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” Being Happy Depends on us … We Should Not Be Dependent on Somebody for Our Happiness…”

October 28, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

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After years of hard & dedicated service to his Company, Rahul was being appointed at an elegant reception as the new Director.

It was a small function where his wife Anita , a Home Executive & some of the wives of the other persons in top management were also present.

In an adjacent room, Ann, the wife of the CEO of the Company, asked Rahul’s wife a very odd & usual question; “Does your husband make you happy?”

The husband, Rahul, who at that moment was not at her side, but was sufficiently near to hear the question, paid attention to the conversation, sitting up slightly, feeling secure, even filling his chest lightly in pride & hope, would definitely not publically lower or degrade her husband, would answer affirmatively, since she had always been there for him during their marriage and generally in life.

Nevertheless, to both his & the others’ surprise, she replied simply; “No, no he doesn’t make me happy…”

The room became uncomfortably silent, as if everyone were listening to the spouse’s response. There was a sudden coldness in the air. The husband was petrified. A frown appeared on his face.
He couldn’t believe what his wife was saying, especially at such an important occasion for him. To the amazement of her husband & of everyone!

Anita sat up firmly & explained in a modest but stern tone to the other wives who were present;
“No, he doesn’t make me happy… I AM HAPPY. The fact that I am happy or not doesn’t depend on him, but on me. GOD has granted each of us intellect & discretion to reason, interpret & decide. GOD made me the person upon which my happiness depends.

I make the choice to be happy in each situation & in each moment of my life.
If my happiness were to depend on other people, on other things or circumstances on the face of this earth, I would be in serious trouble!

Over my life I have learned a couple of things: I decide to be happy & the rest is a matter of ‘experiences or circumstances’ like helping, understanding, accepting, listening, consoling & with my spouse, I have lived & practiced this many times.

Honestly true happiness lies in being content”

Relieved & reassured, a smile was clearly noticed on Rahul’s face.

Happiness will always be found in contentment, forgiveness & in loving ourselves & others.
To truly love is difficult, it is to forgive unconditionally, to live, to take the “experiences or circumstances” as they are, facing them together & being happy with conviction.

There are those who say I cannot be happy :
· Because I am sick.
· Because I have no money.
· Because it’s too cold.
· Because they insulted me.

· Because someone stopped loving me.
· Because someone didn’t appreciate me.

But what they don’t know is that they can be happy even though sick, whether it is too hot, whether they have money or not, whether someone has insulted them, or someone didn’t love or hasn’t valued them.

Being Happy is an attitude about life & each one of us must decide!

Being Happy, depends on us!

It Depends on Me.

I fall. I rise. I make mistakes. I live. I learn. I’ve been hurt but I’m alive. I’m human. I’m not perfect but I’m Thankful.
Worth reading. and Sharing too…

Source…input from a friend of mine

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” நான் வாழை மரம் இல்லை …சவுக்கு மரம் …” !!!

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நகைச்சுவை நடிகர் நாகேஷ் அவர்களின் தன்னம்பிக்கை மிக்க அருமையான வார்த்தைகள்…

– வானொலிப் பேட்டியொன்றில் நாகேஷ்

வானொலி: நியாயமாக உங்களுக்கு வரவேண்டிய நல்ல பெயர் மற்றவர்களுக்குச் செல்லும் போது உங்களுக்கு எப்படி இருக்கும்?

நாகேஷ்: நான் கவலையே படமாட்டேன் சார்.
ஒரு கட்டடம் கட்டும் போது, சவுக்கு மரத்தை முக்கியமா வச்சு சாரம் கட்டி, குறுக்குப் பலகைகள் போட்டு, அதன் மேல பல சித்தாள்கள் நின்னு, கைக்குக் கை கல் மாறி கட்டடம் உயர்ந்து கொண்டே போய் பல ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பிறகு அது முடிந்த பிறகு, அந்தக் கட்டிடத்துக்கு வர்ண ஜால வித்தைகள் எல்லாம் அடிச்சு, கீழ இறங்கும் போது ஒவ்வொரு சவுக்கு மரமாக அவிழ்த்துக் கொண்டே வருவார்கள்.

கட்டடம் முடிந்து கிரஹப் பிரவேசத்தன்று எந்தக் கட்டடம் கட்டுவதற்கு முக்கிய காரணமாக இருந்ததோ அந்தச் சவுக்கு மரத்தை யார் கண்ணிலும் படாமல் பின்னால் எங்கயோ மறைத்து வைத்துவிட்டு, வேறெங்கேயோ வளர்ந்த வாழை மரத்தை முன்னால் நட்டு கிரஹகப் பிரவேசம் நடத்தி அனைவரையும் வரவேற்பார்கள்.
அத்தனை பெருமையும் வாழை மரத்துக்குப் போய் விடும்.
இதில் உள்ள உண்மை என்ன தெரியுமா? அந்த வாழை மரம் மூன்று நாள் வாழ்க்கை தான் வாழும். ஆடுமாடுகள் மேயும். குழந்தைகள் பிய்த்தெடுப்பார்கள். பிறகு குப்பை வண்டியிலே போய்ச் சேரும்.

