Real Personality

Icchapurti Gayatri Mantras - Sonu Nigam

2012-01-13T21:55:00.000+05:30

2011-11-09T16:19:00.000+05:30

God personally saves!

One day Akbar said to Birbal, "I marvel at some of the fantastic beliefs that you Hindus hold. You believe that the Lord comes to this earth in the garb of a human being - what an absurd notion this is!"

"What is so absurd about it, sire?" asked Birbal. "The Creator of the cosmos is also the Father of us all. Is it so fantastic that the Father should come down to earth to save His children?"

"Of course it is fantastic and absurd," Akbar insisted. "Why should the Creator of the cosmos soil His Divine Form and plunge into the samsara sagara - the ocean of material existence?" Birbal made no reply.

A few days passed. Akbar and Birbal were taking a leisurely stroll along the banks of the Yamuna. A pleasure boat was sailing on the river; the Emperor's infant son sat on the knees of his nurse, and was enjoying this leisurely boat ride. When the nurse saw Akbar and Birbal on the bank of the river, she was so startled that she tried to stand up in the boat and the child on her knees fell into the river!

Emperor Akbar was astounded! Without a moment’s hesitation he plunged into the cold waters of the river to save his son. Swimming fast, he reached the child - only to realize that it was but a doll that had been thrown into the waters!
Birbal swam after the king to meet him mid-river. "Even as an earthly father, sire, you plunged into the waters and did not in the least bother about your royal robes getting soiled and wet." he said to Akbar."Does our Heavenly Father not love us a million times more than we love our children? Would He not plunge into the murky waters of the samsara-sagara to save His children?"

The Emperor made no attempt to answer his Minister

2011-11-09T10:06:00.000+05:30

5 Ways To Make a Killer First Impression

Set an intention. The most important thing to do for giving a good impression is to set your intention. This is especially important before any kind of big event where you would be meeting a lot of people — i.e. conferences, networking events or friend’s parties. As you get ready or when you are driving over think about what kind of people you want to meet and what kind of interactions you want to have. This can be an incredibly grounding experience and works very well to focus on what kind of energy you want to have for your event.
Think about your ornaments. Clothes, make-up, jewelry, watches and shoes are all types of ornamentation and people definitely take these into account when making initial judgments. I highly recommend getting some of your favorite outfits or ornaments together and asking friends you trust what they think of when they see them. For many men, they do not realize that their watch can say a lot about them. For women, purses and large earrings or jewelry can also indicate a lot to a new person they are meeting. Make sure that what you are wearing and how you do your hair or make-up says what you want it to say to the people you are meeting for the first time.
Be Conscious of Your Body Language. Body language is a crucial part of first impressions. Everything from your posture to how you carry yourself to the way you’re angling your body. Often, simply being aware of your body language can result in immediate improvements. Another way to examine your body language is to look at yourself on a video walking around a room. Subconscious cues to keep in mind include noticing where you point your feet, the position of your shoulders, and the way you shake hands.
Avoid bad days. People who go to cocktail events or mixers after having had a bad day typically continue to have a bad day. If you are in a depressed or anxious mood, others will pick up on this from your facial expressions, comments and body language. If you’re having a bad day, stay home! Otherwise, find a way to snap yourself out of your bad mood. I find working out or watching funny YouTube videos before events often gets me in a more social, feel good mood.
Be interested and interesting. If you are truly interested in meeting people and are open to learning about who they are, they will get this in a first impression. We have all had the experience of meeting someone and knowing instantly that they were dragged here by a friend and are just waiting to get out the door and head home. When you are meeting people for the first time approach others with a genuine interest in who they are. This is often contagious and you will have better conversations and lasting connections when you are interested because they become interested.

Happiness

2010-12-07T23:35:00.000+05:30

If God allowed a life without any obstacles …

2010-12-07T23:30:00.000+05:30

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gone as far as it could and it could go no farther.

Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.

Admit your mistakes and errors

2010-09-13T09:47:00.000+05:30

One reason Hitler lost World War II was that he did not fully understand the situation. Bearers of bad news were punished. Soon no one dared tell him the truth. Not knowing the truth, he could not act appropriately.

Many of us are individually guilty of the same error. We do not like to admit to ourselves our mistakes, errors, shortcomings, or ever admit we have been in the wrong. And because we will not see the truth, we cannot act appropriately.

Someone has said that it is a good exercise to daily admit one painful fact about ourselves to ourselves.

Look for and seek out true information concerning yourself, your problems, other people, or situation, whether it is good news or bad news.

Adopt the motto – “It doesn’t matter who’s right, but what’s right.”

Admit your mistakes and errors but don’t cry over them. Correct them and go forward. In dealing with other people try to see the situation from their point of view as well as your own.

WHOSE CREDIT IS THIS

2010-09-10T15:23:00.000+05:30

Fact versus Opinions

2010-09-08T10:32:00.000+05:30

Many times we create confusion when we add our own opinions to facts and come up with wrong conclusions.
For example:
FACT: Two people are whispering when you walk up. Suddenly they stop talking.
OPINION: They must be gossiping about me.
FACT: A new lady is appointed in my department.
OPINION: They will ask me to leave!
FACT: He has reported about me to authorities.
OPINION: They will blacklist me. I am now ruined & finished!

Many a times we tend to behave negatively due to our own adverse opinions. We feel people per se are hostile & unfriendly. We become anxious & fearful for no good reason in a situation which is relatively safe.

It is said: “Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinions of the things that happen.”

GOD

2010-07-09T13:58:00.000+05:30

Ekadasi Food – What can be eaten on Ekadashi?

2010-06-04T09:56:00.000+05:30

Ekadasi Food – What can be eaten on Ekadashi?

Ekadasi vrata samam vrata nasti jagattraye

Anicchaya'pi yat krtva gatir evam vidha'vayoh

Ekadasi vratam ye tu bhakti bhavena kurvate

Na jane kim bhavet tesam vasudeva anukampaya

Ekadasi, or Ekadashi, is an important Upvaas (fast) dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Millions of Hindu devotees observe Ekadasi, which is considered highly auspicious by Lord Vishnu devotees. The traditional approach is to abstain from food completely on the day. But nowadays a complete fast is not possible for many people. Such people consume certain food items on the Ekadasi day and observe only a partial fast.

It is believed that demon Mura found a dwelling place in the rice and Lord Vishnu appeared in the form of Ekadasi to annihilate Mura. Therefore devotees who fast on the Ekadashi day avoid food made from grains.

Many devotees due to several reasons – like health and job commitments – observe partial fast on the day. Such people avoid non-vegetarian and food items made from beans, pulses and grains, especially rice.

The food that can be consumed on the Ekadasi day includes fresh and dried fruits, milk products, vegetables and nuts.

As the list of Ekadasi food expands there will be new issues cropping up like – Are you sure this can be consumed on Ekadasi.

So the golden rule is avoid pulses and grains on Ekadasi.

Drink lots of water and eat fresh and dried fruits.

In Hinduism, Upvaas is meant to bring a person close to Brahman.

