Why is Judicial System Required to be Revamped Early?

स्वस्थ न्याय प्रणाली का होना सामाजिक उन्नति के लिए उतना ही आवश्यक है जितना कि शरीर के रखरखाव के लिए उचित भोज्य सामग्री। लोकतंत्र में देश की जनता का विश्वास बनाये रखने के लिए यह अनिवार्य है कि संपूर्ण न्याय प्रक्रिया में शीघ्रता ही नहीं वरन् पारदर्शिता भी जरुरी है और पारदर्शिता बनाये रखने के लिए न्याय-अधिकारियों का चयन भी पारदर्शी होना चाहिए। आपसी जवाबदेही और जिम्मेदारी को न्यायपालिका ने समय-समय पर बखूबी निभाया है। इसकी निष्ठा संदेह से परे है लेकिन अगर कभी उसकी मंशा और पारदर्शिता पर सवाल खड़े होते हैं तो उसे दूर करने की जिम्मेदारी भी न्यायपालिका की ही है। यह देश की 125 करोड़ आबादी की आस्था और भरोसे का केन्द्र है, इसलिए न्यायपालिका में नियुक्तियों के मसले को न्यायपालिका का आंतरिक मामला बता देना पारदर्शिता से मुंह मोड़ना है।
 

माननीय उच्चतम न्यायालय ने राष्ट्रीय न्यायिक आयोग अधिनियम को असंवैधानिक घोषित कर ​िदया है जिसमें न्याय-अधिकारियों के चयन मे पारदर्शिता परिलक्षित न होने के कारण पिछले साल संसद ने जजों द्वारा जजों की नियुक्ति करने वाली कोलेजियम प्रणाली की जगह न्यायिक नियुक्ति आयोग (एनजेएसी) पारित किया गया था। अधिनियम की मंशा यह थी कि न्यायपालिका में नियुक्ति प्रणाली को और पारदर्शी किया जाये। लिहाजा सरकार और समाज को भी इस नियुक्ति प्रक्रिया में शामिल करते हुए न्यायिक नियुक्ति आयोग का प्रावधान किया गया। कार्यपालिका के इस कदम को न्यायपालिका ने अपनी स्वतंत्रता और संप्रभुता पर अतिक्रमण मानते हुए हाल ही में एनजेएसी अधिनियम अंसवैधानिक करार ​िदया है और जजों द्वारा ही जजों की नियुक्ति वाली कॉलेजियम प्रणाली के फिर से लागू होते ही नियुक्तियों में पारदर्शिता का प्रश्न फिर खड़ा हो गया है।
 

यहां यह उल्लेखनीय है कि खुद न्यायपालिका को भी कॉलेजियम प्रणाली के पुख्ता होने पर पूरा भरोसा नहीं ​ है। इसकी खामियों का कहीं न कहीं न्यायपालिका को भी आभास है। न्यायपालिका के इतिहास में यह पहली बार हुआ है और इसीलिए इसने अपनी इस कमी को दूर करने के लिए कार्यपालिका से सुझाव मांगे हैं। इस के तहत आगामी 3 नवम्बर को कॉलेजियम प्रणाली को संशोधित करने के लिए सरकार अपने सुझाव प्रस्तुत करेगी। 

देश का हर नागरिक जानता है कि सिर्फ स्वतंत्र और सक्षम न्यायिक व्यवस्था ही समाज में भरोसा कायम कर सकती है। और  स्वतंत्र और सक्षम न्यायिक व्यवस्था एक न्यायपालिका तब ही सुनिश्चित कर सकती है जब वह स्वयं पारदर्शी हो। पारदर्शिता के लिए न्यायपालिका को न्यायधीशों की नियुक्ति प्रणाली में कार्यपालिका और समाज की सहभागिता को अतिक्रमण न मानकर खुले ​िदल से स्वीकार करना चाहिए। ट्रांसपेरेंसी इंटरनेशनल इंडिया के वैश्विक भ्रष्टाचार सूचकांक 2013 के अनुसार भारत में 45 प्रतिशत राय देने वालों की नज़र में भारतीय न्यायपालिका भ्रष्ट है।
 

मौजूदा कॉलेजियम प्रणाली में सबसे बड़ा दोष है कि यह गोपनीयता के अंधेरे में काम करती है। ऐसे देश में पारदर्शिता के लिए जहां न्यायपालिका स्वयं सक्रिय हो वहां न्यायधीशों की नियुक्ति में पारदर्शिता के स्थान पर गोपनीयता बनाये रखने के लिए आग्रही होना समझ से परे ही नहीं लगता बल्कि संशय पैदा करता है।
 

हमारे देश में न्यायपालिका को बहुत बड़ी जिम्मेदारी दी गयी है। भारतीय न्यायपालिका जनअधिकारों की पहरेदार बनाया गया है। इसलिए जनहित के खिलाफ जनप्रतिनिधियों के बनाए किसी भी कानून पर वह अविलम्ब लगाए रोक लगाने में भी सक्षम है। न्याय की आस लगाये देश के आम नागरिक को जब अन्य स्थानों से दुत्कार ​िदया जाता है तो न्याय हेतु वह अदालत की ओर ही रुख करता है। जनहित के पहरेदार के रुप में कार्य करने वाले न्यायाधीशों को न्यायपालिका के सीमित दायरे में ही बंधे रह कर कार्य करना न्याय की निश्पक्षता के लिए अनुचित प्रतीत होता है।
 

1993 में उच्चतम न्यायालय ने न्यायाधीशों की नियुक्ति और स्थानानंरण का अधिकार यह मानते हुए अपने हाथ में ले लिया था कि न्यायाधीश न्यायिक परिवार के सदस्य होते हैं। ऐसा हो जाने के बावजूद न तो न्यायपालिका में भ्रष्टाचार कम हुआ और न ही न्यायिक प्रक्रिया में शीघ्र निस्तारण के प्रति कोई ललक ही उत्पन्न हुयी। अब देश इस स्थिति को और ज्यादा देर तक मानने के लिए उत्सुक नहीं है। इसलिए कॉलेजियम प्रणाली में पारदर्शिता लानी होगी। अमरीका में न्यायाधीश नामित करने के साथ ही उसका नाम प्रकाशित कर ​िदया जाता है और सीनेट की न्यायिक समिति देश के हर आम और खास व्यक्ति से उस व्यक्ति के बारे में जानकारी एवं राय मांगती है और तय समय पर विचार करके उसकी नियुक्ति पर अंतिम फैसला करती है।
 

माननीय उच्चतम न्यायालय ने यह विशेष तौर पर उल्लिखित किया है कि न्यायपालिका की स्वतंत्रता भारतीय संविधान के बुनियादी ढांचे में निहित है। लेकिन क्या यह स्वतंत्रता न्यायधीशों की नियुक्ति की रहस्यमयी प्रणाली  तक ही सीमित है? कॉलेजियम प्रणाली मेंन्यायधीशों की नियुक्ति के लिए कोई भी नियमावली घोषित नहीं की गयी है तो न्यायिक नियुक्ति आयोग (एनजेएसी) के गठन से स्वतंत्रता कैसे भंग हो जाती! यह प्रयास तो स्वछंदता को नियमित करने के लिए था जो न्यायपालिका को स्वीकार नहीं है और इस प्रकार न्यायपालिका का अपने पर जनमत का भरोसा कम करने का प्रयास है। संविधान के अनुच्छेद 124 (2) में यह स्पष्ट किया गया है कि जजों की नियुक्ति य​िद राष्ट्रपति जरुरी समझे ंतो उच्चतम न्यायालय के जजों और राज्यों के हाईकोर्ट के जजों की सलाह पर की जायेगी। संविधान में कहीं भी कॉलेजियम प्रणाली का जिक्र नहीं किया गया है। कॉलेजियम का गठन उच्चतम न्यायालय ने क्या अपने हितों का को साधने के लिए संविधान की व्यवस्थाओं से इतर नहीं किया गया?
 