மறைந்து கிடக்கிறதே அந்தச் சவுக்கு மரம் கண்ணீர் விடுவதில்லை. அடுத்த கட்டடம் கட்டுவதற்கு தயார் நிலையிலj் என்றைக்கும் சிரித்துக் கொண்டேயிருக்கும்.!!!

நான் வாழை அல்ல…! சவுக்கு மரம்….
Think positive always👍😊

Source….input from a friend of mine

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” On My 25th Birthday, I Gave Society a Return Gift to Remember…” Says Sushrut Ahale …

October 27, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

Sushrut Ahale wanted to do something special on his birthday, and to make the day a happy one for many people around him. This is what he did.

I am a student pursuing a master’s degree in Ophthalmology from the Institute of Ophthalmology – Joseph Eye Hospital, located in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. And this year, on my 25th birthday, I decided to do something that would help me thank all my friends and relatives for their heart-warming wishes and blessings in a much better manner than just saying thank you. I wanted to make my birthday a happy day for one and all around me, and a simple ‘thank you’ did not seem sufficient.

So this is how I went about it.

My college falls under the administration of the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church. Now, the church is located inside a large campus which consists of staff quarters, a primary and secondary school, the college and a park called the Luther Park.

It’s a small park in the vicinity of our college – disdained and neglected, it once wore a very shabby, saddening, and haunted look. One could only spot wildly grown weeds and creepers, dead and dried bushes, and thorny shrubs there. The park was also used as a dumping ground for plastic waste, broken glass and garbage in general.

I used to notice that park every day. And this October, it struck me that it would be a great idea to rejuvenate the place and make it brighter, cleaner, and more accessible for people inside the campus. This, I wanted to do just as a gesture of returning back to the society. So I went ahead and requested the church officials to allow me to take up this project. And fortunately, I got their approval.

The authorities were more than happy to let me proceed. One staff member, Mr. Stephan, even arranged for a spade, sickle, plough and some brooms that were required for cleaning up the place.

Finally, on a hot Saturday evening, I started my work – that of cleaning up and planting saplings in the park. While I began all alone, some very encouraging incidents took place within a matter of few hours, and they motivated me to continue. About half an hour after I started, a 10-year-old boy came up to me and asked if he could help. I was pleased and gave him some simple things to do. He was then followed by a gardener who came about an hour later and joined us. In two hours’ time, we were a small group of 10-12 people working together – all strangers, but all motivated towards the same cause.

And lastly, with the help of that gardener, some energetic school boys, a few friends and a couple of locals who had joined me, we successfully removed more than a trolley-full of garbage from the park. This was accompanied by the plantation of 16 saplings. The task got competed on Oct. 19 – my birthday.

At the end of it, my small team sang the birthday song for me. It was a really amazing feeling. This small deed made me realise that money isn’t always the best award we can get in return for doing something good. It’s goodwill and kindness that give one the satisfaction after a hard day’s work.

Here is a look at our work:

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– Sushrut Ahale

Source…www.thebetterindia.com

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Launched in India – a ‘Scientifically Validated’ Anti-Diabetes Herbal Drug…

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A Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) lab in Lucknow launched a scientifically validated anti-diabetes herbal drug called BGR-34.

The drug is a based on Ayurveda, and is meant to treat type-II diabetes mellitus. It is basically a combination of natural extracts obtained from plants.

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Two CSIR laboratories have jointly developed BGR-34. The two labs are the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) and Central Institute for Medicinal and Aromatic Plant (CIMAP). It was launched on Oct. 25, which is also the 62nd annual day of NBRI.

“The drug has extracts from four plants mentioned in Ayurveda and that makes it safe,” Dr AKS Rawat, senior principal scientist at NBRI told The Times of India.

According to reports, the drug is animal tested and scientific studies show that it is safe with no side effects. Clinical trials of the drug have also shown a 67% success rate. Hence, while other herbal drugs for diabetes are already available in the market, this one is backed by scientific validation. According to a report in Live Mint, the drug was approved by AYUSH, the ministry for traditional Indian medicines. It has been tested on 1,000 patients over a period 18 months across Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Karnataka.

