Message For The Day…Conquer Your Tongue….Victory is Yours !!!!

All the five elements have been created by the Will of the Supreme. They have to be used with reverential care and vigilant discrimination. Reckless use of any of them will only rebound on you with tremendous harm. External nature has to be handled with caution and awe. So too, handle your inner ‘nature,’ your internal instruments! While the eye, the ear and the nose serve as instruments of knowledge about one particular characteristic (form, sound or smell) of Nature, the tongue makes itself available for two purposes: to judge taste and to communicate. So you must control the tongue with double care, since it can harm you physically and mentally. Without the control of the senses, spiritual practices (sadhana) are ineffective. If the senses are given full sway, it is like storing water in leaky pot. Pathanjali (the celebrated author of the Yogasuthras) said that if tongue is conquered, victory is yours.

 Sathya Sai Baba

KALQ Thumb-type Keyboard Takes on Qwerty !!!

The new keyboard layout is designed to aid type with two thumbs

The new keyboard layout is designed to aid typing with two thumbs..

 

 

Researchers have created a new keyboard layout which they claim makes “thumb-typing” faster on touchscreen devices such as tablets and large smartphones.

Dr Per Ola Kristensson, from St Andrews University, said traditional Qwerty keyboards had trapped users in “suboptimal text entry interfaces”.

The new design has been dubbed KALQ, after the order of keys on one line.

Its creators used “computational optimisation techniques” to identify which gave the best performance.

Researchers at St Andrews, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany and Montana Tech in the US joined together to create the virtual keyboard, which will be available as a free app for Android-based devices.

According to the research team “two-thumb typing is ergonomically very different” from typing on physical Qwerty keyboards, which were developed for typewriters in the late 19th Century.

They claim normal users using a Qwerty keyboard on a touchscreen device were limited to typing at a rate of about 20 words per minute.

This is much slower than the rate for normal physical keyboards on computers.

Researchers said the key to optimising a keyboard for two thumbs was to minimise long typing sequences that only involved a single thumb.

It was also important to place frequently used letter keys centrally close to each other.

Finding the optimal layout involved minimising the moving time of the thumbs and enabling typing on alternating sides of the tablet.

The results were said to be surprising with all the vowels placed in the area assigned to the right thumb, whereas the left thumb is given more keys.

With the help of an error correction algorithm trained users were able to reach 37 words per minute, researchers said.

Dr Kristensson, lecturer in human computer interaction in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, said: “We believe KALQ provides a large enough performance improvement to incentivise users to switch and benefit from faster and more comfortable typing.”

The developers will present their work at the CHI 2013 conference (the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) in Paris on 1 May.

source::::bbc.com

Natarajan

Message For The Day….God Is Sculptor Willing to Transform You into an Idol….

Offer your heart and your entire life to the Lord. Then your adoration will transform and transmute you so fast and completely, that you and He will be merged into One. You will be transformed, as a rock is transformed by the sculptor into an idol, deserving the worship of generations of sincere people. In the process you will have to bear many a hammer stroke, many a chisel-wound, for He is the sculptor. He is but releasing you from petrification! Do not defile time or waste this life and body seeking paltry ends. This life is part of the long pilgrimage you entered when you were born, which may not end even when you die. Never forget this fact. Be pure, alert and humble as pilgrims are. Treasure the good things and the truths you see and hear. Use them as props and promptings for further stages of your soul’s journey.

 Sathya Sai Baba

Natural Camouflage Leaves This American Owl barely Visible at the Entrance to its Nest!!!

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These incredible pictures of an eastern screech owl were taken by photographer Graham McGeorge, 42, in Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia. Usually solitary, screech owls nest in a tree cavity, either natural or excavated by a woodpecker. They have either rusty or dark grey intricately patterned plumage with streaking on the underparts, helping them to blend in perfectly in their woodland homes..

source::::mail online UK

Natarajan

Special Message For The Day….HIS Legacy Lives ….

