Have a Very Happy Puppy Easter!
Easter is here, and I wanted to make sure that you start it with a HUGE smile on your face. I hope this will do just that and that you have the very best of holidays. This will get you started in the right direction!
source:::: You Tube and ba-ba mail site
natarajan
Oblivious to the presence of the Divine within, people embark on the quest for God. They behave like a person who goes to borrow milk from their neighbour, forgetting the wish-fulfilling cow (Kamadhenu) in their backyard. Avatars are of two kinds: Amsavatar and Purnavatar. Every human being is an Amsavatar (partial incarnation of the Divine); in the Gita, Lord Krishna says, ‘a part of the Divine Soul has become the individual soul in the world of living beings (Mamaivaamso jeevaloke jeevabhutah-sanaatanah)’. Many partial incarnations get caught up in Maya (worldly illusion), develop egoism and possessiveness, and lead worldly lives. Purnaavatar (full incarnation of the Divine) may behave, according to the circumstances, as if they were subject to Maya, but they are free from Maya at all times. They subdue and transcend Maya, and manifest their full Divinity to the world throughout their lives.
20 Quick and easy ways to make you and your friends smile, grin and laugh!
[1] Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving..
[2] Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you an area referee.
[3] Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is the husband
[4] I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried – but they wanted cash.
[5] A child’s greatest period of growth is the month after you’ve purchased new school uniforms.
[6] Don’t marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without, but whatever you do, you’ll regret it later.
[7] You can’t buy love, but you pay heavily for it.
[8] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
[9] Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired..
[10] Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway.
[11] My wife and I always compromise. I admit I’m wrong and she agrees with me.
[12] Those who can’t laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
[13] Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner. Prettiest one !!!
[14] A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
[15] You’re getting old when you enjoy remembering things more than doing them.
[16] It doesn’t matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.
[17] Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
[18] They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak!
[19] It’s funny when people discuss Love Marriage vs Arranged. It’s like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered.
[20] There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it. There is only one perfect wife in the world and every neighbour has it!
source::::ba-ba mail site
natarajan
Anusham Special – 18 APRIL 2014…
Here is a beautiful compilation of Guru Paduka Stotram, interwoven with Periva’s rare photos – carefully chosen sets where you can get to have his Padam/Paduka darshan in almost every photo.
source::::www.periva.proboards.com
natarajan
|
There are several, who, despite chanting the Lord’s name for several hours, days and months together, did not transform themselves even one bit. The demonic nature of Ravana, Bhasmasura and Kamsa did not diminish even a little, despite their chanting of the Lord’s name. What is the reason for this? All their sense organs function with the feeling: “I am the body (Aham Dehosmi).” Those who utter the name of the Lord while being immersed in body consciousness cannot realise the Divine, however long their penance may last. You are the embodiment of Divine Consciousness. Only when you are pure, you can experience that consciousness. Through attachment to worldly pleasures one gets bound to the physical and becomes oblivious to one’s essential Divinity.
|
source:::: glasbergen.com
natarajan
Free kitchen in India run at the Sikhs’ holiest shrine produces 200,000 flat breads and 1.5 tonnes of lentil soup daily.
Two hundred thousand rotis (Indian flat bread), 1.5 tonnes of dal (lentil soup) and free food served to 100,000 people everyday are what makes the free kitchen run at the Golden Temple in the western Indian city of Amritsar stand apart.By all measures, the kitchen (called langar in Punjabi ) is one of the largest free kitchens to be run anywhere in the world.The concept of langars was initiated centuries ago by Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion. At the Langar, no one goes hungry – and everybody gets a hot meal regardless of caste, creed and religion. All Sikh Gurudwaras (places of worship) have langars, but the one at Golden Temple – Sikhs’ holiest shrine – has little parallel. “Anyone can eat for free here and on an average we serve food to 100,000 people. On weekends and special occasions double the numbers of people visit the langar. The langar never stops and on an average 7,000 kg of wheat flour, 1,200 kg of rice, 1,300 kg of lentils, 500 kg of ghee (clarified butter) is used in preparing the meal every day,” says Harpreet Singh, manager of this huge kitchen. “The free kitchen uses firewood, LPG gas and electronic bread makers for the cooking and we use around 100 LPG cylinders and 5,000 kilograms of firewood every day,” he adds. The kitchen is run by 450 staff, helped by hundreds of other volunteers. Sanjay Arora, 46, from New Delhi, comes to volunteer at the langar two days a month. “This is seva (service) for me. I feel happy after doing this service. This is not just free food because here you forget all the differences that separate humans from each other,” he says. Volunteers also wash the 300,000 plates, spoons and bowls used in feeding the people. The food is vegetarian and the expenses are managed through donations from all over the world. The yearly budget of the langar runs into hundreds of millions. |
 /Showkat Shafi
The “langar” or free kitchen at Golden Temple in the Indian city of Amritsar is perhaps the world’s largest free eatery. The Langar or free kitchen was started by the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak  /Showkat Shafi
Around one hundred thousand (100,000) people visit the langar every day and the number increases on weekends and special days.
