You can transform your world in an instant by the way you
Choose to see it. You can change problems into
Opportunities, anxiety into enthusiasm, and despair into
Determination.

The quality of what you see depends on the perspective from
Which you see it. And that perspective is entirely up to
You.

Instead of reacting again and again to the chaotic ups and
Downs of circumstance, you have a more powerful choice. You
Can choose to live from a constant and unassailable
Perspective of love.

Instead of fighting against most of what happens, you can
Choose to be lifted higher by all that happens. From a
Perspective of love you'll see the positive possibilities in
Every situation.

The way to live from love is to be completely and wholly
Honest with yourself. In the pure truth of who you are and
What you sincerely value, is the limitless power of that
Love.

Allow you to be truly you. And let the power of love color
Your world.

The Power of Dreaming
Are you a dreamer? I am not talking about the dreams you have when you are sleeping, I am talking about the dreams you see when you are fully awake, the dreams you choose to see consciously.
Have you ever imagined owning something that seems utterly impossible? Have you ever dreamt of owning a million dollars? Have you dreamt of being in love with the most beautiful girl you have known, and she in love with you? Have you dreamt of owning the biggest house you have ever seen? Have you owned a Ferrari in a dream?
Achievement � Practicality vs Dreaming
We have a tendency to be practical. We use logic to define achievable goals for us � �this is something I can achieve� that is something very hard to get�. In our minds, we create some boundaries for ourselves within which we operate.
The point most of us miss is that, achievement comes to those who most want it. All the physical laws and logic bend to make the impossible possible for the one who dares to dream about the same thing, consistently.
Remember Leonardo Di Caprio�s character (Jack) in Titanic? When he is admiring Rose standing on a higher deck, someone tells him she is too high-class for him. But he doesn�t stop dreaming. Notice that he doesn�t fret over how he will get her, he just admires her � he has no idea how he will meet her and what he will say. He just dreams of her, believing in his dream all the time. When a person so completely believes in the inevitability of his success, the Universe has no choice but to start working to manifest his/her desire. When the opportunity presents itself, Jack is ready to receive it with open arms. He does not have to think twice, he does not have to plan what to do, he just acts. The successful results that his actions bear are all evident in the rest of the movie.
All big achievements start with a dream. Before a miracle in your life can materialize, it is created in the realm of your imagination. What we see as miracles in everyday life are only physical manifestations of dreams that were dreamt so passionately, they became beliefs and goals, rather than wishes.
Dreaming Vs Wishful thinking. Dreaming is a positive feeling. It makes you happy. You feel confident that you are going to achieve your desired goal. It is different from wishful thinking, which is wishing for something while holding the belief that it is out of your reach. Wishful thinking is marked by a negative feeling. In dreaming, you imagine you already have what you want and you enjoy it in your imagination.
If you really want to get something, stop just wishing for it, believe that you are going to get it. Dream about it, think about how you will use it once you have it. The way will show itself and you will be ready to grab the opportunity.
Dreaming and the Law of Attraction. Law of attraction states that you get in life what you focus your thoughts on, what you constantly, regularly think about. If you focus on getting a million dollars, the law will manifest it in your life. You don�t have to focus on how you will get it, you just have to imagine having it and enjoying it. This is what dreaming is all about! When you think about your favorite car and can enjoy driving it in your dreams on a regular basis, you are going to enjoy it in real life too!
