Seasons of Consciousness

The World's only Immortal Animal........ :-)

2010-06-19T01:31:00.000-07:00

Sages have spent years of energy and research into food, living, and meditation....drug companies spend millions of monies into this....and even more, many a Seeker on the path to Enlightenment, have deviated from the path of self-enquiry, simply to find immortality...

...and here is this one, simple, living creature that effortlessly stays immortal...Nature knows who to bestow what. :-)

Which is it?

The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish...also called the hydrozoan jellyfish!

It can cycle from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, and back again, and back again! There may be no natural limit to its life span.

How?

Transdifferentiation process: 1 type of cell transforms into another type.

Examples of runner-ups: Salamanders can regrow limbs (limited transdifferentiation).

Because they are able to bypass death, they're now found in oceans around the globe.

"We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," ~Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.

Tree Plantation Drive by YES!+: June 5, 2010

2010-06-16T00:49:00.001-07:00

When Art of Living Bangalore's YES!+ team took charge in different parts of city, with AoL teachers, BBMP, and other responsible organizations like Vee Technnologies, the outcome was more than 100 new trees in a few hours, across parks!

FAQ: On an average, a human being utilizes resources of 16 trees in a lifetime.

Have you adopted your tree yet? :-)

Contact your Art of Living city coordinator and get started now.

www.artofliving.org

Harvard said this...NYTimes said that... what do you say?

2010-06-11T00:39:00.000-07:00

For the "less-evolved" ones who have an open mind to evolve:

A large-scale Harvard study, conducted last year, revealed that "the actual, realistic weightage to technical expertise is only 13 per cent!! ..compared to the 87 per cent attributed to soft skills in corporates and graduates today!"

Ironically we need Harvard, Stanford, NY Times or some such brand name credibility to believe the facts...instead of the universal knowledge already shared to the world through the Vedas and scriptures that contributed to India's high, multi-dimensional prosperity quotient, in ancient times! Isn't it ironic...?

If you have understood the point here, then you are already "evolving".

If you wish to fast-track your evolution, and fast-track the evolution of this beautiful planet along the way, enrol for the next YES!+ program. It's for you. And you will find everything you have been searching for so far in life...and much more..

Btw, at the realm of the Self, there is no evolution, the Self is all there is, as it is.

What's common to the MEDIA, POLITICIANS and EKTA KAPOOR? :-)

2010-06-11T00:06:00.000-07:00

Some of my friends argue (from lack of anything valuable to contribute to conversation) ...why does ART OF LIVING charge money for the courses?

I gently remind them about how much they have invested (money + time + energy) in their graduation, and how much returns and satisfaction quotient they are reaping today. And the ridiculous disproportion in Investment versus Returns. :-)

And they immediately know that all this is because of the lack of spiritual education so far...

The greatest point to remember is that, "spiritual education" which is the most important aspect of education is often neglected...results are obvious to one and all, and I needn't elucidate that.

Oh, btw spiritual education broadly means "knowledge of self, knowledge about mind, balanced lifestyle with a holistic combination of prosperity"...in fact all spiritual people are prosperous-- in wealth, in thoughts and in magnanimity of attitude.

"Anything that helps you become unconditionally happy and loving is what is called spirituality." ~ Sri Sri

Something I came across recently...and feel I must share with you...

"The idea that all spiritual education should be free, or the notion that spiritual training was free in ancient India is a fallacy. Spirituality is also an education and all education needs to be paid for. Those who know their history know that people in Vedic times had to “invest” far more to get a spiritual education than we do today!

The concept of ''Dakshina'' is from the ancient Vedic times.

The vow of poverty is a concept alien to our land. Here, the primordial Guru, Lord Narayana is wedded to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Material progress goes hand in hand with spiritual growth. There are some pseudo intellectuals and historians who...praise only the dead and abuse the living."

Aptly captured here...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6032081.cms

WHAT IS THE MEDIA DOING?

Silly goofy media...

sensationalizes a bullet and not the incredible work done by AOL in more than 165 countries in just 27 years!

politicians are the outdated PJ nowadays...and media is the new joke of the day.

Remember the last time, the media sensationalized that the commisioner's dog has run away....yes we all remember that !

But remember any time that AOL was highlighted for completely transforming Asia's largest slum...or creating a model village (in Maharashtra: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~gumma/inspire/Kapshi.doc) in the history of the world....or Sudarshan Kriya curing thousands of patients from migraine/asthma/depression/homicidal tendencies/Cancer....or how AOL volunteers are still working in tsunami zones and Naxal-torn jungles of Chattisgarh ??

No the media wont portray that...because the media is the new PJ of the planet.

