Diwali (for Life)Lehiyam and a ‘Gift’(For LIFE) to ALL in this ‘digital-age’

MY Dear brethren, young and old,

Today is Diwali, and it is celebration time, isn’t it? I intend to ‘celebrate’ through this “as-usual un-planned” BLOG writing.

Heartfelt Diwali wishes to ALL on Mother Earth, including the ‘haves ‘and ‘have-nots’, Enabled and Differently-abled. May this Diwali ‘light out’ the destructive-and-dysfunctional ‘minds’ while ‘lighting up’ constructive-and-functional ‘minds’ in humankind for human-good! Well, this ‘piece’ contains a precious LIFE ‘GIFT’ for Humanity and a Diwali Lehiyam as well.(A special mixture of ‘nature given’ condiments to help ease digestive glands after a heavy dose of food, especially during Diwali!) Will share both towards the end – Read on…

To get to THEM, I reproduce Shri.KVR’s replies to the last BLOG ‘Sharing a Precious THOUGHT’. I mildly remind all of you reading this blog that you would NOT enjoy this one, or in other words would NOT get the Lehiyam for digestion and the precious LIFE ‘Gift’ - if you haven’t read and cherished the earlier blog, I firmly believe. You would observe some kind of Almighty willed continuation in every blog, as we progress.

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“ Ravi, Thanks for your mail with a lot of good words for me. As I said, I am trying to move away from “ego state” and not fond of praises! Sai is taking me towards ‘Internal realization’, which is higher than any thing else in life!  Instead of ‘owning’ a “Ferrari”, I wanted to ‘own’ OUR country and community!(read ‘Caring for Mother’(India) and ‘Sharing with HER Children’) I feel that ‘sharing and caring’ for the people are more important, than capturing an auto-bio for increasing one's own ego status!!

With Sai's blessings to you and your family.

K.V.Ramani “

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Then I send an apologetic reply (as I have made a glaring error which I later changed), still maintaining that he should share ‘nuggets of wisdom’ and here goes Shri. KVR’s reply to that mail of mine.

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“ Ravi, thanks for your mail and correcting your blog with two points regarding Shirdi Sai Trust(SST). There is more on the point I mentioned on - Each one Help One! The intent is not to help some one ONCE and FORGET it! Each one of the ‘Haves’, should take "end-end responsibility" for at least ONE “have-not”, say from LKG to a bachelor's degree, thereby Enabling that person, boy or girl - To ‘fish’ for themselves happily AND with heads held high, all their LIFE. The person should be seen as addition to their own family, and not a one time donation! In this way, the Indian higher income group of say 100 million families can improve the life of 100 million children!! Isn’t it Inclusive growth THEN?

Please ask your friend Mathan Singh to meet me with a prior appointment some time next week regarding ‘adoption’. We can arrange for an ‘adoption’ fast from an orphanage supported by SST.

 Re: writing, let us talk next time.

Happy Deepavali to you and your family!

Best regards, 
K.V.Ramani “

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Here goes the Diwali Lehiyam  Shri. KVR gave me which am sharing with YOU and YOUR family

“Let’s move away from ‘ego state’ towards ‘Internal realization’, which is higher than any THING else in life!”

And  the ‘key’ to the LIFE ‘Gift’ is obvious for the ‘shrewd’ reader – The REAL key is the new-age ‘thought’ process of Mathan Singh and his entire family – I take a BOW to them. The final ‘key’, for them to receive the GIFT, according to me, is the SST through whom the GIFT may possibly come, ‘I lie to believe’ NOW. Precious one for their ‘angel-like daughter’ who conceived this idea!

I SEE this ‘entire’ sequence of EVENTS, - NOW through Shri. KVR’s offering to help acquire the precious GIFT ‘asap’, as all of you MUST have wished- It might bring about ‘mind-change’ among many growing childless and ones having “Only Ones” who are “lonely and longing”, for a sibling - To simply ADOPT. Nurture. Groom. Let GROW. For the rest 100 million Indians, it is Each one Help One, BUT end-end! Maybe, as HE SAYS through this writing, THEN ONLY THIS Diwali LEHIYAM WILL help DIGEST, and the GIFT will remain always with each one, in this digital-age, where we witness phenomenal “exclusive” growth, in mankind, more so in developing/under-developed countries, isn’t it?

Sai’s(Almighty's) blessings, the precious ‘LIFE GIFT’ will be with us THEN. Always. Day or Night, recession or stagflation or (finding one’s feet) DURING super-growth-Online or offline-@ home, @ work or simply in the ‘journey’ called LIFE.  As Shri. KVR opined in his sage-like replies. Simple. I FELT, THAT is the highest FORM of SPIRITUALITY – Being a Believer or a non-believer is non-material here-True Democracy or Non-democracy – or IN “Bottled-Up” democracy like India (So far)-Simply applicable to all. Without any strings attached, whatsoever!

