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Wanted to share some thoughts on the topic of work life balance that @Kishoreciyer1 brought up and on which @wataboutery so eloquently expounded.

Early in my career I was lucky enough to work in roles I loved and under nurturing managers who were my mentors. (Contd)

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I worked hard and long. But I always returned home not contended with that day’s work and hungry for more. That satisfaction at work made my home life enjoyable. I found time to play badminton and volleyball. Work and life were perfectly balanced.
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I couldn’t wait to go to work. Great team and good manager.

But as I got married and responsibilities increased demands on my time grew, especially as just married man helping my wife acclimatize with US.

I sought work - life balance because ..everyone seeks, right?
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As luck would have it 9/11 happens, economy goes for a tail spin, and my company files for bankruptcy. So time to buckle up.

This is when I realized work life balance isn’t what I sought. I wanted a satisfying work that did not require me to compromise key personal goals
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Working hard to keep up the morale in a company in bankruptcy isn’t easy. But that gave my career a mission.

When you are passionate about your work and committed to it, and have a good manager you can find ways to be effective without compromising your personal life
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Then I decided to do my part time MBA which took the balancing act to whole another level. With a newborn baby, heavy work load and part time Masters!

Those 30 months I was put through the fire but it taught me what I could do and who I was.
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Doing part time masters (not sponsored by employer) still requires one to make sure to deliver at work what one must/ could.

I however learnt that the mistake people make is they want everything- not balance. I realized that I had unreal expectations of career growth.
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I realized that balancing of commitments at work, family and community meant one must know what one wants from each.

This set me free to be honest with myself. It allowed me to find a job where I had accountability, very little supervisory role so i could focus on things
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I stopped chasing promotions, sought positions that had solid impact on the company.

With two kids now I wanted to be there with them growing up not slogging away 70+ hour weeks chasing promotions (yes once I spent 18 months working 60-75 hrs on avg).
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I found brands I liked, believed they play a role in society that I was proud of, took up only roles with managers that I looked up to and felt they genuinely cared about cust & emp.

Once I set clear expectations on what was important to me, choice of companies clear
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Full circle back to jobs that allowed fulfilling professional life and keeping up commitments to personal life.

Some simple take aways
1. There is no free lunch
2. Can’t have everything so figure out what’s important
3. Be professional and honest on what’s possible/ not
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4. There will be peaks when work will take up more of your time and energy. Find a way to work but not drop the ball at home.
5. There will be times when life will demand more but ensure work never suffers. Work with manager and colleagues.
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6. The test of your professional network will be how you can smartly get things done while juggling so much and leverage every resource you have there.

7. Same thing at home. Become efficient. Use tech, outsource what can be outsourced to maximize time with family.
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8. Be content with the rewards of a balanced set up. Promotions or titles aren’t everything.

9. Seek meaningful roles at work that allow you to be a good parent/ spouse/ child while earning enough to meet your needs and some wants

Thanks for reading the rambling stream
Tagging @wataboutery for her eloquence making me ramble on about my experiences (you can blame her for it 😂)

@Kishoreciyer1 - a clear eyed realist and saying it like it is.

@GunduHuDuGa who is a good example of how to balance career and personal / Dharmic responsibilities

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Two monotheistic religions in their own way are on a path of attack against Hindus.
One spends billions converting Hindus. They feel they have a god-given right to reap a billion Indian souls, appropriate our festivals/ religious symbols and fool gullible people

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They use money, ignorance & threat to convert Hindus and use foreign funding to keep marginal communities depressed.

Other large monotheistic faith uses force. They feel any kafir-majority country is anathema to them. They use violence, forcible wedding/ rape to propagate

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They use violence to achieve what the other does through money. Both teach their children that those unlike them will go to hell and some even go to the extent of preaching violence against those unlike them, such as Hindus.

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Reason they reserve their worst venom for us is because we refuse to go away like other indigenous/ pagan faiths. We stand firm.

So as long as they continue to preach monotheism, that others unlike them will go to hell don’t expect me to respect them.

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I respect their right to their religion. But I WILL NOT be wishing them on their festivals. If that makes me non-secular then I wear it as a badge or honor.

I used to wish them until few years ago until I took the red pill.
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Earlier today I saw someone, who didn’t like the name of Patanjali and changed his name to some random word, tweet about moral authority and drivel to that effect.

So just sharing some thoughts after having observed so-called liberals and what they consider democracy.

2/n Just for record those I/ we call liberals aren’t Liberals. So let’s get that out of the way. I will use lowercase ‘l’ to refer to them.

They are usually moneyed, kids of well to do or at least well connected persons. And they have a weird sense of democracy.

3/n They are usually elitists and class conscious but their snobbish attitude is suppressed typically.

They claim to speak for the people and fight for the people but they don’t understand the people.

They want masses to pay tax, vote for whom they point and thank the Masters

4/n By the way while at it they want the masses to have no pride in their roots or have the gall to even dream that they can have aspirations of self reliance.

