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Message for the Day…. ” When you offer all your actions to God, your heart becomes sacred, you can then lead a peaceful life. To keep your heart sacred, with strong determination practice three P’s – Purity, Patience, and Perseverance. “

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People are bound by action (karma) and sustained by action. They can achieve anything through action. Their accomplishment lies in their skill in performing actions. The actions performed will have their appropriate consequences, and no one can escape consequences of their actions. So do good actions, develop good thoughts, and join good company to get good rewards in future. As is the seed, so is the tree and its fruits. Hence engage in good actions from an early age. What are good actions? The actions that please God. When you perform actions that please God, you will also have the reward that will please you! Hence scriptures teach us to perform all actions to please God (Sarva karma Bhagavad preethyartham). When you offer all your actions to God, your heart becomes sacred, you can then lead a peaceful life. To keep your heart sacred, with strong determination practice three P’s – Purity, Patience, and Perseverance.

Source…. http://media.radiosai.org

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Brilliant Chennai Boy Creates History, Becomes World’s 2nd Youngest Grandmaster!….

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‘Chess Prodigy’ is the only way to describe Chennai’s Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa. Only 12 years, 10 months and 13 days old, Praggnanandhaa is the second youngest person ever, to become a Chess Grandmaster.

In fact, at the tender age of just 10 years, 10 months and 19 days, this chess wizard, had become an International Master , the youngest in history.

With this distinction, he is second to only Sergey Karjakin, of Ukraine, who became the world’s youngest Grandmaster in 1990, reports the Times of India.

The Gredine Open, in Ortisei, Italy, has seen this lad play skilful chess, defeating several worthy opponents like Iran’s Aryan Gholami, and Italian Grandmaster (GM) Luca Moroni. Playing against the latter, the Chennai boy took the upper hand in the match at its outset, and held on, playing attacking chess, eventually forcing Moroni to buckle under the pressure mid-game.

Praggnanandhaa breezed through the first eight rounds, but in order to achieve his third GM norm, he had to play an opponent above the rating of 2482 in the ninth round. Luckily for him, he was drawn with Pruijssers Roland, of the Netherlands, who had a 2514 rating, and thus, he became the second chess player, to become a GM, before he turned 13.

Now, as far as the Gredine Open goes, Praggnanandhaa, is at the second spot, behind Croatian GM Saric Ivan.

Praggnanandhaa had already achieved his first GM norm in the World Juniors 2017, and then his second GM norm, at the closed round-robin Herkalion Fischer Memorial GM Norm tournament in Greece. He has also crossed 2500 Elo rating points.

Source…. Rayomand Engineer in http://www.the betterindia.com

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Message for the Day… ” When one becomes aware that the Self is God, there can be no fear of death haunting him. Faith is life; absence of faith is death. “

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The process of living is the swinging of a pendulum from smile to tear. Childhood is too tender and innocent, youth is too full of folly and faults, middle age is muddled with problems and possible remedies, and old age is spent in regret over past failings. When can you taste some real happiness? Joys and sorrows are the results of the mind’s involvement in the transient and the trivial. The inner core of each living being is God. The Sun is not tarnished by its rays falling upon anything harmful. The Self too is unaffected by the effects of the mind pursuing the senses wherever they lead it. When one becomes aware that the Self is God, there can be no fear of death haunting him. Faith is life; absence of faith is death. Only the body dies; the Divine Self (Atma) is beyond birth and death. Aware of this, one is soaked in Ananda (Divine Bliss).

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Message for the Day… ” Chanting God’s name is the best course; it can be practised at all times and places by all, “

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Arjuna became entitled to the spiritual guidance of the Geeta from the Lord Himself because he evinced the despondency, renunciation, surrender and one-pointedness (vishada, vairagya, saranagati and ekagrata) that is essential to assimilate the great message. When your yearning for liberation becomes truly intense, you earn the right to set aside all social conventions, worldly norms and codes of conduct, that do not subserve that high purpose. Then, Prahlada can give up his father, Bhishma can counter his Guru, Meera can desert her husband and Shankaracharya can play subterfuge with his mother. Ask earnestly if you have reached that stage! Develop that taste for liberation! Chanting God’s name is the best course; it can be practised at all times and places by all, irrespective of creed, gender, caste, age or economic and social status. It will keep you in constant touch with the Infinite and so, it will transmit to you the wisdom and power of the Infinite.

