Education

💜 What do you think our kids need other than getting a good job and earning enough?

My great parents thought to provide me with what they lacked. They provided me with a good education, as they thought that the qualification would make my life happy. Now what should I do to be a great parent to my kids? Is it just the good education, a qualification as my parents thought? No. There is something that I lacked and I have to make sure it exists in my daughters lives. 

    That is financial intelligence. Not just college education but financial education which is not in the curriculum of our education system is to be taught to our kids for shaping their lives to be happy. I will make sure. Will you? ❤️

More about this in future posts

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LEARNING

Which one is better: “Knowing a lot about a little” or “knowing a little about a lot”

Most of us are always aimed at “knowing a lot about a little”. That is doing specialization - Masters and Doctorates. This gets us a high paying job. But very less focus on “Knowing a little about a lot”.

I shall explain this with an example: If Meenakshi wishes to crack UPSC exam, just sitting and reading day and night, working hard may or may not give her good result even though she had vast knowledge on her subjects. Then how can she?

The most appropriate meaning of “Learning” is the modification of our behaviour. How can we modify our behaviour? With the knowledge gained from the information retrieved through education. According to Swami Vivekananda, education was not only the collection of information, but something more meaningful, i.e., man-making, life-giving and character-building. Could we get such an education through our education system? Absolutely not.

For that, the kind of learning - “Knowing a little about a lot” is also required. Just working hard and earning enough money through the “know a lot about a little” strategy would never give us happiness and peace. Practicing "learn a little about a lot" is important to be successful and live our life happily on this mother earth without causing any disturbance to ourselves, anybody or anything. In the above quoted example, if Meenakshi can practice power reading, increase her retention ability using memorization techniques, apply law of attraction, mind-tune with affirmations, know how to be consistent, build confidence along with hard work, then she will crack the exam without any doubt.

We are all given the greatest gifts - the time and the mind. Invest a little of your time in training your mind. If you utilize your time properly and train the mind well, it creates enormous wealth and happiness. Untrained brain crushes us with poverty and unhappiness. You are what you eat. You become what you LEARN. Be careful about what you learn because your mind is so powerful that you become what you put in your head.

I am on a mission to "know a little about a lot", learning through books, attending free or low budget foundation courses, workshops, watching TEDx talks, listening to spiritual leaders etc.

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Ask wisely, get what you want and reach your goal.

Ram and Meena are friends. Ram has some attractive and exclusive color pencils, and papers with him. If Meena asks Ram for pencils and papers, he can give some of them to her but if she asks for a painting or a drawing, how can he? She must wisely ask for what Ram is having and utilize them to make a painting of her choice. You may ask me, why can’t Ram prepare a painting with what he has and give it to Meena. Yes, he can, but it may not be the same one as she wished to have.

Most of you ask God for things like money, house, car, dream job, business profits, marks/grades, good result, seat in a college, to go to other countries etc. I don’t think he has all that with him. Did you ever try asking Lord Krishna to give you a little of his compassion and love, Lord Hanuman to give you a little of his courage and braveness, Lord Ganesha to give you a little of his intellect and wisdom, Lord Shiva to give you a little of his self-discipline and health. This is my list that I ask from my 4 friends who always stand beside me providing their hand to me at the appropriate situation that I face in my life; You can have your own list of characteristics you are thriving for, in order to get what you want and achieve your goal. You can imagine them in some form helping you out. Things don’t come that easy for us; we must get them by destroying our weaknesses and building up our strengths. For that we need proper direction by God and hence ask wisely what characteristics you want to develop in yourself. Ultimately you will get what you want and can reach your goal.