It is possible!

Over last week I was trying to find answer of this question. Is it possible to change Indians and India? or Is it possible to unite India under one tent to achieve commong goal of prosperity and peace? I have discussed the same with my friends and colleagues, but I only got negative answer. The task, to unite and change more than 1 billion people, is definitely not small and easy. These 1 billion people are not staying at one place, they are scattered around 6.5 lakhs villages, thousands of small towns and many big cities. Also all people are not following the same religion and are not from the same cast, which is big hurdle to unite all under one tent. Indians are even divided on basis of states. Even though we have best possible ways to communicate with people through latest mass communication technologies, this task seems impossible to many of us. Again the main problem is not just to communicate, but to convince and motivate people to achieve common goal of prosperity and peace. To find answer of this question, I turned to "The World Teacher".

"The World Teacher" gave me reference to two persons in Indian history who have almost achieved these tasks, to unite India under one tent and to motive them to achieve common goal. Chanakya and M. K. Gandhi alias Gandhi Bapu. I am not comparing both here, because both can’t be compared. There is difference of 2000 years between their life times. Chanakya had to unite India to stop foreign forces from invading India, while Gandhi Bapu had to unite India to get freedom from Britishers who were already ruling India. Both had different goal, but common way to achieve it. Chanakya was master of shrewd act of diplomacy. He believed in four ways, namely, Enticement, Sowing Dissension, Punishment or War. In contrast to Chanakya, Gandhi Bapu believed in non-violence and truth. Though both have different ideologies, the common thing between them was the skill to motivate people. They were able to transfer their motivational energy and skill to their followers and their followers were transferring the same to other people. Without any of today’s great technologies, their ideas were able to unite and motivate people far away from them. Swami Vivekananda was also one such great person who has tried to unite India, but not able to do it because of his death at very young age, but his teaching still motivates people.

Today India needs such great person who can motive and unite us. If God bless us with such person again, it is just matter of one month to change whole India and that is without using any kind of latest mass media technologies. If one person can motivate one person every day, India can be changed in month. I made one small calculation to check whether it is possible for one person to change whole India in one month if he or she can transfer his motivation energy and skill to his followers and his followers can do the same. It is something like multilevel marketing, where first person motivate second person to buy his product and second motivate third and so on.

Day	No. of people need to work	No. of days to work	No. of people can be changed today	Total No. of people changed
1	1	30	1	2
2	2	29	2	4
3	4	28	4	8
4	8	27	8	16
5	16	26	16	32
6	32	25	32	64
7	64	24	64	128
8	128	23	128	256
9	256	22	256	512
10	512	21	512	1024
11	1024	20	1024	2048
12	2048	19	2048	4096
13	4096	18	4096	8192
14	8192	17	8192	16384
15	16384	16	16384	32768
16	32768	15	32768	65536
17	65536	14	65536	131072
18	131072	13	131072	262144
19	262144	12	262144	524288
20	524288	11	524288	1048576
21	1048576	10	1048576	2097152
22	2097152	9	2097152	4194304
23	4194304	8	4194304	8388608
24	8388608	7	8388608	16777216
25	16777216	6	16777216	33554432
26	33554432	5	33554432	67108864
27	67108864	4	67108864	134217728
28	134217728	3	134217728	268435456
29	268435456	2	268435456	536870912
30	536870912	1	536870912	1073741824

What I want to show by above calculation is that it is possible to change India in one month and not everyone needs to work full month. We can reach out to all people in one month if we follow above mentioned calculation. If you will see above table closely, only 1 person has to work whole month. 32768 people have to work for more than 15 days. So what India need is that one person, someone like Gandhi and Chanakya. If God bless India with such one person, we should be ready to change India. Let's be ready!

Jai Bharat!
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I = India

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Let's start with our national pledge.

India is my country.
All Indians are my brothers and sisters.
I love my country and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage.
I shall always strive to be worthy of it.
I shall give my parents, teachers and all elders respect and treat everyone with courtesy.
To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion.
In their well-being and prosperity alone, lies my happiness.

When was the last time we took the national pledge? Hhhhmmmm ????

Let's ask ourselves other easier question.

Before reading this post, how many of us did actually know what is our national pledge ?

I took this pledge today after almost 15 years, so I thought of reminding you all about it. I remember my primary school days when I used to take this pledge everyday in school. It was an everyday routine to take this pledge after morning prayer in school. I never gave importance to it, because it was just everyday routine. Neither did our teachers explain the meaning and importance of this pledge nor we ever tried to find out. After primary school, I didn't take this pledge till today. I have understood its importance now and I think, it is not too late for us to understand importance and, more importantly implement it in our life. This is the only way to make our country great and then we can say proudly "Mera Bharat Mahan".

If we will see our national pledge closely, we will find these words "I", "My", "Country" which are repeated many times. What do these words want to say? If I have to explain our national pledge in one sentence, I would say "I am my country". Yes my brothers and sisters, I = India. This is what "The World Teacher" is explaining to us for many centuries.

India's problem is that we have kept only two words "I" and "My" in our life and almost throw this word "Country" out from our life. I said almost, but not completely, because when it comes to cricket, we spend our whole day watching cricket. Indian cricket team plays almost 30-40 one day cricket matches in a year, so actually speaking we spend one month watching and discussing cricket, but when it comes to country we can't spend few hours to vote and it is only 3 times in 5 years (municipality election, assembly election and parliamentary election). We don't have to spend more than 2 hours to vote, so if we count, we only have to spend 6 hours in 5 years. It is very sad in democracy that we are not voting for ourselves.

