Rajkumar, my younger brother, was also expelled from the house in 1995. Thus the spacious three storyed house had only two persons residing in, Daddaji and his life partner, Ammaji. A couple that had nine children alive, remained in their home alone with no one to take care of them. After the expulsion who will cook for Daddaji, was the pressing problem? Madhuri decided that she would send them meals from her kitchen every day.
I received an invitation from Korba JCI for training to the members. The Chief Guest for the program was Mr.R.K.Jaiswal, Deputy General Manager, Human Resources & Simulator Departments, NTPC, Jamnipali (Korba). In a two hour long program, he sat with rapt attention listening to what I said on the topic, ‘How to say no?’ After the program, he asked me if I would impart training in his organization.
“Sure”, I said.
“Send us a proposal, I’ll send you the schedule.”
“Fine.” Disguising my happiness I said in a serious tone. This short conversation proved immensely beneficial in the long run. I got a chance to train people in that organization for a period of thirteen years. My training fee began with two thousand and increased in the due course of time to five thousand. I had conducted the programs for more than 200 days covering 50-60 topics.
The tag of a trainer hailing from a small city like Bilaspur was not magnetic. During those days it was blooming as a trend in the corporate sector to arrange training for their executives, staff and workers. They were fascinated by names of trainers hailing from Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, Bangalore and Pune. I was lazy in marketing and was extremely hesitating by nature. Applications for conducting seminar were sent to several industries who did not even bothered to reply except Hindustan Aeronautics, Nasik who not only replied but called me twice.
The reason for the slow response to my training was also due to the fact that executives were imparted training in the English language. I used to impart training in Hindi. Most of the organizations preferred an English trainer. Don’t presume my linguistic ability, I had knowledge of English as entire teaching material was in English. I could converse as per requirement but I lacked a firm grip on the language. The command I had in Hindi, made my training very effective as compared to training delivered in English. So I always gave my training in Hindi only. I did not want to do anything which would merely be time pass or ad-hoc kind of work. My aim was never to earn money by any means. Training is not merely for the sake of training but to instill the topic in the mind of the trainees. Training is not mere ‘speech and hearing’ but to orient the minds of persons in a particular direction, changing their mindsets.
One young man from Bilaspur, Ashutosh Mishra was the coordinator in the Human Resources Management Section of Larsen & Toubro at Chandrapur (Maharashtra). He gave me several opportunities to conduct programs at Chandrapur, Hirmi (Chhattisgarh) and Jharsuguda (Odisha).
A participant during a training program at Hirmi asked me an arduous question, “Sir, do you believe in God?”
“What do you expect me to reply?” I put a counter question.
“Say ‘yes’ if you believe or ‘no’ if you don’t.” I kept quiet. I couldn’t answer. He darted another question at me, tell us, whether you conduct Puja, idol worship, at home or not.”
“Yes, I do”, I said.
“That makes it clear, you are a believer in God.”
“No, to believe in God and conduct Puja are two different things.”
“How?”
“Reason behind my Puja is different.”
“What is that, sir?”
“When my parents were shifting to Raipur from Bilaspur they handed over the idols installed in their house so that daily Puja might continue. These idols were installed at our home and my wife Madhuri used to perform Puja. One day she suggested, “The Lord has His abode in our home. Will it dishonor you if you bow your head?”
“That’s not the matter. You know that I have lost faith in Puja. I cannot do this.”
“That is O.K. but think, they were installed in our home for daily worship but they remain unattended for four days due to the menstrual cycle every month! Is that fair?” Madhuri asked me and this made me ponder. She had a strong point. From next morning, I began conducting the Puja in a prescribed manner and at the end would blow the conch so that Madhuri might know, wherever she might be, that Puja was conducted as for sure.”
“You did the right thing, Sir. Your wife is a wise person, she connected you with the God.”
“Yes, I do the Puja not to please the God but to keep my wife happy.”
I received an invitation from Korba JCI for training to the members. The Chief Guest for the program was Mr.R.K.Jaiswal, Deputy General Manager, Human Resources & Simulator Departments, NTPC, Jamnipali (Korba). In a two hour long program, he sat with rapt attention listening to what I said on the topic, ‘How to say no?’ After the program, he asked me if I would impart training in his organization.
“Sure”, I said.
“Send us a proposal, I’ll send you the schedule.”
“Fine.” Disguising my happiness I said in a serious tone. This short conversation proved immensely beneficial in the long run. I got a chance to train people in that organization for a period of thirteen years. My training fee began with two thousand and increased in the due course of time to five thousand. I had conducted the programs for more than 200 days covering 50-60 topics.
The tag of a trainer hailing from a small city like Bilaspur was not magnetic. During those days it was blooming as a trend in the corporate sector to arrange training for their executives, staff and workers. They were fascinated by names of trainers hailing from Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, Bangalore and Pune. I was lazy in marketing and was extremely hesitating by nature. Applications for conducting seminar were sent to several industries who did not even bothered to reply except Hindustan Aeronautics, Nasik who not only replied but called me twice.
The reason for the slow response to my training was also due to the fact that executives were imparted training in the English language. I used to impart training in Hindi. Most of the organizations preferred an English trainer. Don’t presume my linguistic ability, I had knowledge of English as entire teaching material was in English. I could converse as per requirement but I lacked a firm grip on the language. The command I had in Hindi, made my training very effective as compared to training delivered in English. So I always gave my training in Hindi only. I did not want to do anything which would merely be time pass or ad-hoc kind of work. My aim was never to earn money by any means. Training is not merely for the sake of training but to instill the topic in the mind of the trainees. Training is not mere ‘speech and hearing’ but to orient the minds of persons in a particular direction, changing their mindsets.
One young man from Bilaspur, Ashutosh Mishra was the coordinator in the Human Resources Management Section of Larsen & Toubro at Chandrapur (Maharashtra). He gave me several opportunities to conduct programs at Chandrapur, Hirmi (Chhattisgarh) and Jharsuguda (Odisha).
A participant during a training program at Hirmi asked me an arduous question, “Sir, do you believe in God?”
“What do you expect me to reply?” I put a counter question.
“Say ‘yes’ if you believe or ‘no’ if you don’t.” I kept quiet. I couldn’t answer. He darted another question at me, tell us, whether you conduct Puja, idol worship, at home or not.”
“Yes, I do”, I said.
“That makes it clear, you are a believer in God.”
“No, to believe in God and conduct Puja are two different things.”
“How?”
“Reason behind my Puja is different.”
“What is that, sir?”
“When my parents were shifting to Raipur from Bilaspur they handed over the idols installed in their house so that daily Puja might continue. These idols were installed at our home and my wife Madhuri used to perform Puja. One day she suggested, “The Lord has His abode in our home. Will it dishonor you if you bow your head?”
“That’s not the matter. You know that I have lost faith in Puja. I cannot do this.”
“That is O.K. but think, they were installed in our home for daily worship but they remain unattended for four days due to the menstrual cycle every month! Is that fair?” Madhuri asked me and this made me ponder. She had a strong point. From next morning, I began conducting the Puja in a prescribed manner and at the end would blow the conch so that Madhuri might know, wherever she might be, that Puja was conducted as for sure.”
“You did the right thing, Sir. Your wife is a wise person, she connected you with the God.”
“Yes, I do the Puja not to please the God but to keep my wife happy.”
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