Swaminarayan. Google gadgets

Posted by Manish Panchmatia on Thursday, January 6, 2011 Labels: , , / Comments: (3)


How are you all? After a long time I am back with more articles. I am sure, you all will find them useful, informative and entertaining as usual. 

Today I will share my IGoogle Gadgets with you. Today's gadgets have a common theme. Swaminarayan religion and Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha(BAPS). Most of these gadgets are fetching the content from BAPS website. This website has section for daily Satsang. Most of these gadgets fetch fresh content from this section. Have a look at today's screen-shot. 





Here is the list:


  1. Daily Murti Darshan: Have a look to the lord Swaminarayan. Daily a new picture from different temples. 
  2. Daily Guru Darshan: HDH Pramukh Swami Maharaj photographs
  3. Divine Inspiration: A short inspirational story.
  4. PreNa Parimal: A short inspirational story.
  5. Vachanamrut gems: The Vachanamrut of Swaminarayan is a foundational scripture of the Swaminarayan faith. You can read daily this holy scripture with this gadget.
  6. BAPS news.
  7. Daily ShikshaPatri (English) : You can read daily one quotation from the holy book ShikshaPatri written by the lord Swaminarayan. This book explains code of conduct for all people. 
  8. Likhat Hai SantSujaaN: Answer to our eternal quest. By HDH Pramukh Swami Maharaj. Source: Monthly calnder 'Likhat Hai SantSujaaN' printed by BAPS Swaminarayan Aksharpith, Amdavad. 
  9. Daily Quote: Daily inspirational quotes for kids. 'A new quote everyday to help you live and play, study and pray.' Source: KIDS.BAPS.ORG BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha
  10. Inspiring Incidents : Daily Indspiring Incidents about HDH Pramukh Swami Maharaj. Source: KIDS.BAPS.ORG BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha
  11. Atlanta Temple : Daily Murti Darshan from Atlanta BAPS SwamiNarayan Temple
  12. London Temple : Daily Murti Darshan from London BAPS SwamiNarayan Temple
 As I have wrote in my profile, I got introduced to this religion during my college days. I got blessings from HDH Pramukh Swami Maharaj. Such enlightened people are free from worldly desires. They only wish let all the people become happy. In Sanskrit LOKA SAMSTA SUKHINO BHAVANTU. In Gujarati BHAGWAN SAU NU BHALU KARO. These gadgets development is just my humble effort to spread His message.

I will update this page, whenever the list of my Swaminarayan IGoogle Gadgets will be get updated. So you can bookmark this page. You can add them at your iGoogle homepage, Google desktop and Windows Vista / Windows 7 sidebar. 


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AoL Google Gadgets

Posted by Manish Panchmatia on Friday, December 31, 2010 Labels: , , / Comments: (0)

Happy New Year 2011. All the best wishes for good health, good wealth for all of you. 

Today I will share my Art of Living related IGoogle Gadgets with you. If you like these gadgets, you can start using them from today. You can gift the knowledge to yourself, on this new year. 

Just add these IGoogle gadgets at your IGoogle homepage, or Google desktop, or Windows Vista/Windows 7 side bar.

Have a look at today's screen-shot. 




Here is the list:

