Finance Tips


1. We must have Monthly Budget

- We need to analyze our expenses to find out planned and unplanned expenses


2. We shall have Emergency Fund (9x to 12x monthly expenses)

It includes: 

- Term insurance

- health insurance

- Critical illness cover

- disability cover

Does it includes

- credit cards?


3. Do not ignore inflation. 


4. Power of compounding : SIP


5. Invest in equity and equity related product

- People invest in FD, Real estate, Gold

- Rich people do not invest in FD, Real estate and gold. 

- They become rich by their own business or other's business (equity) 

1991 to 2023

CAGR 19% 

BSE sensex 999 to 65000 points

- No for F&O

- No for intra-day

- We should have Goal Based investment. Without that, we get sub optimal return

A. Child's education

B. Dream vacation

C. Retirement plan

- What create wealth

A. income

B. savings

C. investment

We buy things we don't need. with money we don't have to impress people, that we do not like. 


6. New trend in abroad: Financial freedom and retire early. 

Funding retire is different. 

- must do

- no return

- For car/home all wants to provide load. No loan for retirement. 

How long saving will last after retirement? 

0 to 30 : student and early stage career. 

30 to 60 : accumulation and save

60 to 100 : distribution

Today Rs. 60,000 monthly expense

7% inflation

325646 after 25 years. 

We can try "retirement corpus building XLS"


पतंजलि योग सूत्र २. साधन पाद:


The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga

It has four section. 

This blog post is on 2nd section. SAADHAN PAAD: and few initial SUTRA from 3rd section VIBHUTI PAADA: 

What is क्रिया-योग: ?

1. तपः, 

2. स्वाध्याय

3. ईश्वर-प्रणिधान

Why क्रिया-योग: ?

1. समाधि भावना

2. क्लेश तनू

What are क्लेश ?

1. अविद्या 

* Root cause of other 3

* Considering 

- अनित्य as नित्य 

- अशुचि as शुचि 

-  दुःख as सुख

- अनात्म as आत्म-ख्याति:

2. अस्मिता : दृक् दर्शन शक्त्यो: एकात्मता

3. राग : सुख अनुशयी Promises happiness

4. द्वेष  : दुःख अनुशयी

5. अभिनिवेश:

We shall get rid of क्लेश  by प्रतिप्रसव = चित्त को अपने कारण में विलीन करने के साधन 

We shall get rid of वृत्ति by ध्यान 

If root of क्लेश remains then we get

  • 1. जाति - जन्म,
  • 2. आयु: - आयु 
  • 3. भोग: 
as per KARMA-FAL


द्रष्टा is दृशिमात्रः शुद्ध: अपि प्रत्यय: अनुपश्यः
So our observation, perception and expressions are disturbed. So cool down, slow down. Aggression is counter productive to realization.  

गुण पर्वाणि  ( अवस्था )

1. विशेष  : पांच ज्ञानेंद्रियों, पांच कर्मेन्द्रियों, मन, एवं पृथ्वी आदि पांच स्थूल भूतों  
2. अविशेष  : पांच तन्मात्राओं एवं अहंकार
3. लिङ्गमात्र  : महत्तत्व या बुद्धि
4. अलिङ्ग : सत्त्व, रजस और तमस की साम्यावस्था



We feel satisfaction between two desires 

YAMA

1. Ahimsa = Non violence in speech, word and action
2. Satya = Truth = Recognizing everything is changing, speaking the truth
3. Asteya = Not stealing - Not even wanting to possess others' good qualities
4. Brahmacharya = Celibacy - walking in Brahman, moderation for householders, abstinence for single people
5. Aparigraha = non accumulation - not accepting praise or blame too

NIYAMA

1. Shaucha = cleanliness
2. Santosha = Contentment 
3. Tapas = Willingly going through difficult situation 
4. Swadhyaya = Study of Self, Who am I?
5. Ishwarapranidhana = surrender 


Reference: 

पतंजलि योग सूत्र १. समाधि पाद:


The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga

It has four section. 

