Spreading Positivity

||  Pilgrimage: fear to love  || Someone has rightly said, "Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart." In India, where we have so many temples and religious places to visit, every year so many people travel to do the pilgrimage, both from India and from abroad. Why do we travel for pilgrimage? Is it because everyone else is doing it? Is it because it's a well-known place to see? Or is it that you have faith that God exists there? Everyone has their own perception of pilgrimage. Our ancestors have really worked hard to preserve these places where we actually go on pilgrimage. They have even worked hard to preserve those values of rituals that have been there since the time humans have existed in this universe. In our country, every human being follows some religion, belongs to some community, and has their own rituals to follow. Out of 1.3 billion people in the country, the majority of them must have thought of traveling to their religio...

  ||  Cultural connect  || The great Mahatma Gandhi once said, "A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people." Recently, I heard in one of the speeches delivered by the former president of the USA, Barack Obama, that in India, it is the wives and mothers who so often hold families and communities together. Indian women have shown that they can succeed in any field, including government. Young women are taking an interest and are determined to take part in the growth of India, and he feels nations are more successful when women are more successful. Our Indian culture prioritizes taking care of our country and the mothers in our families since they are the ones who give birth to the future leaders of India. Mother and father's love and caring encourage a child's development of greater strength and security. India's continuous progress is therefore solely attributable to our shared cultural heritage. We Indians like sharing ideals, celeb...

  || Your effort is your choice  || We have all heard the proverb that "some tiny efforts repeated day in and day out bring you to success," and "effort" is one of the main things that really matter in life. How come? One of my friends recently told me a very interesting story about a sparrow who accidentally drowned her two young kids while they were still inside their eggs in a large ocean. As a result, the small sparrow began manipulating the ocean's waves to bring her eggs back. As she was working, a large group of birds approached and asked her what she was doing. She said that I am attempting to manipulate ocean waves in order to retrieve my own eggs that have been lost in the water. Birds chirped together, "How is that possible? The little sparrow said, "Don't offer suggestions; simply offer to help if you can." Those birds joined her in trying to control the waves after observing her attempts. After a while, one owl passed by and saw t...

  || Be your own kind of Beauty || It is believed that our beauty is a light in our hearts, not in our faces. Every person's heart keeps them going by systematically vibrating to keep life alive. Every person has a special heart that reflects their own distinct existence. I've met people who have excellent hearts but struggle to express them, people whose hearts are limited to their minds, and others whose hearts are focused only on serving others. Both the sky and the sea have blue hearts, but they serve distinct purposes. The sky provides light for life, while the sea provides water for survival. Both have hearts to be open and be great, and they both work with their open arms to help others. The colours blue in the sky and the water is similar to the belief in helping others that our Lord Krishna has. While sharing the same colours, each shine differently due to their own uniqueness. Every individual human on this planet has their own unique beauty, and in my opinion and ac...