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Message for the Day…” Desire for worldly and sensual objects will wane with constant spiritual practice…
When people are asked to do spiritually salutary acts, initially no one has any inner urge. Still don’t give up in despair. Until the taste sprouts, strictly follow the disciplines. This taste is a result of training. No one has it from the very beginning, but constant practice will create the zest. The infant doesn’t know the taste of milk. By taking milk daily, it starts liking it; in fact the taste becomes so dear that when milk is to be given up to be substituted with rice, it starts to protest. But the mother doesn’t despair; she persuades the child to take small quantities of cooked rice daily, and over time the child starts liking rice and eventually gives up milk. Milk, its natural food, is now replaced with rice again in a natural way. Indeed now if no rice is available for one day, the child becomes miserable. Similarly with constant practice, the desire for worldly and sensual objects and matters, will wane and good company(Satsang) will prevail.
Message for the Day…” When Ego Fades away, Knowledge Shines as Wisdom…”
Jnana Yajna is specially recommended by scriptures for all. Jnana does not simply mean knowledge gained from scholars and books, but actually conducting in accordance with that knowledge. Knowledge can never ripen into wisdom so long as the ego persists in craving for results to satisfy its desires. When ego fades away, knowledge shines as Wisdom. When yajnas are performed solely for the peace and prosperity of the world (Loka-Kalyan), they reach God. Jnana reveals that in every sacrifice, God is the Prompter, the Promoter, the Sacrificer, the Sacrifice, the Product achieved and the Recipient of the product. God is the consumer of every sacred offering (Yajnabhuk); He is guardian of the yajna (Yajna-bhrith) and its performer (Yajna krith). He is all; it is only when He is all that the act becomes a genuine yajna. If this attitude can soak into every activity, it will sanctify every moment of your life and make it a yajna.
Scott Kelly Becomes U.S. Astronaut to Spend the Most Time in Space…
Just before the 15th anniversary of continuous human presence on the International Space Station on Nov. 2, 2015, U.S. astronaut and commander of the current Expedition 45 crew, Scott Kelly, is breaking spaceflight records. On Friday, Oct. 16, Kelly begins his 383rd day living in space, surpassing U.S. astronaut Mike Fincke’s record of 382 cumulative days. Kelly will break another record Oct. 29 on his 216th consecutive day in space, when he will surpass astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria’s record for the single-longest spaceflight by an American. Lopez-Alegria spent 215 days in space as commander of the Expedition 14 crew in 2006.
In this July 12 photograph, Kelly is seen inside the Cupola, a special module which provides a 360-degree viewing of the Earth and the space station. On each additional day he spends in orbit as part of his one-year mission, Kelly will add to his record and to our understanding of the effects of long-duration spaceflight.
Kelly is scheduled to return to Earth on March 3, 2016, by which time he will have compiled 522 total days living in space during four missions.
Image Credit: NASA
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Meet the Hindu who lets Muslims use his shop as a mosque, for free….
‘Kalesaab could have easily earned Rs 1 lakh per month as rent from this place but he gave it to Muslims for free. Secularism in India is alive only because of people like him.’
Image: Deepak Kale. Photograph: Afsar Dayatar.
Bajrang Bali housing society is a rather unusual name for a building that houses a mosque but in a part of Dharavi, known the world over as Asia’s largest slum, that’s where for the last six months the Muslim community has found a temporary prayer area.
All thanks to Deepak Kale, a leather shop owner who owns the property.
When Muslims of Mukund nagar in Dharavi, Sion, in Central Mumbai, were wondering where to hold prayers after their mosque underwent repairs, they turned to Kale.
Kale not only agreed to give them his 2,500 square feet shop on the ground floor of Bajrang Bali housing society for prayers, but also decided to not take any rent from them till the time their mosque is rebuilt.
“Some masjid trustees came to me to ask for my place. I have known these people since my childhood so I gave it them for offering namaaz. Khurshidbhai, who is a masjid trustee, is my childhood friend, I have spent my life with him.
“I didn’t want to take any rent from them because I bought this commercial space in order to sell it, and I had told them that the day I get a customer I will sell it after giving them two months’ notice,” said Kale.
