History repeats itself and who is not aware about it? Today again, we from YPF want to dig back and evoke the masses, that we are at the time to celebrate and rejoice our continuous effort and synergy with which we started.

21st September, The International Peace Day, we laud the efforts of all volunteers who work tirelessly to make YPF mission and vision achievable and want to hail the aura and ambiance of YPF, which is unique in its own way and carry the most paramount and indispensable part of human existence “Peace”.

We started with a goal and still stand erect to keep going and move forward.

“Time and Tide wait for none.” – This small and precise proverb says a lot about the verity of our existence and invoke a sense of responsibility and control in me.

You may be an atheist or theist but can anyone deny that this existence is magical. We were born, and we will die, and this is happening since centuries.

• Why we are born?
• What is the meaning of this life?
• What should be our aim?
• Why we have happiness and sadness both?

Some of these questions and many more had always haunted human beings and if they had not haunted yet, they will definitely do in some course of time.

As repeated again and again, Mr. Prem Rawat, International ambassador of Peace, satiated our tenderness and now we had reached to a conclusion that we are here on this phase of earth to establish the culture of Peace.

We aimed to make each individual here, no matter they belong to any caste, creed, religion, ethnicity or what so ever understand the importance and necessity of Peace in their lives and replicate same to others and their upcoming generations.

YPF focuses mainly to put an idea in the mind of human beings that Peace is a necessity and we are vulnerable to odds we all face whose remedy only lies in realizing the essence of Peace.

With this concept and rumination, YPF was established in September 2013. During the first Mega Event of YPF held in February, 2014 about 185,000 people witnessed the nostalgic event in Rohini, New Delhi where Mr. Prem Rawat, keynote speaker of Youth Peace Foundation talks about Peace and spellbound the audience with this simple yet profound message of Peace.

It was the exuberant beginning and had no setback since then. Time keeps moving, but the originality and charisma of YPF’s aim remain intact.

YPF had tried reaching the kids from school to elderly citizens, from delicate institute audience to strong and handling war-front soldiers, from independent earning citizens to extorted and brutalized dependents in rehabs and so on.

YPF had tried reaching the diversified audience from almost every platform one can imagine of, which can be the busy ramp of a mall on weekends or woeful subtle floor of an old age home.

The responsibility is huge, but we are confident that we will reach our goal one day or other. Every passing year, says a success story of YPF, but we are still behind to reach that ultimate milestone.

Youth Peace Foundation has been a roller coaster ride and one day it will be an epitome of achieving the Peace and serenity everywhere and that’s the ultimate goal. How we will achieve it? This question is mind wobbling but the presence of a team where each growing member does value addition and encourages others as well has been the only way out.

We invite people to be a part of our team and slowly and gradually this huge YPF team will cover every individual on this phase of Earth who will comprehend the necessity of Peace.

21st September, International Peace Day, witness initiatives of numerous groups who join hands to achieve fundamental necessity – “Peace” on earth and work for this initiative proactively. YPF too picked this important day to celebrate its journey and make everyone involved in it feel special about it. This red-letter day is engraved in golden words in YPF testimonial as well.

Year 2015, YPF marked its presence in 15 cities with 18 events. 55000 people participated in these events, 4500 people joined us virtually through various social platforms and 51 media reports carved our presence and efforts. It was mere beginning, and we celebrated the triumph.

“Change the world by changing your world” was the theme and we indulged people with the theme through various activities such as Walk for Peace, talk for Peace, Art of Peace, Music for Peace, Dance for Peace, Quiz for Peace.

A year later, 2016, YPF marked its presence in 26 cities with 31 events with significant rise in numbers and activities. The theme was “PEACE – one day or everyday”.

Again, with a vivid form, of activities the people were diverted to give attention to Peace and YPF. These celebrated days had been a caricature to the vision of YPF and reflects the interest of people that they do want to know more and more about peace irrespective of their circumstances and filled volunteers with zeal and positivity to keep them motivated in this direction of achieving world peace.

Now its 2017 and the day of celebrating “Peace” is just few weeks away so what we are waiting for? This is the time to buckle up and recharge our thrust to make this day memorable and indelible.

I hope this year will not be any different from the past years and we will catch the eyeballs through various platforms. “Peace day” is not only about celebrating a day with pomp and show and forget, but this is the day to rejuvenate ourselves and get ready for another great year ahead.

Each passing year will diminish the distance of YPF from its goal and that’s the only thing which each one among us should always remember.

Every good cause stays long in people’s memory, and it motivates the souls positively and efficiently so we should never compromise with the moment of spreading positiveness throughout with our video presentations, activities, cultural and social embellishments.

