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Fearless Indian

By

Jakka Pradeep

EDUCREATION PUBLISHING (Since 2011)

www.educreation.in


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Dedicated to…

This book is dedicated to the whole team of the short

film „RAAH‟ for their outstanding performance.


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Acknowledgements

Thanks to My Research Supervisor, G. Babu Rao sir,

and professors of Sri Venkateshwara University, Dr. K.

Srikanth Reddy sir, Dr. D. Jamauna Madam, and Dr. K.

Chandraiah sir for all their encouragement in writing this

book. Thanks to My father J. Venkata Swamy and

mother J. Radhika, my elder brother Pavan Jakka and

chairman of Rastriya Seva Samithi (RASS), G. Muni

Ratnam Naidu, Dr. K. Kishore Kumar and Family

Counselor in RASS K. Nagamani madam for their

support. Thanks to my uncle G. Anantha Sayanam,

Yarram Reddy, Dr. N.B. Sudhakar Reddy, Keerthana

Mathuku for giving Inspiration to write this book. P


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My Declaration to

Become a Fearless Indian

“Life is Tough. Tough times never last. But enduring tough

times is Fearlessness. Hence I am deciding to face the

adversities of life with fearlessness and break the obstacles

that life throws at me. I am powerful and confident enough to

shake the roots of suffering and overcome the barriers of

misery. I believe in me and I dare to exercise the power of

choice. I can master my mind to become a fearless Indian. I

will always work on my mind and I will strengthen the habit of

fearless living. I always dream big and I have the courage to

face failure in life. Sky is not the limit for me. I always aim for

stars. It doesn‟t matter even I fail, because I am a lifelong

learner interested to create a page in the world history. I am a

hero. I am an achiever and I am a fearless Indian.”

- Author

“Dare to be free. Dare to go as far as your thought

leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.”

- Swami Vivekananda

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Words of

Fearless Indian

“When my life is tough,

Don‟t say „Why me…?‟

But always say „Try me…?‟

“Even if I lose everything in life,

One thing remains always…

That is my future.”

“Lacks of miseries may attack me…

Let the whole world leave me…

Let miseries sink me…

Even the God of death may stand before me…

I am a warrior!

And

I am a fearless Indian!”

“Seas without tides don‟t

make an efficient navigator.


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Men without problems are unable to

improve the skills of life.

Problems always reveal ability.”

“Genius has the capacity to bear infinite pains.”

P


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Invitation to live a

Fearless Life

“With fear, growth in life is not possible.

Without fear, goals in life can be achieved.

With fear, life will become lifeless.

Without fear, all the suffering in life disappears.

With fear, life is a net catching the moments of

suffering.

Without fear, life is an art of bliss.

Fear is bondage.

Fearlessness is enlightenment.

To succeed in life, practice fearlessness.

Great life is possible without fear and this is an

invitation to everyone.”

- Author

“They only live who dare.”

- Lewis Morris P


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Dare to be…

When a day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness,

Dare to be the first in shine.

When there is injustice,

Dare to be the first to condemn it.

When something seems difficult,

Dare to do it anyway.

When life seems to beat you down

Dare to fight back.

When there seems to be no hope,

Dare to find someone.

When you are feeling tired,

Dare to keep moving.

When times are tough

Dare to be tougher.

When love hurts you,

Dare to love again.

When someone is Hurting,

Dare to help them find a way.

When a friend falls,


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Dare to be the first to extend a hand.

When you cross paths with another,

Dare to a make them smile.

When you feel great dare to

Help someone else feel great to.

When the day has ended,

Dare to feel as you‟ve done your best.

Dare to be best you can.”

- Steve Maraboli

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Preface

Personally, I love young minds. But increase of stress in

our educational system, fear in students is also

increasing. Stress of students starts from 9th class,

increases in intermediate and continues till graduation.

Parents, teachers, and college management are making

students as Reading machines.

In pursuit of academics, many students are

neglecting to develop innovative ideas, communication

skills, commonsense, physical fitness and most

importantly life skills. But they have good text book

knowledge, which is not saving them from problems and

fears facing in their life. Unable to solve their conflicts,

they are disturbing mentally.

Among all the countries of the world America,

China and India will be the future leaders. But India has

more youth population when compared to America and

China. In India, one individual among five people is in

between the age group of 15 -24. 66 percent of the total

population is below the age group of 35. In reference to

the 2011 censes, 46.4 crores of population is in between

the age group of 15 and 34. It is expected that, in 2020,

the average age of an Indian will be 29 years. Due to this

enormous increase in young population, yearly, labor

force rises by eight percent and Gross Domestic Product

(GDP) will hike by two percent. The age of average

Indian is 25.2 percent. In china, the average age is 34.5

percent. The national median age of America was 37.8

years in 2015.

