Ideas and Innovation - Agents of Change

Ideas and Innovation are the two key drivers of a successful business. Even a well established business may cease to survive in this highly competitive market if it does not come up with innovative and novel ideas converted into solutions and services.

Think out of the box! 

Do not let your mind always be confined to your four walls of cubicles, break the paradigms, open up your minds, imagine as farther as you can and you are sure to come with some ideas. Let these sound stupid or may be even impossible to some. People may even laugh at your ideas.But that's OK, an idea that is not initially ridiculed or laughed at is not Big enough!

Believe in yourself.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.~ William James

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.” 
~Swami Vivekanada.


“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” 
~ Napolean Hill


The India Freedom struggle - Satyagraha was idea of Mahatma Gandhi

An Idea can change your life! So get your brains "thinking" develop an idea and nurture it. Be the agents of change!

Divine Darshan

Well, it's better for me being late than never into this whole new world of blogging. I could not find any better event to start penning down for the sake of blogging.

In below few lines i would try to describe my first visit to the most beloved, most believed, and most worshipped lord during the Ganesh Festival - Lalbaugcha Raja as mumbaikars proudly call him and the others know it.

It was 6:30PM on a friday evening, the second day of the Ganesh Festival, while on my way back home from office I was informed about my cousins plan to visit Lalbaug for the divine darshan. With a short struggle to find an auto for Borivali station, where my relatives were waiting for me, i finally reached.

We got down at the Lower Parel a local railway station on western suburbs, the place I visited for the first time in roughly 22 years of my inhabitance in Mumbai.

You don't need to google on 'how to get there' for visiting such famous places. You just mention the name and you get the best directions and advises on mode of transport to get there. So, we went the way suggested by a pedestrian. It took us 15 mins of walk to reach the site in the pic below.

Main Gate of Lalbaugcha Raja

What an atmosphere that was, despite of unfavorable weather we could see the herds of contented hearts returning back from the site. Upon reaching nearer the entrance we were told, about two different queues, one for the Mukh Darshan (you get to see the lord only from a distance) and the other for CharanSparsh (devotees are allowed to touch the feet). We heard there were devotees queued up for 14 hours for the latter one. Such is the faith and belief of people that they do nearly anything for obtaining even a glimpse of this almighty - Lalbaugcha Raja. The common belief among the pious crowd is that if you come here and whole heartedly pray Him to fulfill a wish or ask for something, the almighty never disheartens you.

It was sheer luck, I would say, that the timing of our reaching the pandal, fortunately proved to be so right that we did not experience any significant crowd and consequently walked in the through the queue managers to the lane that had the Gajanana (another name for Lord Ganesh) idol standing high at its far end.

Lalbaugcha Raja-1

You may have never cried out the name of lord before, albeit you just can’t keep yourself from shouting out loud – “Ganpati Bappa Morya” along with the fellow visitor-cum-devotees.

Lalbagcha Raja - 2

All in all it was a smugly soothing experience that shall remain inscribed in my mind for years.

May Lord Ganesha bring peace, wealth and happiness in lives of all the devotes.

Ganpati Bappa Morya… Pudhcya Varshi Lavkar Ya.