Beyond the tale

Human life is incomplete without sacrifice. But if we have no other option than to sacrifice something is not actually a sacrifice. It is called helplessness. It has an altogether different system. Also, sacrifice is always to give something and not taking out the life of anybody or anything. When we have lots of options by which we can possess more than what we have or there is no need to donate something to somebody but still if we sacrifice or donate for someone’s betterment is actually a sacrifice.  As human beings, we live in society. So it is our duty to donate what society needed. This donation can be small or big but it should be as per society’s requirement.   Donation by pure heart gives the best result in terms of real happiness and inner peace.  Suppose you are walking on the road with a vegan sandwich in hand. And you see a very poor small orphan boy, very hungry crying for food, ask you the sandwich. You already had food. But you have taken ...

Every action has a reaction. This law of physics was well-known from ancient times. In manufacturing to control defects, we use process controls. In the same way, to control defective reactions, we need to control our own actions which means we need to self-constraint ourselves. I had heard one example somewhere.  Suppose a man came home after working hard throughout the day. He is very much hungry. Now after coming home if he gets lots of food, suppose lots of pizzas are ready for him.  Looking at the ready pizza, he will feel happy as he loves to eat pizzas. Now when he eats one pizza, he is very happy.  But still, he is a little hungry.  Now he eats second pizza. Again he is very happy. As he loves pizzas, he could not resist eating one more pizza.  Now his stomach is almost full.  As his wife asks him to eat one more, he eats again one more pizza but while eating the same pizza, he is not feeling now happy.   When his wife asks him...

A newborn baby is the honest form of a soul of a human being. I believe, we may have done something good in our previous life, so we have got this human being life. We should thank ourselves as we don’t get anything without our own deeds. As we grow up, slowly we get a cover of dirt called lies or falsehood. Then we get in other bad characters like selfishness, fraudulent behavior, Jealousy, etc. We all have truthfulness naturally. Falsehood comes unnaturally means we add it in our character from outside. It's not our base character.     But when we complete childhood, honesty becomes a task to achieve as a goal. Although It’s very difficult to achieve. I remember few incidents. One of them confused me about honesty.  During my college days, I used to go by a city bus, a local transport. That day I was just standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus. I had 200bucks in my wallet. Suddenly a transgender came and asked for money. I got really afraid of her...

Boss is boss. My boss was having the ideology that Being a manager, you need to be aggressive. This is an old stereotype method. As I always believed in humility, I was perfect for him. I used to do everything he used to allocate for me within the specified time. But when I complete the task, he used to get all appreciation from his seniors. But he never passed that appreciation to me. But I never considered this as a problem. I always kept thinking positive that I never worked for appreciation but for learning and survival. But whenever there is a single mistake, it was pointed to me by him. Sometimes, I used to get irritated by this behavior. But I never projected it that way to him. This culture is so popular that many companies look at it as a successful management strategy which I disagree with completely. To be successful in real terms you need to win people. Without people, success has no meaning. To win people you need to believe in humility. This is the only wa...

The doorbell was ringing continuously. I opened the door with anger. But looking at a teenage boy, I was calm.  He said very politely, “Sir, your neighbor, Aunty, has sent me to collect clothes from you. I am a laundryman.”   I replied “Ok, what’s your name? Where is your shop?”  I just asked out of curiosity. He answered, "Just in front of grocery shop near your home. And my name is Avinash. People call me Avi.”  I remembered the laundry board on his shop ‘Avi’s laundry’ while going for the office.  I said, “Ok. But how much you charge?”  He replied, “Give whatever you want! From others, I charge, 5bucks each.”  I gave him some clothes and said, "Listen, I will take back clothes while coming back from the office.”  He left.  It was the morning shift these days. During the morning shift, I used to come back by 3 pm. I got ready fast and left for the office. After office, during coming back, suddenly, I heard “Sir, your clothe...

For Part 1, click here For Part 2, click here Now, management decided to verify the situation by doing an audit of the regional office by a very senior lawyer of the company.   After the audit, the lawyer confirmed to management, "Yes, there is fraud and shreds of evidence are pointing towards Mr. Rao. But I cannot know everything in an audit."     Top management asked him to register a police complaint. As per that, he registered a police complaint and left to head office.  Now it was instructed to all that Rao sir will not be allowed to enter in office until police verification is done. But even after this, management had the opinion that it might be a trap by some of us. Hence, we all were under scanner.   On the other hand, Rao sir was telling all, that management only did this trap because he resigned.   After reporting a complaint in the police station, police immediately started their work. First, they came to the office an...

We were three roommates living in one small bungalow in Pune, India. Normally Pune people are known for very skeptical and inquisitive and are called Punekar. Our house owner was one of such Punekar. Before this house, I was living with my cousin, Param, in another house. But they were already 4 people when I joined and it was a crowd in the home there.  Param had one friend staying in one bungalow with roommates named Ankit and Rohan.  Param asked Varun about me and he said yes. So finally I shifted with them.                    Initially, Ankit came first in that bungalow and Varun joined him. The owner as told earlier was very skeptical and inquisitive. He asked for all details of their parents, their college details, course details, college id’s, etc. All were submitted as per his requirement. He wanted only vegetarian students as he was Brahmin. He had put one more condition that only two guys were allowed to live. Th...