  1. Question Answer with Sri Sri: This is ever green, most popular IGoogle gadget among all the gadgets developed by me. It randomly selected one dialogue with Guruji Sri Sri Ravishankar from a huge collection of question answer. Guruji's answers are full of wit, humor, wisdom and knowledge to deal our practical life. Just try it out.
  2. On Tour with Sri Sri:Guruji keep traveling across the globe. Here the Google Map has been used to indicate His location on planet earth, along-with His tour schedule.
  3. Yoga Pose for Today: Yoga is for every body. Learn a new Yoga posture daily.
  4. Daily DARSHAN of Guruji: This gadget display daily a new photo of Guruji. We have a large collection of Guruji's photos on Picasa. Click here
  5. Spanish Castilian Daily Sutra. Wisdom Perls by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Click here 1, click here 2 and click here 3.
  6. English Daily Sutra: Wisdom Perls by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.Click here 1 and click here 2
  7. Art of Living Blogs: An RSS reader for few interesting Art of Living related blogs.
  8. Wisdom from Sri Sri: An RSS reader for the official Art of Living blog. "Wisdom from Shri Shri". Available in languages: English, Marathi, Spanish, Russian, Hindi and Portuguese
  9. Sri Sri Pictures : A slide-show of Guruji's picture. WOW! You need to see it to experience the bliss !!
As I have wrote in my profile, I got introduced to Art of Living, during its silver jubilee celebration. I sang “We Are One” group song. Later on I did few courses from Art of Living. Sri Sri Ravishankar, once said, we can energize the whole world by bringing knowledge to them. These IGoogle gadgets are my humble effort to spread joy, fun, divine knowledge and wisdom.

Share your comments/feedback. Click here for my earlier article about Swaminarayan IGoogle gadgets. And yes, wait for few more articles about my IGoogle gadgets at your own blog Express YourSelf !

Jaydeep Swadiya

Posted by Manish Panchmatia on Friday, December 24, 2010 Labels: , , / Comments: (0)

Happy New year 2011

Every year, we celebrate new year. Let's celebrate it this time different. Let' welcome the new year with devotional songs. We are busy throughout our life. Let's spare some time for the almighty, for the God, for the devotion. 

We have Jaydeep Swadiya live in concert at NIMMA BENGALURU on 1st January 2011. Jaydeep Swadiya is world renown singer. Have a look to this video clip. Venue is KEBEA A/c. Auditorium, HB-55, 28, Race Course Road, Near Janta Dal Office, Bangalore, India. Ticket price is reasonable Rs. 300 and Rs 150 only.You can contact 9886188760. All fund goes to BAPS charities. Here are the details:


So you have two choice. Attend this event. Read its event report later on this blog and regret what you have missed. Choice is yours. :)

Voice of Bangalore - 2010

Posted by Manish Panchmatia on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Labels: , , / Comments: (0)

Garuda Mall, Bangalore is back with Voice of Bangalore event. This time it would be season 4 of Voice of Bangalore. This show has received an amazing response in the last three years.  Like other TV shows "Indian Idol", "TVS Sa Re Ga Ma", this event also provides an opportunity to talented singers. You can get more details here. I had attended the Voice of Bangalore season 4 and let me share its highlights for you all readers of Express YourSelf ! 
Gili Voice of Bangalore Season 4 Mega Final.
Venue: Garuda Mall, Bangalore
Time: 6 to 9:30 Oct 10, 2010
  • A live talent hunt show by Garuda Mall and Radio City
  • 7 intermediate rounds since August 2010,
  • More than 6000 participants.
  • The auditions at various colleges — including the Jain University, National College, Jyothi Nivas College, Vijaya College, the RV Colleges, and PES Institutions — and also at corporates Infosys and Tesco. 
  • The 6 finalists : Yaamini, Shwetha, Apoorva Shridhar and Pareekshith Kumar, Krishna T V, Deepak
  • Three rounds: Compulsory Kannada song, Hindi song and then duet song.
  • Judging panel : Playback singer Udit Narayan, Kannada music director Gurukiran and playback singer Rajesh Krishnan.


Now look at the show, performance, comments from judges.






We had first round of Kannada songs
  1. O My Love (Apoorva)
  2. Krishna Mi Jeevan (Yamini S)
  3. etc. 
We had Hindi songs
  1. Janeja, is dil me tum hi samaaye ho...(Apoorva)
  2. Is pyaar ko main kya naam du? (Parikshit)
  3. Man-Mohana from movie Jodha Akabar (Shewata)
  4. (Krishna)
  5. Teri Niyat Kharab Hai (Yamini)
  6. Tu Hi Tu Satrangi re... from movie Dil Se (Deepak)
Duet Song

