Inspiration from a Book

 


Good books are like good friends, that give us the right knowledge and information and also guide us on the right path.  Happened to read one such good book ‘The Breakthrough’ by Ms.Megha Bajaj, which has the stories of few living inspirations amongst us. Having read the book sometime back, I chose to read only one part of the book, which had a pulling this time.  I read the story of Mr.Sandeep Agarwal, a happily successful businessman from Hyderabad.

The pull towards his story was due to ‘Love’. His is a story where love is an integral part of every phase of his life, be it the ups or downs.  The breakthrough I found from reading about his life was that when you put love and relationships at the top, every challenge in life can be easily won.

Putting the family ahead of everything and giving the family the love and time it deserves makes everything around beautiful.  To have someone to share your love with after a long day at work and to dissolve in the love that is reciprocated is a blessing.  The love of a family, that is supportive and understanding deserves more love to be given, by doing things that they don’t expect.

There will always be people outside the family too, who at some point would have held our hand and pulled us up or walked with us in the path of our growth with complete trust.  It is on the strength of their presence in our lives that some of the important decisions would have been possible.  Those relationships which value the person more than his money or other possessions.  Remembering and remaining grateful to that trust and support, after several years and after reaching the heights of success, is another beautiful form of love as gratitude.

When what the world calls as the better half is seen as the best half and showered with all the love that they deserve for all that they are to us and our family and expressing to them in our own ways, what they mean to us, deepens the love and respect in the relationship. 

When the professional relationships like the colleagues and employees are seen as co-humans and not as one-below and allowed to enjoy their share of rights and responsibilities and also seen as part of the extended family, which knows whom to look for when they are in a dire situation, it is no more a transaction, but love that takes the form of care and kindness.

When beyond all these vulnerable relationships, you find the mentor or the Guru in your life, where there is mutual love, experienced in its purest form, in a state of complete faith and surrender, that love becomes the thread, which binds everything about your life with its grace and makes everything seamless. 

The story spoke about holistic growth of the person in all aspects from materialistic to spiritualistic, but the dominant aspect, as I saw in that person was his love for all and love for everything about life.  This made me admire at the power of love and its potential to turn around anything.  Surely a breakthrough moment that reiterated to me the power of love in its various forms.

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