The functions of BGR-34 include the following:

It boosts the immune system
Works as antioxidant
Helps maintain normal blood glucose levels
Reduces chances of complications caused by persistent high blood glucose levels
Improves the quality of life for patients with high blood sugar levels

In February last year, Vice-President Hamid Ansari had already launched the drug at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. But now it has been launched commercially to be manufactured and sold by M/s Aimil Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.

According to V S Kapoor, marketing head of Aimil Pharmaceuticals for UP and Delhi, the drug will be available in the market soon, in about 15 days. The estimated price is said to be Rs. 500 for 100 tablets. He also added that the drug will be sold in Delhi and Himachal Pradesh to begin with, and they will reach out to doctors through medical representatives to explain its benefits.

About 90% of cases of diabetes are type II diabetes, while the other 10% are primarily diabetes mellitus type 1 and gestational diabetes. The primary cause of type II diabetes is considered to be obesity, and it is also found in people who are genetically predisposed to the disease.

CSIR, which developed the drug, is an autonomous body and India’s largest research and development (R&D) organisation. It includes 37 laboratories and 39 field stations spread across the nation, with a total of over 17,000 people.

Source…..Tanaya Singh….www.thebetterindia.com

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Image of the Day…” Moon over Metéora monastery in Greece…”

October 27, 2015Natarajan1 Comment

Last night’s rising moon behind a Greek monastery first settled in the 11th century.

Aimilianos Gkekas submitted this photo of last night’s moon – October 26, 2015 – rising behind theMetéora monastery in Greece. It’s one of the largest and most important complexes of Greek Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos. Both Metéora and Mount Athos are designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. UNESCO spoke of Metéora this way:

In a region of almost inaccessible sandstone peaks, monks settled on these ‘columns of the sky’ from the 11th century onwards.

Source….www. earthsky.org

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Message for the Day…” Be a Light ,radiating Virtue and Self -Control Wherever You are…’

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Sathya Sai Baba

You have had the valuable opportunity to listen to Divine discourses and directions, they have been printed upon your hearts; many of your conversations is centered on Me or on My divine play (leelas) and glory (mahima). My advice to you is: Apply this adoration in your life. Let your companions see how disciplined you are, how sincerely you obey your parents, and how deeply you revere your teachers. Be a light, radiating virtue and self-control wherever you live, just as commendably as you did when in My divine presence. Do not slide back into indiscipline, bad manners, irresponsibility and evil habits. Do not complain against food; eat with pleasure whatever you get. Do not protest against any errand that your parents may assign you. Run gladly and fulfil it. When they want you to nurse them, do it happily, intelligently, and feeling glad that you got the chance. Live anywhere but such that I can pour My Grace on you, more and more.

There’s a hidden message written on the back of this family portrait that an Apollo astronaut left on the moon…

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On April 20, 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke took his first steps on the moon. He was 36 at the time and is the youngest human in history to ever walk on the lunar surface.

But that’s not the only achievement of Duke’s that lives on in American history.

NASA John W. Young Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., Lunar Module pilot of the Apollo 16 mission, is photographed collecting lunar samples at Station no. 1 during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity at the Descartes landing site.

While he was on the moon, he snapped this family portrait of him, his two sons, and his wife, which remains on the moon to this day.

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On the back of the photo Duke wrote:

“This is the family of astronaut Charlie Duke from planet Earth who landed on the moon on April 20, 1972.”

Here’s a clearer copy of the photo Duke gave us. On the far left is his oldest son Charles Duke III who had just turned seven. In the front in red is his youngest son, Thomas Duke, who was five. Duke and his wife, Dorothy Meade Claiborne, are in the background:

Courtesy of Charles Duke

“I’d always planned to leave it on the moon,” Duke told Business Insider. “So when I dropped it, it was just to show the kids that I really did leave it on the moon.”

The photo has since been featured in numerous popular photo books and is a great example of the “human side of space exploration,” Duke said.

When Duke was training to be an Apollo astronaut, he spent most of his time in Florida. But his family was stationed in Houston. As a result, the children didn’t get to see much of their father during that time.

“So, just to get the kids excited about what dad was going to do, I said ‘Would y’all like to go to the moon with me?’” Duke said. “We can take a picture of the family and so the whole family can go to the moon.”

More than 43 years have passed since Duke walked on the moon. And while the footprints that he made in the lunar soil are relatively unchanged, Duke suspects the photo is not in very good shape at this point.

“After 43 years, the temperature of the moon every month goes up to 400 degrees [Fahrenheit] in our landing area and at night it drops almost absolute zero,” Duke said. “Shrink wrap doesn’t turn out too well in those temperatures. It looked OK when I dropped it, but I never looked at it again and I would imagine it’s all faded out by now.”

Unfortunately, there is no way to determine just how faded the photo is because it’s too small for lunar satellites to spot.

