DRASHTA

Excerpts from the book To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering . If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, can not be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. The salvation of a man is through love and in love. Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. "Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death." Man does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, w...

Excerpts from the book Part 1 Integrity In most work environments, people who produce anything of economic value' usually need Supervision person who needs  supervision is not professional. He is an amateur may be even an apprentice. Power, enormous material wealth created for personal enjoyment and sometimes the ability to create a huge material legacy for one's progeny do not add up to qualify someone as a professional. Every profession has some explicit and some implicit code of conduct and understanding it is the boundary that separates a professionally qualified person, or skilled individual, from professional The number one requirement then to gain entry into the club professionals is to understand INTEGRITY and PRACTISE it. Without that a professionally qualified individual is danger to society. Is Integrity just feel good concept? Doe it even make business sense? Can we do well by doing good? Integrity means: Follow the rules Where rules don't exist, we use fair jud...

Excerpts from the book The accidental impact of actions outside of your control can be more consequential than the ones you consciously take. If you give luck and risk their proper respect, you realize that when judging people's financial success - both your own and others' - it's never as good or as bad as it seems. Be careful who you praise and admire. Be careful who you look down upon and wish to avoid becoming. Therefore, focus less on specific individuals and case studies and more on broad patterns. "Success is lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose" There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don't have and don't need. The hardest financial skill is getting the goalpost to stop moving. Social comparison is the problem here. "Enough" is not too little. There are many things never worth risking, no matter the potential gain. Linear thinking is so much more intuitive than exponential thinkin...

Excerpts from the book   The vulgar love of the body which takes wing and flies away when the bloom of your is over, is delightful, and so is the interested love of power or wealth; but the love of the noble mind is lasting. The lover should be tested, and the beloved should not be too ready to yield. For love is the desire of the whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love. Where there is love there is obedience, and where obedience, there is justice; for none can be wronged of his own free will. Love is something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore. in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good. The highest love is the love not of person, but of the highest and purest abstraction. For he who has beauty or good may desire more of them;  and he who has beauty o...

Excerpts from the book The one who pursues a goal of even-mindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee. God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature. My mother once tried to frighten me with an appalling story of  a ghost in dark chamber. I went there immediately, and expressed my disappointment at having missed the ghost. Mother never told me another horror tale. Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you. Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. Good and positive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched. Thought is a force , even as electricity or gravitation. The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God. I could show you that whatever your powerful mind believes very...

Excerpts from the book It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Oddly, neglect seemed to have resulted in an accidental release of the spirit. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered, the less it mattered. It's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. It really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much. Choosing between her husband's name and her father's name didn't give a woman much of choice. Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to. Our dreams have been doctored. We belong nowhere. We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never bog enough. Our lives never important enou...

Excerpts from the book   The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit Kri, to do; all action is Karma. The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Now this knowledge, again, is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the more knowing man, the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant, and the man from whom it has entirely gone is all-knowing, omniscient . There have been omniscient men, and, I believe, there will be yet; and that there will be myriads of them in the cycles to come. Like fire in a piece of flint, knowledge exists in the mind ; suggestion is the friction which brings it out. So with all our feelings and action — our tears and our smiles, our joys and our griefs, our weeping and our laughter, our curses and our blessings, our praises and our blames — every one of these we may find, if we calmly study our own selves , to have been brought out...

Excerpts from the book  Lack of information isn't the issue holding back the bottom 80% of business owners - it's human behavior and mindset. Struggling business owners will spend time to save money. whereas successful business owners will spend money to save time. Why is that an important distinction? Because you can always get more money. but you can never get more time. So you need to ensure the stiff you spend your time on makes the biggest impact. Leverage is the best kept secret of the rich. If you want more success, you need to start paying attention to and expand things that give you the most leverage. By far the biggest leverage point in any business is marketing. If you get 10% better at marketing, this can have an exponential or multiplying effect on your bottom line. Marketing - that' s where the money is. The marketing plan ended up being the 20% part of the business planning process that produced 80% of the result. What is marketing? =>  advertising + prom...