  1. Kannada song by Apoorva and Krishna
  2. Albela Sajan Aayo Re from movie Ham Dil De Chuke Sanam
  3. Zoobi Doobi from movie 3 Idiots

Udit Narayan sang
  1. Zee TV, M TV, ...., Bari Holu Bari Holu, 
  2. Papa Kehte Hai (Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak)
  3. Chand Chupa Badal Mein (Ham Dil De Chuke Sanam)
  4. Ham Hai Ek Pal Yaha...
  5. Kunidhu Kunidhu Baare, (Mungaru Male) My favorite song. :-)

List of items, that the winners got as prizes.
  • 'Voice of Bangalore' honor.
  • Maruti A-Star car, 
  • Gili diamond jewelery
  • Watches
And the winners for fourth season Gili Voice of Bangalore are Deepak D. L. (male), and Yamini S. (female).




Look at some still photographs here and here

Media coverage:

HR Session

Posted by Manish Panchmatia on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Labels: , , / Comments: (1)

This is one more flashback event report, from March 2008. Enjoy MAADI !!

On 7th March, 2008 Friday evening, I attended an interesting talk on ‘Selecting, Managing, Motivating and Developing for High Performance’. It was organized by Indian Society for Training and Development’ Mr. Nigel Copsey – A UK based HR consultant was the speaker. He has several years of experience in assisting people to explore their capability, recruitment, getting high performance and retaining talent. He basically addressed the complete working life cycle of an employee from the recruitment to retirement.
 
How do we get best from an employee, as manager? Simple. By offering the best to them. He involved the audience, when do you enjoy your work? High moral and motivation is possible by Right job and right management, as per McQuaig System. He explained both of them.
 
90% of selection is done by interview, but only 14% of them is effective. The interviewer gets some impression about the candidate in the first 30 seconds, that carry forward through out the interview. After selecting the right candidate, many times after six months we realized that ….So what is wrong? There are always three level of assessment. 1. Looks as if can do 2. can do and the most important 3. will do Right job depends upon ability and willingness. Ability can be acquired. It can be measured as speed of thought. How quickly the candidate can think, analyze and grasp new things. Many tests measures, numeric capability, verbal reasoning, logic etc. Willingness is depends on temperament.
 
He explained in detail four characteristics/trait of individual. Competitive v/s accommodating. Sociable v/s analytical. Consistent/Patient v/s driven. Structured v/s independent.  He elaborated it with accounting clerk and account manager examples. Then we discussed some practical problem like…suppose in an account office, if manager retired, who will get promotion as manager. If highly competent accounting clerk get promotion as manager, he will not be suitable for manager job and if he does not get promotion then he will be demoralized. Can we change temperament of a person? Etc….Then  he talked about Emotional Intelligence is combination of maturity, stability, attitude/values and self motivation. If structured interview is added in recruitment procedure then chances increases of getting right candidate from 14% to 40%.  
 
He also explained the second branch of McQuaig system, right management. After analyzing person as per the four characteristics, how effectively he can be communicated? How to assign task to different kind of individuals? People are generally unwilling to change unless it is a temporary change. 
 
Again he addressed two practical examples. One lady complaint that her boss always in hurry. When she approaches her for solution, without listening completely he suggests something, which is inappropriate. Now if she follow that suggestion, then definitely it will turn out wrong, if do not follow then also problem. How Nigel guided her to deal with such boss. There are many books about dealing with boss also.
 
Once at interview, he asked to talented candidate, “what was the greatest challenge you have faced? “ He replied, “Ya…Once I had to prepare tea for six persons….” Generally all the candidates reply “Better prospects” when they asked, “why do you want to change the job?” In reality, there are many factors. Any person, will not take decision to change the job overnight. One should ask a list of at least three reasons for chaning the job to candidate….
 
It was really informative session. HR professional uses many such tools/instruments. McQuaig System is just one of them. It is similar to some other tool at some extent. He have just touched a tip of iceberg in limited time frame. For further discussions here are the contact details: nigelcopsey@mcquaig.co.uk
+44 (O) 1732 - 453822