कॉलेजियम प्रणाली में सुधारों के लिये सबसे बड़ी चुनौती यह होगी कि यह न्यायधीशों की जवाबदेही कैसे स्थापित हो। न्यायधीशों की छोटी-मोटी गल्तियों का कोई संज्ञान ही नहीं लिया जाता और न ही दंडित किया जाता है। दूसरी तरफ, महाभियोग की प्रक्रिया इतनी जटिल है कि अभी तक किसी न्यायाधीश पर संभव ही नहीं हो पाया है। य​िद कोई आवाज उठाने की कोशिश करता है उस पर अवमानना का ईस्तेमाल किया जाता है। आम आदमी इस बात से हतप्रभ है कि जिस अपराध के आरोप पर एक सामान्य व्यक्ति को जेल में एक लम्बे अर्से के लिए रहना पड़ जाता है उसे जमानत भी आसानी से नहीं मिलती है, उसी तरह के मामले में न्यायमूर्ति सौमित्रसेन जैसे लोग केवल इस्तीफा देकर कैसे बरी हो जाते हैं। किसी न्यायाधीश को सजा क्यों नहीं हो पाती?
 

स्वस्थ भारत के लिए न्यायपालिका को अपने सुधार के लिए आत्मचिंतन करना होगा और कार्यपालिका के साथ आमजन को उसके द्वार पर शीघ्र न्याय प्रदान करने के लिए पूर्ण पारदर्शिता के साथ कार्य करना होगा, देश के विभिन्न स्थानों पर हाईकोर्टस् एवं सुप्रीम कोर्ट की बैन्चस् की स्थापना करनी होगी अन्यथा संभावित अराजकता के लिए न्यायपालिका ही मुख्य जिम्मेदार ही मानी जायेगी।  (इस लेख के मुख्यांश दैनिक जागरण से उदृत हैं।)

Be Happy - No Arrogance be there. खुश रहें - घमंड न करें।

जब द्रोणाचार्य अपने पुत्र अश्वथामा को दूध के लिए रोते देखकर द्रवित हो उठे, उन्हे महसूस हुआ कि गरीबी क्या होती है। उन्हे राजा द्रुपद की याद आई। राजा द्रुपद उनके सहपाठी रह चुके  थे। उन्होंने सोचा यदि राजा द्रुपद से मिला जाये और उन्हे अपनी स्थिति बताई जाये, शायद उनकी गरीबी किसी हद तक दूर हो जाये। वह राजा द्रुपद के पास गए, उन्हे अपनी स्थिति बताई और अपने समय की याद दिलाई कि दोनों सहपाठी रह चुके हैं। राजा द्रुपद पर घमण्ड सवार हो गया, बोले कि ब्राह्मण होने के नाते कुछ भिक्षा दी जा सकती है लेकिन मित्रता का बहाना मत लो। मित्रता बराबरी पर ही चल सकती है। राजा द्रुपद के शब्दों को सुनकर द्रोणाचार्य आहत होकर यह संकल्प किया कि राजा द्रुपद का घमण्ड तोड़ा जाये, इसलिए खाली हाथ वापिस चले गए। वहां से द्रोणाचार्य हस्तिनापुर गए। उन्हे कौरव और पांडवों  को शस्त्र विद्या सिखाने के लिए नियुक्त कर लिया गया। उन्होने  राजकुमारों को सभी शस्त्र चलाने की शिक्षा दी, जब गुरु दक्षिणा का समय आया तब द्रोणाचार्य ने उन्हे राजा द्रुपद के राज्य पर हमला करने की आज्ञा दे दी। राजकुमारों ने द्रोणाचार्य के सामने जब राजा द्रुपद को बंदी के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया, तब  द्रोणाचार्य ने राजा द्रुपद से पूछा, 'हे राजन! क्या अब तो मित्रता हो सकती है?'  राजा द्रुपद को पुरानी बात याद आ गयी और उन्होने अपनी गलती स्वीकार कर ली। इस लिए कभी घमंड नहीं करना चाहिए।

खुश रहें - अपशब्दों का प्रयोग न करें।

प्रजापति दक्ष अपने दामाद शिव जी से इर्ष्या रखते थे और लगातार उनके अपमान का बहाना  की खोज करते रहते थे. एक बार उन्होंने शिव जी को नीचा दिखाने के लिए महायज्ञ का आयोजन किया और सर्व यज्ञो के पारंगत महर्षि दधीचि सहित देवर्षियों, महर्षियों और देवताओ को निमंत्रन भेजा, किन्तु अपनी पुत्री सती और दामाद शिव जी को आमंत्रित नहीं किया। महर्षि दधीचि ने शिव जी एवं पुत्री सती की अनुपस्थिति देखकर दक्ष को समझाया कि भगवान शंकर की कृपा के बिना कोई यज्ञ सफल नहीं हो सकता। जलन के साथ किया गया कोई भी कार्य विनाश का कारण बनता है, भले ही वोह सत्कर्म क्यों न हो. इसलिए अपनी इर्ष्या त्याग कर भगवान शंकर को सादर आमंत्रित किया जाये ताकि महायज्ञ सफल हो. यह सुनते ही प्रजापति दक्ष आग बबूला हो गए और अपने दामाद शिव जी के विरुद्ध अपशब्दों का इस्तमाल करते हुए यज्ञ आरम्भ करने के लिए कहा. उनके प्रताप के कारण वहां उपस्थित सभी देवर्षियों, महर्षियों और देवताओ ने विरोध नहीं किया मगर महर्षि दधीचि ने निर्भीकता से कह दिया कि शिव जी के प्रति उनके अपशब्द असहनीय हैं इसलिय वह उन्हे श्राप देते हैं कि यह महायज्ञ उनके कल्याण करने के स्थान पर उनके विनाश का कारण बनेगा। भगवान शंकर की क्रोधाग्नि में सब कुछ भस्म हो जायेगा, और यह कहकर महर्षि अपने आश्रम वापिस चले गए.इसी यज्ञ में भगवती सती ने आत्मदाह किया और यही यज्ञ राजा दक्ष के अपशब्दों के कारण उनके विनाश का कारण  बना। 

ऐसे ही महाभारत काल में जब जयदर्थ ने 1 0 0 बार भगवान कृष्ण के विरुद्ध अपशब्दों का प्रयोग किया था, भगवन ने क्षमा कर दिया मगर जब जयदर्थ ने फिर गाली दी तब भगवान कृष्ण ने अपने सुदर्शन चक्र से उसे सजा दी थी. आज भी इंसान अपशब्दों का प्रयोग करने  से  बेवजह क्रोध का कारण बन कर बहुत नुकसान कर बैठता है. इसलिय अपनी ख़ुशी के लिए अपशब्दों का प्रयोग नहीं करना चाहिए।

Be Happy – Give Up Your Worries.

