Guru Pournima

Hi All
Sunday, July 29, 2007 is the auspicious date of Guru-Pournima. While for a disciple, every date has the same importance in terms of regards and respects for his/ her Guru or teacher, Guru-Pournima has a particular significance as it signifies the relationship of love and care between the teacher and disciple.

The Hindu culture and religions accord the highest place of worship to the Guru with the following Shloka.

Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnu, Gurur Devoh Maheshwarah,

Gurur Sakshat Parabrahma. Tasmay Shri Guruveh namah !!!

This date has significance for all - whether the Sanyasis who having left the material world seek the ultimate knowledge to free themselves or the knowledge-workers like myself who seek to live and prosper in this material world -- for what is this knowledge, if not the blessings of all our Gurus who have guided us throughout our student and professional life.

As I thank all the kind teachers who from time to time guided me on the right path, I remember and seek blessings of the One Supreme Guru - Sadguru Shri Saibaba of Shirdi - who has always guided me through all moments of my life and whose mercy and kind grace I seek beyond anything else.





For the disciples of Shri Saibaba, the festival of Guru-Pournima is indeed the most significant one as it is said that this is the only festival which Baba himself asked his disciples to celebrate ...

On Sunday, please join me in seeking the blessings of Shri Saibaba, to remember our Gurus with love and respect and to pray for peace and well-being of all ...



Best Regards

Gautam

Spam Gyan?

Hi All
This afternoon I was quite dismayed to find my blog on telecom information being blocked as a spam blog !!!

I have no real clue why this has happened. Whether I have offended one of the robot's rules or I am having too many bookmarks in the posts (believe me every single one of them is valuable ... if one has the time to read ...) or just plain bad luck at getting up on the wrong side of the bed today.

Hope this resolves soon ... I really don't want to move my blogs from Blogspot.

Till then, thank you for being here ...
Good evening, good day and have a safe time ....

Cheers
Gautam

Yes Mrs President

Finally the inevitable has come true ... India's first woman president, Mrs. Pratibha Patil. We may have wanted her to win the election or we may not have ... but now that she has, we stand united behind her.

We only hope that she will live up to the wonderful personality of outgoing President APJ Abdul Kalam and the hope and inspiration he lighted up among thousands and lakhs of Indians in India and abroad.

Best of Luck, Mrs. Patil.

Best Regards
Gautam Sarnaik

LinkedIN Answers

Hi All,
I managed to make it to the front page of the LinkedIN Answers section. Hmm .. you have to scroll down all the way to the bottom to see it ... and I wont be there for more than few hours as others join in and march ahead ...


So whats the big deal?
Other than some unabashed self promotion and visibility (I received emails and invites from some very high quality members of LinkedIN), it also is a great deal of self-satisfaction -
LI is a user driven professional networking site so every time one answers, one is adding value and content to the community.


At the end of the day that value generation is worth much more than all amount of self-promotion :-) the second helps too ... particularly when a recruiter writes in asking for the CV ...

Have a great day and see you on LinkedIN ...

Best Regards
Gautam