Be selfless to selfish

Two alter egos were sitting in a park met after a long time. One of them was fortunately me.

Me: Hey dude! Is everything all right? Why my all-time nuisance creating buddy is so serine today?

Friend: Leave me alone (annoyed).This whole world is 'Selfish'.

Me: Correct (politely). But what's wrong in being selfish?

Friend: For the one whom we care the most disappoints the most. And the one whom you love the most hurts the most.

Me: It's not actually not being selfish my dear. It's just you expected a lot.

We Homo sapiens grow up learning the newton's 3 laws. Most of us forget the initial two. But maximum remember the third one. 'Every action has equal and opposite reaction'. And with this beautiful law we initiate raising our expectations. But this law on practical grounds is not as tenable as it is applicable on scientific grounds. Life is not just about theories, derivations, numerical. But it's much more. Not every student who studies for 18-20 hours regularly clears IAS exam. Not every war leads to peace.

Friend: It's really turning out frustrating for me.

Me: Calm down. You know the major reason of our frustration at maximum times is Expectation. If we aid someone, we expect the same from the guy some or other day. And if he is not able to do so we tag him with one of the most mis-interpreted word of the world 'selfish'. Without knowing his circumstances we set our mindsets and instead of fixing problem we give rise to another problem.

Friend: Oh c’mon! It's human nature. Why should we not expect?

Me: Nobody is selfish in this world. It's just how the needs and demands alter according to circumstances. Nobody can live isolated. Not even the Jainism saints who have although taken moksha but still urge to share and enlighten their thoughts. They wish to see the change. They do expect. But before expecting any change. Change yourself first. Expect from yourself rather than others.

Friend: Well that's true. But the word selfish means arrogance resulting into arrogance.

Me: This is exactly where we are mistaken my dear. The word selfish is not always a negative connotation as we perceive. To survive in this world we need to be selfish. Selfish like at least fulfilling our desires and working on our basic needs.

Friend: Yeah! True. It does sound interesting.

Me: One of the greatest ironies in life is before being social we need to be selfish first.  I hope you are not misinterpreting the term selfish now. Being selfish here means polishing yourselves, working on your forte by learning from others.

I remember one of the beautiful lines spoken by superstar Mr Shahrukh Khan that, do not engage in psychological talks until and unless you do not achieve anything (gyan tab tak na baato jab tak khud gyaani na ho jao).

Friend: So it's better to work on our grass first. Right?

Me: Oh yeah! Exactly. We cannot completely discard our expectations. But still we can minimize them. Maximum problems will soon get solved then and there itself.  Before being social be an achiever first. And when it comes to aid 'Be selfless to especially those who are selfish. By doing this you will definitely fall in love with yourselves. Concluding my words, stop complaining start living.

By - Purva Banthiya

"श्रमदान"

क्या हम अपने घर में कचरा फेंकते हैं, कभी नहीं ।
क्या अपने घर की सफीई करना निम्न कार्य है, नहीं ।
क्या हम अपने मेहमान से सफई कराते हैं, बिलकुल नहीं ।
क्या उस घर में ईशवर का वास होता है, जो स्वच्छ नहीं, कभी नहीं ।
- उमंग

ईश्वर ने प्रकृति के रूप में जो हमें अनमोल तौफा दिया है , उसे लौटना तो इंसान के बस में नहीं , लेकिन जिस प्रकर्ति के कारण हमारा जीवन चल रहा है उसके लिए कुछ करना हमारा कर्तव्य है जिससे हमें कभी नहीं चूकना चाहिए । भले वो वृक्षारोपण हो या प्रकर्ति की सफाई करना , भले वो किसी की मदद करना हो या हमेशा सत्य की राह पे चलना , हर काम अंत में प्रकर्ति में ही सम्लित होता है , तो ये हमारी नैतिक ज़िम्मेदारी है की हम प्रकर्ति को वैसा ही शुद्ध तौफा दे जैसा उसने हमें दिया है , हमारी हर सांस तक प्रकर्ति की देन है , रोज़ मर्रा की दिक्कते और दिन चर्या के कामो में इंसान इतना व्यस्त हो जाता है की वो अपना मूल कारण भूल जाता है , जो की है परमात्मा से मिलन , प्रकर्ति भी ईश्वर का ही स्वरुप है , अगर आप प्रकर्ति से मेलजोल बनाये रखेंगे तो ईश्वर का  हाथ भी आप पे अपने आप रहेगा , मैं "अनंत अमन सोशल वेलफेयर सोसाइटी" का धन्यवाद करना चाहता हूँ की उन्होंने मुझे इस काबिल समझा और प्रकर्ति एवं परमात्मा

से मिलने और उसके साथ समय बिताने का मौका दिया ।

- तनोज

Team of our organisation took responsibility of cleaning one of the popular & natural picnic spots nearby Indore city, PatalPani Falls.

Cleaning drive successfully completed under supervision of Mr. Sandeep Rajapaa, SDM(Mhow)

Brief report :-

Proud to have all such members in the AnantAman family who reached at 6:30 in morning..

We reached at Patalpani by 8:00 a.m. and got free from cleaning task by 11:30 a.m. . Then we went to Malendi village for the finalization of health camp, by 12:30 p.m. we reached there and after having few words with Sarpanch & ppl at village,  by 2:30 p.m. marched back to Indore. We all were empty stomach but it's only dedication towards work that whole team were interested to give our best to bring some change.

