1) Reflect on ur life in relation to the Cosmos. This will drop the smallness in u & u will b able to live fully.

2) Remind urself of the highest goal in Life. You r not here to grumble/complain. You r here for something bigger.

3) Serve! Engage yourself in community service to whatever extent you can.

4) Have faith & trust that the Divine loves you dearly & is taking care of you.

5) As we flip the calendar,we need to flip our mind too. Don’t fill future dates with past events. Learn & move on.

6) Smile more! True sign of prosperity is an unconditional smile on your face.

7) Nurture yourself with music, prayer & silence. Meditation,pranayam & yoga rejuvenate; give depth & stability.

Below mentioned text is from http://www.scribd.com/doc/73464511/Comments-on-Citizens-Right-to-Grievance-Redress-Bill-2011

Contents at above link is copied below, if you prefer reading it here.

Ask this question to yourself: Can India really afford dynastic politics of this irresponsible sort?

Can India really afford dynastic politics of this irresponsible sort? Reuters

Despite the objections of many in the UPA cabinet and the advice of economists, Sonia Gandhi is shoving the Food Security Bill down our throats.

It is tempting to conclude that all this is prompted by a desire to see the poor fed, but the truth is that the Food Security Bill (FSB) – like many of its predecessors – will end up achieving the exact opposite of what it wants to. It will achieve food insecurity and a devastated economy.

The FSB’s bills will fall due only later, but Sonia Gandhi’s old bills are already costing us plenty – not least inflation and a busted budget.

Let us add up the real cost to the country when Sonia Gandhi’s party feeds itself off someone else’s money: ours. This is the true cost of keeping the Dynasty in power.

The following are Sonia Gandhi’s political bills that have been paid by all of us – taxpayers and consumers.

# 1  Farm loan write-off of Rs 72,000 crore in 2008. All that the UPA needed to do to help farmers in debt was to waive interest, freeze the outstandings, and allow them to pay it all in easy instalments. But what could have been a bill of less than Rs 10,000 crore of interest waivers, which would have helped maintain a proper climate for loan recovery while providing real relief, ended up with a cost of Rs 72,000 crore for the exchequer. The political part of the bill is thus Rs 72,000 crore minus interest waiver costs – say around Rs 60,000 crore. The cost of damaging the repayment culture is incalculable – and will be paid by subsequent generations and banks.

# 2: Subsidies paid for keeping diesel, cooking gas and kerosene prices low:Rs 2,23,203 crore in 2005-11. Add this year’s under-recoveries of another Rs 1,32,000 crore, and the total bill is Rs 3,55,000-and-odd crore. Let’s further assume that all politicians would have subsidised petro-goods to some extent. But the NDA did not subsidise half as much. If we take 50 percent of the amount as subsidies that every politician would have paid to consumers, the subsidies paid only to humour Sonia Gandhi would be around Rs 1,75,000 crore.

# 3: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has cost all of Rs 1,00,000 crore so far, and by March, 2012, it will have cost around Rs 1,40,000 crore. Assuming, once again, a more sensible kind of populism would have ended up with only half the expenditure on such schemes, Sonia’s bill would work out to Rs 70,000 crore.

The Sonia-Rahul re-election bill so far thus amounts to Rs 3,05,000 crore.

Now, let’s bring in the Food Security Bill. The official estimate of costs is around Rs 1,00,000 crore, but since these are likely to be underestimates intended to force a foolish bill through a reluctant cabinet, we should look at more realistic estimates.

The FSB will only achieve a population dependent on the dole, and an economy ultimately unable to feed itself. AFP

Ashok Gulati and Jyoti Gujral – the former is chairman of the Commission of Agricultural Costs and Prices, and thus should know what he is talking about – wrote in The Economic Times that the real cost of the FSB, taking both the direct cost of subsidies and the accompanying investment in infrastructure (godowns, higher food procurement prices, et al), should be reckoned at Rs 2,00,000 crore per annum in the next three-year period.

Now let’s assume that even this money is worth spending to feed the poor. But the existing public distribution system (PDS) leads to a leakage of nearly 60 percent.

Says a World Bank study prepared at the instance of the UPA government: “Leakages and diversion of grains are high. Only 41 per cent of the grains released by government reach households, according to the 2004-05 National Sample Survey (the latest data available), with some states doing much worse. In 2001, the Planning Commission has estimated this leakage of BPL (below poverty line) grains at 58 percent nationally.”

If 58-60 percent of Rs 2,00,000 crore spent on the Food Security Bill is going to be lost due to leakage and pilferage, this is a humongous Rs 1,20,000 crore loss every year. Since it is Sonia Gandhi who insists on the FSB in its current form after rejecting every other alternative (including cash transfers to the poor), it means this bill ought to be sent to her and the National Advisory Council (NAC) she heads. Since we have two years of food security to finance before the next election, the real bill will be Rs 2,40,000 crore for 2012-13 and 2013-14.

Add Rs 2,40,000 crore to the Rs 3,05,000 crore bill the dynasty has already racked up to keep itself in the good books of the electorate and to get Rahul Gandhi the gaddi in 2014, and the true cost of Dynasty is Rs 5,45,000 crore.

NAC’s annual budget in just around Rs 4 crore. But the bill it is sending taxpayers is as much as Rs 5,45,000 crore.

Can India really afford dynastic politics of this irresponsible sort?

Let’s return to the economics of the Food Security Bill (FSB) again. It’s worth beginning with the old saying, slightly modified for our purposes: Teach a man to fish, and he will feed himself for life. Give him a fish every day, and you will have him eating out of your hands. You would have created a permanent dependency and ultimately run out of fish.

