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Message For The Day…Japam and Dhyanam For Divine Grace….

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Repetition of God’s Name (japam) and meditation (dhyana) are the means by which you can accelerate the concretisation of Divine Grace, in the Name and Form you yearn for. The Lord has to and will assume the Form you chose, the Name you fancy and the way you want Him to be. Therefore do not change the Name and Form you adore mid-way; but select and stick to the One that pleases you most, whatever the difficulty you encounter or however long it takes! All agitations must cease one day, is it not? The dhyana of the Form and the japam of the Name – that is the only means for this task.

Swami Sathya Sai in one of HIS Discourses

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Indian American Elected To Royal Society of Canada …

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Indian-American elected to Royal Society of Canada
Ponisseril Somasundaran, an Indian American member of the faculty of Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been chosen as the sole foreign fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada.

The only one from outside Canada to be elected this year, Somasundaran, who has been at Columbia since 1970 will be inducted in a ceremony on Nov 17 at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa with 70 other fellows.

“Somasundaran is recognized for his ground-breaking contributions towards unraveling complex nano-scale structures and energetics of surfactant self-assemblies and polymer-surfactant hybrids at interfaces,” according to the citation announcing his election.

“He pioneered the use of spectroscopic methods for probing surfactant self-assemblies. His work forms the backbone of many of the current practices in ultra-lean ores beneficiation, hazardous materials/waste water treatment and personal care industry,” it said.

“His seminal work continues to be vital for meeting today’s environmental and sustainability needs,” the citation added.

Founded in 1882, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) comprises the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada. Election to its academies is considered one of the highest honours a scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and
Sciences.

Somasundaran was named La von Duddleson Krumb Professor in 1983 and was the chairman of the Henry Krumb School from 1988 to 1992 and of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Material Science and Mining from 1992 to 1997.

Somasundaran is currently Director of the National Science Foundation Centre for Advanced Studies in Novel Surfactants and Langmuir Centre for Colloids and Interfaces.

He was one of the youngest members to be elected in 1985 to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest possible distinction then in engineering in the US.

Somasundaran was also elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering (1998), Indian National Academy of Engineering (1999) and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (2000) and Balkan academy of science/Mineral Technology.

He was honoured as the only 1989 Distinguished Alumnus and the first Brahm Prakash Chair in 1990 from the Indian Institute of Science.

Elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2009, he was awarded Padma Shri civilian honour by the Indian Government in 2010.

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Two Indian Americans among ‘Intel Science Talent Search’ Finalists…

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The recent high school research competition that was conducted by the Intel Science Talent Search has proved the capability of the young in the field of innovation these days. Indians too have a reason to celebrate here with the ninth and tenth place among the finalists being bagged by two Indians namely Akshay Padmanambha and Sahana Vasudevan. Let’s proceed to know more about them here.

 
Akshay Padmanambha, the son of Poombady Padmanambha and Asha Padmanambha was one of the finalists at the Intel Science Search this year. Originally from Karnataka, the young talent of sixteen years resides in Collierville.

 
His project mainly addressed the topic of bioengineering. A Vagus Nerve stimulator ( VNS ) can now be used in the treatment of those patients with seizure disorders, especially those with a resistance for surgery or drugs.  The treatment helps in delivering to the brain, a signal which is constant and of low voltage.

 
However, this is not free from its side effects namely a risk of heart disease and sleep apnea. However this can be avoided by the activation of the VNS with the use of an algorithm at the onset of the seizures. This has been developed by Akshay through the analysis of epileptic EEGs. The algorithm can get the oncoming seizures detected. The use of this algorithm has thus been simulated by Akshay into the triggering system of the VNS.

 
Akshay’s other hobbies involve playing the jazz and electric bassoon. He also served in Germantown’s Houston High School Band where he was the principle bassoonist. A player of the Ultimate Frisbee, he serves as the captain and founder of the Math Bowl team. He also leads the Horizon where the interactions between students with general needs and those with special needs are promoted.

 

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Having entered the mathematics project at the Intel Science Talent Search the sixteen year old Sahana Vasudevan from Palo Alto is another among the finalists at the event. The “carry” is an important aspect in arithmetic. It is usually handled by a carry bit in computing. She has here contributed a good result to “groups”, some mathematical structures. In this way she has proved a certain necessary condition

 
Originally from Tamil Nadu, Sahana now resides in Palo Alto in the U.S. She is also a violinist and a classical vocalist having won an award for her performance. Her singing began at the age of four and the playing of the violin at the age of seven. The daughter of Jayaraman Vasudevan and Vanaja Narayanaswamy, she was homeschooled at the Gnynam Academy.

 

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12 Year Old Indian Girl Has Higher IQ Than Einstein !!!!

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 A 12-year-old Indian-origin girl in UK has stunned everyone after she scored an incredible 162 on her IQ test – even higher than Einstein and Stephen Hawkin.

