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Message For the Day…” God Knows What , when, and Where and Whom to Give…”

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Fill your heart with love. You will be betraying yourself if you entertain evil thoughts but pretend outwardly to be full of love. Divine love will manifest itself anywhere at any time. One filled with Divine Love will be fearless, will seek nothing from others, and will be spontaneous and selfless in expressing their love. There is no need to pray for gifts from God. God will give of His own accord what is good for such a devotee. Did not Shabari and Jatayu get the Lord’s grace without their asking for it? God will decide what, when, and where to give. Hence, dedicate all actions to God and Let Him decide what you are fit to receive. When everything is left to God with pure love and total faith, God will take full care of you. People today lack such firm faith. Great devotees of the past who faced ordeals with faith and fortitude, ultimately secured divine grace and experienced bliss.

Sathya Sai Baba

Isro to put US satellite in space for the first time….

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Many may find it a crowning glory, but Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) scientists think it’s just an acknowledgement long due. The US, which imposed sanctions on India, will take India’s help to launch one of its satellites soon.

Isro has a track record of launching satellites for 19 countries including space-faring nations, but this is the first time the US would be using an Indian vehicle, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, to put one of its satellite in orbit.

“US will be the 20th country to sign up for a commercial launch by India,” said Isro chairman A S Kiran Kumar, on the sidelines of the 5th convocation of AMET University. “It’s the cost-effective technology we have.”

India has so far launched 45 satellites for 19 nations. Kiran Kumar said another 28 foreign satellites will be launched in the next two years. “The need of the hour is to increase our capacity,” he said.

ISRO, at present, is gearing up for the launch of GSLV-Mark-II, probably around August 27. “The 2.1-tonne capacity GSLV-Mark-II will be carrying a communication satellite,” he said. “By March 2016, we will launch seven satellites.”

Isro, meanwhile, has put to long-duration test its indigenously developed cryogenic engine for GSLV-Mark-III, which can carry satellites weighing up to four tonnes. “We will launch it by December 2016,” Kumar said. India’s big missions including the proposed manned mission rests on the shoulders of GSLV-MIII.

Having successfully launched a Mars mission, India is planning a mission to Venus. Isro is also on the lookout for a launch pad outside Sriharikota, in Kulasekharapattinam in southern Tamil Nadu.

Source….www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Advice From 104 Years Old Doctor ….” Energy Comes From Feeling Good, Not from Eating Well…”

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Advice From a 104 year  Old Doctor….!!!

Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan,
As a 97 year old Doctor, he was interviewed, and gave his advice for a long and healthy life… Born in 1911 he is now 104 years old …
 
Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world’s longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara’s magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke’s College of Nursing.
He has published around 15 books since his 75th birthday, including one “Living Long, Living Good” that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself.
Doctor Shigeaki Hinohara’s main points for a long and happy life: 
* Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot.We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It’s best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.
* All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share one thing in common:None are overweight. For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.
* Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work.
There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65. The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100…
* Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.
* When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctors can’t cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.
* To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.
* My inspiration is Robert Browning’s poem “Abt Vogler.” My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.
Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke’s we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.
* Don’t be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don’t know when your number is up, and you can’t take it with you to the next place.
* Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St. Luke’s so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.
* Science alone can’t cure or help people. Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.
* Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.
* Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do. My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at Duke University in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.
* It’s wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one’s family and to achieve one’s goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.
Source….www.ba-bamail.com
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” Let us Take our Eyes Away from the Dark Spots of our Life …”

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The Black Dot: A Beautiful and Inspiring Story!

This beautiful story has a simple, yet important message. I hope as many people as possible give it a read. I know I am happy I read it, as it gave me a few things to think about in my own life. Sometimes it is the simplest of stories that make us ponder the most.

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Source……www.ba-bamail.com

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A Friend is….

