Monday 14 December 2009

Good Sayings-52

1021.  If men will have no care for the future, they will soon have sorrow for the present.
***
1022.  If God is to live in us, pride must die in us.- Dr S. Radhakrishnan
***
1023.  Watch your words, watch your actions, watch your thoughts, watch your character, watch your heart.
***
1024.  The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.-Paramahamsa Yogananda
***
1025.  Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.
***
1026.  Practice economy, but do not be stingy.
***
1027.  Instead of loving people and using things, we love things and use people.
***
1028.  Happiness and misery are mental states.-Swami Ramdas
***
1029.  Love lives by giving and forgiving.  Self lives by getting and forgetting.  Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.
***
1030.  Mind is a gold mine and a rubbish heap as well.
***
1031.  The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
***
1032.  A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
***
1033.  Thinking good thoughts, precede good actions.
***
1034.  Truth is the first causality in the game of politics.
***
1035.  Obstacles are stepping stones and not stopping stones to success.
***
1036.  Men take more pains to mask than mend.-Benjamin Franklin.
***
1037.  The best speakers are the best listeners.  Learn to listen.
***
1038.  Mind cannot be annihilated when noble thoughts are entertained.
***
1039.  Expansion means life, love is expansion.  Love is therefore the only kind of life.  He who loves lives.-Swami Vivekananda.
***
1040. God is the inner ruler of your heart.  He is the silent witness of your thoughts.  You cannot hide anything from Him.  Become straight forward.-Swami Sivananda.

Sunday 13 December 2009

Good Sayings-51

1001.  Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.- Dennis Conner
***
1002.  One who talks incessantly makes others bored.
***
1003.  Character is merely a habit, long continued.
***
1004.  Idle young man becomes unhappy old man.
***
1005.  It is vain to expect out prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as we pray.-Aesop
***
1006.  Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
***
1007.  He who laughs lasts.
***
1008.  It is better to starve than beg.
***
1009.  He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.
***
1010.  The trouble seems to be that too many people think the law should be enforced; and not enough think it should be observed.
***
1011.  Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark.  You know what you are doing but no one else sees.
***
1012.  Explanations of all the intellectuals of the world do not equal the experience of one individual.
***
1013.  There never was any heart truly great and gracious, that was not also tender and compassionate.
***
1014.  Where there is forgiveness there is God Himself.-Nanak
***
1015.  Hopes enables us to endure the hardships of life with courage and contentment.-Zarathushtra.
***
1016.  Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.
***
1017.  A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
***
1018.  There is only one true friend who is always with you, in you and around you.  He is God.-Baba
***
1019.  One of the most curious mistakes is to think that man derives happiness from being idle.-Leo Tolstoy.
***
1020.  Nurture great thoughts, for you will never be higher than your thoughts.- Benjamin Disraeli.
*******

Saturday 12 December 2009

Good Sayings-50

981.  Dharma, violated, destroys; Dharma, cherished, protects.
***
982.  Reject the gain that leads to a loss; Accept the loss that leads to a gain- Vidhura...
***
983.  All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
***
984.  Religions are not meant for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them- Gandhiji
***
985.  Children have neither past nor future.  They enjoy the present, which very few of us do.-Richard Garfield.
***
986.  The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. _ William Blake.
***
987.  Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.- Confucius
***
988.  Pleasure is attained by fulfilling desire; happiness by overcoming it.
***
989.  Speak not except what may benefit others or yourself.  Avoid unimportant conversation.
***
990.  I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.- Voltaire
***
991.  Amassing wealth often ruins health.
***
992.  Correct yourself and the world stands corrected.
***
993.  Constant practice often excels even talent.-Cicero.
***
994.  Time is Money.
***
995.  No man is happy who does not think himself so.
***
996.  The humble are pure gold, the proud are brass.
***
997.  Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
***
998.  Experience helps us to grow, accomplishment helps us mature.-G.Goodwin
***
999. One day is lost if we have not laughed even once.
***
1000.  He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.-John Ruskin.
*******

