Anugraha Living Values

- Family Values -  Ramayana gives us an insight into family values. Understanding and living in interdependence ensures family harmony. In an ideal family environment parents assume the role of a mentor to their children. They treat children as their equal and equal opportunities for all. Children are encouraged to participate in decision making. Children accept elder’s decision and fulfill their vision. Children are of four categories. The noblest one is who anticipates parents and elders desires and needs and acts to their full satisfaction without being told. The second category is action oriented, who obeys the commands of his parents and elders and never questions him. The third is one who acts only if he is told. He will raise questions and resentments, however, finally do what elders say. The fourth category is one who is not worth mentioning. They disobey, do exactly opposite of what is wanted and considered good and even harmful to the family. Sri Rama was on...

  Joy of living... Our deepest reason for joy is in knowing we are the ultimate best without any room for the second.  When we know we are the best, whatever we do that ultimately becomes the best. When we serve people with this attitude, the service becomes the ultimate worship. Our ability to hold an intention to be in service shapes our overall attitude towards life in many ways.  A greater sensitivity and awareness of situations, a commitment to harmlessness, a willingness to put others’ needs before our own and a desire to be in harmony with all transforms our attitude to greater joy. We do not just exist. We are in service to everything that exists. Everything that exists is in service with the rest. A stone serves no less than a saint. In service to what exists we discover the ultimate joy! The joy of living. 

How are you? The connection between the mind and body has something to deal with a chronic disease. As technology continues to make remarkable advances and we have so much advantage our ancestors never had. Yet we experience stress and anxiety. Many of us are a totally wounded horse. We have many things to worry; about finances, relationships, health, boss, spouse, children, past and an uncertain future. We feel alone and thus insecure. These feelings lead us to tangible physical changes in the body. A recent study reveals that the way we exercise our choices like nutrition, environment, exercise, healthy or unhealthy thoughts and emotions affect our DNA. By changing our thoughts we are not only changing our choices but our biochemistry too. Our mind is the best friend and the worst enemy; it can make us sick and can make us well. Our values impact our every cell. How we think, speak and perform matters a lot. The way we express ourselves affects our well-being. Eve...

A great school and great teachers What makes a successful school? We may say it's infrastructure, which includes curriculum, management and the brightest students. True, we think they make a school great. In reality they don’t. In fact, what is the impressive infrastructure of a school? A school can’t become a great school if it doesn’t have great teachers. Teachers make a school successful. They actually lead parents, management, learning methods and students from darkness to brightness. The success of a schools mission rests with teachers who actually transform its vision into reality. Without the participation of a teacher in learning no student will accomplish their life purpose. If you ask people from different occupation, more than 86% of them say, it is their teachers who set them on success path. Teacher is the one person who inspires us and makes us to believe in our self. What subject a teacher taught us doesn't matter much. It may have been solvin...

Once, when Karna realized hat Arjuna was superior to him in archery, he approached Guru Drona and requested him to teach him how to be blessed with Brahmastra.  Guru Drona declined saying he can't teach any but a learned scholar rooted in dhrma or a kshatriya who had purified himself by dhrma and dhyana.  Disappointed Karna went to the Mahendra parvatha where sage Parashurama was staying. He deceived Parashurama by saying that he was a brahmana and became his disciple. From him he obtained instruction in archery and the use of many astras. Karna chose to approach Guru Drona for Brahmastra not for peace, but to prove his strength over Arjuna. His choice was plagued by likes and dislikes like jealousy. Where he had a choice to appreciate Arjuna, which he could not because of his likes and dislikes of not accepting others as more knowledgeable. He deceived Parashurama, because he wanted to learn something special by which he could prove that h...

The outer world is the reflection of our inner world. We all are responsible for the condition of this world. When we change our inner world, the outer world changes without effort. Therefore, let us change the world by changing ourselves.  When our thoughts, words and deeds are healthy, our reflection in the mirror is healthy. When our thoughts, words and deeds are unhealthy, we may want to break all the mirrors. The mirror is honest, it reflects exactly what is in front of it.  When we develop healthy thoughts, words and deeds - our reflection, the world becomes healthy. The world outside is a mirror to ourselves because the world outside is ruled and determined by the condition of our own inner world.  Let us clean our inner world! 

When you feel none loves you, better you respect everyone, accept everyone, love everyone beyond limitations and boundaries. What you give will comes back. When you love others, the love comes back to you. When you start accepting people as they are, you start recognising that people have started accepting you.  Don't look for anyone's permission, authority or approval to express your love and acceptance. Rain your love all around, let it spread. Love means, to love without expecting any returns. Your expectation in no more than to love, to be honest in that act.  Radiate love so that when people come, they should feel that love, experience that love. As, a piece of paper catches fire when it is kept near fire, people should experience love when they come near to you. This is how you can transform the world around you.  When you transform the world around you with love and acceptance what recognise is nothing but peace.