Love is a wonderful gift of life

           A Gift of Love

Once LIFE smiled upon me

And asked, “What do you want –

A palace grand or a magic wand,

Just tell me, and I will grant.”

I mused over for a moment

And reflected what I intend –

A bond that lasts forever

Or the love that is lost never

Or a laugh that tickles me whole

Or a tear that purges my soul,

Unable to choose I kept quiet

Couldn’t pick what is right.

Then, had an urge to ask for love

That doesn’t diminish ever,

“Grant me with the naive wish

And bless me with love forever.”

With an enchanting glance

And an unfading smile

She gleamed at me 

And uttered after a while,

“Love is a miracle untold

With blessings in manifold,

Will bless you in abundance

With content and happiness,

Would bring you eventually

A life full of felicity 

And peace perpetually,

The depth of divinity,

A heart brimming with 

An immeasurable bliss

And make you the richest 

With treasurable riches.

                                                    

                                                          -      Poornima Singh

Man is a natural product

Man is Nature's Product

Man is a part of nature which is a beautiful and phenomenal manifestation of God’s designs. Everything in nature behaves in its own way  –  the way it is created by God.  It is nature of water to flow down wherever it finds way. It originates on the lofty mountains and flows down to the deepest point it gets. Smoke that takes birth on ground goes high in the sky. The clouds float in the atmosphere. Seeds germinate under earth and sprout out to take the form of a tall tree. Every entity in the universe behaves in its peculiar fashion.

Man also, being a part of nature, tends to behave the way God has created him.  God has created man to love, to give and to forgive that’s why he is happy when he loves, gives and forgives. If you hate someone, you will be more sorrowful and morose than the person whom you hate. The other person may not be affected or saddened as he doesn’t have anything in his heart. Human heart is just like a blossom which blooms fairly in clean atmosphere and healthy conditions. Our heart stays happy and healthy in the clean air of loving and positive emotions. You can never be happy, peaceful and satisfied if you have had a fight with someone and still keep anger for him even if you have given him two blows in return of one. Think of it when you are going through such moments, you will get the answer.

Example is better than precept. Let me discuss it further with an example. A bottle is created to store water. If you don’t fill it with water, what does happen? Air takes place. But, the bottle is created to keep water in it. Fill the water or some other substance, which is important and meaningful for the bottle, air will go out automatically.

Man is also like a bottle. He is created to perform some meaningful and important task. If he is not involved in any meaningful, important and useful works, wasteful ideas or negative thoughts may take place. Here the saying ‘An empty mind is a devil’s workshop’ that I heard in my childhood, goes well. Negative thoughts are very powerful and obstinate. They can’t be removed easily just like the air in an empty bottle. You can’t simply take the air out. Very simple and easy way to remove air is to fill the bottle with water and air will leave the space itself. The same applies with us. Extracting negative thoughts from your mind is not an easy task. The better way is to fill your mind with positive thoughts by engaging yourselves in meaningful and important purposes. The airy things will disappear themselves.

Understand the designs of God and know the purpose for what you are created and sent on this earth. Involve yourselves with meaningful tasks and you will get to know why you are sent on the earth and serve the purpose with which you are created by God.

by Poornima Singh

All the Best for Board Examinations

Dear children I wish all the students from class X and XII appearing for Board examinations good luck. 

May you all overcome your apprehensions, anxiety and nervousness and attempt the questions with confidence and clarity of thought. Apply your knowledge and write the answers accurately, precisely and coherently. 

Believe in yourself and give your best. 

Leave the rest on Providence. 

God bless you all abundantly. 

Magic Lamp

My Magic Lamp

I have got a Magic Lamp. Have you got yours? Let me help you find the one as everyone has got a magic lamp.

Each life is a beautiful gift of God and each person is a unique bundle of talents. ‘Each child is special’ and is unparalleled and incomparable in his/her unique fashion. In fact, everyone is a miracle of God as among millions and millions of souls each one’s DNA is unique and different from that of others. I wish to become the mouthpiece of each and everyone who believes and wants to assert that he/she is a great miracle.

All must have heard the story of Aladin and his Magic Lamp. Do you believe in the story? ................ I do. I believe that everyone has got a magic lamp of his own. But, very few people know where it is lying and rusting. It is right there in every one’s head; one’s brain which is no less than a magic lamp. All that we need to do is to recognise it, rub it, remove the rust, ………and there will appear a Genie who will ask, “Tell me, my lord, what do you seek? ………. and it will be granted.” I do believe that our brain is no less than a genie and can get us whatever we seek. Our brain is the greatest power house in this universe; its power won’t be exhausted ever. On the contrary, its efficiency increases with its use. So, rub your magic lamp (brain) and never let it rust.

