Standing Apart for Reaching the Peak: Follow My Way

By Ram Bansal

Gradually bringing the focus on the most desired point is the essence of success, and this is achievable only when the person stands on his/her own feet away from mental interventions of the crowd around. Here is an account how I practically stood apart and reached the most desired destination of my life. Each of us has a unique desired destination but ways of reaching that remain the same. Therefore, this volume is a lesson in human psyche why an individual acts in a particular way, particularly against a general and social norm - for his/her individualistic commitments towards his/her the most desired destination.
I am committed not just to stand apart from the crowd but for following my own convictions, whether other people do so or not, or what they think or say about me, or whether they like or dislike me for this. As a result of this, I have been different from others, not for my moving away from them but for remaining stable at whatever I inherited and learned during my childhood and later through my social contacts, education and experiences, but people in general have been gradually drifting from social norms of their childhood times, thus making changes even in social norms which are formed through majority view and conduct. I have not been able to move with my society for my commitments, hence stand apart.
This standing apart from the crowd has paid rich dividends to me in providing a unique position to me in my society, and more importantly, taking me to the point what I am the most suitable for, and providing me unprecedented success to me in a field which nobody dreamed of in the last 2,000 years. This field is 'understanding of Vedic scriptures with all their secrets' which have been lying hidden from view of everybody else, so far. I have begun translation of those for their public exposure in due course. Until the translated work is published, it may take a few years, I have begun writing articles based on my current knowledge and publishing them online on my website 'Vedic History & Ayurveda'.
Gain of the understanding of scripture is not only attaining a unique position in this respect but dreaming of living for about 200 years with youthfulness of 100 years. Secrets of this are provided in the scriptures which I am discovering gradually and applying on myself. Even the initial results I am obtaining are nothing less than miraculous. My discovery of the wealth of knowledge provided in scriptures would, in due course, may change the way human life is today - limited to about 100 years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ram Bansal
• Release date: Jan 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310225581

Ram Bansal

An Engineering Graduate from University of Roorkee, India (now an IIT) of 1971 batch, has served Engineering Profession for 35 years, now devoted to Social Engineering, Research into Vaidic Scriptures, and Authorship for changing the humanity - the way it thinks.

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Standing Apart for Reaching the Peak

: Follow My Way :

By

Ram Bansal

Copyright Ram Bansal 2013

Published at Smashwords

Preface

Standing Apart

In an ancient City State, the King called all his people and asked them to stand on the left if you don't follow your wife and on the right if you blindly follow her. This resulted in a lone person standing on the left and all others on the right. The King asked the lone person what makes you so special that you are standing apart from all others. The lone person humbly replied, Honorable Sir! When I started from home to attend this gathering, my wife asked me to keep away from the crowd. So, I am here, away from the crowd, in accordance to the instructions from my wife.

But you didn't follow my command said the King fumbling.

Sir, my wife instructed me prior to your command. So, I had to follow her instruction prior to following your command. I have to live with her for the rest of my life.

Well, this story is not a part of my biography but is a lesson in human psyche why an individual acts in a particular way, particularly against a general and social norm - for his/her individualistic commitments.

I am committed not just to stand apart from the crowd but for following my own convictions, whether other people do so or not, or what they think or say about me, or whether they like or dislike me for this. As a result of this, I have been different from others, not for my moving away from them but for remaining stable at whatever I inherited and learned during my childhood and later through my social contacts, education and experiences, but people in general have been gradually drifting from social norms of their childhood times, thus making changes even in social norms which are formed through majority view and conduct. I have not been able to move with my society for my commitments, hence stand apart.

This standing apart from the crowd has paid rich dividends to me in providing a unique position to me in my society, and more importantly, taking me to the point what I am the most suitable for, and providing me unprecedented success to me in a field which nobody dreamed of in the last 2,000 years. This field is 'understanding of Vedic scriptures with all their secrets' which have been lying hidden from view of everybody else, so far. I have begun translation of those for their public exposure in due course. Until the translated work is published, it may take a few years, I have begun writing articles based on my current knowledge and publishing them online on my website 'Vedic History & Ayurveda'.

