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பசுமை நிறைந்த நினைவுகளே !!!!

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அந்த நாட்கள் மீண்டும் வந்திடாதோ?

1930- 1980 வரை பிறந்த நம்மை போன்றவர்களை இந்த கால குழந்தைகள் அல்லது இந்த ஜெனரேஷன் மக்கள நம்மைபற்றி என்ன நினைத்தாலும் கேலி செய்தாலும் நாம் மிக மிக அதிர்ஷ்டகாரர்களே!!!!!

WE ARE AWESOME !!!!
OUR LIFE IS A LIVING PROOF!!!!!

· தனி படுக்கையில் அல்ல!!! அம்மா அப்பாக்கூட படுத்து உறங்கியவர்கள் நாம் தான்!!!

· எந்த வித உணவுப் பொருட்களும் நமக்கு அலர்ஜியாக இருந்ததில்லை.

· கிச்சன் அலமாரிகளில் சைல்டு புருஃப் லாக் போட்டு இருந்ததில்லை.

· புத்தகங்களை சுமக்கும்பொதிமாடுகளா இருந்ததில்லை.

· சைக்கிள் ஒட்டும் போது ஹெல்மேட் மாட்டி ஒட்டி விளையாண்டது இல்லை.

· பள்ளியில் இருந்து வீட்டிற்கு வந்தது முதல் இருட்டும் வரை ஒரே விளையாட்டுதான்!!!! ரூமிற்குள் அடைந்து உலகத்தை பார்ப்பதில்லை.

· நாங்கள் விளையாடியது நிஜ நண்பர்களிடம் தான்!!!! நெட் நண்பர்களிடம் இல்லை!!!!!

· தாகம் எடுத்தால் தெரு குழாய்க்களில் தண்ணிர் குடிப்போம்!!!! பாட்டில் வாட்டர் தேடியதில்லை!!!!

· ஒரே ஜூஸை வாங்கி நாலு நண்பர்களும் மாறி மாறி குடித்தாலும் நோய்கள் எங்களை வந்தடைந்ததில்லை!!!!!

· அதிக அளவு இனிப்பு பண்டங்களையும் தட்டு நிறைய சாதம் சாப்பிட்டுவந்த போதிலும் ஒவர் குண்டாக இருந்ததில்லை!!!!

· காலில் ஏதும் அணியாமல் இருந்து நாள் முழுவதும் சுற்றி வந்தாலும் காலுக்கு ஏதும் நேர்ந்ததில்லை.!!!!

· சிறு விளக்கு வெளிச்சத்தில் படித்து வந்தாலும் கண்ணாடி அணிந்ததில்லை!!!

· உடல் வலிமை பெறஊட்டசத்து பானங்கள்அருந்தியதில்லை .மிஞ்சிய சாதத்தில் ஊற்றி வைத்த நீரைச் சாப்பிட்டே உடல் வலிமை பெற்றவர்கள்!!!!

· எங்களுக்கு வேண்டிய வீளையாட்டு பொருட்களை நாங்களே உருவாக்கி விளையாடி மகிழ்வோம்!!!!

· எங்கள் பெற்றோர்கள் பண வசதி மிக்க லட்சாதிபதிகள் அல்ல!!!! ஆனாலும் அவர்கள் பணம் பணம் என்று அதன் பின்னால் ஒடுபவர்கள் அல்லர். அவர்கள் தேடுவதும் கொடுப்பதும் அன்பை மட்டுமே!!! பொருட்களை அல்ல!!!!

· அவர்கள் தொடர்பு கொள்ளும் அருகாமையில்தான் நாங்கள் இருந்து வந்தோம் அவர்கள் எங்களை தொடர்பு கொள்ள “ஏலேய்ய்ய்” என்ற ஒரு வார்த்தை போதுமானதாக இருந்தது. அதனால் தொடர்பு கொள்ள செல்போனை தேட அவசியமில்லை!!!!

· உடல் நலம் சரியில்லை என்றால் டாக்டர் வீடு தேடி வருவார் >>>டாக்டரை தேடி ஒடியதில்லை!!!!!
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· எங்களது உணர்வுகளை போலியான உதட்டசைப்பினால் செல்போன் மூலம் பறிமாறவில்லை!!!!!