This is not just in India. In US we saw liberals basically de-platform 72M voters because they voted for other guy

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Anyway. While their favorite INC was ruling they pushed their agenda. As the country grew tired and replaced them with Modi ji, liberals have been apoplectic.

How dare the commoners think they know what’s good for the country was the cry that went up.
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One religion focuses on living a good, decent life, doing one’s dharma while being cognizant of impact of one’s actions over many births.

Other focuses only on after life, advocates even hurting others in its name.

Under which system can they coexist - serious answers pls

I’m not looking for partition should have been thorough type answers. That doesn’t help

Even other countries face this challenge but there, it is between liberal society founded on Abrahamic principles and this religion.

India is unique because of the nature of Sanatana Dharma

What sort of a person would even kill another just to get to heaven.

1. values his own existence so poorly that life has no meaning for him

2. Or brainwashed to believe that some lives aren't even lives so they can be taken

3. or rewards of some mythical heaven worth killing

In any society the ones with no hope for their life are most dangerous.

So I can understand why Modi Ji is working to bring them into mainstream and give them hope in life away from those who have kept them in ghettos.

That takes care of the 1st group.

What abt the other 2?

Even if the 1st group reforms we have some hope.

But the second and third - those that don’t value non-believers’ life is worth it or those that think promise of heaven is more important. How does one handle them.

Hoping for internal reformation hasn’t worked out.

What now?
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With Margazhi month upon us I’m going to try and post some verses from Thiruppavai with English translation. Apologizing ahead if there are any errors.

Thank you @GunduHuDuGa dor reminding us about Margazhi


Here are some resources to both get the verses and read in detail the translation and the more detailed treatment of the meaning of the devotional verses.

#Thiruppavai

Andal is Devi’s amsavatharam, Sri Devi incarnated in the form of Seethā performed upadeshak to the people of the earth. It is said that she even did Upadesham to Ravana who did not heed her but in his next birth as Sisupālan redeemed himself.

Through her #Thiruppavai prabhandham she is showing us the way to reach Bhagavan’s feet.

Verse 1 continued below

Paasuram (Verse) 1 of Thiruppavai

மார்கழித் திங்கள் மதி நிறைந்த நன்னாளால்

On the auspicious full moon day of the Margazhi month

நீராடப் போதுவீர் போதுமினோ நேரிழையீர்

Well ornamented maidens, those desirous of taking bath in the holy River please come on
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Just had a discussion with a good friend, nay, my Dharmic brother about something.

Often we, well I do at least, blame parents upbringing when a kid turns into self hating deracinated person with little love for country.

Question is how much do parents control? ++

It is neither fair nor correct to say it is all their fault. But let me parcel out possible causes and let you think about % blame apportioned

1. Upbringing. Parents setting (or not) example, imparting Dharmic education, teaching value systems in age appropriate way over time

2. Company. The kind of people a kid grows around / with, their value systems and if they mesh wish them family’s value system

3. Environment. Broader society, TV and other media and their influence

4. Poorva janma karna of parents and kids themselves and what it means in this life.

We all assign % credit for how a kid turns out based on our world view and experiences.

Thoughts?
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Lord Shiva has five faces called Ishana, Tatpurusha, Aghora, Vamadeva and Sadyojatha. These five faces of Shiva represent the five basic elements viz. akash, air, fire, water and earth.

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In fact these faces can be called five forms of Shiva.

Any creation has to be made out of these five gross elements. The 1st form or face called Ishana, is the first physical form of Shiva. This form gives us pleasure that is enjoyed by our physical body.

This is represented in the form of organs of hearing and speech in our body and in the form of subtle sound and the celestial sphere or akash. It may be recalled that ancient rishis got the sound of Vedas only from akash.

The second form or face is called Tatpurusha, the second physical form of the Lord. This form is identified with prakrti or the source of objectivity. This is the home of atman. This form is represented by organs of touch, organs of action, and is the subtle form of air.

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The title is Tandav. The eternal dance of Shiva. That, first, should be the point of your obsession with offensia (no word like that) series dedicated to OTT crap load. Appropriation of 'Tandav' - the word itself should be the precursor to any examination of the so called content

When the classical arts and the folk forms, especially the dance forms, involve the depiction of Shiva's Tandav, there is a separate, exclusive, special treatment to the movement, approach, sound, music, and vision. Many approach it as a sacred episode in performance.

I don't know what crap load are you people objecting to in the name of offensia. It's your eye balls that gives us unwanted crap load like this series. Time and again. Time and again. Baar Baar. Bakwas. You outrage too much. You don't believe in the positive. Negative. Negative.

Who gives a dead fish to what an idiot fading actor churns out to keep his bank balance going. Shift to the fine. Encourage fine. Educate yourself to incline with the fine and positive. And dare you call the Indian performing arts "naach gaana". That's where Shiva's Tandav lives.

It's because of your distracted set of eye balls that people who don't want the crap or shun it, have to live with the crap in the narrative. The coward "critics" hide in their down feather quilts when it comes to content like this. Why? Sochna? Kyonki tum ho na business dene ko.
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