Cup of Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee .

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to wantonly the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead.

unconditional Love

Real Nice Story:
My wife called, 'How long will you be with that newspaper? Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?
I tossed the paper away and rushed to the scene. My only daughter, Sindu, looked frightened; tears were welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a bowl filled to its brim with curd rice. Sindu is a nice child, quite intelligent for her age.

I cleared my throat and picked up the bowl. 'Sindu, darling, why don't , you take a few mouthful of this curd rice? Just for Dad's sake, dear'. Sindu softened a bit and wiped her tears with the back of her hands. 'Ok, Dad. I will eat - not just a few mouthfuls, but the whole lot of this.
But, you should...' Sindu hesitated. 'Dad, if I eat this entire curd Rice, will you give me whatever I ask for?'

'Promise'. I covered the pink soft hand extended by my daughter with mine, and clinched the deal. Now I became a bit anxious. 'Sindu, dear, you shouldn't insist on getting a computer or any such expensive items. Dad does not have that kind of money right now. Ok?'

'No, Dad. I do not want anything expensive'. Slowly and painfully, she finished eating the whole quantity. I was silently angry with my wife and my mother for forcing my child to eat something that she detested. After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me with her eyes wide with
expectation. All our attention was on her.

'Dad, I want to have my head shaved off, this Sunday!' was her demand.

'Atrocious!' shouted my wife, 'A girl child having her head shaved off? Impossible!'

'Never in our family!' My mother rasped. 'She has been watching too much of television. Our culture is getting totally spoiled with these TV programs!'

'Sindu, darling, why don't you ask for something else? We will be sad seeing you with a clean-shaven head.'

'Please, Sindu, why don't you try to understand our feelings?' I tried to plead with her.

'Dad, you saw how difficult it was for me to eat that Curd Rice'. Sindu was in tears. 'And you promised to grant me whatever I ask for. Now, you are going back on your words. Was it not you who told me the story of* *King Harishchandra, and its moral that we should honor our promises no matter what?'

It was time for me to call the shots. 'Our promise must be kept.'

'Are you out of your mind?' chorused my mother and wife.

'No. If we go back on ourpromises, she will never learn to honour her own. Sindu, your wish will be fulfilled.'

With her head clean-shaven, Sindu had a round-face, and her eyes looked big and beautiful.

On Monday morning, I dropped her at her school. It was a sight to watch my hairless Sindu walking towards her classroom. She turned around and waved. I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy alighted from a car, and shouted, 'Sinduja, please wait for me!' What struck me was the hairless head of that boy. 'May be, that is the in-stuff', I thought.

'Sir, your daughter Sinduja is great indeed!' Without introducing herself, a lady got out of the car, and continued, 'that boy who is walking along with your daughter is my son Harish. He is suffering from... leukemia'. She paused to muffle her sobs. 'Harish could not attend the
school for the whole of the last month. He lost all his hair due to the side effects of the chemotherapy. He refused to come back to school fearing the unintentional but cruel teasing of the schoolmates. Sinduja visited him last week, and promised him that she will take care of the teasing issue. But, I never imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of my son!
Sir, you and your wife are blessed to have such a noble soul as your daughter.'

I stood transfixed and then, I wept. 'My little Angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is!'

The happiest people on this planet are not those who live on their own terms but are those who change their terms for the ones whom they love !!*

Drinking Coffee A Pattern....

Jai Gurudev
Now days we have started AHTAVAKRA GITA.
We start our day with Group Sadhan and after that we listen to the GITA, now on the 2nd day of the Ashtavakra Gita (15th July 08),



I woke up early at 4:30 am and had my bath after that i reached to center for Group sadhna but do i really missing something........!? i asked to my self and LOL, i found the answer that i didnt drink my tea...;) i immediately realized my problem and directly head towards a Shop for early morning TEA.



When i reached to shop, ordered a tea...........whille drinking my tea. i came to know Ahhhh......I just LOST my vollate Now I immediatly went to the road and went to the center the same way i had gone to the Tea Shop.......and after reaching to the center i realized that i didn’t brought my vollate, i just worrying for nothing. I was happy at that time,after i went and paid to the Shopekeeper and come back to the Center and done my Kria.

After Kriya we started the knowledge session, and 1st thing speak is about Patterns,Habits and he gives the examples of Coffee only.
He said that we have our own pattern i.e Drinking Coffee and several other examples.
Which is really cause of misery and it really pinches in my heart, after that i make a point to drink tea atleast not in the early morning and strictly not when some knowledge session is going on.........Guru is great

Hope in the upcoming days of Ashtavakra Gita, nothing that sort of thing will happen
Jai gurdev

How I learnt the RudraBhishek.......