Would you kindly recall or ask someone senior in your family to tell you what you had brought on earth when you took birth? You had brought nothing along with you. And you will carry nothing with you when you will expire. When you brought nothing into this world and you can not take back anything whether that be earned by you out of your own efforts or you may get as inheritance, why should you worry about the future of your materialistic achievements/possessions?

Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it. No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled from inner peace and mental calm for its sake. There is nothing to worry about.  Let yourself really feel this message.  Let it sink deeply into your bones and reside inside your heart.  You are always being provided for and taken care of by Him.  We need to consider and agree that there is a divine power running the bigger show.  Behind the scenes it is always there making sure that you receive exactly what is needed, so that your fullest potentiality comes through. 

The Universe is pure intelligent energy in form.  It makes sure that everything unnecessary in your life will not happen. The events, people and situations that must manifest in your future are all part of your "divine schedule".  Nothing is by accident or coincidence because God simply doesn't make mistakes.  Your job is to relax, be grateful for every lesson you're given, and enjoy the journey as much as you possibly can to the very end. But you need to care for every thing what you are provided for. If you don’t, you may not get an opportunity to get further.

Whenever we worry about ourselves, our kins, our assets etc. it means that we are not trusting in life, ourselves or God.  We stop believing that there is a highly intelligent all loving conscious force that is here now, leading us deeper into our very being and higher into our greatest ecstasy. Worrying is the warning light that goes on when your mind has taken control over you.  You suddenly start to believe every little thing the mind tells you!  You start believing that you are a small inferior limited being with horrible karma, untrustworthy insights, no real direction and very little power.  You forget that you are an unlimited soul who is intimately connected to an all powerful deeply intelligent God Source that loves you all the time.  When you stop and get curious about Him, and begin to deeply honor this connection, you'll stop worrying and start trusting. You'll begin to understand that there is a bigger source of "you" that lives within you and all around you and it the force that's truly in charge of it all. 

An interesting thing you might notice is that no matter how many times you try not to worry, your mind still returns to its old habit again and again.  This is because one cannot permanently stop this type of deep fearful pattern with pure mental force and will power.  There is only one thing you can do to stop the worry habit permanently.  This is to take a higher spiritual path and transcend the mind entirely.  This is only done by realizing the truth of who and what you really are.  When you see how amazingly big, bright, brilliant, and loving you actually are, the mind becomes a bit embarrassed of all the ridiculous things it was worrying about and starts paying more attention to the divinity inside. 

 With enough introspection there will come a day when you will step back from the mind.  You will notice that all these thoughts flying through your mind are only momentary indicators pointing you to the life you're creating, and have nothing to do with the divine master who is creating it behind the scenes.  Every time you start looking deeper into your essential divine nature, you'll discover that who you are cannot be limited by any ideas or concepts at all.  You are what is forming the concepts, the creativity behind the play, designing and dreaming everything!  You are the source of creativity who is painting the canvas each moment of life, telling the colors to dance, sing and splash in every direction....and best of all your main job is to enjoy the show!  Seeing this deeper truth is your one-way ticket to transcend the mind and find total freedom from worry forever.

The more time you spend each day noticing what is beyond thought, behind the mind, and creating the consciousness that you are, there will come a day when the mind drops away falling by itself completely!  You'll be free from all the fearful impressions that used to arise in the mind and find a more creative spontaneous approach to life.  The worrying habits the mind was addicted to will seem like painful shoes that were always too small to wear. You won't be able to try them on again!  You'll discover a more natural state of living,  that lives in the vibration of trust.  You trust that whatever future the Universe provides is the right one for you. 

You are here to master your life.  You can do this when you realize that you are the creative witness who is directing and producing the movie you are viewing!  This means you simply stop believing in all the fear-based illusions you are fed from the outer world and your inner world.  All those worried thoughts you have are based in the idea that you're not an infinite being with divine manifesting power.  Once you stop giving away your power to the world and to your mind, you discover what is truly real.  The piece of rope that you once thought was a snake, you now know it is just a rope.  You are not afraid to pick it up and play with it.  You also have the choice to drop it, step over it and move on to something more amazing. 

If you want to live a life without fear, that is truly free from poverty, panic, arguments, and worry, you'll need to do something dramatic and radically new.  You'll need to expand your consciousness and give up your ingenuine aspirations. Earn yourself enough what you deserve and need without snatching other’s right. If you wish to live peacefully, let other live so. Give up your worries for the causes beyond your reach.

Be Happy – Give up your worries.

Be Happy – Join Crusade Against Corruption (Part 1).

Undoubtedly, we are continuously proceeding ahead in achieving advancement of our civilization. Though it is a natural process of development as the necessity is the mother of the inventions and discoveries, we need to make efforts also to meet our growing requirements. With the passage of time, we have developed our requirements to the new heights, providing them new dimensions and classification – individual requirements, family requirements, community requirements, national requirements, global requirements and so on. Accordingly, our methods also change from individual to individual, community to community and country to the country.

Some time, our individual requirements prevail over other requirements and this step creates problems for others. Our greed or ego enters in and there starts differences. Some time, we reconcile and sit peacefully. But when we do not reconcile, we try to settle the disputed matter through many forums or methods like being polite in our exchanges, employing money and other materials/channels in the process, using force/threats etc. to create pressure and/or being diplomatic. It is also true that while settling the matters/differences, one party may feel to get some injustice and the other party may feel happy. Here too, in spite of having settled, the aggrieved party does not sit coolly unless that lacks sufficient resources to follow up. If really, there is some injustice which has been accepted due to pressure or coercive measures adopted by the opposite party, it won’t bring the desired peace of mind.

What do you mean by the word “Injustice”? It is an unjust act which affects someone or some other ones in social, financial and/or emotional terms, an act that inflicts undeserved hurt, involving unfairness to another or violation of one's rights.  Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Injustice of any kind is injustice. Even rigid justice is also injustice. But injustice never rules forever.

When the criminal court system was established its intent was to punish the guilty in a humane way and to set the innocent free. From personal experience I observe that the court system is now not about innocence or guilt. The court system is about whom you know and money, usually forcing most people into an involuntary plea. How would you expect that you are going to have fair play in getting justice? Those who get benefits out of turn appreciate judiciary overwhelming. Why does judiciary not take action against majority of its officers and employees who take bribe or do not perform their duties properly when they understand that even a minor slip or mishandling on their hands can cause terrible losses to the persons who come for seeking justice? The corrupt practices carried on in the corridors of the judiciary temples have made the process so costly that the poor people never feel easy to go to judiciary for justice. There are millions of cases pending for disposal but neither the judiciary or the Government is serious to take action for early disposal. Those who have got influence get their matters settled as per their convenience. Money and terror too prevail over the judiciary, it appears.