So forget about the rules and regulations and what you are going to gain from the Ekadashi fast.

Spend the day in purifying the mind and body

Your Weekend Was Not This Bad

2010-05-26T13:45:00.001+05:30

Your Weekend Was Not This Bad

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Fence is not the border

2010-05-25T11:46:00.000+05:30

S GurumurthyFirst Published : 17 May 2010 11:09:00 PM ISTLast Updated : 16 May 2010 11:58:52 PM IST
http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/columnists/fence-is-not-the-border/173951.html
Demography is destiny”, said Augustus Comte, a French philosopher of the 19th century. Demography, to use a simple definition, means the religious, cultural, or any secular, composition of a nation’s population. As the French were the first to understand the ideas of nation-state and national interest that originated in the 18th and 19th centuries, they could realise the criticality of demography to a nation-state. History testifies that shifts in ethnic or religious demography materially alter people’s identity, attitudes, nationality and even worldview.

A recent example of what religious demographic shift could do is the separation of East Timor as a Christian state from out of the Muslim-majority Indonesia, simply because 99 per cent Timorese had become Christians. A decade before, it was politically incorrect to talk of religious demography. But, after 9/11, the US-West, which had assumed the end of religion in modern secularity, woke up to the reality of religion. And once the West got alerted, true to its nature, it became serious. It has initiated a number of studies on religious demography, but under the garb of researches into ‘spiritual capital’, a more acceptable form of study into religious demography. A study supported by John Templeton Foundation defines spiritual capital as ‘the effects of spiritual and religious practices, beliefs, networks and institutions that have a measurable impact on individuals, communities and societies’. Is it anything different from religious demography?

Despite the fact India has suffered the most from demographic shifts in the past and continues to suffer even now, to interrogate secular India from the perspective of religious demography is virtually impossible. But an honest inquiry into Indian history will reveal how, in the past, religious demographic shift in any area in India has not only carved that area out of the mainland, but, the separated cousins have even turned inimical to the mother society. Pakistan that separated from India waged two direct wars with India and losing both, it has started a covert war of terror on India. Not many Indians today are conscious that Afghanistan was part of the larger India or that Khandahar was from where Khandari of Mahabharata originated. Afghanistan ruled by Buddhist kings had resisted Islamic invasion for long. See what is Afghanistan today. It is now the land of the Taliban. Viewing anything non-Islamic as un-Islamic, the Taliban have gunned down the Bamian Buddha statues which Mohammed Gaznavi and Nadir Shah had tried centuries earlier but failed. Now, Afghanistan’s geography remains the same. But the Afghans have lost their Buddhist soul in the demographic shift. The Talibanised Afghanistan no more resembles the Buddhist Afghanistan. This is the cultural shift which religious demographic shift causes.

Look at what were today’s Pakistan and Bangladesh a few hundred years ago. The Sind in Pakistan was the birthplace of the Vedas and the Puranas. Of the 52 Shakti Peetas sacred to Hindus, two are in Pakistan; seven in Bangladesh. But a huge religious demographic swing from Hindu majority to Muslim majority saw Pakistan, West and East, move out of India. In the areas that constitute Pakistan now, there was no Muslim population prior to Islamic invasion. The Muslim population was just 1/6 when Moghul emperor Jehangir (1605-’22) ruled, according to his memoirs (Tarikh-Salim-Shahi). But it was the continuing religious demographic shift that saw the Muslims become majority in many parts later. And by 1941, the Muslim population in today’s Pakistan had risen to 80 per cent; the share of Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jain (ie, Indian religions), that constituted the remaining 20 per cent then, has tumbled now to just two per cent. In the areas that constitute Bangladesh today, the colonial officials themselves were stunned when, in the 1872 census, they found Muslims, not Hindus, in majority, despite the fact that even as late as the early 15th century a Hindu King, Raja Ganesh, was ruling Bengal. Jinnah could begin the movement for Partition of India only because he knew that the Muslim majority in West and East would make it a fait accompli. And it did. But, the Partition is not the end of the story.

In the year 1941, the share of Indian religious adherents constituted 34 per cent in the area that is now Bangladesh. But, by 1951, that had come down to 23 per cent and further down to 10.3 per cent in 2001. So the demographic religious shift away from Hindu majority not only divided India physically and carved away over 9.51 lakh sq km of land from the mainland but has also shown that where such shift leads to intolerance, like in Islamic Pakistan and Bangladesh, most of the adherents of Indian religions had to abandon the partitioned geography, and come to the mainland. In contrast, in India, while the share of Indian religious adherents has fallen from 87.22 per cent in 1941 to 84.22 per cent in 2001, that of Muslims has risen from 10.45 per cent to 13.43 per cent. It is not just higher fertility rate of 18.74 per cent among the Muslims (against the national average of 15.93 per cent) as compared to 15.55 per cent among the adherents of Indian religions, that is the reason for the rise. That the rise was also due to infiltration across the border from Bangladesh is the real concern.

This is noticeable in the unusual rise in Muslim population in the border or near border districts of Assam, Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The demographic invasion is manifest in the fact that in this border belt the share of the Muslim population in the country has risen by more than eight per cent since 1951, that is five per cent above the national average rise of three per cent for Muslims. In Assam alone the rise is over eight percent. Likewise in Bengal, the rise in the share of their population since 1951 is 9.5 per cent, that is 6.5 per cent over the national average rise. The border district of Murshidabad in Bengal is Muslim majority (64 per cent); two others, Maladah and Uttar Dinajpur, are nearly so. In Bihar and Jharkhand also the Muslim share of the population has risen by more than eight per cent. This demographic shift is caused by Bangladeshi invasion. A world-class work on Religious Demography of India by the Centre for Policy Studies, Chennai, has brought out these and other critical facts.

The demographic invasion by millions of Bangladeshis has pushed the national border into India along Assam, Bengal and Bihar. It is the very demographic invaders who are being smuggled into the National Register of Indian Citizens in the Census 2011, via the Population Register, to be gifted with uncontested citizenship and decorated with National Identity Cards.

QED: When will secular India realise that demography, not geography, is nation, and demography, not iron fence, is the border?

Do we not need men’s welfare ministry?

2010-05-25T11:09:00.000+05:30

In the last twelve years (1996 - 2008) 170,000 husbands have been claimed by rampant domestic violence against them. In a shocking revelation of suicide statistics for the year 2008 reveals that almost double the number of married men have committed suicide in comparison to married women as the report attached here corroborates. It states that in the year 2008 57,639 married men committed suicide in comparison to 30,224 married women whereas the same figures for the years 2007 57593 and 30,064, 2006 are 55,452 and 29,869 and for 2005 are 52,483 and 28,188.

While there has been a lot of hue and cry for domestic violence against women with various studies being sponsored for studying the same with tax payers’ money 82% of which comes from men, but sadly enough no study has ever been done in India for studying the prevalence, effects and trends of domestic violence against men or the statistics about it.

