SLAP Yourself
The 4-Step System to Master your life, Business and Mind

Slap is an act which has its reaction for about 99% time. Infact Slap is altogether a violence act and saying “I will slap you” is itself a provoking statement. This word the moment it comes in mind, others start thinking about the personal character of human being and also is called an aggressive personality. A person who even thinking of Slap has following ingredients: 

• To instigate

• To provoke

• To read and act

• To be very aggressive 

• To show who is the boss

• To show someone down and out

• To remove frustration and or anger 

• To teach a lesson to someone

• To get into someone nose

• To show you attitude

• To save/protect someone

• To show love

Slap is a violence act but it has its exceptions but in no ways it makes slap a good act for violence. As per Anekantwad Doctrine, all has many angles to think upon. As per Vedas, Agams, violence is never the reason for first step for success. Slap in personal life is a success mantra if we follow all above ingredients in positive way. It is always had that “One” has “Two sides”, positive or negative and going with positive always give benefit success mantra

Today in this “Running and Achieving all in One Life” Mantra, is actually making more of worst then good in one’s life. There is always a stop to any run and hence this is applicable to personal life, business growth

SLAP means: 

Sayam = Control = Balance

Learning = Skill = Upgrade

Anuvrat = Defined Small Goals

Preksha Dhyan = Profound awareness of the SELF

1] SAYAM

In Civil Law, when one wants Interim Stay/Injunction the Court pass the order of Injunction when the Court comes to the Conclusion as to where the Balance of Convenience lies. In Cricket even if you are nearing your century (100 Runs) and wickets are less to win, one does not shall go for Century but ensuring win and this where you need to be balanced in mind, balance in life, balance in decision. Being balanced here means Control also. History is evident that a person who had Sayam crosses the line of happiness. Ashwathama had superpower person but he lost Sayam and killed an unborn child in womb and hence he was cursed by Lord Krishna to stay alive till new Yuga comes which will be several 1000 of years. Ashwathama is the best person who can tell the importance of being SAYAM in every situation as he must be in pain to get out of this curse but is the time which will come as when it has to come. Ashwathama life is exactly opposite to Bheeshm who instead of taking calm decision took quick decision and his oath took the whole kingdom towards Mahabharata. There are many but to know the importance of SAYAM these two illustrations shows the relevance of SAYAM in our daily life, business life. Even for Karna who took decision in such haste that he indirectly acted in Adharma by doing an act against Draupadi which at end resulted him his death for wrong reasons. Same is in our life, eating too much of Salt of what is required and bringing disease and not eating Salt also brings disease and hence life is at highest peak if the decision are taken in SAYAM mode. Today the mobile screen watching has gone upto 7 hours in a day and if this SAYAM mode is not activated, for sure the generations to come will lose their mind, eyes and will result very badly to body changes and thereby resulting in bad output. Similarly the patience level has come down, the outside life has come down as the online presence has increased too much affecting the whole life cycle and this SAYAM we can achieve through Preksha Dhyan (discussed later in this Article). In personal life, there are family issues (on the rise) for various reasons and in this if two parties behave in angry manner then the chances of reconciliation is NIL and it is only when two parties keep their mind calm and are SAYAM in nature, the outcome is for sure will be there either in positive or negative. 

In Business growth, decision matters and only those decision which are taken after giving it a good thought where SAYAM plays the big role, the business growth is for sure to increase and the reasons is such decision are always taken seeing all possibilities. Many decisions which are taken have various impacts and are never isolated. One bad decision can change the whole system and may come down as collapse as we have seen in many business entities going down for not taking good decision. Even in the case of WAR, decisions which are taken in SAYAM mode always have its result outcome in smooth manner. It is an admitted fact that with high powers come high responsibilities. Once the deal is done, it’s done and cannot be revised. Karna, the warrior who was in Adharma fight regretted later in his life of an act he would have avoided but he himself said that due to not taking right decision with calm mind his act made the relations worse and lead to Mahabharata. 