In Criminal Justice,   the most   important   real - world fact about our criminal justice system is that   a person accused of crimes enjoy no advantages, no matter how many rights the courts and legislatures have apportioned them. For the overwhelming majority of cases, they have no opportunity to exercise any of their rights. Instead, these rights are plea-bargained away.

First of all if you don’t have friends in high places i.e. police, lawyers, politicians, and judges then basically you are up a creek without a paddle. It has been proven time and time again that police, judges, and politicians can be in one’s pocket for the right price. Which brings me back to taking a plea, without these people in your court, your life is left in the same peoples hands In “Criminal Justice”, because the accused have robust rights, formally it would be too expensive and time consuming actually to permit them to exercise those rights, and as a result defendants are compelled to bargain them away.

Rights are now just an illusion created so that you believe you are going to be treated fairly. If the prosecutor could not threaten defendants by “upping the ante” so the court reasoned, there would be fewer guilty pleas and the system would collapse. So the prosecutor can bring even higher charges against me if I don’t plead guilty to my original charges. It makes sense in a corrupt system. Mankind must put an end to injustice, or the injustice will put an end to mankind.

Injustice with you means you are not getting what you actually deserve. Why do you not get you deserve? It means that in the process of delivering you the goods, there must have been some corruption involved either in calculation of your eligibility or in the delivery process itself. We need to find out where it is hidden.

Corruption means requesting, offering, giving or accepting, directly or indirectly, a bribe or any other undue advantage or prospect thereof, which distorts the proper performance of any duty or behavior required of the recipient of the bribe, the undue advantage or the prospect thereof. This may be called bribe, kickback, or you can call it as “Baksheesh”.

Embezzlement is also a form of corruption. It is outright theft of entrusted funds. It is political when it involves public money taken by a responsible public official. A common type of embezzlement is that of personal use of entrusted resources; for example, when an official assigns public employees to renovate his own house.

Corruption creates trading in influence, or influence peddling in some countries. This refers to the situation where a person is selling his/her influence over the decision process involving a third party (person or institution). The difference with bribery is that this is a tri-lateral relation.

In government it takes place when an elected representative makes decisions that are influenced by vested interests rather than their own personal or party ideological beliefs. The use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain and misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality are the other forms of corruption. . It can be difficult to make a distinction between this form of corruption and some forms of extreme and loosely regulated lobbying where for instance law- or decision-makers can freely "sell" their vote, decision power or influence to those lobbyists who offer the highest compensation, including where for instance the latter act on behalf of powerful clients such as industrial groups who want to avoid the passing of specific environmental, social, or other regulations perceived as too stringent, etc.  

Philosophically, corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. An illegal act by an officeholder or bureaucrat constitutes corruption if the act is directly related to their official duties, is done under color of law. Forms of corruption vary, but include bribe, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. Corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking etc.

Corruption differs at various places. For instance, some political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another. In some cases, government officials have broad or ill-defined powers, which make it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal actions. Worldwide, bribery alone is estimated to involve more than 1 trillion US dollars annually. A state of unrestrained political corruption is known as a kleptocracy, you can say it "rule by thieves".

Corruption poses a serious challenge. In the political realm, it undermines democracy and good governance by flouting or even subverting formal processes. Corruption in elections and in legislative bodies reduces accountability and distorts representation in policymaking; corruption in the judiciary compromises the rule of law; and corruption in public administration results in the inefficient provision of services. More generally, corruption erodes the institutional capacity of government as procedures are disregarded, resources are siphoned off, and public offices are bought and sold. At the same time, corruption undermines the legitimacy of government and such democratic values as trust and tolerance.

Corruption comes up in the shape of Patronage too. Patronage means favoring supporters, for example with government employment. This may be legitimate, as when a newly elected government changes the top officials in the administration in order to effectively implement its policy. It can be seen as corruption if this means that incompetent persons, as a payment for supporting the regime, are selected before more able ones. Many government officials are often selected for loyalty rather than ability. They are almost exclusively selected from a particular group.

Favoring relatives (nepotism) or personal friends (cronyism) of an official is a form of illegitimate private gain. This may be combined with bribery, for example demanding that a business should employ a relative of the official controlling regulations affecting the business. This is also the practice of corruption getting popular now-a-days.

In democracy we find Electoral frauds. It is an illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both. Also called voter fraud, the mechanisms involved include illegal voter registration, intimidation at polls, and improper vote counting.

Taking kickback is another form of corruption. It is called as an official's share of misappropriated funds allocated from his or her organization to an organization involved in corrupt bidding. For example, when a politician who is in charge of choosing how to spend some public funds gives a contract to a company that is not the best bidder, or allocate more than they deserve. In this case, the company benefits, and in exchange for betraying the public, he receives a kickback payment, which is a portion of the sum the company received. This sum itself may be all or a portion of the difference between the actual (inflated) payment to the company and the (lower) market-based price that would have been paid had the bidding been competitive.

Another example of a kickback would be if a judge receives a portion of the profits that a business makes in exchange for his judicial decisions. Kickbacks are not limited to government officials; any situations in which people are entrusted to spend funds that do not belong to them are susceptible to this kind of corruption.

In the private sector, corruption increases the cost of business through the price of illicit payments themselves, the management cost of negotiating with officials, and the risk of breached agreements or detection. Although some claim corruption reduces costs by cutting bureaucracy, the availability of bribes can also induce officials to contrive new rules and delays. Openly removing costly and lengthy regulations are better than covertly allowing them to be bypassed by using bribes. Where corruption inflates the cost of business, it also distorts the playing field, shielding firms with connections from competition and thereby sustaining inefficient firms.

Corruption also generates economic distortions in the public sector by diverting public investment into capital projects where bribes and kickbacks are more plentiful. Officials may increase the technical complexity of public sector projects to conceal or pave the way for such dealings, thus further distorting investment. Corruption also lowers compliance with construction, environmental, or other regulations, reduces the quality of government services and infrastructure, and increases budgetary pressures on government.

Corruption facilitates environmental destruction. Corrupt countries may formally have legislation to protect the environment, it cannot be enforced if their officials can easily be bribed. The same applies to social rights worker protection, unionization prevention, and child labor. Violation of these laws rights enables corrupt countries to gain illegitimate economic advantage in the international market. It should not be permitted otherwise.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has observed that "there is no such thing as an apolitical food problem." While drought and other naturally occurring events may trigger famine conditions, it is government action or inaction that determines its severity, and often even whether or not a famine will occur. Governments with strong tendencies towards kleptocracy can undermine food security even when harvests are good. Officials often steal state property. In Bihar, India, more than 80% of the subsidized food aid to poor is stolen by corrupt officials. Similarly, food aid is often robbed at gunpoint by governments, criminals, and warlords alike, and sold for a profit. We have seen many examples of this nature.