International studies world over have proved that both men and women are equally likely to be victims of domestic violence, but unfortunately the Indian government has closed its doors very brutally on the men leaving them to fend for themselves on their own. Even the courts have an anti – men and a step – motherly attitude towards men what with the Honorable Delhi High Court observing, “Though men are victims of violence, such incidences are few and far between, thus ruling out the possibility of protection from the parliament”, while dismissing a petition challenging the constitutionality of the Domestic Violence Act as it violates Article 14 of the Indian Constitution.

Although no studies have been done for studying domestic violence against men, yet the National Crime Records Bureau in its analysis of suicide data for year 2008 and the decade 1998 – 2008 has come up with some heart – rendering revelations. It has published that almost 24% of suicides are directly due to domestic dispute, family problems and related stress. In the year 2008 57639 married men committed suicide 24% of which works close to 13833 husbands. Further as per, Domestic Violence Claims 156,000 husbands, 156,000 husbands have committed suicide in the eleven years from 1996 – 2007 directly due to Domestic Violence. Adding the numbers of 2008, the final numbers for 1996 – 2008 stand at close to 170,000.

Yes, 170,000 husbands have succumbed to Domestic Violence in 12 years with a yearly average of 14,166 and yet the Govt. and the society are not only silent about it but also silently laughing at it.

Do our men deserve such a treatment?

Do we not need men’s welfare ministry?

Read more: http://legalfighter.instablogs.com/entry/domestic-violence-claims-170000-husbands/#ixzz0ouss5n5m

2010-04-29T09:49:00.000+05:30

பெண்மை

ஆக்கம் முதல் அழிவு வரை

எத்தனை தாக்கம்

இந்த பெண்கள் !

பொழுதுகளில் மாறிவிடும் உணர்வுகள்

புரியாத உணர்ச்சி வெளிப்பாடுகள்

இவர்கள் - விடுகதை

விடை - விஸ்வரூபம் !

இந்த வளைவுகளில் முந்தாதீர்

வடிவமைப்பு வேதியல் படைத்தவனுக்கே

கேள்விக்குறி !

சூத்திரங்கள் புரிந்தாலும்

பெண்களும் எண்களை போல

கடினப் படுத்தும் கணக்குகள் !

இவர்களை இவர்களால்

ஆண்மை ஆளப்படுவதும், அடிமைப் படுவதும்

வானியல் அறிவுப்புகள் போல !

கோபங்களில் சமத்துவம் பேசும்

வெறுமைகளில் சண்டையும்,

பொறுமைகளில் சந்தேகமும்

தயாரிக்கும் இவர்கள்

அன்பின் அடையாளங்கள் !

இன்பமும் இவர்களே

துன்பமும் இவர்களே !

என் வேண்டுதல் எல்லாம்

கலாச்சார மாறுதல்கள்

இவர்களை மாற்றினாலும்

பெண்மை மாறாது இருக்கட்டும்.

by rasamby.

NICE QUTOES 2 FOLLOW...

2010-01-23T22:15:00.001+05:30

No Breakfast Yes for Brain and Liver Damage

2009-12-15T10:46:00.000+05:30

BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS

1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

2 . Overeating=2 0
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our 20 body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6 . Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest.. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells..

7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain

The main causes of liver damage are:

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.

2. Not urinating in the morning.

3 . Too much eating.

4. Skipping breakfast.

5. Consuming too much medication.

6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.

7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil.
As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is20very fit.

8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver.
Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.

We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to 'schedule.'

The top five cancer-causing foods are:

1.. Hot Dogs

Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.

2. Processed meats and Bacon

Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.

3. Doughnuts

Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.

4. French fries

Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .

5. Chips, crackers, and cookies

All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.

voice of love

2009-12-08T13:55:00.001+05:30

The success of a role does not depend on

what all you do but purely depends on

how well you execute the

primary responsibilities of the role.

“Change the physiotherapist every three weeks. Once a relationship is built between you and your physiotherapist, he will no more push you. He would tend to sympathise with your Aah and Ouch. And without pushing, physiotherapy does not work,” said the Neuro Physician. “But my physiotherapist is a very affectionate boy,” replied the patient. The doctor reacted, “Then adopt him as your son. Right now you don't need a good boy, but you need a good physiotherapist.”

Every role has some inherent primary responsibilities. No matter what else you do, if you falter in your primary responsibilities of that role, then eventually the relationship will fall apart.

I know how it feels after doing so much for your adolescent daughter and then to get to hear from her, “You don't love me.” As a parent you are so focused on her development and you do your best for her - best schools, best coaching classes, private study rooms, and what not. But if you are not there to respect her emotions, if you don't have the time to have conversations with her, if your lap isn't available when she is low, if your hands don't reach out when her tears trickle down, if you don't give her the feeling that she is more important to you than her performances… then you have failed in your primary responsibilities as a parent. You have donned the role of a teacher and a coach, but where is the parent? On the contrary, no matter how affectionate a teacher or a coach may be, if they do not focus on the development and performance of the child, then they fail in the primary responsibilities of their chosen role.

It doesn't matter how beautiful you look, as a receptionist, you need to sound beautiful on the phone. It doesn't matter how smart you are dressed and how well you talk, as a salesman you have to achieve your targets. What the organisation needs is a CEO who is loyal to his chair and is focused on creating a productive organisation, and not a good Samaritan who sympathises with the non-performers and tolerates inefficiencies in the organisation. The driver may be good with the children, but if he isn't good on the steering wheel? What if a Guru talks and talks, but is never able to take the seeker closer to God? What if a counsellor listens and listens, but isn't able to offer solutions? What if the architect, in attempting to please the client, compromises on the entire concept and also the final creation?

And, isn't it also true, no matter how arrogant the doctor is, we still go to him because we know he is the best in his field, and our life is secure in his hands. After all, what is preferable - a tasty medicine that doesn't work, or a bitter medicine that works!

Don't cry foul, when people blame you for not doing enough justice to the relationship. Stop quoting all that you have done for the relationship. Simply shut up and introspect,

“Am I doing justice to the primary responsibilities of the role?” The success of a role does not depend on what all you do but purely depends on how well you execute the primary responsibilities of the role.

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WINNOWING

2009-10-26T13:01:00.000+05:30

Innovative
capitalists
have tried
to rewrite
nature,
but to no avail.

I go to nature
to be soothed
and healed,
and to have my
senses put in order.

Drinking nature is an unquenchable thirst.

BEST ZONE

2009-09-21T13:07:00.000+05:30

Thoughts-Unlimited

2009-09-18T13:22:00.000+05:30

Some tips for filling petrol and diesel:-

Only buy or fill up your car or bike during early morning, when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their
storage tanks underground.

The colder the ground, the more dense the fuel. When it gets warmer, petrol expands. So, buying in the afternoon or in the evening, your litre is not exactly a litre. In the petroleumbusiness, the specific gravity and the temperature play an important role.

1 degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

Another most important tip is to fill up when your tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is, the more fuel you have in your tank the less is the air occupying its empty space. Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine.

Another useful information is to avoid filling up if there is a fuel truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy. Most likely, the petrol/diesel is being stirred up as the fuel is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.

Hope this will help you get the most value for your money.