Happily and in a ‘child-like’ BLISS Ravi signs off, SHARING the ‘Diwali Wish’ poem penned by my beloved friend, Sri. Ravi Raju, who quit his ‘plum’ job in the IT Services domain to work WITH the Shri. Nandan Nilekani led UID project, the mammoth project possibly the first step to a ‘transparent’ India and Indians. In the lighter but serious vein, “ No wonder Ravi Raju’s creative RIGHT brain (sample is this original master-piece- A cute one) start working wonders to get multiple solution(s) to THE problems facing him / Us, than to talk endlessly and unflinchingly about problems and more problems – Hardly solutions – The “highly left-brained” humans EVEN “inventing” Problems to solutions”– from ‘reel’ show(s) to ‘real’ life-online or off-line, print or digits!

Maybe it’s the ‘The Nandan Nilekani effect’ for Ravi Raju! I NOW have a WANT to interview Shri. Nilekani or just walk-the-talk with him! Am ‘gyan’ thirsty you see. ‘Greedy’ to SHARE with YOU all. Here goes the lovely poem…

“As ‘Dunes of vapors’ from crackers- rise and engulf,

And as ‘odorous’ airs resound,

‘Effusing’ JOY to all abound;

Let “Pearls of gleams” in these autumn-nights adorn our lives,

With sparklers that motley skies and as soaring spirits of powder mix and wander,

Let us thank the ‘heavenly might’

For anything and everything HE gave us, in this festive season of lights!”

-          Ravi Raju

Best Wishes

Ravichander Venkatraman

Let’s Re-Discover-TO-Discover ourselves - IN Career AND Life as well!

My Dear Wonderful brethren, sons and daughters of Mother Earth,

THANKS to the ‘digital age’ we live, have promised to MYSELF, that we share ‘one-blog-a-week’, every Saturday evening - failing Sunday Morning  - to readers from Arctic to Antarctic, WHEREVER, in Mars  - in our lifetime, or in Venus during Gen Y/ Gen Z’s lifetime – Wherever and Whenever  - there is ‘bandwidth’! Apart from the techies who MADE these happen, should we not celebrate the visionary SOULs of Late Shri. Dewang Mehta, former President of Nasscom, politicians like Late Shri. Pramod Mahajan, in India, who stressed the importance of providing ‘Internet bandwidth’ to everyone as along with the basic necessities of life Roti(Basic Food),Kapda (basic clothing) and Makaan (Place to live) in this ‘digital age’ a.k.a  Kaliyug. Let’s Thank them NOW.

Being a weekend, I thought ALL would read PEACEFULLY, thereby many would avoid BROWSING -  Many a time, we humans, “Missing-the-Juice-for-the-Taste” -  choosing to remain “Bolted-AND-Beated-in-the-Heat”, “Disagreeing-Agree, instead of Agreeing-Disagree”, many a time – our knowledge or wealth or physical beauty proving a bête-noire to ourselves!  - From ‘State Politics’ to ‘Sports Politics’, from ‘mundane Teachers’ to ‘mindless Terrorists’, In Parliament or Prison, At home or office, the situation is the same, isn’t it? No issues and complaints, whatsoever as ‘Life is a Package’, right? However, shall WE all say THANK you ‘Digital-Age’ for all the COMFORT, the ‘ubiquitous mouse’, to start with! Many SIMPLY AWESOME. Some, unimaginable for everyone to own, even a decade back – i.e. Mobile Phones, SAAS and Cloud Computing’. All societies always have marched and moved on. We ALL also have to move on  - and do WHAT? (Avoid WHY here) We move on only to…

‘Re-Discover-TO-Discover ourselves’. AND, in that, the only constant companion is ‘change’ – predominantly ‘mindset’ change - WHAT and HOW we think – IS it pre-dominantly LEFT or whether there is generous use of the RIGHT brain as well, like the ‘Sage of Omaha’ Shri. Warren Buffet to our ‘Living MK Gandhi-like  Shri. Manmohan Singh, or President Obama, the ordinary human who became the powerful Man on Mother Earth. “HOW to do that?, Ravi ‘boy’”, my friend R. Ravikumar a.k.a Ravi Yettan, is asking me NOW.

Simple. Very simple. However, whether in learning ABCD or Astronomy, we always should take baby-steps FIRST, isn’t it? The first baby-step HERE is Self-Introspection, with oneself sitting on both sides of the table AND seeing both sides of the coin as well. And THEN FEEL. The TRUTH about oneself. In my reading experience, have found that the legendary Tamil writer Shri. Balakumaran has always stressed in most of his novels on this – “As HOW to deep introspect oneself / situation – in Sex or in Spirituality?” There could be lot of techniques, including Yoga or Meditation or ‘simply NLP’. Choose what is Ogay with you, not ME. Nor your spouse. Nor your parents either.

WHAT of the WANT and the HOW  - To Re-Discover-to-Discover in Career or LIFE?

In any situation, career or in daily-life the basic LAW IS the SAME. The first fundamental LAW is :  WHAT DOES ‘ONE’ WANT? ( Read NOT What one’s kith and kin WANTED for you ). The ‘What of Whatever The WANT’, one has to decide. Not me nor their kith and kin, though, we ALL would bombard with inputs from our experience, whether applicable to YOU or not, mostly out of love! Love also has an other side, we miss most of the time. In Thamizh, it is called “Anbuth Thollai”! Many a time, WHAT we say have little or no relevance to ONE’s SITUATION, I have observed.