Politicians and media seem to have become the new series of Ekta Kapoor package in real life :-)

Oh, btw...the donations paid for the AOL courses are utilized in thousands of service projects across the world...from disaster relief to rural women empowerment....from free children education to saving the environment.

http://www.artofliving.org/

I'm sure some of you will appreciate this, and invest in your own health (physical, emotional, mental) through the incredibly simple and powerful ART OF LIVING courses (my personal favorite: http://yesplusevents.org/) , and at the same time, contribute to the revolutionary service activities happening through the Art of Living.

Its only one family...we call it a ONE WORLD FAMILY (Vasudhaeva Kutumbakam!)

"Do not sell your smile, even if the whole world is offered in return for it." ~Sri Sri

Clean Water!

2010-06-03T01:06:00.000-07:00

"Once upon a time..." always has a "...Happily Ever After" at the end in reel life and fairytales.
What about in real life?

People who use the newest, "best", most-expensive water filtration systems...well guys this is not for you...because you have already lightened your pockets significantly to the "brand new" water purification system...and what I tell you about next will be a disappointment to your consumer-enthusiasm....

An ancient filtration technique that has near-zero carbon footprint in production and assembly of the system...and something that is way too affordable for anyone from a farmer to a corporate...is what I am talking about...
i discovered this system at the Art of Living International Foundation...and I could only jump in joy...because this is exactly what every small village and every health-conscious consumer would love to have...and this it it!

A product of research on ancient, fool-proof, holistic way of purifying drinking water, this is a joint inititaitve between the Government of India and the Art of Living...and the product is called TERAFIL!

Costing less than 500 INR, this is a boon to many many people who deserve good health and clean drinking water...

To check it out, please contact Dr Ramkrishna Muley - 9342139075

tiTbiTs:
http://www.artofliving.org/social-transformation/water-conservation/terafil-water-filter.html

Sri Sri: Calls Upon All to Fight Terrorism and Work for World Peace

2010-06-02T02:31:00.000-07:00

Sri Sri Publications
India, May 31, 2010:

Commenting on the attack on his convoy, spiritual leader, humanitarian and founder of the Art of Living, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said: “We have to raise the voice of non-violence. Violence has been increasing all over the country and in the world. We have to work towards a more spiritual and peaceful society.”

The probe into the attack, which occurred on May 30, continued with the visit of the Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa to the Art of Living’s International Headquarters in Bangalore.

The Chief Minister promised to extend their full support to aid the investigations. He discussed the incident in detail with Sri Sri. “We are committed to give all possible protection to him. There will be an inquiry and the culprit will be punished. I am happy to see Sri Sri’s determination. He remains undeterred even after the attack.”

Investigations revealed that a gunman fired at Sri Sri’s convoy as he was leaving a public satsang attended by thousands of people on Sunday evening.

Addressing the media at the Art of Living International Center today, Sri Sri said, “We heard a noise in the car. Only later I learnt that a devotee had received a surface injury in his thigh.”

He further added, “I invite people who have violent tendencies to the Center. I am sure after they sit in the satsang for a few days, they will be reformed. I have no enemies. I have already forgiven the gunman. I invite him to learn meditation and the Sudarshan Kriya (a stress-elimination breathing techniques introduced by Sri Sri)."

Asked about enhancing security measures around him, Sri Sri said, “I am here for the people and am not in favor of any measures that will prevent this.”

He urged people not to worry and called upon them to work towards a more inclusive, peaceful and spiritual society.

In the meantime, religious leaders across faiths spoke in support of Sri Sri. Deepak Chopra, the Stress Management expert, also condemned the incident while appreciating Sri Sri’s calm response on this unfortunate episode.

Father Babu Joseph, spokesperson of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India and Swami Agnivesh, well-known social activist, strongly condemned the act of violence against ‘a man of peace and prayer’.

Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev said,* “He is a non-controversial figure. It is surprising that such an incident has occurred. Such a spiritual leader must be given all security.” All-India Muslim Personal Law Board Working Committee member Kamal Farooqui said, “Gurus have a lot of relevance in our lives. The culprit should be punished.”

All said and done, Rashmin bhaiya's blog nails the facts into place...from the senseless media to the "we will blah blah" politicians, he puts this grim reality about our media and politics into right light!

Here's the post: http://rashminp.blogspot.com/2010/06/aho-niranjano.html

Innovation on the webpage :-)

2010-05-31T04:09:00.001-07:00

It's amazing ... don’t know who made this.

http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf

1st Line is Seconds
2nd Line is Minutes
3rd Line is Hours
4th Line is the Day of the Week
5th Line is Today's Date
6th Line is the Month
and 7th Line is the Year

Sri Sri's comments about "suicide"

2010-05-31T03:50:00.000-07:00

"Just relax! and be dead now!

Shareer ko kyun marte ho ( why do u want to kill your body ?)
Restlessness is in your mind.