DO SHARE THESE TIPS WITH OTHERS - IT IS IMPORTANT FOR AS MANY PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS, ESPECIALLY IN THE WAKE OF RISING PETROL PRICES.

A spouse is nice, but some spice is better :

2009-09-16T13:47:00.000+05:30

If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, the way to his stomach has, for millennia, been a closely guarded secret. Throughout history, men and women who've sought to put the spice back in their lives, have depended on one rare ingredient. Pepper, that pungent and precious berry from the treasure chests of the Malabar Coast in South India, the keys to which were held by a select, parsimonious few. A staple of Indian households and apothecaries for over four thousand years, pepper has been long coveted by every other civilization. One of the earliest markets was the Roman Empire whose appetite for the additive was addictive. An unfortunate consequence of hoarding such treasure was periodical visits by the Visigoths and Huns who besieged Rome and demanded pepper as ransom. The less martially inclined, however, simply imported the stuff from the Italian city states, and soon the spicy aroma invaded the banquet halls of Europe's swish set. This insatiable demand only enriched the coffers of the Arabs who held the monopoly to the sea routes, and the Venetians and Genoese who dominated trade in the continent. Driven by public opinion (and depleted exchequers), several European nations set off on voyages to find alternative routes to the spice coast of India. The humble peppercorn thus became responsible, in some measure, for the discovery of America. And of other colonies and nations that sprung up as by-products of a civilizational charge to find access to the precious ‘Black Gold'. So the next time your spouse tells you to pass the pepper, you can tell him he can have the spice...but only if he's nice.

Short story

2009-09-16T10:45:00.000+05:30

One day a fisherman got up very early in the morning.

There was not enough sunlight to get into the sea.

He saw a pack of stones to pass time.

He started throwing the stone into the sea.

While having the last stone in the hand, the sun came up then he saw that the stone was a diamond and all the stones he threw were diamonds as well.

He felt for his misfortune of throwing all of them into the sea...

Moral of the story:

Do not get up early in the morning....

HUMBLE APPOLOGY

2009-08-20T11:29:00.000+05:30

UNPOSTED

2009-08-04T22:54:00.002+05:30

You send your vehicle for servicing with a list of complaints…

when you get the vehicle back you realise that one of the complaints has been overlooked and to add to that, some other wire hasn’t been connected properly… so, now there’s a new problem…

so you take it back fro service…you work again, for the oversight and inefficiency of the service personnel. The computer network goes down. The hardware engineer presses all the chips on the board… Oh ho… it’s working…nut only till he’s there. After he leaves, the printer interface, which was working until then, stops working.

We introduce technology to solve some of the problems in the organisation, and now we have an added problem. Even without having to go to the forests or the Himalayas on a penance, we realise we are surrounded by enough people who help develop saintly tolerance in us…after all, what you can’t cure you have to endure.

The search is for experts who are expert enough. I grew up in a world where my sixth standard kannada teacher knew enough to start a kannada University; my family physician knew so much that one could easily mistake him for a paediatrician cum cardiologist cum neurologist. We may be living in the ‘Information Age’ but, believe me it hurts to know that save a minority, we are far too satisfied with shallow knowledge. Even before we are student enough, we begin to think we are teachers… even before we have apprenticed enough, we begin to think we are experts. The thirst for in-depth knowledge is dying. In almost all field, we don’t have enough expert who are expert enough.

Hence, the few who go deeper, and even deeper, in their chosen professions, vocations and expressions will rule the tomorrow…

-ALMAMATTER

1 line humor no fun, its serious

2009-07-31T13:07:00.001+05:30

[1] Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.

[2] Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

[3] Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!

[4] I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash.

[5] A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school uniforms.

[6] Don't feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.

[7] Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without, but whatever you do, you'll regret it later.

[8] You can't buy love, but you pay heavily for it.

[9] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

[10] Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

[11] Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

[12] My wife and I always compromise. I admit I'm wrong and she agrees with me.

[13] Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

[14] Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.

[15] A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

[16] You're getting old when you enjoy remembering things more than doing them.

[17] It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.

[18] Real friends are the ones who survive transitions between address books.

[19] Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

[20] Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something

[21] They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak!

[22] Man: Is there any way for long life?

Dr: Get married.

Man: Will it help?

Dr: No, but then the thought of long life will never come.

[23]Why do couples hold hands during their wedding? It's a formality just like two boxers shaking hands before the fight begins!

[24]Wife: Darling today is our anniversary, what should we do?

Husband: Let us stand in silence for 2 minutes.

[25]It's funny when people discuss Love Marriage vs Arranged. It's like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered.

[26]There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it.

[27]There is only one perfect wife in the world and every neighbor has it!

Why do we light a lamp?

2009-07-08T22:26:00.002+05:30

In almost every Indian home a lamp is lit daily before the altar of the Lord. Insome houses it is lit at dawn, in some, twice a day – at dawn and dusk – and in a few it ismaintained continuously (Akhanda Deepa).

All auspicious functions commence with thelighting of the lamp, which is often maintained right through the occasion.Light symbolizes knowledge, and darkness, ignorance.

The Lord is the"Knowledge Principle" (Chaitanya) who is the source, the enlivener and the illuminatorof all knowledge. Hence light is worshiped as the Lord himself.

Knowledge removes ignorance just as light removes darkness. Also knowledge isa lasting inner wealth by which all outer achievement can be accomplished. Hence welight the lamp to bow down to knowledge as the greatest of all forms of wealth.

Why not light a bulb or tube light? That too would remove darkness. But thetraditional oil lamp has a further spiritual significance. The oil or ghee in the lampsymbolizes our vaasanas or negative tendencies and the wick, the ego. When lit by spiritual knowledge, the vaasanas get slowly exhausted and the ego too finally perishes.

The flame of a lamp always burns upwards. Similarly we should acquire such knowledgeas to take us towards higher ideals.

Whilst lighting the lamp we thus pray:
Deepajyothi parabrahma
Deepa sarva tamopahaha
Deepena saadhyate saram
Sandhyaa deepo namostute

I prostrate to the dawn/dusk lamp;
whose light is the Knowledge Principle (theSupreme Lord), which removes the darkness of ignorance and by which all can beachieved in life

HAPPY DISSATISFACTIONS

2009-07-02T22:58:00.003+05:30

How have such ordinary and basic qualities become qualities that are looked up to? I have heard about the disciple who asked the master, “How come everything that is precious in the world is so rare? To his query, the Master replied, “It is actually the other way round. Because they are rare, they are considered precious”.

In the process of human evolution, unable to handle his materialistic burdens, man has lost most of his natural human tendencies, including those as simple as laughter, sleep, kindness, joy etc. they have become rare and hence, precious. So, people with these qualities are considered precious and are looked up to as rare people.

Let us be aware. Let us be happy that we are amongst the rarest of rare, for we have held on to our inherent human abilities and basic character traits, but all the same, let us not get too satisfied with them. Else, we shall become blind to higher possibilities. When we are dissatisfied with the small, we achieve the big. When we are dissatisfied with the big, we strive to achieve the bigger. When we are dissatisfied with the bigger, we work harder for the biggest.