Friday 11 December 2009

There Is Good In Everyone...Wisdom

A teacher had great faith in his students and believed that every single student had something special in him.  Hearing about his faith in his students, the principal of the school appointed him to teach a class where a particular boy was giving a lot of trouble and negatively influencing the other boys too.
***
As the teacher entered the class on the first day, he found a lot of whispering going.  A paper was being passed from student to student.  When the teacher took the paper, he saw in it a crude drawing of himself.  He asked the students who drew it.  The boy who was known for his misbehavior stood up.  The teacher said to him, "Meet me after school today".  He then continued the class.  In the evening the boy went to him, expecting a severe punishment.  To his surprise, the teacher gave him a book and said to him, "I saw from your drawing that you have a great talent.  Here is a book which teaches you a lot about drawing.  Use it well".
***
The boy was so encouraged by this, he began to concentrate on drawing and on studies too to please the teacher.  He grew up to become James Whitcomb Riley, a great American Poet and artist.....
***
The teacher could mould a mischievous boy into a great person through his faith that there is good in everyone, and that through his faith that there is good in everyone, and that through patience one can win people over by being nice to them.....

Complacency...Wisdom Editor Speaks

Being satisfied and pleased with oneself is one thing.  Having respect for oneself is another.
***
Once you reach your goal, you gain confidence.  You use this confidence to set new goals to achieve.  That is what creative living is all about.  But when should one be proud of one's achievement?  When you develop confidence on your own initiative, there is no shame in being proud of it.  You don't have to brag about it; but you can look at yourself with kind eyes and, with approval, you can accept yourself for what you are and what you can be.  This does not mean complacency, being satisfied with your lot and staying that way.
***
Complacency is a variation of conceit, because you like yourself and go on liking yourself for what you have achieved, feeling you need not achieve anymore.  Complacency and humility do not go together, but confidence and humility do.  there is a hidden danger in being complacent.  Soon you become passive and rest on your laurels, whatever they may be.  Then you slowly retire from the realities of life.  Creative living means that you must always keep moving in the stream of things.  You can still enjoy a vacation now and relax in the room of your mind to renew your energies and you courage to tackle life's problems.  Complacency signals that you are resting too long.  All rest and no work makes you dull, uninteresting, lifeless.
***
No one can make you complacent without your consent.....

