Sunday, 5 August 2012

The Journey and not Just The Destination

After a long time, I am posting a new one.

Well, what I am going to type is a natural outcome of what I spoke to students of class XII of Sri Sathya Sai Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Thiruvottiyur, Chennai where I am pursuing my Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vahini Fellowship program. I told the students the importance of closely observing what you think, talk and do every moment of your life which they need to objectively assess whether it takes them towards their goal. The key to success in life lies in having a well orchestrated series of activities that fall in line in facilitating one to achieve his or her goal.

As mentioned in my first post itself I have a goal of being an IAS officer. I could not even qualify the Prelims in the year 2012. this setback has made me only more positive to face the exam next year and give the best to the exam by which I can realize my goal.

As you ponder over the title of this post you would stumble up on the fact that every bit of your journey is important to reach the destination. In fact the whole of your journey is as important as it decides whether you reach your destination.

I believe in one thing personally. whatever experience i have gathered till now would be of paramount use to someone who does not have that much experience itself. This only means that at any point in time each one of us can serve others who do not have even what we are blessed with. this is brought out beautifully in Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vahini in which I am a privileged Fellowship member. I strictly followed this thought of helping others all the time with whatever has been conferred up on you during my University days in Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning where I used to teach my classmates, juniors who were having some trouble in thier academics. With this practice I realized that I not only help them score better marks, but also improve my conceptual depth and clarity of the subject that I taught them- be it Applied Statistics, Finance, Calculus, Real Analysis, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra or Macro Economics.

I shall hence forth express my views and on actions regarding what I do all through this year to gear up for the Civil Services Examination in 2013. in subsequent blogs, I shall elaborate on:

  • The attitude the aspirants need to adopt to prepare for this challenging career  
  • The spirit of the Civil Services
  • The role of a civil servant in the development of the nation
  • Learning about learning
  • Importance of all round well being
  • Role of Hobbies
  • The importance of daily routine and discipline- Purity, Perseverance and Patience
  • The way I chose my optional subjects for my mains
  • The role of practice tests and mock exams
  • The civil servants' perspective of looking at the world in general in general  and society in particular  
  • Work on your opportunities and achieve your goal.                     
At this point of time, let me thank all those friends of mine who gave me a wonderful opportunity to teach them.This valuable experience of mine during my university days leads me to an important point about the attitude that I as a Civil Service aspirant need to adopt during my preparation which would be my first post that I believe would be inspiring and insightful for readers of this post.


On 6th August 2012, I shall be completing my 22 years of existence on this glorious planet Earth and on this sacred land Bharath. From 6th August 2012, I shall begin posting on important topics mentioned above that would be relevant for Civil Services aspirants. On my 22nd Birthday i shall begin with this topic "The Attitude that aspirants keen to join the civil Services must possess."


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