Message For the Day….” Difference Between Happiness and Bliss…”

February 20, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

Happiness generally relates to bodily comforts and is transient. Such temporary pleasure comes to us for a few moments but very soon plunges us into deep sorrow. But the kind of bliss that one gets through the Soul (Atma) is permanent, pure and selfless. Hence spiritual education (Brahma Vidya)advocates that love must be cultivated for love’s sake only. You must not express love to merely obtain material benefits. If love is showered to win temporary benefits, then it will last for a very short time only. Divine Atmasymbolises eternal truth and is permanent. Therefore Prema attached to Atmawill be true and permanent. This infinite love and eternal truth is present in every being (jīva). If we focus on developing love and truth for its own sake, then we will experience bliss supreme. That is why the Upanishads advocate Selfless Love as ‘Satyasya satyaṃ’ or the Truth of truths.

Sathya Sai Baba

Some Postings in Face Book…. Who Wants It Really … !!!!

February 20, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

With great power comes great electricity bill and too much information about what others are doing and too many feeds on your Facebook wall. So much for digitization that you actually know the color of your friend’s pet dog’s vomit or the last time they bought a water bottle.!!!

Here are few Posts found in FB … As per an analysis …

No offence meant for anybody !!!….

Where they are going out for lunch….

Eating pani puri with tinku, minku, chinku and rinku. !!!

What they ate last night for dinner…

That awkward moment when you read that people are having dinner with their family, at home.!!!

What’s the color of nail polish that they are wearing today ….

Yes girls, Facebook wasn’t meant for this.!!!

Their extreme Photoshop skills…

So much, so that you won’t recognize them in person.!!!

. Birthday of their car/ cycle/ laptop/ mobile phone/ dogs….!!!

How much they love people who live in the same house…

Seriously. STOP !!!

What they dreamt last night….!!!

What song they are listening to…

You know what, it’s not your fault actually. One should totally blame Facebook for adding a feature like that.!!!!

Which movie/ serial that they are watching…

XYZ watching Sasural Simar Ka

Which level they crossed on Candy Crush….

On the great green God’s earth, who invented that? !!!

SOURCE:::: http://www.storypick.com

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How an 11 Year old Girl got to Name the Planet Pluto … !!!

February 19, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

An 11-year-old British girl is responsible naming the planet Pluto, the once ninth planet of our solar system, after her grandfather read about the dwarf planet’s discovery at the family breakfast table.

The girl, Venetia Burney, recalled the event in an interview with NASA in 2006,

“I think it was on March the 14th, 1930 and I was having breakfast with my mother and my grandfather. And my grandfather read out at breakfast the great news and said he wondered what it would be called. And for some reason, I after a short pause, said, “Why not call it Pluto?” I did know, I was fairly familiar with Greek and Roman legends from various children’s books that I had read, and of course I did know about the solar system and the names the other planets have. And so I suppose I just thought that this was a name that hadn’t’t been used. And there it was. The rest was entirely my grandfather’s work.”

Burney’s grandfather, Falconer Madan, the ex-head librarian at the Bodleian at Oxford, was so pleased by his granddaughter’s proposed name that he suggested it to Herbert Hall Turner, a retired astronomer who held the title of Astronomer Royal.

Turner immediately wired the idea to American astronomers at Lowell Observatory. The planet was officially named a in May 1930.

Despite many rumors that Burney named the planet Pluto after the Greek god of the underworld or that the first two letter “PL” are in honor of Percival Lowell, the founder of Lowell Observatory, Burney seems to have named the planet Pluto because it sounded good to her. “I just thought it was a name that hadn’t been used so far, and might be an obvious one to have,” Burney told NASA.

There was also a rumor that the planet was named after Pluto the dog because both, the cartoon and the planet, came out in 1930. However, Pluto the dog was originally named Rover in 1930. It wasn’t until 1931 that the beloved cartoon dog took the name Pluto, meaning that the dog took the name of the planet.
This article originally appeared at Modern Notion. Copyright 2015. Follow Modern Notion on Twitter
Read more: http://modernnotion.com/little-girl-named-pluto/#ixzz3SELJkgOQ

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JOSH HRALA, MODERN NOTION

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Joke for the Day…

February 19, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

An old man decides to go into town one day to run some errands. On the way back, his wife calls his cell phone.

“Look out honey, I just saw on the news that there’s a car driving the wrong way on the interstate.”

“Not just one car, they all are!”

………………………………………

After a hard day of drilling, the drill sergeant let the troops go.

“All right, you idiots, report to the mess hall.”

Everybody walked away, sweating and their heads down, thankful for the end of the hard day.

Only one private remained.

He looked at the officer and sincerely said, “Boy, there sure were a lot of them, huh, sarge.”

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3 Indian Airports Among the World’s Best….

February 19, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

Three airports from India have bagged the Airports Council International’s Airport Service Quality Awards.

Photograph, courtesy: Ramesh NG/Wikimedia Commons

The Indira Gandhi International Airport has been ranked as the best airport in the world in the 25-40 million passengers per annum category.

The survey rates each airport’s performance in 34 key service areas under eight major categories including access, check-in, security, airport facilities, food and beverage providers.

Seoul’s Incheon airport is ranked as the world’s best airport in the above 40 million passengers’ category.

Two Indian airports won the award in the 25-40 million passengers’ category, while one bagged the third place in the 5-15 million category…

Take a look at the world’s best airports…

Photograph, courtesy: Krokodyl/ Wikimedia Commons

Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi

Rank: 1

Indira Gandhi International Airport is the busiest airport in India.

The airport is managed by Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), a joint venture between the AAI and GMR Group-led consortium.