Regardless, the photos “was very meaningful for the family,” Duke said. In the end, that’s all that matters, right?

Source…..JESSICA ORWIG……..www.businessinsider.com.au

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Message for the Day…” When Honour is offered to undeserving it is tantamount to insult…”

October 26, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

Some might question, “Women who have swallowed all the compunctions of modesty are being honoured today! They strut about with heads erect, and the world honours them not a whit less. How is that so, if modesty is all important?” I have no need to acquaint Myself with these activities of the present-day world. I do not concern Myself with them. They may receive honour and respect of a sort, but the respect is not authorized or deserved. When honour is offered to the undeserving, it is tantamount to insult; to accept it when offered is to demean the very gift. It is not honour but flattery that is cast on the immodest by the selfish and the greedy. A modest woman will never crave honour or praise. Her attention will always be on the limits that she should not transgress. Honour and praise come to her unasked and unnoticed. The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; so too is the relationship with a cultured woman who knows her limits and the respect she evokes and deserves.

தமிழருக்குப் பெருமை: ஆஸ்திரேலியாவின் உயரிய விருதை வென்ற தமிழர்….

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தமிழகத்தைப் பூர்வீகமாகக் கொண்டு, ஆஸ்திரேலியாவில் மருத்துவராகப் பணியாற்றி வரும் டாக்டர் ராமமூர்த்தி ஜெயராஜ், ஆஸ்திரேலியாவின் உயரிய ‘பிரைடு ஆஃப் ஆஸ்திரேலியா’ (Pride of Australia) என்ற விருதைப் பெற்று தமிழருக்குப் பெருமை சேர்த்துள்ளார்.

புற்றுநோய் ஆராய்ச்சிக்காகவும், மருத்துவ மாணவர்கள் மற்றும் செவிலியருக்கான கல்வித் தொண்டுக்காகவும், ஆஸ்திரேலிய பழங்குடியினர் பற்றி ஆராய்ச்சிக்காகவும், டாக்டர் ராமமூர்த்திக்கு இந்த உயரிய விருது வழங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்தியாவில் வழங்கப்படும் பத்மஸ்ரீக்கு விருதுக்கு இணையானது இந்த பிரைடு ஆஃப் ஆஸ்திரேலியா விருது என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

டார்வினில் உள்ள நாடாளுமன்ற அலுவலகத்தில் அக்டோபர் 7-ம் தேதி நடைபெற்ற விழாவில், மாகாண முதல்வர் ஆடம் கில்ஸ் அவர்கள் இந்த விருதை டாக்டர் ராமமூர்த்திக்கு வழங்கினார்.

மாகாண முதல்வர் மற்றும் குடும்பத்தினருடன்

தமிழகத்தில், நாமக்கல் மாவட்டம் சேந்தமங்கலத்தைச் சேர்ந்த டாக்டர் ராமமூர்த்தி, சென்னை கால்நடை மருத்துவக் கல்லூரியில் இளநிலை மற்றும் முதுநிலைப் பட்டம் பெற்ற இவர், தற்போது ஆஸ்திரேலியாவின் வடக்கு மாகாணத்தில் உள்ள சார்லஸ் டார்வின் பல்கலைக் கழகத்தில் மூத்த விரிவுரையாளராகவும் புற்றுநோய் ஆராய்ச்சியாளராகவும் பணியாற்றி வருகிறார்.

கடந்த ஒன்பது ஆண்டுகளாக, ஆஸ்திரேலியாவின் வடக்கு மாகாணத்தில் வாழும் ஆஸ்திரேலிய பழங்குடியினர் குறித்து ஆராய்ச்சிகளை டாக்டர் ராமமூர்த்தி மேற்கொண்டு வருகிறார்.

ஆஸ்திரேலியாவின் பெருமை மிகு இவ் விருதைப் பெற்ற முதல் தமிழர் என்ற பெருமைக்குச் சொந்தக்காரராகத் திகழ்கிறார் டாக்டர் ராமமூர்த்தி. கடந்த 13 ஆண்டுகளாக ஆஸ்திரேலியாவில் வசித்து வரும் இவர், 2009 முதல் 2013-ம் ஆண்டு வரை வடக்கு மாகாண தமிழ்ச் சங்கத்தின் துணைத் தலைவராகப் பொறுப்பு வகித்துள்ளார். அத்துடன், ஆஸ்திரேலியாவில் உள்ள தமிழ்ச் சங்கங்களுடன் நெருங்கிய தொடர்பும் வைத்துள்ளார்.

Source….www.dinamani.com

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So this is how I went about it.

Here is a look at our work:

The drug is a based on Ayurveda, and is meant to treat type-II diabetes mellitus. It is basically a combination of natural extracts obtained from plants.

Photo Credit: Flickr

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