உள்ளத்தில் இருந்து வரும் உண்மைகளை எழுத்தில் கொட்டி கடிதமாக எழுதி தெரிவித்து வந்தோம். அதனால் சொன்ன சொல்லில் இருந்து என்றும் மாறியதில்லை.

· எங்களிடம் செல்போன் டிவிடி, ப்ளை ஸ்டேஷன், எக்ஸ்பாக்ஸ், வீடியோ கேம் பெர்சனல் கம்பியூட்டர், நெட், சாட் போன்றவகள் இல்.லை ஆனால் நிறைய நிஜமான நண்பர்கள் இருந்தனர்!!!!!

· வேண்டும் பொழுது நினைத்த நண்பர்கள் வீட்டிற்கு சென்று உணவுண்டு உரையாடி மகிழந்து வந்தோம். அவர்கள் வீட்டிற்கு போவதற்கு போனில் அனுமதி பெற தேவையில்லை!!!!!

· எங்கள் காலங்களில் திறமை மிக்க தலைவர்கள் இருந்தனர். அவர்கள் சமுகத்திற்காக தங்கள் செல்வங்களை செலவிட்டனர் இந்த காலம் போல சமுக செல்வங்களை கொள்ளை அடித்தவர்கள் அல்லர்!!!!!

· உறவுகள் அருகில் இருந்தது உள்ளம் நன்றாக இருந்ததால் உடல் நலம் காக்க இன்சூரன்ஸ் எடுத்தத்தில்லை

· நாங்கள் எடுத்த புகைபடங்கள் கருப்பு வெள்ளையாக இருந்தாலும் அதில் உள்ளவர்களிடம் வண்ணமயமான நல்ல எண்ணங்கள் இருப்பதை உணரலாம். ஆனால் இப்போது எடுக்கப்படும் படங்கள் கலராக இருக்கலாம் ஆனால் அதில் உள்ளவ்ர்களின் எண்ணங்கள் வெள்ளையா இல்லையா என்று சொல்ல முடியவில்லையே !!!!

· இலவசம் பெறும் பிச்சைகாரர்களாக இருந்ததில்லை!!!!!

· சொல்லுங்க நீங்க இப்போ …. அந்த பொன்னான காலங்களில் பிறந்து வளர்ந்த வந்த நாங்கள் அதிர்ஷ்ட சாலிகளா இல்லையா என்பதை !!!!!!!!!!!!

source:::::input from a friend of mine …
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Message For The Day…..Divine Bliss is Not For Sale!!!!

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You will all doubtlessly agree when I say that Divine Bliss is your greatest need. However, you cannot buy it from anywhere! It has to be earned the hard way, doing good deeds, moving in good company, desisting from evil and keeping the mind attached to the Glory of God. Good and bad cannot be kept together in the same place. The Sun once remarked that he had no enemies left and someone told him that there still was one – Darkness! Then, he sent his rays, the emissaries, to seek out the foe. But wherever they went, they only saw light and darkness was nowhere to be found. They returned and reported – there was no such thing as darkness upon the earth. So too, you must gain victory of good over bad within you by persisting vigorously in your spiritual practices.

SWAMI SATYA SAI….In one of HIS Divine Discourses…

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Winner Never Quits !!!….Quitter Never Wins !!!!!

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Here are few stories of some personalities who never quit in their first attempt !!!

1. When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 1000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 1000-step process.”

2. Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered.
Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic Gold Medals!!!

3. In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, “We don’t like their round. Groups of guitars are on the way out.” The group was called The Beatles.

4. In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.” She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

5. In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after one performance. He told him, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere….son. You ought to go back to driving’ a truck.” He went on to become the most popular singer in America named Elvis Presley.

6. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, “That’s an amazing Invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”

7. In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947 – after seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

Moral:

Character cannot be developed in ease and comfort.Only through experiences of trial and suffering, one’s mental capacity can be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. You gain strength and confidence in every experience where you really learn to handle fear and tension and learn to take failure as learning opportunity.You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel comes to shape through the hottest furnace. And even the precious gold is tested against fire.

We have no right to ask when suffering or sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?”
unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.

Be like steel,not glass! Tests of life are to make us,not to break us!

Winner never quits! Quitter never wins!

Life’s good and stay alive all your life!