“The journey was never easy especially after holding the No 2 mark for last three years. We can now justifiably claim to be the world’s best,” Prabhakara Rao, chief executive, DIAL said in a statement.

With the new Terminal 3, the Delhi international airport has become South Asia’s largest aviation hub.

Photograph, courtesy: Kaichinshih/Wikimedia Commons

Taipei Taoyuan, Taiwan

Rank: 2

One of five airports in the country, Taipei Taoyuan is the largest airport in Taiwan.

Last year also, it bagged the world’s second best airport award from ACI.

“Airports are more than simply points of departure and arrival. At the end of the day, good business acumen comes down to a simple equation: better service, improved traffic and a healthier bottom line,” said Angela Gittens, Director General, ACI World.

Photograph, courtesy: Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport

Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, China

Rank: 3

One of the busiest airports in the world, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport has been regularly winning award for its best services.

Photograph, courtesy: Baycrest/ Wikimedia Commons

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, China

Rank: 4

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport is a hub for China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Juneyao Airlines and Spring Airlines.

It is one of the busiest airports in China.

Photograph: Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com

Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai

Rank: 5

It is the second busiest airport in India, after Delhi airport.

The airport has five operating terminals spread over an operational area of 8 square kilometers.

A world class terminal T2 was recently opened last year for international operations at the Mumbai airport.

The airport is run by Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), a joint venture between the AAI and GVK group-led consortium.

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad

The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad has bagged the third position in the 5-15 million passengers per annum category.

The Hyderabad airport was ranked as the best airport in 2009 and 2010, third-best in 2011, and second-best in 2012.

Tags: Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, Indira Gandhi International Airport, Airports Council International, Wikimedia Commons,Rajiv Gandhi International Airport

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Have you Heard about these Aircraft Designs … ?

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The 20th century saw an amazing array of new vehicles – from cars to ships to submarines and airplanes. Some of these designs are still used today, their basic premise being so dead on. However, some designs were less than ideal, and what follows are the aircraft designs that just weren’t as good as the rest, but are still fascinating to see. Enjoy this collection of strangely designed planes.

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joke of the Day… ” I took a Photo …” !!!

February 19, 2015February 19, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

My wife said she wanted to see 50 Shades of Grey.

So I took a photo of her hair!

…………………….

While stitching a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old farmer, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.

Eventually the topic got around to politicians and their role as our leaders.

The old farmer said, “Well, as I see it, most politicians are ‘Post Tortoises’.”

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post tortoise’ was.

The old farmer said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that’s a post tortoise.”

The old farmer saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain.

“You know he didn’t get up there by himself,

he doesn’t belong up there,

he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there,

he’s elevated beyond his ability to function,

and you just wonder what kind of idiot put him up there to begin with.”
SOURCE::::: http://www.joke a day.com

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A Frozen Niagara Falls …. Now a Winter Wonderland !!!

February 19, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

Frigid temperatures and wicked wind chills have been ravaging the northeast over the past week and the prolonged below-freezing temperatures have turned Niagara Falls into a winter wonderland.

The above image shows the American side of the famous falls on Tuesday when temperatures dropped to 6 degrees Fahrenheit around the Great Lakes. The American side of the Niagara Falls is much more likely to freeze than the more iconic shoehorn-shaped Canadian side.

Still, the American side is far from frozen solid. Water is still flowing, but layers of ice sheets have built up around the water.

The crazy temperatures haven’t kept tourists away. Last year when the falls partially froze, the site got more visitors than any other winter day on record, according to USA Today.

Tourists visit the frozen falls on Feb. 17.

The sheer volume and speed of the water plummeting over the falls makes it impossible to completely freeze over. However, the mist that constantly wafts up from the rushing water can freeze into sheets of ice during the winter. Those ice sheets combined with frozen slush flowing down from Lake Eerie can make the falls look frozen:

A rainbow appears over Niagara Falls on Feb. 17.

Here’s what the American side of the falls looks like when it’s not frozen over:

Bitter cold temperatures over President’s Day weekend also froze the Bryant Park fountain in New York City. Central Park hovered around 3 degrees — the coldest it’s been in over a decade.

The Bryant Park fountain frozen over

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Message For the Day…” Read Good Books and Practice What You Read…”

February 19, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

Books and facilities for mind-training are available in plenty, and at very cheap prices. The heaps of books that lie around cannot succeed in penetrating the heavy binding and emerge as light in you. For, just as God is hidden by the mountain ranges of lust, anger, envy, and selfishness within, the sun of wisdom is also hidden in the books. Though books and reading habits have spread to all corners of the earth, we can’t say that culture or wisdom has increased; the human is still not far from the ape. An attractive binding, title and beautiful pictures are what the reader seeks; these are transitory pleasures which give momentary contentment. Aimless reading of all and sundry books will confuse you and confer no peace. Hence discriminate, select and read books that contain life histories of saints and sages, and those that aid in the contemplation of the Divine. Practice what you read. Then you will realise truth and enjoy everlasting bliss.

Sathya Sai Baba

Joke of the Day… “Shakespeare’s Seat … ” !!!

February 18, 2015NatarajanLeave a comment

My grandparents were taking me on a vacation to Disneyland. Grandma was excited for me when we boarded the plane, she exclaimed that I was lucky, because I got the Shakespeare seat.

“Why is it the Shakespeare seat Grandma?”

“You are in seat 2-B, so it’s the Shakespeare seat.”

“Don’t be silly Grandma. All the seats on an airplane are Shakespeare seats.”

“How do you figure that?”

“Well, it’s either seat 2-B or not 2-B.” !!!

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