Why don't we understand that I = India? I have asked this question to myself first and I think my answer most likely applies to everyone of us. For us "I" means "Me", "My Family", "My Home", "My Career" and "I" does not mean "My Country". To verify how much my answer matches with others, I have asked few indirect questions to my colleagues and friends and I was absolutely right. Let's be true to ourselves and ask this questions to ourselves. What are our future plans? Our answers may be differ by content, but not by meaning. Some of our future plans are as below:

• Staying in rented flat. Planning to buy own home.
• Having 2-wheeler. Planning to buy 4-wheeler.
• Having children. Planning for their education.
• Currently assistant manager. Planning for promotion.
• Going to retire one day. Planning for pension.
• What more? We are insuring everything with insurance.

What about our country's insurance?

When I asked this question to myself first, honestly speaking "Country" was not on my list, but now it is the only on my list. We are concerned about our family, but isn't this motherland part of our family. If our mother has gave us birth, this country has brought up everyone of us with land, water, air, food. We are too much concerned about own future, but can we imagine our future without existence of our country? isn't our country's future our own future?

Let's see one example. We are working very hard for our career and to get promotion, but we didn't go to vote in election and our finance minister is not able to save our country in recession and our company has declared bankruptcy. So where is our future now? We are still not convinced, because few of us still haven't lost our jobs. Let's see one more live example. It is very sad example, but we have to look at it. Many businessmen died in 26/11 attack on Taj Mahal and Trident in Mumbai. They had own house, own 4-wheeler, retirement plans almost everything and they were still thriving for better future, but what happened? If our country is facing terrorist threat every day, what kind of future are we planning for us? We are still not convinced, because we didn't die in that attack. Problem with we Indians is that we don't wake up unless and until something horrible will not happen to us personally. We need to understand that I = India. If we will work for India's future, our future will be taken care of.

All my findings are based on teaching of "The World Teacher". Sacred books of all religions teach us about brotherhood, but do we actually treat each other as brothers or sisters? As far as I know, all prayers explains that we are children of same God.

History has taught us the same lesions that we were conquered by foreign forces because we were not united. Alexander (Greek Emperor) has first tried to conquer India in 200 B.C. and he also won some part of India. We were only saved because of Chanakya's effort to unite India, but we again lost to foreign forces in 1200 A.D. Time has come again and history may repeat itself, if we are not united again. It's time to understand that I = India. Don't blame government, because we are government. Let's learn more from "The World Teacher" and ask ourselves what we can do for our country.

We may feel motivated and want to become patriotic after reading this post and we will have some quick plans in our mind, but tomorrow morning we will be same again. So how to keep ourselves motivated everyday? It is as simple as our school days. Take national pledge everyday. Only difference is that we should understand its importance and implement it in our life now.

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

Jai Bharat!

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The World Teacher!

My Brothers and Sisters,

Today the whole world is facing various crises in form of terrorism, poverty, global warming, religious fundamentalism, racism, caste system, economic meltdown, political instability, violence, crimes, population growth, and other serious problems. Various nations are coming together on one platform to find solutions to common problems through various reforms in their policies. When you see one problem separately, you will have many solutions to resolve that problem, but such solutions are never permanent. They tend to fail in long run. If we want to find permanent solution of these problems, we need to see all problems as one. When you see them as one, you will find that the common solution of the all problem is Peace. If we will try to bring peace in world, all problems will be taken care of automatically. Who can help?

"The World Teacher" can help. It is always around to lead us through difficult times. It has taught great lessons to us and will continue to help us, if we will ask for help. We are facing problems in our daily life, because we forgot the teachings of this teacher. So who is the actual world teacher?

This teacher is set of our sacred books. These books teach us humanity, non-violence and tolerance, which we didn't read before because we thought that we are highly intellectuals.

This teacher is our history. Our history teaches us not to commit the same mistakes our forefather made. Our history shows that we didn't learn from our mistakes.

I have asked few persons about how to bring peace to this world. They have suggest to bring political or economic reforms, to provide jobs and infrastructure, to give all best amenities people need. Till some point it is true, but will it ensure peace in world? No. Then what is the answer? The answer is Spirituality. World peace depends upon social peace; social peace on individual peace; and individual peace on spiritual awakening of individual. People are not spiritual because they have lost faith in God and they are not afraid of God anymore and so they are committing all kinds of sin.

As we see above, our problems are not just limited to political reform or economic regeneration. We are root cause of our own problems and we can only solve these problems by changing ourselves. So today I am going to start changing myself, my society and my country, India. I know that many previous efforts to change people have been failed drastically. Let's try once more. Failure is not getting knocked down, it's not getting up again. God says, "Don't think about end result. To work is your mission." We should not have any ambition, we should have mission.

I am an Indian, so all my posts will be mostly related to India. Writing blogs is not enough to change people, but it is also one way to spread the truth. Besides blogging, I have also started to change people in neighbourhood and society. I need help of my Indian brothers and sisters to change our country.

I invite all my brothers and sisters to join me to achieve a common goal of world peace. We will seek help from "The World Teacher" and will debate on various issues from politics to spirituality and will exchange our ideas to make this world a better place. We can and we will change this world and this change should start from individual.
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Be the change you want to see in the world!
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