Don�t focus on how you will get it or how difficult it is to get the money. If you think about how difficult it is to get, the law will keep it difficult for you, since that is what you focused on. Focus on the object of your desire, focus on the feeling of having it.
Courage. Dreaming requires courage. Dreaming is not a denial of reality where you just keep yourself in an imaginary world. Dreaming is acknowledging your current state but refusing to accept it. Dreaming means daring to accept that you are worthy of your goal. This is determination to achieve your goal, although you don�t know your way yet. This is mobilizing the Universe to make that dream a reality.
Have the courage to believe in yourself and your capabilities. If someone, somewhere in the world has got what you want, then you can get it too.
Blocks to dream materialization
A lot of us dream a lot but don�t see those dreams turning into reality. You may wonder why does your dream not materialize?
It is impossible for a dream to not materialize. If you are asking this question, you have already started doubting your dream.
Doubts. Dreams materialize when they remain a passionate dream till they are materialized. Doubts don�t have a place in dreaming. When you were an infant, did you ever doubt that you will learn to walk? Every time you tried to get up, you would fall. But then you would try again. You must have fallen a hundred times before you could even stand. You refused to give in to the falls. Each time, you learned something from the fall till, finally, you could stand on your own, then walk, and even run. These are hard skills to learn but you never sat down to ponder over how hard they are, doubt was never your nature. It still shouldn�t be. Don�t doubt your dreams. Doubts make the dream a mere wish.
Goals someone else set for you. Is your dream really your dream? If you aim is becoming a big investment banker on Wall Street, just because everyone around you says it�s the route to heaven, you are fooling yourself. Look inside yourself, what is it that you really dream of? Do you enjoy sports? acting? writing? Dare to accept your own dream, even if your dream is different from everyone else, even if every one is going in the opposite direction. Crowds really aren�t that smart as we make them out to be. Everyone in a crowd is following what others are doing. It leads to a false sense of security and a lot of confusion. Dare to follow your own dreams.
Sticking to something you don�t want anymore. When was the last time you paid attention to how you feel about your dream? Does it still make you as excited as it did earlier? As we grow as human beings, as we gather new knowledge, what appeared important and worthwhile before, may not look so now. There is no point in running after something you know has no value. Don�t follow something halfheartedly just because you have invested effort in it before. If your new knowledge points in a different direction, let go. Take the new, more exciting path. This is how learning and growth are. Sometimes you have to do the uncomfortable.
You have to be very careful here. If you switch goals, this has to be only because you find more worthy goals to follow, based on new knowledge. This should not be an excuse to keep jumping from one goal to another out of lack of focus. . He started out with aggressive commenting on other blogs. The goal was to be the blogger with the most comments (correct me Oni if I am wrong here � You�re definitely right! More proof on that can be found ). But, as he gathered more information about blogging, he realized it is not the best strategy for promotion and took up other, better methods.
Lack of focus. Do you dream of too many things at the same time? This will result in confusion. If you have multiple goals, all pulling your attention in different directions, the Universe is confused about what you actually want. Focusing towards a single goal is key to success.
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Dream and dream big. Don�t keep your dreams small because you feel bigger ones are out of your reach. There is no limitation to what you can dream and achieve. Aim for the highest, the best you can think of. Expect the best for yourself, and others. Remember, you are creating your future reality in your dreams. Why make it any less than fantastic?

