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Abul pakir jainul abedeen abdul kalam, better
known as a.p.j abdul kalam, who was the 11th

president of india, was born on 15th October,
1931 in a poor tamil muslim family in rameswaram.

From teen age he had to fight with poverty
for his family and his own education.

His career life started by selling newspaper.

He was admitted in tiruchiraplly sent josef
college and also was graduated from there.

He was very heedful in studies from childhood
but after graduation he lost interest in physics

and he deeply regreted for it for the next
4 years.

After this listening to his inner voice he
decided to do engineering course.

In 1995 his name appeared in the merit list
of madras institute of technology but the

fees for admission was one thousand rupees.

Then he had not that much money.

But his mother and sister arranged that money
by selling their gold jewellery and apj abdul

kalam was admitted in engineering.

His interest in studies increased after seeing
the faith of his family members in his studies.

After noticing his deep interest in some projects
in college, a professor gave him the responsibility

for a senior class project.

But after noticing no progress in that work
his professor told him "complete it within

3 days or your scholarship will be taken back".

At last kalam successfully finished that project
and also made his professor happy.

After this a new chapter started in his life.

He got chances to work in air force and as
a directorate of technical development production

in defence.

He decided to try for boths.

He got interview calls from dehradun for air
force and form Delhi for defence.

After staying in Delhi for 1 week he gave
interview for defence and then he came to

dehradun for air force interview.

There he stood 9th out of 25 people.

But first 8 candidates were selected.

And so he lost his opportunity to become a
fighter pilot.

He became so depressed as he was unable to
make his dream come true.

After this he went to hrishikesh and there
he met with swami shivananda and expressed

to him about his dreams, wishes, depression,
and grief.

After listening everything swamiji told him,
"Desire, when it stems from the heart and

spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses
awesome electromagnetic energy.

This energy is released into the ether each
night, as the mind falls into the sleep state.

Each morning it returns to the conscious state
reinforced with the cosmic currents.

That which has been imaged will surely and
certainly be manifested".

After this he went to delhi and started to
work as a senior scientist in Indian defence

Ministry.

Then he was transferred to indian space research
organisation ISRO in 1969 and started to work

as the head of the project of making a satellite
named slv iii.

But in 1979 when the slv iii was sent to space,
it crashed just after 317 seconds.

And for that abdul kalam had to face a critical
time.

He was very depressed then and became very
weak mentally.

After this in a press conference when abdul
kalam was asked about the failure of the satellite

mission, professor satis dhawan took the microphone
from him and answered all the questions from

the media.

He said, "these are very complicated missions,
we will have to find the fault on our own

and we will have to correct it and will keep
an eye on this so that this incident does

not repeat in future".

He also said, "I have full confidence that
we will be able to send another satellite

in one year".

In later years when kalam was preparing to
construct a new satellite, a lot of people

were making him remember about the failure
of the slv iii.

But he kept Faith in himself and focused only
on his own work.

On 18th july 1980 rohini satellite was launched
and it became successful to reach the orbit.

It took kalam to the peak of success.

He wanted to work in many projects after this
but those were rejected by the cabinet.

In 1998 he did some successful research in
atomic science.

At that time, president atol bihari vajpai
wanted to give him his Ministerial post but

kalam rejected that.

But in future he was honoured by becoming
the 11th president of india.

As a president he was honoured as well as
criticised.

He first advised to ban iftar party in rastrapati
bhaban.

Later when the reason became claer it was
that approximately 22lakh rupees have been

spent for the Iftar party every year in Rastrapati
Bhawan.

So he ordered the money should be sent for
the welfare of orphanages to bought them food

dress and blankets.

He also used to donate to orphanages from
his own savings.

In 2007 he left the presidentship with honour.

On 27th july,2015 during giving a speech in
iim shilong on "creating a liveable planet

earth" he passed away due to massive cardiac
arrest.

According to reports, his last words told
to his assistant srijan pal singh were "funny

guy!

Are you doing well?".

At last I want to finish this video with one
of my favorite quote of abdul kalam, he said

"man needs his difficulties because they are
necessary to enjoy success".