two hands have forgotten to move with the normal walk.And now comes the visual communication through mobiles.With all the senses enslaved , the mind's job becomes easier.
From foul legged Monkey to three legged Inhuman Kind-is this progress?
There is big gap between the comfort zones of cities and its dwellers.The quote by the Swiss Philosopher of 17th century sums up the feelings of 21st century.Does it mean that each age suffers the deluge of material greed and moral backwardness along with sunshine of hope and spiritual progress.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

.....~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Cities have become the regions of a deep bottomless chasm 

wherein character of people are sinking into 

but in the eyes of the world they appear to be progressing 

and touching new heights of never achieved materialistic growth.

I am deeply affected by the lowness of sinking levels of lust and greed

that has enslaved the senses of mankind and 

turned them into animals living in the concrete jungles of sky-scrappers.

There is no fear of law and it is the police that has been at the receiving end. 

BMW's overturn with drunken millionaires or run over pedestrians. 

The parents have to carry the dead in absence of medical help and for last rites. 

The rulers become the miss-rulers tormenting the very people who elect them.

The hooligans snatch away the latest model of car from the owners.

And the headings go on and on in a single day's newspaper.

There is a big gulf between the city and its dwellers. 

And love and respect for others has been replaced by lust and greed.

I had stopped reading the newspapers and 

blacked out the news for longer period some years back for many years.

I wonder if the time is ripe again to do it again.

But this does not seem to be right 

since it is not going to make the wrongs disappear.

But at the same time I think I will have to do it again
as it brings lot of pain to me
as my conscience travels to the oppressed and affect lot. 

The World is celebrating Mother Teresa who helped the poor and sick
and at the same time the rich are so poor
that they they can stoop to any level
to get rich and famous.

The city is becoming materialistically and mentally sick.

I just ask the netizens and the citizens to rise in this hour of crisis
of moral turpitude and materialistic greed  and 

become the spiritual towers that 

may lay the foundation of Love and Content.

......~ashok "anubhav"