SOURCE:::input from a friend of mine…
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Message For The Day….HE is Everthing….

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The Lord is a Mountain of Love. Any number of ants carrying away particles of sweetness cannot exhaust His plenty. He is an Ocean of Mercy without a limiting shore. And devotion is the easiest way to win His Grace and also to realize that He pervades everything; in fact, He is everything! Sharanagathi (total surrender) or leaving everything to His Will, is the highest form of devotion. Devotion and the attitude of surrender, which is its final fruit, will give you great courage to meet any emergency; such courage is what is called Renunciation. When Devotion is just emerging as a sapling, a fence is needed to protect the tender plant. That fence is religion and its rules, restrictions, directions and commands.

SWAMI SATYA SAI….in one of HIS Discourses…
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Say “Yes ” To Vegetarian Food !!!

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Vegetarians ‘cut heart risk by 32%’

By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News

Vegetables

Ditching meat and fish in favour of a vegetarian diet can have a dramatic effect on the health of your heart, research suggests.

A study of 44,500 people in England and Scotland showed vegetarians were 32% less likely to die or need hospital treatment as a result of heart disease.

Differences in cholesterol levels, blood pressure and body weight are thought to be behind the health boost.

The findings were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Heart disease is a major blight in Western countries. It kills 94,000 people in the UK each year – more than any other disease, and 2.6 million people live with the condition.

The heart’s own blood supply becomes blocked up by fatty deposits in the arteries that nourish the heart muscle. It can cause angina or even lead to a heart attack if the blood vessels become completely blocked.

Scientists at the University of Oxford analysed data from 15,100 vegetarians and 29,400 people who ate meat and fish.

Over the course of 11 years, 169 people in the study died from heart disease and 1,066 needed hospital treatment – and they were more likely to have been meat and fish eaters than vegetarians.

“Choosing the veggie option on the menu is not a shortcut to a healthy heart”

Tracy ParkerBritish Heart Foundation

Dr Francesca Crowe said: “The main message is that diet is an important determinant of heart health, I’m not advocating that everyone eats a vegetarian diet.

“The diets are quite different. Vegetarians probably have a lower intake of saturated fat so it makes senses there is a lower risk of heart disease.”

The results showed the vegetarians had lower blood pressure, lower levels of “bad” cholesterol and were more likely to have a healthy weight.

Tracy Parker, from the British Heart Foundation, said: “This research reminds us that we should try to eat a balanced and varied diet – whether this includes meat or not.

“But remember, choosing the veggie option on the menu is not a shortcut to a healthy heart. After all, there are still plenty of foods suitable for vegetarians that are high in saturated fat and salt.

“If you’re thinking of switching to a vegetarian diet, make sure you plan your meals carefully so that you replace any lost vitamins and minerals, such as iron, that you would normally get from meat.”

source:::BBC News net..

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Message For The Day….We Should Be Like Pure Iron…

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God draws the individual towards Himself. It is the nature of both to have this mutual affinity; they are just like the iron and magnet. But if the iron is rusty, covered with layers of dirt, the magnet is unable to attract. Remove the impurities, then you will shine forth in your real nature and the Lord will draw you unto Him. Spiritual practices (Sadhana) should result in inner as well as external cleanliness. You do not feel refreshed if you wear unwashed clothes after your bath. Nor do you feel clean if you wear washed clothes, but skip taking bath. Hence, both are needed – the baahya (external) and the bhaava (internal). Trials and tribulations are the means by which this cleansing is done. They are like the dietary and other restrictions prescribed to supplement the effect of the drug of Namasmarana (remembrance of God).

Swami Satya Sai…in one of His Discourses…

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The Picture of Son….

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A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art..

When the Vietnamconflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.

About a month later, just before Christmas,

There was a knock at the door. A young man stood at the door with a large package in his hands..

He said, ‘Sir, you don’t know me, but I am the soldier for whom your son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died instantly… He often talked about you, and your love for art.’ The young man held out this package. ‘I know this isn’t much. I’m not really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to have this.’

The father

Opened the package. It was a portrait of his son, painted by the young man. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the eyes that his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man and offered to pay him for the picture.. ‘Oh, no sir, I could never repay what your son did for me. It’s a gift.’

The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came to his home he took them to see the portrait of his son before he showed them any of the other great works he had collected.

