Introduction to happified

Happified is an initiative by the youth to promote honesty and spread happiness.

Every morning we read a number of newspapers where the first page starts with the news on latest scam and from murders to rape, its goes on and on. This leaves very strong impressions on our mind that every one in this world is mean and cruel which is not true. Misdeeds of few are glorified and we starts generalising things. This has lead to Slogans like, "100 mein 99 beiman, phir bhi mera bharat mahan!!"

Mean while we completely fail to notice the good deeds done every where around us. Happified brings up the stories of such humans who selflessly work towards betterment of the society and happified does it the youth way, where it serves a complete platter of a star of the edition, walk an extra mile where we promote people who went a step ahead to help others, peoms, yes+ achievers, kitchen corner, jokes, bawa dinesh corner, sri sri corner and a lots of stuff. We intend to bring a smile to our readers face and awaken the hero within them.

There are 2 ways to do a thing, like in corruption, either you fight against it or support honesty. We face a lot of resistance when we fight against something. But when we support something like honesty, it grows. Its grows within us and in this outer world.
Like in gardening, sowing seeds for plants and flowers is easier than removing the unwanted weeds that grow up. Happified sows the seeds of honesty, love which is already within us, helps it grow and a smile is the fruit it bears!!

Why should you be a part of happified??

Simply because you already are a part of it!! Everything we do right from the first thing in the morning, is to be ,happy!! Our final intentions behind every action is to be happy. we meet people with whom we stay happy, we try to stay away from people, in the company of whom, we get upset!! happified is that platform where you can stay happy and spread it to the world. A wise men named justin timberlake once said, "what goes around, comes around!!" When we make others happy, our happiness is taken care of!!

Why we shout in anger!!

A Hindu saint who was visiting river Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled 'n asked.

'Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?'

Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout.'

'But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner.' asked the saint

Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, .

'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.

What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small...'

The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper 'n they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other 'n that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'

He looked at his disciples 'n said.

'So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, Do not say words that distance each other more, Or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.'

Disclaimer : ”its not written by me, I read it somewhere”

Gangs of wasseypur reviews

"Teri keh ke lunga" , isn't that catchy when you read it on the posters, it appeals a bit when sardar khan (manoj bhajpai) says it, but has the potential to become a landmark dialogue. We Can say the same for the movie too.

Manoj bhajpai, has definitely played a character which is going to live long, if not as long as vito corleone from the movie The Godfather. He is fearless, cunning, loving, merciless, lusty and desi.
You would love sardar khan's wife and her surprising character, surprising because every time you think "she is just another desi wife" , she would prove you wrong. From allowing his husband to visit prostitutes when she is pregnant, feeding him more so that he performs better in bed with those prostitutes, training her son to take bomb making material to jail in a tiffin box to using coloured language, She is a wonderfully designed character.
Durga (sardar khan's mistress) plays a sultry character, who misses no chance to seduce sardar singh and the audience. she has shown a women in sexy in saree can be more sexy than one in a bikini.
GOW is like reading a novel, the story starts pre-independence and go on and on exploring different characters and their stories. It isn't just about sardar khan's revenge from the killer of his father, but every single character form the story.
You may feel, GOW is anurag kashap's attempt to make an Indian version Godfather series, but it would be unfair to call it a copy. Director has succeeded in keeping every character exclusive and very fresh. Their isn't much scope for predictability as the story jumps from one character to another, and than again to sardar khan.
Sardar khan's attempted assassination plot at the end of this part, was strikingly similar to godfather sequence  where vito corleone is attacked.
Movie promises a second part, which would take the story ahead from where it stops.
I paid Rs.190 for the movie and was quite satisfied. Am sure rowdies and goons are gonna use "Teri keh ke lunga" line while their mess ups.
A Good Movie!!!

Wonder mean of ik Onkar.

Ik Onkar- god is one
Satnam - His name is true.
Karta purakh - He is maker of the whole world
Nirbhau - He is fearless
Nirvair - He never hates anyone
Akaal Murat - He is beyond the time. he is immortal.
Ajooni - he never dies nor takes birth
Saibhang - Neither anyone has created him nor anyone gave him birth. He is self created.
Gurparasad - Only true guru can help us to meet him..

Conversation between Love and hate

From hate to love:
yes, the whole world looks for you, but I possess them.
Where ever you go, you'll find me there.
When ever one finds you, I'll find him soon
100 words of you and 1 word of me

Love:
You may be true, but am the truth !!

Hate:
I am in your truth too, I make it painful.
World prefer to lie 100 times against your 1 truth
You are contaminated, am pure.

