Amount of hard work gone from field to plate

 Many people think #food that comes to their plate is just a dead, ordinary and cooked #material. 

Obviously, it is not. Farmers work hard day and night and produce clean, healthy #crops.

Crop is processed and sent to market for trade, from the market it comes to the individual kitchen, and it is cooked with lots of effort, precision and love by the cook or chef and comes to our plate. Before taking #food, one should acknowledge gratitude to God, farmers, mothers and cooks. That train of forces has not only #monetary aspect but #emotional and #spiritual aspect that makes our food so precious, delicious, which may look dead to some persons but becomes #miracle when consumed by the human body. Food fulfills the hunger needs of every soul. This food gets converted to energy. This energy makes humans do mental and physical work. Therefore, one is advised to use that ₹₹energy for doing positive karma. 

In the epic of the Mahabharata, Lord Krishna also advised Queen Draupadi to never #waste food, even if it is one rice. Food is a unique #manifestation of God. 

This is a reason in Hindu #dharma we pray to God for giving us enough #food at the right time with the support of our family and many noble souls, with whose help we get #food on our plate. 

Food should not be #wasted. It should be taken care of as we take care of money. Sharing #food with needy people is a blessing. Humans should also take care that while consuming their own #food, they should see that other species present on #planet should also get their due food. For human survival, other species present on the planet must also survive. 

Moral: Let us bow down to food on our food plate before consuming it. Never forget to share food with needy persons.

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Life Path and relationships

  I am a school teacher in a government school. I am in charge of the co-curricular activities of the school. My students come from various backgrounds.

I keep advising my # teenage students from time to time. Teens are a very #crucial age for any student; there are physical changes in the body, and there are many emotional ups and downs in life. Some students get moral support from #family friends. Therefore, they are a little uncomfortable to #adjust in their teenage years.

Many of my students somehow do not get support from family and friends, which they are supposed to get. #School is a unit that gives those students emotional support so that they can face the #coming changes in their lives.

I said, "Dear students, there are different types of #relationships one faces in one's life. At the same time, one has to walk in one's path of life. It is possible that the path may not be linear. Sometimes the path of life becomes #complicated and non-linear in nature."

My student  Radha said, " Madam, relationships can be between siblings, teacher and students, parents and children, and others can be between friends. One has to act wisely and honestly to make #bridge of the relationship strong and wonderful."

I further said, " Another important factor which is important and should be taken care of is that when one walks on #life path, it gets highly correlated with relationships and forms new forms of relationships. Therefore, friends, please keep walking on your #life path with a lot of determination and nurture and build your relationship with love and #affection. In this exercise quality of joy one gets is unique."

Moral-Joys are like #fragrance of chandan. When one pastes chandan wood on the forehead of others, amazingly, one's hand #fingers also get the fragrance of the same.

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Chanting of RamRam Equation

 It is a spiritual belief that chanting the name of Lordis Ram helps everyone in every circumstance in life. 

But there is deep meaning in the chant of the name Ram. By chanting Ram Ram, one can go to the temple daily. But that is not enough; having spiritual dialogue with Ram is a must, which makes one's soul noble. 

Chanting of Ram means to make your soul pure like Ram and never give up devotional service as Lord Ram did to the people of Ayodhya. 

Chanting Ram means remaining in one's limit  of culture and finance, etc. 

Chanting Ram means in the world from materialistic things remaining detached and believing in sacrifice for others. 

Chanting Ram has no indulgence in politics of any issue. In a world of so many dreadful activities, remaining calm like Saint Buddha. 

Everyone believes we are part of Ram; they must follow all commands written above, shown by Lord Ram. 

If that is so, as mentioned above, it means one is contributing toward building Ram Rajya. That means fair treatment to each person of the state if one is poor, rich, downtrodden, needy, emotionally unstable, learned or not knowing any world wisdom

If I put in mathematics language, it means if one tries to solve so many variable with one wonderful equation, that equation is called Ram Ram---

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Let me go

 My cousin Asha lives in a foreign country. Her parents used to live in India. Asha will call her parents every month. With time, Asha became busy with her in-laws' family and children. She used to call her parents on the phone after two months.

One Sunday, Asha called her parents on the phone. It so happened that her #mother picked up the phone. Up to Asha's surprise, her mother was in a totally different #mood. Asha was confused to hear what her mother was talking about on the phone.

Asha's Mother said, "Dear Asha, I have come to #end of my life journey road. I am so happy you are doing well in your life. Please keep working hard #honestly".

Asha, "What are you saying, Mom? Why are you so different today?".

Mother said, "My life sun is going to #set very soon. Please stop worrying about me. Please do not #remember me very often. I know you are missing me. I request you, please do not #gloom when I leave this world. Rather feel happy, a noble soul is #set free. Remember the #love and heart-to-heart talks we shared."