Thursday 10 December 2009

Education For Character...Swamy Vivekananda

The character of any man is but the aggregate of his tendencies, the sum total of the bent of his mind.  As pleasure and pain pas before his soul, they leave upon it different pictures, and the result of these combined impressions is what is called a man's character.  We are what our thoughts have made us.  Each thought is a little hammer blow on the lumps of iron which our bodies are, manufacturing out of it what we want it to be.  Words are secondary.  Thoughts live; they travel far.  And so take care of what you think.
***
Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character and in some cases misery is a greater teacher than happiness.  In studying the great characters the world has produced, I daresay, in the vast majority of cases, it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, and it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise.  Brought up in the lap of luxury, lying on a bed of roses and never shedding a tear, who has become great?  When there comes affection in the heart, when the storm of sorrow blows all round, and it seems as if light will be seen no more, when hope and courage are almost gone, it is then, in the midst of this great spiritual tempest, that the light within gleams.
***
Using the simile of a lake for the mind, every ripple, every wave that rises in the mind, when it subsides, does not die out entirely, but leaves a mark and future possibility of that mark coming out again...   Every work that we do, every movement of the body, every thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff, and even when such impressions are not obvious on the surface, they are sufficiently strong to work beneath the surface, subconsciously.  What we are every moment is determined by the sum total of these impressions on the mind..  Each man's character is determined by the sum total of these impressions.  If good impressions prevail, the character becomes good, if bad, it becomes bad.  If a man continuously hears bad words, thinks bad thoughts, does bad actions, his mind will be full of bad impressions; and they will influence his thought and work without his being conscious of the fact.  In fact, these bad impressions are always working.  The sum total of these impressions in him will create the strong motive power for doing bad actions.  He will be like a machine in the hands of his impressions.
***
Similarly if a man thinks good thoughts and does good work, the sum total of these impressions will be good and they in a similar manner will force him to do good in spire of himself.  When a man has done so much of good work and thought so many good thoughts, there is an irresistible tendency in him to do good.  Even if he wishes to do evil, his mind, as the sum total of his tendencies, will not allow him to do so.  He is completely under the influence of the good tendencies.  When such is the case, a man's good character is said to be established.  If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances.  Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of the great man.  Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is really great whose character is great always--the same wherever he be?
***
When a large number of these impressions is left on the mind, they coalesce and become a habit.  It is said, 'Habit is second nature.'  It is first nature also and the whole nature of man.  Everything that we are is the result of habit.... That gives us consolation because, if it is only habit, we can make it and unmake it at any time.  The only remedy for bad habits is counter habits.  All the bad habits can be controlled by good habits.  Go on doing good, thinking holy thoughts continuously.  That is the only way to suppress base impressions.  Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones.  Character is repeated habits and repeated habits alone can reform character.
***
The cause of all apparent evil is in ourselves.  Do not blame any supernatural being.  Neither be hopeless or despondent, nor think that we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and gives a helping hand.  We are like silkworms.  We make the thread of our own substance and spin the cocoon, and in course of time are imprisoned inside.  The network of karma we have woven around ourselves.  And in our ignorance we feel as if we are bound, and weep and wail for help.  But help does not come from without; it comes from within ourselves.  Cry to all the gods of the universe.  I cried for years and in the end I found that I was helped.  But help came from within.  And I had to undo what I had done by mistake.  I had to cut the net which I had thrown round myself.  I have committed many mistakes in my life.  But mark you, without those mistakes, I should not be what I am today.  I do not mean that you are to go home and willfully commit mistake; do not misunderstand me in that way.  But do not mope because of the mistakes you have committed.
***
We commit mistakes because we are weak, and we are weak because we are ignorant.  Who makes us ignorant?  We ourselves.  We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.  Take the hands away and there is light.  the light exists always for us, the self-effulgent nature of the human soul.  Do you not hear what modern scientific men say?  What is the cause of evolution?  Desire.  The animal wants to do something but does not find the environment favorable, and therefore develops a new body.  Who develops it?  The animal itself: its will.  Continue to exercise your will and it will take you higher.  The will is almighty.  If it is almighty, you may say: why cannot I do everything?  But you are thinking only of your little self.
***
Look back on yourself from the state of the amoeba to the human being; who made all that?  Your own will.  Can you deny that it is almighty?  That which has made you come up so high, can make you go higher still.  What you want is character, strengthening of the will.
***
If you go home and sit in sack-cloth and ashes, and weep your lives out because you took certain false steps, it will n ot help you, but will weaken you all the more.  If this room is full of darkness for thousands of years and you come in and begin to weep and wail, will the darkness vanish?  Strike a match and light comes in a moment.  What good will it do to you to think all your lives, 'Oh, I have done evil; I have made many mistakes.'?  It requires no ghost to tell us that.  Bring in the light and evil goes in a moment.  Build up your character and manifest your real nature, the Effulgent, the Resplendent, the Even-Pure and call it up in every one you see.......
 

Wednesday 9 December 2009

The Only Method Of Education....Swamy Vivekananda...

