Message For The Day….In Your Heart There Is Aatma Rama….

Attach yourself to God, then all other attachment for the temporary objects will automatically fall off. At least, you will start seeing worldly objects in the right manner, in the light of their relative reality. It is only when the tiny little ego assumes enormous importance, there is a lot of bother. That is the root of all the travail. In your heart there is the Aatma Rama, the Rama who will confer eternal joy upon you. So repeat the Name of the Lord. The Lord’s Name is the Sun, which can make the lotus in the heart blossom in full. Lord Rama is not merely the son of emperor Dasaratha, but is the Ruler of Dasa Indriyas (the ten senses). The recital of Lord Rama’s Name must become as automatic and as frequent as your very breath. The Lord’s name will endow you with power and all the spiritual capital you need.   

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Swimming Baby !!! Stunning Confidence Level !!!

This incredible video,  posted by the proud parents of baby Elizabeth, demonstrates the ability of young children to swim short distances unaided.
The toddler, who has been trained by certified infant swim instructors, shows no hesitation as she paddles across the entire length of her parents’ pool.
Elizabeth always swims under the watchful eyes of her parents, who are both trained emergency workers, and they document her progress in YouTube videos.
This footage of Elizabeth aged 16-months was taken almost a year ago but has recently gone viral, generating fierce debate about teaching young children to swim.
Her parents insist the toddler was never in danger as her father, a nurse trained in CPR, and her mother, a lifeguard and swimming instructor, supervised her at all times.

At no point do we force our child to do anything she is unwilling to try”, one of them wrote in response to critical posts on YouTube, “I was 100% prepared to jump in at first sign of distress”.

 

 

source:::::The Telegraph UK

natarajan

World”s Biggest Commercial Complex @ China ….19 Million Sq Ft!!!

The world’s largest building has opened in China capable of fitting 20 Sydney Opera Houses – or three Pentagons – inside.

The New Century Global Center in Chengdu, Sichuan province, is a staggering 19million sq.ft. and contains shopping centres, a Mediterranean village, a water park, an ice-skating rink, and multiple hotels.

However, visitors to the glass panelled building need not worry about the weather as the giant complex will have its own artificial sun.
Giant among men: New Century Global Centre in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province is the world's largest freestanding building

Living it large: Workers clean the glass roof of the New Century Global Centre which opened to the public this weekend after three years of construction

Pride of Chengdu: The gigantic complex is so large it fits 20 Sydney Opera Houses or nearly three Pentagons and boasts several hotels and shopping centres

Pride of Chengdu: The gigantic complex is so large it fits 20 Sydney Opera Houses or nearly three Pentagons and boasts several hotels and shopping centres

The building is 500 metres long, 400 metres wide and 100 metres high, reports said.

 

According to Chinese officials, the New Century Global Center is the largest freestanding building in the world, and took three years to complete.

 

‘This is an ocean city built by man,’ Chinese guide Liu Xun told AFP.

He added that the artificial sun built inside the building will provide light and heat 24 hours a day for shoppers exploring the around 400,000 sq. metres of boutiques and stores.

The building sits directly opposite the Chengdu Contemporary Arts Centre, designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, at the heart of a booming area of Chengdu.

All you need: Visitors to New Century Global Centre can browse 400,000 sq. metres of shops inside the complex
High ceilings: The gigantic dome-like glass roof is 100metres (328ft) high and has an 'artificial sun'

Family fun: As well as the shops, hotels and the artificial sun, the building also has an indoor water park

source :::::mailonline.com

natarajan

 

Message For The Day….Wisdom is not Something You Acquire From Elsewhere …It is Your Own From your Heart !!!

There is no need to fight against the fundamental delusion of body attachment with overwhelming force and argument. Delusion will disappear, if you just sit quietly for one minute and analyse for yourself your own experience with this transient world.Jnana (Wisdom) is not Apraaptha-praapthi, something that is acquired from somewhere, like the gift of money from a donor to a person who did not have it. Wisdom is Praaptha-Praapthi! It is like forgetting about the ten-rupee note that you kept in a book you were reading. You then lent that book to someone and later asked him for a ten-rupee loan. He just gave it to you from the book, which is your own money. Similarly the Guru brings out t he treasure of wisdom, from your very own hridaya pustaka – book of your heart!   

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Evergreen Quotes and Fine Five Facts !!!!

Quotable Quotes ….
1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
— John Adams
2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do
read the newspaper you are misinformed.
— Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But then I repeat myself.
— Mark Twain
4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. –Winston Churchill
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul.
— George Bernard Shaw
6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man,
which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
— G. Gordon Liddy
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
–James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor
people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
— Douglas Case, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University .
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
and car keys to teenage boys.
— P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody
endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
11. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up
in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps
moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
–Ronald Reagan (1986)
12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the
facts. — Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you
see what it costs when it’s free!
— P. J. O’Rourke
14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much
money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to
the other.
–Voltaire (1764)
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean
politics won’t take an interest in you!
— Pericles (430 B.C.)
16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the
legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
— Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy
appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
— Ronald Reagan
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the
blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing
of misery.
— Winston Churchill
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that
the taxidermist leaves the skin.
— Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools.
— Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save
Congress.
— Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians
–Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have.
— Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public
office.
— Aesop
Fine  Five  Facts !!!!
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the
wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to
work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and
when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work
because somebody else is going to get what they work for,
that is the beginning of the end of any nation!

source:::::input from a friend of mine

natarajan

 

Images of The Week from BBC ….

SupermoonThe Moon reached its perigee, the closest it gets to Earth during its orbit Here it rises next to the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion

 

The return capsule of the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft lands in the Inner Mongolia region, completing China’s longest manned space mission.

 

 

Newly hatchedAn Indian cobra hatchling emerges from an egg on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

 

Dream homeArgentine artist Leandro Erlich has created an apparently gravity-defying house in a street in east London. Spoiler alert: it works using mirrors.

 

Funny medicineMedical clown David Barashi (DuSH the clown) helps a child receiving care as part of the Dream doctors project at the Hadasa hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

Smoke signalsA woman walks through haze as a forest fire burns in Riau Province, Indonesia. The Sumatra fires have caused record smog levels in Malaysia and Singapore.

 

Moon danceLet’s end with another “supermoon” picture, this one rising behind the Washington Monument.

 

source::::bbc.com

natarajan

Message For The Day….Self Effort and Divine Grace Must For Taking Spiritual Path ….

It is only through action that devotion can be deepened. Action cleanses the mind and makes it fit for spiritual knowledge. Merely listening to noble thoughts (sravanam) is a thaamasik act. Recapitulation (manana) is Rajasik and complete assimilation (nidhidhyasana) is Saathwik. When you are simply listening, quietly receiving without reflecting or responding, you are dull (thaamasik). When you turn the thought over in your mind, attempting to assimilate it, then you are active (rajasik), and when you are sunk in the sweetness of experience, you enjoy pure exultation (sathwik). That Nidhidhyasana is the fruit of devotion. To overcome obstacles in the spiritual path, you must have both, Sadhana and Sankalpa – Self-effort and Divine Grace.

 

Sathya Sai Baba