Gaur Gopal Das is an Electrical Engineer, having studied at the College Of Engineering, Pune. He has been speaking at various prestigious academic institutions and corporate firms in India and abroad for over 2 decades and has even spoken at the United Nations & British Parliament. He has spoken at many charity events to raise funds for social initiatives in the field of education and rural development. His motivational videos are viral having reached around 1 Billion views. With over 13 million followers across all social media platforms, he is known as the urban, online monk.
He has been the recipient of several awards including the most prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival award, Lokmat’s most stylish international life coach award, an Honorary Doctorate by KIIT university and many more in recognition of the work he has been doing. Based on the timeless wisdom coming down from ages, his talks make the audience think deeper and find simple solutions to difficult problems.
Have any of you ever had, while taking soup or Indian dal, coriander leaves, basil leaves
stuck in your tooth?
I can see some of you nodding your heads.
Have any of you ever had barbecued corns, some of those fibers stuck in your tooth?
Have any of you ever had mango fiber, while eating mangoes, stuck in your tooth?
Have any of you ever had the tail of a fennel seed stuck in your tooth?
I can see a couple of you nodding there.
It's quite amazing, isn't it?
But when something's stuck in our tooth, the tongue just keeps going to that tooth, until
unless that stuff is out of our tooth, it just keeps going there.
Now, there's 31 other teeth in our mouth, when nothing's stuck, the tongue can go there
and say, hey, wow, look, there's nothing stuck here.
Go to one or the other tooth where there's nothing stuck and say, hey, look, amazing,
there's nothing stuck here.
But just the nature of the tongue, that it keeps going to where something is stuck.
And surely, we have to deal with it.
Whenever I travel in my handbag, I always have dental floss and a box of toothpicks
with me, just in case something is stuck, I have to take it out.
Certainly, we have to deal with it.
At the same time, there's a lot of other good things that we can focus on.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's not just the nature of the tongue, isn't it the nature of the
mind as well?
When there is a problem, an issue stuck in a certain area of our life, the mind keeps
going to that problem and just get stuck into the negativity of trying to deal with it.
But there's 31 or shall I say many, many more good things happening in so many different
areas of our life, but there's no problems, no issues stuck, yet the mind only keeps
going to those areas where there are problems.
It is necessary, therefore, for all of us that we focus on the good that is happening
in our life and deal with the bad or the problems that are happening in our life.
Let us not consume our minds with negativity.
Let us consume our minds with positivity.
Focus on the positive and deal with the negative.
I remember when I was in school, we were taught a Christian psalm, count your many blessings
and name them one by one.
It shall surprise you what the Lord has done.
There's so many good things we've been blessed with.
Let's be grateful and therefore I say gratitude is the attitude which gives us the fortitude
to deal with the toughest challenges in our lives.
Thank you.
