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While making a choice either about the course you wanna pursue or kind of career you wanna have for yourself: 1. Look inward and not what everone else around you is doing or what the trend is. 2. Treat education as part of your career and donot delink the two. This is the no income phase which is followed by a low income phase when you land up with a job. 3. Base this decision on who you are and what you want to do in life. 4. Listen to your heart and do not get driven by money. At the end of the day, almost everyone makes money but believe me very few are happy. 5. Donot get pressurized by what others want you to do. Society is the biggest nuisance. Ask parents or elders to guide you but donot ask them or anyone else to decide.

In whichever domain of activities you are engaged in, believe that you are good, appreciate that there are few others who are better than you and understand that you always need to improve from your current level. First will give you confidence, second peace of mind and the third will give you a purpose.

You must have heard of internet of things. But have you heard of internet of beings? Can you imagine, can you feel? I feel for quite some time that there is an internet to which all of us are connected. May be there is a port to be opened, and the right protocol and messaging format to be followed. It may be quite similar to Wi-Fi that we all use. But this is a feeling only. If there is no internet then where do we get the ideas from which come to our mind like a spark or flash. Many a great discoveries or inventions are also possible only because of this. Another underlying thought is that may be it is not possible to create any new thing, but it is already present in the universe in the form of an idea or knowledge. May be this internet is a mind. A mind of someone. May be the mind of God. May be the cosmic mind. May be we are inside someone's mind. Matrix reloaded! As we create our own world in our dreams, may be we are part of someone's dream. Our dreams take place in ...

Kabir. How cool his name sounds even today! He also said some super cool stuff, few hundred years ago. F or me, he was a cool dude, a true rockstar! Not because of his name, which by the way, comes from Arabic, but because of what he said and how he lived his life around that. He challenged the established religious beliefs and social practices of his time, which were full of ignorance and we're being followed blindly, generations after generations, without being questioned. And he left none; took both the Hindus and Muslims equally to task. He made fun of the religious leaders who were taking the ignorant masses for ride. Well, if you think about it, this is not a mean achievement even today. But the more important reason for him being a rockstar is that Kabir knew the truth. He knew his Ram and he knew that despite being so near, how far He actually was from the temple and mosque visiting people. Kabir was great because he knew the truth and he had the courage to call a spa...

The ultimate destination of this seemingly enigmatic journey called life is Shunya . A life is a chain of endless doing. This doing never stops. And if we believe in re-birth, then a person is on an endless journey of lives, one after the other, with brief pauses in between, known as death. But as Upanishads tell us, this chain of events can stop. The main import is this that there is a state after reaching which, possibly there is no return, i.e. one is not born again. This state is the state of shunya , which is the final destination of our journey. Shunya is when nothing remains. When we lose everything that we have, we enter that state. We need to get rid of our personalities and our possessions, such as desire, attachments, passion, greed, fear, everything. We need to drop the three qualities of our being, which is sattva, rajasa and tamasa. We can do that only when we realize that we have these possessions. We can have this realization only when we watch ourselves and make an...