Diwali Wishes to All

Wishing you all . . .

the joy

the peace

the happiness

... of Diwali

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Joy of Giving Week

Good morning friends. Today, we have to be joyful as it is The Joy of Giving Week.

The Joy of Giving Week (JGW)', is a national movement aimed at engaging people in different acts of giving' whatever they have -- money, time, resources or skill -- will begin its second edition from September 26. There are group of volunteers from corner to corner of the country The social movement, was coordinated that will conclude on Gandhi Jayanti' on October 2. The first edition of JGW had more than 200 NGOs, 1,000 schools, 100 colleges, 200 corporate houses and 20 lakh individuals taking part.

There are well-known personalites who actively supported the initiative. Lakhs of people donated money and clothes, or volunteered to give their time. Not to mention but some of the personalities are like Azim Premji, Deepak Chopra, Rahul Dravid, Anu Aga, Kumarmangalam Birla, Adi Godrej and Nandita Das. Narendra Somani, founder & chairman, Bhagwati Banquets; Umang Hutheesingh, president, Hutheesingh Design Company; Amit Khatri, member, Traffic Committee; and radio jockey Dhwanit Thakar were present at the meet organised to share the information regarding the upcoming event.

So let’s give with joy and share the joy we have to everyone. – The Times of India

A Mantra that Cheers (1 of 2)

Good morning friends. I was reading one of our newspaper here and I just came across with the article about happiness. When I see such article about happiness I didn’t let the day pass that I’m not reading it. Cause one of my goal is to be happy and make others happy. I want to share you the article I have read and I wish you can get some good things there.

Is there anyone among us who does not wish to be happy? All of us wanted to be happy all the time and wishing that we will have no big problems that we can’t solve That’s unlikely. Happiness and sorrow do not drop from the skies. Your thoughts are the cause of happiness and sorrow. Even if you are in a happy state, and a sad thought enters your mind, you suddenly feel unhappy, isn’t it?
If you want to be ever cheerful, remember the following mantra: “Even this shall pass.” Let this be decorated permanently in your heart. With the practice of this mantra you can remain alert in the event of both pleasure and pain and stop yourself from getting engrossed in them and you can establish yourself in the highest bliss of calmness.

Pairs of opposites such as pleasure and pain, honor and insult, joy and sorrow affect the body. They will come and go in greater or lesser degree so long as the body exists. Do not be overwhelmed by them. You are the absolute Self, imperishable Atman while pleasures and pains are fleeting. How can they ever affect you? They have no existence of their own. In fact, they appear on the ground of your existence. You are distinct from them. Hence witness them, withstand them, and let them pass away. Be ever blissful and peaceful.

There is no object that brings pleasure or pain. They are creations of your mind, your thoughts and feelings. With the help of these thoughts be absorbed in your own eternal Being, the Truth absolute and be always peaceful. – The Times of India

See you on the part two of my article ...

Get connected with the power of silence (1 of 2)

Good morning friends. Sometimes it reached to our life that we want to be alone. We want to be silent in the center of the earsplitting surroundings. Sometimes we want to get connected with the power of silence. With that, we feel that the world suddenly stopped.

What is silence? It is to retreat in wordless prayer, gazing out the window of your heart, and going for slow meandering walks in a garden.

You can look for silence in two ways: inner silence and outer silence. Outer silence helps us find inner silence. But inner silence is more precious. There are two kinds of inner silence: passive and active. In passive inner silence the heart and mind are at rest at the unconscious level whereas in active inner silence the heart and mind are at rest at the conscious level. We are consciously quiet and this is necessary to experience God.

In silence, we feel the presence of God though we may not see Him. Suppose we are seated in a room during the night and talking to one of our dear friends. Suddenly the lights go off. In the darkness as we are seated by the side of our friend, we do not hold our friends hand, we do not talk to him; we do not see him yet we feel his presence and that feeling implies strength, love, joy, peace, togetherness, and support. The same thing happens during the period of silence.

Silence is wordless prayer. Silence transcends thoughts, concepts, images and reasoning. It is a state of consciousness in which there are no words or images. In silence, if at all there are words or images, they should merge from inside and not from outside. Silence recharges body and mind.

Cheer Up...

Hi everybody! ..... :) See that "Big J" of my t-shirt? You know what it means? Come on you can guess.... I'm sure you have something in you mind. What is it tell me. . . . . Ya, you are right. "J" for joy. Joy for pleasure, for enjoyment, for delightfulness. Let's be happy.......:)

Happy 4 All

Dear Friends, I am Dhirendra Patel, at 36 yr male from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. I started this blog happ4all-dhirendra.blogspot.com to share my thoughts on happiness and as a conscious member of this society I want to pass a thought of happiness to all.

Happiness is final goal of each activity and non activity. Businessman doing business to get success in business and once he successes he is going to get happy. A employee is doing job to get self satisfaction and that self satisfaction gives him happiness. A housewife works for her husband and family, and that makes her happy for her work. A solder is doing his duty 1000 miles away from his house and that keeps him happy. With all these I want to say that TO BE HAPPY is everyone’s goal and motive behind al activities.

Important thing is Do we are happy with what we are doing? Does activity we started to make our self happy indeed makes us happy? Does being a individual how many out of us is happy as individual? What will be ratio? 10%, 20%, 40%, 50%, 70%, 80%, how many of us are happy with what we are? This is very important question one need to ask his/her self. I like if all reader of my blog send me reply to this question.

Then what to do to remain Happy? How to be happy? You want to know the secret to be happy 24/7/30/365, then keep reading new post going to come here.

D