Should we become a Devotee? Teachings of swami Vivekananda

Prof Gourishankar Patnaik; Bhubaneswar


Swami Vivekananda became one of India's leading social reformers of the modern era and was a champion of humanitarianism and service to God through service to others. He is revered both in the East and West as a rejuvenator of mankind through the eternal truths of Hinduism. He spoke widely on Hinduism and its true meaning as written in the vedas and founded the Ramkrishna Mission, one of India's leading charitable institutions.
What is Life
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy---by one or more or all of these--and be free.
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers; the ultimate goal of all mankind, the aim and end of all religions, is but one--reunion with God, or what amounts to the same, with the divinity which is every man's true nature.
The ideal of man is to see God in everything. But if you cannot see Him in everything, see Him in one thing, in that thing which you like best, and then see Him in another. So on you can go.
In this world of many, he who sees the One, in this ever-changing world, he who sees Him, who never changes, as the Soul of his own soul, as his own self, he is free, he is blessed, he has reached the goal.
Bhakti Yoga
Bhakti-Yoga is a real, genuine search after the Lord, a search beginning, continuing and ending in Love. One single moment of the madness of extreme love to God brings us eternal freedom. "Bhakti is intense love to God." "When a man gets it he loves all, hates none; he becomes satisfied forever." "This love cannot be reduced to any earthly benefit," because so long as worldly desires last that kind of love does not come. Bhakti-Yoga does not say "give up"; it only says "Love; love the Highest"; and everything low naturally falls off from him, the object of whose love is this Highest.
Purpose of Devotion
Bhakti is its own fruition, its own means and its own end. Those to whom the eternal interests of the soul are of much higher value than the fleeting interests of this mundane life, to whom the gratification of the senses is but like the thoughtless play of the baby, to them, God and the love of God form the highest and the only utility of human existence.
Bhakti admits no elements of fear, no being to be appeased or propitiated. There are even Bhaktas who worship God as their own child, so that there may remain no feeling even of awe or reverance. There can be no fear in true love, and so long as there is the least fear, Bhakti cannot even begin. In Bhakti there is also no place for begging or bargaining with God. The idea of asking God for anything is sacrilege to a Bhakta. He will not pray for health or wealth or even to go to heaven.
Advantages of Devotion
The peace of the Bhakta's calm resignation is a peace that passeth all understanding, and is of incomparable value. The great quality of Bhakti is that it cleanses the mind, and the firmly established Bhakti for the Supreme Lord is alone sufficient to purify the mind.
Of all renunciation, the most natural, so to say, is that of the Bhakti-Yoga. Here, there is no violence, nothing to give up, and nothing to tear off, as it were, from ourselves, nothing from which we have violently to separate ourselves; the Bhakta's renunciation is easy, smooth, flowing, and as natural as the things around us.
"Bhakti is greater than Karma, greater than Yoga, because these are intended for an object in view, while Bhakti is its own fruition, its own means and its own end." The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest, and the most natural way to reach the great divine end in view; The path of devotion is natural and pleasant. Philosophy is taking the mountain stream back to its source by force. It is a quicker method but very hard. Philosophy says, "Check everything." Devotion says, "Give up all to the stream, have eternal self-surrender." It is a longer way, but easier and happier.
Bhakti-Yoga does not say "give up"; it only says "Love; love the Highest"; and everything low naturally falls off from him, the object of whose love is this Highest.
With love there is no painful reaction; love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it is not love; it is mistaking something else for love. When you have succeeded in loving your husband, your wife, your children, the whole world, the universe, in such a manner that there is no reaction of pain or jealousy, no selfish feeling, then you are in a fit state to be unattached.
Disadvantages of Devotion
Its great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes degenerates into hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hinduism, or Mohammedanism, or Christanity, have always been almost exclusively recruited from these worshippers on the lower planes of Bhakti.

That singleness of attachment to a loved object, without which no genuine love can grow, is very often also the cause of the denunciation of everything else. All the weak and undeveloped minds in every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal, i.e. by hating every other ideal. Herein is the explanation of why the same man who is so lovingly attached to his own ideal of God, so devoted to his own ideal of religion, becomes a howling fanatic as soon as he sees or hears anything of any other ideal.

Ways of Attaining Devotion
There is Bhakti within you, only a veil of lust-and-wealth covers it, and as soon as that is removed Bhakti will manifest by itself. In Bhakti-Yoga the first essential is to want God honestly and intensely. One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect---the mere repetition of words...To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like Gita and the Imitation of Christ; always think of the attributes of God.
But theorizing about God will not do; we must love and work. Give up the world and all worldly things, especially while the "plant" is tender. Day and night think of nothing else as far as possible. The daily necessary thoughts can all be thought through God. Eat to Him, drink to Him, sleep to Him, and see Him in all. Talk of God to others; this is most beneficial.

