विनोद...!

बातम्या, क्रिकेट आणि इंग्रजी सिनेमे  याशिवाय टीव्ही कडे अभावानेच वळणाऱ्या आमच्या एक्स जनरेशनने मराठी वाहिन्यांची दखल घेणे तसे दुरापास्तच. 'फू बाई फू' या अलीकडे लोकप्रिय(?) आणि हास्यास्पद झालेल्या 'रियालिटी शो' ला आमच्या सारखा प्रेक्षक कधीमधी मिळवून देण्यात सतीश तारे, भाऊ कदम, सुप्रिया पाठारे, संतोष पवार, किशोरी अंबिये अशा स्वाभाविक विनोदी अभिनेत्यांबरोबरच ताज्या दमाच्या प्रियदर्शन जाधव, भारत गणेशपुरे, सागर कारंडे, हेमंत ढोमे आणि माधवी जुवेकर यांचा सिहांचा वाटा. तथापि, वेळेची मुबलक उपलब्धता, कुठल्याही हास्यास्पद गोष्टीवर अखंड आणि निष्कारण हसण्याची उर्जा आणि नाटकी, उथळ समीक्षा, हे अर्चना पुरण सिंग आणि अरबाज / सोहेल खान यांचे 'कौमेडी सर्कस' हे नाव सार्थ करणाऱ्या कार्यक्रमातील परीक्षण(?!?) हुबेहूब वठवण्यासाठी केलेली स्वप्नील जोशी आणि अश्विनी यांची नेमणूक ही या कार्यक्रमाच्या सहा पर्वातील सगळ्यात विनोदी गोष्ट ठरावी!

संदर्भ: कालचा 'फू बाई फू' चा ताजा एपिसोड. प्रियदर्शन जाधव आणि माधवी जुवेकरने संगीताचा जो काही क्लास घेतला त्याने महेमूद आणि मनोरमाची आठवण आली. प्रियदर्शनची प्रत्येक वेळी सतीशशी तुलना करून त्याच्या (प्रियदर्शनच्या, स्वप्नीलच्या नव्हे) स्वत:च्या अंगभूत आणि आत्यंतिक लवचिक विनोद-प्रतिभेचा उपमर्द करण्यात स्वप्नीलचे जे काही 'एक्सपर्टांइज' दिसते (कुणाला?) ते नेहमीच क्लेशदायक असते परंतु काल माधवीने संपूर्ण वेळ आवाजाची जी कसरत केली त्याची प्रशंसा तर दूर साधा उल्लेखही होऊ नये हे फारच खटकले. तीच बाब अंशुमनच्या 'बेवड्या'च्या बेअरिंगची. असले बारकावे हेरून त्यांची यथायोग्य मीमांसा आणि वाहवा करता येत नसेल तर हे परीक्षक काय कलाकारांना स्वत:च्या घरचे पदार्थ खाऊ घालण्यापुरते ठेवलेत काय…? अश्विनीच्या पात्रतेचा तर संबंधच येत नाही कारण तिला मुळात स्वत:ची तरी ओळख कुठेय? हे लिहितांना प्रस्तुत 'समीक्षका'ला (हे दोघे 'परीक्षक' होवू शकतात या न्यायाने) तिचे आडनाव देखील ठाऊक नाही आणि जाणून घेण्याची तसदीही घ्यावीशी वाटली नाही यातच सगळे आले.

