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” Your Biggest Weakness May Be Your Ultimate Strength … ” !!!

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Lessons from a Japanese story

A 15 year old boy decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident.

The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo master. The boy was doing well, so he couldn’t understand why, after three months of training the master had taught him only one move.

“Sensei,”(Teacher in Japanese) the boy finally said, “Shouldn’t I be learning more moves?” “This is the only move you’ll ever need to know,” the sensei replied.

Not quite understanding, but fully believing in his teacher, the boy kept training. Several months later, the sensei took the boy to his first tournament.

Surprising himself, the boy easily won his first two matches. The third match proved to be more difficult, but after some time, his opponent became impatient and charged; the boy deftly used his one move to win the match. Still amazed by his success, the boy was now in the finals.

This time, his opponent was bigger, stronger, and more experienced. For a while, the boy appeared to be overmatched. Concerned that the boy might get hurt, the referee called a time-out.

He was about to stop the match when the sensei intervened. “No,” the sensei insisted, “Let him continue.” Soon after the match resumed, his opponent made a critical mistake: he dropped his guard. Instantly, the boy used his move to pin him. The boy had won the match and the tournament.

On the way home, the boy and sensei reviewed every move in each and every match. Then the boy summoned the courage to ask what was really on his mind.

“Sensei, how did I win the tournament with only one move?”

“You won for two reasons,” the sensei answered. “First, you’ve almost mastered one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. And second, the only known defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm.”

The boy’s biggest weakness had become his biggest strength…

Sometimes we feel that we have certain weaknesses and we blame our circumstances or ourselves for it but we never know that our weaknesses can become our strengths one day.

“Each of us is special and important, so never think you have any weakness, never think of pride or pain, just live your life to its fullest and extract the best out of it!”
CHEERS…

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Cassette Tapes are Back ?…. SONY Says “Yes” !!!

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The cassette tape has long been irrelevant in the consumer market, with the technology hanging on only in a few isolated hipster music circles. In storage media industry, however, cassettes have never really gone out of style. Magnetic tape is still one of the most reliable ways to archive large amounts of data, and the technology is still improving.

Sony has announced that its new magnetic tape technology is designed to store more information on a single cassette than ever before. According to the company, the new technology has a “nano-grained magnetic layer with fine magnetic particles and uniform crystalline orientation.” What this means is a new cassette that can store more than 185TB of data on a single cartridge with a recording density of 148GB per square inch. This is, according to Sony, 74 times the amount of data that can be stored on the current highest-density magnetic tape storage cassettes.

Sony officially announced its new magnetic tape tech earlier this week at the INTERMAG conference in Dresden, Germany. The announcement was made in conjunction with IBM, which measured the recording density of the new media for Sony.

Sony is calling its new magnetic tape the “next generation” of tape storage media. The product was created by placing uniform layers of crystals on polymer film thinner than 5 micrometers. This was accomplished using a technique called “sputter deposition” and optimizing the technique to provide smooth layers of crystals that are uniform in size. The average thickness of each of these layers is 7.7 nanometers.

Sony is betting that its new storage technology will be sorely needed in the growing age of cloud computing. Though end users can interact with cloud data in the magical-sounding way the marketing hype suggests, the companies behind these cloud products actually have to store many terabytes of data. With data storage facilities quickly growing, any chance to save space through greater storage density is likely to be popular with large data storage businesses.

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Message For the Day…” Offer Your Egoistic Pride as Sacrifice @ the Altar of the Divine …”

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Dedication means offering to the Divine. When you offer flowers to God along with your salutation, it symbolizes offering of the flower of your heart. The flower of the heart is usually subjected to infestation by two evil creatures; they are Ego (Ahamkar) and Jealousy (Asuya). Ego is hard to conquer and arises from seven factors – Wealth, Physical Prowess, Birth, Scholarship, Beauty, Power and Penance. As long as Ahamkara is predominant, it is impossible to recognize the Divinity within. Ego is a great barrier between the individual and God, and must be totally demolished. All forms of pride (particularly that of wealth, scholarship and power) cause human failings and downfall, and hence must be given up totally. Only when egoistic pride is offered as a sacrifice at the altar of the Divine, you can discover your true divine nature.

 

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Message For the Day… ” World Today Needs Practical Knowledge ..Not Bookish Knowledge …”

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The bookish knowledge that many feverishly acquire is relevant only for the day of the exam. As you enter your professions armed with this knowledge, you will soon discover that you only have superficial knowledge on any subject and your general knowledge is almost zero. Without general knowledge and practical wisdom, you cannot discriminate. World today needs practical knowledge. Water is formed from two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen. You can prove this in the laboratory. But when you sit for lunch, do you mix two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen to drink water? By sipping just a drop, you can even comment on the purity of the water and its taste. Thus discrimination and general knowledge is very essential to make sure your daily life and behavior does not have any lapses. You must experience the enjoyable life in the right way at the right time.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day…” True Devotion is Free From Selfishness…”

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The Universe is a university in which everyone is a student. While you are free to choose any subject you like and acquire degrees in a regular college, in the spiritual field everyone must complete the basic course of the five special subjects and obtain the degree of Divine Love. They are described as the ‘5Ds’ – Dedication, Devotion, Discipline, Discrimination and Determination. Only those who have mastered the five ‘Ds’ are qualified to receive God’s Love. Devotion is not merely singing bhajans or performing puja. True devotion is free from selfishness of all sorts and must not be proclaimed or demonstrated. It is an expression of love from within. You must constantly and lovingly contemplate on God, worship Him and do penance for Him. Service to the Lord is the highest expression of devotion. There is nothing that is not attainable through loving service to the Divine.

