जिंदगी को पकड कर रखे

आज सुबह बस स्टाप पर बस के इंतजार में बैठी थी
बस ८.३० को आती है पर छूट न जाय इसलिए.
पैर में अब उम्र के कारण दर्द होता है , घर में लोग कहते हैं टेक्सी से जाया करो
पर बस आराम से समय पर मिल जाती है और दस रूपए में काम बन जाता है अन्यथा सौ रूपए लगते
वापसी में थकान के कारण टेक्सी ही लेती हूं
मन में खुशी होती है ९० रूपए बचाने के
बसस्टाप के बगल में ही चने बेचने वाला एक डलिया लेकर बैठा रहता है
कुछ सडकवासी और गर्दुल्ले आसपास रहते हैं
उनमें एकाध औरतें भी रहती है
गाली - गलौज और सडकछाप भाषा में बातचीत
आज एक. - दो में कुछ वादविवाद हो रहा था
मैं उस तरफ मुडकर देख रही थी..
अचानक नजर गई बस आ गई थी और लोग चढ रहे थे
जल्दी झपट कर उठी और बस पकड ली
सोचने लगी बेकार का नजारा देखने के कारण आज पछताना पडता
और टेक्सी लेने पर पैसे की चपत पडती वह अलग
यह तो साधारण सी बस की बात है
पर हम अपनी जिंदगी में कई बार इतने बेपरवाह बन जाते हैं कि जिंदगी भर पछताते और हाथ मलते रह जाते हैं
यहॉ ९०- १०० की चपत नहीं जिंदगी ही बदल जाती है
हर कदम को सावधानी ,एकाग्रता से उठाना चाहिए
जिंदगी को हल्के में नहीं लेना चाहिए.
मौका सबको मिलता है पर मौके का फायदा हम कैसे उठाते हैं , यह जरूरी है
और जिंदगी का हर निर्णय भविष्य की नींव तैयार करता है.

Benjamin Natanyahu

Read this speech from the prime minister of Israel..... Benjamin Netanyahu, with all Glory to God.

Mr. Nethanyahu said:
Only 70 years ago! The Jews were taken to the slaughter like sheep.

60 years ago! We had no country. No Army.

Seven Arab countries declared war on our small Jewish state, just a few hours after its creation!

We were only 650 Jews, against the rest of the Arab world! NO IDF (Israel Defense Army).
No powerful Air Force, only brave people with nowhere to go.

Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia all attacked us at the same time.

The country that the United Nations gave us was 65 % desert. The country was out of nowhere!

35 years ago! We fought the three most powerful armies in the middle east, and we swept them... yes... in six days.

We fought against various coalitions of Arab countries, which had the modern armies and many Soviet weapons, and we had always beaten them!

Today we have:
*A country*
*An army*
*A powerful air force*
*A State-of-the-Art economy which exports millions of dollars*
*Intel - Microsoft - IBM develops products at home*
*Our doctors receive awards for medical research*

We make the desert bloom, and sell oranges, flowers and vegetables all over the world.

Israel has sent its own satellites into space!
Three satellites at the same time!

We are proud to be at the same rank as: The United States, which has 250 million inhabitants,

Russia, which has 200 million inhabitants

China, which has 1.3 billion inhabitants

Europe - France, Great Britain, Germany - with 350 million inhabitants..

The only countries in the world to send objects into space! Israel is now part of the family of the nuclear powers, with the United States, Russia, China, India, France, and Great Britain.

We have never officially admitted it, (but everyone knows it) and say that only 60 years ago, we were led, ashamed and hopeless, to slaughter!

We have extirpés the smoking ruins of Europe, we have won our wars here with less than nothing. We built our little "Empire" from nothing.

Who's Hamas to scare me? To terrify me? You make me laugh!

Passover was celebrated; Let's not forget what this is about.

>We survived Pharaoh.
>We survived the Greeks.
>We survived the Romans.
>We survived the inquisition in Spain.
>We have the pogroms in Russia.
>We survived Hitler.
>We survived the Germans.
>We survived the Holocaust.
>We survived the armies of seven Arab countries.
>We survived Saddam.
>We will continue to survive the enemies present today too.