मुद्दा एवढाच की मुळातच सुसह्य परंतु अतिशय दुर्मिळ असणाऱ्या, फारसा भेजा फ्राय न करता कधीकधी बेताचे मनोरंजन सुद्धा करू शकण्याची क्षमता बाळगणाऱ्या मराठी कार्यक्रमांची मराठीला गरज असतांना, त्या कार्यक्रमातील कलाकारांचे मनोधैर्य वाढून त्यांना आणखी सकस, सृजनशील आणि बावनकशी कामगिरी करण्याचा हुरूप येण्यासाठी, त्यांच्या प्रतीभेला न्याय देवून ती फुलवू शकणाऱ्या परीक्षकांची वानवा आहे, गरजच वाटत नाही की 'मजबूरी'? अत्यंत अभ्यासू, मार्मिक आणि विचक्षण निरीक्षण-परीक्षण सिद्धी असलेल्या तंबी दुराई, ब्रिटीश नंदी, चहाटळ या नामधारी तथा शिरीष कणेकर, शरद वर्दे, मंगला गोडबोले, शफाहत खान, मंगेश तेंडूलकर अशा नामवंत राजहंसी दिग्गजांचा या सांस्कृतिक योगदानासाठी विचार करण्यास काय प्रत्यवाय असावा…? (प्रस्तुत समीक्षक, या नावांचे नामांकन अथवा शिफारस करीत नसून केवळ विचारांना दिशा देण्यासाठी हे प्रयोजन आहे याची जाणीव असावी. तसा सामिक्षकाकडे पद्म्च काय छद्म देखील पुरस्कार नसल्याने तो परत करण्याचा प्रश्नच उद्भवत नाही ही त्यातल्या त्यात निर्विवाद आणि समाधानाची गोष्ट…!) आणि यातली कुठलीही गोष्ट काही 'तांत्रिक' तथा 'अपरिहार्य' कारणांमुळे शक्य नसल्यास 'केबीसी'चा 'ऑडीयन्स पोल बाय व्होटिंग मीटर'चा पर्याय काय वाईट आहे…?!?

Flight...!

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained.

Months passed and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its branch since the day it had arrived.

The king summoned healers and sorcerers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly. He presented the task to the member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch. Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, "May be I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem." So he cried out to his court, "Go and get a farmer."

In the morning, the king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He said to his court, "Bring me the doer of this miracle."

The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king. The king asked him, "How did you make the falcon fly?"

With head bowed, the farmer said to the king, "It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch of the tree where the bird was sitting..."

 

 

We are all made to fly..., to realize our incredible potential as living beings. But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches, clinging to the things that are familiar to us. The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We conform to the familiar, the comfortable, the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling. So let us learn to destroy the branch of fear we cling to and...

Free ourselves to the glory of flight... 

On this concluding day of Festival of Light...!

Stay tuned and make your flight...!

Perfection...!?!

A visitor to a temple under construction saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor,

“Do you need two statues of the same idol?”

“No,” said the sculptor without looking up, 

“We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.”

The visitor examined the idol and found no apparent damage.

“Where is the damage?” he asked.
“There is a scratch on the nose of the idol” said the sculptor, still busy with his work.

“Where are you going to install the idol?”

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.
“If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?” the visitor exclaimed.
 

The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the curious visitor, smiled and said,

“I know it and God knows it!”

The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone appreciates it or not. Excellence is a drive from inside, not outside. Excel at a task today – not necessarily for someone else to notice but for your own good.

Stay tuned and strive for Excellence...!

A Token of Appreciation...!

How you think...!

There is a famous saying that we are the product of our thoughts. Hence this article is written to understand the importance of thoughts, their contributing factors, thought analysis and purification techniques.

During all day we keep thinking about things, events, families, issues, future, money, office and several other stuff. Our thoughts drive us to take some actions and hence we are moving towards our destiny by each and every action. That means our thought is the strongest part of our destiny as it is the root cause of every action. In my opinion, our Thoughts Process primarily consists of following five contributing factors. I will include some of the details of each factor and summarize the Thought Purification tips under each category below:

1. Education:- Education broadens the horizon of our minds. More education means that the mind is exposed to more knowledge and possibilities. Education when combined with experience result in more mental growth as compared to a less educated person. Hence the quality of thoughts are directly linked with the education. So to keep our 'thoughts seeds' healthy we must seek for Good knowledge, the knowledge which freshen up our brain cells, which gives us positive energy and boosts up our mental power. So we must keep learning new things throughout our life in order to synergize.

2. Desires:- This is sometimes a killing factor. For example, If we let our brain running behind our desires blindly, we will end up with considering short-cuts in our life for achievements. These short cuts basically kill the purity of thoughts and consequently bound us doing social evils such as back-biting, lying, deceiving, stealing, fraud, bribery and other forms of corruption. Hence, we have to have sold control on our desires to control this phenomenon. But this does not mean, we should drop our genuine desires. Remember, Positive desires combined with Positive Thoughts and Actions will result in success. However Positive Desires combined with Negative Thoughts and Action will result in crimes which I just mentioned above.
 

