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” A Peacekeeper in Afghanistan who Made India Proud …”

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An Indian police inspector has been named recipient of a prestigious international female peacekeeper award by the United Nation’s police division for her “exceptional achievements” in her duty with the UN mission in Afghanistan, including her efforts towards helping victims of sexual and gender-based violence.

Inspector Shakti Devi of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, currently deployed in the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, has been awarded the International Female Police Peacekeeper Award 2014.

Devi has been honoured for her “exceptional achievements” in leading the establishment of Women Police Councils in several parts of Afghanistan, the UN Police division said in a communication to the Indian mission.

It said Devi has contributed to the improvement of the status of female police and has effectively helped the police of Afghanistan move towards achieving their goals of fully adopting democratic principles of policing.

“In addition, her consistent engagement in improving the service for victims of sexual and gender-based violence has led to successful investigation and prosecution,” the UN agency said.

The award was delivered during the International Association of Women Police conference held earlier this month in Winnipeg, Canada.

The honour is a competitive award given to an outstanding female police peacekeeper serving in a UN peace operation.

The objectives of the award are to promote an understanding of police in peace operations throughout the world, highlight the efforts of female police in global peace operations, increase understanding of the roles of women officers in various countries and encourage participation in UN peace operations by all countries of the world.

It is also aimed at promoting membership in the UN International Female Police Peacekeepers Network and increasing international understanding and awareness of women in international police peacekeeping and in the network.

India is the largest contributor to UN peacekeeping operations, having contributed more than 170,000 troops in 43 out of 69 peacekeeping missions mandated by the United Nations Security Council so far.

Image: Inspector Shakti Devi of the Jammu Kashmir police receiving the award.  

 

SOURCE:::: Rediff.com

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Message For the Day…” Why Lord Krishna told Arjuna ‘ You are My Devotee and My Friend ‘ …” ?

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Krishna told Arjuna, “You are My devotee and My friend.” Neither Arjuna declared himself as a devotee nor Krishna remained content with just declaring Arjuna to be His devotee. Why did Krishna say: “You are My friend?” This declaration has a profound spiritual significance. This will be clear only when we practice the spiritual life. If merely the Lord were to call Arjuna, “My friend” his ego could get inflated and he could take undue liberties with Krishna. If He were to say, “My dear, you are My devotee,” he could become extremely submissive and maybe even develop fear towards the Lord. Fear should not be instilled; nor should he be encouraged to take excessive liberties. Hence the terms devotee and friend, were used by Krishna. “You are My friend. You may be free with Me up to a point. You are My devotee. So observe certain restraints. Exercise control over yourself in your devotion.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” What is the Meaning of BABA …” ?

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Fix your faith firmly in the Lord and not on the things of the world. When you have strong faith in the Lord, your discrimination will be perfect. You will be guided by your Conscience, which will always lead you properly. In vedantic parlance, the Conscience is called‘Chit’. God is ‘Sat-Chit-Ananda’. Sat means Being, Chit means Awareness. When and where these two are combined, there is Bliss. This is the meaning of the divine name, BABA – Being +Awareness Bliss + Atma. All of you are aspirants of bliss. You must enjoy uninterrupted bliss. To attain that Ananda (Bliss), you must combine Sat (Being) and Chit (Awareness). Without Divinity, there is no bliss or joy. Hence always think of Him, Live in His presence.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” God is the Changeless Creator…”

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The base for making a pot is clay. For making a pot, the potter is the cause and the pot is the effect. The pot may break, but the clay remains as it is. Out of a permanent substance, clay, the potter makes a pot. The fate of the pot does not affect the potter. The clay in the pot too has no impact on the potter. Extending the analogy, God is the changeless Creator, who creates innumerable objects in creation, which are subject to change in name and form. A pot cannot be made without the potter and the clay; both are necessary. Similarly the Creator is the instrumental cause of creation (Nimitta Karana). The human body may perish, like the pots, but the Creator and the Elements used for creation are imperishable. The human beings, during their lifetime, have a choice – to put their body to good use or bad use …

Sathya Sai Baba

” அந்த வீணையை நான் வாசிக்கலாமா ….” ?

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Source: Dinamalar dated 07 Oct 2014

ஒரு சமயம், மகாபெரியவர் மகாராஷ்டிர மாநிலம் சதாராவில் தங்கி இருந்தார். ஒரு அரசமரத்தின் கீழ் இளைப்பாறிய அவர், மரத்தின் வேரில் தலையை வைத்துப் படுத்துக் கொள்வார். முன்னால் திரை போட்டிருக்கும்.