A hundred metres from Bajrang Bali is the Noor Masjid Madarsa Faizaul Quran, the original mosque, where repair work is going on in full swing, with Muslim artisans trying their best to complete the work in two months time.
“In our country we need to respect each other’s faith. Muslims must respect the Hindu faith and vice versa,” adds Kale.
What has surprised Kale and Muslims of the locality is the publicity his simple gesture has received.
“We have been praying at Kalesaab’s place for the last six months. For us it was no news but after one Urdu paper published a report on this, all media people are writing about it,” says Tanvir Azmi, a businessman and resident of Mukund Nagar. “More than 90 percent of Hindus in India are like Kalesaab. He could have easily earned Rs 1 lakh per month as rent from this place but he gave it to Muslims for free. Secularism in India is only alive because of people like him.”
The locality has an equal number of Muslim and Hindu residents. On the left of Bajrang Bali building live the Hindus, while Muslims live on its right. So one side of the road sports green flags, while the other side sports saffron flags.
But not everything is as peaceful as it appears. Three lanes away, a small mob of 200 Hindus and Muslims was ready to take on each other last week over the issue of flying flags but a timely intervention by community elders defused the crisis.
“In a place where small riots break out over minor issues, it is a very big thing that Kalesaab has done. He is a prime example of what Indian secularism is all about,” says Atiullah Choudhary, a businessman who prays regularly at Bajrang Bali society.
Another friend of Kale, Naeem Shaikh, pitches in, “After seeing Kalesaab, I realised one has to work on secularism daily to build bridges between Hindus and Muslims. It is a daily effort. You cannot just say that you are secular and relax in a chair. You have to work for it in society. One mistake we Indians do is that we take secularism for granted, and that must not be done.”
Dharavi witnessed one of the most horrifying riots in Mumbai in 1992-93 and Kale had then taken an active part in saving a lot of Muslim lives.
“I housed around 200 Muslims safely in my leather shop during the 1993 riots. They left only after the situation normalised,” says Kale.
Asked what in his opinion was the one reason that caused riots, Kale says without blinking, “Rumours. There are some people in all communities — be it Hindus, Muslims or Christians — who do not want everyone to live peacefully. They are always up to some mischief and so I feel the government must bring in a law to stop people from spreading false rumours. Till that does not happen, riots will never stop.”
He has a recipe to save secularism, too. “I tell people to keep quiet and work for peace all the time. I feel if my lane is not harmed by communalism, then the country will take care of itself. If my lane is facing communal problems, what can I say about my country? So first keep communal peace in your own lane, and the country will follow suit.”
Syed Firdaus Ashraf / Rediff.com in Mumbai
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சாண வறட்டி விற்பனை: ‘ஆன்லைனில்’ அமோகம்!
நம் கிராமங்களில் பயன்பாட்டில் இருந்து, மறைந்து போன சாண வறட்டிக்கு, வெளிநாடுகளில் அமோக வரவேற்பு கிடைத்துஉள்ளது. ‘ஆன்லைன்’ விற்பனையிலும் கொடி கட்டிப் பறக்கிறது.
இந்தியாவில், அடுப்பு எரிக்க விறகுக்கு அடுத்தபடியாக, மாட்டுச் சாணத்தில் தயாரான வறட்டிகள், அதிக அளவில் பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டன. வீட்டில் மாடு வளர்க்காதவர்கள், அவற்றை விலைக்கு வாங்கி பயன்படுத்தி வந்தனர்.ஆனால், காஸ் சிலிண்டர் அறிமுகமான பிறகு, வறட்டியின் பயன்பாடு, படிப்படியாக குறைந்து, இப்போது மறைந்தே போய் விட்டது. யாகங்கள், ஹோமங்களுக்கு மட்டுமே இப்போது வறட்டிகள் பயன்படுத்தப்படுகின்றன.அதேபோல், வெளிநாடுகளில் வாழும் இந்தியர்கள் இப்போது, வறட்டி பயன்படுத்த துவங்கியுள்ளனர். ஆன்லைன் மூலம் வறட்டி வாங்கி உபயோகிக்கின்றனர்.