Think of any time in human history! Think about it, for us, the Jewish people, the situation has never been better! Then let's face the world.

Let us remember: All nations or cultures who once tried to destroy us, no longer exist today - while we still live!

Egypt?
The Greeks?
Alexander of Macedonia?
The Romans? (does anyone still speak Latin these days? )
The Third Reich?

And look at us,
>The Bible Nation.
>The slaves of Egypt.
>We are still here.

And we speak the same language! then, and now! Arabs don't know yet, but they will learn that there is a God ....as long as we keep our identity, we are forever.

So forgive us for not worrying.
>Not to cry.
>Not to be afraid.
>Things are fine here.
>They could certainly get better.

However: Don't believe the media, they don't tell you  that parties continue to take place, people continue to live, people keep coming out, people continue to see friends.

Yes, our morale is low. So what? Only because we mourn our deaths, while others rejoice in the blood shed. That is why we will win, in the end.

He never sleeps or will ever sleep.... the guardian of Israel.... Yahweh God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Forward this speech to the whole community, and to people around the world. They are part of our strength.

Share on your walls and with all of your friends....

Who is Woman ?????

*Who is a woman?????*
*When she is quiet, millions of things are running through her mind. When she stares at you, she is wondering why she loves you so much in  spite of being taken for granted. When she says I will stand by you, she will stand by you like a solid rock. Never hurt her or take her for granted. A very heart touching message by a woman. Someone asked her, Are you a working woman or a housewife? She replied: Yes, I am a full-time working housewife. I work 24 hours a day. I'm a Mum. I'm a Wife. I'm a Daughter. I'm a Daughter-in-law. I'm an Alarm clock. I'm a Cook. I'm a Maid. I'm a Teacher. I'm a Waitress. I'm a Nanny. I'm a Nurse. I'm a Handywoman. I'm a Security officer. I'm a Counsellor. I'm a Comforter. I don't get holidays. I don't get sick leave. I don't get day off. I work through day and night. I'm on call all hours and get paid with a sentence. "What Do U Do All Day??"*    
*This Is Dedicated to all women*
*A Woman has the most unique character like salt! Her presence is never remembered, but her absence makes all the things tasteless.🙋👍🙏💐
         UNKNOWN

TEAM. SPlRIT

*TEAM SPIRIT*
A business man gets STRANDED in a lonely highway in the US.

The TYRES of his car get STUCK badly in a MUD POOL.

He looks around for help and FINALLY finds an old farmer.

This businessman goes to him asking for HELP to get his car out of the mud.

The Farmer GAUGES the situation, and AGREES to help him and says,
let us take the help of WARWICK.

WARWICK was an OLD BULL around, but the HELPLESS business man AGREES.

The farmer TIES the BULL to the CAR and Starts shouting loudly,
" FRED, PULL!.. JACK, PULL!.. JOHN, PULL... WARWICK, PULL’."

As the farmer KEEPS SHOUTING these words, the bull WARWICK gets the car OUT of the POOL of MUD.

The Businessman is RELIEVED, but has a DOUBT in his MIND.

He THANKS the farmer and asks him,’ you said the bull’s name was WARWICK, and he was ALONE, then who were these FRED, JACK & JOHN?’

Farmer COOLLY answered, "See, WARWICK is OLD and is also BLIND. He does NOT know he is PULLING this car alone. The MOMENT he HEARS the OTHER NAMES,
he THINKS he is in a "TEAM", and he GIVES his "BEST".

*MORAL*: 

So is the CASE with ALL of US.
The very THOUGHT that THERE are PEOPLE to HELP us, BLESSES us with a GREAT DEAL of COMFORT, HOPE, CONFIDENCE and ENTHUSES us to put our HEART and SOUL into ANY TASK that we UNDERTAKE.

LESSON:-
Indeed, the GREATEST CIVILIZATIONS have always been built on the FOUNDATIONS of a GREATER level of COOPERATION from their CITIZENS andthe SMARTEST animals we know — APES, ELEPHANTS, WOLVES, DOLPHINS, and CROWS — tend to LIVE TOGETHER in COOPERATIVE GROUPS and WORK TOGETHER for SURVIVAL.

