What is courage?

To accept the challenge of unknown inspite of all fear and insecurities and work towards it is courage.

Courage is the ability to come out of logic and reasoning of past experiences, challenge status quo, try out something new, something different and emerge out victorious. Courage is not the absence of fear. Infact, it is acknowledging the presence of fear, accepting fear and overcoming it.

It is infact, the ability to let go of our past experiences and venture out in the unknown. Courage is not essentially positive thinking but more of possibility thinking. Positive thinking may help to reduce fear, but possibility thinking will help us to overcome future, think of innovative solutions and ultimately emerge out as winner in life.

Courage is the self-affirmation of being inspite of the fact of non-being. It is an act of asserting our inner powers and strength over our weakness.

When I first decided to quit job and start something on my own, I had lot of fear about future, about financial burden and how I will manage my career. It took almost 5 years to fight with my fear and ultimately I quit my job and started my consultancy business.

I wrote 2 books, first one was Think Like A Winner, which has proven new age techniques of how to develop a winning mindset. and second one is Live Your Dreams, about those 10 ordinary real life people who became extra ordinary because they followed their heart and pursued their dreams.

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Sudhir Pai

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First Dancing Superstar - A legend called Bhagwan Dada

Article By - Sudhir Pai

Today as I woke upto chirping birds and monsoon rains looking out of my window at dark skies and sipping my early morning coffee, a beautiful song was been played on FM radio (Bholi Surat Dil Ke Khote).

And my mind travelled back in 1950s Bombay.

Bhagwan Dada (Born 1913) was best know for his social film Albela (1951) and the hit song "Shola Jo Bhadke"

Bhagwan Dada was born as Bhagwan Abaji Palav in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra. he was son of textile mill worker but even as a child always had big dreams of entering in film industry.

Starting with small roles and low budget film, he hit the jackpot in 1951 by producing and acting in Film called Albela.

After that, unfortumately, he did not give any hit films and had to sell his 25 rooms sea facing bungalow and live last days of his life in complete poverty and 1 room kitchen in Dadar.

To know more about Bhagwan Dada, google him, YouTube him.

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Ms. Clover Moore on Solar Energy

Source : thestoryexchange.org

The Australian Mayor tells us about an increasingly hot Sydney, the urgent need to hit the brakes on catastrophic climatic change and how her city is thriving.

She became mayor of Sydney in 2004 and her first priority was to deal with environmental issues, global warming and harnessing solar energy.

To read full article click >> Clover Moore

Life of Radhanath Swami

Radhanath Swami (Richard Slavin) was born in comforts of Chicago (USA). As a teenager, he embarked on a fascinating journey of hitch-hiking the world in search of self discovery and spirituality that ultimately led him to join ISKCON (International Society of Krishna Consciousness)

During 1960s and 1970s, there was a general disillusionment amongst European and American youth about society and materialistic pleasure and hippie movement started where unfortunately many young folks got trapped in drugs, rock and roll and sex.

 

Something similar was happening to Richard Slavin. He was young. He was confused. And he left home, leaving behind his family and comforts of US life and started spiritual journey.

Growing up in Chicago, he was restless and had plenty reason to be unhappy. Civil unrest, Vietnam war and general aversion to trappings of material life.

He wanted to be free. He wanted to experience freedom and liberation.

In his book, The Journey Home, he gives colourful details of his spiritual journey from Chichago suburubs to caves of Himalayas. he gives an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and also a penetrating glimpse various mystic traditions across the world like Arabia, Rome, Greek and finally he lands into India.

His spiritual journey ends with becoming an ISKCON sanyasi and now heads the organization and run food program for underpriviledged kids by name of Akshay Patra where around 1.6 million school kids are fed with nutritious meals on daily basis.

Hare Krishna !

Sudhir Pai

Author - Trainer - Consultant

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The happiest man on earth - Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard is a French writer and a Buddhist monk, who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal and is been declared as happiest person in the world.

Ricard is a PhD in molecular biology from Pasteur Institute under French Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob. In 1972, Ricard decided to become a Tibetan Monk. He came to India and started studying Buddhism under master Kangyur Rinpoche.

Ricard volunteered himself for a scientific laboratory experiments at University of Wisconsin and the scientists who performed experiments found his happiness levels way above other individuals.

Matthieu Ricard undergoing experiment.

Brain scans revealed that Matthieu Ricards brain had large capacity for joy and happiness thanks to his daily practice of meditation for last 45 years.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson wired up monk's skull with 250 sensors at university of Wisconsin as a part of research on various people with and without meditation practice.

The scans showed, that when meditating on compassion and peace, Ricard's brain produced high levels of gamma waves, those which gave joy and happiness were found in pre frontal cortex.

Daily 20 minutes of meditation for 21 days results in better memory, concentration and happiness.

So - Meditate and Be Happy.

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Who is Rahul Dubey?

His name is Rahul Dubey and his dream is to build schools in every remote area of India, in all those small inaccessible parts where good education is only a dream for children and parents.

Growing up in a family of army, and then living in various cities of India and studying in good schools, he always wondered whether village children go this kind of quality education.

Rahul was working with ALFA as a volunteer and landed up in a small village, Karawara, Udaipur district, Rajasthan. He was unable to understand the local language but after staying there for 6 months, he realized the problems faced by villagers and children and after lot of soul searching decided to do something for them and people like them across India.

This is how his idea came into action with his unique school VILLAGE SPIRIT ACADEMY for rural kids run by rural youth where there is unique blend of tradional value with modern education.

Rahul is running this project on almost zero bank balance. He is avid movie buff, but has not seen a single movie in last 5 years.

Rahul has big plans to start such kind of schools in every remote part of India. Please google and youtube him for more details.

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Tawakkol Karman - Iron Lady of Yemen - Nobel Peace Prize 2011

Tawakkol Karman gained prominence in her country after 2005 in her roles as a Yemeni journalist and an advocate for a mobile phone news service denied a license in 2007.

As Yemen's multi-sided conflict grabs headlines with it's devastating human toll on life and properties, local activists continue to press for peace and democracy.

Tawakkol Karman, a winner of 2011 Nobel Peace Prize who is also know as "Mother of the Revolution" in Yemen for her positive impact as a journalist and women's rights advocate, offered hope and optimism in her war striven nation.

She started organizing and protesting for equal democratic rights for women in Yemen and slowly and steadily this movement spread across Middle East and North African nations.

Tawakkol Karman co-founded the human rights group Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) with seven other female journalists in 2005 in order to promote human rights, particularly freesom of opinion, expression and democratic rights.

She has received numerous threats and sometimes also temptations, but she stood her ground and is working continuously for democratic rights in Yemen.

For more information on Tawakkol, you can google or youtube her.

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