Pushpa Khandelwal's Blog

I wrote a letter to my daughter on her birthday. She lives in Mumbai, so I can't meet her on every memorable day of her life but I want to thank this good source of communication by which we can keep in touch with our loving ones. Also want to share this letter with you-     Dear Priyanka,           It's been 30 years since you set foot in this world. When I held you for the first time in my arms at the hospital , your tiny hands were twitching and your eyes were shut tight. Your clenched fist reminded me of a science lesson that taught us how to get an idea about the size of your heart. I could imagine the little heart throbbing inside you. The eternal miracle of birth.           I feel there are two ways to raise you. One is to wean you on cynicism and live your life pouring scorn on everything you see. The other way is to prepare you to live in this world. Life is very precious and equally fragile. So every day is a...

In every difficulty there is an opportunity. Life is really a choice........    If one door closes another door opens.Question is indeed a sign of strength, but quietness may also help you to achieve strength. Silence is the language of God. Whatever happens will happen, but it's very important to value every minute of your life because you got to live it just once. To live best for yourself ,you must live for others too. Never hurt others by your actions. To build lasting relationships is not an easy thing to do because we always keep looking for comfort zones. This is a grave mistake. A selfless mind can only create a good relationship.     Self realisation activates our innerself, yet it is entirely our own choice to follow the right or wrong path. Desires are like rubber bands. Once a desire is fullfilled, the mind produces many more desires. Then the mind stretches itself and we get tensed. It is very difficult to get rid of anger, greed, jealo...

Life is for living, learn to live life as it is. It is unrealistic to accept success and profit all the time. It is true that disappointment, pain and suffering have made life difficult, but they also made us stronger. During a crisis, we do need emotional support from family but if it is not available, it is necessary to find it within. Everyone lives his life without knowing what is the real purpose of life. The conscious mind has unlimited capacity for thinking and analysing facts. Nature gave us a tool known as mind and from this mind our discovery begins. When we go inside ourselves, we can discover our potential, our capabilities and our nature. We must organize our lives with our minds.  By education, we can learn to maintain the systems, the cultures and the religions but there is no school which teaches how to smile, how to organise our emotions, how to work with our minds. This process is based on self awakening. When we are awakened, we begin to live with wisd...

Happiness is not the aim of life. Happiness is a consequence, a fruit. It is a subject of the senses. The scope of the senses is limited and completely unaware of the greatness of life. As your understanding develops, you begin to see that happiness is not everything.  Health is the best of all happiness. The secret of health is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future but to live in the present moment. Happiness does not come as a result of getting something we don't have, but by appreciating what we do have. If a man moulds himself according to the circumstances, then only he can acquire happiness. Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. Happiness is a state of mind. When the mind is in a tranquil state, you are happy. As you reduce desires, your happiness increases. When you achieve one thing, another thing comes in its place. This goes on all your life. Appreciate and enjoy what we have got. Happiness lies in the belief that...