There is only one method by which to attain knowledge, that which is called concentration.  The very essence of education is concentration of mind.  From the lowest man to the highest yogi, all have to use the same method to attain knowledge.  The chemist who works in his laboratory concentrates all the powers of his mind, brings them into one focus, and throws them on the elements; the elements stand analysed, and thus his knowledge comes.  The astronomer concentrates the powers of his mind and brings them into one focus; and he throws them on to objects through his telescope; and stars and systems roll forward and give up their secrets of him.  So it is in every case: with the professor in his chair, the student with his book, with every man who is working to know.
***
The more the power of concentration, the greater the knowledge that is acquired.  Even the lowest shoe-black, if he gives more concentration, will black shoes better.  The cook with concentration will cook a meal all the better.  In making money, or in worshiping God, or in doing anything, the stronger the power of concentration, the better will that thing be done.  This is the one call, the one knowck, which opens the gates of Nature, and lets out floods of light.
***
Ninety per cent of thought-force  is wasted by the ordinary human being and therefore he is constantly committing blunders.  The trained man or mind never makes a mistake.  The main difference between men and the animals is the difference in their powers of concentration.  An animal has very little  powers of concentration.  Those who have trained animals find much difficulty in the fact that the animal is constantly forgetting what is told him.  He cannot concentrate his mind upon anything for a long times.  Herein is the difference between man and the animals.  The difference in their power of concentration also constitutes the difference between man and man.  Compare the lowest with the highest man.  The difference is in the degree of concentration.
***
All success in any line of work is the result of this.  High achievements in arts, music, etc., are the result of concentration.  When the mind is concentrated and turned back on itself, all within us will be our servants, not our masters.  The Greeks applied their concentration to the external world and the result was perfection in art, literature etc.  The Hindu concentrated on the internal world, upon the unseen realms in the self and developed the science of yoga.  The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give the necessary blow.  The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
***
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.  In the present state of our body we are much distracted, and the mind is frittering away its energies upon a hundred things.  As soon as I try to call on my thoughts and concentrate my mind upon any one object of knowledge, thousands of undesired impulses rush into the brain, thousands of thoughts rush into the mind and disturb it.  How to check it and bring the mind under control is the whole subject of study in Rajayoga.  The practice of meditation leads to mental concentration.
***
To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collection of facts.  If I had to do my education once again, I would not study facts at all.  I would develop the power of concentration and detachment and then with a perfect instrument, collect facts at will.
***
Power comes to him who observes unbroken Brahmacharya for a period of twelve years.  Complete continence gives great intellectual and spiritual power.  Controlled desire leads to the highest results.  Transform the sexual energy into spiritual energy.  The stronger this force, the more can be done with it.  Only a powerful current of water can do hydraulic mining.  It is owing to want of continence that everything is on the brink of ruin in our country.  By observance of strict Brahmacharya all learning can be mastered in a very short time; one acquires an unfailing memory of what one hears or knows but once.  The chaste brain has tremendous energy and gigantic will power.  Without chastity there can be no spiritual strength.  Continence gives wonderful control over mankind.  The spiritual leader of men have been very continent and this is what gave them power.
***
Every boy should be trained to practice absolute Brahmacharya and then, and then alone faith and Shradda will come.  Chastity in thought, word and deed always and in all conditions is what is called Brahmacharya(Continence).  Unchaste imagination is as bad as unchaste action.  The Brahmacharin(Who are practicing continence) must be pure in thought, word and deed.
***
The idea of true Shraddha must be brought back once more to us.  The faith in our own selves must be reawakened and then only all the problems which face our country will gradually be solved by ourselves.  What we want is this Shradda.  What makes the difference between man and man is the difference in the Shraddha and nothing else.  What makes one man great and another weak and low is this Shraddha.  My master used to say: he who thinks himself weak will become weak; and that is true.  This Shraddha must enter into you.  Whatever of material power you see manifested by the western races, is the outcome of this Shraddha, because they believe in their muscles; and if you believe in the spirit how much more will it work!
***
I beg you to understand this one fact, no good comes out of the man who day and night thinks he is nobody.  If a man day and night thinks that he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes.  If you say 'I am, I am', so shall you be.  That is the great fact you ought to remember.  We are children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire.  How can we be nothings?  We are everything, ready to do everything; we can do everything.  This faith in themselves was in the heart of our ancestors; this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward in the march of civilization.  If there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost this faith in themselves.
***
To preach the doctrine of Shraddha or genuine faith is the mission of my life.  Let me repeat to your that this faith is one of the most potent factors of humanity.  First have faith in yourselves.  Know that though one may be a little bubble and another may be a mountain-high wave, yet behind both the bubble and the wave there is the infinite ocean.  The infinite ocean is the background of me as well as you.  Mine also is that infinite ocean of life, of power, of spirituality as well as yours.  Therefore, my brethren, teach this life-saving, great, ennobling, grand doctrine to your children even from their very birth.

Saturday 5 December 2009

Phylosophy of Education.... Swamy Vivekananda

Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man...

Knowledge is inherent in man, no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside.  What we say a man "Knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'.  What a man 'learns' is really what he 'discovers' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.  We say Newton discovered gravitation.  Was it sitting anywhere in a corner waiting for him?  It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out.  All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind.  The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.  The falling of an apple gave the suggestion to Newton, and he studied his own mind.  He rearranged all the previous links of thought in his mind and discovered a new link among them, which we call the law of gravitation.  It was not in the apple nor in anything in the centre of the earth.

