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Message For the Day… ” Truth is God …Love is God…”
God is not found separately in a temple or in an ashram.Truth is God. Love is God. Dharma is God. When you worship God by following these principles, He will manifest Himself then and there. Do not doubt this. Love God wholeheartedly. Pray to God and make friends with Him. You can achieve anything if you have God as your friend. Learn today to fill your heart with love and adorn your hand with the ornament of sacrifice. Sacrifice is the jewel for the hands. Truth is the necklace one should wear. You must develop the habit of adorning these jewels. Develop divine love and foster peace in the country. Pray with a broad feeling: Loka samastha sukhino bhavantu (May the whole world be happy)! Start every day with this prayer. Then, you will lead a blissful and peaceful life which is full of enthusiasm. Love God and make friendship with Him, and you are bound to be successful in all your endeavours.
Quotable Quotes…. For All walks of Life …
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I particularly liked the last one, so apropos to many situations in the world today. 1. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” -Mother Teresa 2. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou 3. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford 4. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” -Vince Lombardi 5. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” -Charles Swindoll 6. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” -Oprah Winfrey 7. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt 8. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean 9. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” -Audrey Hepburn 10. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” -Eleanor Roosevelt 11. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown 12. “Do or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda 13. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill 14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain 15. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan 16. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” -Albert Einstein 17. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Stephen Covey 18. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford 19. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker 20. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart 21. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle Onassis 22. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson 23. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” -Ayn Rand 24. “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh 25. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray 26. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” -Dalai Lama 27. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein 28. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” -Bob Dylan 29. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” -Leonardo da Vinci30. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller |
31. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -John Lennon
32. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair
34. “Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou
35. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt
36. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” -Plutarch
37. “Control your own destiny or someone else will.” – Jack Welch
38. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” -Plato
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Divine Image of the Day…Om Sai Ram…
Baba – As seen in Samadhi mandir on 17th of March 2015 during the Kakad aarti
(click on the picture to see the larger view- its awesome)
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Message For the Day…” When Ego is destroyed ,All Troubles End…”
In everything you do, speak and act truthfully, using all the strength and talent you are endowed with. At first, you might fail in this and encounter difficulties and sufferings. But ultimately, by virtue of your behaviour, you are bound to succeed, and achieve victory and bliss. A person who is a genuine vehicle of power can be recognised by the characteristics of truth, kindness, love, patience, forbearance and gratefulness. Wherever these reside, ego(ahamkara) cannot subsist. Therefore, seek to develop these. The effulgence of the Divine (Atma) is obscured by ego. When ego is destroyed, all troubles end, all discontents vanish, and bliss is attained. Just as the Sun is obscured by mist, so the feeling of ego hides eternal bliss. Even if the eyes are open, a piece of cloth can prevent vision from functioning effectively and usefully. So too, the screen of selfishness prevents one from seeing God, who is nearest to you.
Image of the Day…. Vanguard satellite…
One of the Vanguard satellites is checked out at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1958. Vanguard 1, the world’s first solar-powered satellite, launched on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) 1958. It was designed to test the launch capabilities of a three-stage launch vehicle and the effects of the environment on a satellite and its systems in Earth orbit. Vanguard 1 was the second U.S. satellite in orbit, following Explorer 1, and remains the oldest artificial object orbiting Earth to this day. Vanguard began as a program at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and transferred over to NASA (along with many of its personnel) after the agency was founded by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.
Image Credit: NASA
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Message For the Day….”Scriptures Teach Lessons to us as a Mother Takes Care of Her Kids…”
The scriptures are as affectionate to us as a mother. They teach lessons as a mother to her children, in conformity with the level of intelligence and according to the needs of time and circumstance. A mother of two children gives the healthy one every item of food for which it clamours, but she takes great care not to overfeed the sick child and gives it only items that can restore it soon to good health. Can we accuse her of being partial to one and prejudiced against the other in conferring love? The scriptures also draw the attention of those who know the secret of work(karma) to its innate value. Karma can improve life and set its ideals aright. Everyone must be instructed on how to transform work into beneficial activity. Yet, work is not all.
” ‘Darbha’ grass, a natural preservative “…. ‘தர்ப்பை’ ஒரு சாதாரண புல் அல்ல !!!
A systematic research by SASTRA University researchers
Traditional tropical grass, Darbha, has been identified as an eco-friendly food preservative.
Darbha (Desmotachya bipinnata) is a tropical grass considered a sacred material in Vedic scriptures and is said to purify the offerings during such rituals.