Asha said, "Mom, you are in my heart, and even though you are so far from me, you are there every #moment  with me."

Mother said, "My child, you know that this #last journey I have to take #alone."

She further said, "Dear Asha, take care of your family. When you feel #lonely and #sick at heart. Please visit to dear friends who know me and share all the lovely #memories of things we used to do as mother-daughter duo. Please do not miss me. In doing so, you will not let me go #peacefully".

It was time for Asha to prepare to go to school. Alarm bell was ringing. Asha Woke up. At the same time, a phone call came from India, "Mother is #no more!. She is set for her #last journey".

Asha's ear could not believe her ears. Echoes of her words in her dream"#Miss me not, my child. Let me go #peacefully home."

A moral person's life journey is full of ups and downs. Everyone's last journey is unique in the sense that one has to travel #alone in that journey.

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Revised Learning through Hardships

 I am teaching science in a government school. Sumitra is our #old student. She came to school to attend the #alumni Association function. I was so happy to meet her after a long time. Sumitra is a special #student in the sense that she is married to the most sincere #IAS officer of the country. So whenever school has some #administrative problem, Sumitra's generosity always helps the school with some #amicable solution. 

Sumitra said, "Madam, I am very happy with my life. My children are doing well in life. I have one big #regret in life that is after marriage, I resigned from a #good job(lecturer ship). I never thought any time to #increase my skills after marriage. If I wanted, I could have done so. I was #misguided by my own thoughts that I would get the respect of the chief guest's wife, then where is the need for #working hard? But madam, I no longer enjoy that. I regret that I myself lost my #identity because I was scared of facing a little # hardship. Now I know madam hardships make women #strong. I started enjoying my comfort zone. I remember you, Madam Sukarma(sukarma.thareja.knp@gmail.com ), so much. You strongly #advised me not to forgive my #identity and to make sure you add some #technical skills to your personality. Madam, I was ignorant and never thought of your advice #line of thinking. Time lost can never #come back. "

I said, "It's ok, Sumitra, one can never walk in time, which is #gone. Since you are relatively free now still you can still search for an #activity that gives you satisfaction. Please #work on that if possible."

Sumatra said, "Believe me, Madam Sukarma. It's so nice to do a # heart-to-heart talk with you. I have very few people in my life with whom I can do so. It has given so much #relief and peace today. "I blessed Sumitra from the core of my heart and wished for her a successful and peaceful life. " I was also very happy to be part of Sumitra's conversation, and I could make her a little distressed. 

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Day Dreaming diabetic Friendly dish

 When I was a small child, I used to # daydream a lot. Sometimes I will #share my day #dreams with my sister. She thought # daydreams would not let #daydreamer focus on the goals of life. 

Once at my aunt's house in #Gujrat, I saw #raw dates. I noticed nobody was able to #relish them as they are a bit #bitter in taste. While walking in the garden, I had a daydream about #raw dates. It gave me #creative idea that since raw dates are #alkaline in nature and have less sugar # content, therefore sweets made from them will be #diabetic friendly. 

I went to the kitchen and mixed milk with small pieces of #raw dates and also mixed some #dry fruits and boiled the milk mixture till it #thickened, and with the help of coconut powder, I made a sweet laddoo. Everyone relished sweets. I said, "Aunty, this sweet is #diabetic friendly as the sweet #content is less and #organic in nature. 

Everyone was surprised by how I got #idea of such a good #recipe. I said, "All this is because I daydream. "

Moral- Daydreaming makes one very #creative and #productive. 

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Eclipsed Relationships

I am a science teacher in a government school. In my # extracurricular class, I asked my students, "What do you understand by #developed/developing the nation?"

Students came out with many interesting #answers. One student said, "A developed nation has a good #economy, #average income per resident is reasonably good. "Another student said," Madam, #infrastructure in developed nations is run by #advanced technology. Robots do much work in factories. "

I said, "Dear students, today I am going to talk to you about another dimension of a developing/developed nation. #India is not considered a developed nation because there is vast income #inequality among citizens of our country. Moreover over there is a lack of #educational opportunities for citizens. "

I further said, "In India, there is a growing trend of people migrating from villages to #urban areas. 

There is a lack of employment opportunities among qualified citizens; therefore, in a family unit, #husband and wife are not able to find jobs in #same cities. This arrangement is making #split in families. Children of these families grow up with #different value system. Due to the same reason, children of one family are #residing too far away from their #parents. Due to these arrangements, there is a feeling of insecurity among citizens. Sometimes  you find relationships  are eclipsed.

All above mentioned questions make one think what do we mean by a developing/developed nation. 

How to find work-life balance in a developing/developed nation is a big question. To find A satisfactory answer to this question, we still have to find 

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