****

All knowledge therefore, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind.  In many cases it is not discovered, but remains covered, and when the covering is being slowly taken off, we say 'we are learning', and the advance of  knowledge is made by the advance of this process of uncovering.  The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the more knowing man; the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant; and the man from whom it has entirely gone is all-knowing, omniscient.  Like fire in a piece of flint, knowledge exists in the mind; suggestion is the friction which brings it out.  All knowledge and all power are within.  What we call powers, secrets of Nature, and force are all within.  What we call powers, secrets of Nature, and force are all within.  All knowledge comes from the human soul.  Man manifests knowledge, discovers it within himself, which is pre-existing, through eternity.
***
No one was ever really taught by another.  Each of us has to teach himself.  The external teacher offers only the suggestion which grouses the internal teacher to work to understand things.  Then things will be made clearer to us by our own power of perception and thought, and we shall realise them in our own souls.  The whole of the big banyan tree which covers acres of ground was in the little seed which was perhaps no energy was there confined.  The gigantic intellect, we know, lies coiled up in the protoplasmic cell.  It may seem like a paradox, but it is true.  Each one of us has come out of one protoplasmic cell, and all the powers we possess were coiled up there.  You cannot say they came from food, for if you heap up food mountains high, what power comes out of it?  The energy was there, potentially no doubt, but still there.  So is infinite power in the soul of man whether he knows it or not.  Its manifestation is only a question of being conscious of it.
***
The Light Divine within is obscured in most people.  It is like a lamp in a cask of iron: no gleam of light can shine through.  Gradually, by purity and unselfishness, we can make the obscuring medium less and less dense, until at last it becomes as transparent as glass.  Sri Ramakrishna was like the iron cask transformed into a glass cask, through which can be seen the inner light as it is.
***
You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant.  The plant develops its own nature.  The child also teaches itself.  But you can help it to go forward in its own way.  What you can do is not a positive nature but negative.  You can take away the obstacles, and knowledge comes out of its own nature.  Loosen the soil a little, so that it may come out easily.  Put a hedge round it; see that it is not killed by anything.  You can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air that it wants.  And there your work stops.  It will take all that it wants by its own nature.  So with the education of the child.  A child educates itself.  The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching.  Within man is all knowledge, and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of the teacher.  We have only to do so much for the boys that they may learn to apply their own intellect to the proper use of their hands, legs, ears and eyes.
***
That system which aims at educating our boys in the same manners as that of the man who battered his ass, being advised that it could thereby be turned into a horse, should be abolished.  Owing do not get free scope for growth.  In every one there are infinite tendencies which require proper scope for satisfaction  Violent attempts at reform always end by retarding reform.  If you do not allow one to become a lion, one will become a fox.
***
We should give positive ideas.  Negative thoughts only weaken men.  Do you not find that where parents are constantly taxing their sons to read and write, telling them that they will never learn anything and calling them fools and so forth, the latter do actually turn out to be so in many cases?  If you speak kind words to them and encourage them, they are bound to improve in time.  If you can give them positive ideas, people will grow up to be men and learn to stand on their own legs.  In language and literature, in poetry and arts, in everything we must point out not the mistakes that people are making in their thoughts and actions, but the way in which they will be able to do these things better.  The teaching must be modified according to the needs of the taught.  Past lives have moulded our tendencies, and so give to the pupil according to his tendencies.  Take every one where he stands and push him forward.  We have seen how Sri Ramakrishna would encourage even those whom we considered worthless and change the very course of their lives thereby!  He never destroyed a single man's special inclinations.  He gave words of hope and encouragement even to the most degraded of persons and lifted them up.
***
Liberty is the first condition of growth.  It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.'  Hands off!  They will solve their own problems.  Who are you to assume that you know everything?  How dare you think that you have the right over God?  Look upon every one as God.  You can only serve.  Serve the children of the Lord if you have the privilege.  If the Lord grants that you can help any one of His Children, blessed you are.  Blessed you are that that privilege was given to you when others had it not.  Do it only as worship.
***
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life.  We must have life-building, man-making, character-making, assimilation of ideas.  If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.  If education were identical with information, the libraries would be the greatest sages in the world and encyclopaedias the rishis.
***
Getting by heart the thoughts of others in a foreign language and stuffing your brain with them and taking some universities degrees, you consider yourself educated.  In this education?  What is the goal of your education?  Either a clerkship, or being a lawyer, or at the most a Deputy Magistrate, which is another form of clerkship-- isn't that all?  What good will it do you or to the country at large?  Open your eyes and see what a piteous cry for food is rising in the land of Bharata, proverbial for its food.  Will your education fulfil this want?  The education that does not help the common mass of people to equip themselves for the struggle for life, which does not bring out strength of character, a spirit of philanthropy and the courage of a lion-is it worth the name?
***
We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one's own feet.  What we need is to study, independent of foreign control, different branches of the knowledge that is our own, and with it the English language and western science; we need technical education and all else that will develop industries, so that men, instead of seeking for service, may earn enough to provide for themselves and save against a rainy day.
***
The end of all education, all training, should be man-making.  The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow.  The training by which the current and expression of will are brought under control and become fruitful, is called education.  what our country now wants are muscles of iron and nerves or steel, gigantic wills which nothing can resist, which can penetrate into the mysteries and secrets of the universe and will accomplish their purpose in any fashion, even if it meant going down to the bottom of the ocean, meeting death face to face.  It is man-making religion that we want.  It is man-making theories that we want.  It is man-making education all round that we want.
....................................

