Double Exposed Animal and Forest Photos |
| You can just imagine the lush foresty town of Bergen, Norway that photographer Andreas Lie lives in by looking at his animal photo series. These double exposed images show wild animals superimposed onto natural scenery, creating a stunning visual. You can see more of Andreas’ works on Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, andSociety6.
|
Source….www.boredpanda.com and http://www.ba=bamail.com
Natarajan
God is wisdom. God dwells in all beings. God is known by various names and of these, the greatest and the most fitting is Satchitananda. Sat means that which remains unchanged in all the three periods of time – the past, the present, and the future. Strict adherence to Truth would enable you to experience Sat. Chit means total awareness or complete knowledge; it is that which enables one to experience Divinity in all its aspects. Once Sat and Chit are experienced, Ananda or bliss would follow automatically. The human body is temporary; the pleasure that it can give also is fleeting. It is meaningless to seek eternal bliss by way of instruments that are impermanent. The body only gives temporary, bodily pleasure, and the mind can at best give only mental satisfaction for a little while. Therefore you must seek that which is permanent – Bliss. God is Truth, God is Bliss. Hence seek God and live in Bliss
A 5-year-old talks on the phone with 911 while her dad is having difficultly breathing. Don’t leave too soon. This little girl is not only smart, but very funny.
Source….www.maniacworld.com
Natarajan
May 6, 1968. More than a year before he became the first human to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong had a narrow escape in the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston. The LLRV had been designed to simulate a descent to the moon’s surface, and all the lunar astronauts trained in it. That day, while Armstrong was piloting, a leaking propellant caused a total failure of his flight controls and forced an ejection.
Armstrong was fine. He bit his tongue hard during his landing by parachute, but otherwise was uninjured. Airspacemag.com described this encounter between Armstrong and another astronaut later that day:
… astronaut Alan Bean saw Armstrong that afternoon at his desk in the astronaut office. Bean then heard colleagues in the hall talking about the accident, and asked them, ‘When did this happen?’ About an hour ago, they replied.
Bean returned to Armstrong and said, ‘I just heard the funniest story!’ Armstrong said, ‘What?’
‘I heard that you bailed out of the LLTV an hour ago.’
‘Yeah, I did,’ replied Armstrong. ‘I lost control and had to bail out of the darn thing.’
Bean later recalled: ‘I can’t think of another person, let alone another astronaut, who would have just gone back to his office after ejecting a fraction of a second before getting killed.’
No doubt … Armstrong had the right stuff!
Bottom line: On May 6, 1968 – more than a year before his famous first moonwalk – Neil Armstrong narrowly escaped disaster while training in the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV).
source….www.earthsky.org
Natarajan
RESIGNING from a job is never easy, but there’s one thing that might help soften the blow — cake.
Mark Herman, a newscast director at a television station in Arizona, decided to leave on a (sugar) high note when he resigned from his position at KOLD-TV, last week.
“I handed in the most delicious letter of resignation ever,” he wrote in his Reddit post, which included a photo of his creative efforts. His resignation letter was literally the icing on the white, strawberry-filled cake.
The cake, which was made by a bakery in Tucson, was a sweet attempt to deliver the bad news to Mr Herman’s boss and fellow employees.
“I knew they’d be disappointed in my departure,” Mr Herman told blogger Jim Romenesko. “So I decided that I should resign via cake — not only because nobody can be mad or sad at a cake, but also because I’m a bit of a joker and a cake of resignation is pretty damn hilarious.”
Let them have cake … Mark Herman wrote his resignation letter on a cake. Picture: Imgur.com Source: Supplied
The letter read:
Dear Michelle,
Please accept this cake as formal (and delicious) notice of my resignation from the position of newscast director News 13. My last day of employment will be Friday, May 22.
I will miss KOLD and all the incredible people I’ve been fortunate enough to work with over the last 4 years. I cannot think you enough for all the opportunities and experiences you have given to me during my time here.
I appreciate your understanding and I wish you all the very best. If there’s anything I can do to help with the transition during my last few weeks here, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Sincerely,
Mark Herman
Mr Herman’s efforts did not go unappreciated. When his boss saw the cake she laughed and said “No way! You crack me up!”, before taking the cake to a meeting where the announcement was made to the rest of the staff.
“The cake definitely made the bad news a little bit more palatable,” said Mr Herman.
Source…….www.news.com.au
Natarajan
Scientists at NASA are baffled after a student recorded never-before-heard hissing noises 22 miles above earth.
The eerie noises were recorded using infrasound microphones aboard a NASA student balloon experiment in Arizona and New Mexico and are only audible to the human ear after speeding up the recordings.
It is important to note that infrasounds are capable of travelling extremely long distances, making it even more difficult to pinpoint where the sound originates from.
David Bowman, the student at North Carolina who captured the creepy noises told Live Science: “It sounds kind of like The X-Files.”
There haven’t been acoustic recordings in the stratosphere for 50 years,” he explained to Live Science. “Surely, if we place instruments up there, we will find things we haven’t seen before.”
The balloon, which has infrasound sensors attached to it, reached altitudes of over 123,000 feet (37,500 meters).
It’s the first time infrasound recordings have ever been captured at such a height.
Researchers, who say they’ve never heard many of the strange noises captured by Bowman, have been working to find out what could be creating the sounds. Live Science say their guesses so far include a wind-farm emitting signals below the balloon’s flight path, ocean waves, wind turbulence, and vibrations caused by the balloon’s cables.
Source….www.businessinsider.in
Natarajan
Watch this 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.
What else can you ask for on this Anusham day?
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. For further details visit http://www.periva.proboards.com or http://www.periva.org
Source…..www.periva.proboards.com
Natarajan
The Vedas say, “Mathru devo bhava: Revere your Mother as God.” You must revere your mother, who has brought you up with love, care and sacrifice. If one’s heart is so hard that it does not melt at the pleadings of their mother, it deserves nothing but ridicule. Always, always, love and respect your mother, your motherland, your mother-tongue and follow its culture. Never develop hatred against others, their languages or culture. Nourish and enrich your mother-tongue and motherland with all your energy and progress as much as you can, without any hesitation. Keep yourself fit for this by making the best use of all available opportunities. Develop your character as well as intelligence and health. The most reliable source of strength is within you, not in money, kinsmen, or physical acumen, but in yourself – the Soul (Atman). Know it, delve into it, draw sustenance from it, and then see it in all and serve it in all.
A meadowlark sings as dawn breaks at the Ninepipes National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Montana.
John Ashley took this photo of a song bird at dawn on April 28, 2015. He wrote:
This is what bird song looks like at dawn. A male Western meadowlark sings a steamy little number just after the sun rises over the Mission Mountains at the Ninepipes Natl. Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Montana. White lines are back-lit spider webs.
Source….www.earthsky.org
Natarajan
Everyone wants to be happy. Such a desire is natural and it springs from the fact that your true nature is bliss. Bliss is God but somehow people don’t get that! You are born of joy(ananda), the basis of your life is ananda, and your goal must also be ananda. Truly speaking, it is not difficult to know what the basis and goal of life should be. Prahlada got it! He realised that God is Omnipresent and saw unity in diversity. He clearly perceived Narayana to be the substratum of everything in creation and happily surrendered to Him. His father Hiranyakasipu was just the opposite. He saw diversity in unity and became deluded by the multiplicity of forms in Creation, each with its own name. Clearly understand that you originate from God, that your life’s undercurrent is God, and your final destination also is God. Bliss should be the goal in your life, and seek it in all earnestness.
Take off with Natarajan 