Actually I was waiting for the inner call to write something about rudrabhishek, I guess today is the day.



It all started during Feb-04 when we heard that guruji is coming to ahmedabad for shivratri before that we had done some seva to gather people and also sold some kria passes as always and the day had come when 50+ people went to ahmedabad early morning 5 o’clock for Long kria which was taken by guruji himself and afterwards seva and then rudrapuja started in the evening.

We were bit of thrilled as explained by Guruji, then he took the meditation and it was amazing as always afterwards, truly speaking not much interested in rudrabhishek when it started but as soon as PANCHA GAVYA SNANAM STARTED i was literally amazed by seeing that imagine 1 egg shaped transparent object fully covered by the yellowish brown white kind of something (which is Milk, curd, ghee, honey and sugar), looks so nice.

Then started Namakam- chamankam as per Guruji namakam means salt which is present every where like wise seeing Shiv Tatva in everything for example it says I am seeing Shiv in Fisherman and I am bowing to that shiv in that person etc, like wise it consists plenty of other things, then started Chamakam which is asking everything to Lord shiv saying I need good sleep, iron, gold, food almost everything which is available in this universe.

Afterwards when puja was over Gurji dance, I am in AOL since 1999 I have never ever seen guruji dancing like that before. And that was the time where almost everybody started crying and that was the turning point I decided to learn Rudrabhishek.

My father is very much co-operative to me, and then Grace part starts when I started learning naturally my father arranged teacher me who comes on every sat-sun to our place and teaches me Rudrabhishek in Gujarat it is consists of 10 adhyay .8 of Rudrabhieshek + 2 shanti adhyay and it is of 70 pages long but see the grace I had learnt it within 3 months time which is continuous 24 Days only, my teacher was so impressed with me that he said he had taught plenty of students but I was student who learnt it very quickly and what we chant here in ashram is even more simple as it consist of only 2 Adhyay (NaMaKaM-ChMaKam).

Till today I am performing rudrabhishek everyday and those 2 hours of my day is always amazing no matter how I feel that time during the puja is simply amazing.

Thanks to Guruji by whose grace I learnt it..!

Here the best part is everything arranged for me automatically and the learning period was so reduced that till today I am amazed that how did I learnt it…!? It was so without any effort

And during my learning period of it I encounter plenty of concepts attached to rudrabhishek which we will take in some other posts.

Jai Gurudev

Parth

Batch Insert from GridView

Some time back i have done simple timesheet with no extra thing doing just insert my data from Gridview which will come as forms to user and User will Fill the form and and click on the BUTTON and his data for that day will get Saved for that Day.



Here in above image where button event is there so that using this we can insert the data into the database.

Here, Logic is very simple we are looping through the Grid and inserting the data by finding control within the Asp:TemplateField and we are done doing it.

Thanks
Hope this will be helpful to someone.

Parth

Row to Column Conversion with help of ReportViewer

some time back i was in need for converting row of my data to column as my rows were of Project names of an Organization and Columns where of TaskNames...so being a Database person i tried doing it using SQL but after that thought it may increase my server's CPU cycle, so better to handle this scenario with report viewer..... and some how i was able to d it successfully.....


1. Add .rdlc file in your project solution


2. Add .xsd in your App_code folders







3. Drag and drop Matrix report then put your required field into the Matrix Report's column and part and datapart







4. then bind your reportviewer into code behind, this is the tricky part as this will help you having total control of report ...if in future you want to add Dropdown and On DropDown selection you want to show Report, it is easily possible.

Tell me if any clarification is req. cause here you can do many things like, chnage the back color of cell of your report by just providing VB code (of course conditionally and dynamic.......) you can also change Textsize,Italic,Underline etc..conditionaly.... All of the above is possible in the design view of.rdlc file.

Thanks & Regards


Parth

Heirarchical Grid or Parent childgridView using javascript

A very simple thing which is most often required by the developers is creating the Hierarchical grid view or in other words Parent-Child Grid....

Some of the Organizations where they maintain Parent-Child relationships in their process required such kind of data representation....

Scenario:
In a certain organization you need to have a Project Under particular project you must have tasks,this will create your Hierarchical Grid

1.We have to create 1 grid and then add TemplateField Column,after put 2nd Grid inside the TemplateField Column put DataKeyName of Key Column which common in both Grid'd data like ProejctGroup then bind the Grid

2.Put + sign in First Column and put that inside Div tab in your grid view column














3.then Bind the 2nd grid on rowdataboundevent








4.put the javascript code as shown below

























Now simple you parent grid will bind your child grid and it will go on and on doind Hierarchi of data and you are done doing it...!
cheers
Hope this will be helpful to some one.
Thanks
Parth