 

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Message For the Day…” Hearts Devoid of Love and Gratitude are Indeed Barren …”

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God has gifted to every one of you the expensive and precious heart. It is enough if there is even a little bit of pure, untainted eternal and selfless love in your heart. If you have the slightest gratitude for having the gift of life it is sufficient to redeem your life. Hearts devoid of love and gratitude are indeed barren. Aspire to cultivate this valuable and precious gift of the heart. Many pray, “Oh God, give me the energy and capability to experience Divinity and live in accordance with your command”. You pray, thinking that you do not have that strength. This is incorrect. Each and every one of you are already bestowed with that strength! You do not need anything more. You are unable to appreciate it because your vision is not focused on that. You must search and enquire within you as to what your aspirations and goals are. Then sincerely wor k towards experiencing it.

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” எனக்கு புடவை கொடு… புடவை கொடு …. “

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ஒரு தடவை ஆந்திராவில் மகா பெரியவா முகாமிட்டு இருந்தபோது நடந்த சம்பவம் இது. வழக்கமான பூஜை நேரம். மகான் சிறிய காமாட்சி உருவசிலையை முன்னால் வைத்து பூஜையை ஆரம்பித்துவிட்டார.

அந்த நேரத்தில் எங்கிருந்தோ வந்த ஒருத்தி ஏகமாக சத்தமிட்டு கொண்டு ‘எனக்கு புடவை கொடு… புடவை கொடு!’ என்று கூவினாள், ரகளை செய்தாள்.

அவள் உடலில் பழைய புடவை ஒன்று கந்தல் கந்தலாக காட்சியளித்தது. அவளின் இடது முழங்காலுக்கு மேலே புடவை கொஞ்சம் பெரிதாகவே கிழிந்திருந்தது

‘பூஜை நேரத்தில் இப்படி ஒரு தொலையா?’ என்று பெரியவாளின் சிஷ்யர்கள் அவளை அங்கே இருந்து விரட்ட தொடங்கினார்கள்.

அமைதியாக அவளை பார்த்த மகான், அவர்களை பார்த்து கையமர்த்திவிட்டு, ஒரு புடவையை கொண்டு வர சொல்லி, அதை தட்டில் பழங்களோடு வைத்து அவளிடம் கொடுத்தார். புடவையை எடுத்துக்கொண்ட அவள் அங்கிருந்து வேகமாக போய்விட்டாள்.

அங்கிருந்த சிஷ்யர்களில் ஒருவருக்கு மனதில் ஏதோ சந்தேகம். அவள் பின்னாலேயே வேகமாக போனார். ஆள் நடமாட்டம் குறைந்த இடத்தில அந்த சிஷ்யர் கடந்த போது, அவர் கன்னத்தில் யாரோ ‘பளீர்’ என்று அறைந்தது போலிருந்தது!

அங்கேயே மயங்கி விழுந்தவர் பெரியவா இருந்த இடத்துக்கு வர சற்று நேரமாயிற்று.

‘என்னடா… புடவை என்னாச்சுனு பார்க்க போனியோ? வந்தவ அம்பாள்டா மடையா’ என்று தன் முன்னே இருந்த விக்ரகத்தை சுட்டி காட்டினார் மகா பெரியவா. வந்தவளின் உடலில் புடவை எங்கு கிழிந்திருந்ததோ, அதே இடத்தில தான் தேவியின் சிலையில் உடுத்தப்பட்டிருந் சேலையும் கிழிந்திருந்தது!

தனக்கு என்ன தேவை என்று மகானிடம் நேரில் கேட்டு பெரும் வழக்கத்தை அந்த அம்பாள் கடைப்பிடித்து வந்திருக்கிறாள்!

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A Message To Younger Generation…” Don’t Forget to Experience the Real World …” !!!

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Look Up – it’s both a poem and a story, as well as social criticsm of a phenomenon we’ve all been seeing around us. This generation’s escape from the moment, from the reality and the real world that surrounds them, fleeing into flash-like engagements through digital means. Facebook, twitter – these can all be good things, until they take us away from actual living, and rob our children from a childhood of discovery in the real world.

 

 

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Message For the Day…” You Will Be Successful With The Blessings of Your Mother…”

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Abraham Lincoln learnt to speak truth and conduct himself with self-respect and dignity, unafraid of his financial position, from the lap of his mother. When little Abraham shared with his mother that he was disrespected and felt ashamed in the midst of his friends for wearing old and shabby clothes, she told him that he need not feel so. She counselled him that poverty, though viewed in poor light by others, will eventually help him gain respect. Lincoln later in his life declared, “You may disrespect me, but truth cannot be disrespected. It will emerge triumphant!” He proceeded on the path of truth and self-confidence taught by his mother and became the President of the United States of America. In fact, anyone who has the blessing of their mother will emerge very successful.

 

Sathya Sai Baba