Watched Rick Steves' Cruising the Mediterrrian on You Tube this morning.
Visited Naples, Nice, Athens, Rome and many other places.
The staggering views of these ancient cities with beautiful beaches and market places are a treat for the eyes, mind and the heart.
Rick's commentries are very informative and interesting. His personality appears to be so pleasant.
Guru Nanak Dev ji travelled thousands and
thousands of miles during his lifetime along with Mardana ji and Bala ji.
He spoke to the gatherings about the Might of
the Lord and sang His praises. Mardana used to play his Rabab along with.
Guru Nanak never collected money or food from
any place or person during his entire life.
The only thing that he was fond of collecting
and keeping with him was a note pad and pen and ink.
The Treasure included in Guru Granth Sahib ji was
the collection that Guru Nanak Dev ji had with him and also his compositions.
Later he had handed over all his pothis to Guru Anagad Dev ji.
Guru Nanak Dev ji’s true follower should always
feel blessed to always look forward to knowledge from various sources. One
should possess pen paper or now a days we can say modern days devices to either
pen down the thoughts/quotes/ideas/poems or record them on their devices for
future reference.
Watched Rick Steves' Andalucia The Best of Southern Spain today.
He showed various beautiful places of Soutern part of Spain which was highly impressive.
The intricacies of the artists who built the palaces, buildings, cathedrials made me feel that the people in the past were more imaginative and had lots of patience to do so. Along with these the resources also must been availabe to them in plenty.
One thing that was painful to watch was how the Christian rulers destroyed many of the beautufl edifices built by the Muslims and in those places built their own places of worship.
We in Indian are generally used to the histroy in which the Muslim invaders had done the damage to the religious places of Hindus and had built thier religious places/
Human nature of the rulers is same all around irrespective of the religion they belong to.
When a defining moment omes along, you can do one of the two things, define the moment, or let the moment define you.
The prevailing Covid 19 Pandemic time across the world is one such moment which is compelling many to fall pray. Getting infected at physical level by the virus and succumbing to it is one thing. But getting infected at mental level and then succumbing to it is totally unacceptable.
We need to keep our mental faculties strong and not allow to get disheartened and scared of this virus.
Let's remind ourselves of all the past history of various pandemics that the human beings and survived. This pandemic shall also pass. We need to spend as much time as possible in enhancing our skills and read and listen as much as it is possible.
Let's imagine of the times to come in future when we shall tell our children and grandchildren how we survived this Covid 19 Pandemic.
‘Successful people are more concerned with
pleasing results.
Failures are more concerned with pleasing
methods`’
This means we should be bold enough to express
ourselves when we find something wrong with the task at hand even if our
seniors have decided upon a scheme for it. No one is perfect,
Our
seniors are also human beings and hence
may make mistakes or overlook certain important things while taking a
decision. People who are concerned with
pleasing methods may not dare to point out the mistakes or the shortcomings out
of fear that this may annoy their superior.
But the ones who are concerned with the results will surely dare to do
so and save greater difficulty at a later stage.
A good
leader is the one who understands the difference between the two and values the
ones who point out the errors in time so that they can be looked into and rectified.
“A fault is
fostered by concealment”
The word
‘fostered’ means encourage the development of something desirable; to bring up
a chlld that is not ones own by birth.
‘Concealment’ means to hide.
‘Fault’ may
not be something that we would like to be associated with. None of us can say that we are devoid of it.
We all commit faults when we attempt to do something.
The best
way to compensate our faults is to
let the people
concerned with it know about it so that it can be rectified.
If we don’t reveal our faults to others there
will be very less chance of growing in the right direction.