The scale of humanitarian aid to the poor and unstable regions of the world grows, but it is highly vulnerable to corruption, with food aid, construction and other highly valued assistance as the most at risk. Food aid is directly and physically diverted from its intended destination, or indirectly through the manipulation of assessments, targeting, registration and distributions to favor certain groups or individuals. Elsewhere, in construction and shelter, the corrupt people find numerous opportunities for diversion and profit through substandard workmanship, kickbacks for contracts and favoritism in the provision of valuable shelter material. Thus while humanitarian aid agencies are usually most concerned about aid being diverted by including too many recipients themselves are most concerned about exclusion.

Corruption is not specific to poor, developing, or transition countries. In western countries, cases of bribery and other forms of corruption in all possible fields exist: under-the-table payments made to reputed surgeons by patients attempting for out-of-turn surgeries, bribes paid by suppliers to the automotive industry in order to sell low-quality connectors used for instance in safety equipment such as airbags, bribes paid by suppliers to manufacturers of defibrillators (to sell low-quality capacitors), contributions paid by wealthy parents to the "social and culture fund" of a prestigious university in exchange for it to accept their children, bribes paid to obtain diplomas, financial and other advantages granted to unionists by members of the executive board of a car manufacturer in exchange for employer-friendly positions and votes, etc. Examples are endless. These various manifestations of corruption ultimately present a danger for the public health; they discredit specific, essential institutions or social relationships.

Corruption also affects the various components of sports activities (referees, players, medical and laboratory staff involved in anti-doping controls, members of national sport federation and international committees deciding about the allocation of contracts and competition places). The recent Common Wealth Games Scam in India is one of its burning examples.

Fighting Against Corruption:

There are many forms of corrupt practices affecting us in many ways. Measuring corruption statistically is difficult if not impossible due to the illicit nature of the transaction and imprecise definitions of corruption. While "corruption" indices first appeared in 1995 with the Corruption Perceptions Index CPI, all of these metrics address different proxies for corruption, such as public perceptions of the extent of the problem.

Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, pioneered this field with the CPI, first released in 1995. This work is often credited with breaking a taboo and forcing the issue of corruption into high level development policy discourse. Transparency International currently publishes three measures, updated annually: a CPI (based on aggregating third-party polling of public perceptions of how corrupt different countries are); a Global Corruption Barometer (based on a survey of general public attitudes toward and experience of corruption); and a Bribe Payers Index, looking at the willingness of foreign firms to pay bribes. The Corruption Perceptions Index is the best known of these metrics, though it has drawn much criticism and may be declining in influence.

The World Bank collects a range of data on corruption, including survey responses from over 100,000 firms worldwide and a set of indicators of governance and institutional quality. Moreover, one of the six dimensions of governance measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators is Control of Corruption, which is defined as "the extent to which power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as 'capture' of the state by elites and private interests." While the definition itself is fairly precise, the data aggregated into the Worldwide Governance Indicators is based on any available polling: questions range from "is corruption a serious problem?" to measures of public access to information, and not consistent across countries.

Be Happy – Love Yourself.

Love can be defined as an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment with someone. It is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection —“the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”. Love may describe actions towards others or oneself based on compassion or affection. If it gets some consideration, that is only sacrifice without expecting any return. 

We refer love to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure (“I loved that meal") to interpersonal attraction (“I love my partner”). "Love" may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love, to the emotional closeness of familial love, to the platonic love that defines friendship, or to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love, or to a concept of love that encompasses all of those feelings. Love may be understood as part of the survival instinct, a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.

You Can Continue Your Love Affairs while Working.

Love is an emotional offspring. You can not dictate someone to love you or you can not be done with so. Sometime, it happens that you see someone and find that he/she is so attractive that you wish to talk, see closer and do not get bore if meeting time goes on increasing. That person can be an outsider or one amongst your colleagues.

Luckily, if he/she is one amongst your colleagues having working post just nearby to you, you may find that understanding your mutual work lives can deepen your relationship. And instead of rushing home each evening, you may be willing to work late, especially if you can do it alongside your beloved. It can be beneficial even to your employer if you devote your time more sincerely, side-by-side enjoying the company of the person you love.

No doubt, having love affairs at the work place do have merits and demerits as well. Be careful if your love affairs go sour, there may no escape but a lot of disgust and loss of mental peace affecting your productivity and perhaps, risk of shunting you off the job as you may still have to see and interact with that person daily. A failed workplace romance can also hurt your career and reputation.

If your love affairs remain sweet, other people may view your well earned promotion or raise as favoritism. And even if the relationship works out, it can be tough to work with your lover. You may get sick of each other if due to work, your spouse is posted at some more distance than earlier.

Whether you should or should not invite someone at the office isn't always a clear-cut decision. It depends on your situation and personality. But if you decide to make the leap, tread carefully over these issues.

Before going ahead in love affairs within the office, you must make sure that you can afford the brunt of failure also.

If you decide to go ahead in love affairs by frequently meeting somebody in your office, you must not tell to any other one or act in such a way that some other one is able to guess as he/she would always be there to watch your proceeding ahead and make it news in the office. From then on, the two of you will be under the microscope. It's even dangerous if the two of you are peers. For example, if you're seen helping your sweetie out with work, someone else who also needs your help may go to the boss and complain you're playing favorites. Thereafter, the other people may start to keep watch and apprise your Boss of the developments. Your boss will start to see the productivity from your end and your beloved one’s end. If there is some reduction, he can comment to make the relationship sour. At your end, if it doesn't work out, you still have to face that person every day. You will have to make sure that you can tolerate all the unsolicited comments from the concerned and unconcerned persons.

You Need To Be Very Much Smart by not opening your book in any stage before finally positive working out the relationship.

You should not expose your entire life to become an open book. Before you ask the person you love for a drink, you must ascertain that he/she isn't the type to share your innermost secrets to any third person for any reason. Better, you should not disclose unless you mature your relationship.

Love Affairs with a junior must not come to limelight.

If due to some happening, you feel love for a junior, try to ensure that your emotions do not come to limelight. Your relationship can be misconstrued as a power play - "Attend me, or you won't get that promotion." If you do not find yourself able to control yourself, you must change the office/posting.

If some senior fellow is there, you must handle the affairs very carefully. If things go beyond your control or he/she misuses, you could get hit with a lawsuit for sexual harassment, even if the relationship was mutual. Some companies require managers to report workplace romances and both parties to sign an agreement stating they willingly entered the relationship.

You must prefer for the work over the display of your love within the corridors of office.

Good people keep workplace romances a secret. But secrets can cause issues among coworkers. The key is to be discreet. Don't hold closed-door meetings, don't make overt displays of affection in the office and stay focused on work. You must prefer for the work within the corridors of the office so that none can hit you for any fault.