பக்தர்களுக்கு தரிசனம் கொடுக்கும் சமயத்தில் மட்டும், திரையை விலக்குவார்கள்.

அன்று, சென்னையில் இருந்து வீணை வித்வான் ஒருவர் பெரியவரைத் தரிசிக்க நண்பருடன் வந்திருந்தார். பெரியவரைத் தரிசனம் செய்த அவர், அவரது அனுமதி பெற்று, வீணையை எடுத்து வாசிக்க ஆரம்பித்தார். பக்தர்கள் எல்லாரும் அந்த இசைமழையில் நனைந்து கொண்டிருந்தனர். வாசித்து முடித்ததும், வீணையை உறையில் இட தயாரானார் வித்வான்.

பெரியவர் அவரிடம், “”அந்த வீணையை என்னிடம் கொடு. நான் அதை வாசிக்கலாம் இல்லையா?” என்று கேட்டார்.

பெரியவர் வீணை வாசிக்கப் போகிறாரா என்று எல்லாருக்கும் திகைப்பு. வித்வான் உட்பட..! ஆனால், எதற்காக வாசிக்க இருக்கிறார் என்பது மட்டும் யாருக்கும் புரியவில்லை.
வீணையைக் கையில் வாங்கிய பெரியவர் சுருதி கூட்டி, வித்வானிடம் காட்டினார். “”நான் சுருதி கூட்டியிருப்பது சரியா இருக்கான்னு பாரு,” என்றார்.

வித்வானும், “”சரியா இருக்கு” என்று சொல்ல, பெரியவர் வீணை வாசிக்க ஆரம்பித்து விட்டார்.

சில நிமிடங்கள் தான் ஆகியிருக்கும்! வித்வான் பெரியவரின் பாதங்களில் விழுந்தார். கன்னத்தில் போட்டுக் கொண்டு, “”பெரியவா! என்னை மன்னிக்கணும்! என்னை மன்னிக்கணும்! தப்பு பண்ணிட்டேன்! தப்பு பண்ணிட்டேன்,” என்று திரும்பத் திரும்பச் சொல்லிக் கொண்டே கதறி அழ ஆரம்பித்து விட்டார்.

பெரியவர் வாசித்து முடித்தார். பின் வீணையை அவரிடம் திருப்பிக்கொடுத்து, “”வித்யா கர்வம் ஒருவனுக்கு கூடாது. கவனமாக இரு,” என்று சொல்லி ஆசிர்வாதமும் செய்தார். வித்வானுடன் வந்த நண்பருக்கு என்ன நடக்கிறதென்றே புரியவில்லை.

பின் நண்பர் வித்வானிடம்,”” இங்கே என்ன நடந்தது? நீ தப்பு பண்ணிட்டதா கதறி அழுதே! பெரியவர் வித்யாகர்வம் கூடாது என்றார். அப்படி என்ன தான் இங்கு தவறு நடந்தது?” என்றார்.

வித்வான் திகைப்பு கலையாமல் பதில் சொல்ல ஆரம்பித்தார்.

“”கைலாய மலையைத் தூக்க முயன்ற ராவணனின் கைகள் மலையின் அடியில் சிக்கிக் கொண்டன. அப்போது, அவன் சாமகானம் இசைத்து சிவனை மகிழ்வித்து விடுதலை பெற்றான் இல்லையா! அதுபோல, நானும் இங்கே சாமகானம் வாசிக்க துவங்கினேன். ஆனால், திடீரென எப்படி வாசிப்பது என்று மறந்து போய்விட்டது. இது யாருக்கு தெரியப்போகிறது என, ஏதோ ஒன்றை வாசித்து நிறைவு செய்து விட்டேன். பெரியவர் இதைக் கண்டுபிடித்து விட்டார். என்னிடம் வீணையை வாங்கி, அந்தப் பகுதியை சரியாக வாசித்து நிறைவு செய்து விட்டார். பெரியவர் ஸர்வக்ஞர் (எல்லாம் அறிந்தவர்). அவருக்கு எல்லாம் தெரியும் என்பது எனக்கு தெரியாமல் போச்சே! அபச்சாரம் பண்ணிட்டேனே! அதனால் தான் அவரிடம் மன்னிப்பு கேட்டேன்,” என்றார்.

நமக்கு தெரிந்ததைச் செய்ய வேண்டும். தெரியாத விஷயங்களைத் தெளிவாகக் கற்றுக் கொள்ள வேண்டும் என்ற பாடத்தை இதன் மூலம் வாழும் தெய்வமான மகாபெரியவர் நமக்கு இதன்மூலம் உணர்த்தியிருக்கிறார்.