Love:
You maybe pure, but am the purity

Hate:
I have brought legends down, emperors to fall
I drew lines on the earth
You may be in demand, but am the supply
Humans fight in open, love in closed

Love:
They may fight in open, but their hearts are closed.
They may love in closed, but their hearts are open.

Hate:
In you, I am the lust.
In you, I am the jealousy
In you, I am the anger
In you, I AM

Love:
You maybe in me, but I still prevail !!

Its gonna be bigger, if you are ready!!

This is an extension to my previous piece, take it or not its good, so read that first.

We talked about the moment between achieving an goals and next huddle i.e. next opportunity. Its a moment worth observing and understanding because there is a whole process hidden in just a moment. It takes only a moment to evolve into a better being. We talked on, how you handle success  prepares you mentally for the next huddle, but a keen observation will tell you, that's not the only thing it does, it also designs the next huddle. Success designing a huddle sound very absurd at first but that stands true. huddle is always designed by the result of your goals and to suit your skill and capabilities. As you grow with every success, huddles that come across you are also bigger and better ones. Just like in a video game, when you clear one level, you unlock the next level which is bigger and better.
It is said, you are given the key to every door on your path, you just need to have faith. Every result gives you a key,that is either of the next level or to help you grow in same level. Similar to your academic results, either you get promoted to next grade or are asked to repeat again. When you get the result, the key is always enclosed with it. The result designs the next huddle and give you the key, which probably you never realise and that is where faith comes into action. Just because you can't see the key, doesn't mean it does not exist. Never doubt its existence, it is always there, all you need is to take, is the leap of faith. Key might not appear, but it will silently unlock the door, for sure!!

Take it or not, its good!!!!

Life at times is like climbing up the ladder, after every victory, another huddle awaits you and which ultimately leads you to the next victory. Its really interesting to look back after achieving some goals but that's what the whole world does. We often ignore or don't pay much attention to the time between achieving an goal and the next huddle. But this is an crucial moment which decides how strong you have grown and how strong you are to face the next challenge. The moment which makes or breaks the future, the moment of attributing your success. Either you stand up and take the credit or you simply stay humble and give it to others. Both got pros and cons, Claiming credit would increase your self confidence and makes you mentally stronger to face bigger challenges where as giving away the credit liberate you, you don't tie up yourself to any thing and just move ahead fresh and innocent. You retain your creativity and child-like ness. Taking up all the credit, leads you to over confidence but giving it up would lead you to lower self confidence. When you always give away the credit, mentally you accept that all this is because of people around you, not because of you. Now when you face the next huddle, you look around for the same team, same people and if they don't appear, it worries you. A self confident person knows he can pull any situation in his favour, where as a person with low confidence depends on others to do the same. Both are important for a person but even more important, is to strike a balance between two. A men when tastes success, lavitates, but a wise men himself stays rooted and lavitates his views, his thought process. He knows a fact, that if after every success, he is where he was, what good is that success to him. The moment that lavitate your views, you put extract the maximum out of your success.

1 hour at the railway station

From 3 to 10th standard, in every english exam we came across a question, asking us to write an essay,"An hour at railway station", only reason I could figure out then was, may be examiner was banned from going to the station, leaving him with no other option but to make us write our experience. Every time it turned up, we blindly wrote about waiting for a train which was always late, than some chai wala, shoe polish wala and similar arbit people whom we rarely notice even after going to the station hundreds of times. Some time I went a step ahead and wrote their names too. We wrote about other trains passing by, passengers running across the platform(just to fill lines) and counting number of lines still left to be filled. as the essay would come to an end, we would write in bigger handwriting to cover more and more lines and that was almost similar to how we answered the question every time it appeared. We never really thought why the same question turned up year after year. When other questions of the paper were new and of higher class, why this same question turned up in every standard. Many times we wrote the same lines again, sometimes used same names of chai wala and shoe polish wala too. Never gave any thought as to why this repetition. But if you relax a bit and think about again, Life behave similar to that examiner. Throwing same situation again and again, waiting for us to respond. Hoping someday we would respond differently. Just for moment, we need to sit and think, did we gave the same answer to the same question, if yes, than why blame life for giving same marks again and again.



Life may not give us a opportunity twice, but it surely give a new opportunity everyday. Only thing it expect back is a new response.

If ravana could laugh, why not you..

