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46. Listen to Heart – Working for High Tolerance is Working for Zero Tolerance….
Today again the topic of Tolerance reminds of two seminars which I had attended on ‘Working for Achieving Tolerance’. One taught me that having tolerance is good. One should increase his tolerance. The other taught me to focus towards zero tolerance. Working with higher tolerance is bad. One should work towards reducing the tolerance of working process. One advised me to focus to increase the range of tolerance and other advised me to focus to decrease the tolerance. Both are contracting sentences. We need to understand tolerance. Both teaches us to focus and work towards achieving the target. One talks about increasing the range and other talks about reducing the range.
Tolerance is the word derived from endurance and fortitude. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word was first used to describe having permission from authorities in the 1530s. Tolerance is an attitude of a person. One should permit others to share his opinion. One should respect others. One should respect other’s religion, cast, race, nationality, sex, behavior and so on. We all are in the form human being representing a soul, mind and intellect. One should give space to others as one; himself looks and find space for himself. By giving space to other one shows his big heart. He gains respect. He becomes a bigger man than what he was earlier. Having tolerance and being tolerant is being positive and motivated and being encouraged with positive vibrations and in positive energy. Tolerance is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating i.e., of allowing or permitting only if one is in a position to disallow." It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to nourish, sustain or preserve." Toleration may signify "no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful."
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from within and it can only happen if you are tolerance and patient.
In effect tolerance involves putting up with something we consider wrong or displeasing but not so wrong that we must move to constrain it. Tolerance is a good and necessary thing. But, like most good things, it has its limits. As a good thing, tolerance is essential in an imperfect world. Without tolerance we might go to war over simple human imperfections. We all have friends and family members who are people we like but, as with every human person, they also have annoying or less desirable traits. Without tolerance we would be locked in a power struggle and a fruitless battle to make each person perfect to us. As it is, we tolerate less desirable aspects of people for higher goods such as harmony, friendship, respect, mercy, kindness and the like. However, there are limits to tolerance. So, toleration is a good and necessary thing but it has its limits.
The Rigveda says Ekam Sath Viprah Bahudha Vadanti which translates to "The truth is one, but sages call it by different Names". Consistent with this tradition, India chose to be a secular country even though it was divided partitioning on religious lines. Traditionally, Hindus showed their intolerance by withdrawing and avoiding contact with those whom they held in contempt, instead of using violence and aggression to strike fear in their hearts. Hinduism is perhaps the only religion in the world which showed remarkable tolerance towards other religions in difficult times and under testing conditions.
Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed. The tolerance level started diminishing and the confidence started moving in negative. Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.
Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.
Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?” “Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer”, he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft.
He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.
Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
· “Children are not vessels to be filled in but candles to be lit. So are the Parents. So are we all.” – Dan Milman
In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how you choose to react to it and what you make out of it. In fact one should try to focus on action rather than reaction. Action is pro-active and is positive in nature with positive energy and positive vibration. The reaction is re-active in nature with negative energy and negative vibration. Life is all about leaning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we experience into something positive. All this can be practiced if we have tolerance i.e. the capacity to digest. By increasing the level of tolerance we make ourselves prepared to face the world with love as he gains flexibility within himself. We can say that Tolerance teaches us to have a widespread of mindset and we should work with high range of tolerance band width.
· “Mind is never a problem, it is the mindset….”
Engineering Tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation. Dimensions, properties, or conditions may vary within certain practical limits without significantly affecting functioning of equipment or a process. Tolerances are specified to allow reasonable leeway for imperfections and inherent variability without compromising performance.
A variation beyond the tolerance (for example, a temperature that's too hot or too cold) is said to be non-compliant, rejected, or exceeding the tolerance (regardless of if this breach was of the lower or the upper bound). If the tolerance is set too restrictive, resulting in most objects run by it being rejected, it is said to be intolerant.
With shorter product life cycles, faster time to market, and tighter cost pressures, the characteristics that differentiate a product from its competitors are now down in the details of a design. Engineers are going to the next order of resolution in order to improve cycle time and quality and to reduce costs. They are looking more closely at why they did not get the exact part and assembly dimensions they expected from manufacturing and then are attempting to optimize the tolerances on the next version of the product. Tolerance optimization during design has a positive impact on the yields coming out of manufacturing, and better yields directly affect product cost and quality. Analyzing tolerances and variations before trying to produce a product also helps engineers avoid time-consuming iterations late in the design cycle.
In order to produce good products and at optimum cost and time we need to reduce the tolerance width in fact try to focus to the target. We are able to achieve the target then we can say that we are working with Zero tolerance. We can say that Tolerance teaches us to have a minimum spread of working area and we should work with minimum range of tolerance band width.
Krishna teaches Arjuna that in order to perform his duty he has to learn to tolerate. The most quoted mandate to tolerate comes in the Gita, which urges us to tolerate life's pleasures and pains just as we tolerate the heat and the cold. The joy and happiness are part of life. Nothing in this world is permanent in nature. It keeps on changing. There is climatic change continuously, but we all are supposed to perform our duty. In spite of climatic inconvenience we execute our duty as son, student, adult, father and so on. Similarly, to fight is the religious principle of the Khashtriya, and although one has to fight with some friend or relative, one should not deviate from his prescribed duty. One has to follow the prescribed rules and regulations of religious principles in order to rise up to the platform of knowledge, because by knowledge and devotion only can one liberate himself from the clutches of Maya (illusion). The more we connect with Krishna, the more we become internally purified and illuminated, thereby gradually recognizing our eternal essence as souls. Thus, tolerance paves the path and devotional service moves us along the path. So, tolerance is not about passively accepting whatever life dishes out to us, but about persistently refusing to let those dishes distract us and persevering in the primary purpose of our life.
All Glories to Lord Krishna & All His Loving Devotees….. Hari Bol……
Courtesy: Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ) , Srimad Bhagavad-Gita ( by A. Parthasarathy & www.gitadaily.com ) Chapter 2 : Text 14, www.google.com, Wikipedia. www.krishna.com, www.krishna.org, en.wikipedia.or, blog.adw.org/2012/03/coming-to-a-truer-understanding-of-tolerance
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