It's important not to spend every waking hour with your lover and your work. That's not good for any relationship. You must make a separate line for both. Pursue other interests together and individually. And make sure you have more in common than your jobs.

You Must Be Honest with Your Prospective Partner.

Honesty is the best policy and even in your love affairs, you must be honest with your prospective partner. It is more important if your partner is working within your office. If you're only looking for a quick fling, you shouldn't make long-term-relationship noises in your efforts to seduce. That candor is always important, but especially so in the workplace.

You Must Think Twice Before Starting a Relationship with Your Boss.

In some workplaces, this is strictly forbidden, but even if it is permissible, you must be alert. If later on, you dump your boss, he/she may retaliate through every opportunity for torturing you.

In fairness, sometimes a relationship with a boss can yield special privileges, like a corner office. Even if the boss decides to end the relationship, he may give you a promotion or another perk to reduce the risk that you'll file a grievance. One study found that 64 percent of women who had a romantic relationship with their boss reported that, as a result, their work situation improved.

Love affairs with your senior are also risky even if the relationship is working well. For example, your honey begs you for a plum assignment that, from a business perspective, you believe should go to someone else. But you feel forced to say yes to your special friend. And if you break off the relationship, you're really in danger: Your former beloved could claim you abused your power. You could end up losing your job.

If You Decide to Go for It, Be Professional.

If you do decide to pursue a work-related relationship, inform management, because chances are they already know. If you keep it a secret and they find out, it can lead to distrust.

But keep work on priority. Don't come in and set up camp at a table for six hours while your boyfriend is working his shift. We can't mirror two schedules all the time because you would like to work as a couple. Business needs must come first.

Love is as essential to the life as the bread is. If you are not able to serve your emotions well, what are you working for?

Prefer Love over Hatred.

God gave us two ears to hear, two eyes to see and two hands to hold. But why did God give us only one heart? Because he wants us to find the other one. You love someone not because you need that person, you need that person because you love that person. In love, the past is not important, but the present. Experience is more relevant than the pain you went through. The only thing that will make it stronger is forgiveness and not the retorting of sin. God is so good. He knows where a person will be happy, where they can love and be loved, where heaven on earth is.

No matter what words were used or what meaning about love was delivered, love quotes were said and written out of inspiration and to emphasize each person’s purpose for living…and that is to give love. There are times when one must love even to the detriment of one's "state" (so it would seem, anyway). There are times when one must work oneself to the point of exhaustion for the sake of love. And there are times when one must get involved in things that seem less than clean, less than spiritual, in order to help the humanity. One must jump into the mud in order to rescue those who are drowning in it. One must jump into the ocean of ignorance, attachment, strange ideas and views, spiritual falsities, in order to save people from these things.

Out of love God becomes man, and takes on the incredible burden of ego, of illusion, of ignorance, in order to save man from these. In the same way, it is important for man to hold the well-being of all ABOVE "spiritual elevation." The kind of spiritual elevation that seems to be in competition with true love and service and help is not true spiritual elevation. Love is the truest spiritual state of man. It is the closest to God, and the closest to Truth. This is not to say that one should not take the time necessary to be with Him, to rejuvenate in prayer and communion, this is essential -- just as food and friendship and air are essential -- to the human soul.

One must have a balanced and wide view of these things. Sometimes, when one is performing a task for the sake of love and one begins to feel weary, tired, one's mind may even feel less spiritualized and illuminated due to the tiredness that one feels. In that case, there are two ways that people might tend to choose. One person may heroically work on until falling over in need of rest. Another person may stop immediately in order to rejuvenate, reconnect to God, etc. Either of these choices may be appropriate, but most likely something more balanced is appropriate. People should not feel as if their spirituality is so frail that they are not able to persist in a task, or in the great task of world salvation, to the extent that is truly needed. And also, one must maintain one's connection to God, one's spiritual/emotional health. Therefore, it is wise to take a moment, an hour, a day, or even more, to rejuvenate in His arms when necessary.

There are times when it would be wise to work until you fall over, for if you fall He will catch you. And, truth be told, He is with you always. When you see the truth, you will know that He is always with you, even AS you are working yourself to the bone. So, He does not want to take away from the value of being willing to fall over in your efforts to serve, to save, etc.

At the same time, there are times when it is absolutely necessary and/or appropriate to take very regular breaks to be with God. There are times when the super-abundance that this would create is what is absolutely needed (for example, when a person needs a type of healing from you, which would take a super-abundance of energy). And also, there are times when a very HIGH refinement in one's way of thinking is also absolutely needed for the task. People of the absolute HIGHEST enlightenment may be able to maintain such a rarity and illumination of thought in any state, but most of His followers cannot. Therefore, there are times when it is appropriate to take regular breaks with God, long before you are anywhere near the point of falling down.

You must evaluate these things with this question: What does love require? What does this person, this world, this group require? You must feel through things with this question in your hearts, and turn to Him continually for guidance, for the answer to this question, and you will find the right way to go in each specific case.

There is nothing so untrue TO YOU as the lives that you are living. Your hearts are dissatisfied. You are so dissatisfied with the values that you and others around you have. You experience your relationships with others to be dis-satisfactory, because human beings everywhere are choosing to follow the values that this world has to offer, rather than loving wholeheartedly, passionately, with generosity and integrity.

It is true that ordinary" in the sense that you understand the word "ordinary." Love is greater than anything that this world has to offer. What this world calls love, for the most part, is not enough to keep any heart feeling alive and happy.

The point of your entire existence is to love. Learn to love, transcend yourselves for the sake of love, for the sake of others. That is the whole reason that you are here, to love. Many people go through their whole lives pursuing other things. When they die they are unfulfilled. No person can be fulfilled until they learn to truly love; to love from the heart, without self-protection, without fear.

Love means that you are aware of others around you, that you care about them from the depths of your heart, with all the emotion and attention that you feel for yourself and your own life. Love means that the spiritual and emotional well-being of others means everything to you, and you will commit your being and your life to enriching the lives of others; to uplifting their spirits; to reminding them of who they are; to helping them let go of false ideas and fears, and to love.

This may seem out of reach, you may be thinking, "That's far ahead of where I am. I'm just a beginner in the spiritual path; I'm not a saint." You may then think that you are invalid. You need to understand that you learn to love by loving. And since there is no other purpose to being here, on this planet, you may as well start now.

It is true that love requires learning to love. It is true, that you will have to go through many cycles of learning what you are doing that is unloving, and adjusting to be more loving. But you see, this is all part of the love itself: to learn; to adjust, to transcend your limitations.

There may be many things that you do now that you call love, but you will come to find out that they are not done out of love, but out of fear, or self-protection, or self-interest. Love requires that when you see that truth, you face it with courage, and adjust. The ego requires that when you see that fact, you collapse, feel terribly ashamed, and fail to make the adjustment; and fail to love, because you are too busy feeling bad about yourself. Or else, ego will require you to deny the errors you make, or become defensive. Either way, love will not be fulfilled.

Love will be fulfilled when you are willing to be honest. Yes, this is one of the first requirements for love: self-honesty. When you are self-honest it is because you hold something, or someone, as being more important than defending your bad habits or negative beliefs. When people are willing to look honestly at themselves it is almost always for love's sake.