Sunday 29 November 2009

Disabled But Not Disheartened...

Savitri was a very active woman till she was struck by paralysis.  Her movements were confined to her home.  She felt she was a burden to her daughter-in-law Rani, who was a widow.  Rani was working as a housemaid in a nearby house.  She had a pretty daughter - Vidya who was born dumb.  She was admitted in a special school where training was given to deaf and dumb children.
***
Savithri was able to get a wheelchair by the generosity of a Lions Club.  After deep thinking, she decided to buy flowers, make pretty garlands and sell.
***
Savithri had a pet dog.  She named it 'Leader'.  Leader was so much attached to Savithri that she followed her like a shadow.  Leader was trained to pick up a basket containing a note and money, go to a flower merchant and bring flowers.  Leader's help was a great relief to the disabled Savithri.
***
Nearby Savithri's house there was a park.  A small Ganesh Temple was located just opposite to the entrance of the part.  She used to sit at the entrance of the park and prepare flower garlands while having the darshan of Lord Ganesh. She used to spend few hours to sell the flower garlands.  Before she left the place in the night, she handedover the remaining garlands to the priest to adom Lord Ganesh.
***
Savithri was able to earn about Rs. 100/- per day after meeting the cost of the flowers.  She was contented and grateful to God for keeping her active and useful inspite of her disability.


./././././././././././././././././././././MORAL... Contentment is a continuous feast.



Friday 27 November 2009

How Friendship Breaks... My Friends Gift

Hello all


HOW FRIENDSHIP BREAK   ?

                                                                L o v e b
 e a t s
                               
                                       Both Friends Will Think The Other Is Busy  
   
                                                                    L o v e b e a t s                                                      
   
                   
                   And Will  Not Contact L o v e b
 e a t sThinking It May Be Disturbing
                                                           
                                                         As Time Passes
                                                                L o v e b
 e a t s
                                 
                                   Both Will Think Let The OTher Contact
                                                               L o v e b
 e a t s
                   
                     
                       After That each Will Think Why I Should Contact First   ?
                                                 L o v e b
 e a t s L o v e b e a t s   
                           
                                  Here Your Love Will  Be Converted To Hate
                                                                 L o v e b
 e a t s
                           
                         Finally Without Contact The Memory Becomes Weak
                                                               L o v e b
 e a t s
                                                  They Forget Each Other.
                                       L o v e b
 e a t s                                
                 So Keep In Touch With All  And Pass This TO All Your Friends...
                                                                                                          L o v e b
 e a t s.L o v e b
 e a t s
                                         I Don`t Want To One Of  This Kind.
                                                                  L o v e b e a t s
                   
                                       So Here I Am sending Mail To Every One
                                                                 L o v e b
 e a t s
                  To Say L o v e b e a t s 
                                                               L o v e b e a t s
                                                                                                                                                    Dear  

                                                                                     
                                I Am  Fine Here
                                                                                                                      L o v e b
 e a t s     

Please keep in touch with me
                                                                        L o v e b e a t s
                                                                                             

L o v e b e a t
 sL o v e b e a t sL o v e b e a t s
 L o v e b e a t s
L o v e b e a t s         L o v e b e a t s           
                     

      Keep Smiling  
L o v e b e a t s
                                                                                

Tuesday 24 November 2009

What is Prayer..Swami Chinmayananda...

Through prayer alone devotion is deepened and fulfilled.  To turn ardently our hearts into the Lord, to offer our all at His Altar in our infinite love, to bow down in total surrender at His feet, to cry in the joy of the flooding love, this is prayer at its fullest.  Where individuality is merged in His sacred temple of Love, Universality starts, the experience of the Infinite in us unfolds.

