| Ajay Makan | ||||||||||||||
| 45 | ||||||||||||||
| Male | ||||||||||||||
| M.A Public Admn. Part - I, M.A Public Admn. Part - II | ||||||||||||||
| J-12/2, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi | ||||||||||||||
| Indian National Congress | ||||||||||||||
| Assets | Criminal Record | Liabilities | ||||||||||||
| Rs. 4,01,48,040 | 1 | Nil | ||||||||||||
| Rs. 4 Crore + | Nil | |||||||||||||
| Criminal Record | ||||||||||||||
| IPC Sections | Description | |||||||||||||
| 147 | Rioting | |||||||||||||
| 149 | Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object | |||||||||||||
| 341 | Wrongful restraint | |||||||||||||
| “His strong leadership skills, industry experience and business acumen have helped Komli Media expand aggressively in the last two years. The launch of our Bangalore centre confirms our commitment to hiring the best and building the most innovative products for digital media,” said Amar Goel, Founder and Chairman, Komli Media. Recently, Komli Media raised $15 million in funding led by Norwest Venture Partners. Komli Media, which has established its second engineering centre in India in Bangalore, plans to hire over 50 engineers in the next six months across its Mumbai and Bangalore centres. | ||||||||||||||
| Details of Movable Assets | ||||||||||||||
| Sr. No. | Description | Self | Spouse | Dependent 1 | Dependent 2 | Total | ||||||||
| i. | Cash | 1,00,000 | 50,000 | Nil | Nil | Rs 1,50,000 | ||||||||
| ii. | Deposits in Banks, Financial institutions & Non-banking financial companies | 31,75,522 | 11,99,678 | Nil | Nil | |||||||||
| iii. | Bonds, Debentures & Shares in companies | 31,02,375 | 74,500 | Nil | Nil | |||||||||
| iv. | Other Financial instruments | 8,51,104 | 4,00,000 | Nil | Nil | |||||||||
| v. | Motor Vehicles | 10,79,590 | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||
| vi. | Jewellery | Nil | 110gm 150,000 | Nil | Nil | |||||||||
| vii. | Others | 50,82,957 | 28,02,000 | Nil | Nil | |||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||||
| Details of Immovable Assets | ||||||||||||||
| Sr. No. | Description | Self | Spouse | Dependent 1 | Dependent 2 | Total | ||||||||
| i. | Agricultural Land | |||||||||||||
| ii. | Non-Agricultural Land | |||||||||||||
| iii. | Buildings(Commercial & Residential) | |||||||||||||
| iv. | Houses/Apartments, etc. | |||||||||||||
| v. | Others | |||||||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||||
| Details of Liabilities | ||||||||||||||
| Sr. No. | Description | Name & Details | Amount outstanding as on 31.03.09 | |||||||||||
| i. | a) Loans from banks | Nil | Nil | |||||||||||
| b) Loans from financial institutions | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| c) Govt. dues : | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| o- Dues to departments dealing with govt. accomodation | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| o- Dues to departments dealing with supply of water | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| o- Dues to departments dealing with supply of electricity | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| o- Dues to departments dealing with telephones | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| o- Dues to departments dealing with govt. transport | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| ii | a) Income Tax (Assessment year upto which IT return filed | Nil | Nil | |||||||||||
| b) Permanent Account Number (PAN ) | PAN Given | |||||||||||||
| c) Wealth Tax (Assessment year upto which WT return filed) | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| d) Sales Tax (only in case of proprietary business) | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| e) Property Tax | Nil | Nil | ||||||||||||
| Total | Nil | |||||||||||||
Monday, March 14, 2011
Friday, July 9, 2010
Conscious And Unconscious
The human mind is divided into two parts: the conscious and the unconscious.The conscious mind deals with everything that is within the realm of our awareness,whereas the unconscious mind deals with all those thoughts that the individual is unaware of but which influence his behaviour.
Our body is a highly complex organism.There are numerous functions going on at all times in our bodies like seeing,hearing,digestion,respiration and different kinds of movements.Almost all these functions are governed by the unconscious mind.Little effort is required on the part of our consciousness for the smooth functioning of these bodily requirements.
The conscious mind has unlimited capacity for thinking and analysing facts.But if everything is placed in charge of the unconscious mind,according to the divine plan of creation,what is the role of the conscious mind It is to seek out the truth.The Creator has made the conscious mind free to involve itself solely in the great quest for truth.
What is truth Truth is,in other words,the reality of life.We must try to know the secret of life,its purpose and goal,to know what is right and wrong,what are the minus and plus points,what is negative and positive thinking,what is good for the individual and for society.
The answers to these questions are not written on any mountainside.It is up to us to discover the truth.Knowledge of truth is so important that the Creator has consigned our bodily affairs to the unconscious mind.