Ordinary satisfaction cannot create extraordinary success. Let us be happily dissatisfied for that is the way to the top.

That’s Wisdom

2009-07-02T22:48:00.002+05:30

Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter asked for a job with a timber merchant and he got it. The pay was really good and so were the work conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was supposed to work.

To first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees. Congratulations, the boss said. “Go on that way”.

Very motivated by those words, the woodcutter tried harder the next day but he could only bring down 15 trees. The third day he tried even harder but he could only bring down 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing lesser and lesser number of trees.

I must be losing my strength, the woodcutter thought, he went to his boss and apologized saying that he could not understand what was going on.

When was the last time you sharpened your axe? The boss asked.

Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe? I have been very busy trying to cut trees.

Have you sharpened your axes or still working busy with your Broken Edges?

Follow Your Heart

2009-06-16T16:47:00.007+05:30

Sometimes your heart thinks, whom do you really love?

You love someone, but you like someone else
Your minds speaks, but your heart denies...

Someone listens, but someone else comforts...
Someone prays, but someone else consoles...

Someone says, but someone else's actions speak...
Someone laughs, but someone else understands...

Someone just tells, but someone else makes you do...
Someone is there, but someone you want is not...

You search for someone in someone else...
Is this a beginning of Love, or is it the end?

A time comes in life when you think what love really is?
What you think is love, or is it something else?

Listen to your mind..., but follow your heart.

reposted it from pravs.

give me some lines on this

2009-06-03T21:36:00.002+05:30

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.

YOUR LOVE

2009-05-21T16:54:00.000+05:30

SMALL STORY

2009-05-18T16:12:00.002+05:30

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her. The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.
The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl. The girl gave him all her sweets as she had promised.
That night, the girl slept peacefully. But the boy couldn't sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some sweets from him the way he had hidden his best marble.
Moral of the story: If you don't give your hundred percent in a relationship, you'll always keep doubting if the other person has given his/her hundred percent.. This is applicable for any relationship like love, employer-employee relationship etc., Give your hundred percent to everything you do and sleep peacefully

LET EXCELLENCE BE YOUR TRADEMARK!

2009-05-03T19:07:00.004+05:30

LET EXCELLENCE BE YOUR TRADEMARK!

“One great cause of the failure of people in business,’’ said ravishankarji, is the lack of concentration.” Most people who become great confine their powers to one particular channel. It is not a matter of doing many things indifferently, but of doing one thing supremely well. The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each, but in the amount of intelligent work. Concentrate your powers upon one unwavering aim, one absorbing purpose. Whatever you are engaged in, you are, in the words of GoD, to be “all there.” Think for it, plan for it, work for it, live for it, throw your mind, might, strength, heart, and soul into it-and success will crown you.

Make it a life rule to give your best to whatever passes
through your hands.

Let superiority be your trademark let it characterize everything you touch. This is what every employer is looking for. The majority of people do not see that the steps which lead to the position above them are constructed, little by little, by the faithful performance of the common, humble, everyday duties of the position they are now filling. Good work is the best substitute for genius, it is better capital than cash, and it is better promoter than friends.

Most people think, because their occupations in life are humble, because they occupy no place of special importance, no office of distinction that they are of very little account. You should look upon your calling, however humble, with the same sense of pride as you would if you were occupying a position of great distinction. Why not? Your place in life, your vocation, is out just as much consequence to you as that of the president of the country is to him or her. Nobility is the child of Superior Quality.

Resolve that your life’s work shall be a masterpiece.

No matter whether it marketing, farming, lawmaking, let it be a masterpiece. Thoroughness is at the foundation of all success – your own inner success in character building, and your outward success in the world of progress

2 WAY MIRROR

2009-04-30T10:03:00.001+05:30

Beware while using the trial rooms any where.

you must have known about 2 Way mirror

How to determine if a mirror is 2 way or not ? (Not a Joke!)
Not to scare you, but to make sure that you aware. Many of the Hotels and Textile showrooms cheat the customers this way.

HOW TO DETECT A 2-WAY MIRROR?

When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc.,
How many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a 2-way mirror I.e., they can
see you, but you can't see them. There have been many cases of people installing 2-way mirrors in female changing rooms or bathroom or bedrooms.
It is very difficult to positively identify the surface by just looking at it. So, how do we determine with any amount of certainty what type of
mirror we are looking at?

CONDUCT THIS SIMPLE TEST:

Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail,
then it is a GENUINE mirror.

However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, IT IS A 2-WAY MIRROR! (There may be someone seeing you from the other side).. So remember, every time you see a mirror, do the "fingernail test." It doesn't cost you anything. It is simple to do.

This is a really good thing to do. The reason there is a gap on a real mirror, is because the silver is on the back of the mirror UNDER the glass.
Whereas with a two-way mirror, the silver is on the surface. Keep it in mind! Make sure and check every time you enter in hotel rooms.

Indian Courts & Bureaucracy is the Prime Culprit in Polluting Environment

2009-04-16T13:37:00.000+05:30

Shocked! Surprised! Are you laughing to hear this! Then think again. It is based on fact. ‘Aam admi’ is not joking. See the reasons.

Aggrieved people used to go to court to get justice. But in India we get only ‘date’ (next date of hearing). This process is going on and on and Indian judiciary not just failed to give justice, it is also polluting environment apart from loosing time, money, energy, loss of man hours, etc. etc.

Powerless people are the losers. You become a permanent slave of judiciary, bureaucracy, political party and the entire system. What you get, you get dates after dates. This makes environmental pollution.

For every time attending the court, we have to catch rickshaw, taxi, bus, train etc. etc. In our country thousands and lakhs of people moving court to attend the court cases which include witnesses and others etc. It id adding to environmental pollution. Other thing is that so many pages of typing, photocopying and other documentary evidences which needs tonnes of papers and money. For getting papers, we have to cut down more and more trees and thus making environmental damages. (don’t expect environmentalist utter a word against the fact like this, they will talk other thing or deny access if they feel getting benefit for poor citizen).

Like judiciary, bureaucracy also responsible for environmental damages due to their ‘red tape’.

We are all talking endlessly about environment. Now UN and other developing countries talking about implementing Kyoto Protocol for climate change, green house gas emission, carbon credit and other environmental issues. If the UN are serious about the so called ‘Climate change’ why don’t they make a Kyoto Protocol like law against Courts, bureaucracy, through UN body etc.

The NGOs around the world protecting corporate interest don’t utter a word, or not making any protest against the real villains in democracy like bureaucracy and courts in democracies, creating environmental damage and instead NGOs are coming up with silly reasons and targeting small fray.

Now various countries talking about ‘carbon credit’ a new concept for the world in reducing carbon emission. Why don’t the UN and other agencies bring the bureaucracy and judiciary under their ambit of ‘carbon credit’ and extend the benefit for implementing fast on computerization and networking of all government offices, all courts etc. to reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emission.

Considering every court & department of bureaucracy as a factory and extend the benefit of ‘carbon credit’ this section also for faster implementation of computerization and networking of department and end redtape and delayed justice.