So, you must look around you, at your beloved ones -- your friends, your family, whoever is most near to you -- and love them. Learn from them what you are doing that is unloving, either by asking them, or by paying attention to their responses to what you are doing. Learn to love them better. Commit yourselves to this task of loving, truly loving.

And also, look at those whom you do not consider your friends, and love them too, despite everything that causes you to feel distant from them, or angry or unhappy with them. Love them despite these things. See past their negative attributes and bad habits to the soul that they are, and love that soul, and pray for their release from the bad habits that have bothered you and hurt you for so long; for those bad habits have hurt them, too. Your love must prevail upon your hate. Prefer love over hatred.

Love is to see who people are, and who God is -- who God REALLY is, and who people REALLY are -- and to love them. Love is to see what everything really is, and to love everything, as it really is. And also, love is to see what people are going through, and to care, and to respond honestly, without letting self-protective or fearful feelings get in the way.

This is love: to transcend oneself for others. Love is to adjust for others. Love is to see others, and love them. And by means of true love, others feel less and less like others. You come to feel that every man and woman, and God, and the whole earth, is your own -- your own child, brother, sister. And then, further, you come to feel that these ARE you; part of your own body, your own soul. Your desires are not separate from those of God, or from the true heart's desires of others. When this comes to be, you will have found inner peace, and there will no longer be any need for struggle.

Sincere Love Can Accomplish Your Dreams.

Love is that type of emotion which is related to a sense of strong affection and attachment with someone or self. The word love can refer to different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure, as getting attracted to some specific meal due to taste or aroma, to intense interpersonal attraction as happens between wife and husband. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states. Its definition changes from time to time in the different contexts.

We usually refer love to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

Love is an essential matter for the success of your emotional life. If you develop and nurture it properly, be sure you can add up more than 16 years to your life span. That is why it needs special consideration and for that you need to create conducive atmosphere to develop. How to build up and nurture love in your life, there is a simple story for those who mostly work on computers and forget the importance of this factor in their life which I am putting up as I read somewhere. One computer-savy wishes to install love in his life and asks for the guidance from technical support expert. What they discuss is for your information and kind consideration.

Customer: Do you give technical guidance?
Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?
Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready, as long as you walk me through the steps. Tell me now, what do I do first?
Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?
Tech Support: Er… what programs are running, can you list them for me?

Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.
Tech Support: No problem, you can go right ahead. Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-esteem with a module of its own called High Self-esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Tell me, can you turn those off?

Customer: Umm… let me see. Actually, I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how? Please help.
Tech Support: With pleasure. It’s really quite simple. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Wow, Love has started i9nstalling itself. Is that normal?
Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. It’s quite basic. You need to begin connecting to other Hears in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, ‘Error – Program not run on external components.’ What should I do now?
Tech Support: Don’t worry, relax. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?
Tech Support: Pull down Self-acceptance; then click in the following files: Forgive Self; Realize Your Worth; and acknowledge Your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done. That wasn’t too difficult.
Tech Support: Now, copy them to the ‘My Heart’ directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also you need to delete Verbose Self-criticism from all directories and empty you Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

This way, I would like to emphasize over the need of making love with yourself. I use the word “making” because for others, we forget ourselves. That is why we may have to make extra efforts to love ourselves. Our true nature is love itself. This is the only kind of love that is real and everlasting. This love cannot be damaged, altered, threatened or changed in any way. It pours out of us naturally when our mind is calm and at ease, and it opens our heart to the God, flooding our body with absolute elation. 

Every day that we choose to do those gentle and kind things to ourself, those things that bring deep peace into our heart (such as watching a beautiful sunset, walking slowly in nature, or holding a sleeping baby) we can feel this sweet divine love so easily. This love wants to move through us. It yearns to course through our veins like an eternal fountain of life.  Rejuvenating every cell and molecule throughout our system, this love brings pure healing into us on the deepest levels.

We can invoke this love right now by turning inside and asking ourself, "where is the source of love"?  Look with gentle eyes, a childlike innocence and a permeating curiosity.  Very soon we will experience a warm feeling opening from inside.  It is amazing how this secret love is always permanently inside us, yet is often hidden behind the ego walls and the busy ambitious mind.  To break down these walls and reveal the true source of love we must engage in a process of peeling back the layers of limiting beliefs within us.  It’s those beliefs that say this type of crazy wild ecstatic love is impossible to have and is something we have to do something to experience right now.  The truth is we need to do nothing but relax deeply inside and it will spring forth.  This love is always here now, forever inside us, and no matter what inhibitions and insecurities pass through our mind. No matter how depressed, suicidal or down in the dumpsters we feel, this sacred feeling is available and will bless us by instantly wiping all our worried problems away.

Here's a simple exercise that will invoke this divine love to come forth.  We may gently bring our attention to the area of our heart and imagine the most beautiful flower is there, and its opening its petals to the warm sunshine above.  The feeling we receive is what opens the door to accessing the infinite source of love.  Just how it sounds, this eternal source of love is no small matter, it is the most amazing thing in this Universe so we must respect it as that.  It is what brings purpose to our life and healing to all those wounds we carry inside.  It’s like a constantly pulsing Sun inside us, radiating warmth and gratitude in every direction.  It shines upon everything we see, touch and sense, and does not discriminate at all what it shines upon.  It radiates unconditional acceptance, giving compassion and understanding to the darkest most demonic energies we know of, which are in the deepest need of finding this infinite source of light inside.

One of the most sacred secrets I've found to remaining in the source of love is learning how to consistently reside in the soul of our heart.  What this means in living from a heart centered life that is timeless, formless, always expansive, positive, and spacious.  To find it takes something very real and radical.  We must continuously abandon all concepts, judgments and ideas of ourself.  We must drop who we are and who we are not, and give all these ideas back to God.  In the absence of these ideas we are left with an emptiness that is so pure and fertile that only the most sacred experience in the Universe can be born.  Letting go of our identity seems like a huge scary sacrifice at first, yet the reward we may receive is so enormous that it will take our life far beyond anything we once believed was possible. For it is at the very core of this empty vacuum of identity that we will find the purest source of love, the eternal being who we truly are. 

No matter what is happening in our life we can detach, retreat and discover this divine home inside us. This sacred spiritual nest is more easily found when we commit yourself to places and people that make we feel quiet, calm and peaceful inside. The people who hold this vibration will take us there naturally, just by hanging out with them.  Their commitment to abiding in this healing vibration is contagious.  As they talk, walk and breathe in this healing source themselves, we can feel their connection and naturally mimic this love alignment within ourselves.  The more surrendered, peaceful and still a person is, the more love they will be naturally radiating.  We are all here to help each other ascend to higher levels of consciousness through love.  In this process you'll find the depth of your trust and surrender is equal to your level of devotion to yourself. 