Gain of the understanding of scripture is not only attaining a unique position in this respect but dreaming of living for about 200 years with youthfulness of 100 years. Secrets of this are provided in the scriptures which I am discovering gradually and applying on myself. Even the initial results I am obtaining are nothing less than miraculous. My discovery of the wealth of knowledge provided in scriptures would, in due course, may change the way human life is today - limited to about 100 years.

Ram Bansal

Contents

Stand Apart

Section A : The Fundamentals

A1 : Journey for Loving the Self

A2 - Existence or Leading

A3 - The Grand Meaning of Human Life

A4 - Mission and Vision of Life

A5 - Eccentricity of Conduct and its Significance

A6 : Respect Yourself, Respect your Ideas

A7 : Welcome a change

A8 : Reason and Ration on Cross-roads

Section B : The Ways

B1 : Standing Apart in the Crowded World

B2 : Keeping Track of Original Ideas

B3 : Creating a Future in the Present

B4 : Leading Oneself

B5 : Valuing Own Thoughts

B6 : Being SOMEONE Great

B7 : Genius Zone and Branding Personality

B8 : You can't Win Unless ... .. .

B9 : Being a Peak Performer

Section C : Transiting to and Reaching the Peak

C1 : Make a Beginning for a New Life

C2 : A 60-Hour Regulation may Change Your Life

C3 : How the Peak becomes Visible

C4 : Achieving Absolute State of Mind

C5 : Present a Dream to Humanity

C6 : Definition & Values of an Achievement

About the Author

Section A : The Fundamentals

A1 : Journey for Loving the Self

The first thing one must realize before starting a discovery of the self is that you can't know yourself through your own sensory organs directly, as these are directed outwards to know things external to you. You can know yourself through reflection of your image in sensory organs of others close to you. Hence, be receptive of others close to you provided they are unbiased and free from their own vested interests in making their judgments. Indeed a tall order, since you hardly find good unbiased persons so easily.

Since, we can't know ourselves through our sensory organs, is there a way to know one-self without involving others? Yes, it is your mind, which is always directed inwards and keeps on working for you incessantly in its conscious and subconscious states. The problem with knowing through mind is that its major functions are performed in its sub-conscious state and you often don't realize what is has been doing or plans to do next.

Knowing involves consciousness which is always limited by the preoccupations and doing only one thing at a time. Conscious state of the mind means its reference of a matter to the brain. Therefore, it is the brain which may lead you on the path of self-discovery. The brain is also the seat of intellect carrying experiential information in memory and faculty for logical thinking. Through this intellect, the brain distinguishes right from wrong and it lets the person know his/her shortcomings too apart from his/her plus points.

Knowing the reality of the self needs its expression and application to one's life. For this, the brain has to take support of the mind which commands all the sensory and action organs to make expressions to the external world. The mind has wisdom also which works for the benefits of the self irrespective of right and wrong. So, on getting information about the self from the brain, the mind hides in expressions that is wrong with the self and presents only good things to the external world. These expressions about the self, thus, bias perceptions of the self and others about the self. This is the greatest stumbling block of discovering the self.

Why does the mind block limitations of the self from others? It is because every one of us wants to succeed in the external world in multifarious associations with the world. For this the brain tries to make a good impression of the person on others through its expressions. Therefore, it is ultimately the person's will to succeed through making good impression on others.

Therefore, for self-discovery we need to create a mindset to meet one of the following four conditions -

Stop worrying to succeed, or

Be confident of succeeding on our own merits, or

Stop bothering about making good impression on others, or

Be perfect as far as possible in our character and conduct to have a good impression on others without hiding anything bad or projecting anything good about the self.

Out of these four paths, the ideal and practicable path for anyone to pursue is the fourth one which would be beneficial for the whole humanity. Until all humans pursue this path, those on it would be the real super-humans of the world.

What I don't like to Be

For a few days now, I have some more free time to look into the self and think what I won't like to be or treated as by others.

Not used by others for Glory of Theirs

My father did that with me. As the brightest student of the whole area, my father used to project me proudly as his worthy son. Later when I choose a moralistic