Vedic Siksha

Guru Dronacharya spiritual master of Kuru (Pandwas and Kaurvas) were always glorifying Arjuna about his focus and his energy in the right direction and being a good disciple in His Gurkul. But Duryodhana felt jealous of Arjuna and his talent. Once Duryodhana came to Dronacharya and started accusing him of favoring Arjuna and ignoring the rest. To prove him wrong, Dronacharya placed a wooden bird on a branch and decided to put everyone through a simple test. He gathered all his disciples and asked them to strike the eye of the wooden bird. But before doing this, he asked each one of them a question. He first called and asked Yudhisthira, "What do you see there?" Yudhishthira replied, "I see a wooden bird, the branch and the tree, the leaves moving and other birds." Everyone else who followed also mentioned the same thing i.e tree, branch, bird, leaves etc. and Dronacharya asked them all to keep your bow & arrow down. When it was Arjuna's turn, he...

Most of the people follow the majority whether it is right or wrong does not matter, they have already fixed up in their mind what most of the people are doing is perfect we don't need to apply our mind to it. But God has gifted something to us which is called Brain and it is for that purpose to apply and check what is right and what is wrong? People think it is so called trends and if we do not follow we will be considered as backward and to maintain the trends they do what they not suppose to do. And most of the people are following the majority without knowing the reason why they are following it? The human form of life is considered the top most and if we do not apply our mind to search the right way and what is my goal then it is just a waste. When Vibhishana tried to make Ravana understand if he will fight with Lord Rama, he will lose his empire and he will be the cause of destruction of whole demon density. But Ravana due to his anger told Vibhishana you are a cowar...

After attending so many corporate leadership training programs and project management training programs, I am now able to connect all these to Lord Rama's leading qualities, how He was a great leader and good project manager. Leaders are not those who just care for himself to grow and exploit their people but leader are those who help their people to grow parallel and in his absence their people are able to manage the situation. Leadership is not about personal relationship oriented but it's people oriented. " If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a true leader. " When Ravana heard that Lord Rama has reached in the seashore and trying to build a bridge to cross the sea, he laughed out loudly and said to his ministers, "Do you all think these monkeys can build that bridge to reach us?" But Lord Rama applied Nala and Nila the two architect brothers who were talented in creating bridges and Hanuman...

In this world we try to deal very smart way in our day to day life, but sometimes we deal in such a wrong way we think we are in profit but actually we do our big loss. Often it seems that we are only the smart and cunning and none other than me deal so nicely and being over confident we forgot to see all the aspects and only focusing on one thing we take our decision and become fool. For any decision we have to keep our long term vision what is right and what is wrong? But we only think of short term and immediately take the decision. According to our Vedic scriptures no one is enough intelligent to take the decision in his own so better take guidance from that person who can direct us well and this way it will help us to take a right decision. I am sharing you one of the incidents of Mahabharata while Duryodhana was against Pandvas and wanted war. Duryodhana and Arjuna went to meet Lord Krishna. Lord Krishna asked to both, "My dear Duryodhana and Arjuna as you know I am...

Sometimes we become so envious of others that we cannot see others to move forward and think if I cannot go ahead how can that person go in front of me. It seems in our relations, work culture and society we never want someone to grow and encourage them for their growth and achievement instead we feel jealous and started burning in the fire of it day and night. I am sharing you one of the story about King Prithu and Indra. King Prithu was a very pious king in his time and he was doing his 100 Ashwamedha Yagna (Horse Sacrifice) and he reached till his 99th Yagna. When he started his 100th Yagna, Indra the King of the Demigods could not tolerate King Prithu's Yagna and he came in the form of a Brahmin and stole the horse and flew away, this way when King Prithu start his 100th Yagna all the time Indra come and stole his horse. One day the son of King Prithu ran behind that person and saw, he is not a Brahmin but Indra, they returned to their father and told about Indra's a...

Yesterday during the class one of the parent complains about his children about disobey. I just asked them how much time do you give to your children to teach morality? They had no answer. I told them all the time we only force our children to study and keep motivating them for competete to others and they are doing it well then how can you expect about good behavior and morality if you don't teach them. If we teach our children Bhagwat Gita and Ramayana, they must be in discipline. So, someone can ask how it can be possible by teaching of Bhagwad Gita and Ramayana. So in one of lecture H. H. Bhakti Vikas Swami Maharaj was telling children are very innocent and they are like new hardisk of compute if we keep uploading good data on our computer hard disk and keep its memory full then there will be no space for bad data to upload, it will reject by saying, "storage is full, there is no memory." The same way if we keep teaching our children shlokas of Bhagwad Gita eithe...

In this world, everyone has some problem someone can have family problem, someone can have a business problem, someone can have financial problem, so nobody can say I don't have problems in my life. One thing we must accept we cannot keep away ourselves away from problems as " Problem is the Part of life, but handling problem is the Art of life ". I am sharing you one short story. There was one person who was always worried about his problems and to find out the solutions he went to one Sadhu (Sage). He told to Sadhu about all problems of his life and analyzing his problems Sadhu told to that person, "Can you do one favor for me?" He agreed and told to Sadhu, "What I have to do?" Sadhu told, "I have around 100 camels and can you just keep watch tonight with all of them not to stand." The man agreed and stay that night at Sadhu's place and started monitoring each and every camel so they cannot stand, but he tries one camel to sit ...