Message For the Day…” Education Without Right Conduct is of No Value …”

All of you are sparks of the Divine. Just as a spark of the fire from the furnace, after a while, turns into ash, you too forget your divine origin. When you pursue your education, you must also pursue spiritual discipline, which will lead you to Divinity. Those that study in Institutions that have a spiritual discipline, must consider themselves extremely fortunate. If you choose to adhere to the ideals learnt and practice even a small fraction of the Lord’s teachings, you will realize the true purpose of education and the true objective of human life. Education without right conduct is of no value. You must make use of what you have learnt, not just for earning a living but also for service to the society. Only then your degrees will have any meaning. Whatever job you take up, wherever you work, you must continue the practice of spiritual discipline and aim for Self realisation.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” Teach your Tongue Not to criticize anybody…”

You eat food daily, take in thousands of grains! Have you ever calculated how many rice grains you have consumed? However the moment one minute stone comes in the rice you eat, you are very unhappy that day and complain that your food has stones. Similarly your life is three fourths happiness and one fourth sorrow. But you become a victim to sorrow. You choose to give more importance to sorrow than happiness. This is an animal quality (Pashu Lakshanam). Teach your tongue not to lose its reputation by following the wrong path. Your tongue is capable of raising you to Divine or droop to that of an animal. If someone is good to you, the tongue praises them as God Himself. If someone harms you, the tongue then equates them to an animal. Teach your tongue to ever chant the Name of the Lord and never to criticize anybody!

Sathya Sai Baba

Image of the Day… “Most ‘ Super’ Super Moon of 2014 on 10 August…

 

Most "super" supermoon of 2014 on August 10 Read more

Above image contrasting largest and smallest full moons: Stefanao Sciarpetti

Full moon falls on August 10, 2014 at 18:09 UTC (1:09 p.m. CDT in the U.S.). This full moon is not only the closest and largest full moon of the year. It also presents the moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2014. The moon will not be so close again until the full moon of September 28, 2015. In other words, it’s not just a supermoon. It’s the closest supermoon of 2014.

At United States’ time zones, the moon will turn full on August 10 at 2:09 p.m. EDT, 1:09 p.m. CDT, 12:09 p.m. MDT and 11:09 a.m. PDT.

We astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon. The word perigeedescribes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month. Three years ago, when the closest and largest full moon fell on March 19, 2011, many used the term supermoon, which we’d never heard before. In the following years, we heard this term again to describe the year’s closest full moon on May 6, 2012, and again on June 23, 2013. Now the term supermoon is being used a lot. Last month’s full moon – on June 13, 2014 – was also a supermoon. But the August full moon is even more super! In other words, the time of full moon falls even closer to the time of perigee, the moon’s closest point to Earth. The crest of the moon’s full phase in August 10, and perigee, fall within the same hour.

What does supermoon mean exactly? And how special is the August 10, 2014 supermoon? Follow the links below to find out.

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Does a supermoon have a super effect on us?

 

Source::: Earth sky news

Natarajan

 

 

Message For the Day….” Humility is the Hallmark of True Education …”

Many feel proud of the enormous growth in education everywhere. Acquiring degrees at great cost and developing contempt for one’s parents out of intellectual pride is not a sign of higher education. Arrogance, envy and ostentation should have no place in an educated person. Humility is the hallmark of true education. The educated must serve people through sweat and toil. Education must inspire youth to offer service, to sacrifice and to help. It must not inspire youth to amass money as its goal, and to travel farther and farther to earn more and more of it. Accumulated money often breeds arrogance and its army of other vices. You cannot crave for peace and happiness and do things that bring unhappiness and worry. Having been born as human beings, you must try to rise above the level of animals and raise yourself to be truly Divine.

Sathya Sai Baba

A Lovely Message on ‘Value’ …..

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A lovely message on ‘Value’ –

I had known a friend of mine who used to say that he misplaces and loses his pen very often.
He will use only very cheap pens so that he need not worry about losing them. He was worried about carelessness habit.
I suggested him to buy the costliest pen he could afford and see what happens.
He did that and purchased a 22 carat Cross pen. After nearly six months I met him and asked him, if he continues to misplace his pen.
He said that he is very careful about his costly pen and he is surprised how he has changed!
I explained to him that the value of the pen made the difference and there was nothing wrong with him as a person!
This is what happens in our life.
We are careful with things which we value most.
* If we value our health, we will be careful about what and how we eat;
* if we value our friends, we will treat them with respect;
* if we value money, we will be careful while spending;
* if we value our time, we will not waste it.
*if we value relationship we will not break it.
Carefulness is a basic trait all of us have, we know when to be careful!
Carelessness only shows what we don’t value……    
Source::::debu7370.blogspot.in
Natarajan

Message For the Day…” Education sans Moral Values and Spiritual Insight is of of No Use ..”