We all know Ravana had ten heads, and he managed to laugh from all 10 of them. We have just one, still we struggle to manage a smile through out the day. Even Ravana had problems, bigger than ours ,which included:

• a legal suit against him for kidnapping someone else wife,
• a brother who would eat for 6 months and sleep for next 6 months, not earning a single penny,
• a sister without a nose,
• a brother who betrayed him and joined the opposition party,
• Opponent Rama's men, hanuman trespassing his private property and putting it on fire. Specially when insurance companies were not so active.
• Just Imagine to laugh out loud, ravana would have to brush all his 320 teeth everyday, after all a emperor of an country build with yellow gold, couldn't flaunt yellow teeth.
• Ravana owned a jet plane(remember the one in which he kidnapped sita),but mere writing rama's name of stone made them float on water. Ram could always claim to be more eco-friendly.

Even after all these problems, if ravana could laugh, why not we??

Valley Of Flowers....

It’s a local belief that fairies exist in the ‘Valley of Flowers’. The name was gifted by Frank Smith a British mountaineer and botanist who accidently discovered the valley while finding his way back from an expedition to Mt. Kamat, in the year 1931. Situated high in the Himalayas of the Uttaranchal, it is at an altitude of 3,600 meters above the sea-level, protected by snowy mountains.


Displaying an unabashed view of the magnificient bounty that Nature is, the valley is akin to a huge canvas with a million hues! Spread out over an area of 87.5 Sq. Kms., it is accessible only in the months of summer i.e. between June and October while the rest of the year it’s snow season. Besides being home to hundreds of flowers,it’s a haven for flower-lovers, botanists and trekkers alike, who cannot find excuse enough to emabark on a trip to this paradise. A detailed study of the valley has claimed the existence of 520 species of plants of which 498 are flowering plants. Orchids, Poppies, Marigolds, Daisies, Brahmakamals and Lilies lay out a rich carpet of welcome.

As a variety of butterflies flit about busily enhancing its beauty, the presence of rare animals like the Red Fox, Snow Leopard, Musk Deer, Tahr, Himalayan Black Bear, Himalayan Brown Bear and birds like the Golden Eagle, Griffon Vulture, Snow Pigeon make it even more enchanting. These living beings however, are the only ones to enjoy the pleasures of the valley throughout the year.

The nearest major town is Joshimath, located at a distance of 17 kms. Joshimath is the place where Adi Shankaracharya set up a 'mutt' in the 8th century. It is conveniently connected by roads from Haridwar and Dehradun, both at an estimated distance of about 270 kms. From Joshimath it’s an hours’ travel to Gobindghat, where a trek of 13 kms through steep and narrow but well defined paths lead upto to a small settlement called Ghangaria, located just 3 kms. away from the valley.Ghangaria has hotels with electricity and mobile towers. As one proceeds, one can experience the welcoming feel of the valley at the Pushpavati river itself!

Even a small flower from Natures’ bounty is enough to fill every cell in our body with joy and delight. To behold flora and fauna that extends upto the horizon, is nothing less of a divinely magical experience beyond the grasp of words. No doubt, the splendour and the scintillating beauty of the valley attracts tourists from all around the world. The Valley of Flowers, which is now a World Heritage Site, was declared a national park in the year 1982, in a bid to preserve this benevolent gift of Nature as well as maintain the natural eco-balance of the valley.



Indeed, this place proves true the saying, "Reality is restricted by your imagination"

Jan lokpal bill???

The Jan Lokpal Bill (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) is a draft anti-corruption bill drawn up by prominent civil society activists seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body  that would investigate corruption cases, complete the investigation within a year and envisages trial in the case getting over in the next one year.

Drafted by Justice Santosh Hegde (former Supreme Court Judge and present Lokayukta of Karnataka), Prashant Bhushan (Supreme Court Lawyer) and Arvind Kejriwal (RTI activist), the draft Bill envisages a system where a corrupt person found guilty would go to jail within two years of the complaint being made and his ill-gotten wealth being confiscated. It also seeks power to the Jan Lokpal to prosecute politicians and bureaucrats without government permission.

Retired IPS officer Kiran Bedi and other known people like Swami Agnivesh, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Anna Hazare and Mallika Sarabhai are also part of the movement, called India Against Corruption. Its website describes the movement as "an expression of collective anger of people of India against corruption. We have all come together to force/request/persuade/pressurize the Government to enact the Jan Lokpal Bill. We feel that if this Bill were enacted it would create an effective deterrence against corruption."

Anna Hazare, anti-corruption crusader, began a fast-unto-death today, demanding that this bill, drafted by the civil society, be adopted. The website of the India Against Corruption movement calls the Lokpal Bill of the government an "eyewash" and has on it a critique of that government Bill. It also lists the difference between the Bills drafted by the government and civil society.

A look at the salient features of Jan Lokpal Bill:
1. An institution called LOKPAL at the centre and LOKAYUKTA in each state will be set up

2. Like Supreme Court and Election Commission, they will be completely independent of the governments. No minister or bureaucrat will be able to influence their investigations.