There is a WORD which is very important in your life and if you really respect that WORD and understand its meaning, purpose, its strength then for sure you are on a perfect path who knows the way to be in control of yourself and anyone knowing the way to control yourself is itself a big success. This WORD if used as Prefix with any other word just works in one direction i.e., SUCCESS. There is no second meaning other than saying SUCCESS. Let’s be clear that success does not mean more and more money or post or fame or else but it is more than that. It means that you are in the path where you are enjoying in totality, in your work, in your life, in your own company, with your family and you give great importance to the said WORD in your life. The WORD which has so much significance to your own life and success and in fact the success has the same “alphabet” with this word, is none other than “SELF”. How important is the WORD “SELF” is can be realized from just reading the following words with prefix “SELF”:

• SELF – LESS

• SELF-MOTIVATOR

• SELF-MADE

• SELF CONFIDENT

• SELF RESPECT

Many drivers of individual success / entrepreneurial success are uncontrollable, including timing, the market, competition, and well, lucky breaks. However, there is one thing you can control–yourself. And according to science, self-control is a key quality in life success/ business success. People with high levels of self-control are more effective with their time, thoughtful in their decisions, and productive with their work.

SAYAM is nothing but a shield on your own life and a path to success. Acharya Tulsi of Jain Terapanth (widely popular all over the World) have stated that “Main Hun Apne Bhagya Ka Nirmata” (You are the master of your destiny, the creator of your life)

B] LEARNING

Learning is never ending process and infact one who says that he has completed the learning or studies, trust me he/she are the failures in life as if not today but later for sure as they will destroy themselves. Learning does not mean getting degrees or certificates but it means getting knowledgeable. Sadly today all are after such degrees and make their day and claim to have done toughest study which infact has nothing great relevant as each degree is difficult but such is the market that all are in process to show their degrees to world. A single word has many interpretations and it depends on situational behaviour and if can get his mastery done in this field, he is a great knowledgeable but his process of learning has not stopped. We all know how Britishers by setting up manufacturing drugs factory at Bihar killed many intellectuals in centuries to come in Bihar, India. Acharya Mahapragyaji who was widely known for his rich contribution in literature as such was his mastery that someone has said about his writing that “Between one full stop and another sentence, the whole kingdom is Built”. Even after more than 430 plus books and AGAMS translation and meaning and hundreds of articles, even before death he was in learning process and this habit made him the great author, Acharya of Terapanth Samaj and even Prime Minister Modi was huge fan of his.  

Learning is what you learn from your mistakes, other mistakes, your action and even from small aged persons and is a continuous process. Even Lord Krishna learnt from Sudhama, Sachin Tendulkar (God of Indian Cricket) learnt many things from Sehwag, etc. Learning never stops and neither shall be stopped for any reasons as the day it stops or stopped; you will be in dark zone for sure

In Business, even if you are Directors, CEO, Founder, etc learning will only make them grow faster and thereby organisation and a motivation to their team to learn as part of your skill upgrade in all aspects. The day when your attitude of learning increased, growth of any business is for sure. 

Learning can also be called as upgrading skill. Skill is the most searched topic in Google atleast if searched in India, mostly thanks to Hon’ble and Respected Prime Minister Narendra D Modi. What the PM Modi has done to spread awareness about SKILL is nothing short of wonder. It is not that PM Modi has invented the word SKILL as it has been since ages but sharing the importance in development of oneself and for India have made it the most relevant keyword. Skill does not mean Academics Degree, Diplomas or any Certificate but how to handle the situation when and where you are in. 

To understand the importance of having SKILL, the below story will help: 

During the Pandavas 13 Years Forest Yatra, the Pandavas along with Draupadi reached Dvaitavana having left the Kamyaka forest-range. They were all tired and exhausted and extremely thirsty. Yudhishtira asked Nakula to climb up a tree to locate any source of water. Nakula did accordingly and located the evidence for some water source by water-creepers, cranes etc. Yudhistira asked Nakula to go to the source and get immediately some water. He went there and saw a lake with crystal clear water and was about to drink it when he heard a voice: ‘Don’t venture to drink the water before answering my questions. Otherwise you will come to grief.’ Nakula did not heed his words and tried to drink the water. Immediately he fell down dead. When Nakula did not return for a long time, Yudhishtira sent Sahadeva, who also met the same fate without listening to the warning of the Yaksha. Then Arjuna came and he also did not care for the warning of the Yaksha and thus fell down dead. Bhima also met with the same fate. Then Yudhishtira got worried and went to investigate the fate of his brothers. He was near the beautiful lake, as if constructed by Vishvakarma himself, all his brothers lying down dead. When he saw their fate, he lamented on their death. Even though they were dead they had not lost their colour, there was no ghastly distortion of expression and he began to wonder as to the cause of this extraordinary situation. Then he heard the voice of Yaksha. “I am a Yaksha in the form of a Crane eating fish and water plants, and because of me all your brothers are dead. I asked them not to venture to drink the water of this pond without answering my questions. You will be the fifth one. Don’t venture to do so before answering all my questions. Yudhishtira asked him about his history and the Yaksha told him: I am not a bird. Please answer my questions and then you may drink the water. Yudhishtira told him that he did not want to incur the wrath of the Yaksha, “You may ask your questions and I shall reply them” Thereupon the Yaksha asked a number of questions covering many moral, social and philosophical issues and Yudhishtira replied each one of them to the satisfaction of the Yaksha and then all brother were alive and they left for their journey Note: This appears in the Mahabharata at the end of Vanaparva (chapters 312 to 314). 