But I am worried about the suicide incidents

taking place in my country. VJ Niroshi, a video Jakee,


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Prathusha Benerjee, a Television Actress, Shika Joshi, a

model, Sai Prasanth, a Kollywood Actor and a Choreo

Grapher, Bharath committed suicides recently.

According to our Central Minister Ahir Hansraj

Gangaram, yearly 1.30 lacks of people are committing

suicide. It includes more than eight thousand students.

Nearly four lacks of people committed suicides in

between the years 2012 – 14. In them, men committed

suicides are 2.68 lacks in number and 1.33 lacks are

women.

These statistics are indicating the increase of

fear in my country. People are neglecting Life Skills and

they are competing for IIT and Medical Ranks, chasing

money and eventually failing in their life.

This book is a small attempt to empower Indians

and I am encouraging them to live a Fearless Life. Even

though the principles written in the book are universal,

as an Indian I emphasize the people of India to live a

Fearless life.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s

courage.”

- Anais Nin


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Encouragement to Students is Essential

My Teacher who taught Social Studies to us in seventh

class Mr. Vivekananda sir, in Andhra Pradesh never

expected to cry at a parent – teacher conference. That

was before a pre final exam, when one father came to

talk to our sir about why his son had missed so much

class: Our student had attempted to commit suicide, and

had been hospitalized since the incident.

His son is a friendly, intelligent, handsome, young

boy – not only planned to commit suicide, but also

written goodbye letters.

Vivekananda sir felt helpless by the news, so he

asked the father if he would deliver a handwritten note to

his student at the hospital. Vivekananda sir letter praised

his student for his academic accomplishments and

dynamic personality, and told him how much he missed

in class.

Our student got the letter; his father said that his son

cried, turned to him and said, ‘How could somebody say

such a nice things about me? I didn’t think anybody

would miss me if I was gone,’ Vivekananda sir told in

the parent – teacher conference.


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“A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to

last. The same principle applies to man; otherwise he

too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes

swallowed up by the world of illusion.”

- Sai Baba

The purpose of this book is not only to support young

minds of India who are psychologically disturbed, but

also to students having fears about their exams,

interviews, and group discussions. This book is also

useful to adults, elderly men and women and to everyone

having a lot of fears. This book is a counseling manual

to live a life without fear. I have a firm belief that after

reading this book your fear will decrease. The way of

expression and examples written in this book give you

inspiration to live a fearless life.

This book is useful to everyone. You can gift

this book to your friends, relatives, and people who have

many fears and try to build a fearless India. And make

others to live a fearless life too…

“What is needed, rather than running away or

controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is

understanding fear; that means watch it, learn about it,

come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about

fear not to escape from it.”

- Jiddu Krishnamurthy P


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About The Author

As a Psychiatric Patient Jakka Pradeep

is now pursuing Doctorate degree in

the subject of psychology from Sri Ve

nkateshwara University and he was

qualified for the post of Assistant

Professor in National Eligibility Test

(NET) in the subject of Psychology.

He emphasize that Depression is not

final, Delusion is not fatal and Obsessive Compulsive

Disorder (OCD) is not an obstacle. Psychiatric disorders

do not define you. You are stronger than what life

throws at you. You are unstoppable and you can excel in

your career like him. He is the author of two books

published by victory publishers in Telugu language. The

titles of the books are "Jeevana Parishkaralu" and "Ee

kshanam Dhyanam" achieved a good success in Andhra

Pradesh in India. And he is the author of an English

book 'Are You a Zero?' published by Educreation

publishing. He believes that life is a learning process and

your problem becomes a blessing if you have courage to

endure it. He did it and you can also..

M.Sc(Psychology);M.B.A ;P.G.D.G.C;SET;NET;(Ph.D)

Research Scholar,

Department of Psychology,

Sri Venkateshwara University,Tirupati,

Andhra Pradesh,India.

Mobile: 9703519119

Email: [email protected]


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Table of Contents

S.No. Content List Page No.

1. How I Won Fear of Exams 1

2. Humble request to Parents 7

3. Humble Request to Every Man 11

4. Be Proud to be an Indian 23

5. Be a Hero 26

6. Poems for Inspiration 32

7. War with My Thoughts 37

8. Attack the Fear 42

9. Take Charge of Your Life 47

10. Humour Cure for Fear 56

11. Fear is an Illusion 61

12. You Are a Fire 64

13. You Are Strong 66

14. Life is Beautiful 71

15. Love or Fear: Choice Is Yours 74

16. ‘Is it Possible...?’ 75

17. Marvelous Miracles of Meditation 78

18. Lessons for Growth in Life 84

19. Courage is like a Fire 86


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How I won Fear of Exams?

