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Message For the Day…” How to Attain Spiritual Wisdom … ” ?

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The Kaivalya Upanishad declares: “Not by means of works, not by means of human power, not by means of wealth, but by renunciation alone can immortality be attained.” The ‘works’ referred to are rituals like sacrifices, vows, charities, donations, pilgrimages, etc. Through such activities, one cannot achieve liberation; that is to say, one cannot get rid of the veil of ignorance. ‘Human power’ means acquisition of positions of authority, of skill and intelligence which can manipulate people and things, of fame and supremacy, of personal charm, of health and happiness, or of a large family with many children – these cannot confer liberation. The works mentioned above and the acquisition referred to can succeed only when one has ‘wealth’. But the Upanishad announces that spiritual wisdom is not related to riches. So liberation cannot be earned by means of wealth. Renunciation alone can confer immortality.

Sathya Sai Baba

Look at These Colorful Creatures Of GOD … Have a Colorful Week Ahead !!!

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Wow, these animals are a testament to the beauty nature creates, with their many beautiful colors that somehow always go together, these are just stunning creatures. God must have used his best paint brush for these, to make them come out so darn beautiful.

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Indian Peacock

 

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Gouldian Finch  Northern Austalia

 

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Southern Red Bishop… Southern Africa

 

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Grey Crowned Crane… Africa

 

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Rainbow Lorikeet…. Australia, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Hong Kong

 

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Mandarin Duck….Eastern Asia, Great Britain, Berlin, isolated areas of the U.S. (North Carolina and California)

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Joke of the Day… ” Shut Up …or Else …” !!!

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 This guy needs a job and decides to apply at the zoo. As it happened, their star attraction, a gorilla, had passed away the night before and they had carefully preserved his hide. They tell this guy that they’ll pay him well if he would dress up in the gorillas skin and pretend to be the gorilla so people will keep coming to the zoo. Well, the guy has his doubts, but Hey! He needs the money, so he puts on the skin and goes out into the cage. The people all cheer to see him. He plays up to the audience and they just eat it up. This isn’t so bad, he thinks, and he starts really putting on a show, jumping around, beating his chest and roaring, swinging around. During one acrobatic attempt, though, he loses his balance and crashes through some safety netting, landing square in the middle of the lion cage! As he lies there stunned, the lion roars. He’s terrified and starts screaming, “Help, Help, Help!” The lion races over to him, places his paws on his chest and hisses, “Shut up or we’ll BOTH lose our jobs!”   

 

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Few Brainteasers for this WEEKEND !!!

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Challenging Brainteasers To Keep Your Mind in Tune

Brainteasers are a great way to sharpen your mental acuity! Many times, due to the way our brains function, we see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear, but these brainteasers will challenge you to think outside of the box and test how far your imagination can stretch.

Enjoy these challenging brain puzzles, and write down your answers as you go. Don’t peak at the answers until you have answered all of the puzzles for a real challenge!
1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?
2. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
3. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
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4. How much dirt is there is a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
5. Mary was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible.
6. In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
7. If you were running a race and passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
8. Which is correct to say: “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white”?
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9. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?
10. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raining fire. The second is full of assassins with loaded guns. The third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
11. What is black when you buy it, red when you used it, and grey when you throw it away?
12. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday or Sunday?
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ANSWERS
1. Johnny.
2. Meat.
3. Mount Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet.
4. There is no dirt in a hole.
5. Mary lives in the southern hemisphere.
6. You can’t take a picture with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take a picture.
7. You would be in second place. You passed the person in second, not in first place.
8. Neither. Egg yolks are yellow.
9. One. If he would combine all the haystacks, they would become one big stack.
10. The third room. The lions that have not eaten for three years would be dead.
11. Charcoal used in barbequing.
12. Sure you can name three consecutive days: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
                Submitted by user: Mohammed D. in http://www.ba-bamail .com
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Message For the Day…” Significance of Yaga as Thankfulness to God …”

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Yaga (ritualistic sacrificial prayers) is prescribed by the Karma Kanda (the parts that expound on actions or Karma as a spiritual path) of the Vedas. It is for sanctifying time and fulfilling the goal of human birth. The practice of renunciation and dedication through the rite of the yaga promotes worldly happiness as well as spiritual progress. It fosters charity and social cohesion. The ritual sacrifices pleases the deities presiding over the forces of Nature and so brings down rain, which helps growing crops, and increases food for man and beast. Activity that is divorced from spiritual goals, and devoid of reverence and humility, leads to conceit and authoritarianism. It makes one arrogant and cruel; but the sages of India laid down that all activity has to be done as a yaga, as offerings for the glory of God, in an atmosphere of thankfulness and awe, of humility and holiness. The goal of all activity was idealised as the happiness and peace of all living beings.

Sathya Sai Baba

Image of the Day…. Launch of Orion …

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The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, with NASA’s Orion spacecraft mounted atop, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37 at at 7:05 a.m. EST, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in Florida. The Orion spacecraft will orbit Earth twice, reaching an altitude of approximately 3,600 miles above Earth before landing in the Pacific Ocean. No one is aboard Orion for this flight test, but the spacecraft is designed to allow us to journey to destinations never before visited by humans, including an asteroid and Mars.

Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 

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Joke of the Day…” You would be Pulling People out of the Mud….”!!!

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A motorist, after being bogged down in a muddy road, paid a passing farmer five dollars to pull him out with his tractor.

After he was back on dry ground he said to the farmer, “At those prices, I should think you would be pulling people out of the mud night and day.”

“Can’t”, replied the farmer. “At night I haul water for the hole.” 

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Message For the Day…” How to Get Yourself Freed From the Fog of Ignorance …” ?

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To discriminate between good and bad, one must resort to scriptures. The Vedas emerged from the Divine Himself and were ‘heard’ by sages attuned to the voice of the Divine, who in turn, taught them to their disciples. This process of imparting the Vedas and the wisdom enshrined in them has continued through many generations of Gurus and disciples until now. The Upanishads, the Brahma Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita contain the very essence of the Vedas. Hence these are designated as ‘three fundamental texts (Prasthana traya)’ of the science of spirituality. Acquisition of higher knowledge alone can fulfil the main purpose of human life; it makes one aware that one is not the inert non-sentient body but an embodiment of being-awareness-bliss. When this truth dawns and is experienced, you are freed from the fog of ignorance and are liberated, in this very life.

Sathya Sai Baba