The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of his paintings. Many influential people gathered, excited over seeing the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for their collection.

On the platform sat the painting of the son. The auctioneer pounded his gavel. ‘We will start the bidding with this picture of the son. Who will bid for this picture?’

There was silence…

Then a voice in the back of the room shouted, ‘We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.’

But the auctioneer persisted. ‘Will somebody bid for this painting? Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?’

Another voice angrily. ‘We didn’t come to see this painting. We came to see the Van Gogh’s, the Rembrandts. Get on with the Real bids!’

But still the auctioneer continued. ‘The son! The son! Who’ll take the son?’

Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the longtime gardener of the man and his son. ‘I’ll give $10 for the painting…’ Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.

‘We have $10, who will bid $20?’

‘Give it to him for $10. Let’s see the masters.’

The crowd was becoming angry. They didn’t want the picture of the son.

They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections.

The auctioneer pounded the gavel.. ‘Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!’

A man sitting on the second row shouted, ‘Now let’s get on with the collection!’

The auctioneer laid down his gavel. ‘I’m sorry, the auction is over.’

‘What about the paintings?’

‘I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a secret stipulation in the will… I was not allowed to reveal that stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire estate, including the paintings.

The man who took the son gets everything!’

Money is not EVERYTHING.

source:::::input from a friend of mine….
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Message For The Day….Divine is Human….

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You have come into the world to realise yourselves. You come fully equipped with all the instruments needed for that endeavour – viveka, vairaagya and vichakshana (discrimination, non-attachment and skill); and the urge to enlarge your love, enrich your emotions and ennoble your actions. But you have lost your way; you are caught in a morass and are confused by mirages and dreams which you take as real; you run after false colours and cheap substitutes. Remember that everything is subordinated to that supreme task. The body should be fed and kept free from disease. Why? So that it may be fit for spiritual discipline. Spiritual discipline for what? For the realisation of the truth about oneself. The subtle is the basis for the gross; the Divine is the basis for the Human.

Swami Satya Sai….in His discourse…

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Words of Wisdom….Worth Keeping in Our Heart !!!!

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A man with one watch knows what time it is.. A man with two watches is never quite sure of the time !!!

D’ont look where you fall, but where you slipped!!!

Look at life through the windshield…not the rearview mirror!!!

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do !!!

Be nice to people on your way up..because you will need them on your way down!!!

Never explain…your friends do not need it… your enemies will not believe it !!!

Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted!!!

Courage is not a lack of fear, but the ability to act while facing fear !!!

If you are heading in the wrong direction, you are allowed to do a U turn!!!

You have got to do your own growing..no matter how tall your father was !!!

The best way to predict your future is to create it !!!!!

source::::unknown….input from my friend…

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Run Your Own Race….

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FOCUS……..

I was jogging one day and i noticed a person in front of me, about 1/4 of mile. I could tell he was running a little slower than me and I thought, good, i shall try to catch him. I had about a mile to go my path before i needed to turn off.

So i started running faster and faster. Every block, i was gaining on him just a little bit. After just a few minutes i was only about 100 yards behind him, so i really picked up the pace and push myself. You would have thought i was running in the last leg of London Olympic competition. I was determined to catch him.

Finally, i did it! I caught and passed him by. On the inside i felt so good.
“I beat him” of course, he didn’t even know we were racing.

After i passed him, i realized i had been so focused on competing against him that i had missed my turn. I had gone nearly six blocks past it. I had to turn around and go all back. Isn’t that what happens in life when we focus on competing with co-workers, neighbors, friends, family, trying to outdo them or trying to prove that we are more successful or more important?

We spend our time and energy running after them and we miss out on our own paths to our God given destinies. The problem with unhealthy competition is that its a never ending cycle.

There will always be somebody ahead of you, someone with better job, nicer car, more money in the bank, more education, a prettier wife, a more handsome husband, better behaved children, etc. But realize that “You can be the best that you can be, you are not competing with no one.” Some people are insecure because they pay too much attention 2 what others are doing, where others are going, wearing driving.

Take what God has given you, the height, weight personality. Dress well wear it proudly! You’ll be blessed by it.
Stay focused and live a healthy life.

There’s no competition in DESTINY, run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!

source::::unknown…input from a friend of mine…
Natarajan