 /Showkat Shafi
People from all over the world especially ” Sikhs” visit Golden temple at least once in their life time.
 /Showkat Shafi
Everybody is welcome at the langar, no one is turned away. It works on the principle of equality between people of the world regardless of religion, caste, colour, creed, age, gender or social status.
 /Showkat Shafi
People sit on the floor together as equals and eat the same simple food at the eating hall of the Golden Temple langar.  /Showkat Shafi
Langar teaches the etiquette of sitting and eating in a community situation.
 /Showkat Shafi
People from any community and faith can serve as volunteers.
 /Showkat Shafi
The lines of status, caste and class vanish at the langar. Everybody is treated as equals.
 /Showkat Shafi
The meal served is hot but simple: comprising roti (flat Indian bread), lentil soup and rice.  /Showkat Shafi
The utensils are washed in three rounds to ensure that the plates are perfectly clean to be again used.
 /Showkat Shafi
Running the kitchen also means washing and cleaning thousands of plates, bowls and spoons.
 /Showkat Shafi
Some 450 staff and hundreds of volunteers help to run the kitchen.  /Showkat Shafi
Five thousand kilograms of fire wood is used every day for preparing the meals at this langar, that runs 24/7.
 /Showkat Shafi
A Sikh volunteer prepares the dal (lentil soup) that will be served for the meals at the langar.
 /Showkat Shafi
Around 200,000 rotis are prepared every day at the langar which is served to the people.
 /Showkat Shafi
Wheat flour being put in a contraption that acts like a dough maker. The dough will be used for making rotis (Indian flat bread).
 /Showkat Shafi
Rotis (Indian flatbread) are cooked over electric machine .
 /Showkat Shafi in Alzazeera .com
natarajan
Women play an important role in the preparation of meals. Volunteers make stacks of rotis that will be served at the free kitchen.
|
Bush Telegraph Column :::: In The Telegraph UK
On the face of it you would be forgiven for thinking that the ‘bush’ is the ‘bush’ and that the places where the wild creatures of Africa still roam look much like one another. But like that evocative word ‘wilderness’, the terrain and the variety of the ecosystems involved vary hugely in terms of both geography and geology.
In southern Africa, where we have spent much of the last year, the ‘bush’ includes the shrublands, riverine forests, grasslands, floodplains and sand islands of Botswana’s Okavango Delta at one extreme and the desert mountains of Namibia with its populations of desert-adapted elephant, lion and rhino on the other. In between lies everything from the Nyika plateau in Malawi where leopards and antelope roam across a landscape that could easily be mistaken for Scotland to the fever tree forests of the northern Kruger in South Africa.
But there is nowhere that reflects the ‘Out Of Africa’ image of the popular imagination better than the hills and rolling savannah grasslands of the Serengeti in northern Tanzania alongside, of course, the game parks and reserves of Kenya itself where Karen Von Blixen’s classic was written.
Savannah grasslands have the distinct advantage that the big cats can be followed in a game vehicle and seen from afar off. Watching a kill, for example, from start to finish is a very rare event at the best of times but in dense bush it is more or less impossible. In the open savannah, however, particularly during the wildebeest migration, it is a real possibility.
While not of a kill (thankfully for us), the accompanying film demonstrates how intimate an experience an encounter with wild cats can be in the Serengeti. Cheetah, like this mother and her year-old cub, favour the wide-open spaces where they can keep an eye out for their arch enemy, lions, and use that extraordinary acceleration to get quickly out of trouble.