Neha Ramu, daughter of an Indian doctor couple, achieved a score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test – the highest score possible for her age.

The score puts her in the top one per cent of brightest people in the UK and means she is more intelligent than physicist Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and scientist Albert Einstein, who are all thought to have an IQ of 160.

 
“Neha scored 162 on the Cattell IIIB test, putting her within the top one per cent of people in the country,” a spokesman for British Mensa said.

Neha’s parents lived in India before moving to Britain when their daughter was seven, ‘The Telegraph’ reported.

Neha had always performed well at school, but it was only when she took an entrance exam for her school, achieving a perfect score of 280/280, that they realised her potential.

She took the test for Mensa, a society for people with high IQs, two years later, and achieved the maximum possible score for someone aged under 18.

“At first I did not really realise what she was capable of as she wasn’t being stretched at school and when she joined primary school in the UK. We didn’t really understand the system,” her mother Jayashree said.

“I am so proud of her. Although she’s being doing well at these kind of tests for sometime now. This is just marvellous.

I can’t express the feeling,” she said.

Neha plans to follow her parents’ footsteps into a career in medicine. She has already set her sight on a place at Harvard after taking her SATs – the American equivalent of A-levels – and achieved a score of 740 out of 800 in a test designed for 18-year-olds.

A devoted Harry Potter fan and keen swimmer, Neha admitted to have found the Mensa test “quite hard”.

“I’m really, really happy because I found the test quite hard and I wasn’t really holding out much hope that I’d be a member of Mensa,” she said.

“We might have a little party or something sometime soon to celebrate. I haven’t told my friends yet but I’ve told some of my family and they are all very happy for me,” said Neha.

Einstein never took an IQ test as none of the modern intelligence tests existed when he was alive, but experts believe he had an IQ of around 160.
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Indian Wonder Boy Gets into MENSA With IQ 132…..At The Age Of 3 !!!

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Bangalore: Arnav Dasyam is probably the youngest kid of Indian/South Asian descent to join the Mensa Club. Arnav, son of Anil and Navya Dasyam, an Indian couple and residents of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, U.S. has become a member of the Mensa club at the age of 3 years and 2 months, reported TNN.

Mensa is an international society for bright people, and its members require possessing a high IQ. Candidates for Mensa must attain a score at or above the 98th percentile on a standard test of intelligence.

Arnav learnt the English alphabets by the time he was 18 months and 10 months later he could easily read a story book. This wonder boy was solving a 68 piece world map puzzle at a very young age.

As per the Mensa International website there are about 1.1 lakh Mensans in over 40 countries on every continent except Antarctica. Further, there are 2 to 100-year-old Mensans, but the majority belong to the age group of 20 to 60.

Anil was quoted by TNN, saying, “When Arnav was 2 years and 10 months old, we had him tested by a certified school psychologist on October 23, 2012. Arnav was found to have an overall IQ of 132.”

Anil got Arnav’s IQ score in the second week of January this year and submitted it to Mensa International a week later. He added that “We got the acceptance letter in the first week of February, 2013. Arnav’s age then was 3 years and 2 months.”

Anil said “It was in the late summer/early fall of 2012 when I saw some news reports of young children in the age group 3-4 years getting into Mensa. A common theme in them was that the kids could read early. Since Arnav could read sentences even before turning 2 and half years, we felt he was special and could take a shot at Mensa. We then started exposing Arnav to things that other Mensa kids were doing and he was easily grasping everything,” as reported by TNN.

Anil moved to the U.S. a decade ago after he did his MBBS from Hyderabad, while his wife Navya too is a doctor. The couple also has a 9-month-old son Nirmay. Anil talking of Arnav’s future, said “We have no fixed professions. We will ensure that he works hard to achieve what he wants to become.”

 

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Message For The Day…. Pilgrimage Should Strengthen Your Spiritual Inclination….

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When on a pilgrimage, without adequate mental preparation, you may not be able to receive the Grace of God! During pilgrimage, do not act like a postal parcel, which moves from place to place, collecting impressions on the outer wrapper, but not on the core being. Your purpose for a pilgrimage is to strengthen your spiritual inclinations and let the holiness of the place settle in your mind. As a result, your habits must change for the better and your outlook must widen. Your inward vision must become deeper and steadier. You must realize the Omnipresence of God and the oneness of Humanity. You must learn tolerance, patience, charity and service. After the pilgrimage is over, sitting in your own home and ruminating over your experiences you must determine to seek. Aspire to get higher, richer and more real experience of God realization.

Swami Sathya Sai in one of HIS discourses…

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Diary With a Difference… Standing out as A Guide To Value System !!!

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” We learn from the Best” is the theme of Diary 2013 brought out by VNC Group of industries , Tamilnadu .

IN The foreword, the Management Team of VNC …leading manufacturers of welding electrodes …..state ” At VNC, our lives are driven
by values. Values that we have risen with. Values that are the Best guide and also the Best measure of Success… Values which are best learnt from the stalwarts of Humanity, who inspire us Everyday !!!”