Get the mercy of God and of His greatest children; these are the two chief ways to God. The company of these children of Light is very hard to get; five minutes in their company will change a whole life, and if you really want it enough, one will come to you. The presence of those who love God makes a place holy, "such is the glory of the children of the Lord". They are He; and when they speak, their words are Scriptures. The place where they have been becomes filled with their vibrations, and those going there feel them and have a tendency to become holy also.
Stages of Devotion
We all have to begin as dualists in the religion of love. God is to us a separate Being, and we feel ourselves to be separate beings also. Love then comes in the middle, and man begins to approach God, and God also comes nearer and nearer to man. Man takes up all the various relationships of life, as father, as mother, as son, as friend, as master, as lover, and projects them on his ideal of love, on his God. To him God exists as all these, and the last point of his progress is reached when he feels that he has become absolutely merged in the object of his worship.

We all begin with love for ourselves and the unfair claims of the little self make even love selfish; at last, however, comes the full blaze of light, in which this little self is seen to have become one with the Infinite. Man himself is transfigured in the presence of this Light of Love, and he realizes at last the beautiful and inspiring truth that Love, the Lover, and the Beloved are one.

When the devotee has reached this point he is no more impelled to ask whether God can be demonstrated or not, whether He is omnipresent and omniscient, or not. To him He is only the God of Love; He is the highest ideal of love, and that is sufficient for all his purposes; He, as love, is self-evident; it requires no proof to demonstrate the existence of the beloved to the lover. The magistrate-Gods of other forms of religion may require a good deal of proof to prove them, but the Bhakta does not and cannot think of such Gods at all. To him God exists entirely as love. The perfected Bhakta no more goes to see God in temples and churches; he knows no place where he will not find Him. He finds Him in the temple as well as out of the temple; he finds Him in the saint's saintliness as well as in the wicked man's wickedness, because he has Him already seated in glory in his own heart, as the one Almighty, inextinguishable Light of Love, which is ever shining and eternally present.
The Bhakta at last comes to this that love itself is God and nothing else. Where should man go to prove the existence of God? Love was the most visible of all visible things. It was the force that was moving the sun, the moon and the stars, manifesting itself in men, women and in animals, everywhere and in everything. It was expressed in material forces as gravitation and so on. It was everywhere, in every atom, manifesting everywhere. It was that Infinite Love, the only motive power of this universe, visible everywhere, and this was God Himself.

"I may know that I am He, yet will I take myself away from Him and become different, so that I may enjoy the Beloved." That is what the Bhakta says.
Feelings of Devotee
If a man does not get food one day, he is troubled; if his son dies how agonising it is to him! The true Bhakta feels the same pangs in his heart when he yearns for God. The great quality of Bhakti is that it cleanses the mind, and the firmly established Bhakti for the Supreme Lord is alone sufficient to purify the mind. "Lord, they build high temples in your name; they make gifts in your name; I am poor; I have nothing; so I take this body of mine and place it at your feet. Do not give me up, O Lord." Such is the prayer proceeding out of the depths of the Bhakta's heart. To him who has experienced it, this eternal sacrifice of the self unto the Beloved Lord is higher by far than all wealth and power, than even all soaring thoughts of renown and enjoyment.

The peace of the Bhakta's calm resignation is a peace that passeth all understanding, and is of incomparable value. When the devotee has reached this point he is no more impelled to ask whether God can be demonstrated or not, whether He is omnipresent and omniscient, or not. To him He is only the God of Love; He is the highest ideal of love, and that is sufficient for all his purposes; He, as love, is self-evident; it requires no proof to demonstrate the existence of the beloved to the lover. The magistrate-Gods of other forms of religion may require a good deal of proof to prove them, but the Bhakta does not and cannot think of such Gods at all. To him God exists entirely as love. I know one whom the world used to call mad, and this was his answer: "My friends, the whole world is a lunatic asylum; some are mad after worldly love, some after name, some after fame, some after money, some after salvation and going to heaven. In this big lunatic asylum I am also mad, I am mad after God. You are mad; so am I. I think my madness is after all the best."
The true Bhakta's love is this burning madness, before which everything else vanishes for him. The whole universe is to him full of love and love alone; that is how it seems to the lover. So when a man has this love in him, he becomes eternally blessed, eternally happy; the blessed madness of divine love alone can cure for ever the disease of the world that is in us.
May we see the reflection of revered Swamiji in every Indian.