3. Cases against corrupt people will not linger on for years anymore: Investigations in any case will have to be completed in one year. Trial should be completed in next one year so that the corrupt politician, officer or judge is sent to jail within two years.

4. The loss that a corrupt person caused to the government will be recovered at the time of conviction.

5. How will it help a common citizen: If any work of any citizen is not done in prescribed time in any government office, Lokpal will impose financial penalty on guilty officers, which will be given as compensation to the complainant.

6. So, you could approach Lokpal if your ration card or passport or voter card is not being made or if police is not registering your case or any other work is not being done in prescribed time. Lokpal will have to get it done in a month's time. You could also report any case of corruption to Lokpal like ration being siphoned off, poor quality roads been constructed or panchayat funds being siphoned off. Lokpal will have to complete its investigations in a year, trial will be over in next one year and the guilty will go to jail within two years.

7. But won't the government appoint corrupt and weak people as Lokpal members? That won't be possible because its members will be selected by judges, citizens and constitutional authorities and not by politicians, through a completely transparent and participatory process.

8. What if some officer in Lokpal becomes corrupt? The entire functioning of Lokpal/ Lokayukta will be completely transparent. Any complaint against any officer of Lokpal shall be investigated and the officer dismissed within two months.

9. What will happen to existing anti-corruption agencies? CVC, departmental vigilance and anti-corruption branch of CBI will be merged into Lokpal. Lokpal will have complete powers and machinery to independently investigate and prosecute any officer, judge or politician.

10. It will be the duty of the Lokpal to provide protection to those who are being victimized for raising their voice against corruption.

Source: http://indiaagainstcorruption.org/

Sevabhav !!

Seva bhav or seva, is almost a forgotten aspect of human nature. We all work to get something and believe in give and take relationship. Ages ago, when gopis and lord krishna existed, they lived a very unique relation, where they only believed in giving without expecting anything in return. Gopis would just do what ever they could for krishna without even being told to do so. This gave them immense satisfaction and joy. They called it seva bhav.SevaBhav I.e emotions of seva. Even today, seva is still defined the same.

Manav seva I.e. Serving humans. When we selflessly help another human, it's called seva.

But is serving the lord and serving a human same or is their a difference, why are both called seva than and have the same effect. During krishna's period, people and other kings took krishna as a normal notorious king only, a human.

When we do seva, our ego melts and love florishes within and when seva is accompanied by meditation, you can also feel that expansion, which is beyond all limits. Seva enhances the feeling of being hollow and empty and that's the time to go inwards and experience solace. Its is the same experience of seva with humans and divine.

Next time, think before you sit.

Its me mat mama. . .well I am serving you from quite a time now. So you better respect me and call me mama. . .

I am never allowed to speak but things are not the same this time . Tables have turned. . No no. . I am not trying to dominate nor do I have any demands. .I just want to speak.

I felt so many people in past and have earned many pleasant and not so pleasant experiences. I still remember when that fat little uncle of your came and you made him sit on me. I really hated him for having those parathas earlier that day. .I was stinking for the whole day after he left. And how can I forget what that little cousin of yours did to me a few months back. I got 19 stitches on my body. If it wouldn't the energy of the meditation you did on me, i would have never healed. I love that energy, passing through every tread of my body. Filling up every corner with prana leading me the infinite world of bliss. But I am always ready to return you this favour, honesty is weaved deeper and deeper in me. Remember you were sick and you took some rest on me, i provided you with energy stored in me. Yea Yea , I know you will still thank those medicines but i won't complain.

Ohh i got soo lost in my thoughts, look at this cute baby there.

Come here baby,

Come to mama, Am so comfortable to be on. Oh come come.

Yea . . . Your skin is soo smooth, o dear, be carefull. .

Wait a min

Hold on

Why am a feeling drenched up. . . You son of a devil, didn't your mom thought you, we should use loo for doing all this. Someone help me get rid of this little kid. . . . Someone please clean me. . . Someone please helppp. .

Aarrrgggg monster!!!!!!

beats of insanity!

I am going insane, my hears are full of sound,
you need not be silent to listen those beats, they are loud and clear
but they are making me go crazy, more and more every passing minute.
some one please stop them, they are killing me.
all my efforts to stop them are in vain.
the more I am trying to calm down, louder they are getting.
they are coming closer and closer.
my eye are getting heavier , forcing to shut.
in the admist of darkness, silence ruling the valley,
I don't know what this place is,
still am not scared any more,
you know why,because its soothing,
sudden light tearing the darkness, eyes open and those old beats starting all over again,
but they can't scare me any more
they are just my heart beats

Ashram Of Smiles!!!