- Hemant Gupta

 

             

<***>Diwali Fest..<***>

One of the auspicious Celebration, pious fest, full of zest, zeal and enthusiasm.

We celebrate this festival with our family, friends, relatives, purchase new clothes, distribute Sweets, visit each other's home to wish and share some time with our loved ones.

It's our pleasure to share this time with those who usually have an eye at their door step that someone will visit and share happiness with them. Some one will come who will bring new clothes, sweets, crackers etc for them. Those ignored kids always wait for kind hearts who would come to devote their time.

With this thought, our NGO AnantAman Social Welfare Society organized Diwali Celebration at Orphange.. 

At 10:00 AM we reached at orphange. When kids there saw us, the smile on their face was unforgettable. Really it was like those kids were waiting only for us.

From 10:15 am onnwards all our NGO members started gathering. Celebration started with small interaction with kids. 

On the demand of kids their at 10:30 am we started making arrangements for 'Dal Bafla'.

All our members shared several responsibility on their shoulders.. 

Suvidhi Sethi, Varnini Poddar helped in placing all our NGO banners, making arrangements for food materials etc..

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Devendra Pandey, Poonam Rajoriya helped in taking care of children.

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Mr. Prateek Maheshwari when entered orphange with his wife and daughter the other kids were more excited to see family at their premises.  

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At 11:30 am Atul Maheshwari made arrangements for cold drinks and light break fast for children. 

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Mr. Umang and Mr. Vidit took charge to capture memories i.e. of photography.

MR. Hitesh Bhawnani made arrangement of Dhol, speakers for the dance & masti.

In this way all the work was delegated among members.

In between Mr. Mahesh Bairagi taken care of food department to make availability of all things required in Dal Bafla receipy and helped Sheff to prepare food for all those kids.

All the things were going smoothly as all members duly taken care of all responsibilities taken and well coordinated with each other.

Dance on Dhol, Rangoli, Jokes, various amazing games etc all this make those kids cheerful, delighted.

Now the children feel hungry and were waiting for the food to be get ready as soon as possible.

By 1:15 pm food was ready to be served to children.

By 2:00 Pm we all got free from lunch and then proceed for the Clothes and Sweet Distribution.

Our members donated New Clothes to kids there and again a small fun activity was organized for them.

When we had to depart from there all the faces looked cheerless and kids were asking when you all will come back?

Although it is true to say that Crackers create pollution but we have to break our rules for a day to bring smile on all those dull faces. We distributed some crackers among kids. 

May be it's a new way for some one, may be it's common way to some to enjoy in this manner but really not only those kids even we all people felt so much joy that when 5 hours passed no one realized. 

"Really these are wonderful memories to preserve"

– Hemant Gupta

Whatever happens.. happens for good..!!

May be it wasn't meant to be your destiny..

May be it just wanted to remain a small chunk of your destiny….

May be everything today for you sounds to be tricky..

May be this world to you now seems to be freaky….

May be worst phase has gone but some of it's unwanted moments still remain sticky..

May be now you no more bother of what's going on as you started living lonely and now no more a finicky….

May be it is really proving to be tough but believe me adversity is for short span only the atrocious moments make things messy..

But trust me life is unpredictable; a complete combo of joy and sorrow, every  phase has it's own latency….

And at times it's okay even if things are not going okay let the real you understand the harsh realities of life in this state of dormancy..

Eventually after this dormant stage I am certain that you come up with energy like never ever before and will become deterministic just like a crazy….

And the world will recognize you for what you are along with what all you faced but still raised by setting a perfect afflatus even after being creaky..

Author: Poorva Banthiya 

Life is not just about B to D

We love.we fight, we care, we laugh, we talk, we understand, we succeed, we ignore, we fail, we teach, we learn. Wow! We human beings live such an amazing life. But have you ever realised engender of our existence? Although we homo sapiens may be considered the most superior in the universe. May be because we understand, explain, analyse and interpret through emotions. But our superiority certainly depends on a number of factors be it living thing or non living thing. Can you imagine a Hospital without patients? Can uh ponder of an organisation which comprise of only CEO with no employees? Obviously not. Similarly it's really unauthentic to think of our lives without producers.Yes Plants. From our birth till death, they are the real livings which help us to survive and occupy unique positions in this universe. Well life is a not just about B to D(I.e. Birth to Death). Their comes a C in amidst of it and C represents exactly our journey — the Cycle. This journey is again incomplete actually impossible without other living creatures. Be it plants or animals. Try to imagine a world full of only homo sapiens. Oh god! how pathetic it would be but even after knowing every future consequence in this digitalised world the so called educated people are busy in becoming money monger. People have become so self centred that we have deduced the most acceptable joint family concept into nuclear family and now we are at the verge of vanishing all the forest areas so as to get a comfy bungalow with a number of gadgets.This is how we have limited ourselves but people where are your moral values gone? When in school the kids were supposed to do plantation which gave them immense pleasure and today the same kid has grown up into a gentleman but instead of planting he is deforesting. What has happened to us? This is a peak time we need to understand and fix our problems. We need to abort such activities and stop being so cruel. Otherwise the world full of only homosapiens would be worse than the vampire world. We really need to understand the real value of other living beings too be it a small microbe or a giant date palm plant because if we are able to breathe today, if we are able to have the luxurious food in various outlets, if we have tempting dwellings. The main engender beyond this is Plants. So get indulged in planting and promote planting.

Successful Plantation drive completed.