The number of students in schools and colleges has increased very significantly. Formal education, which was for long the privilege of a few scholars and the sons of the rich, is now at the very doors of everyone. People rejoiced when schools and colleges rose up more and more in the countries of the world, without realizing what is happening through them. Unrest, fear and anxiety are increasing because of improper and incomplete education. Education process that does not involve itself in proper values or does not lay stress on morals is dangerous. Consequently, the products of the process, who have no sense of values, gradually enter the positions of higher authority in the administration of nations at very high levels. Hence the world has come to the brink of a disaster. Education can yield peace and prosperity only when along with technical skills and objective information, students are equipped with moral ideals, righteous living and spiritual insight.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” Never Use Harsh Words…Do Not Humiliate others…”

Naxalites (terrorists) are not merely the people who hold guns and pistols. Anyone who hurts others in thoughts, words and deeds is a naxalite. Three important things that all of you must pay attention to are your thoughts, words and deeds. When there is a thought, the word follows and then the body acts. In the arena of thoughts, never think evil of others. Next is word. Never use harsh words, do not humiliate others and never try to deceive others with your words. If one is killed with a knife or a pistol, they die immediately. But if you hurt a person with words, he or she will be pained till their death. Medicines exist for all external injuries, however no medicine or doctor can heal the wound or injury inflicted through words. Therefore the harm done by words is more dangerous and takes a long time to heal. Spiritual ways alone can alter the harm done by thoughts, words and deeds.

Sathya Sai Baba

Joke of the Day…” They Called Back … ” !!!

One day an employee came in to work with both of his ears bandaged.
When his boss asked him what happened, he explained:

“Yesterday I was ironing a shirt when the phone rang
and I accidentally answered the iron instead of the phone!”

“Well,” the boss said, “that explains one ear, but what
about the other?” “They called back!”

Source:::: joke a day.com

Natarajan

” முதுகு வலி… முதியோருக்கு மட்டும் சொந்தம் அல்ல …” !!!

• வாரத்தில் ஒரு நாளாவது உடல் முழுக்க எண்ணெய் தேய்த்துக் குளிக்க வேண்டும். உடலில் எண்ணெய் தேய்த்து மசாஜ் செய்து குளிக்கும்போது ரத்த ஓட்டம் சீராகும். இதன் மூலம் எலும்பு மூட்டுகளில் உயவுத்தன்மை குறையாமலும் பார்த்துக்கொள்ள முடியும்.

• அடிபடுவதாலும், ஒரே இடத்தில் உட்கார்ந்து வேலை செய்வதாலும் ஜவ்வுகளில் பாதிப்பு ஏற்படும். எனவே, ஓரிடத்தில் தொடர்ந்து உட்கார்ந்துகொண்டே இருக்கக் கூடாது. குறிப்பிட்ட நேர இடைவெளியில் எழுந்து சிறிது தூரம் நடந்தால், பின்னால் பெரிதாக வரும் பிரச்சினையைத் தவிர்க்கலாம்.

• கழுத்து ஜவ்வு பாதிக்கப்பட்டால் வீக்கமும் வலியும் ஏற்படும். கம்ப்யூட்டரின் முன் தொடர்ந்து உட்கார்ந்து பல மணி நேரம் வேலை பார்ப்பவர்களுக்கு இந்தப் பிரச்சினை வரலாம். அதற்கான சிகிச்சை எடுத்துக்கொண்ட பிறகு, கழுத்துக்குத் தனியாக உடற்பயிற்சி செய்ய வேண்டும்.

• சம்மணம் போட்டு உட்காருவதைத் தற்போது மறந்து வருகிறோம். குறைந்தபட்சம் வாரத்துக்கு ஒரு முறையாவது சம்மணம் போட்டு உட்கார்வது முதுகுத் தண்டுக்கும் இடுப்புக்கும் நல்லது.

• வலி குறைவாக இருக்கும்போது உடற்பயிற்சியின் மூலம் அதைச் சரி செய்துவிடலாம். சிலருக்குப் பிறக்கும்போதே முதுகுத் தண்டு வளைந்து காணப்படலாம். இது பிறவி குறைப்பாடு. உடற்பயிற்சி மூலம் இக்குறையை மட்டுப்படுத்த முடியும்.

• உடற்பயிற்சி செய்யும்போது தசைநார்களுக்கும், எலும்புகளுக்கும் வலு கிடைக்கும். தசை வீக்கமாக இருந்தால் முதலில் பாதிக்கப்படுவது எலும்பும் ஜவ்வும்தான். எனவே, உடற்பயிற்சி முக்கியம்.

• முதுகு வலி உள்ளவர்கள் தும்மும்போது, பார்த்துத் தும்ம வேண்டும். தும்மும்போது கழுத்தும், இடுப்பும் வேலை செய்யும். கழுத்துக்கும் இடுப்புக்கும் கடுமையாக வேலையைக் கொடுத்துவிட்டால், இடுப்பு ஜவ்வு பாதிக்கப்படும்.

• நேரத்துக்குச் சாப்பிடாமல் இருந்தால், காலி வயிற்றில் வாயு உருவாகித் தொல்லை ஏற்படும். எனவே, நேரத்துக்குச் சாப்பிடுவது அவசியம்.

• முறையாக உட்காராமல் இருப்பது, படுத்துக்கொண்டே கம்ப்யூட்டர் பார்ப்பது, குப்புறப் படுத்துக்கொண்டு செல்போனை மேய்வது, நீண்ட நேரம் ஒரே இடத்தில் உட்கார்ந்திருப்பது இவையெல்லாம் முதுகுவலியில் கொண்டு போய் விட்டுவிடும். இவற்றைத் தவிர்க்க வேண்டும்.