This finding was evolved in a research study undertaken jointly by the Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Biomaterials (CeNTAB) and the Centre for Advanced Research in Indian System of Medicine (CARISM) of the SASTRA University, Thanjavur, under the supervision of Dr. P. Meera and Dr. P. Brindha respectively.
Darbha (Desmotachya bipinnata) is a tropical grass considered a sacred material in Vedic scriptures and is said to purify the offerings during such rituals.
At the time of eclipse, people place that grass in food items that could ferment and once the eclipse ends the grass is removed.
A systematic research was conducted by the SASTRA University researchers, in which cow’s curd was chosen as a food item that could ferment easily.
Five other tropical grass species, including lemon grass, Bermuda grass, and bamboo were chosen for comparison based on different levels of antibiotic properties and hydro phobicity.
Electron microscopy of different grasses revealed stunning nano-patterns and hierarchical nano or micro structures in darbha grass while they were absent in other grasses.
On studying the effect of various grasses on the microbial community of the curd, darbha grass alone was found to attract enormous number of bacteria into the hierarchical surface features.
These are the bacteria responsible for fermentation of cow’s curd.
During eclipse, the wavelength and intensity of light radiations available on the earth’s surface is altered. Especially, the blue and ultraviolet radiations, which are known for their natural disinfecting property, are not available in sufficient quantities during eclipse.
This leads to uncontrolled growth of micro-organisms in food products during eclipse and the food products are not suitable for consumption. Darbha was thus used as a natural disinfectant on specific occasions, say researchers at SASTRA University.
Further, the scientists say that darbha could be used as a natural food preservative in place of harmful chemical preservatives and the artificial surfaces mimicking the hierarchical nano patterns on the surface of darbha grass could find applications in health care where sterile conditions were required.
This entire research was funded by the SASTRA University’s Research Fund.
Keywords: SASTRA University research, darbha research, darbha grass, organic preservative, traditional tropical grass, Vedic systems
SOURCE::::::::::L.Renganathan in www.the hindu.com
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Message For the Day…” Source From which all Authority & Power Originate is ..God…Don’t Forget This…”
People create and develop in themselves an abounding variety of selfish habits and attitudes, causing great discontent for themselves. The impulse for all this comes from the greed for accumulating authority, domination, and power. Greed for things can never be eternal and full; it is just impossible for anyone to be satiated in fulfilling greed. Omnipotence belongs only to the Lord of all(Sarveswara). You may feel elated to become the master of all arts, owner of wealth, possessor of all knowledge, or repository of all the scriptures, but where did these come from? You may claim that you earned this through your own efforts, labour, and toil. But surely, it was given to you by someone some way or other. The source from which all authority and all power originate is the Lord of all. Ignoring that omnipotence, and deluding yourself that the little power you acquired is your own — is indeed is selfishness, conceit and pride(ahamkara).
An Impala and a Crocodile…Face to Face …!!!
It’s the type of encounter that can send panic through a herd, but this fearless impala refused to turn and run after a crocodile popped out of the water in front of it.
At one point the predator’s snout was just inches from the impala’s nose, but the bold gazelle didn’t back down as it casually sipped from a watering hole.
Tourist Graham Hewer snapped the jaw-dropping scene as he visited Kruger National Park
in South Africa.
Photographer Graham Hewer captured the jaw-dropping encounter during a visit to Kruger National Park in South Africa
The 29-year-old said the imapala simply walked away from the crocodile without giving it a second thought.
The crocodile was close enough to attack the impala, but its would-be prey remained calm and seemed oblivious to the fact that it was at death’s door.
Graham’s series of photos show a herd sipping from the lake as they keep a watchful eye on a group of much larger crocodiles nearby.
The bold impala survived the strange meeting, which photographer Graham Hewer puts down to the crocodile not feeling hungry.
His snaps then show the lone impala drinking from the watering hole, moments before its encounter with the crocodile.
The final photo shows the crocodile alone, with its razor-sharp teeth visible inside its gaping mouth.
Graham, a self-taught photographer from the South African capital of Pretoria, revealed he watched on in suspense, expecting the crocodile to kill the impala almost instantly.
After getting its fill from the lake the impala simply walked away from the crocodile without giving it a second thought
But bizarrely it survived the strange meeting – which he puts down to the croc not feeling hungry.
He said: ‘I got the camera ready just in time as the impala made their way towards the water.
‘One got close to a crocodile laying in the shallow water so I was expecting a straight kill.
Graham Hewer’s photos show a herd sipping from the lake as they keep a watchful eye on a group of large crocodiles
‘But the impala and the crocodile just had a face-to-face meeting.
‘All the people who have seen this image are amazed to hear the impala survived this face-off.
’That’s what fascinates me about photographing animals – its unpredictable, you never know what they will do.’
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