This story proves that even though Arjuna (the Greatest Warrior), Bhima and other Pandavas were powerful and mighty but since they never had the SKILL to handle the situation were put to death by Yaksha and it was Yudhishtira who handled the situation well and hence this story teaches the relevance of SKILL in today life and also in business ventures. 

The best example of how to handle the situation when all is against you was done by CADBURY. There was a time came when insects were found in CADBURY and one or two instant came in limelight and this was spreading to large and infact was the first step in killing the brand that is attached to of higher value towards customer. CADBURY smartly chose Amitabh Bachchan as the new advertise character and at that time it was seen that Amitabh Bachchan was giving the message of CADBURY being safe and how it takes care of their customer and this advertisement actually stopped all negative views and uplifted the goodwill again in the market. The smart choice was to have Amitabh Bachchan in their advertisement and at that time Amitabh Bachchan was seen as the only person to save CADBURY due to his image of being a person who saw all ups and down and fought and reached the stage where he was and even higher. This speaks the SKILL mindset of CADBURY.

C] ANUVRAT

I was walking very slowly and taking my steps in such a slow motion that in reality the public walking behind me started to shout at me stating that “if you cannot walk fast, then please allow us and don’t waste our time”. I gave no heed but to avoid fight allowed them to go and in one minute I was left behind by more than 70 people in a good second. As soon as I reach Train Ticket Window, the Ticket Officer asked me which place ticket you want and I was standing there and after me there was more than 40 standing with already in anger mood, ticket officer shouted me saying first decide what you want and then come meanwhile allow others to take the ticket and the person just after me also shouted and I just gave a side and was thinking and in hardly two minute or so, then 45 person took the ticket and went and there was another line of 50 and this continued for an hour and I was still not yet decided and to say was confused and was thinking. This proves that at every stage one has to know the defined destination or shorter way to say a Goal. 45 Person were aware that they have to go somewhere for ex., one to Vashi, another to Andheri, etc and else and hence since such person were aware of the destination or you can a goal for that particular purpose, they got the desired result fast and as I was not aware of my destination or purpose or goal, I was left behind or let’s say I failed to compete with the changing lane of the world.

Assume a life without goal, a business setup with no vision or goal, a sport tournament without goal. Going by Vedas/Agams, this life of present human being is with some purpose/goal and who can pass this in SAYAM mode then next phase of their life is Supreme. Anuvrat is what makes the goal achievable. One person ordering a large size pizza with 12 pieces for food, he/she cannot eat 12 at one go by one by one but not necessary in line and this is where the small goal is made up and a defined goal is setup and the destination reaches by going through such defined small goals. This brings the attention that knowing “Defined Goal” or “Defined Destination” is of utmost importance for any purpose. Most of the problems as why majority of them fails to reach the Goals is because they directly look to reach End Goal without knowing that End Goal can only be reached if one gives important to smaller goals and to know the relevance of smaller goals one has to understand the importance of ANUVRAT. The one who knows the concept of ANUVRAT will no doubt give the utmost importance to smaller goals to achieve the End Goal. The term ANUVRAT was formulated by **Ganadhipati Acharya Tulsi, a famous and great Jain Saint/Monk who started this movement under name ANUVRAT which meant a series of ‘small vows’ of avoiding violence, not cutting trees, etc to ensure the end goal is achieve of having a society where human respects human with dignity and animals. The step of ANUVRAT was small but it later achieved huge success and it became a movement which till date is in process and the fruit of ANUVRAT movement were and is being achieved today. Acharya Tulsi was born at Ladnu in Nagaur district in a Khater (oswal-Jain) family in the year 1914. At the tender age of eleven he became a monk and took to the difficult path of renunciation. He accepted the leadership of a vast religious order at the age of 22. At the age of 33, he started Anuvrata Movement to restore the dignity of moral values and the values of character. 

