SELF-FAITH DRIVING FORCE OF LIFE Madam Toastmaster, enlightened fellow members & distinguished guests : Recently Times Magazine

e declared Mahatma Gandhi as the greatest leader in world history till now. Highlighting the importance of self-faith; in one of his speeches he thundered: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. We are the children of God; the sharer of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. We see divinities in greedy and power hungry people. It is a sin to call them so. It is a standing libel on human nature. Come up O lions and shake off the delusion that you are sheep. You are not servant of matter; but matter is your servant. Old timers said that he is an atheist; who does not believe in God. The new thinking says that he is an atheist; who does not believe in himself. If you have faith in more than 33 million Gods worshipped world over and still does not have faith on you; then there is no salvation for you. I will share a beautiful humorous story with all of you to clarify this point. A man and a parrot were traveling together in a plane. While talking to each other; man start copying the parrot. Due to lot of noise; both were thrown out of the plane. In open sky; parrot asked the man are you still enjoying. The moral of the story is We are born original, why to end a copy. For any individual the most powerful brand is himself. To succeed, we must have tremendous perseverance and will power. I will drink the the ocean says the persevering soul. At my will mountains will crumble up have that sort of energy. Work hard and we will reach the goal Faith is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity. Weakness is constant strain and misery. Doing is very good; but that comes from thinking. Let positive, strong thoughts be in us from the very childhood. If there is one word bursting like a bombshell on the masses of ignorance it is fearlessness. What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. Fill the brain with highest thoughts and ideals and out of that will come the great work like Mozart or Beethovens Symphony or Michel Jacksons Thriller. Look yourself from the state of an amoeba to the human being. Who made all that. Your own will. A pure and strong will is omnipotent; because it comes directly from God. In world history heights achieved and kept by all great men and women were not obtained by sudden flight. They had faith in themselves and toiled day and night upwards; while others were sleeping. Have self faith. Dial the divinity within. You can do anything.