Guys and girls so let enjoin the history again and make this day, another persistent day where we can lit “Peace” in lives of the people untouched with this reality. We must make this day unforgettable till time immemorial.

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In this era of 21st century which is modern and civilized, how many among us think about quintessential – “Freedom”. Independence Day is coming soon and whole country will be patriotic for a day or two to enjoy our freedom. But was colonial not good? The sublime interference and dictatorship was bad and needs no discussion and that’s why only the mere thought of sacrifices of freedom fighters and that slavery bond can give Goosebumps to anyone. Isn’t it?

But even after seven decades of being an independent country what we had achieved!! My write up is to awaken a sense of responsibility in everyone, to inculcate reasoning and to ask each one of you, what you drove out of our independence?

It’s really not about a country, society, gender or race, I am talking about the autarky of every living entity – Human Beings. When a child is born, more than 18 hours he sleeps, slowly when he grows the cycle start changing and this is all innate, no one teaches the kid how to sleep, wake, cry or laugh. So all this invoke that we are imparted a sense automatically and this is magical. And when this kid reaches to a stage where he starts going high school, college, university, job etc. they are supposed to be mature enough to take their own decisions and do good/bad to society as per their understanding. But let me ask you when everyone breathes same oxygen, eat similar kind of food, have similar body shape, have similar kind of education why they are different? I have not seen any two individuals with same understanding and same recoiling behavior whosoever they are not even in the twins, why??

The Narrative of all this contingency is straightforward and lays in the sophisticated fundamental capability of human being that no one behaves naturally. As soon as we started growing, we are being fed up with behavioral complications and accordingly we start adapting. This is the only reason children are called pious and truthful but contrary to this, adults are hypocrites and ersatz.

The most ferocious reality is God/Allah/Waheguru/Bhagwan, whosoever you think; created this Earth did it for human beings to understand the essence of life and know oneself but majority among us lead it just passing the buck on one another and establish fake supremacy. What is left in so called civilized society is all about ego, being prejudice and behaving like a robot that is being programmed to do certain tasks like study, get married, earn, dance, do this, do that and so on.

I don’t have habit to point out only; I will explain the rationale behind this fact. I felt contentment in my life and used to take myself Independent, self-determined and self-legislated. But When I listened Mr Prem Rawat , he once said, “When we close the door behind us while entering a room, we felt that we are alone but actually no – the lust, anger, greed and other virtual realities are always moving along with us.” He further added that “Majority of things in our life we do out of contemplation that what society will say, how people will react and other added hogwash.” And hence this statement breaks the argument of each one of us who act themselves Free and liberal.

We think ourselves free and without any curtailment but actually we are no one divergent to bonded labor. Just to keep our self-esteem rake up we have tied ourselves in invisible manacles of system, society, hierarchy, beliefs, opinions and swank. And this bondage is inevitable as it’s fed into us since the time we started speaking or walking. No one has the ability to change the whole world but I believe at least we can try to change ourselves. The first step to this change is – “Respect every individual and be empathetic.” No one should act overweening. May be we live a dreadful dominating life and keep boasting it off throughout but end of the day, everyone among us will die and what this boastfulness will add in your existence. Nothing!! Absolutely Nothing!!

We are born and this is a Gift, please don’t waste it.

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Foundational secret of success lies in gratitude….. this statement corroborated time and again by people around us. But, is that all which sums up this world sized term? Absolutely not, gratitude is an emotion which has to be befriended, before it can be applied.

GRATITUDE: An Attitude of thankfulness

A vibe: of Abundance

An urge: to Learn from tough patch

A policy: to Give

A Mission: to take nothing for granted.

When, I was yoked by rough situations in life, the only resolution I was suggested that to bank upon ‘positivity’. Well, this solution wasn’t miraculous, because Positivity, suo moto cannot take grip of life. Rather, it needs a platform to take off. Positive attitude needs a tool or a strategy to deal with life as it comes to you, and not by fabricating illusions. I, tried being positive and started ignoring the need of hour which demanded my action rather than constructing fancies about whimsical tomorrow. And, on failing innumerably I could figure incompleteness in the positive programme, I was following. So, on close examination I, seemingly touched simple yet beautiful revelation about life, which is: Life has situated all its treasure within the state of ‘Being Grateful’ which encapsulates everything like Inner Peace, Eternal happiness, ecstasy, positivity, et al.