Smaller Goals are of most importance as majority of times, we directly focus on reaching End goals and this mostly leads to nowhere and infact knowing the smaller goals helps one to know whether their End Goals is defined properly or not and in way of achieving the smaller goals, End Goals becomes easy to reach and also enjoy its fruits. 

The best example for me to state of the person who might have never thought of such an End Goals but assuming he may have thought is no other than the present Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi. If one is aware of what PM Modi did to reach here is nothing short of being called as a perfect way of reaching your End Goals. PM Modi started as RSS Karyakarta and then slowly reached the ranks of RSS and in during the times did many roles and it was nothing short of miracle that in Year 2002 post Earthquake, PM Modi was called for being the CM of State of Gujarat and I am assuming that after being acting as CM of State of Gujarat for more than 2 Term, the another goal would have been PM and man he did achieved in style and no one can deny the way he handled himself. As per my small info, PM Modi never lost the election when fought and his life story is nothing short of a Management Study as to how one shall realize the limitation at the particular situation and then work on smaller goals and make your End Goals bigger and even modification of End Goals is the probability as in case of PM Modi. 

The way to reach “End Goals” is to first make up your smaller goals which and when achieved will and no doubt work as one step further to reach End Goals. Each smaller goal helps you get stronger, become more confident, and be able to try more challenging things. Even better, you know what needs to get done next to help you progress. 

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said, ‘If we want to build a great country, it should have a firm foundation… such a foundation is of character … What a good piece of work is being done within the Anuvrat Movement! I think the more this work progresses, the better it is.

D] PREKSHA DHYAN

This concept was by Great Shree Acharya Mahapragyaji. The person who can controlled his/her mind is the person who always leads to growth be it in family personal life or business life or social life. Even Vedas/Agams says that a stable and calm mind will only make proper decision and right decision. There is no doubt that today we live in a society where stress has become part of life ad this is purely our mistake and in order to dethrone the stress it puts more pressure on body and mind and this affects us and body and it affects health badly.  

The word Preksha means “profound awareness of the self”. In Jainism, the technique of Preksha Dhyan or meditation was formulated by Acharya Mahapragya in the 20th century, based on the philosophy and practice of Lord Mahaveera. Lord Mahaveera attained enlightenment through Preksha Dhyan. Preksha may appear to mean different things to different people because it contributes to increase physical, nervous as well as spiritual energies. On physical level, it helps each bodily cell to revitalize itself; it facilitates digestion; it makes respiration more efficient and improves circulation and quality of blood. On mental level, it proves to be an applied method to train the mind to concentrate; it cleans and relaxes the mind; it offers a way to treat serious psychosomatic illnesses without drugs; it is an efficient tool for ending addictions and other bad habits; it reveals to one the mysteries of his mind by the realization and the real experience of the inner consciousness which includes the subconscious and the unconscious. On emotional level, the strengthening of conscious reasoning controls reactions to environmental conditions, situations, and behaviour of others: harmonization of the functioning of nenous and endocrine systems results in control and ultimate eradication of psychological distortions. On spiritual level, firm control of the reasoning mind, regulation and transformation of blood-chemistry through proper synthesization of neuro-endocrinal secretions, and production of dispassionate internal vibrations lead one to attain the power to control the mind and to become free from the effects of the external forces compelling one to lose equanimity. Acharya Mahapragya developed Preksha Meditation as a special practice influenced by the tenets of the Jain Agamas, ancient scriptures, Yoga Science, Biology, Modern Physics, Naturopathy, Ayurveda, etc. He brought together Meditation, Yogasana, Pranayama and Mantra. The holistic approach of Preksha Meditation towards health is relevant in the present times for people practising meditation to combat physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual ailments that afflict them. Preksha means to perceive and Dhyan means meditation. 

Acharya Tulsi quoted “The great secret of success in life lies in concentration.  Concentration  is  necessary  not  only  in  the  field  of  spiritual practice  but  in  all  walks  of  life = education,  art,  commerce  and  science  etc. The  force  that  lies  in  concentration  can  never  be  there  when  it  is  divided. 

I end my thoughts stating that “Success does not mean winning but handling situations effectively when required” and if you can handle the situation this will only show your maturity to deal with problems and this quality will only make you rise everytime and anytime.