One more important thing is that if you don’t use it, it will stop working. If your brain is not habitual of working, it won’t work in the time of urgency because you let it rust most of the time and thus, its efficiency slows down. Our brain is the greatest miracle of God and we can’t even imagine the level of its capacity. The researchers and scientists say that we can hardly use our brain up to 20% of its capacity. The more you use it, the more it will grow and you can achieve anything you wish to seek. 

Recognize the miraculous power of this human machine and honour it by utilizing to the optimum level. Let’s all thank God for making us enormously capable and miraculously wonderful. Let’s all join in the ‘Celebration of the Self’.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          - Poornima Singh

HAPPY GURUPURAB

May God, the ultimate Guru 

bless us all with the wisdom and enlightenment that 

'GOD IS ONE'. May we not 

fight in the name of God. He is the father of us all. He unites us as one family. It pains to the people fighting in the name of God. May we all live harmoniously and stay blessed!

                                                    - Poornima Singh

Can you trust?

           

  Trust

Wild wind blew harder

Knowing no direction,

Following no milestones,

Taking its own course;

Roaring in the valleys,

Rafting over the seas,

Soaring in the mountains,

Sweeping the wide plains,

Rustling with the leaves

Ringing with the streams,

Singing through the harps

playing with the sands,

I saw all the nature in unison

In harmony following the ONE.

There is a wild world

Running like the mad herd,

Confused in hue and cry,

Fleeing away far and wide,

Smiling in others’ woes,

Friends faking as foes

Crying over the loss,

Making high over the fuss,

Crying with crocodile tears,

Selling neighbour’s leftovers,

Clinging to the dead remains

Over using the smart brains,

Warming oneself over other's pyre

Or caressing with a fake smile.

HE saw them running wildly

In all directions blindly

HE called them and said,

“Why do you run away?

Where will you go?

Don’t you believe in me?

Do you have better option?

Come to me; I will protect you

You are my children; I, your father

Have faith in your worship.”

Man Said, “Everything you say is alright,

But I can’t take any chance.”

And ran in bewilderment

                                                             HE stood in amazement.                                                               

                                                                                                                   - Poornima Singh 

Five Stages of Education

Five Phases of Education

Children are like young saplings and pass through various stages when they need different sort of tending and pruning. They should be treated differently at all the stages. The process of getting education can be classified into five phases.  The first phase is for the ignorant kids (1-8 yrs.), second phase is for the impatient adolescents (9-16 yrs.), the third phase is for the energetic youths (17-22 yrs.) and the fourth phase is for the career building age (23-30 yrs). The last phase is for the mature and elderly people as education is a continuous process of evolution and unquenchable thirst for knowledge.

            The first phase is best suited for moral education. Innocent and ignorant child imitates everything and blindly follows his immediate society and his mother is closest to him for blind follow-up.  In this age we can easily instil the essential values in the child by just making him cram the values and habits along with alphabets, tables and other basic things. We can make him learn the ideal list of dos and don’ts.  This is the responsibility of everyone around him (parents, family, society, school and other influencing agents) to give him the right atmosphere, conditions and inspiration. He imitates what he perceives in his close world. The parents should customize their behaviour and regulate their habits so as to present a guideline before the child. A beautiful life is in your hands and you are to give it a beautiful heart and a worthy persona.

            Second phase needs the education of discipline and culture.  An adolescent comes across unwelcome turmoil of emotions and senses. Education of discipline may set the emotional turmoil to an end. We should encourage him to develop self-discipline and allow him to manage all his things himself. Education of culture is the second most needed thing in this age. Parents should have a healthy culture of their family and inspire the children to abide by it. The subjects like History, Civics, Sociology, Philosophy and Political Science help him cultivate a culture in the children. They should not only read about their culture but also have faith in it so that they may not get easily persuaded by the foreign influences which are spoiling them as they don’t suit the present Indian society and mind set-up. They should be encouraged to read Indian epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Gita etc. which help them choose the right way when caught in dilemma. Religious scriptures sound profoundly even the ethics of war while now we say that everything is fair in love and war, that’s why in today’s world everyone is caught in the adverse winds of deceit, dissatisfaction and desperation.