“We shall be judged  not by the creed  we  profess or the label  we wear, or the slogans  we shout , but by  the Work , the industry, the sacrifice, the honesty

and purity of character.. Realise the Heaven  within You  and all at once , all the desires are fulfilled , all the misery and suffering is put an end to .   Feel

yourself  above  the body and its environments, above  the mind and its motives , above  the thought of success or fear…

The great cause of suffering in the world is that poeple do not look    WITHIN  . They rely on outside  forces…

With Love,

Sri Sathya Sai Baba”                            Sai

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source:::: http://www.srisathyasai.org.in thro Press release in The Hindu …24 april 2013….on HIS Mahasamadhi Day …

Natarajan

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“அ”கர ராமாயணம் !!!!! ஆனந்த பாராயணம் !!!!!

ராமாயணக் கதை முழுதும் ‘அ’ என்று ஆரம்பிக்கும் வார்த்தைகளால்
வடிவமைக்கப் பட்டுள்ளது.

அனந்தனே அசுரர்களை அழித்து,
அன்பர்களுக்கு அருள அயோத்தி
அரசனாக அவதரித்தான்.

அப்போது அரிக்கு அரணாக அரசனின்
அம்சமாக அனுமனும் அவதரித்ததாக
அறிகிறோம்.அன்று அஞ்சனை அவனிக்கு
அளித்த அன்பளிப்பு அல்லவா அனுமன் ?

அவனே அறிவழகன்,அன்பழகன்,அன்பர்களை
அரவ-ணைத்து அருளும் அருட்செல்வன்!

அயோத்தி அடலேறு, அம்மிதிலை அரசவையில்
அரசனின் அரியவில்லை அடக்கி, அன்பும்
அடக்கமும் அங்கங்களாக அமைந்த அழகியை
அடைந்தான்.

அரியணையில் அமரும் அருகதை அண்ணனாகிய
அனந்தராமனுக்கே! அப்படியிருக்க அந்தோ !
அக்கைகேயி அசூயையால் அயோத்தி அரசனுக்கும்
அடங்காமல் அநியாயமாக அவனை அரண்யத்துக்கு
அனுப்பினாள்.

அங்கேயும் அபாயம்!அரக்கர்களின் அரசன் ,
அன்னையின் அழகால் அறிவிழந்து அபலையை
அபகரித்தான்

அத்தசமுகனின் அக்கிரமங்களுக்கு, அட்டூழியங்களுக்கு
அளவேயில்லை. அயோத்தி அண்ணல், அன்னை
அங்கிருந்து அகன்றதால் அடைந்த அவதிக்கும்
அளவில்லை.

அத்தருணத்தில் அனுமனும், அனைவரும் அரியை
அடிபணிந்து, அவனையே அடைக்கலமாக அடைந்தனர்.

அந்த அடியார்களில் அருகதையுள்ள அன்பனை
அரசனாக அரியணையில் அமர்த்தினர்.

அடுத்து அன்னைக்காக அவ்வானரர் அனைவரும்
அவனியில் அங்குமிங்கும் அலைந்தனர், அலசினர்.
அனுமன், அலைகடலை அலட்சியமாக அடியெடுத்து
அளந்து அக்கரையை அடைந்தான்.

அசோகமரத்தின் அடியில், அரக்கிகள் அயர்ந்திருக்க
அன்னையை அடிபணிந்து அண்ணலின்
அடையாளமாகிய அக்கணையாழியை அவளிடம்
அளித்தான்

அன்னை அனுபவித்த அளவற்ற அவதிகள்
அநேகமாக அணைந்தன. அன்னையின் அன்பையும்
அருளாசியையும் அக்கணமே அடைந்தான் அனுமன்.

அடுத்து, அரக்கர்களை அலறடித்து , அவர்களின்
அரண்களை, அகந்தைகளை அடியோடு அக்கினியால்
அழித்த அனுமனின் அட்டகாசம், அசாத்தியமான
அதிசாகசம்.

அனந்தராமன் அலைகடலின் அதிபதியை
அடக்கி, அதிசயமான அணையை
அமைத்து, அக்கரையை அடைந்தான்.