Once the WANT is clear, once one FEELs is measurable – THEN one has to work on ‘HOW of the WANT’ before getting into the little doses of WHY, ‘When’ and ‘Where’ wherever required. Also think of  some or many “mundane societal rules” and “archaic regulations” to change to achieve one’s WANT, if it’s in our purview. Shall we move on, Ravi Yettaa?

(Many of you folks who are in leadership or in ‘niche’ position(s), from Team lead to a CXO to a Scientist- who are looking for a ‘break’ -  Apply a ‘Brake’ from this ‘piece’ and ‘Take a break’ NOW. Am gonna SHARE with you the mantra I/we share with senior folks I/we come across while ‘Enabling Leadership Human Capital’ TO Organizations WHO CREATE ‘Wealth With Wisdom’.

Based on the feedback I received on my performance over the last 10+ years in Enabling People and Organisations, I FEEL I have graduated from being a charismatic ‘People Enabler’ THEN to a humble ‘Career Doctor’ NOW. Hence this particular sharing. I FEEL, many of you require help in ‘Resume writing’. Most of the CV’s are not contemporary – Those that catches the EYE quickly – Many have large doses of qualitative stuff – Little or no quantitative, most "FEELLINGLESS" - like a text book! Kind of "Statement of account" category. If anyone require a ‘Extended hand’ to get your CV done -  with your FEELINGS and NEVER “Just Queen’s English” You may write to our friend Ms.Suba of SLN Global Services suba.aspire@gmail.com Her profile is in http://in.linkedin.com/in/subaln I understand that if you are ‘delighted’ with the output, then they charge a nominal fee.

“Someone may write a better CV than her, Ravi”. Cool. That’s the first step. That alone, may not help oneself to  fully ‘Re-Discover-to-Discover ONESELF’. Folks, by default, being ambassadors to our clients, WE always share with the senior folks -  who seek a 'change' - a fair understanding of the WHAT, WHO and HOW of the Organization and WHERE are they heading NOW?  THEN I/We tell these folks to make a ‘powerful power point presentation’, on the following lines, to start with.

WHO are YOU and WHAT you bring to the Table? WHO refers to the quantitative brief summary of oneself, including one’s passion. WHAT ‘one brings to table’ refers to WHAT you specifically bring in to the Table is w.r.t. the Organization’s today’s needs and tomorrow’s WANTS. There are other aspects which we share with them to complete THIS simple but effective exercise. Many a time, especially my post NLP period, applying some of those simple and effective thoughts, WORDS, techniques and learning’s, has helped the senior folks, to help them ‘Re-Discover-to-Discover THEMSELVES’, Some decided to call it a day and ‘be on their own’. No issues, if G&W coffers don’t fill up as a result if their decision, after THIS exercise. We look at relationships. Preferably Long term. 

As far as possible, WANT has to a realistic ONE, some may even look “Not achievable”, first instant. Deep ‘Self introspection’ would reveal wonders about oneself. CAN be only FELT by oneself. THEN, one would start to love oneself. (One of the Powerful Diamonds shared in our earlier blog dated Sep 17,2010) “Do you know WHEN most of us THINK and CARE about ourselves”? The answer is shocking  - but true, brain scientists have found. That is, during our sleep in the night, when our benevolent RIGHT brain is verily ACTIVE. No wonder humans get ‘dreams’ only during the night, and not during day! Being, a ‘moon walker’, since college days, I have observed my Principal mother earlier and my Professor wife now, talk to themselves during SLEEP– Most of the time it is related to their work and for THEM ‘Work is their Sanmaargam’, like for most Japanese and for many Indians who ‘work-to-death’! For me, it’s NLP. For you, it could be Budhism. For him/her something else or simply NOTHING. Sanmargaam is best defined “THE Path(s), One needs to take to attain salvation”. ‘Victory’ or owning a ‘Ferrari’ is quite obvious here.  In fact they are significant at the start. Then they might become insignificant, to SOME, later…

Like, the ‘scholarly and sage-like tech czar’ whom am going to meet on Thursday Oct 28^th – Shri. KVR - A techie WHO Once built and owned ‘Ferraris’, in fact  helped many OWN as well – Then gave many away, some to build a Shirdi Saibaba  mandir to spread HIS teachings - Is today monk-like, unlike a monk! Is today working on finding eco-friendly  and 'economically viable' solutions for the benefit of  'human-kind', especially in Renewable Energy. I have a WANT to share with YOU  - His sage-like advises, nuggets of wisdom, some diamonds AND some ‘PURE fresh juices’ as well! You too, don’t you? ‘Furthen’ THAT WANT of OURS to make it happen as dunno if he will have the time. I have lots, though!

I sign off sending truck loads of ‘Godiva Chocolate-like LOVE’ to all of you, to your wonderful families as well.

Anbudan

Ravichander Venkatraman a.k.a G&W Ravi, a ‘brinjal’ to one of his Guru-like human!