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A Friend is…

Throughout my years, I have learned to treasure and value my true friends. Having a lot of friends is nothing compared to having a few real friends you know you can count on –  friends that will lend you an ear whenever you’re in need, a shoulder to cry on when all else falls apart. This is why I’m sending this to you, my friend, and I hope you enjoy it…

A friend is someone
You turn to.

A Friend is Someone...Who's Just About Like You

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A friend is someone
Who stands by you

A Friend is Someone...Who's Just About Like You

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A friend is someone
Who lifts your spirits

A Friend is Someone...Who's Just About Like You

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A friend is someone
who encourages you. 

A Friend is Someone...Who's Just About Like You

A friend is someone
You treasure always.

A Friend is Someone...Who's Just About Like You

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” Kids with Big Hearts… Truly inspiring …”

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Kids Who Give You Faith in Humanity

Everybody is born with a heart, but these kids are born with extra big ones. Their optimism and generous natures don’t let circumstances stop them from showing kindness to people and animals. These are the people who are going to change the world, one act at a time. Their stories are truly inspiring.

big hearted kids

This girl got proactive to raise money for animal care.

The card reads: “I sold my stuffed animals. So real animals can get better care. I got $40 bucks for you! from: Kiaha.”

This rescue shelter has a program called “Book Buddies”. Kids can come read to the rescued cats to comfort them.

big hearted kids

big hearted kids

The letter reads: “I’m going to shave my head in honor of all of the children fighting cancer especially my sister Natalie. And I DO NOT CARE if someone makes fun of me because I am beautiful no matter what! – Hannah Gorsegar.”

big hearted kids

big hearted kids

big hearted kids

Eleven-year-old Jonah from Tennessee donated all his Halloween candy to kids affected by Hurricane Sandy, who couldn’t go trick-or-treating.

big hearted kids

Eight-year-old Tyler’s home caught on fire and he helped 6 family members escape. Sadly, he was killed after he ran back in to help his grandfather and disabled uncle.

big hearted kids

The fire brigade gave him a fireman’s funeral.

big hearted kids

When Emma decided to have a birthday party she asked that instead of receiving gifts that her friends give food and toys to the local animal shelter.

big hearted kids

Her friends listened. She was able to donate all these goodies to the shelter.

 

big hearted kids

Belal, a boy in Bangladesh, risked his life to save a fawn from drowning in the overflowing local river.

big hearted kids

Onlookers thought the boy might drown too. He emerged and returned the baby deer to its family.

big hearted kids

A  wildlife photographer who was passing by caught the incident on camera

big hearted kids

This boy saw that other children in his school didn’t have lunch and asked his mom if he could give them his. The next day he took this box with him to school. He also helped pack it.

big hearted kids

big hearted kids

When he broke his arm in October, this boy asked the doctor for a pink cast in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

big hearted kids

This teen volunteered to be a guide runner so that this blind cross country runner could participate in the race.

big hearted kids

big hearted kids

big hearted kids

Six-year-old Lucas has Lissencephaly, a brain malformation confining him to a wheelchair.

big hearted kids

His eight-year-old brother Noah wanted to participate in the local triathlon with Lucas.

big hearted kids

He spent 3 months training to be strong enough to be able to push and pull Lucas through all three stages.

big hearted kids

big hearted kids

Source: Mickey R.  in http://www.ba-bamail.com

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Message for the Day…” How to Experience Divine Love or Bliss …” ?

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Sathya Sai Baba

Embodiments of Love! The hallmark of love is thyaga (selfless sacrifice). Love seeks nothing from anyone. It bears no ill-will towards anyone. It is utterly selfless and pure. Failing to understand the true nature of love, people yearn for it in various ways. You must cherish love with the feelings of selflessness and sacrifice. In what is deemed as love in the world – whether it is maternal love, brotherly love, or friendship – there is an element of selfishness. Only God’s love is totally free from the taint of selfishness. Divine love reaches out even to the remotest being. It brings together those who are separate. It raises a person from animality to Divinity. It transforms gradually all forms of worldly love to Divine love. To experience this Divine love, you must be prepared to give up selfishness and self-interest and develop purity and steadfastness. With firm faith in the Divine, foster love for God regardless of all obstacles and ordeals.