“No ONE can WHISTLE a SYMPHONY.
It takes an ORCHESTRA to PLAY it.” 
It's NOT WITHOUT REASON that the very word
*TEAM* is said to stand for *"Together  Everyone Achieves More"*

Cheers 🥂 to all as we are striving to achieve our yearly targets.
        Unknown

How Emotions Affect Our Health

*How Emotions Affect Our Health*

Every cell in our body is intelligent to think and act. We have *60 trillion* cells in our body and our health depends a lot on the harmonic balance and cohesion of the cells with each other.

In the movie _Eat, Pray, Love_, Julia Roberts visits a wise man in Bali, and he advises her not to try too hard to meditate. In fact, he suggests that meditation is nothing but smiling and the line that is a kicker, is "Smile with your liver."

If you believe that this is just a metaphor, lets look at the other end of the spectrum to prove just how crucial this is.

Let us say you hold a negative emotion towards somebody, something or some event in your life. Each time you think of that your whole body re-lives the emotional upheaval of that association.

Your mind doesn't have a mind of its own, and doesn't know if the event is happening in real time or it is being replayed. So it produces the same stress hormones each time. Each and every cell of your body starts feeling the same emotion, of let us say "hatred" towards that event, person or experience all over again.

The body is not at ease. This is a state where the condition of disease sets in.

If you continue to live in that state, your cells are now getting conditioned to live in the same state.
The Upanishads talk about *"Yatha Pinde Tatha Brahmande"* ...as is the atom so is the universe.

The health of a person depends on how well all the systems of the body and the *60 trillion cells* play the melody of harmony together.

When the cells are living in a state of hatred, they soon start exhibiting that with each other and killing healthy cells in the body. This leads to many forms of auto immune disease.

Like Rumi said, "you are not a drop in the ocean, you are an ocean in every drop".

Be careful of your thoughts, your feelings and your emotions.

*Forgive people, not because they deserve it, but because you need it. Stay happy, stay healthy.* Have a wonderful healthy life ahead filled with the abundance of good health and happiness.

*HAPPINESS  TO ALL*      Unknown

ठंड और गरिबी

ठंड और गरिबी का अटूट नाता
यह अमीर को रिझाती , गरिब को सताती
कडाके की ठंड , हाथ- पैर ठिठुर रहे
हड्डी है कि गली जा रही
पेट ,अंतडियों में धंसे जा रहे
सडक पर जल रही आग ही सहारा
भला हो सरकार का , आग तो तापने मिली
उफ : यह बर्फ और सर्द हवाएं
जैसे जान ही लेकर मानेगी
रात तो रैन बसेरे में कट गई
उठने का मन तो नहीं पर उठना है
कोहरा है पर रास्ते पर चलना भी है
काम करना है होटल पर जाना है
ग्राहको के जूठे बर्तन साफ करना है
भूख शहर में ले आई
परिवार का सहारा बनना था
वहॉ तो एक अदद छत तो थी
पर यहॉ तो वह भी नहीं
अपनी भूख को तो मिटाना है साथ परिवार की भी
वे तो जानते होगे
बेटा शहर गया है कमाने
पर कमाना इतना आसान नहीं
कभी बर्तन धोओ तो कभी मिट्टी और पथ्थर.
झिडकिया मिलती है तब दो जून का खाना
मॉ के हाथ की प्रेम भरी रोटी नहीं
महानगर में सबका गुजारा तो होता है जरूर
पर किस्मत तो सबकी अलग अलग
जीवन तो रैन बसेरा है
पर उसको भी ढंग का रैन - बसेरा नहीं

BE KIND BE NICE TO OTHERS

A girl by name Deepa went to school in the neighbouring village where she wasn't known well.

For three weeks, she came to school late and every time the teacher punished her.

On the fourth week, Deepa didn't attend school at all and many thought she had *GIVEN UP* on school due to the everyday punishment.

However, Deepa reported again on fifth week and this time she came earlier than everybody.

When the teacher came to class, Deepa was punished for not attending school the previous week but the teacher was also kind enough to commend her for coming early that day, stating that the punishments had finally yielded some results.

Just then, Deepa  asked if she could say something and the teacher gave her permission.