In practical terms looking at our own life, how willing are we to let go of our old patterns and excuses and give these up to experience real love?  How are we hiding our bright light from the world?  What excuses do we have for not fully living our life purpose and doing what we really want to be doing with our time here?  All this hiding is a form of lying and is completely dis-empowering.  Even the little white lies that we may tell others and ourselves, these keep us small, stuck and feeling stale.  We have to acknowledge what lies we are telling (ask our friends for feedback) and then summon the courage to let them go. We may replace any lie we find with the truth, the real and most radical truth we can find.  From this place we become free and can truly ride with reckless abandon on this wild eternal journey into the heart of love. 

No matter what happens in our life, we may remember this one thing.  This sacred source of love is always here, inside us right now and this will never ever change.  This love inside us can never die, and it won't even change with the different situations, careers, or relationships that come and go through our life.  If our heart still hurts from losses in our past, we may bring these feelings and memories of loss into the heart of love.  This infinite source of love will readily accept them and transform them with its bright unconditional light.  Yes, the Sun is always there shining its love on us even when it’s a dark cloudy day. We may remember this, and look inside our very heart for the source of love.  It is always here now, ready for us to experience it all the time.

Be Happy – Love Yourself.

With the advent of civilization, we, the human beings started to live in society. As our numbers grew, our needs also grew. Our growing needs made inventions and discoveries in search of the resources. The people formed groups and those groups became states with passage of time. By going through history, we find that in search of the resources, the people wandered here and there. Where they saw ample availability of the resources, they settled. After settling themselves, they invited other people and slowly their numbers grew up. Sometime, differences among them arose and there had been fighting to snatch the control of the resources. This is still going on.

Our interests to meet our needs clash with those who too are interested to meet their needs. Materialism promotes our wish to gather as many things as we can and in the process of gathering, some of us give up ethics too. Today, earning of money is accorded top priority by majority of us without keeping care of our health, time and other important factors. Our imbalanced chasing of money/resources has made us mad sometime making us forget our relationship, status, understandings, ethics and our character too. If we do not get success, we are not making introspection of ourselves as to what wrongs we made that we could not achieve success but we see someone else’s working to be responsible. Instead of improving our process, we start to plan to harm the person, we understand, to be responsible for our failures. Sometime, our greed also makes us attack others to capture their resources in illegal and unethical methods. This creates discontent and results into crimes.

We must understand that it is the rule of nature that those who take birth vanish one day. Nature has gifted to everyone a limited time to live, not a single second thereafter. Further, you are not allowed to keep anything, any person with you after your time to live be over. The quantum of that time is not known. Your time can expire any day, any time, any moment whatever be the reason and you may take your last breath, that too, beyond your control and without your own permission. Then, why do you gather all those things which you are not able to enjoy during your life time? Do you gather for your next generations? How do you assess that your next generations can enjoy them? There are many cases when we see father/mother witnessing death of the kin during own life. We gather the materials to enjoy during our life and surplus for our next generations without knowing about the future. But we are doing it. Actually, we are committing the sin of hoarding those materials which can be used by other ones too. We are depriving them of their genuine share in the gifts given by the nature to the mankind.

This is true that this universe belongs to those who are brave and active. Those who wish to live easy life without doing any thing, should not be allowed to have comforts on other’s cost, labor and action. If you wish to live your time happily, you need to sweat yourself. It is our duty to groom up our progeny so well that at their time, they must understand the importance of the work. We must learn from the birds. When a bird sees its chic to have grown up sufficiently to fly through its own feathers, it kicks out that chic through the nest to earn the food itself. The chain goes on. We must follow. The day our generations may learn how to earn, we would be able to live happily by concentrating our efforts on our earning limited to our needs of the present and some savings for the emergencies. If we care for our present, the future stands insured itself.

Our forefathers had propounded the concept of  Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. It is  a Sanskrit phrase. If we break up this phrase, we find that  "vasudha" means the earth, "iva" is as a; and "kutumbakam" means family. That means that the whole world is one single family. The concept is not just about peace and harmony among the groups in the world, but also about a truth that somehow the whole world has to live by some rules like a family, set by an unknowable source. This is the reason why we think that any power in the world, big or small cannot have its way disregarding others. The nature balances every thing. If we disturb the process of nature, we find many calamities in result.

If we go through the history, we find that in the Vedic thought thousands of years ago, another verse which was in the form of a prayer “Loka samastha sukhinau bavanthu” – May the world live in peace, had been promoting pleasures for all. The people did not just pray for the happiness of humans alone. They prayed for every living creature in the world. “Sarve sukina santhu, sarve santhu niramayaha” – May every living being be free from ills and miseries and attain peace.

Today we talk of ‘global village’ and ‘globalization’. Globalization by definition is ‘the process of transformation of local phenomena into global ones, a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together’. While globalization started as an economic phenomenon driven by business interests, it is today perceived as a unification of economic, technological, social, cultural and political forces. However, although globalisation aims at diluting and dissolving the political boundaries of nations, nationalities, cultures and diversities, the world today is witnessing strife, wars, conflicts at all fronts and on all accounts i.e economic, political, social and cultural !

Why so? We are not honest at our heart. We talk of globalization but we eye at the markets and resources available at the other ends. We need to be honest. Our forefathers who proclaimed 4,000 years ago that ‘world is one family’ were not seen to be in such conflict. Although the underlying objective of the two concepts appears to be the same, there obviously is a difference between the process of ‘globalization’ being attempted today and the principle of 'Vasudaiva Kutumbakam' that was ingrained in the culture and way of life of our forefathers. We will have to go back to the philosophy of our forefathers.

Today, globalization has been motivated by economic interests and not out of a concern for ‘universal welfare’ – economic interests of those searching for new markets and better resource mobilization. Its advocacy for free trade was adopted by different countries as it did lead to cash flows in otherwise deficient economies. However, the whole process being motivated primarily by economic interests of a few powerful nations and corporations, the emphasis is on pursuit of financial gains. It leads to satisfaction of economic needs of many people in less developed countries, though not all, thus nations’ policies and actions have started to get structured around greatest financial gains to benefit their societies.

Though we are happy to see that progress and success has started to be measured in material terms, other concerns such as environmental issues, or human perspectives of emotional richness or social well being, are not necessarily cared for. Moreover, the survival in the new global business markets is dependent on improved productivity and increased competition and in such highly competitive environments, human actions are getting centered on self interest and greed.

In this pursuit of material progress - production, distribution and consumption of an increasing number of goods and conveniences is the creed and each competes with the other to produce more with less. More skills, better technology, better access to cheaper resources even if through the exploitation of natural resources of the earth or through better, bigger bombs to maim and destroy opponents, all in pursuit of more financial gains! Although many of the wars being waged in the world appear to have religious and ethnic basis, the underlying motives are now being perceived to be economic – competition for dwindling resources of the world. Troops and weapons are being deployed where local people threaten corporate investments and returns!

We need to rethink over our policy of globalization and come back to Vasudaiva Kutumbakam’ in its letter and spirit. We need to live together and live happily by adjusting our needs to promote peace and fraternity amongst all the human beings with care to other creations as well.

Be Happy – Live Together and Live Happily.