Message for the Day….” Suffering or Happiness one Experiences is the Result of one’s own bad or good deeds…”

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Sathya Sai Baba

All the pain and pleasure people experience are the results of their own actions and not due to any act of the Divine. God is only a witness, a postman! He delivers to you whatever letter is addressed to you. The grief or joy you derive from the contents of the letter is intended for you! Likewise suffering or happiness one experiences is the result of one’s own bad or good deeds! However, God will shower ‘special grace’, when you pray to God with a pure heart, without a trace of selfishness and with sacred feelings. Also, when a person has done some unique sacrifice in a previous life or sometime in the past, the Divine rewards it at the appropriate time. Lord Krishna rescued Draupadi when Duryodhana attempted to disrobe her by making her sari endless. This was in return for the spontaneous act of Draupadi wherein she tore off a piece from her sari to stop the bleeding from Krishna’s finger.

 

Things Money Can’t buy…

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For everything else you have your credit card!

Money could buy you a vacation, a day to the spa, a good education and a fancy home but what it can’t buy you is a break, relaxation, will to study and a family. While we look out for various ways to earn money and stress out all the time, we are losing out on our health and our energy.

We seek happiness in all avenues possible but one does not have to search oceans and travel through vast lands to be satisfied. Satisfaction comes from within and having knowledge that it always originates from the way we really look at the world.

Stop running after money because money could give you temporary happiness but it won’t be permanent!

Here are 9 things money can’t buy; for everything else you have your credit card!

1. Love

Love that comes from your family, friends, pets and the world cannot be bought. No matter how rich you are or how poor, love cannot be bought; it has to be earned! How do you earn love? By being kind and understanding.

You help people in need and you show your loyalty to the people who are really important to you and that is how you earn respect.

2. Respect

While someone like Steve Jobs earned immense amount of money, he also earned immense amount of respect. You are nothing without respect. It is an established fact that when people respect you, they believe in you and that is why they invest in your ideas and your ideals.

They invest their time in listening to you and following your advice.

If you want to go far in your life, you have to be respected till the day you die.

3. Friends

Turning into a workaholic may get you all the shoes, clothes and cars you like but who would you share your adventures with?

Friends are stepping stones to success and no one likes to be alone all the time. Money cannot buy you true, good friends and you must always remember that!

4. Trust

Trust is just like respect and love. If you’re trusted, you will be given money and not the other way round. Maintain a good reputation, have good habits and be a good, disciplined person in life and trust will follow you.

5. Patience

To earn more money or ever achieve any important goal in your life patience is the number one thing you must remember. Patient people invest in long term goals and long terms ventures ending up earning a lot of money.

Money can’t buy patience but patience can get you money!

6. Luck

Luck is a challenge; one minute it is right there and the next it’s on to help someone else.

Everybody needs just a little bit of luck, even the rich!

If luck is on your side you just need to work hard but if luck is not on your side you definitely cannot buy it with happiness!

7. Wisdom

Knowledge only enhances a human being’s personality, never destroys it. Knowledge is gold and is the best way to gain success however it cannot be bought.

It entirely depends on the person’s power to absorb information and the willingness to apply it to her/his life that brings wisdom.

8. Missed opportunities

A missed opportunity is a goal lost. Always embrace opportunities as they come and never take advantage of them as sometimes opportunities once lost will never return. Not even Bill Gates can buy opportunities. A person can make use of them as they come and sometimes s/he can even create opportunities for others and help him grow but s/he cannot buy opportunities for herself/himself.

9. Time

Time is money! A saying everybody lives by. If you waste time you’re wasting money. Bill Gates earns $250 a second and that is the perfect example of how important time is. Time is limited but money couldn’t be endless. Don’t waste your time doing something that isn’t productive if you want to get rich sooner. Use it for projects that make sense and can help you grow!

Source….Rajiv Raj in http://www.rediff.com

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