*She started :*

" _*I've been raised up by a single mother without a brother or a sister. Five weeks ago, my mother fell ill and was hospitalized. The three weeks I came late, I had to prepare something for her every morning and pass by the hospital to deliver the same. Unfortunately, my mother passed away last week and that's the reason I didn't come to school. We buried her last Friday. Today I came early since I didn't have to prepare anything or even pass by the hospital. And now that she is gone, I will always be here early*_''

As she sat down, no one in the whole class was able to hold their tears, the teacher was not spared either.

*Lesson:*

How many times do *we judge others* for things we know not ?

We ask questions like :

- *Why you are not getting married*?
- _*Why you are not having kids*_ ?
- *When will you find a job* ?
- _*When will you buy a car*_?
- *When will you build a house*?
etc....

*Do we attempt to understand their situations* or we just judge from the *case scenarios*

Some *situations are not relative* and what we think could be very far from the truth.

*Don't assume* you know what others go through or that people move in the same pace or direction as you.

_*Life is far from that..*_

*Just be kind enough* to _*love one another as God  has commanded*_, take time and kindly *find out* why your friend is not phoning, why your messages are not being replied promptly, *why someone is missing* in our midst as a colleague, friend, brother or sister even why someone is always late.

*Be kind*, always...... _*Be nice to others*_.
                 UNKNOWN

STORY

An interesting story from our Army which maybe few would know about.
The story of Birba. The man who was awarded twice on Republic day including the highest galantry award but is still unknown.

Bir Bahadur Gurung was a young well built lad not yet into his teens. He lived with his family on the banks of the Brahmaputra in Upper Assam, in a thatched roof hut.

Bir Bahadur Gurung was fondly called Birba by his family and friends. Needless to say, Birba was a strong swimmer. He also climbed nearby hills with the agility and sure footedness of a mountain goat.

One day, Birba and his friends were lounging
on the banks of the river. Birba saw a passenger ferry sail down stream, &which in Birba's own words seemed to be " walking like a drunken man ".

Birba barked a few instructions to his friends to get ropes and jumped into the water. For the next hour or so Birba was in water, saving as many as he could from the ferry , that had now capsized.He came out of the water only after Army rescue teams arrived.

For his act of exceptional bravery, Birba recieved the President's Bravery Award given to children on Republic Day..On R- Day, Birba rode the  back of an elephant down Rajpath, waving excitedly to cheering crowds.

Fourteen years later, in 1999, Lance Naik Bir Bahadur Gurung and his team of crack Commandos scaled a vertical cliff all through the night to catch the enemy by surprise at dawn. During the firefight, Birba was mortally injured, but he contnued to fight on and breathed his last only after all the enemy had been eliminated and the Tricolour fluttered atop the peak. The detailed planning and flawless execution of the capture of "Peak Tololing" during the Kargil war is the stuff that legends are made of. Cadets in military academies around the world study this military operation in great detail. Many cadets have submitted dissertations on Birba as a part of their study program. "The Life And Times Of Birba" is a lesson that eighth grade children learn in schools across Canada --as a part of their English Language curriculum.

Once again Birba's name was called on a Republic Day. His widowed wife walked up to the President to recieve the Param Vir Chakra.

Back home in Upper Assam, an approximately forty year old woman blows through a pipe  to revive the dying embers of the fire in the "chullah". She lives in a thatched roof hut along with her aged in laws and an old aunt. The arresting feature of the hut is a framed colour photograph of Birba with two medals garlanding it. The woman keeps her body and soul together by working as a domestic help in a few houses in the nearby Oil town.
Fortunately, Birba's only son -- now a teenager has been picked up by Birba's old Regiment, the Assam Regiment--where he is now a recruit.

My friends , this is the story of a genuinely great Indian. Unfortunately, he will never be even a footnote in our history books though many other ""genuinely great Indians"" like numerous scam tainted will be talked of for years to come. There will never be a Birba Road anywhere or a Birba Statue in the middle of a "Chow rasta". Such privileges are for people who sell their souls --and our motherland to the highest bidder.

Sharing the story is the least you can do for Birba.
Credits.
Maj Gen Harsh Kakar