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Do not consider prayer and meditation (japam anddhyanam) as the pastime of ‘freaks, geeks and cracks’. Hold fast to them, for they alone can save you from ruin. Offer to the Lord, not flowers got in exchange for a few coins or rupees from the shop, but the fragrant flowers of your own virtues. Let tears of joy be the holy water with which you seek to wash the feet of the Lord. Consider the Lord you adore, be it Hanuman or Krishna or Jesus, as comprising of all forms of Divinity. Do not argue that other forms are less and your form is greater. Be aware that every form of Divine is equally sweet.
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Self Improvement
Message For the Day….Advice to Youngsters….
Message For the Day…Need for Self Realisation …
Mud existed before plates and pots were made out of it; pots and plates are mud, and mud will remain when plates and pots are no more. The plate and the pot must be aware of their being always mud; that in other words, is Self-Realisation. When that is achieved, wherever your eyes are cast, you will find yourself; and wherever your attention is directed, you will see your reflection. Begin to feel it now, from this very moment! Seek to identify yourself as part of the grand and glorious Entity, for all Grandeur and all Glory is His, ultimately!
Laughter The Best Medicine …”He came here to buy Anacin…” !!!
The Manager says: “Do you have any sales experience?”
The Indian says: “Sir, I was a salesman back home in India.”
Well, the boss liked the Indian chappies so he gave him the job. “You
start tomorrow.. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did.”
His first day on the job was rough but he got through it.
After the store was locked up, the boss came down.
“How many sales did you make today?”
Indian boy says: “Sir, Just ONE sale.”
The boss says: “Just one? No! No! No! You see here our sales people
average 20 or 30 sales a day.” If you want to keep this job, you’d
better be doing better than just one sale. By the way, how much was
the sale for?”
Indian boy says: ” $101 237. 64″
Boss says: “$101 237. 64? What the hell did you sell?”
Indian boy says: “Sir, First I sold him small fishhook.
Then I sold him medium fishhook.
Then I sold him large fishhook.
Then I sold him new fishing rod and some fishing gear.
Then I ask him where he’s going fishing and he said down on the
coast, so I told him he’ll be needing a boat, so we went down to the
boating department and I sold him twin engine Chris Craft.
Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took
him down to our automotive department and sell him that 4X4 Blazer.
I then ask him where he’ll be staying, and since he had no
accommodation, I took him to camping department and sold him one of
those new igloo 6 sleeper camper tents.
Then the guy said, while we’re at it, I should throw in about $100
worth of groceries and two cases of beer.
The boss said: “You’re not serious? A guy came in here to buy a
fishhook and you sold him a boat, a 4X4 truck and a tent?”
Indian boy says: “No Sir, actually he came in to buy Anacin for his
headache, and I said: Well, fishing is the best way to relax your
mind.”
source::::input from a friend of mine
natarajan
Message for the Day…Whole World is a Mansion of God…
The body is said to be the tabernacle of God. In fact the world itself is the body of God. A pinprick on the toe is immediately recognised as an injury to the self, because the toe is part of the self-same body. So too, suffering in one corner of the world is as much the concern of the Lord, as suffering in any other. The whole world is a mansion of the Lord. All countries and states are mere rooms in His mansion. Never forget that the whole world is a temple of the Lord; it is His body and He resides in it!
Message for the Day….To Youngsters…
“இந்த எறும்புகளை ஒதறி விட்டா …அது நியாயமா?… சொல்லுங்கோ” !!!
பெரியவாளோட வலதுகாலில் எப்படியோ சின்னக் காயம் உண்டாகி லேசான ரத்தக் கசிவு இருந்தது. அதில் ஒரு சொட்டு ரத்தம் மாதுளைமுத்துப் போல் இருந்தது.
பெரியவாளோ அதைப் பற்றிய சிந்தனையே இல்லாமல், சுற்றி இருந்தவர்களிடம் பேசிக் கொண்டிருந்தார்.
ஒரு எறும்பு வந்தது. அந்த காயத்தின் மேல் ஊர்ந்தது. உடனே சங்கேத பாஷை மூலம் செய்தி அனுப்பி, கொஞ்ச நேரத்தில் ஒரு படையே சொந்த பந்தங்களோடு பெரியவாளுடைய சரணத்தில் இருந்த ரத்தக் கசிவை சுவை பார்த்தன.
“எறும்புகளை தட்டி விடுங்கோ பெரியவா” என்று சொல்ல முடியுமா? சுற்றி இருந்த சிஷ்யர்களுக்கோ ஒரே அவஸ்தை!
அப்போது பெரியவாளிடம் கொஞ்சம் உரிமை எடுத்துக் கொண்டு பேசக் கூடிய ஒரு பக்தர் வந்தார். உடனே அவரிடம் ரகசியமாக எறும்பைக் காட்டினார்கள் சிஷ்யர்கள்.