Ashram, Aa-shram i.e. a place where there is no place for efforts and the first thing that comes effortlessly in Bangalore ashram is a smile. Its takes over our face the very moment we enter this place. The longer you stay here, bigger it grows. Sometimes jaws do pain but that just adds more smile to our face. You have no control over it, such is this place. Smile, a very small gesture, but has immense effect. It may appear on the surface but kindles love deep inside. Smile is a blessing, for those who feel unblessed or the ones, who doubt about it, can simply look into the mirror. The smiling self would just wash away all doubts. When we smile, even watching an elephant becomes pure delight, people with long hair and lose cloths look cooler than ever, washing our own dish feels so great and neither we mind walking kms just to see dome with plastic walls. Smile here is very durable and long lasting; it stays even after 2 triphala shots. Its beauty increases many folds when lips stay glued for days. Some smiles are full of divinity but the divine’s smile lightens our heart.

Warrior in Mess!!

Walking through the darkness.
In the clutter of thoughts and events
outer silence so horrifying, still calmer than inner chaos.
lost in the thoughts, walking the endless road,
with every passing minutes, mind goes numb.
like a warrior, still facing the battle
when the body gives up, mind freezes and eyes follow them.
woke up with strange sounds in the head,
Thunder tearing silence apart, dark clouds all around,
Raining to burn
Warrior gets back on his feet, to face the demons,
with valour and strength, tries to face the enemy
He looks all around but finds none.
Warrior searches for the self
He finds the demon atlast.
Breathing his way to bliss, ends the war.
Sun shining and smiling, lightens the path for the enlightened.

sunset and darkness!!!

If darkness is evil, why is sunset so soothing??

Many of us are scared of darkness, but why? we think darkness is bad or evil. If this is true, than why is sunset so soothing. We consider sunset as one of the most beautifull moment of the day. Many a times we travel far places just to enjoy SunSet and the bliss of the moment. Than why do we think, darkness symbolise the evil. A empty road even with proper street light looks scary and in day light it doesn't affect us. Simple logic is, in darkness, we can't see properly and in day light, we can see everything. But let's see this in a different shade, were darkness can be compared with lack of awareness. when we are ignorant, we are scared of uncertainties. But the moment about to come, is full of such uncertainties. At the same time light can be compared with awareness. When we are aware of the present moment, future uncertainties become certain. Just like our vision in day light.

Some places connect you with the self !!!!

Temples?? Why??

We often go to temples, church, mosque, guru dvara etc, but did you ever thought why we go there. To meet the lord?? But it’s just the idol of lord that we see there, not the divine himself. So why do we go there. We humans go there from thousands of years, but why?
Due to constant chanting of mantras and belief of the devotees these places are always charged with positive energy. When we enter such area, our aura cleans up. This breaks our link from bad and negative vibes. With outer environment getting purified, our mind relaxes slowly. We normally sit inside the temple for some time before leaving. It’s the same with church, guru dvara and mosque also.
This is to give time to our mind to settle down in peace. But this is still not the ultimate aim of going to temples. Just like when the fog settles down, we are able to see ahead clearly. When the fog of our mind clears, we are able to see the self, who is no one else but the divine. We go to temples not to see divine in the idol but to connect with the divine within.

Maya and Maha-maya

Maya Is a set of consecutive events that leads you to an action you wouldn't have taken otherwise. Maya creates circumstances which lead you from one event to another. Like if you want a water to reach a specific place, you build a pipe line from the source to that place. This pipe like contains all joints and turns which takes water to that the destination. Maya is similar to this pipe line, but its upto you to decide whether you want to go where situations take you or create your own situations. For the later you need to rise above maya which is possible only with the help of mahamaya i.e. The divine. Maya is illusion, mahamaya helps you see through it. Proper sadhna and satsang relaxes your mind, you become calm and composite and at the same time strong and vibrant. This keeps you unaffected in difficult situation. You stop behaving like the water in the pipe line.

Guru as a soap dish.

We like to preserve everything; we get plastic covers for remotes, mobiles, TV etc. We also have a dish for our bath soap, to preserve it for a longer time. These covers preserve objects but to preserve our soul, we have our guru. When we keep our soap in a soap dish, it prevents it from water. All the water passes from its pours keeping the soap dry. Similarly when we surrender to a guru, he absorbs all our problems and keeps us protected. Soap dish have caps, which works like an armor for the soap. Guru's blessing forms armor around you. A soap dish keeps the soap above the floor level, to keep it dry. Guru's knowledge helps you rise above the vices.