The document discusses celebrating festivals in memory of the narrator's grandfather who recently passed away. The narrator, a child, wants to celebrate the festivals as usual but others in the family feel celebrations should be skipped this year due to the grandfather's death. The narrator's father understands his perspective and explains that celebrations can take a different form, focusing more on togetherness and traditions than decorations and gifts. The father feels this approach would honor the grandfather's memory better. The narrator is convinced and agrees celebrations should happen to make his grandfather happy.

1. Gunashrayamz
…I wish you great celebrations…
Newsletter Volume: 1 - Issue: October - November 2012
FOR INTERNAL CIRCULATION ONLY A shelter under the virtues with zeal.
Happy Festivals
Energy is flowing
Enthusiasm is at top
Money is at speed
Emotions non stop
Sharing & happiness purpose
Imaginations are on feather
Traditions & trend be sibling
Lets old & new together
Age is not the matter
Matter is not the place
Celebrations & Colours invited
Joy and fun on every face
Happy Dushehra Diwali
Carry bliss, prosperity & peace
Be blessed the festivals are
Evolve & Grow with ease
Up Comings
1. Communication - an art of
speaking with self
2. Decisions and Empowerment
3. PTM - In an Effective way
4. Leadership
5. Teachings from Mythology

2. Gunashrayamz
…I wish you great celebrations…
FOR INTERNAL CIRCULATION ONLY
Papa! Don’t we celebrate the festivals this time? point wise point.
Who told you? I am asking about special new clothes, decorations, sweets of
different kinds, home made dishes, visiting different relatives and
Everybody in the family is saying that as we lost our dadu friends and their visit to us. I am especially asking about the fire
(grandfather) this time and we won’t be celebrating any festival crackers.
this year.
I love to receive the special costly gifts and to give few of same kind.
Dear, if they are saying it must be true. But, what do you want? I want to display the same to my friends.
Please tell me.
This is the time when we revive many of our relations left untouched
I am very small and nobody would allow my wish for the call of or not contacted during the year. We met many of our Deepawali
rituals and they have a decision now. friends during this time.
You are right my little angel that you are small; you are small We got a chance to understand our culture and rituals. Mythology
member of our family. As a member you are talk at home is at its most.
free to share and represent your feelings and
emotions. Thank you again for reminding me so many things.
Now we can discuss the things one by one and
What do you want? Please tell me. agree to a common conclusion. The conclusion
that helps in making you happy and your Star-
I want to celebrate the festivals. My dadu’s Dadu happier.
happiness was in our celebrations, in our laugh
and joy. Our tribute to him would be living the To start please help me to understand few more
life on his values and principles, not to be in things.
the form of sadness and non-celebrations. He
must be looking at us from the sky as a star; Ok. Please ask.
his only choice would be to see us happy and
joyful. Why do we celebrate festivals?
Holding the celebrations can’t express our true They are ritual connection between past and
respect for him, instead they can be taken as present. They provide us a chance to spend
binding by few. together with family, neighbours and relations.
They inspire the life and reassure its enthusiasm.
Ah! From where would you carry so much and
so deep into your little brain? Thank you. What do you get after doing all this?
Darling we are doing the festivals this time Happiness.
also. Respecting our rituals and traditions,
the celebrating would be in different form What gives you more happiness?
this year. We might not be distributing sweets or gifts, but sharing
sweet relations and true emotions; we might not be cracking the To be connected with people and get appreciated for my things.
fire works, but cracking all the walls of grudges, guilt, greed, fear, Recognition from different people.
insecurity and different complexes.
Which relations are important? To whom did you want to be
We might not be decorating the huge lights outside but would be connected?
acknowledging the flame of love and compassion inside. We will
decorate our lives with simplicity and bliss. The relations of emotions and dependability. The people of power.
This time the festivals would be bigger and more meaningful as we How do you build them?
will celebrate them in their true sense. We will celebrate them this
time in the memory of your dadu. We have his more connect now, By spending time with them. Expressing their meaning in our life.
it’s in our hand. We can’t expect his physical form to be with us now.
Our happiness and liveliness is true celebration. Why do you want to carry the Deepawali friends?
Thank you for guiding me on this all papa, but my query is still Because we need them or in reciprocation.
unanswered. The meaning I could understand and develop from
your entire reply means the same what others are saying. Do you enjoy meting everybody and attend them with completely?
So, what do you need? What does it mean for you? Please tell me No. Not all.

