आप इस तस्वीर को देखिये तो बहुत कुछ समझ जायेंगे !

Knowledge gives politeness & Education gives arrogance.

विद्या विनय देती है और शिक्षा घमंड ! आज के समय में हम शिक्षा और विद्या में फर्क नहीं कर पा रहे है ! अगर मैं विद्या और शिक्षा की एक तुलना करूँ तो मुझे लगता है की शिक्षा Hardware की तरह है और विद्या Software की तरह ! शिक्षा तो आपको किसी शिक्षालय में मिल जायेगी, लेकिन विद्या के लिए भारत में अब कोई विद्यालय नहीं बचा है ! अब विद्या लेने के लिए दो तीन रास्ते है! पहला अगर आप एकलव्य हैं तो स्वयं से प्रेरित हो कर आप इसे पा सकते हैं ! दुसरा अगर आपके अभिभावक आपके गुरु हैं तो आपकी मुश्किल कम हो जायेगी आपको आसानी से इसे पा सकते हैं! एक और रास्ता ये है की आपको कोई गुरु मिल जाये, लेकिन ऐसी उम्मीद कम ही है, क्योंकि शिक्षालय में आपको Tutor मिलेंगे गुरु नहीं ! भारत में जब से अंग्रेजों ने यहाँ की गुरुकुल व्यवस्था को गैरकानूनी घोषित कर अपनी शिक्षा प्रणाली शुरू की, यहाँ भी लोग शिक्षा (डिग्री) के पीछे भागने लगे ! भारत की हजारों वर्षों से ये सोंच रही है की विद्या पाने का अधिकार सभी को है, लेकिन अंग्रेजों की सोंच रही है की विद्या सिर्फ राजा के लिए है, बाकी लोगों को तो आदेश का पालन करना है, तो उनको शिक्षा दो ताकि आदेश का पालन सही से कर सके ! आज अगर आप भारत के प्रधानमंत्री और उनके मंत्रिमंडल को देखिये तो आप पाएंगे की वे विश्व के बड़े बड़े शिक्षालयों (IIT, IIM, Harvard, Oxford) से शिक्षित हुए हैं, लेकिन इनमें विद्वान कोई भी नहीं है ! भारत में अगर शिक्षित होने की अंधी दौड़ नहीं होती, और कुछ प्रतिशत लोग भी शिक्षा को छोड़ कर विद्या प्राप्त किये होते तो आज देश इस कदर बेबस नहीं होता !

Knowledge gives politeness, patience & education gives arrogance, attitude.

Refrigeration Without Electricity !

Mohammed Bah Abba Country: Nigeria Region of Impact: Nigeria

Project Overview:

Mobah Rural Horizons, is a Rural Development and Consulting Organization that designs, invents, and disseminates appropriate technologies for poor rural areas. The project is a fresh foods preservation system that uses two clay pots. This system requires no electricity supply to preserve and prolong the storage life of perishable fresh food items.

Problem Addressed:

For people who live in hot climates with little electricity, food spoils quickly. Produce spoils in within three days without refrigeration, forcing farmers to rush their crops to the market and sell them at undervalued prices. This has a lot of consequences to the farmers, and their families, because it affects their village life and leads a decrease in income in the poor rural areas. For Kano City, which is around 60 miles from many farmers, the fresh produce that is grown rots along the way, causing its farmers to earn smaller profits and provide for fewer people.

Refrigeration is a method for storing foods around the world, but places in Africa like Kano City do not have the resources to support a stable supply of electricity to make refrigerators a viable option.

Technology Solution:

Mohammed Bah Abba designed an elegantly simple food storage device that is made up of two earthenware pots which utilize the principles of evaporation to create electric-free refrigeration. In between the two pots is a layer of fine, wet, river sand, and on top is a moist jute bag. When kept in a dry, well-ventilated, and shady location, water evaporates, cooling the inner container. As a result, Mohammed's desert refrigerator allows produce to stay fresh for weeks, so less food is wasted, and farmers are able to increase their profits so that they can continue to provide for their communities. Mohammed sells around 30,000 coolers a year to farmers and other people who want to preserve food for their families and communities.

Source: The Tech Awards, Youtube

Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning !

Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, ‘I love you’, locked in our hearts.

But do not always expect to hear the same words back. We love because we need to love. Otherwise, love loses all meaning and the sun ceases to shine.

A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:
‘Aren't you tired of waiting?’
‘Yes,’ answers the rose, ‘but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.’

And yet, even when Love does not appear, we remain open to its presence. Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.

Our one true choice is to plunge into the mystery of that uncontrollable force.
Then we discover, when we go home, that someone was there waiting for us, looking for the same thing we were looking for and experiencing the same anxieties and longings.

Because love is like the water that is transformed into a cloud: it’s lifted up into the heavens, where it can see everything from a distance, aware that, one day, it will have to return to earth.

Because love is like the cloud that is transformed into rain: it is drawn down to the earth, where it waters the fields.

Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.

Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the keyring that opens the door.

taken from Paulo Coelho's Blog

Quotes for your Dreams

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
—Mahatma Gandhi

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
—Margaret Mead

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
—Marianne Williamson

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
—Oscar Wilde

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
—Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
—Ayn Rand

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back– Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference.

A sunset is always more beautiful when it is covered with irregularly shaped clouds, because only then can it reflect the many colors out of which dreams and poetry are made.

Pity those who think: ‘I am not beautiful. That’s why Love has not knocked at my door.’
In fact, Love did knock, but when they opened the door, they weren't prepared to welcome Love in.

They were too busy trying to make themselves beautiful first, when, in fact, they were fine as they were.

They were trying to imitate others, when Love was looking for something original.

They were trying to reflect what came from outside, forgetting that the brightest light comes from within.

कुछ खूबसूरत लाइनें Paulo Coelho's Blog से !

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