Sampath-Musings

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   RABINDRANATH TAGORE (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)     Needless to say, Rabindranath Tagore is synonymous with India’s national anthem ‘Jana gana mana’. Born in Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Bengal (British India), Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath and versatile persona viz. poet, playwright, dramatist, novelist, essayist, story-writer, composer, philosopher, social reformer, educationist, linguist, grammarian, and painter - all rolled into one - who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his profoundly sensitive, fresh, and beautiful poetic collection called GITANJALI. He was the first non-European to receive the accolade after Theodore Roosevelt (26 th President of the United States) who received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.   Tagore wrote the national anthem of Bangladesh also called 'Amar Sonar Bangla' in 1905.   Although  Rabindranath’s father sent his son to a public school in Brighton, England with ...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:       SMILE AND LAUGHTER   A smile makes your face more beautiful. Smile has a more decorative effect on your face than any facials/cosmetics used. In other words, smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. Yes, it gives a facelift!   Smile is an ornamental value addition to your face. Smile and laughter - the two sides of a positive coin - optimistically, encouragingly, and beneficially affect the brain. They can also be likened to siblings/cousins.  Your face is like a beautiful lake on which your smile is a blooming lotus flower. Can’t we say that the bigger version of the smile is a laugh? In other words, a laugh is just a smile that lost control.   Smile and laughter are natural. They have no specific language other than that your heart speaks. It's a different matter if you fake otherwise.   A smile is a universal expression and a face language. It speaks all languages, overcomes ...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:     ENJOY OTHERS ENJOYING   BE HAPPY BY MAKING OTHERS HAPPY   At the outset, it is pointed out that whatever one enjoys is the divine dispensation. If you strongly believe and logically carry it forward, you may not mind sharing it with others. Happiness always looks small if you hold it in your hands, but when you share it with others you will realize how big, wonderful, and precious it turns out to be.   George Eliot would ask, “What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?”   The tree exists not for itself. The river flows not with self-motives. Yes, clouds give rain and rain gives copious water to fill the water-bodies for consumption of all. Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the Sun does not shine on itself, and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. The myriad of nature’s bounties confer countless benefits on humanity. Thus, l...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NONE   DON’T MISS THE BUS RACE AGAINST TIME   Time and tide wait for none. Unlike other tangible things, time keeps on moving. It can neither be stopped, nor stored, nor saved. In other words, the clock cannot be put back. Time lost will never come back. Again, it can be neither recovered, nor restored, nor recouped. Once you let the time pass, it’s gone forever.   Fallen flowers cannot climb back. So, don’t think about or brood over the past which is wasteful. Love and live the present, if possible, with a beautiful attire of smile.   A closed mouth catches no flies/worms but an eager and early bird does it. Prioritize things and have clarity of your mission and vision with clear and well-defined targets and goalposts and tirelessly work to achieve them. If you run after two hares, you're m ost likely to  miss both.   The term ‘Don’t miss the bus’ has the same connotation. ...