People frequently live in a state of frustration.And great men are no exception.They live frustrated lives and they die frustrated.Tension and stress are ubiquitous. The reason lies in peoples failure to find the truth.Everyone is a seeker by birth,but everyone lives his life without knowing what the real purpose of life is.Due to this aimlessness,people are living in a state of confusion.They speak and write,but without clarity.They live lives fraught with contradictions.They yearn to find something but without knowing what that something is.
A tension-free mind is one that can function positively despite contradiction.People work,but without job satisfaction.People run after money,but without experiencing inner satisfaction.People have adopted the formula: Enjoy life! But they dont know what life is and what its real enjoyment is.It is a self-created problem.When the Creator has given you a mind and made you free to use your mind,you should make use of this opportunity.You have to activate your thinking capacity.You have to discover the reality.You have to read what is hidden in nature in an unwritten form.That is the only way to extricate yourself from this psychological chaos.
The consciousness of truth is interwoven in your nature;it is very easy,therefore,to discover the truth.The only condition is to shun distraction,to follow the well-known principle: simple living,high thinking.If you want to save yourself from going astray,activate your thinking faculty.Think and you will surely reach the gates of truth.
Courtesy: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Monday, July 5, 2010
Airplane Route To God
Indic scriptures describe paths we can safely follow to experience increasing happiness and escape suffering.Paramhansa Yogananda would say that the airplane route to God is meditation.Meditation is a wonderful short cut to inner spiritual progress.Yogananda defined meditation very simply,as concentration on God or one of His qualities.The qualities of God include different aspects of the happiness that we long for love,joy,peace,calmness,wisdom and power.
The challenge,in meditation,is to concentrate the mind so that we can offer ourselves to God without distraction and perceive His blissful qualities and absorb them with our whole being.
How can we bring more mental focus into our meditation The key is to train the mind gradually in the habit of concentrating.Each of the meditation techniques devised by India's sages has a special point of concentration.For example,many meditation techniques include the practice of watching the breath until the mind becomes calm and one-pointed.
Other practices focus on holding attention calmly at the point between the eyebrows,the brain centre of concentration and spiritual perception;or keeping attention on the inner sounds heard in meditation. If we can feel devotion to God,it will help us tremendously in our efforts to concentrate,because the mind tends to follow the heart.We can also visualise a saint such as Yogananda or other great enlightened masters who will guide our efforts to commune with God.Prayer and chanting can also give a focus for our feelings and attention. The first minutes of each meditation are especially important,as they set the tone for the rest of our practice.We need to develop the habit of starting with deep concentration.Its helpful to go into your meditation room with the expectation that youll dive deeply within.Its also important to establish a kind of psychic barrier that says,When i come here,i dont bring cares or worries,or projects.Those things i leave outside the door! We can improve our ability to concentrate by practising focused awareness in daily life.Train yourself to do one thing at a time,with deep attention.Its good to vary your practice of formal meditation techniques.For example,you could give some time to prayer,chanting and visualising the image of your guru,or a saint.These practices inspire devotion and will give you a target for your concentration.
Finally,there comes a time in meditation when we need to let go of all techniques,relax deeply,and feel Gods presence.Many people leave their meditation without doing this.But real depth of meditation demands that we go beyond outer practices,and simply be in the presence of God.Try to become absorbed in inner silence,in the vibration of His love.Then try to increase the intensity of that feeling and expand it.Feel that you are expanding that feeling farther and farther,beyond all limitations of your body and personality.
Courtesy: Paramhansa Yogananda
Be a sport!
I'm not good at sports. There, i said it.
I know that in India, which takes its sports very seriously (except hockey which just happens to be the national sport), such an announcement will be greeted by gasps of horror. One is not expected to discuss one's infirmities in public after all. It just isn't done. Nevertheless it's true. Don't get me wrong, i love playing and would be the first to rush out every evening to collect the neighbourhood kids. Then we would play football, cricket or whatever we could in one of those huge empty plots of land which colonies used to abound in a few years ago. But i never really excelled in anything.
Football would always be hectic, as I would pant after the ball which used to rush away from me as if it were a coy, giggly bride. When at long last i would manage to corner the ball i would be so exhausted that i would end up unfailingly kicking it towards my own goal. No wonder the opposing team used to be so fond of me. If i had their vote i would be playing in the World Cup today. And the one time i did manage to score a goal for my own side, there was a clap of thunder the next second and the match was cancelled due to a rainstorm. When i grew older, and taller, i decided to try out basketball. I reasoned that since there were fewer players involved i'd have a better chance of making contact with the ball. I wish i'd known that i was destined to end up facing the team with the tallest boys in the school (they used to bend down to pat giraffes on the head). Oh yes, i'd get the ball occasionally but mostly it was trying to weave through a forest of legs keeping a sharp lookout for anybody who might mistake me for the ball and put me through the hoop.
