Inspirational Boys

1. Narsingh Sesa (Bill: Balel, Block: Lamtaput, Dist.: Koraput, Age: 22-23, BA pass)
Came across this wonderful, hardworking & visionary youth while staying overnight at his home. He has made grand plans (& putting them into action) about how his patch of land will look like in the next 5 years. He has invested lot of efforts & time in planting Mango, black pepper, cashew, coffee with a view of diminishing efforts that could be spared by him & his family. While these plantations are for long term & require much less efforts (& the efforts are required just to maintain them not to replant every other season) & could be maintained by employing some casual labour but yield steady & smart returns over a long period. I also saw small ditches alongside plants & saw two matkas (earthen pots) around a tree & upon enquiring got to know that the ditches & matkas shall be filled with water in rainy season which shall keep the plant hydrated in non-rainy season & this all was his idea. He showed me a patch of land where around 1/5th was submerged & upon asking how would he get rid of the excess water, he replied that he had kept it that way to get the grass & weed decomposed under water & thereby making the underneath soil fertile & shall also work as a water body in the coming dry spells in winter season besides, as the patch is fully hydrated it would be used for Rabi vegetable plantations. I was amazed at the sheer ingenuity at full display before me from a village boy.

He himself is planning to shift down to some town & fetch a job to make use of his qualification. He has not only planned but also decided the timeline of one year to get this project complete. He has also planned as to who shall carry the task of managing & maintaining the Agri Initiative he has taken. He has planned to induct his younger brother, who is a driver, in this activity so that his brother is securely employed & he could use that opportunity to chase his dreams.

I respect Narsingh for his visionary being & would like to do my bit to get inspiration from them & could be of any small help in my might.

Real India - Osho

Osho's answer to "What according to you is real India"?

"India is the only land in the whole world, strangely, which has devoted all its talents in a concentrated effort to see the truth and to be the truth.

You cannot find a great scientist in the whole history of India. It is not that there were not talented people, it is not that there were not geniuses. Mathematics was founded in India, but it did not produce Albert Einstein. The whole country, in a miraculous way, was not interested in any objective research.

To know the other has not been the goal here, but to know oneself. For ten thousand years millions of people persistently making a single effort, sacrificing everything for it - science, technological development, riches - accepting poverty, sickness, disease, death, but not dropping the search at any cost. It has created a certain atmosphere, a certain ocean of vibrations around you.

If you come here with a little bit of a meditative mind, you will come in contact with it. If you come here just as a tourist, you will miss it. You will see the ruins, the palaces, the Taj Mahal, the temples, Khajuraho, the Himalayas, but you will not see India - you will have passed through India without meeting it. It was everywhere, but you were not sensitive, you were not receptive. You will have come here to see something which is not truly India but only its skeleton - not its soul. And you will have photographs of its skeleton and you will make albums of its skeleton, and you will think that you have been to India and you know India, and you are simply deceiving yourself.

There is a spiritual part. Your cameras cannot photograph it; your training, your education cannot capture it. You can go to any country, and you are perfectly capable of meeting the people, the country, its history, its past - in Germany, in Italy, in France, in England. But you cannot do the same as far as India is concerned. If you try to categorize it with other countries, you have already missed the point, because those countries don't have that spiritual aura. They have not produced a Gautam Buddha, a Mahaviraa, a Neminatha, an Adinatha. They have not produced a Kabir, a Farid, a Dadu. They have produced scientists, they have produced poets, they have produced great artists, they have produced painters, they have produced all kinds of talented people. But the mystic is India's monopoly; at least up to now it has been so.

And the mystic is a totally different kind of human being. He's not simply a genius, he is not simply a great painter or a great poet - he is a vehicle of the divine, a provocation, an invitation for the divine. He opens the doors for the divine to come in. And for thousands of years, millions of people have opened the doors for the divine to fill the atmosphere of this country.

To me, that atmosphere is the REAL India."

~Osho