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வாரம் ஒரு கவிதை….” ஒரு முறையேனும் ….”

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ஒரு முறையேனும் …
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அலை பேசி , கை பேசி எதுவும்
இல்லாமல் தனி ஒருவனாய்
என்னை மறந்து ,இந்த உலகை
மறந்து , வலையின் மாயையில்
இன்னும் சிக்காத ஒரு மண்ணின்
மடியில் நான் ஆடி ஓடி நடை பயில
வேண்டும் ஒரு நாள் முழுதும் !
அந்த மண்ணின் மரத்தில்
குடியிருக்கும் குயிலின் பாட்டு
பாட்டு மட்டும் கேட்க வேண்டும்
ஒரு நாள் முழுதும் நான் !
இது என் தீராத ஆசை !  என்
ஆசை நிறைவேறுமா என் வாழ் நாளில்
ஒரு முறையேனும் ?
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in http://www.dinamani.com dated 25th June 2018

Dubai’s Encroaching Sandstorms…..

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Living in the UAE is a constant battle with dust, sand and sandstorms, especially during summer, but they can occur in any seasons of the year. Fine, powdery dust creeps under doors and through cracks in the windows and gets into everything. Particularly vicious storms obscure the sky and the sun for days on end. Going out during these days becomes a hazard.

While sandstorms are not very severe inside cities such as Dubai, out in the middle of the desert with nothing to hold the sand in place, they are unforgiving. These exceptional photos of desert highways and other infrastructure overwhelmed by sand shows how intense sandstorms are in the Middle East. These photos were taken by Sydney-based photographer Irenaeus Herok.

Source…..Kaushik in http://www.amusingplanet.com

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Joke for the Day….” Baby…It will be yours one day …” !!!

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A husband and wife were walking down a high street when the wife spots a beautiful diamond necklace in a jewelry store window.

She urges her husband to go inside so that she can take a look at it.

Although she wants it, he simply doesn’t have to buy it for her, but he promises that it’ll be hers one day.

A month passes, and the wife is at home wondering where on earth her husband is.

She angrily calls his cell phone.

“Where the hell are you?” she asks.

“Darling, you remember that jewelry store where you saw the diamond necklace and totally fell in love with it, and I didn’t have money that time, and I said ‘Baby it’ll be yours one day’?”

“Yeah, I remember that my love!” she replies, smiling and blushing profusely as she does.

“I’m in the bar just next to that shop.”

Source….www.ba-ba mail.com

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Stunning Animal Drawings from Memory….By a Child Artist

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Dušan Krtolica , a 15-year-old boy from Serbia, began drawing when he was just two. He has already had six solo exhibitions, in which he mainly exhibits his anatomically correct drawings of animals. Dušan loves the natural world and he even illustrated an encyclopedia a couple of years ago.

The talented youngster loves the diversity of the animal kingdom and its ability to change and adapt. He cannot remember what the first animal he drew was, but his parents say it was a whale. What’s even more amazing is that he draws completely from memory. Take a look at some of his amazing artwork below!                                                                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source……www. ba-ba mail.com

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Message for the Day….” The Two obstacles which stand in the way of our Spiritual Progress….”

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There are two obstacles which prevents spiritual progress despite your valuable efforts. The first is the tendency to compare yourself with others. This is very wrong. No two individuals are identical. Even identical twins grow in distinct ways. Billions of human beings are on the earth, but which is the press which has given each of them a novel imprint? This is God’s glory. God creates every individual, with their distinct nature, quality, potentiality and destiny. How then can anyone compare themselves with another and either exult or despair? How can you be proud that you are better than others? Second obstacle is, we are in the habit of justifying our faults, rationalising our errors and avoiding the responsibility of facing them squarely and correcting them. These two attitudes thicken one’s ignorance and breed further failings. Everyone has God as the Source. Remember that all are kith and kin, through God from Whom we have come!

Source…. http://media.radiosai.org

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