“பெரியவா கால்ல எறும்பு மொய்க்கறதே?” என்று பணிவோடு கூறினார் பக்தர்.
ஒரு செகண்ட் அருள் நிறைந்த பார்வை பார்த்தார் பெரியவா. “விபீஷணன் ராமசந்த்ரமூர்த்தியை சரணாகதி பண்ணினான்ன்னு படிக்கறோம். வாயால “சரணாகதி” ன்னு சொன்னான். ஆனா, ராமனோட பாதங்களை இறுகக் கட்டிக்கலை. அப்பிடியிருந்தும் ராமன் ரொம்ப இறக்கப்பட்டு, விபீஷணனுக்கு அடைக்கலம் குடுத்தான்.”
“இப்போ இந்த ராமாயணம் எதுக்கு?” சிஷ்யர்களின் சந்தேகத்துக்கு விளக்கம் வந்தது.
“இந்த எறும்புகளோ, என் காலையே கெட்டியாப் பிடிச்சிண்டிருக்கு! அதுகள் என்ன சொல்லறதுன்னு கேக்காம, ஒதறி விட்டா, அது ஞாயமா? சொல்லுங்கோ” – ராமனை விட பலபடிகள் உயர்ந்து நின்றார் பெரியவா!
“உடல் வேறு ஆன்மா வேறு” என்பதை கண்கூடாக சிஷ்யர்களுக்கு நிரூபித்தார்.
ரத்த சுவைக்காக அவை அவருடைய பாதங்களில் ஊர்ந்ததையே ஒரு வ்யாஜமாகக் கொண்டு, “சரணாகதி” என்று ஏற்றுக் கொண்ட கருணை பெரியவாளைத் தவிர யாருக்கு வரும்?
நம் மேல் ஒரு எறும்பு ஊறினால் கூட, அடுத்த செகண்ட் அது உருத் தெரியாமல் நசுங்கி விடும்.
நமக்கும் நல்லறிவை தர பெரியவாளிடம் பிரார்த்தனை செய்வோம்.
source:::::www.periva.proboards.com
Read more: http://www.periva.proboards.com/thread/5819/#ixzz2m6AOmy1C
natarajan
Phone Calls That Made History !!!
Nixon calls Armstrong on the moon (July 20, 1969)
For the first time, human beings land on the moon. So, what’s the best way to follow up this achievement? Well, by congratulating them the same day. Who does it? US President Richard M Nixon, of course. Nixon called Neil Armstrong, the first man who landed on lunar surface, and congratulated him and his fellow astronauts Michael Collins and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin Jr.
The first call: Rings a Bell? (March 10, 1876)
“Watson, come here. I need you.” This is where it all began. Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, from the next room. While working on a device to send multiple telegraph signals over the same wire by using harmonics, he heard a twang. That led Bell to investigate whether his apparatus could be used to transmit the sound of a human voice. Bell’s journal contains the following entry: “I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] the following sentence: ‘Mr Watson, come here — I want to see you’. To my delight he came and declared that he had heard and understood what I said.”
Call that prevented nuke war (Oct 26, 1972)
The closest the world came to a nuclear war was in 1962 when Soviet Union began placing missiles in Cuba to defend against a possible US invasion of the island nation. There was no dialogue between the US and Soviet Union, but things started moving toward a peaceful resolution on October 26, 1962 after a telephone call between President Kennedy and his brother and attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy. The President told Robert that the US would remove missiles from Turkey if Soviet Union got its missiles out of Cuba. Robert conveyed this information to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, which put an end to the looming crisis.
Bush’s ‘wake-up’ call to Rice after WTC attack (Sept 11, 2001)
No one expects to wake up in the morning to watch footage of planes crashing into the World Trade Centre, New York City. It was Sept 11, 2001. Then American President George W Bush, who had been to a photo-op event in Florida, immediately called National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice to find out what was going on. That telephone call ignited Bush administration’s response to terrorism.
Rakesh Sharma calling from space (April 1984)
Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian in space, whose telephonic conversation with Indira Gandhi is still talked about. When the then Prime Minister asked Sharma how India looked from above, he replied: ‘Saare Jahan Se Achcha.’ Sharma’s maiden space flight was on April 3, 1984. He conducted experiments during his mission on Soviet Union’s Salyut 7 Space Station.
Obama’s call to Iran President (Sept 27, 2013)
After seeing off Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after their summit meeting in September, President Barack Obama hurried back to his Oval office in the White House to make a historic phone call. Obama’s 15-minute call to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at around 2:30 pm on Sept 27 – as the latter headed in a car to the airport after attending the UN session in New York – laid the foundation for the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers led by the US.
source:::: Manjunath R Setty, India Syndicate in msn.com
natarajan
Message for the Day…. Advice to Kids…
A B C of Life …
source::::input from a friend of mine
natarajan
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