Remembering our Gurus

[Anil Kumar Pugalia]

Dear Friends,

It is past Teachers' Day. But remembering our Gurus is never late. To start with, our parents have been our Gurus to walk us through our life, then our school and college teachers, friends and foes for many important tough life lessons, and then the environment in general is one of our greatest teachers. Last but not least, one must have a spiritual Guru to teach us the truth of our life, making us capable to face any challenge in our life.

Wish you a happy and healthy Teachers' Month.

We continue to defer our classroom-based weekend workshops as of now.

Alternatively, enjoy your home stay and enrich it by attending our online sessions.

For the complete list of the online trainings, check out the "Online Schedules" section below.

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Readers' Corner

+ Naturally Recursive Trees: A tree is one of the many data structures, which is naturally recursive ... which has zero or more (sub)trees hanging from it ... subtrees give the natural recursion of lower order ... all the operations on a tree, starting from creation, can be done recursively ... Read More of this 8th article on logic to get the recursive logic for "Binary Search Trees".

For the collection of all our past articles on Linux Drivers, Maths, Linux Kernel Internals, DIY Electronics, Philosophy, Linux tidbits, and Logic, visit Articles on our website.

Workshop Schedules

+ All Weekend Workshops has been deferred, as of now. Check the Online Schedules below.

Online Schedules

+ Baremetal Programming live on BeagleBone Black, this month: (House Full)
    > Ongoing since 3rd September '20: Baremetal Programming using Embedded C online training by Pugs. See Details.

+ Dive into Linux Kernel Internals live in October '20: (Last few Left)
    > Starting 6th October '20: Linux Kernel Internals online training by Pradeep. See Details.

+ Design a File System live in November '20:
    > Starting 4th November '20: Design a File System online training by Pugs. See Details.

+ Explore Linux I2C Driver live in November '20:
    > Starting 7th November '20: Linux I2C Driver online training by Pradeep. See Details.

Extras

+ Answer to previous month's riddles:

1. Fence.
2. Not possible with any finite speed.

+ Riddles

1. What has a bottom at the top?
2. Diophantus' youth lasted 1/6 of his life. He had his first beard in the next 1/12 of his life. At the end of the following 1/7 of his life, Diophantus got married. Five years from then his son was born. His son lived exactly 1/2 of Diophantus' life. Diophantus died 4 years after the death of his son. How long did Diophantus live?

If you think you have the clues, shoot back a reply.

+ Eight Clues to Happiness by Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh at his best. The rationale applied to each preference is absolutely top class.

Having lived a reasonably contented life, I was musing over what a person should strive for to achieve happiness. I drew up a list of a few essentials which I put forward for the readers' appraisal.

1. First and foremost is GOOD HEALTH. If you do not enjoy good health you can never be happy. Any ailment, however trivial, will deduct from your happiness.
2. Second, A HEALTHY BANK BALANCE. It need not run into crores but should be enough to provide for creature comforts and something to spare for recreation, like eating out, going to the pictures, travelling or going on holidays on the hills or by the sea. Shortage of money can be only demoralizing. Living on credit or borrowing is demeaning and lowers one in one's own eyes.
3. Third, A HOME OF YOUR OWN. Rented premises can never give you the snug feeling of a nest which is yours for keeps that a home provides: if it has a garden space, all the better. Plant your own trees and flowers, see them grow and blossom, cultivate a sense of kinship with them.
4. Fourth, AN UNDERSTANDING COMPANION, be it your spouse or a friend. If there are too many misunderstandings, they will rob you of your peace of mind. It is better to be divorced than to bicker all the time.
5. Fifth, LACK OF ENVY towards those who have done better than you in life; risen higher, made more money, or earned more fame. Envy can be very corroding; avoid comparing yourself with others.
6. Sixth, DO NOT ALLOW OTHER PEOPLE to descend on you for gup-shup. By the time you get rid of them, you will feel exhausted and poisoned by their gossip-mongering.
7. Seventh, CULTIVATE SOME HOBBIES which can bring you a sense of fulfilment, such as gardening, reading, writing, painting, playing or listening to music. Going to clubs or parties to get free drinks or to meet celebrities is criminal waste of time.
8. Eighth, every morning and evening, devote 15 minutes to INTROSPECTION. In the morning, 10 minutes should be spent on stilling the mind and then five in listing things you have to do that day. In the evening, five minutes to still the mind again, and ten to go over what you had undertaken to do.

RICHNESS is not Earning More, Spending More Or Saving More, but "RICHNESS IS WHEN YOU NEED NO MORE". Note:
+ Registration & Fees details for the workshops are available from the Register Page.
+ Upto 10% of (Non-Corporate) Group Discount is applicable for 3 or more participants registering together. T & C apply.

May our Gurus bless us,
Anil

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