Delayed justice and red-tape can pollute not only the environment, it will pollute the minds of people. Let us wait and watch how the so called intellectuals and NGO including the media talk about this issue in a right perspective. After all there is not much corporate interest in this game, hence as usual I don’t expect a much debate on this issue by the media or not going to utter a world by the world NGOs.

I think ‘environmentalist’ and right activist runaway in discussing this issue and show their neglect because of not much money involved and lack of sponsors. Let us wait and watch how much they are going to ‘bark’ on this issue. ‘aam admi’ believes that ‘idea can change the life’.

Published at

http://aamadmiindia.instablogs.com/entry/indian-courts-bureaucracy-is-the-prime-culprit-in-polluting-environment/

LIFE IS NOT A RACE

2009-04-15T13:35:00.000+05:30

2009-04-15T12:02:00.000+05:30

an artical published http://www.instablogs.com/outer_permalink.php?p=what-made-hindus-angry-in-karnataka

What made Hindus angry in Karnataka

By janamejayan

http://www.expressb uzz.com/edition/ story.aspx? artid=oqi6n5w6kG E=&Title=What+made+ Hindus+angry+ in+Karnataka&SectionID=XVSZ2Fy6G zo=&MainSectionID= XVSZ2Fy6Gzo=&SEO=NEW+LIFE&SectionName= m3GntEw72ik=

François GautierFirst Published : 06 Oct 2008

I was born in a Catholic family. My uncle was a priest, a wonderful man of warmth and compassion and I spent most my early years in Catholic boarding schools. When I was young I wanted to become a missionary and to ‘convert’ pagans in Asia. What I was taught by priests was that Hindus worship false gods and they needed to be brought back to the True Word by Jesus Christ.

Then of course, I came to India and discovered that actually Hindus, far from being the heathens, as had been portrayed in Europe, not only believed God’s diversity, the wonderful concept of avatar, but had given refuge to all persecuted minorities of the world, whether the Syrian Christians, the Parsis, the Jews (India is the only country in the world where Jews were not persecuted), the Armenians, or today the Tibetans.

I am also aghast at the one-sided coverage by the Indian media of the Christian- Hindu problem: blasts after blasts have killed hundreds of innocent Hindus in Varanasi, Delhi, Mumbai train blasts, Jaipur, etc. Yet, neither Manmohan Singh nor Sonia Gandhi have pronounced once the word ‘Islamic terrorism.’ But when furious Hindus, tired of being made fun of, of witnessing their brothers and sisters converted by financials traps, of seeing a 84-year-old swami and his Mataji brutally murdered, of reading blasphemy about their Gods, vent their anger against churches, many of them makeshifts, the Indian government goes after the soft target which the Hindus are. The same thing applies to the United States: they never warned Muslim organisations in India about the killing of Hindus, but when dollars are used to buy new converts and it angers the majority community of India,Washington has the arrogance to issue a warning, and Manmohan Singh does not have the pride to tell the US to mind its own business.

Neither the Indian press nor the western correspondents bothered to write about what made Hindus angry in Karnataka: Newlife, one important westernfunded missionary centre ( http://www.newlifevoice.org) , began making conversions in and around Mangalore by accosting poor people in market areas, or in bus stands, befriending them and then taking them to churches to introduce them to the father.

Upon introduction they were paid Rs 2,500 per person and then taken to the Velankanni shrine, in Tamil Nadu, where they would get another Rs. 3,000.

When they finally converted to Christianity by changing the name, they got an incentive of Rs 10,000 onwards.

Newlife would then give them instructions to abandon wearing tilak on forehead, not to visit and offer prayers at the Hindu temples, replacing the photos and idols of Hindu gods and goddesses with a Cross, etc.

But what really angered local Hindus was when Newlife went one step further and published a book in Kannada — Satya Darshini — which was widely distributed by its missionaries. Here below is the translation of some of the most abusive passages: “Urvashi — the daughter of Lord Vishnu — is a prostitute.

Vashistha is the son of this prostitute.

He in turn married his own Mother. Such a degraded person is the Guru of the Hindu God Rama. (page 48).

When Krishna himself is wallowing in darkness of hell, how can he enlighten others? Since Krishna himself is a shady character, there is a need for us to liberate his misled followers (page 50). It was Brahma himself who kidnapped Sita.

“Since Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva were themselves victims of lust, it is a sin to consider them as Gods. (page 39).

When the Trinity of Hinduism (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) are consumed by lust and anger, how can they liberate others? The projection of them as Gods is nothing but a joke. (page 39). God, please liberate the sinful people of India who are worshipping False Gods. (Page 39).” When blasphemy and much worse is brought against the most sacred Hindu Gods, Hindus are supposed to take it meekly as sheep and let themselves be converted to a foreign religion! There are more than 4,000 foreign Christian missionaries involved in conversion activities across different states.

In Tripura, there were no Christians at the time of independence. There are 1,20,000 today, a 90 per cent increase since 1991. The figures are even more striking in Arunachal Pradesh, where there were only 1,710 Christians in 1961, but 1.2 million today, as well as 780 churches! In Andhra Pradesh, churches are coming up every day in far-flung villages and there was even an attempt to set up one near Tirupati.

Christians throughout the ages have strived on the concept of persecution and as a brought up Catholic, I remember feeling bad about all those martyred saints of Christianity. Christians in India like to say that they are only two per cent and can do no harm. But it is a sham: in the Tamil Nadu coastal belt from Chennai to Kanyakumari, there must be now 10 per cent Christians posttsunami and the same may be true in other parts of south India.

My heart goes out to Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa who took a courageous stand against unethical Christian conversions, but is now under pressure from the Centre.

THINK FOR INDIA = ELECT ONLY RIGHT CANDITATE

2009-04-11T10:18:00.000+05:30

Christian priests are fighting election. It is time for Hindus to get aware leaving their inactiveness. This is the time to ask questions and demand answers. Dharmagurus of Catholic and Protestant Faith Archbishop Sternislos Fernandes, Babu Joseph and many others have advised Christians regarding giving votes. Active Christians all over the country are busy in reaching the message, ‘Whatever happens, do not give vote to Hindutvawadis’, to each and every household; but instead of giving this message so directly they are doing it very shrewdly.

They say vote for those who maintain the welfare of the minority and do not disregard the constitution of Bharat. It means that, let Congress be the winner and see that all the reigns of the rule remain in the hands of Sonia Gandhi. Christians being instigated saying that, vote in order to be excessively Dharma predominant at the cost of reasoning, justice and harmony, Unite! It is known all over that the Christian priests and their Missionaries convert the simple and guileless people under the name of humanity by deceiving them.

The Christian priests in Madhyapradesh had played with lives of forest dwellers in that state to such an extent that ‘Niyogi’ Commision was set to make inquiries regarding it. That Commission had warned the government to debar those missionaries out of the country as early as possible. The commission also made it clear that if the forest dwellers were kept away from the missionaries then the country would be safe. Today the Christian Missionaries are murdering the Hindu social activists. They do not appreciate schools opened for forest dwellers. This shows how much regard they have for education. They want the authority to convert Hindus by cheating them and they call it human right.