Prof Gourishankar patnaik is a consultant Orthopedic and spinal surgeon and social scientist based in Bhubaneswar. He can be contacted at drgsp66@yahoo.com and www.drgspatnaik.com

Poor therapeutic compliance is the most important cause of failure to achieve the desired results in the management of chronic ailments and health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension etc. Uncontrolled diabetes increases the risks of associated micro and macrovascular complications. There are many factors responsible for non-compliance such as awareness and knowledge about the disease, its nature and associated complications, number of drugs advised, concerns about side effects, convenience of dosing and the cost of therapy etc. Compliance rates for drug use and life style modifications vary considerably among diabetes patients.
A total of 210 registered, ambulatory Type-2 diabetes patients attending the clinic were included for the study of the level of their therapeutic compliance, and finding recorded based on their case files, their verbal reporting, physician�s assessment and some times by actually counting of pills remaining.
A qualitative review of literature search of Medline database from 1990 onwards was undertaken to assimilate similar findings reported by others for comparison with our findings.
The most common reasons for non-compliance in our study were cost of medication followed by forgetfulness, concerns about side effects, multiplicity of pills and large pill size.

MULJIBHAI PATEL UROLOGICAL HOSPITAL

International Honours for Dr. Mahesh Desai of MPUH Nadiad

It is a matter of great pride not just for the Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (MPUH), Nadiad, but the country as a whole, and the Indian Urology in particular, that Dr. Mahesh Desai, MS, FRCS (London), FRCS (Edinburgh), Medical Director and Managing Trustee of MPUH, has been elected as the �President-Elect� of the Endourological Society Inc. at the World Congress of Endourology (WCE) held at Kyoto, Japan during November 30 to December 3, 2011. During the WCE2011 at Kyoto, an MPUH doctor won two prizes � 1st prize for the best video �Micro percutaneous nephrolithotomy: The initial feasibility study�, and the 2nd prize for the best Essay �Staghorn Morphometry: A New Tool for Clinical Classification and Prediction Model for PCNL Monotherapy.�

At the initiative and direction of Dr. Mahesh Desai, MPUH had successfully organized the 12th World Video Urology Congress 2000 at Goa, and the 22nd World Congress on Endourology 2004 at Mumbai.

It may be recalled, in October this year, Dr. Mahesh Desai had become the first Indian to assume the Office of the President of the Soci�t� Internationale d'Urologie (SIU) at the SIU World Congress held at Berlin, Germany. It is unprecedented that Dr. Desai is perhaps the only person to hold both these prestigious positions simultaneously or separately. The other positions that Dr Desai has held include President, Urological Society of India (2006-2007); Chairman, Sub-specialties, Society International d�Urologie (SIU) ( 2004-2009); Chairman, Scientific Committee, Endourology Society Inc. (2007 - present); President, Asian Society of Endourology (2008 - present); Chairman, Endourology Education Training Site Committee of Endourology Society Inc. (2008 - 2011); Member, International Committee of American Urological Association (2008 - 2011).

News has also just come in that Dr. Mahesh Desai has been selected for the prestigious �St. Paul�s Medal 2012� by the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS). It is awarded to �distinguished colleagues from overseas whose contributions to the Association in particular, or to Urology in general, BAUS Council particularly wishes to appreciate and honour.� Since the inception of this Medal in 1989, Dr. Mahesh Desai is only the second Indian after Dr. Dara K Karanjavala (1993), to be honoured with this international recognition.