வெளிநாடுகளில் வசித்தாலும், மரபுகளை பின்பற்றிவரும் பலர், பூஜை, ஹோமம் போன்றவற்றை நடத்துகின்றனர். அவர்களின் தேவையை உணர்ந்த, ஆன்லைன் வர்த்தக இணைய தளங்கள் சில, வறட்டிகளை விற்பனை செய்ய துவங்கியுள்ளன.இதை பார்த்த நமது ஊர் மக்களும், ஆன்லைனில் வறட்டிகளை ஆர்டர் செய்யத் துவங்கியுள்ளனர். நான்கு வறட்டிகள், 40 ரூபாய்க்கு விற்கப்டுகின்றன. இதை, ஏராளமானோர் விரும்பி வாங்குகின்றனர்.
அமெரிக்காவில் இருந்து இயங்கும், ‘அமேசான்.காம்’ வர்த்தக இணைய தளம், இதை வெளிநாட்டில் சப்ளை செய்யும் நிறுவனங்களில் ஒன்றாக திகழ்கிறது.இதைப் பார்த்து, இந்திய இணைய தளங்களும், வறட்டி விற்பனையில் களம் இறங்கியுள்ளது. cowdungcake sale
என்று, டைப் செய்து, இணையத்தில் தேடினால், விற்பனை செய்யும் இணைய தளங்களை கண்டறிந்து, வறட்டிகளை வாங்கலாம்.
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Message for the Day…”Repeating God’s Name ,Meditation,fasts, Worship at dawn and dusk are certain good ways to control and train our Senses…”
Normally people are drawn to sense objects, for they are victims of instincts. Instincts easily seek sense objects – they come along with the body and aren’t derived by any training. The infant seeks milk from the mother’s breast, and the newborn calf naturally nestles at the udder. However for the infant to walk and talk, some training is necessary, because these actions are either socially prompted or learnt by example or picked up by imitation of others. Training is essential even for the proper pursuit of sense pleasure, for wild untrained search for such pleasure promotes anger, hatred, envy, malice and conceit. Hence to train the senses along salutary lines and to hold them under control, certain good disciplines like repeating Lord’s Name (japa),meditation (dhyana), fasts (upavasa), worship at dawn and dusk, etc. are essential. Though sense pleasures are ‘natural’ at first, by constant practice, training and listening to the wise, slowly the greater and everlasting bliss derived by divine adoration is grasped.
” Super Baby Days…” !!!
Babies are cute and adorable, but also bizarrely strong and capable of doing some extraordinary things. For instance, did you know how amazingly strong you were for your tiny size? Or how you could control your breathing? Or that you had a mustache for a while? Here is a collection of curiosities you didn’t know about your earliest, simplest, and cheekiest times – your super baby days.
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” Restrictions do not Apply to these Diet Jokes …” !!!
| Most of us have tried to diet at least once, in order to lose a few extra pounds. We’ve given up our favorite foods, changed how much we ate, what we ate, and when we ate. Most of us also realized that even though it’s essential for our health, dieting is not easy at all. If you’re looking for a way to cope with dieting, why not try humor? | ||||||||
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When Sayali, a Cobbler’s Daughter, Ran Barefoot and Won Gold ….
Sayali, a cobbler’s daughter, ran a 3000 meter race barefoot and won a gold medal. She grabbed the top spot despite facing the challenge of running without shoes on a hot synthetic surface.
They say the brightest of stars shine on the darkest of nights. And Sayali, the daughter of a cobbler in Mumbai, has proved this right.
She participated in a 3000-metre run at the school level, ran without shoes, and won a gold in the race.
She completed the race in 12:27.8 seconds in the Under-17 event at the District Sports Office inter-school athletic championships.
Her father, Mangesh, who repairs old shoes to feed his family, makes about Rs. 3000-10,000 a month. Whatever he earns goes towards the education of his two daughters.
Sayali, who is studying in Class 9, trained barefoot at the Naigaon Police Ground track. Used to practicing on mud, Sayali faced difficulties in running on a rough and hot synthetic surface for the actual race.
Aiming to just finish the race, Sayali did not expect to win a medal. In spite of several challenges, she managed to win the gold and make her parents proud. Mangesh wanted to watch her race but could not go due to his work. He encourages both his daughters to succeed in life and wants to see Sayali represent the country one day.
Source…Shreya Pareek…www.thebetterindia.com
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