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Some Pursue Happiness While Others Create It !!!

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“An old man saw a scorpion drowning and decided to pull it out from the water. He calmly extended his hand to reach the creature. When he did, the scorpion stung him. With the effect of the pain, the old man let go the creature and it fell back into the water. The man realizing that the scorpion was drowning again, got back and tried to rescue it but then again it stung him. He let go of it again….

A young boy standing by, approached the old man and said, “Excuse me Sir, you are going to hurt yourself trying to save the evil-vicious creature, why do you insist? Don’t you realize that each time you try to help the scorpion, it stings you?”

The man replied, “The nature of the scorpion is to sting and mine is to help. My nature will not change in helping the scorpion.”

So the man thought for a while and used a leaf from a nearby tree and pulled the scorpion out from the water and saved it’s life.

MORAL LESSON:
Do not change your nature. If someone hurts you, just take precautions. Some pursue happiness while others create it. Let your conscience be your guide in whatever you do.”

source::::: H.Deepa in  shirdi  sai speaks ….

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Message For The Day….Even Intellectuals Should be Careful in Choosing Right Path!!!

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Intellect loves to revel in discussions and disputations. Once you yield to this temptation, it takes a long while for you to escape from its shackles and move on to enjoy the bliss, which you can attain only from its nullification. Your feelings and emotions warp your thought process, and convert reason into an untamed bull. Always be aware of the limitations of reason and logic. They must give way and yield to devotion. After a point in time, your spiritual path must be illumined by devotion and intuition. Hence, be aware – your intellect can help you only for some distance along the Godward path. Very often, egoism tends to encourage and justify one’s actions, for a person is led along the wrong path by one’s own reason, if that is the path the person likes! You often come to the conclusion you want to reach! So make a careful choice on the path you tread!

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Angry Birds Get into Kung fu Fighting !!!!

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Forget little green pigs – this is how birds get really angry.

With their own version of the Chinese martial art Wing Chun, these two Eurasian cranes show they’re more than ready for their release into the wild next month.

Unleashing kung-fu skills to rival Bruce Lee, one of the creatures rears its head and wings and launches a perfect kick at the other from mid air.
Ha-so! The adolescent Eurasian crane aims a well-timed kick at his opponent

 

You squawkin' to me? Keepers at the Great Crane Project said the cranes were only showing off in front of each other

Keepers say the two youngsters were just showing off in front of each other at the Great Crane Project at Crane School in Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.

They will be released next month onto the Somerset Moors and Levels.

The animals are taught how to forage and avoid danger by human carers, who wear disguises to prevent the cranes from becoming tame.

WWT aviculturist Amy King said: ‘We are surrogate parents to the birds and try to teach them all they need to survive, but some things they just pick up on their own.

‘Here the young cranes are sparring, as many young animals do. It looks dramatic but for now it is just practice.

‘Once in the wild, they’ll use these skills to determine their place in the pecking order and, if they need, to battle potential predators.’

Don't be givin' me your beak: The feisty young cranes are among 20 that were reared from eggs as part of the Great Crane Project's Crane School

 

RSPB Great Crane Project Manager Damon Bridge said: “It’ll be great to get this year’s youngsters down here to join the other cranes.

‘They’ll soon learn the ropes with the help of the more street wise older birds and with the support of our local farmers there’s plenty of wild food for them to get stuck into.’

Cranes were once a widespread and culturally significant part of British wildlife and many villages – such as Cranford in Middlesex or Cranmore in Somerset – take their names from the birds.

But by 400 years ago, they had gone extinct as a breeding bird because of the drainage of wetlands and over hunting.

The Great Crane Project is a partnership between the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, RSPB and Pensthorpe Conservation Trust.

It has major funding from Viridor Credits Environmental Company, which is reintroducing birds to the Somerset Moors and Levels.

source::::mailonline.comUK

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Message For The Day….Mind is Worse Than a Drunken Monkey…

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All the effort and investment you expend in pursuing the scriptures and noble thoughts are a sheer waste, if study and reflection do not help you to recognize that the mind is worse than a drunken monkey. Pilgrimages are for elevating the heart, sublimating the impulses and leading the lower self to higher levels of thought and action. Reason serves the same purpose, or at least, it ought to. Reason seeks to know the unity of the universe, the origin and the goal of all of it. Through reason, you should understand the laws that govern the microcosm (anu) and the macrocosm (Bruhath). It peeps behind the ever receding curtain to get a glimpse of the Puppeteer (Suthradhari) who pulls the strings.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day….Control and train Your Mind For Your Journey On the Right Path !!!

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Life is a pilgrimage to God and the path lies before you. But, unless you take the first step forward and follow it with succeeding steps, how can you reach it? Start with courage, faith, joy and steadiness, you will certainly succeed. The mind and the intellect are like two bullocks tied to a cart. The bullocks are not used to the road of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love, and so they drag the cart along the road familiar to them, namely, falsehood, injustice, worry and hatred. You have to train the bullocks to tread the right path, so that they may not bring disaster to themselves and to others. Every object or being in the world will give both pleasure and pain. Control and train your mind to see this real nature of the objective world. That is the real fruit of education.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Making a Mountain out of A Molehill !!!

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An artist is making a big impression with his tiny pieces of art.

  • Roy Tyson creates images and installations using miniature figures
  • The 26-year-old from Essex paints the figures before taking their photos
  • The tiny figures have affectionately became known as Roy’s People

Roy Tyson specialises in creating unique images and installations using miniature figures.

Often he uses everyday props and taxidermy to create a humourous scene designed to be fun and
intriguing.