Christians in Bharat get much more freedom than those living in Pakistan and China. Congress culture is also to pamper Christians and Muslims to get their votes. It also makes constitutional changes for the same. So long as Congress remains in power the divisive policy of the minorities would be sustained. Constitutional changes would occur to satisfy them. Hence people from all religions should defeat the Congress.

Elect only pro-Hindu candidates

Source: Daily Sanatan Prabhat

SAVE ANIMALS

2009-04-07T13:07:00.000+05:30

Dear Friends,

Kindly keep a pot full of water in the balcony for birds to protect them in hot summer. Irrespective of your house type.

Request to do the same for animals.

We must protect our birds & animals, those who can’t speak their troubles, who also have the right to share with us & need of mother earth essential resources to lead a Happy life, which humans are using for their own selfish needs. Let us all be kind hearted and live together.

THINK BEFORE U BUY THESE BAD DRINKS

2009-04-03T14:01:00.002+05:30

A cold drink that costs only 70 / 80 paisa to produce is sold for NINE rupees, and a major chunk of profits from these are sent abroad. This is a serious drain on INDIAN economy.

(Whatever the hell, let it happen, you drink) What can you do?

You can consider some of the better alternatives to aerated drinks.
You can drink LEMON JUICE, FRESH FRUIT JUICES, CHILLED LASSI (SWEET OR SOUR), BUTTER MILK, COCONUT WATER, JALJEERA, ENERJEE, MASALA MILK........ ..

everyone deserves a healthy drink, including you!

Banana

2009-03-20T13:14:00.000+05:30

Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber.
A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout.
No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit.

It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.

Depression:
According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

PMS:
Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

Anemia:
High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.

Blood Pressure:
This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

Brain Power:
200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation:
High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Hangovers:
One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.

Heartburn:
Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness:
Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.

Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work?
Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and crisps. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.

Ulcers:
The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Temperature control:
Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD):
Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.

Smoking &Tobacco Use:
Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.

Stress:
Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.

Strokes:
According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!

So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills.

rewind

2008-02-26T14:25:00.000+05:30

Sunday, December 24, 2006

என் செய்யும் என் உடலை...
வறுமையும் அழகும்
வளமும் அழுக்கும் காரணங்களாம் கற்பளிப்பு...
சமுதாயம் எனக்களித்தஅன்பளிப்பு!

வேசியாக்கி விட்டார்கள்
வாடிக்கையாளர்கள்!

இருள் மாய்ந்த உலகம்
ஒழுங்கீனம் இங்கு தர்மம்!
அழகு சந்தைப் பொருள்
அளவில்லா கொடுமைகள்!

உடல் சுவைக்கும் சமுதாயமே…
என் மனச்சுமைக்கு?
வதைகள் புதைக்கப்படும் நடவடிக்கை…
உதைகள் பெரும்பாலும் வாடிக்கை!

உதைத்திருப்பான்
நரகம் என்றாலும் நான் நகைத்திருப்பேன்
காதுகள் கேளாவார்த்தைகளால்
காகிதமாக என்னை கசக்கி விடும்…

ஒதுங்க நினைத்து ஓட முற்பட
கண்ட சுகம் காண சமுதாயம்
எனக்களித்த தலைப்பு…"பெரிய கண்ணகி இவ"

உடல் காயம் காயும்
மன ரணம் மரணம்

என் இனிய சமுதாயமே!
ஓர் இனிய என் கொலை

பின் என் செய்யும்
என் உடலை!

some of my Clicks

2008-02-09T11:56:00.000+05:30

2008-02-05T14:40:00.000+05:30

Don’t aim to be a slave in heaven At least aim to be a king of hell

Permission granted.

2008-02-02T16:27:00.000+05:30

YOU DON’T NEED PERMISSION.

Whose permission are you looking for, anyway?

What if the other person gives you permission?

What difference does it make?

Permission is what the people in control demand of riskers.

The people whose permission you are seeking want you to ask for permission because their approval is the only thing they have to give.

People, who have lost the drive for individual achievement, but still want power, withhold approval the most. They are hardest to convince, and they believe in the old ways and theories long after they have been shown to be false.

The people who need permission the most are people who don’t trust themselves.

Just for the record: if permission were needed, there would have been
No innovation in art,
No discovery in science,
No social advancement, and
No justice.

The innovator and creator are always denigrated for breaking free.

Live your life and take the risks that you need to take to get where you need to go.

Don’t expect other people to understand or approve.

When you go out on your own, others will be more concerned about the rules you broke than the excellence of what you accomplished.

Permission granted.

I believe in my goodness. I trust my intentions. I follow the bidding of my heart.

Work More

2008-01-28T16:58:00.001+05:30

In everything we make, create and produce there is an invisible ingredient, and this invisible ingredient makes the difference between the better
and the best, the ordinary and the extraordinary, the good and the excellent. The invisible ingredient is devotion. Any work can become a
prayer if performed with the sacredness of devotion. If you had all the money in the world, would you still be doing the same work that you are
doing right now? If your answer is 'Yes', then you are pursuing the right work. Else, kick the work that does not give you a kick. Find work that
gives you inner expression and you will find happiness in it. Make the world recognise this inner expression of yours and you will find success
through it. Be grateful to the work you do and you will move closer to god with it. Let the effects of the work you do be the signature you leave
behind in this world.

HAVE SOME TIME FOR INDIA

2008-01-25T16:59:00.001+05:30

Here are some nice quotes from M.K Gandhi
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”

LET EXCELLENCE BE YOUR TRADEMARK

2008-01-25T09:30:00.000+05:30

LET EXCELLENCE BE YOUR TRADEMARK!

“One great cause of the failure of people in business,’’ said ravishankarji, is the lack of concentration.” Most people who become great confine their powers to one particular channel. It is not a matter of doing many things indifferently, but of doing one thing supremely well. The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each, but in the amount of intelligent work. Concentrate your powers upon one unwavering aim, one absorbing purpose. Whatever you are engaged in, you are, in the words of GoD, to be “all there.” Think for it, plan for it, work for it, live for it, throw your mind, might, strength, heart, and soul into it-and success will crown you.

Make it a life rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands.

Let superiority be your trademark let it characterize everything you touch. This is what every employer is looking for. The majority of people do not see that the steps which lead to the position above them are constructed, little by little, by the faithful performance of the common, humble, everyday duties of the position they are now filling. Good work is the best substitute for genius, it is better capital than cash, and it is better promoter than friends.

Most people think, because their occupations in life are humble, because they occupy no place of special importance, no office of distinction that they are of very little account. You should look upon your calling, however humble, with the same sense of pride as you would if you were occupying a position of great distinction. Why not? Your place in life, your vocation, is out just as much consequence to you as that of the president of the country is to him or her. Nobility is the child of Superior Quality.
Resolve that your life’s work shall be a masterpiece. No matter whether it marketing, farming, lawmaking, let it be a masterpiece. Thoroughness is at the foundation of all success – your own inner success in character building, and your outward success in the world of progress.

