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Hamara Prayas May 2021 Postal Regn. No. : HD/1145-2020-2022 Date of Publication : 7th May, 2021 RNI Regn. No. : APENG/2011/38018, Dated 24-06-2011 Date of Posting : 9th May, 2021 HAMARAHAMARA PRAYASPRAYAS THE MONTHLY TABLOID OF ANDHRA PRADESH MAHESH CO-OPERATIVE URBAN BANK LTD. Editor : Ranjana Sharma Associate Editor : A. V. Rama Rao Volume - XI | Issue : 5 | Price : ` 1/- From the Chairman’s Desk relationships into your life that will eventually hurt what you do. Learn more than what others know. you, but you will also repel the avenues of love. Do more than what others do. Expect more from When you are attracting the negative, you are yourself than what others expect of you. If you obviously repelling the positive. This explains the want Krishna besides you, then you have to ATTRACTING THE LIFE YOU DESIRE reasoning behind, “Why positive thinking?” qualify yourself as the best warrior. Competence Positive thinking helps you to attract the positive, magnetises the divine grace. If you want the best Our Universe is a cosmic magnetic field. Gravity and thus repel the negative. It is for this very from life, you got to give your best to life. And, is fundamentally magnetism. Our galaxy (Milky reason that every religion insisted on the practice without purity there is no spirituality. Without Way), our solar system and every other galaxy of forgiveness. Blatantly stated, forgiveness is not self-purification the divine shall not descend. and the various celestial bodies are all suspended some saintly quality to emulate, but for the sheer Without process excellence there cannot be in the Cosmic space, controlled by mutually selfishness of getting your magnet right, you need excellence in results. Consistently do this acting magnetic forces. All of them are attracting to practice forgiveness. process-audit: “Are my processes in congruence and repelling each other, thus holding each other It is not enough what you think for yourself. It is to my desires?” Thirdly, you need to have in their respective positions, and aiding the equally important what you think for others. It is connectivity to a source of energy: a place or a rotations and revolutions. Any imbalance in the not enough you think good for those who have person. A house can be run with a residential cosmic magnetic field, even momentarily, results been good to you. It is equally important that you electricity connection, but not a factory. A factory in the cosmic accidents causing the big bangs and think good even for those who haven't been good would need an industrial connection. Similarly, the falling meteors. to you. It is not enough you celebrate your our private reserve of energy is enough for us to Scientifically explained, from the cosmic success alone. It is equally important that you meet up with our day-to-day demands. magnetic field manifested this bio magnetic field celebrate everyone's success. Stop looking at However, higher the ideals, bigger the goals, called human. You are the manifested essence of what has left you and start focussing on what you deeper the purpose, then greater are the needs for Existence. The basic properties of the magnet, are left with. Count your blessings and never high reserves of energy. Places of worship, attraction and repulsion, manifested itself as your your troubles. Don't feel too much with your irrespective of the religion, are supposedly spaces sixth-sense, the sense of discrimination – pain or failures, but focus on the lessons learnt. with high vibrations. That's why, some spaces fill pleasure, right or wrong, good or bad, this or that Celebrate every success of yours, and run your people with vibrations. Our physics laboratory – choosing one and repelling the counter victory laps. experiments remind us that an electromagnetic possibility. As important it is that the cosmic Every time the world tells you, “You can't,” field cannot function effectively with a voltage magnetic field be in perfect sync for the cosmos to remember, “The loudest way to tell the world to drop. Similarly, for your inner-magnet to work be hassle-free, you have to get your magnet right shut up is to produce results.” Every time the effectively, your energy reserves have to be high. for your life to be flowing zero-defect. world tells you, “You can,” acknowledge by The more you stay in the presence of a rose There are three components for you to get your telling them, “I will prove you right.” Secondly, garden the more you will begin to smell roses. magnet right: Your dominant thoughts and your processes have to be in congruence with Find something to hold on to and hold on to it feelings have to be right. Your processes have to your desires. It is an eternal law that we do not get with complete faith. The Vedas suggest, true be in congruence to your desires. Your energy in life what we desire, but we only get in life what growth is only when a man from a life of levels have to be high. Firstly, whatever are your we deserve. It is only by getting our processes in 'maximum efforts producing minimum results' dominant thoughts and feelings that become the congruence with our desires that we deserve their transforms into a life of 'minimum efforts direction of your magnet, and you attract more of fulfilment. You cannot desire east and go west. It producing maximum results'. And the only way it into your life, and repel the counter possibilities. takes what it takes to be healthy and fit: to achieve it is by getting your magnet right. If you are abundant-conscious, then that's what Discipline. Unless you are tough on yourself life Thought management plus process management you will attract into your life. If you are scarcity- will not be easy on you. If you want to be a plus energy management: All the three have to be conscious, then that's what you will attract into pathfinder you must dare to be a path breaker. right for your magnet to be right. Gautama your life. It also explains why for some people Unless you are willing to subordinate your likes Buddha is just a Siddhartha who got his magnet everything is a problem, and why for some and dislikes you cannot fulfil the purpose of your right. nothing is unsolvable. It is their dominant life. Ramesh Kumar Bung thoughts and feelings that make it so. To be a Numero Uno, you got to be the best in As a result, you will not only draw more and more If your heart is pure, there would be no craving for anything – Ramesh Kumar Bung. 01 MD & CEO SPEAKS START LOOKING FORWARD either his sweat or his performance or show progress. Contentment doesn't mean you should be ambitious. Contentment only means, “I will My Dear Colleagues, cherish what I have without any regrets.” As long as I cherish what I have Anyone can be one among the crowd. The joy of living life is in standing with no regrets and continue to strive for more, I can be ambitiously above the crowd, and in walking a different path. It's a choice you have to contended. Our thoughts create our reality. We get what we focus make. Make the decision right now. Do you want to be just anybody in upon. In any situation, we see what we expect to see. life or do you want to be somebody in life? No matter how little we have, we are rich, if we are grateful. No matter If you live like everybody, you will become like everybody. Walk the path how much we have, we are poor, if we are ungrateful. A heart laden with everybody walks, and you'll reach the destination everybody reaches. gratitude need not go in search of abundance. Instead, abundance will Walk a different path and you'll create a different destination for yourself. flow into our life. In a world that wants progress, it pains to hear phrases If you keep thinking the same way, you will keep doing the same stuff. If like 'Monday morning blues'. It is shocking to hear that more heart you keep doing the same stuff, you will keep getting the same results. attacks happen on Monday mornings than any other time of the week. Expecting your life to change without changing the pattern of your Work is our only salvation. Work is the only way to progress. thoughts is insane. Doing the same stuff but expecting newer results is Nothing develops man like work does. Let Mondays become sheer madness. If the effect has to change, then the Cause must holier to us than Sundays or Fridays. Let us become the generation that change. looks forward to the beginning of a week much more than the weekend. If you have to reach where you have never reached, then you Let work become our primary form of worship. Anyway, 1/7th of our life will have to take the path that you have never taken. If you have will be Mondays. Might as well, let us look forward to Mondays. Let us to achieve what you have never achieved, then you will have to do the find a work that gives us the inner expression. We will find happiness in things that you have never done before. If you have to accomplish what it. Let us make the world recognise the value we add through our work. no one has ever accomplished, then you will have to do what no one has Thus, we will find success in it.
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