Big ideas: Miniature forensic officers closely examine cigarette butts in this piece by Roy Tyson called CSI Essex

Big ideas: Miniature forensic officers closely examine cigarette butts in this piece by Roy Tyson

Roy made this tiny figurine push a cart of apples along a road in this piece called Harvest

Roy made this tiny figurine push a cart of peas along a road in this piece called Harvest

Big ambition: Two golfers have a go at hitting this ball in Anything's Possible by Roy Tyson

Big ambition: Two golfers have a go at hitting this ball in Anything’s Possible by Roy Tyson


In one piece, tiny forensic officers examine cigarette butts while in another fishermen cast their lines into a drain.

All of the miniature figures, affectionately known as Roy’s People, are hand painted to give them personality and charm.

The 26-year-old, from Stanford-le-Hope, in Essex, buys the figures and paints them before taking their pictures.

Under attack: Shooters take aim at this helpless snail in this piece by Roy Tyson
Under attack: Shooters take aim at this helpless snail in this piece by Roy Tyson

A tiny figurine looks through binoculars at wildlife including a bee in a flower bush

A tiny figurine looks through binoculars at wildlife including a bee in a flower bush

Passengers wait at a miniature bus stop before climbing on to a Scorpion as their mode of transport

Passengers wait at a miniature bus stop before climbing on to a Scorpion as their mode of transport


A figurine made by artist Roy Tyson A figurine made by artist Roy Tyson

Roy Tyson buys the figures and paints them before taking pictures of them in an unusual setting

Talented: What started as a playful hobby for Roy Tyson is now a full time role and he sells some pieces for more than £100

Talented: What started as a playful hobby for Roy Tyson is now a full time role and he sells some pieces for more than £100

Roy Tyson is an artist making a big impression with his painted figurines

Roy Tyson is an artist making a big impression with his painted figurines


He recently told the Essex Echo that street art is his biggest influence. He said: ‘I like Banksy and the way he uses street art.

‘For me, the street art I do is just looking at things that are every day and seeing how little people can be used to make these things look funny.

‘It makes objects look different, it’s a mixture between things that are going on in the world and things that just pop into my head.’

To find out more visit Roy’s Facebook page.

source:::::Tara Brady in mailonline.comUK

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Message For The Day….Like Butter Is Present in Milk,Divinity is Present in Everybody !!!

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When some of you visit a temple or a holy shrine, even as you participate in the worship, your thoughts are about the safety of your footwear that you left outside. You will not get joy or liberation by merely going to a holy place. You will not get the joy even through darshan, sparshan and sambhashan – seeing Him, touching Him and conversing with Him. You must follow the prescription and act in accordance with the Divine Directions. Earnestly and enthusiastically, take the path shown by the great devotees of the Lord. You must feel inseparable affinity with the Lord, just as the wave is inseparable from the sea. Butter is imminent in milk and is invisible. So too, Divinity is present in every being and will manifest from within.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

படித்ததில் பிடித்தது !!!….” No Cheque , only Cash !!!”

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சினிமா தயாரிப்பாளர், காலம் சென்ற சாண்டோ சின்னப்ப தேவர், 40 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன், ஒரு வார இதழுக்கு அளித்த பேட்டியில் சொல்கிறார்:
நான், சொந்தப்படம் தயாரிக்க சினிமாக் கம்பெனி துவங்கினேன். நடிகர், நடிகைகளுக்கும் மற்ற தொழிலாளர்களுக்கும் சம்பளம் கொடுக்க, “காசோலை’ தர வேண்டும். அதுநாள் வரை, எனக்கு வங்கியில் அக்கவுன்ட் கிடையாது. அதனால், புதிதாக, என் பெயரில் ஒரு கணக்கு ஆரம்பித்து, கணிசமான ஒரு தொகையையும் போட்டு வைத்தேன். காசோலை புத்தகம் கொடுத்தனர்; வாங்கி வந்தேன்.
ஒரு வாரம் கழித்து, எனக்கு பணம் தேவைப்பட்டது. என் பெயருக்கு, காசோலையில் எழுதி கொண்டு வங்கிக்கு சென்றேன். ஆனால், என் கையெழுத்து சரியாக இல்லை. நான் பள்ளிக்கூடம் போய் படிக்காதவன். என் பெயரை எப்படி எழுதுவது என்று, மற்றவர்கள் சொல்லிக் கொடுத்து தான் கையெழுத்து போட்டு வந்தேன். என் கையெழுத்தையும், என் உருவத்தையும் பார்த்து சந்தேகித்த அவர்கள், என்னை ஒரு ஓரமாக உட்கார சொல்லி, போலீசுக்கு போன் செய்து விட்டனர்.
போலீஸ் வந்து என்னை விசாரித்தது…
“நான் தான் சின்னப்பா. சினிமாவில் நடித்திருக்கிறேன்…’ என்று சொல்லியும், அவர்கள் நம்பாமல் மிரட்டினர். பின், எனக்கு தெரிந்தவர் களின் நம்பருக்கு போன் செய்து, அவர்கள் என்னைப் பற்றி சொன்ன பின் தான் விட்டனர். நம் பணத்தையும் போட்டு விட்டு, இந்த அவமரியாதையா… என்று, கோபம் வந்துவிட்டது. கணக்கை முடித்து, முழுப் பணத்தையும் எடுத்துக் கொண்டு வந்து விட்டேன்.
இதுவரை, எத்தனையோ படங்கள் தயாரித்து விட்டேன். இந்திப் படங்களும் தயாரிக் கிறேன். ஆனால், யாருக்கும், காசோலை கொடுப்பதில்லை. நேரடி சம்பளம் தான். எனக்கு, வங்கியில் அக்கவுன்ட் இன்று வரை கிடையாது… என்று, கூறியுள்ளார் சின்னப்ப தேவர்.

source :::::Dinamalar ….Sunday Supplement

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