08 October 2011
Tarun Vijay
It's good to die when you are at the top of your accomplishment chart and glory rather than inching towards the end amid a smoke of unfulfilled desires.
Steve, the great Steve Jobs, did the right thing to bid adieu to the world when this planet felt pride to have his products that gave us hope and happiness. He rose from nowhere. His life is a great lighthouse for the common people, failed, dejected, born in the most difficult circumstances, with despair and rejection staring at them.
People with such surroundings often end their lives or become violently unsuccessful, crowding jails and getting abused.
Steve became a hero for us all.
This is a cruel world where blood brothers become back stabbers and jealous comrades await impatiently to kick you on the ass once you trip on a hurdle.
Steve taught us: Remember, you have a very limited time. Death might be waiting too close. Concentrate on what you want to do rather than wasting time on others.
Just recently Delhi’s famous Akshardham Temple invited me to deliver a lecture to an impressive gathering of intellectuals and youth in their fabulously created auditorium. Along with Vivekananda and a number of great souls who had inspired our young generation, I presented the life of Steve Jobs as a great contemporary symbol who changed the way we think and work. To me, Steve was always a self-realized yogi, a spiritual achiever, who controlled destiny through sheer faith in him and good karma.
I strongly feel his Stanford speech ( June 12, 2005 ), where he spoke on death and on his life must form part of our school curriculum.
It’s a speech that, to me, is like a small yet powerful sacred book of freedom and mukti. Like an ‘arrived’ yogi, he speaks about death: "Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."
And when the world traps you in the ugly machinations of the satanic forces, don’t feel low. Steve says, "Your time is limited; so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steve gave his best dreams to us. He showed dreams Can be realized.
Son of an unwed mother, adopted by a hesitant couple, never had the right atmosphere to graduate, had to buy food by selling empty coke cans, failed in love, kicked out by the company he founded, Steve earned his place to be the hero of our times.
The company, Apple, named partly after the fruits in the valley orchard, he founded with his friend Woz in a garage when he was barely 20, became a whopping $2billion one, with 4,000 employees by the time he was 29.
And at 30, the Apple board of directors ousted him.
Microsoft, Sun, IBM and a whole lot of jealous unscrupulous corporate world with seamless money flow surrounded him.
His transparent resolution and a will to change the world with the best made everyone else to follow him.
Will it make a difference to know how many millions his products sold? I may be having some old statistics, yet they do turn me speechless. Here are a few lines of information taken from a website- “In January, Apple sold its 250 millionth iPod; Jobs’ self-proclaimed “mobile-devices” company now has 284 retail stores that attracted 50 million visitors in just one quarter alone; its “apps” store offers more than 140,000 software applications for its mobile products (more than 3 billion downloaded in the store’s first 18 months of operation); and Apple revenue makes it a more than $50 billion company. The company’s iPod and iTunes store “changed the way we discover, play and purchase music,”. In February, the company announced that its iTunes store recorded its 10 billionth song download.’
Steve changed our lives with hope and happiness. In this atmosphere of trashing social lives and ugly politics, what more could we have had asked from God?
It's good to die when you are at the top of your accomplishment chart and glory rather than inching towards the end amid a smoke of unfulfilled desires.
Steve, the great Steve Jobs, did the right thing to bid adieu to the world when this planet felt pride to have his products that gave us hope and happiness. He rose from nowhere. His life is a great lighthouse for the common people, failed, dejected, born in the most difficult circumstances, with despair and rejection staring at them.
People with such surroundings often end their lives or become violently unsuccessful, crowding jails and getting abused.
Steve became a hero for us all.
This is a cruel world where blood brothers become back stabbers and jealous comrades await impatiently to kick you on the ass once you trip on a hurdle.
Steve taught us: Remember, you have a very limited time. Death might be waiting too close. Concentrate on what you want to do rather than wasting time on others.
Just recently Delhi’s famous Akshardham Temple invited me to deliver a lecture to an impressive gathering of intellectuals and youth in their fabulously created auditorium. Along with Vivekananda and a number of great souls who had inspired our young generation, I presented the life of Steve Jobs as a great contemporary symbol who changed the way we think and work. To me, Steve was always a self-realized yogi, a spiritual achiever, who controlled destiny through sheer faith in him and good karma.
I strongly feel his Stanford speech ( June 12, 2005 ), where he spoke on death and on his life must form part of our school curriculum.
It’s a speech that, to me, is like a small yet powerful sacred book of freedom and mukti. Like an ‘arrived’ yogi, he speaks about death: "Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."
And when the world traps you in the ugly machinations of the satanic forces, don’t feel low. Steve says, "Your time is limited; so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steve gave his best dreams to us. He showed dreams Can be realized.
Son of an unwed mother, adopted by a hesitant couple, never had the right atmosphere to graduate, had to buy food by selling empty coke cans, failed in love, kicked out by the company he founded, Steve earned his place to be the hero of our times.
The company, Apple, named partly after the fruits in the valley orchard, he founded with his friend Woz in a garage when he was barely 20, became a whopping $2billion one, with 4,000 employees by the time he was 29.
And at 30, the Apple board of directors ousted him.
Microsoft, Sun, IBM and a whole lot of jealous unscrupulous corporate world with seamless money flow surrounded him.
His transparent resolution and a will to change the world with the best made everyone else to follow him.
Will it make a difference to know how many millions his products sold? I may be having some old statistics, yet they do turn me speechless. Here are a few lines of information taken from a website- “In January, Apple sold its 250 millionth iPod; Jobs’ self-proclaimed “mobile-devices” company now has 284 retail stores that attracted 50 million visitors in just one quarter alone; its “apps” store offers more than 140,000 software applications for its mobile products (more than 3 billion downloaded in the store’s first 18 months of operation); and Apple revenue makes it a more than $50 billion company. The company’s iPod and iTunes store “changed the way we discover, play and purchase music,”. In February, the company announced that its iTunes store recorded its 10 billionth song download.’
Steve changed our lives with hope and happiness. In this atmosphere of trashing social lives and ugly politics, what more could we have had asked from God?
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