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“INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and

when you are truly interested in what you are doing or

about to do, then you will center your attention on it

with little or no effort and almost irrespective of

attendant conditions.”

- Ralph Alfred Habas

In 2004, I have completed intermediate with a good

score of 79.6%. But due to health problem I couldn’t

continue my engineering. Twice I became a drop out in

the pursuit of engineering.

“Though no one can go back and make a brand – new

start, anyone can start from now and make a brand –

new ending.”

- Carl Bard

Later from, Sri Venkataswera University, through

Directorate of Distance Education (DDE), I have

completed Bachelor of Arts (B.A) with 42.5% of marks.


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In degree my core subjects are History, Political science

and Public Administration. But, with interest in the

subject of psychology, I have joined M.Sc (Psychology).

In first year, I had failed in three subjects.

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the

seeds of success.”

- Paramahamsa Yogananda

Later I learnt Kriya Yoga Meditation in 2010 with the

help of my uncle Narasimhulu. With the practice of

meditation, my health condition improved. In second

year I wrote all the exams including my backlogs. I had

written four theory exams, two practical exams from 2nd

year and 3 backlog subjects in the first year. I had passed

with 55.25% in October 2010.

In 2011, I have completed my M.B.A with the

cooperation of my brother. I got A grade in M.B.A.

Later in 2012, November, I have joined as academic

consultant in Yogi Vemana University, in Kadapa. I

have attended interview for three times and finally I got

the job.

“Never stop trying.

Never stop believing.

Never give up.

Your day will come.”

- Mandy Hale

After started working as an academic consultant in

Kadapa, I came to know about National Eligibility Test

(NET) and State Eligibility Test (SET) for the first time.

Even though a student of Distance Education I wanted to

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“I am not the product of my circumstances. I am a

product of my decision.”

- Stephen Covey

Up to now I don’t have command on the subject of

psychology.

Ultimately, after a lot of hard work with

concentration, I have qualified for the NET exam in the

5th attempt. The exam conducted in the year 2014,

December 28 I have qualified for the NET and I got

qualified in the SET exam conducted in the year,

February 15, 2015.

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win

it.”

- Margaret Thatcher

But I have attended all the exams up to June 29, 2014 for

NET with a lot of unbelief in myself.

“The fearful unbelief is unbelief in you.”

- Thomas Carlyle

While answering the first question itself in paper 1, I

faced a lot of fear about the results. Many fearful

thoughts entered in to my mind, such as ‘This is a very

difficult exam. I could not qualify in this.’

“The duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of

it, he cannot act till then.”

- Thomas Carlyle

But after getting seat in Ph.D in January 2014, I came

back to Tirupati. I have joined as a Research Scholar in

the Department of Psychology from Sri Venkataswera

University. From there onwards, I habituated to walk

regularly in the mornings and practiced autosuggestions

such as ‘I am all powerful. I am fearless. What lies

within me is greater than what lies before me and what

lies behind me.’


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“The earth is enjoyed by Hero’s. So be a hero. Always

say I have no fear.”

- Swami Vivekananda

Regular practice of walking, autosuggestions and doing

Kriya Yoga had shown a lot of positive effect. This

habits increased confidence and courage in me. And

helped me to face the exams with courage and I had

ultimately got qualified in both the prestigious exams for

the post of Assistant Professor and lecturer in India.

“Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself

from negativity.”

- Unknown

My age is now 29, and I have successfully passed in

M.B.A, M.Sc (Psychology), P.G.Diploma in Guidance

and counseling, NET and SET. As a distance education

student I had a lot of fear about my future.

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear,

and oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of

unknown.”

- H.P. Lovecraft

But now I am more relaxed living a fearless life.

“Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water

twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass

again. Enjoy every moment.”

- Unknown

The reasons for my educational success are:

“What is success? I think it a mixture of having a flair

for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not

enough, that you have got to have hard work and a

certain sense of purpose.”

- Margaret Thatcher


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1) Improving confidence.

2) Preparing for my exams with interest.

3) Implementation of Kriya Yoga meditation, Walking,

and Autosuggestions. With all these I am

successful, happy and fearless.

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and

important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride,

self – esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

- Margaret Thatcher

I am not saying that I have achieved everything. But as a

citizen of India, it is my responsibility to boost the

courage of the students and help them pass in their

exams too. While I am studying B.A all my friends are

engineering students. Now I am becoming doctor in the

subject of psychology and I am respected by all of them.

“Never let a bad situation bring out the worst in you.