But if i had to single out one sport which gave me truly unforgettable memories, cricket would win hands down. I've always held that there just isn't something natural about a game where players spent 90 per cent of the time standing and squinting in the sun. But since it was practically a religion among virile youths of my age, i had no choice but to join in the festivities every evening. In time i developed such a unique style of playing that it was all my playmates could do to stop themselves from erecting viewing stands and charging 20 bucks admission for daily shows of 'Watch Adi Play Cricket' (Warning: Not Suitable for Minors). When it came to fielding, balls would either sail through my fingers as if they were made of thin air or deviously ricochet off my feet and bounce along over the boundary line. As for bowling, let's not even talk about that because the mere suggestion of me bowling would cause my captain to fall to the ground, howling with laughter. It was batting, however, which i loved, even though i spent an incredibly brief time doing it. Every time the bowler scowled in my direction, ready to deliver a sizzler, i would shout out, "You throw me a fast one and you can forget about borrowing my English homework today!" or, "Remember the time i helped you pass the maths exam? You owe me!" Hey, it was worth a try.
However, there was one wonderful upside to being bad in sports. In the rare few instances when i did 'catch out' a person or manage to score a goal or a basket there would be a minute of stunned silence and then both teams yes, both would burst into hearty applause.
And that, my friends, was one moment i wouldn't have traded for anything in the world.
Courtesy: Aditya Gupta (TOI)
Sunday, July 4, 2010
A Path To Perfection
The entire world is in flames,
The entire world is going up in smoke;
The entire world is burning,
The entire world is vibrating.
But that which does not vibrate or burn,
Which is experienced by noble ones,
Where death has no entry –
In that my mind delights.
Liberation can be attained only by practice and never by mere discussion. Since childhood, I have always searched the meaning of the life, the final goal of our journey. The very basic question of the purpose behind the existence of nature, which includes entire universe and we - the creatures who are part of it, never allowed peace & real happiness to dwell within me. Everyone seeks love, peace and harmony in life because these are what we lack in our lives. From time to time we all experience irritation, dissatisfaction, disharmony or suffering; and when we suffer we not only keep our miseries to ourselves but also distribute it to people around us. Agitation permeates the atmosphere around such miserable person and everyone who comes in contact with him gets adversely affected. Surely this is not the proper way to live.
The ancient land of India has not only given a message of peace, love & harmony to the world, to all humanity, but it also did more: it has given a method, a technique, for achieving that peace & harmony. One can’t ignore individuals when he talks about the society as whole. If there is no compassion and harmony within the individual, I don’t understand how could there be a real peace in the world. If I am full of negativity i.e. anger, hatred, animosity, jealousy & ill will, how can I give peace to others?
You can start understanding by calling it Universal law, law of nature or, if you prefer, law of God Almighty. It’s applicable to one and all. If you observe attentively within yourself, you will find that as soon as you generate anger or any negativity in your mind, there are 2 physical reactions: the breath loses it normal rhythm & your body becomes hot and you start feeling burning sensation; there are palpitations & tensions. And as a human tendency, you don’t confine your anger to yourself but start spreading to others and thus pollute the entire atmosphere around you. You may talk about the peace but more important than words is what's happening within you. Similarly, if my mind remains pure, free of all negativities or mental defilements, the law starts working again and rewards you with the peace and contentment. Unlike material laws, law of nature doesn’t wait; it punishes you or rewards you here and now. And it doesn’t discriminate or favour whether you are a Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim or atheist: a human being is a human being; a human mind is a human mind.
This is no miracle or magic; this is pure science of observing the interaction of mind and matter within you, that is, how mind influences the body and vice versa. This mental-physical phenomenon is like a coin with two sides. On one side as soon as any thought or emotion (adverse or favourable) arises, on another side you see a change in respiration & sensation. Any mental defilement, thus, manifests in the breath & sensation of that moment. So by observing respiration or sensation, you are observing the mental defilement. Also when you observe, you will notice that sensation lasts momentarily or even shorter than your imagination. It is said that, within a blink of an eye, a smallest particle of your body experiences
It’s difficult to observe an abstract negativity when it arises but with proper training, practice & patience, it becomes easy to observe respiration and sensations, both of which are related with your mental defilement. The law of nature becomes so clear then. The more you practise this technique, the purer you mind becomes. A pure mind is always full of love, detached love for all others; full of compassion for the failings and sufferings of others; full of joy at their success and happiness; full of equanimity in the face of any situation. After reaching such stage, entire living pattern of the person changes. It becomes impossible for him to do anything vocally or physically which will disturb the peace and happiness of others. Instead, balanced mind not only brings peace in it but helps others to become peaceful too.
Ending a note with these beautiful lines:
The senses are said to be superior to the body,
the mind is superior to the senses,
the intellect is superior to the mind,
transcendental knowledge is superior to the intellect,
and the Self is superior to transcendental knowledge.
- Bhagavad Gita (chapter-3, verse-42)
*Above mentioned pearls of wisdom enjoy the prominent status in several oldest scriptures of the world and its practice in Indian sub-continent dates back to 540 BC.
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