Gratitude has to be construed with widest expanse, so as to take glimpse of the Real life. To start with, be thankful that you are alive: most precious gift, thankful for the beautiful ecosystem which makes your survival possible, thankful for opportunities around, thankful for capabilities in you; and this list of abundance is endless. Abundance around you shouldn’t be neglected by entirely focusing on what is missing in life. Ironically, we tend to ignore what we have for something what we don’t have!.

Why can’t we make best use of this state- of being alive, by loving: ourselves, people around us, environment, Earth, universe, entire cosmos! It’s just ‘Love’ which we have to emit from within, and ‘thankfulness’ for love we receive. It’s all about being grateful for what we have, and coping up every situation with an objective, i.e. to become a better ME.

Trust me! Go out, and feel the breeze embracing your beautiful face, whispering a melody of love in your ears; Be an audience to dancing trees and hopping leaves; treat your senses with the delight of nature. Then, you will believe in the magic of being GRATEFUL. Consequently, shedding all your fears, insecurities, negativities and facing every day with your best.

Make life worth living by gracing every breadth with GRATITUDE😇

~Saanjh

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It’s me, my father and mother at home. Once I had an argument with them and I left home. I was crying and I started walking toward hillside. I kept walking for many hours – Passing across the flock of sheep, I reached a pond with lotus blooming in it and bumblebees humming over them sucking nectar. I felt thirsty and wanted to drink water but the lotus pond was not having clean water so I sit on stone nearby and started looking around. An old man came towards me and asked me why I was crying? I begged him for food and water as I came running and was very thirsty. He pointed his finger towards a chest of gold coins shining at a distance. He asked me to go and pick some gold coins and buy food for myself from the market nearby to that place. I cried with joy and start moving towards the chest but as I took my first step; the old man warned me, “You can go and take as many coins you want but there is a magical ointment rubbed on all the coins and once you touch them you will only be alive for 6 hours; after that you will die.”

I got aghast with the thought of dying. I stood horror struck for a while and many thoughts flashed my mind in a while. I came on verge of fainting and I realized that I had come far from my house with no idea how to go back. The sun was about to set and I stumbled over a piece of rock and fell down. Rolling down the cliff, I hit my head with a cactus standing on one side and my forehead started bleeding. I managed anyhow, stood again and started running upside towards cliff. Very soon I realized that I had no energy left in me and so I started shouting for help. Within few seconds, someone hit me hard on back and asked loudly, “Why the hell are you shouting? What happened?” And I woke up.

It was just a dreadful dream and my mother hit me hard to wake me up. She was trying to wake me up since long time but I was not willing to leave the bed. But this dream advocates inside me numerous questions that how much money is important for anybody? If given a choice between money and life – what will be the choice of many?

Life is irresistible – But does it prevail for every individual? Umm! This is so subjective and mind wobbling.

For Filthy Rich – might be its tempting and seductive, for average living household – it can be compelling and a fine fettle to go along with but what about the poor, who cannot even afford to have regular meals to staunch their hunger?

When I grew up and had that much ability to comprehend, my reasoning about this ugly candour that how much money, materialistic possessions and opulence can make a person truly happy and satisfied started haunting me day and night so I tried to find the answer of this extremely back breaking question.

By God grace I had a lavish life and I encountered millions of people till now from rags to pile of abundance from East to West, but unfortunately or fortunately I could not come across even one single person who had no grudges or complaints and was extremely satisfied. Again I retaliated and countered myself with pool of thoughts if these numbers that I encountered with can be taken as a sample size for such a vast population living in a phase of this Earth? My small research work in my own ability then added up with extensive study and more conversations but to my utter surprise again I could not find one person – extremely happy and satisfied. The crux of all this matter is Money is Important but Money can’t make you happy or sad; Happiness and sadness is innate and it is as per the conviction of every individual in capacity of their own circumstances.

Wealth and such proposition are momentary and not long lasting. This is the ultimate truth; humans are created with apprehensions not to come, conquer and die but to know the true self of their being.

Socrates said – “Know thyself!”

And this simple yet profound statement lived centuries and survived this cruel world to sustain and live till today. My understanding of life and humans has made me reach to this conclusion that wealth is tempting but it is not the ultimate desire of any living being. The most precious thing with every individual is this life. If one is alive then only there are possibilities for every Individual to have wealth but once if you die, whole world’s wealth cannot make you alive.

Realistically If we think, almost everybody knows this but only few apply this to day today living. My idea to jot all this down is just to spark that thought of questioning inside every human being who will read this story that respect your life!! Start knowing yourself. Desires are never ending and they will come and go but life is one. Take care of it and lead with an example else many have come many have gone but only few are remembered for good.

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