The counsellor

"Ordinary people can do extra-ordinary things, if they find the right guidance. "

This was a quote i read in one magazine today. Pondering over it ,I find it hold a whole world in this sentence. It means that people like you and me can do wonder to not just our life or our family's life, but to our neighborhood, our community , to our country and even to the whole of this world. We all have the most sophisticated and amazing equipment which we call brain, which , if, utilized even at 10-15% of its potential can make us a genius like Einstein or newton.

But how do we know what we can do. For most of us, the aim is to be the best or the better individual in the circle in which our life revolves which includes mostly our relatives, our friends, our teachers and our books. All of these are limited. Family, relatives and friend have their own scope based on the community in which we live. A person in a remote village in India will have a knowledge of the world which will be limited by the knowledge his peer or his elders have.So he/she would not be able to know the world outside his sphere of influence.

So, we live our lives based on what is around us, we do not (mostly) intrude the unknown territory. And that is where a guide or a counselor comes in. He/she tells you based on the wide experience he/she had in his life and use it to guide you through the labyrinth of this bewildered world. And that is the reason why "The Art of living", " Yoga" etc has suddenly come to limelight in India and many other parts of world. We all need guidance/advices , be it on finance, meaning of life, stress, marriage or career. We are so bogged down by everyday work, that we do not have any time to do introspection or retrospection . We are so busy with fighting against this competitive and cut throat world, in order to survive(Darwin's theory) that we find our jobs not a means to make a living but a means of life in itself greater than the social life. We find that there is nothing more important and beyond this money making cycle. "For everything else you have money", this is what our mindset has become, so we just want to accumulate wealth and achieve name and fame, even if it is at the cost of depriving our children/family of the love and affection. And so when we enter into any crisis situation because of this madness of getting there on the top, we are startled, we do not know how to cope with it, and then we rush to a counselor or a guide or a guru.

We need a guide to help us show the different opportunity and possibilities in life, which we not come across or think about because of our naivety in that field.

I have my guide and that is books and magazines. It stimulates my mind, it stimulates my thought , it provides me different perspectives of life or any specific topic, it provides me a much better clarity on a topic and helps me make smarter and better decisions in life. And the most important of all, it allows me to use my mind beyond the everyday triteness of life and understand myself better. Its a never-ending process where we should keep improving as we grow and become a better, more matured and refined human beings.

We all should have a guru, in any form, who can keep a check on us and guide us, when the turbulence is on our way or for improving our life on everyday basis.

Who is your counselor?

Hitler - Control Of Mind

I was watching a YT's video on Adolf Hitler and was amazed to see that whatever I read in the novel 1984 was actually quite real. When I read the book, I thought it was a fantasy mixed with a little bit of reality told in a severe form, but after watching this video, which was produced by some British Director, based on fact or factual evidences, I was amazed at the genius mind of Adolf Hitler.

He had done something, which humanity would condemn but as an individual, as a man with brain and intelligence , he was a true genius. He enticed the youths, the pillars of any country. He gave them everything. He gave the reason to fight, he gave the respect for their country, he gave them the best of the education, he gave them the power of an individual, he gave them food, shelter, clothing and entertainment and all he asked for them was just one thing, complete dedication to his country and more so to his Nazi party. With so much to gain, the youths were all in for this cause, they felt he was a very strong leader and can make their country a superpower.

And the youths were made to follow Nazis principle by heart, by mind and by soul. They were so dedicated to the party that even their family couldn't come in between. He started training them from as early as 2-3 yrs of age, by having a group of around 1 million girls (age 14-17) who would take care of the small children, while their parents were away on jobs. And these gals were the part of the dedicated youths who's heart and soul belonged to the party. So after 10 yrs, Hitler had a huge population of youths who would dedicate themselves to him , not for religious but for nationalistic reasons. They were youths, who would spy their own parents, siblings and would denounce them if they didn't confirm to the party's philosophy and would inform about them , to the Nazi army, which would , mostly put them in labor camp. Such was the control of Hitler on the mind of the youths, that even your own parents , their love, sacrifice and warmth couldn't override the devotion to the Nazi party, these youths had.

And all this was a game of mind. Hitler knew that mind can be altered to understand whatever he wanted to, if he can play with the five senses of the youths, which were the fuel of the mind. He played on the two most powerful senses , hearing and seeing. The youths would see what he wanted to show, i.e show them the bright future, show them that they have the power to do anything and with this power, they can make Germany the strongest country in the world(and indeed Germany became a very strong country in terms of both monetary as well as scientific achievements). They heard what he wanted them to hear, he had taken absolute control of all the private radio/tv . There were only public radio and tv, run by Nazi party. There were hardly any means of listening to the news outside Germany, apart from the one shown (rarely) on public tv/radio. So people made their opinion about things based on what they heard and they heard what Hitler wanted them to hear, so their opinions were basically the whims and fancies of Hitler.

He was inhuman, brutal and a cynic. But he was a genius who knew the power of mind very well.