Read more: http://periva.proboards.com/thread/8118/#ixzz3G2m7uTIf

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Joke of the Day…” where is the Car ” ?

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Wife: “There’s trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor.”

Husband: “Water in the carburetor? That’s ridiculous.”

Wife: “I tell you the car has water in the carburetor.”

Husband: “You don’t even know what a carburetor is. Where’s the car?”

Wife: “In the swimming pool.”

 

SOURCE:::::joke a day.com

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Home Remedy For Common Cold ….

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Winter is coming, and this is exactly the time to start preparations, before everyone suddenly gets sick with the cold or the flu. So if you are sick of coughing and it hurts while swallowing, and you want to find a natural remedy – here it is! Just follow the instructions to make this home syrup and it will take care of those annoying cold symptoms!
home natural cold remedy
Syrup in a jar in actually a combination of honey, citrus fruit (orange, lemon etc), herbs (Mint or rosemary) and spices (ginger, cardamom or cloves).

Research shows that honey has microbial and antioxidant qualities that fight bacteria and can calm a cough. Along with the nutrients in citrus fruit, herbs and spices – You get a natural medicine for fighting the symptoms of the common cold.
home natural cold remedy
The top 5 recommended combinations:
1. Lemon, ginger and honey. 
home natural cold remedy
2. Lemon, mint and honey. 
home natural cold remedy
3. Lemon, rosmary and honey. 
home natural cold remedy
4. Orange, cloves and honey. 
home natural cold remedy
5. Clementine, cardamom and honey. 
home natural cold remedy
How to make a syrup in jar?

(The demonstratin uses lemon, ginger and honey, but is equally true for all combinations).
Pick a glass jar of any size with a lid. Slice the lemon, scrape the ginger and prepare the honey.
home natural cold remedy
How to make:

Put in the jar half of the spliced lemon, half of the scraped ginger and the honey, and mix well.
In 3-4 hours, the syrup will be ready for use, after the honey pulls the juice out of the citrus fruit and make the syrup more liquid. If you want something thicker, increase the ration between the honey and the fruit (more honey).
We recommend keeping the jar covered and put in cooling. You can add honey now and again to keep it full. It should keep for at least 1-2 months, maybe even more, as honey is a natural preservative.
home natural cold remedy
It is recommended to take 1-2 spoons of the syrup every few hours to calm the cold symptoms, especially those in the throat like coughing or aches.

If it doesn’t go down easy, just mix a full spoon in a glass of hot water or tea.
home natural cold remedy
FEEL BETTER!

Source: Harry T. in ba-ba mail site

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Image of the Day… Earth and Moon as Seen From Mercury !!!

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MESSENGER spacecraft sees lunar eclipse from Mercury

The MESSENGER spacecraft, now orbiting Mercury, caught the images to make this movie of last Wednesday’s lunar eclipse. See Earth and moon from Mercury!

Earth and Moon from Mercury orbit, with Moon entering eclipse. Imaged on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 by MESSENGER, a spacecraft in orbit around Mercury.

The MESSENGER spacecraft – which has been orbiting the sun’s innermost planet Mercury since 2011 – made this movie of the the Hunter’s Moon passing into the Earth’s shadow on October 8, 2014. The movie consists of 31 MDIS NAC (Mercury Dual Imaging System Narrow Angle Camera) frames taken two minutes apart from 09:18 UTC to 10:18 UTC on October 8. MESSENGER made the movie from a distance of 107 million kilometers / 66 million miles.

Notice the orientation of bright side of Earth. Earth’s shadow always extends in the direction opposite this bright side – or day side – approximately 1,400,000 kilometers / 1,000,000 miles into space. On October 8, the moon passed into the shadow, causing the eclipse.

The images have been enlarged 2 times and the moon brightened 25 times. The Earth was five pixels wide and the Moon one pixel wide.

The Earth – moon pair appeared in front of the constellation Aries, near the border of the constellation Pisces, as seen from Mercury.

The Earth was very bright magnitude minus 4.38 and the Moon was magnitude minus 0.03.

Read more from Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society

Bottom line: The MESSENGER spacecraft, now orbiting Mercury, caught the images to make this movie of last Wednesday’s lunar eclipse. See Earth and moon from Mercury!

SOURCE:::: earthskynews

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Joke of the Day… ” Get Out Of The Car …” !!!

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Get Out Of The Car!

(This is supposedly a true account recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, Florida)

An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!” The four men didn’t wait for a second threat.

They got out and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of theold womancar and got into the driver’s seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee, and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat.

A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake. The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn’t stop laughing. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun. No charges were filed.

Moral of the story? If you’re going to have a senior moment…make it memorable!  

Source::::: ba-ba mail.com

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