WAR AND PEACE

War is the culmination of desire. Human desire is the cause of all destructions. The following chart will tell you how this happens:

Desires will attract us to others living style. We may want to own what our neighbours, friends or other relatives have. But our means may not permit us to own these We become greedy and will do what ever possible to grab others wealth.. Then we feel envy about them. If the envy is not controlled it will lead to distress because of our feeling that we are not able to enjoy the life. This feeling of deprival of enjoyment will lead us to think negatively about the others and we will always try to find fault with them. We will not see the goodness within them, whereas we sill make all attempts to dig out their badness. The process will develop hatred with in us. The hatred will get us away from others and we will consider others as our enemies. When others also think in the same style there will be clashes between people leading to war. War can be between individuals, groups or countries. War brings destruction. Destruction is not only the physical assets but human life and peace of mind. Always tension prevails and the life becomes miserable. Countries will suffer with high expenditure because of war and cost of rebuilding the economy and will have to face poverty and unemployment. Ultimately we may need the help of others whom we considered as enemy at one point of time. We will feel that we are living in a Hell.

If this is the one side of the coin, the other side is peace. Peace is a positive word whereas war is negative word. Peace is soft where as war is aggressive. Peace brings prosperity whereas war brings destruction. If we want to bring peace we have to abandon our desires. Let us see how abandonment of desires brings peace.

When we abandon our desires we will look at only or capability and capacity. We will understand our limitations. We will learn how to adjust with our limited resources.. We stop looking at how others live and start to practice self discipline. Self discipline enables us to live with in our means. The result is that we will be happy with whatever we have. We will love our family, neighbours, friends, relatives and all. We will be affectionate to all of them. The love and affection which we exhibit will earn more and more friends and well wishers to us. We will be able to live with out fear of attack. Our life will be peaceful. Peace and tranquility spreads around us. Peace and tranquility creates conducive environment for construction and production leading to lot of employment and generates surplus for supplying to others. We will not be greedy and will be compassionate to others. Our life will be happy and pleasant. We will enjoy the Heavenly life in the earth.

Now decide what we want. Peace or War?

On the Eve of this Christmas, let us spread the message of

Love and forget the word hate.

Wish you a Merry Chirstmas

and

Let the Year 2009 brings you

Happiness

Prosperity

and

Rich Pleasant Experiences!

BEGGARS' POLICY

What does a beggar do? Have you ever noticed? A beggar begs for the day. He or she may not have a permanent home to stay. For them the bus shelter, railway platform or shop verandhas are the place for spending the night. Day time they beg and earn for the bread and butter for that day. They don’t think about the past. They neither think about tomorrow. They don’t save and spend whatever they get on the same day. They don’t plan their life. They have no goal. They don’t have any direction. They move from one place to another. They don’t plan where to go on the next day.
Many of us are like beggars. There are even institutions which follow the beggar’s policy. If we look at the policies followed many of the individual and institutions around us we can see the following four positions.

People in Quadrant A have poor direction but excellent planning. They will never reach anywhere. They are like drift wood. They start everything but do not finish anything.

People in Quadrant C have excellent direction but poor planning. They know where they want to reach but do not how to reach there. They dream a lot, but achieve nothing.

Beggars are in Quadrant C. They do not have either direction or planning. They are little concerned about the future. They live for the day. Whatever they get on the day they spend and again go for begging on the next day. They are comfortable with their position and do not want to change. They are contented with their current state and continue to be beggars.

Those who are in Quadrant C are great achievers. They have excellent direction and excellent planning. These people carry clear vision, mission and goal. They plan their day and achieve their goals. People look towards them for guidance.

We can move people in Quadrants A and C to Quadrant B by giving them proper training and motivation. But it is difficult to change those who are in Quadrant C because they are close minded people and do not listen to any one. They don’t follow others’ advice also. They always think that what ever they do is good for them and hence do not want to correct it.

You can put the organizations and individuals in these quadrants according to their policies. Now think of where do you place yourself? In which quadrant you want to be? Look around you and identify institutions which are in Quadrants A, C and D.

This is my theory. I welcome comments from the readers.