This particular cub, whose juvenile mane or ‘mantle’ can still be seen on his neck and down his back, will soon be leaving his mother for a solitary existence on his own and is demonstrating his adolescent bravado to the full.
Film shot on a Panasonic HC-X920
Natarajan
காஞ்சிமாமுனிவர் கேரள மாநிலம் கொல்லங்கோடு என்ற ஊரில் முகாமிட்டிருந்த சமயம். அப்போது அங்கே வேதத்திற்கான ஆய்வு சபையை அவர் கூட்டி இருந்தார். விஷ்ணுபுரம் வேதபண்டிதர் ஒருவரும் அந்த சபைக்காக அங்கே அழைக்கப்பட்டு இருந்தார்.
மடத்தில் அன்புக்கட்டளையின்படி, காப்பி என்பது தவிர்க்கப்பட்ட பானமாக இருந்தது. உடலின் நன்மைக்காகவும் மற்றும் ஏதோ ஒரு தெய்வ சூட்சுமத்தை அறிந்ததாலோ என்னவோ மடத்து சிப்பந்திகளும் காப்பி தயாரிப்பதையோ, அருந்துவதையோ தடை செய்து, மிகவும் கடுமையான நியமமாக மஹான் ஸ்ரீமடத்தில் கடைப்பிடிக்கச் செய்திருக்கிறார்.
இருந்தாலும் காப்பி பழக்கம் தவிர்க்க முடியாத ஒன்றல்லவா? தொடர்ந்து பல வருடங்களாக அந்தப் பானத்தை அருந்துபவர்களுக்கு, குறித்த நேரத்தில் அது கிடைக்காமல் போனால் தாங்க முடியாத தாபம் ஏற்படுவதுண்டு. இதே நிலையில் தான், விஷ்ணுபுரம் பண்டிதரும் அந்த அதிகாலை காப்பிக்காக ஸ்ரீமடத்தில் தவித்துக்கொண்டிருந்தார்.
அப்போது யாரோ ஒரு அன்பர், அவரை மட்டும் தனியாக வெளியே அழைத்துச் சென்று, இவர் கேட்காமலேயே சூடாகக் காப்பியைக் கொண்டுவந்து கொடுத்தார். பண்டிதருக்கு ஒரே ஆனந்தம். போன உயிர் வந்தது போல் மகிழ்ச்சி. சிறிது நேரத்தில் வேத சபை கூடியது. மஹான் சபைக்கு வந்ததும் அவரை நமஸ்கரித்துவிட்டு இந்த பண்டிதர் அவர் அருகில் சென்றார்.
“என்ன காப்பி சாப்பிட்டாச்சா?” பெரியவா தனக்கே உரிய தெய்வீகப் புன்சிரிப்போடு கேட்டதும், ஆடிப்போய் விட்டார் பெரியவர். யாருக்குமே தெரியாதென்று தான் செய்த காரியத்தை, மஹான் தன் தவறை சுட்டிக்காட்டுவது போல் கேட்டதும், அவருக்கு மனதில் பயம் தோன்றிவிட்டது.
“வந்து வந்து ஏதோ கொடுத்தான்” என்று பட்டும்படாமலும் , பளிச்சென்று சொல்லாமலும் குற்ற உணர்வோடு இருந்தார்.
“நான் தான் உங்களுக்குக் கொடுக்கச் சொன்னேன்” என்று சிரித்துக்கொண்டே மஹான் சொன்னபோது, தன் மீதுள்ள கரிசனத்தை அறிந்த அந்த முதிய பண்டிதர் ஆடித்தான் போய்விட்டார். மடத்தில் உள்ளவர்கள் சாப்பிடக்கூடாது. வெளியே இருந்து இங்கே வருபவர்கள் ஏன் தங்களின் பழக்கங்களை மாற்றிக் கொள்ள வேண்டும்? இதை நன்றாக அறிந்த மஹான் தான் விஷ்ணுபுரம் வேதபண்டிதருக்கு, விதிவிலக்கு அளித்திருந்தார்.
இப்படி வேண்டியதை வேண்டியவாறு எல்லோருக்கும் அருளும் மாபெரும் தெய்வமான காஞ்சி மஹானை நாம் சரணடைய வேண்டாமா?
source:::: http://www.periva.proboards.com
natarajan