***

Harnessing the Mind-Power.

When we are told that we must control our minds we wonder why we should do this.  What is wrong if you live and act as your minds demand, as you feel like at any moment.

 No harm.  The Lord has given you a splendid mind and a beautiful world.  But always remember that the entire Niagara Falls Cannot light up a even a single bulb until it is tunnelled on to the dynamo.

  Steam cannot make the steam engine work unless it is contained.  The mind cannot bring out its full force and strength to achieve for you success, unless it is disciplined, tunneled and contained.....

Monday 23 November 2009

How To Overcome Your Shyness...Dr. Anjana Maitra

Shyness is a human quality that everybody feels at some point of time in their lives.
.....
Shyness reveals itself in various ways - dry mouth, shaking hands, sweaty palms, loss of words, etc.
.......
Where does shyness come from?  In some cases, genes contribute.  Parents of shy children are often shy themselves.  The social environment or certain incidents of our early life also make us shy.  For example, if you are a sensitive child and your teacher ridicules you for giving a wrong answer in the class, you may not raise your hand to give an answer in future.
..............
At the root of shyness is self-doubt, leading to self-defeat.  Professionally we are afraid to express our needs and goals to our superiors.  Socially, we are unable to go forward and say "hellow" and we by-pass the opportunity of meeting an important person.
..........................
More often than not, we feel that everyone's eyes are looking at us, each of our smallest actions are being minutely observed and that our manners or gestures are under a searching look.  As a result we stop going out, avoid mixing with people, do not take the initiative to introduce ourselves at a social gathering, expressing our views and so on.
......................................
How, then, can we fight against shyness?  A few tips given below will help you to overcome shyness and face the world bravely.
...........
Don't Avoid Situations-- Our shyness is often increased when we avoid certain situations.  For Example, opportunity to give a talk, attending a party where most invitees may be unknown, participating in a Group Discussion and so on.  It is better to move forward and take advantage of the opportunity.
.....................
Think Positivie -- Positive thinking can help you to conquer almost any difficulty.  Don't encourage any self-doubts, e.g. "Is my dress OK for the occasion?"  "Am I well prepared for the presentation?" or "Shall I have a friend at the party?" and so on.  Pay attention to your body language - look friendly, make eye contact and smile....
.................................
Take Small Steps -- Don't set a big goal for yourself when you want to get rid of your shyness. If you are terrified of public speaking, Start by addressing your most trusted adult (parent or grandparent) then move to a small group of friends.  Then move to larger groups and after sometime your stage-fear will disappear and you will enjoy talking at the mike.
..............
Identify the causes...  Identify the causes of your shyness.  It could be something to do with your general appearance (your unruly hair, obesity etc.) or your slight stammer/unconscious gestures, or even a personality trait like forgetfulness.  Whatever it is, once you have identified it, you can go about rectifying it.  You can get a smart hair-cut, reduce weight, get your skin treated; your stammer may hardly be noticeable.  Try to remember names by jotting them down in your diary.  Conscious effort to work on weak points definitely pays rich dividends.  More often than not, it is inferiority complex that contributes to shyness.
..................................
Join the crowd...  Joining a crowd is always easier.  So go ahead and join fund raising drive, signature campaign or a 'Walk for the Environment' with others, participate in a Group Discussion, join a group of people at a party discussing the latest Cricket Match and offer your views.  Soon you will feel your shyness disappearing.
...............................................
Appreciate yourself and look for ways to improve...  Remember, no one is perfect- everyone is born with good and bad qualities.  First count your blessings and remember your good qualities.  Then, learn to accept your faults and failures.
................
Shyness is a natural and common trait and there is nothing to get worried about...."BALVIHAR"
............................................

Sunday 22 November 2009

Kid-Leysssss....

A women went into a butcher shop and asked the boy at the counter, "Do you have any beef kid leys?


"I suppose you mean Kidneys", said the butcher....


"Well", said the woman, " that's what I saidle, diddle I"...?




Wrong Feet....

PINKY, YOU HAVE YOUR SHOES ON THE WRONG FEET....


...................


BUT THEY ARE THE ONLY FEET I HAVE.....




Try Google Search

Google