            Third phase is the age of career building. It is divided in two stages. In the first half the youth should be given an insight before deciding his future. The youth should know himself and his pursuits. The children should study subjects of their interests and take up the courses of their inclination not the subjects according to their career options. They should choose the subjects of their interests and then decide their career, not the vice versa. If they choose the subjects and courses of their interests and then pursue the careers accordingly, they will certainly do good whatever they become in life. We should give at least twenty years of our age to education only.  In the second half of this stage the students should start pursuing their career after finding out their interests rather than first deciding their career option and then choosing the courses and disciplines according to that career option. Here is suggested that the parents should not force their children to pursue career of their interest and ambition. Youth means energy and energy should be guided into right direction and for the noble purpose. Youth should be persuaded by the teachers to read good literature which can bring emotional stability, sensual purgation and even the answers to the most difficult puzzles of young age.  Healthy education works as a firm foundation for building a sound career. Now, he should set priorities in his life and right education enables the children to know what they want in their life and thus choose their career. 

            In fourth phase one should realize his responsibilities towards his family, society, nation and the world. Education of KARMA helps a man to realize the dignity of work and applying the knowledge in his life.  The principles of Karma help us find the answers to the dilemmas of life – family vs. career, love vs. family, values vs. money, duty vs. temptations, love vs. ambition  etc.
         In fifth phase we should learn to accommodate with the new generation and bridge the gap to remove the differences and reduce the distance. We should give them the book of our experiences to read and let them write their own book. We should give the children our spectacles of experience but should not try to lend our viewpoint as some wise man says, “Teach your children how to think and not what to think.” They should see the beautiful world with their eyes only and have their own perspective so that one day THEY MIGHT PAINT THE WORLD IN THEIR OWN COLOURS.         

                                                                                                                    -          Poornima Singh

Life

Life

Sometimes, I wonder what life is …………

Life was a paper boat

That would float,

That would sink

Just in a wink.

Running in the water channels,

Babbling with the bubbles,

Dancing in the currents

Dangling in the torrents,

Taking the wows inside

Leaving the reminiscences beside,

Splashing with the innocence

would vanish in a glance.

Life is a flying kite

Scaling new height

Soaring into heavens

Teaching new lessons,

Kissing the skyscrapers

Amazing the kite lovers

Even when tied with a string

Demanding to have a wing

Battling with the mighty winds

And challenging even the gods

Snapping with a flutter

Fighting until it is a winner.

Life is a book of ours

With smiles and scars,

With stories unwritten

And songs unsung,

Timid or bold

with tales untold,

Recording our own actions

Reflecting our own emotions

Gets our destiny written

making us our own god

and, if once written,

cannot be changed.

 - Poornima Singh

A Longing

A Longing

The life is short

And the road is long,

The directions fail

And the signs depress,

I linger here;

I hang on there,

I wanna walk with you,

I wanna live with you.

When the night is dark

And the shadow is long,

When the light wavers

And the wind shivers,

When the beat is high

And the heart goes low,

I wanna speak with you,

I wanna live with you.

When the rumours hammer

And the feet stammer,

When the mirror doesn’t reflect

Nor the conscience detect,

When doubt is in the air

And no shoulder is there,

I wanna cry with you,

I wanna live with you.

-          Poornima Singh

Teaching is a blessing

A blessing

Life is a vast sky

Filled with patches of dark clouds,

And I always strive

To get away with these clouds –

Clouds of doubts, clouds of fear,

Clouds of pain, clouds of failure.

They roam over me

They all surround me,

Their thunder scares

Their lightening fears,

They apprehend my soul

They rain upon my goal.

But, then there is lightening for a while

And I can see a rainbow of smile;

I heard a thunder of voice

I heard a roar of noise,

All the clouds burst with a whim wham

I am welcome with ‘Good Morning ma’am’.

My lips expand

Instantly I respond,

I switched on myself

To the world of giggles,

I promised to myself

To laugh with the babbles

And again become a child

And roam like a cloud wild.

When my class became boring

And some started snoring,

I laughed at myself

And went on ignoring,

Listening their silliest hows

Answering their strangest whos,

Playing in their games

Dancing to their themes,

All questions flew with the clouds.

But I have my doubts:

‘Am I worth it?

Am I really worth it?’

-  Poornima Singh