Choose to stay positive and be the strong person that

god created you to be.”

- Unknown

Many people around me thought that I even could not

pass my graduation.

But after getting seat in Ph.D all people who had

criticized earlier appreciated me.

“An entire sea of water cannot sink a ship, unless it

gets inside the ship. Similarly the negativity of the

world cannot put you down, unless you allow it to get

inside.”

- Goi Nasu

These are the situations I have faced in my life. If you

are inspired by my life experience, try to live a fearless

life because fear is an imaginary idea. So don’t imagine

negatively about your future. Everything is temporary.

World is very wide and you are capable of achieving

many things.


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“First believe in the world – that there is meaning

behind everything.”

- Vivekananda

So don’t fear failure. Work with involvement. Try and

try until you succeed. You are lucky when compared

with most of the people. You can live a fearless life.

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Humble Request to Parents

An Inspiring Story

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Surya and Shanthi are both engineering graduates

working at MNC‟s. One day, when Surya entered the

home, his son Satya was in tears. His mom Shanthi was

shouting at him, “What is „Newton Law of Motion?‟

Satya, I taught you many times, you‟re still unable to

remember this. But you are able to recall all cartoon

stories.”

Satya wanted to see his mother happy. He wanted to

improve. But he did not know how to see his mother

happy. He was crying.

When, he was in younger class, he used to win many

prizes in different competitions. Surya and Shanthi were

very happy. As he grew up, Satya found it difficult to

grasp many things, his fellow students could do. Shanthi

thought that he was sick. They met doctors,

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no difference. Tonight, his father, Surya came early from

the office. He will rescue him.

Soon as his father, freshened up, he kissed Satya and

said “Go and Play.” Satya said, “I didn‟t complete my

homework!” His father replied, “I will do it. Don‟t

worry. Enjoy the evening.”

Satya went to play with his friends. Shanthi was very

upset. She retorted angrily, “I took a career break of five

years, to take care of Satya. Now, I joined in office again

from junior level, where as all my friends have moved to

senior level. What is the point you want to prove? You

love him more than me. You have never attended the

parent teachers meeting. I have to listen from teachers,

and I need to face the other parents. You just don‟t need

to face anything.”

Surya kept quiet for a while and said, “Shanthi, do

you think, by shouting at him, things will improve. You

thought, he may have some memory and concentration

problems, but psychologist proved there is nothing like

that. All children are different. He will improve.”

Shanthi replied back, “But I am always teaching him,

each and everything. I am spending so much time with

him. I am not expecting him to get first prize in

everything, but at least he shouldn‟t be dull. Now he is in

4th standard and he is not sure about 7*8. I am so

scared. How his life will be. I put in so much hard work

on him, still why he not getting marks?”

Shanthi didn‟t understand is the fact that Satya is the

best child. She always wanted the best.

One day Satya grandfather Somanath came to visit

them. He has settled in his village. He occasionally visits

and stays in their house for few days.

He was playing with his grandson Satya and

commented to Shanthi, “Satya is a very good boy.” For

which Shanthi replied in a dull voice. “Hmmmm.” He


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sensed something wrong. In the night, after Satya went

to sleep, Somanath asked Shanthi, “What happened.

Why are you so worried about Satya?” Shanthi shared

all her worries with him. They went to the small garden

which Shanthi maintains in her balcony, and the

experienced grandfather said, “I observe you have a

beautiful garden. How do you maintain them?” Shanthi

replied happily, “I take personal care.” “Then why is

this Money plant longer than others. And why is this

Aloe Vera plant shorter than others. Is it a new plant?”

Shanthi whispered, “No, I take care of them. Few

plants grow faster and few take time.” Then grandfather

asked “What do you do then? Do you tell the shorter

plant daily, grow up, look at the other plants, otherwise

your life would be of no use or you nurture them slowly

that it takes time in growing and still love them.”

Shanthi realized her mistake. The experienced

grandfather said, “Few children learn by looking, few

by hearing, few by explaining, few understand things by

doing activities and few learn by practically doing the

things again and again. A mother or teacher should try

to teach in the child‟s best learning language and teach

accordingly. You can‟t think your child is dull. Each and

every child is unique and special. If you nurture him

now, it is good for both of you. If he accepts, he is dull

and turn to be a loser, what will you do?”

Shanthi kept quiet deep in her thoughts…


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Morals of the story:

1. Don’t compare your child with other students.

2. Every child is unique and different.

3. As a parent, build self esteem and confidence in

the child.

4. Be patient with your child’s growth. Trust him.

Encourage him. Guide him.

5. Do not put pressure on your child. Maturity

takes time. For some children soon and for

some children slow.

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