Think about

2008-01-22T16:49:00.000+05:30

Perhaps most importantly in today's information age, thinking skills are viewed as crucial for educated persons to cope with a rapidly changing world. Many educators believe that specific knowledge will not be as important to tomorrow's workers and citizens as the ability to learn and make sense of new information

Thinking skills. Critical thinking. Creative thinking. Higher-order thinking. Those who take an interest in this field of study soon realize that they cannot go tossing off these terms in a casual manner, since there are no universal agreements as to their precise meanings

So Think about it.

WHAT DO U SAY....? IS UR RELATION SHIP IS RUNING GOOD?

2008-01-16T12:12:00.000+05:30

If you are happy in life right now, it's not because everything about your life is necessarily going right, but because a relationship that really matters to you the most is going great. If you are unhappy in life right now, it's not because everything about your life is going wrong, but because a relationship that really matters to you the most is not going great.

Relationships are like seeds. They have to be nurtured and developed. Expectations are like weeds. They grow on their own accord. When enough investment goes into building a relationship, the expectations in that relationship can be managed. When a relationship is left un-nurtured, then the expectations in that relationship shake the very roots of the
relationship.

Our problem is growing expectations in stagnant relationships.
Let us use the metaphor of a savings bank account. Deposits build the reserves in an account from which we can withdraw - but we can withdraw only to the extent we have built the reserves. Similarly, withdrawals in a relationship are possible only to the extent we have made deposits in that relationship.

In a relationship where there is substantial emotional reserve, mistakes will be tolerated and forgiven, the meaning will be understood even when communication is inadequate, and your intentions will be appreciated even if you fall a little short in your actions. In all, the relationship will be good because you are considered good. And you are considered good because of the deposits you have made to build the emotional reserves in that relationship. However, there are some relationships which are taken for granted; the permanence of the relationships is assumed, and nothing is done to nurture the relationships.

There is continuity of rising expectations, but there is no continuity in making the investments needed to build the relationship. The emotional reserves are overdrawn. In such a scenario, you will be held an offender for every word you speak; every move of yours will be judged; verbal battles and slammed doors become daily occurrences; neither will your actions be appreciated, nor will your intentions be respected. Such a relationship is like walking on a minefield - it blows up any time and many times.

The solution is simpler than simple. Deposits, more deposits and much more deposits. No active relationship can be free from withdrawal, but we can always make enough deposits. That on which you invest time grows. Relationships have to be nurtured with the investment of quality time. Take time to listen and to understand. As often as possible, communicate to be understood.

Make your love visible by being expressive and demonstrative. Seek to give, but also be graceful in receiving. Abusing the gift is abusing the giver. Receiving is one way of showing your respect for the giver, and it is a huge deposit. Building great relationships is an art; so get artistic. Deposit by deposit, paint a great relationship and thus earn your happiness in life.

Mythology shows that even gods had problems with relationships. Here is an opportunity to be one up on god.

HAVE TIME 2 READ IT IN SLIENCE.......

2008-01-16T12:02:00.000+05:30

Even before she could learn to possess, she was asked to share. When she was barely five, she was asked to sacrifice for the sake of her brother who was just two. She was still a kid, but her parents expected her to play the role of a responsible older sister. Thirty years later, she has a family of her own; so does her brother.

She still feels responsible for her younger brother. She still advices him… interferes whenever there are ripples in her brother's marriage… advices her brother's wife on what to feed the child, and how to parent the child. She is still making sacrifices, but what is she getting in return? Heartaches, sleepless nights and copious tears over being treated with indifference. Why? Her brother is old enough to make his own decisions.

Even if some of his decisions go wrong, he feels he has the right to those mistakes; he feels they are his learning grounds. The sister-in-law sees her as unwarranted interference in her marriage. She believes she should parent her children the way she wants and detests the very idea of others interfering under the guise of being older to her. From the first word uttered to the first word written to the first steps he walked… the father played an active part in it. For the son, his dad was always a superman, a hero and the only role model he wanted to emulate. Even the son's career counselling was done by Dad. The son went on to become a first-generation entrepreneur and again it was his dad who guided him. Today, the son is a celebrated industrialist.

Even today, the Dad waits up every evening to know what happened at work; but the son feels claustrophobic. He feels that his dad should give him more space. Dad is going through spells of depression because he's not getting the same attention he used to from his son. Dad feels that he's not needed anymore. The effect of this is showing up on Dad's health - he is beginning to age a little faster. You can always be a sister, but you cannot always play the sister. You will always be loved as a parent, but you cannot always play the parent. Functionally, you may still be his boss; but you cannot play the boss all the time.

A three-year-old expects to be respected in a certain way and the three-year-old needs to be respected that way. At three, my daughter hates us selecting the clothes she has to wear. Not giving her the choice is interpreted by her as not being respected. At ten, my son wants to read the menu card by himself and place the order. That to him is being respected. As a teenager, she wants to choose her friends; and her parents respecting her friends is her sense of being respected. Now that he has worked with you for a few years, he wants to take a few decisions all by himself, and you not overriding his decisions is his sense of being respected.

Every age and every phase of life has some sense of respect associated with it, and you need to respect that. Though the intentions may be noble, sometimes our attempt to guide people, especially unasked for, makes them feel not respected.

The need to be respected is far greater than the need to be guided. Make others feel respected… let this be your choice.

They will take your guidance… let this be their choice.

the right to be different

2008-01-16T11:56:00.000+05:30

Happy New Year 2007

2006-12-29T22:43:00.000+05:30

என் செய்யும் என் உடலை...

2006-12-25T10:49:00.000+05:30

வறுமையும் அழகும்
வளமும் அழுக்கும்
காரணங்களாம்
கற்பளிப்பு...
சமுதாயம் எனக்களித்த
அன்பளிப்பு!

வேசியாக்கி விட்டார்கள்
வாடிக்கையாளர்கள்!

இருள் மாய்ந்த உலகம்
ஒழுங்கீனம் இங்கு தர்மம்!
அழகு சந்தைப் பொருள்
அளவில்லா கொடுமைகள்!

உடல் சுவைக்கும் சமுதாயமே…
என் மனச்சுமைக்கு?

வதைகள் புதைக்கப்படும் நடவடிக்கை…
உதைகள் பெரும்பாலும் வாடிக்கை!

உதைத்திருப்பான்
நரகம் என்றாலும்
நான் நகைத்திருப்பேன்

காதுகள் கேளா
வார்த்தைகளால்
காகிதமாக என்னை கசக்கி விடும்…

ஒதுங்க நினைத்து ஓட முற்பட
கண்ட சுகம் காண சமுதாயம்
எனக்களித்த தலைப்பு…
"பெரிய கண்ணகி இவ"

உடல் காயம் காயும்
மன ரணம் மரணம்

என் இனிய சமுதாயமே!
ஓர் இனிய என் கொலை
பின் என் செய்யும்என் உடலை!

best is yet 2 come

2006-12-22T10:08:00.000+05:30

will publish soon