3. Brought up:- Each one of us has been brought up in a unique way by our parents. Some of us have been grown in very healthy physical and mental family environment. Some have mixed kind of situations both positive and negative in terms of finance, family bonding and social lives. Our mental growth has been based on all the events which have been taking place in our childhood, teenage and even our current day to day life. We can't go back to past to change our brought-up but what we can do is to drop the negative part of our past and tightly hold on to the positive one. It's pretty much straight forward. If we wish to keep the Negative things in mind, that means we are polluting your brain and your 'Thinking System'. So the choice is ours!

4. Company (family & friends):- This is something we can really work on to make our life happy. A mature 'human environment' is an indication of healthy mental growth. We must always try to surround yourself with positive, fun-loving, friendly, optimistic, constructive, cheerful and bright people so the brain is free from stress consequently brain will automatically start working on positive thoughts. When with family, we should always endeavour for creating a happy environment by meeting the logical desires of family members, cracking jokes, listening emphatically. This helps divert the brain towards positive feelings and hence our upcoming thoughts would be mature, positive and stress-free.

5. Circumstances:- Good and bad things happen to everyone but we must not throw ourselves totally on our circumstances. It is said that life is 20% what happens to us and 80% how we react to it. So consider every challenge as a new adventure and try to adopt a positive approach for a safe exit. Control your circumstance by surrounding yourself with positive people, behaving good with others, taking corrective and preventive measures for any mishaps. There are situations when we don't have control on the events happened to us. In this case, we don't have much choice but to live with the situation. However we shouldn't let such things steal our peace of mind. So we need to seek help from others and try to find solution. It is advised not to get involved too much for any situation. It is wisely said by someone that if you can't laugh on the same joke again and again so why worrying on the same trouble again and again!

 
Conclusion:- You are the product of your thoughts. Quality of your thoughts determines the level of peace of mind. Good thoughts result in good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit. So every seed of thought matters. Always remember: Small minds think and discuss about people, average minds think and discuss about events, higher minds think and discuss about ideas and great mind actually execute & innovate in silence. 

Source: email from Geetika Oberoi to Fropki@yahoogroups.com

Belief...!

One day Mara, the Evil One, was travelling through the villages of India with his attendants. he saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up on wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara’s attendant asked what that was and Mara replied, “A piece of truth.”

 

 

“Doesn’t this bother you when someone finds a piece of truth, O Evil One?” his attendant asked. “No,” Mara replied. “Right after this, they usually make a belief out of it.”

Room Test...!?!

Q.: What is your favorite room in your home?

A. Bedroom 

B. Living room

C. Dining room

D. Bathroom

E. Kitchen

F. Balcony

G. Study or Den

H. None at all

Your answer will disclose your personality, the creator (of this test, not of the World...!) claims. So choose... no, not wisely but honestly if you want to find out who you really are...!?! And if you don't like the findings, don't blame me or the originator but try either changing the room or... yourself; the choice, as usual, is yours!

A. Bed Room: You are an imaginative and colorful character. You Believe in true love but until you find it, you'll have fun flirting. You attract people just by the way you talk. This can make insecure people feel jealous.

B. Living Room: You are sociable and enjoy talking to people. Whenever you have the opportunity, you'll help people. You don't shirk responsibility, and in fact enjoy taking on leadership roles.

C. Dining Room: You are conservative, cautious and don't panic in emergencies. You are an extrovert, and like sharing ideas with people. However, you also need to spend time alone to organize your thoughts.

D. Bath Room: You take good care of yourself and are concerned about your health. When you hear about any new illnesses, you start watching out for the first symptoms to appear. This can sometimes annoy your friends. However, you look at the world on the bright side, and this makes you quite popular.

E. Kitchen: Easygoing and altruistic, you are most happy when taking care of others. While at times you can be boisterous, you make people feel comfortable around you and they always seek your advice when they have problems.

F. Balcony: You love freedom and hate to be controlled. You want to walk away from all the rules and rely on your imagination to direct your life instead. When you need to reenergize yourself, you head to thebeach or to the forest.

G. Study or den: You take life seriously and like things to be neat and in order. Proud and dignified, you don't like to be mocked. You are a good listener even when you disagree with other people's ideas.

H. None at all: You are interested in the people around you and don't pay much heed to material goods. You are helpful and considerate to your family, and in return they love you dearly.