அரக்கன் அத்தசமுகனை அமரில் அயனின்
அஸ்திரத்தால் அழித்தான்.

அக்கினியில் அயராமல் அர்ப்பணித்த அன்னை
அவள் அதி அற்புதமாய் அண்ணலை அடைந்தாள்.

அன்னையுடன் அயோத்தியை அடைந்து
அரியணையில் அமர்ந்து அருளினான்

அண்ணல், அனந்த ராமனின் அவதார
அருங்கதை அகரத்திலேயே அடுக்கடுக்காக
அமைந்ததும் அனுமனின் அருளாலே.

source::::input from a friend of mine..
Natarajan

Little Kids Teach Us !!!….Learn a Lot From them !!!!!

> 1. A four-year-old child, whose next door
> neighbor was an elderly gentleman, who had recently lost his
> wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old
> Gentleman’s’ yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
> When his mother asked him what he had
> said to the neighbor, the little boy just said,
> ‘Nothing, I just helped him cry.’
>
> *********************************************
> 2. Teacher Debbie Moon’s first graders were
> discussing a picture of a family. One little boy in the picture
> had a different hair color than the other members. One of her
> students suggested that he was adopted.
> A little girl said, ‘I know all about
> adoption, I was adopted..’
>
> ‘What does it mean to be adopted?’, asked
> another child.
>
> ‘It means’, said the girl, ‘that you grew
> in your mommy’s heart instead of her tummy!’
>
> ************************ *********************
> 3. On my way home one day, I stopped to
> watch a Little League baseball game that was being played in a
> park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-
> base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was
> ‘We’re behind 14 to nothing,’ he answered
> With a smile.
>
> ‘Really,’ I said. ‘I have to say you
> don’t look very discouraged.’
>
> ‘Discouraged?’, the boy asked with a
> Puzzled look on his face.
>
> ‘Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t
> been up to bat yet.’
>
> *********************** **********************
> 4. Whenever I’m disappointed with my spot
> in life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott.
>
> Jamie was trying out for a part in the
> school play. His mother told me that he’d set his heart on being
> in it, though she feared he would not be chosen..
>
> On the day the parts were awarded, I went
> with her to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her,
> eyes shining with pride and excitement.. ‘Guess what, Mom,’ he
> shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to
> me….’I’ve been chosen to clap and cheer.’
>
> *********************************************
> 5. An eye witness account from New York
> City, on a cold day in December,
> some years ago: A little boy,
> about 10-years-old, was standing before a shoe store on the
> roadway, barefooted, peering through the window,
> and shivering with cold.
>
> A lady approached the young boy and said,
> ‘My child , but you’re in such deep thought staring in that window!’
>
> ‘I was asking God to give me a pair of
> shoes,’ was the boy’s reply.
>
> The lady took him by the hand, went into
> the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks
> for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water
> and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.
>
> She took the little fellow to the back
> part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed
> his little feet, and dried them with the towel.
>
> By this time, the clerk had returned with
> the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy’s feet,
> she purchased him a pair of shoes..
>
> She tied up the remaining pairs of socks
> and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said,
> ‘No doubt, you will be more comfortable now.’
>
> As she turned to go, the astonished kid
> caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face,
> with tears in his eyes, asked her:
> ‘Are you God’s wife?’
>
source:::::input from my friend..
Natarajan

Message For The Day…God is In Your Heart !!!

Brindavan is not a specific place on the map; it’s the Universe! All human beings are cowherds; all animals are cows. Every heart is filled with the longing for the Lord; the flute is the call of the Lord; the sport Raasakreeda (the sportive dance of little Krishna and the Gopees), is the symbol of the yearning and the travail to merge in God. The Lord manifests such Grace that each one of you has the Lord all for yourself; you need not be sad that you won’t have Him; nor need you be proud that you have Him and no one else can have Him! The Lord is installed in the altar of each and every one of your hearts. Revere the gift of this body, the senses, the intelligence, the Will and all the instruments of knowledge, action and feeling as essential for His work.

 Sathya Sai Baba