This is what Sonia-nomics will achieve with the FSB: a population dependent on the dole, and an economy ultimately unable to feed itself.

To be sure, let’s give Sonia the benefit of the doubt and assume she has a heart of gold and weeps buckets at the thought of anyone going hungry. But nothing in the policies she has backed so far suggests she has her head screwed right.

If there is a crisis, of course, you should provide food to the hungry. But this can only be a short-term measure. Since Sonia has been in power for more than seven years, the crisis phase should have ended long ago and long-term solutions found to the problem of hunger and food supplies.

Sonia Gandhi wakes up to hunger only when elections are in sight. But we shall let that pass.

Sri Sri: Suppose you had not done the course, how would you have reacted to the same situation? Just take a look. There are two issues in life, one is life before Art of Living and the other is life after Art of Living. So gradually you will grow into that centeredness. Even though you feel a little shaky at that time, never mind, you continue your practice. One day you will suddenly find that you are happy come what may. Nothing is taking your happiness. That type of awareness will come one day.

Being a nice person

understand unusual behavior of somebody, don’t go crazy. Remind yourself  ”It’s all about being a nice person”. I have not said – Don’t show anger or don’t correct the person, etc

How did I discover this is – I have different way of life and my family members want it to be on a different way! Justifying, arguing, talking to them is not working at all and problems were increasing day by day. Being on higher side with higher purpose, I discovered - ”It’s all about being a nice person” And I started appreciating Krishna much more for the way HE lived his life, being a nice person all the time and doing what he wanted to do or getting things done the way he wanted it to .

2. Never Mind – There is nothing to be serious about. Just be sincere YOU can be serious only in hospitals So never mind

3. Baat karne se hi baat banati hai (बात करने से ही बात बनती है|) – It will happen only if you talk! It’s for the things when you have to take initiatives. Never mind Don’t think much. Just say it out. And you will get new ideas, ways, contacts. Don’t hesitate to talk or don’t be prejudiced…..

We are fortunate to get this chance to do something great for our country. Thanks to Anna Hazare and hats off to his commitment, patience, vision, intelligence, simplicity, patriotism. Here in India, everybody wanted to do something for country but nobody knew what to do, how to do it. Anna provided a platform/gave a direction for result oriented action where results can be seen in very near future.

I don’t think there is anybody in India today who is against Anna other than corrupt politicians and people whom these politicians were buying for votes or so. I heard there are few Dalit leaders who are against this movement. It’s very unfortunate but probably they are funded by Government.

Anna we all are with you!

Do support India Against Corruption ! It’s always better to be a part of the change rather than just seeing it from outside. Choice is yours!

I am with Anna for corruption free India.

Satyam Param Dhimahi! - Let Truth, Divinity and Knowledge shine through me!

What could be the reason that government doesn’t want to bring strong Lokpal! – It’s simple. Corruption of the people in power will be exposed and they will not have any chance to do corruption anymore. And I am against Corruption so whosoever is against Lokpal, I am against him/it. And at present it’s Congress leaders doing so by various menas – by linking civil society members to RSS or by defaming them and … GOD knows what ways!

Whatever! I am against Corruption! I am with Anna and Team for Strong Lokpal!

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Details of Discussion from the Drafting Committee Meeting on 15-6-2011

The government’s intentions became very clear today. It wants to kill Lokpal before it were born. They want to create a Lokpal without any administrative or investigative machinery – an emaciated and disempowered Lokpal.

Government says that it would be an eleven member body. Benches of these eleven members would take all decisions. Government says that Lokpal would have powers to receive public grievances from ordinary people. So, if an income tax officer demanded a bribe to give an income tax refund in Bangalore, the citizen will have to make a complaint to the eleven member body in Delhi and come to Delhi for hearings. “There would be thousands of complaints from across the country. How will these eleven members deal with it?” asked civil society members. The government did not reply. They just announced their decision. This is a sure way of killing Lokpal before it was born. We wanted a Lokpal with officers working under it at district level, who would have powers to deal with cases at local level. Government refuses to accept that model.

It was clear today that the government had already made up its mind. The talks were just a formality. Inside the committee, the civil society members keep arguing strenuously on each point and the government ministers simply announce their decisions, even if they do not have arguments.

In the end, the government nominees suggested that we bring our version of Lokpal Bill in the next meeting, they would bring their version of Lokpal Bill. In the next meeting, they would see whether there could be consensus on any more issues. Finally two Bills will be sent to the Cabinet.

We demanded copies of audio tapes of the proceedings so far. They refused. We said that we were committee members and should have a right to take copies of audio tapes of the proceedings. They said they could consider it after all the meetings were over. We said – “do you promise to give us copies of all tapes in the last meeting?” Again they were non-committal. It is really surprising why is the government hesitating in making the discussions public? Perhaps the world would come to know that the government has vetoed on practically all points without having any valid arguments.

Today, when Ramdev Baba ended his fast (against black money and corruption) in hospital after 9 days, guess, where were Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi… They were in Switzerland!!…. cleaning out their accounts.. now people dont give me logic that ‘they have gone for a vacation’

Itinerary of the trip is Dubai-Switzerland-Italy (to finally launder the money)

Check out my previous post that will support this:

http://arpitk.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/why-congress-doesnt-want-to-bring-black-money/

Whosoever is raising voice against corruption is entitled RSS agent by Congress..

I am not anti-congress.I jst don’t like party which has Digvijay Singh, Kapil Sibal, Arjun Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, Sonia Gandhi as leaders.