This blog post is on 1st section. SAMAADHI PAAD: 

योग: चित्त  वृत्ति निरोधः ।

चित्त भूमि प्रकार:

  • 1.क्षिप्त
  • 2. विक्षिप्त
  • 3. मूढ़
  • 4.एकाग्र एवं
  • 5. निरुद्ध
How  चित्त  वृत्ति निरोधः?

1. अभ्यास : तत्र स्थितौ यत्न: स तु दीर्घकालनैरन्तर्यसत्कारासेवितो दृढभूमिः
2. वैराग्यम् : दृष्टानुश्रविकविषयवितृष्णस्य वशीकारसंज्ञा वैराग्यम्






How  असम्प्रज्ञात समाधि ?

1. श्रद्धा
2. वीर्य
3. स्मृति
4. समाधि ( concentration )
5. प्रज्ञा
6. ईश्वर-प्रणिधानात्

चित्त विक्षेपा: = अन्तरायाः

1. व्याधि = Illness in the Body
2. स्त्यान = Dullness in the Minde
3. संशय = Doubt
4. प्रमाद = Carelessness
5. आलस्य = Laziness
6. अविरति = Stuck in sense pleasures
7. भ्रान्ति-दर्शन = Living in a fantasy world
8. अलब्ध-भूमिकत्व = Not getting result of practice
9. अनवस्थितत्व = Not being stable in the practice 

Symptoms

1. दुःख: = Misery
2. दौर्मनस्य = Bitterness
3. अङ्गमेजयत्व = Lack of control on ones Body
4. श्वास = Imbalance in In-Breath
5. प्रश्वास: =  Imbalance in Out-Breath


How to get चित्त-प्रसादनम् 

1. behave with people as follows

मैत्री : सुख
करुणा  : दुःख
मुदिता  : पुण्य
उपेक्षणाम् : अपुण्य

2. प्राणायाम

2.1 KAPALI BHATI
2.2 BHASTRIKA
2.3 BOGAR

3. विषयवती  वा  प्रवृत्ति: 

4. विशोका (No TAMAS, No RAJAS) वा ज्योतिष्मति प्रवृत्ति 

5. वीत राग विषयम् चित्तम् ( Think about enligtened masters )

6. स्वप्न निद्रा ज्ञान आलम्बनम् (Knowledge about dream and sleep)

Habbit


 All our habits , positive and negative are related to 

1. Process : It is like part of routine. OR it is due to RAJAS GUNA. OR some qualities like greed, laziness etc.

2. Outcome: It generates some visible, tangible/intangible  outcome. OR our desire for some result, tangible/intangible  outcome

3. Personality: some personal traits, beliefs, value, self concept, memory of some past incident. 

All habits have some root cause behind it. 

Motivation to change habit: 

- Autonomy : Some more power, authenticity, freedom

- Competence : skill

- Relatedness : How it benefits me. Having some better reason to quit the habit. 

We shall replace our habit with better habit. 

Apigee


 1. integrated developer portal


2. convert a set of API into product: R/W access, rate per second, and how to use it. mix and match methods, operatoins from different APIs. code as pricing model. bronze/silver/gold customer. break out APIs in different packages. 


3. Security

out of box policy

- authentication

- authorization

- rate limit

- spikers

- JSON based threat

- XML based threat

- use other Google cloud tool

-- cloud armor for DDoS

   It sops absuive or bot traffic ASAP, before it enters into system. 

New Advance API security feature 

- Identify mis configured API. 

-- security score for API

-- recommended action

-- abuse of API detection

-- API security dashboard for quick investigation and resolution

- Bot detection: API traffic pattern


4. Application Integration : 50+ connectors to 3rd party services,

API hub: API catalogue and API LCM


5. Measure and tune APIs: Analytic


6. engage and innovate with partner to create digital eco system. 


7. full API LCM platform

- builder façade

- caching


Refernece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfJoQAKoQiM