Life is the means by which a man develops himself and expresses himself through his creative faculty.
Life in other words is like a great canvas on which man, the artist with his peculiar brand of paint of many values, and the firm strokes of free will, brings into existence his indelible work of art, which either helps enhance human progress or retards it.
If he uses a large mixture of self-centred values, which are like water colours, they fade away with age. On other hand, if he uses mainly altruistic values or objective values, which are like earth paints used at Ajanta that have retained their freshness through the centuries. That’s the process of creating economy of permanence. – J C Kumarappa
Today is a significant day as we celebrate the National Panchayati Raj Day to commemorate the historic Constitution Act (73rd Amendment) passed in 1992 which came into existence a year later on April 24, 1993. The launch of the e-GramSwaraj portal and app today makes this a doubly important day. The portal shows us the vastness of India’s local governance framework.
We have over 2.66 lakh Gram Panchayats across the length and breadth of our country. This is where ‘the rubber hits the road’ and this is where, as Gandhiji said, India lives. On the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, we at #MissionSamriddhi launched the India Panchayat Forum (IPF) at Gandhi Ashram, Sewagram in Wardha. I felt that the 73rd Amendment that provided a Constitutional status to the Panchayati Raj Institution is yet to realise its full potential.
On this significant day, let us work with them and help them achieve effective local governance, and become examples to the world.
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Article: Published on April 24, 2020 National Panchayati Raj Day
Today is a significant day as we celebrate the National Panchayati Raj Day to commemorate the historic Constitution Act (73rd Amendment) passed in 1992 which came into existence a year later on April 24, 1993. The launch of the e-GramSwaraj portal and app today makes this a doubly important day. The portal shows us the vastness of India’s local governance framework.
We have over 2.66 lakh Gram Panchayats across the length and breadth of our country. This is where ‘the rubber hits the road’ and this is where, as Gandhiji said, India lives. On the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, we at #MissionSamriddhi launched the India Panchayat Forum (IPF) at Gandhi Ashram, Sewagram in Wardha. I felt that the 73rd Amendment that provided a Constitutional status to the Panchayati Raj Institution is yet to realise its full potential. The need for the India Panchayat Forum stems from this gap and is envisioned to promote the Gandhian vision of Panchayat Raj. This upholds the constitutional values, social justice and the highest standards of governance with a special focus on Antyodaya.
In our federal structure, our Gram Panchayats are the unsung heroes. Devolution of power to local government continues to be a contentious issue, but the launch of this portal ensures transparency, and thereby a level playing field. Each Panchayat has different challenges, and most do come up with innovative solutions.
While we all light up our houses, do spend some time today to light a few lamps inside you and sit in silence with your eyes closed…
Light the first lamp inside you and let it burn away your anger and/or jealousy that you may have for any one till date; see it melt away…
Light the second lamp and let it burn away unwanted greed and desires… Feel happy and content with what you have been blessed with.
Light the third lamp and let it fade away all your insecurities that you may have in your mind related to anything or financials. Just believe that God has given you life and he will surely give you enough to survive.
Light the fourth lamp and carry that lamp to each part of your body; let it burn away all your diseased cells or any diseases in making. Feel healthy as this lamp travels to each part of your body and illuminates each organ.
The fifth lamp is a miniature of the sun… Nothing but the divine light… Light it in the centre of your body and let it fill you with its warmth and love inside your whole body… Feel one with the Divine… Let the love and warmth that’s filled inside you ooze out of you through your smile, eyes, speech and body. Carry this love with you throughout the day.
Two associates at Intellect Mumbai, Anand Sawant and Mitali Khairnar created this during our internal Diwali Rangoli competition.
I am amazed to see the perfection of art behind the minds of technologists. At first glance, I thought it’s a work done on Photoshop but surprised to see that it was created with sand.
Salute to artists and the spirit of creation and celebration.
We have studied major events in history books. Most of the events are recorded around major wars and change of power. In Indian history, we remember Alexander’s (Sikandar) war and the birth of Chandragupta and then Ashoka Kalinga’s war which was in 2 BC. Then lots of wars between the 11th century till our recent independence.
Between these invasions there were long periods of great prosperity for 300 to 600 years (12 generations to 24 generations) which are not at all documented in our history. These periods are much longer than the entire industrial transformation over the last 175 years.
What were those successes? A. Systems – Political, Economic, Social B. Processes – Education and Health C. Governance – Empowerment and conflict resolutions
The modern ‘ism’ like Communism and Capitalism have completed just over 150 to 200 years and they start showing that it’s cracking.
How do we retrieve those knowledge systems that may have possible learnings of holistic happiness built around spirituality, expertise and interdependent livelihoods with lesser greed, selfishness, ego and violence?
Before welcoming and creating a new agenda for 2018, let’s celebrate 2017 by understanding some key moments of
A. Fun
B. Achievements
C. Opportunities of learning – experiences of failures
D. Deepening current relationships and new relationships.
E. Conflicts – resolved and unresolved difference of opinions, perspectives and expectations.
F. Decisions – born out of ‘comfort zone’
G. People who you helped or encouraged to move towards realising their potential.
You can make your own personal PowerPoint presentation with the above key moments for slides as a starting point. This can be a personal record book with pictures included in it as well.
In case you do have a little more time, open the link for an annual review.
While we all light up our houses, do spend some time today to light a few lamps inside you and sit in silence with your eyes closed…
Light the first lamp inside you and let it burn away your anger and/or jealousy that you may have for any one till date; see it melt away…
Light the second lamp and let it burn away unwanted greed and desires… Feel happy and content with what you have been blessed with.
Light the third lamp and let it fade away all your insecurities that you may have in your mind related to anything or financials. Just believe that God has given you life and he will surely give you enough to survive.
Light the fourth lamp and carry that lamp to each part of your body; let it burn away all your diseased cells or any diseases in making. Feel healthy as this lamp travels to each part of your body and illuminates each organ.
The fifth lamp is a miniature of the sun… Nothing but the divine light… Light it in the centre of your body and let it fill you with its warmth and love inside your whole body… Feel one with the Divine… Let the love and warmth that’s filled inside you ooze out of you through your smile, eyes, speech and body. Carry this love with you throughout the day.
In all living forms, science has discovered genes – which is the encoding of repeating itself.
Question – Is there something in all living forms that says, “I am different”?
My observation is that ‘I am different’ is not only a characteristic of humans but also in the lowest of the living form – plants.
Each plant has different shapes of leaves. This differentiation is not required for producing food.
A few plants grow vertically and other grow horizontally. This differentiation is not required for survival.
Every flower produces a unique design of flower – from the shape of sepals, petals or arrangement of sepals or petals, even colour patterns are unique. This differentiation is not required for reproduction.
The fruit produced by each plant is unique with different textures and tastes. This differentiation is not required for anything except the ‘nature of giving’.
All of the above 4 elements are not required for repetition or reproduction. Each plant or tree need not express so differently to reproduce themselves which is related to gene theory.
I want to know if there is anyone working on the Theory of being different.
1. What is the speed of thoughts? A ‘Thought Processor’ works 24 by 7, throughout our life.
2. It requires more energy to stop the Thought Processor. The more you try to stop it, the faster it starts acting.
3. It follows the same ‘Law of Inertia’ defined by Newton. You require frictional force to stop it.
4. Who provides the energy to thoughts?
a. External stimulus – there are five stimuli. Greed and fear constantly feeds the energy to the Thought Processor. The Thought Processor then has the power to keep all other resources like the ‘Memory Processor’, ‘Image Processor, ‘Logic Processor’ and ‘Inference Processor’ engaged. Finally, it gives control to the “Body Action Processing Unit’ for action depends on the decisions taken.
b. Internal stimulus – similarly, it works on the internal stimulus of inspiration and motivation.
c. Stimulus by the soul – once we can stop the ‘Thought Processor’ only then can we connect ourselves to the natural source of Universal Knowledge which resides within our soul. The best example for this is the sun, it is full of energy but the clouds around the sun give us a feeling that there is no sun. As soon as there is a small breakdown of the clouds, the sun’s first impression comes in. ‘Thought Processor’ is nothing but like the clouds which prevent us from going deeper into our immense universal knowledge pool.
Hello, my name is Arun Jain. I am a design thinker living in Chennai, India. This is my blog, where I post my thoughts, technology trends and tips about the fintech world and many more.