3. Gunashrayamz FOR INTERNAL CIRCULATION ONLY
Do you able to do justification with your and your You are one of the best gifts to me by your
people’s time? mother and almighty. I must tell you one more
things that the happiness which grows with
I don’t feel so. When we visit them, they are in appreciation, fades in its absence and give
hurry or not available and the same with us also. birth to sorrow. The hunger for appreciation
is much stronger than that of stomach.
Please check your answers again and tell me
what to do to make you happy and your Star We will do, No! No! We will celebrate the
Dadu happier? festivals with you, in your way this time. I wish
you great celebrations, eternal happiness and
I understand papa. Keep and celebrate the you being the true relative and friend to all.
festivals in their true sense, sharing intangible
happiness. Rituals are the connecting force.
Relations can be best build with time; family and
neighbours come first. We must decide, ‘where to
Tiny Frogs
initiate and where to reciprocate’ and ‘why’.
There once was a bunch of tiny frogs… who reached the top!
Who arranged a running competition. THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this
one frog managed to do it?
The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower.
A contestant asked the tiny frog how the one who succeeded had
A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and found the strength to reach the goal?
cheer on the contestants…
The race began… It turned out that the winner was DEAF!!!
Honestly: The wisdom of this story is:
No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach
the top of the tower. Never listen to other people’s tendencies to be negative or
pessimistic..
You heard statements such as:
Cause they take your most wonderful dreams
“Oh, WAY too difficult! They will NEVER make it and wishes away from you.
to the top.”
Or: The ones you have in your heart!
“Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is
too high!” Always think of the power words have.
The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one… Because everything you hear and read will
affect your actions!
Except for those who in a fresh tempo were
climbing higher and higher… Therefore:
The crowd continued to yell ALWAYS be…
“It is too difficult! No one will make it!” POSITIVE!
More tiny frogs got tired and gave up.. And above all:
But ONE continued higher and higher and higher… Be DEAF when people tell YOU that YOU cannot fulfill YOUR
dreams!
This one wouldn’t give up!
At the end everyone else had given up on climbing the tower. Always think
I can do this!
Except for the one tiny frog who after a big effort was the only one

4. The Mindfood Chef
Our Purpose: “Inspiring Smiles”
We, at The Mindfood Chef, serve happiness, a sense of accomplishment, helping to live a
worthy life, creating legacy to the names – the immortality, a decision for having an inspiring
life.
We support individuals for learning who they are, who they want to be and help in
developing a success map to reaching potential. Earning money, recognition, fame, relations
and achieving self.
We support organizations for developing a common and perpetual organizational behaviour,
refining outlook, developing a synchronized thinking, simplification in processes, creating
responsibility centers and growing human capital.
“He that has sense knows that learning Our Product Category
is not knowledge, but rather the art of
using it.” Parenting | Student’s Arena | Organizational Aids
Personal Development | Chef’s Special
Sir Richard Steele, Irish Writer
At ‘The Mindfood Chef’, we facilitate 4. Adequate Supervision
learning, development and evolution. 5. High and Inspiring Team Morale
Under Organizational Aids, we serve the 6. Effective Communication
solutions for following basic needs of the 7. Simplify HC (Human Capital)
organisations: Procedures
8. Customer Delight
#2519 First Floor, Sector 40-C,
9. Learning for Specific Skills &
We all bound to evolve
1. Defining Vision, Mission and Values
Chandigarh - 160036
2. Effective Organisational Structure Procedures
themindfoodchef@gmail.com
3. Effective Planning and control
Phone: 0172-4636596
+91 92 16 38 39 40
+91 92 16 79 80 81 Evolution is the only purpose of religions, and teachings. Buildings are more powerful than
must be. The philosophy which works as a light the aura within them.
http://in.linkedin.com/in/aggarwalsahib house in the storm of thoughts and conflicting
http://www.themindfoodchef.blogspot.in interests. Connecting human to human and so The number count can never let any one sleep
https://twitter.com/#!/mindfoodchef
as human to nature. for the unending influence of above.
If this is not in any The solution lies
religion, its fanaticism within and can be
and power game in the seen clearly in the
cloak of religion. light of self talk and
self image. Deletion
The challenges to the of outside relativity,
religious belief to impart degeneration of
evolution are many and complexes of any TDH 9780313737
are not kids by the age. kind, development as
a human - a part of
The rituals in their-selves nature...
are becoming challenge
to the existence of Smile to all and belong
religion and confusion to all...
in societies. People have
The moment I have realized God sitting followed the rituals as it is, Live in the light, not
in the temple of every human body, the but not the philosophies with the light...
moment I stand in reverence before behind them. In any new
every human being and see God in him acquaintance and challenge trust and belief We all bound to evolve, be it today or it
- that moment I am free from bondage, are not getting their place. tomorrow...
everything that binds vanises, and I am
free. “ People are more attached by the prophets,
Swami Vivekananda gurus, mentors and guides, not by their