150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda

12th January 2012 to 12th January 2013 is going to be celebrated as 150th birth anniversary year of Swami Vivekanand- The youth icon of India.

It was the time of British empire in India when he born in the year 1863. During his short life of 39 years not only he convinced the whole world with the knowledge and spirituality of India, but also envisioned the brighter, stronger and free India coming out from the darkness of thousand years of foreign attacks and slavery. No one can deny that it was his thoughts and vision which motivated thousands of Indian leaders and freedom fighters including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhashchandra Bose and many others. And not only for freedom struggle, his thoughts have been charging and motivating thousands and lacks of people to struggle, to lead, to change and to win till date. Take any name from vikram sarabhai to APJ Kalam to Anna Hazare, every successful person in India has his/ her roots of motivation in the thoughts of Swami Vivekanand.

What was there behind this affect of Swami Vivekananda’s words? Even he openly accepted “I am not saying anything new, these all are from the Ved, Upnishad and other ancient Indian scriptures”. Swami Vivekanand invoked the huge collection of knowledge and thoughts and thus invoked whole country and specially youth. His way of representation, great command on knowledge and languages, magical eyes and voice and above them all, truth and uniqueness between thoughts and deeds were enough capable to adore any individual towards him.
In this of 150th birth year of swami Vivekananda let’s remember few of the greatest words which swami Vivekananda considered most important for human being.

1) Fearlessness: He said much on this. In fact he considered this word as the abstract of the Ved and Upnishads. Only thing causing all the problems to a human being is fear. Once you through it out one will conquer the world.

2) Sacrifice: Swamiji considered this as a national ideal of India. According to him happiness is in giving up and not enjoying. He also extends that though the person who give is always big, one should always privilege the taker because of whom the donor can get a chance and joy of giving. He considers sacrifice as the tool which helped India build her strong base of culture.

3) Service: Along with Sacrifice he considers Service as another national ideal of India. Sacrifice and service together helped India survived in most turbulent time.

4) Spirituality: The definition of spirituality is not ritualism for swami Vivekananda. He boldly said “I don’t believe in a religion which can’t feed a hungry human being”. For him spirituality was the base of healthy and happy leaving.

It has been said the writings of Swami Vivekananda is such huge that it is a work of 1500 years to understand and implement it in practice. But definitely this day is coming soon.
Wish you all a Brave, Courageous and Religious greetings of this day and year. Lets join the hands to spread Swami Vivekanand’s words.

Problems faced by Micro and small enterprises of Small towns

Small and medium enterprises are facing many challenges to grow ahead and specially when they are based in small towns of India where they will face many challenges due to culture of work. Here are few of the problems which small industries face in small towns and they themselves are solutions as well.

• Lack of skills and on job training programs for employees

Normally a bunch of employees join to gather in medium or mega enterprises so they feel it easy to organize induction program and training program. In micro and small enterprises hardly 1 to 3 persons join at a time so it becomes infeasible to organize a dedicated training program for the company. As the company is small they may be finding it hard to attract skilled people. Due to small size companies are reluctant to spend on training and hence skill development. Due to lack of skills companies could not grow high. This is a poison circle which organization must have to break in order to sustain and grow.

• Irregularity and attendance
• Absence of goals for employees
• Poor deadlines and hygiene
• Etiquette and manners
• Poor in dressing
• Poor English
• Limited presentation skills
• Lack of planning in every area of work
• Long delays in replying letters and taking decisions
• Not enough customer orientation

Little difference between self confidence and arrogance

Confidence is key to every success. A self confident man can conquer the world or can make the world better. Self confidence is a power which lets a simple human to achieve giant goals. I believe it’s the same power which the supreme has. It has been said god is not outside. He is within. He is inside every human being, every animal, every living and non-living entity. If there is a supreme power, it must be self confidence. None other.

But there is a very thin line between self confidence and arrogance. And you never know when your self confidence converted into rude arrogance. Trusting your own belief is self confidence but not hearing to others may be arrogance. Believing always in yourself is self confidence but not considering others’ confidence at all is arrogance. And again if you would have argued against others it might have been considered arrogance and if not you would be treated as a person with lack of confidence. So can one stay in the safe zone of self confidence without reaching to the devil of arrogance?

May be Ramayan Helps here. I think Ravan is a best example of a person who crossed the border and moved to arrogance from self confidence. He was a child of a great sage and inherited best of the spiritual assets from his father and forefathers. A great devotee of Lord Shiv, having knowledge of all Veds, Upnishads and Shastras, creator of shiv tandav and many other great spiritual prayers, Ravan was one who carried the mountain Kailash on his shoulders with lord shiv and parvati on the pick of it. He won all the kings and Conquered greatest kingdoms. Above that he was the winner of Indra and swarg as well. These supreme achievements were all due to his self confidence, his will power.

But a day came on which Surpankha said him just few bad words about Ram and Laxman and few good words about beauty of Sita. On that same moment that self confidence turned into arrogance. After that day Ravan did listen only those persons who were saying in his praise to satisfy his ego. Till the death that continued. There were many incidence noted in Ramayan where we can easily understand that after Kidnapping sita Ravan realized his mistake. But his self confidence had never let him get down and accept the mistake. Because now it was not self confidence, it was arrogance.

So here may be the definition. When your own inner self resist your ideas and your actions and if still you want to do that thing, consider that arrogance and not self confidence. Try to come back immediately from there.

It’s better to have life to achieve everything rather end if just to satisfy your self confidence which is actually arrogance and ego now.