What an wonderful message conveyed thro their Annual Diary!!!

Team at VNC has zeroed in on the following great personalities and highlighted the respective individual ‘s core personal attribute in the Diary.

1. Charlie Chaplin…..What made Charlie Chaplin the greatest comedian ever was the HONESTY with which he essayed his roles.

2.Guru Gobind Singh …. Even today Guru Gobind Singh is reveredfor having provided PURPOSE to his followers by creating the” KHALSA”.

3.Thomas Edison…. The world thanks Thomas Edison for the lesson in PERSEVERENCE that he taught by failing and trying again and again several times before inventing the Light Bulb.

4.Adi Shankaracharya…. India is indebted to ADI SHANKARACHARYA for bringing about UNITY among the various schools of thought

and the revival of Hindusim..

5.Martin Luther King Jr…..Respect follows Martin Luther King Jr. in USA and the world because of his relentless fight for the

EQUALITY OF Human beings…

6. Saint Joan of Arc…. The warrior Saint Joan Of Arc won freedom for French people against all odds only because of the

CONVICTION..she had in her duty towards GOD..

To sumup, TEAM VNC has conveyed and reconfirmed their core values as under…

1. HONESTY

2. PURPOSE OR GOAL

3.PERSEVERENCE

4. UNITY and Uniformity

5. EQUALITY

6. CONVICTION towards ACCOMPLISHMENT OF SET GOAL

Next comes Iceing on the top of the Cake !!!! TEAM VNC has posed a question … ” What possibly can be common between a certain thin

HALF naked gentleman { MAHATMA GANDHI } who woke up a Great Nation India and “Best Wire” ? ”

Best Wire is one of the products of VNC…. The answer to the question is …INNER STRENGTH !!!

I must say that VNC diary is not a mere diary reflecting routine features ….It is a perfect guide for those who wish to follow the value system in whichever profession or business they pursue .

Last but not least, the Diary is a good Hand Book for the younger generation of today to understand and appreciate the value system in their life.

Source::: VNC Company Diary received from my Friend Shri.Vijayakumar of VNC

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” Why Suffer When I am Here ?”….

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Shri Shankaranarayanan, a devotee used to have dharshan of Periyava, as he is a staunch follower. He got affected by a strange but, high fever, which affected him once in 10,15 days. Since this had become a routine, he tried all sort of medicines and advices from various doctors. Nevertheless, his hopes and untiring efforts to overcome the fever remained. The man came to a conclusion that treatment given by doctors would no more be a remedy and there is only one last resort, none other than the guru.

One fine morning, he visited the Sri Mutt and had dharshan. Periyava asked, “ippa than varaya”

‘Yes Periyava’

“Have you heard about Jwarahareswara temple in Kanchi? Have you been there before?

‘No Periyava’

“Today is a Sunday in Karthikai masam. Come, we shall see Jwarahareswara and Surya Baghavan” said Periyava and walked down.

Shankaranarayanan followed Periyava like a calf to a cow.

By the time they reached there, the priest had left already and in spite of it, HE made him have dharshan.

“Do you have some money?”

‘No Periyava… I just left my purse at mutt itself…’

“Ok… Do one thing… Go to that mandapam and get some yachakam from people who are there…”

Shankaranarayanan managed to get 10,15 rupees in a few minutes.

“There is a plate in front of Swami Sannadhi… Go and offer some and drop some money in hundi too…”

“Good… Let us go to Kachchapeswarar temple from here… As today is a Sunday in Karthikai, celebrations are happening there.”

You know, arogyam baskaradhichcheth (let body be healthy with the grace of Surya)…

Periyava, after having dharshan at Sannandhi and seeing Surya Baghavan, came to the mandapam and called some vedhic scholars and asked them to sing Surya sadhagam and explained.

He said to Shankaranarayanan, “Ok time is up…. You can go and eat and start to your place”.

Though Shankaranarayanan was happy about the visit to temples along with Periyava, he was feeling sad for not telling his health condition to HIM. He left the place sadly and realised later on, that the fever had left too and never dared to strike again!

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Message For The Day….Know Yourself First and Experience The Bliss!!!

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The greatest defect today is the absence of Self-Inquiry (Aathma Vichara), which is the root cause of all restlessness. If you are eager to know the truth about yourself, then you will never go astray. All pots are made of mud, all ornaments of gold, and all clothes are of yarn. Here, even though you see so much diversity, there is a unity. The basic substance of everyone is the Supreme Self (Brahman). It is your basis too! Just as a river’s flow is regulated by the bunds, and flood waters are directed to the sea, so too the Upanishads regulate and restrict the senses, mind and intellect, to help you reach the Divine and merge the individual in the Absolute. Scanning a map or a guide book will not give you even a fraction of joy of the actual visit! Scriptures are only maps and guidebooks. Act in accordance and experience bliss.

source:::::Swami Sathya Sai …