By destroying your body you are not going to get anything.
Kill the mind , that is the real death you are looking for. If your
mind dies you relax. If this does not happen you cannot relax.
By destroying your body don’t think you will be at peace.
You have come to the right place.
Killing your body, your restlessness remains.
Your body is a sacred thing. It belongs to God !
What makes u so restless is your desire.
Drop that craving of yours and your mind becomes calm.
You want to compete with someone and when you cannot, you become
restless. All ambitions make u restless.

Kill your ambition,throw your ambition out.
If you are peaceful from inside you can do anything.
Aatma hatya karoge tho 400 -500 saal ghoomte rahoge (If you commit
suicide you will keep going round and round for 400-500 years !)
It is like - when u are feeling cold do you need more blankets or your
taking off your clothes will help ???!!!

Suicide is taking off your clothes when you are already feeling
cold !!!"

It is you who have shown me how precious human life is on this beautiful planet...how each second counts...and there is more love on this planet than we can comprehend!

In You, I experience the playfulness of the Krishna Consciousness, the innocence of the Shiva element, the unconditional love of Jesus, the non-violence in Lord Mahavira...and the unfathomable, soothing stillness of Lord Buddha...sometimes I wonder how You really are...a friend? a confidant? a Guru? a Father? a Mother? ...but then I smile and know one thing: I have the most beautiful life on this planet because of You.

How to detect Hidden Camera in TrialRooms of shops and malls? ?

2010-05-31T03:32:00.000-07:00

Issued in public interest :-)

In front of the trial room take your mobile and make sure that you are able to make calls with your mobile phone...

Next, enter the trial room, and make a call again.....

If u can't make a call...
There is a hidden camera!!

Science behind it:
This is due to the interference of fiber optic during the signal transfer, if a hidden camera is present.

YES!+ Program

2010-05-29T02:08:00.000-07:00

What keeps NASA astronauts and Asia’s best cardiologist stress-free?

How do Google employees at PaoAlto balance life and work?

What gives the world’s best snooker player an additional edge over competition?

Do I have to struggle to become successful in life?

Do I have the ability to handle any situation in life…with a smile?

Welcome to YES!+ Program and Upgrade your life skills.

YES!+ stands for Youth Empowerment and Skills Workshop for students and working professionals between the 18 to 30 age group. It’s a one of a kind, life skills workshop which is specially designed to give deep relaxation and easy-to-practice, practical tools to lead life with success.

· Do my relationships handle me?

For a change let me learn to handle my relationships.

· How can I give 100 per cent to life in the right direction?

· How to cultivate intelligence in my life without losing my innocence?

· Take a break from the madness of the world outside…Re-live life in your terms!

Whether you are a busy corporate, an ambitious student, or simply in need of a shift, YES!+ will leave you feeling lighter and ready to face any challenge with greater clarity and ease.

It enhances excellence and health in ALL ASPECTS of life: professional, personal, academic, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.

CORE COMPONENTS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM:

v Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY): A rhythmic breathing process that brings clarity to the mind, enhances creativity, kicks out personal mental barriers, gets rid of unhealthy habits, and increases focus and concentration levels tremendously.

v Challenging sessions to strengthen and energize the body and increase stamina

v Interactive Processes that are fun and provide practical wisdom to dealing with unpleasant situations at work/life

v You’ll learn Ancient techniques:

ü To enhance focus and concentration without stressing the mind

ü shortcuts to time management

ü for enhanced productivity at work

v A 20-minute daily breathing and meditation practice upon completion of the program

The upcoming YES!+ @ Bangalore:

Trainers: Smriti and Sahil Jagtiani. (Sahil is an International trainer for the Art of Living International Foundation, an Entrepreneur, and an International Singer and Musician.)

Dates: 11- 13 June

Timings: 8:00 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Where: ManandiSamskruta Sadan Hall, Jayanagar 5th Block, Bangalore
Age Criteria: 18–30 yrs + "those Young at Heart!"

Contact Us: Krishna 09884761590, Gaurav 9886279368

Email- smritisahilyesplus@gmail.com

Visit www.yesplus.org For testimonials: http://www.yesplusevents.org/testimonials/

Strangely, over-saturated intellectuals today need testimonials from organizations to believe good things, so here goes...(bcos nothing should stop you experiencing the most freeing experience you can have, in life) Please check the testimonials of various Organizations.

Also, share this link with your friends, family and colleagues. You never know whose life you may help Transform!

JUNE 5, 2010: 2,00,000 TREES FOR BANGALORE! JOIN US

2010-05-03T01:31:00.000-07:00

Do you feel the pinch of the Bangalore heat every time you step out of the air conditioned office?

Does the unusual summer heat play spoilsport every time you step out for coffee?

Is your doctor telling you to stay away from the dust and the heat?

If you feel the guilt that Bangalore’s world famous air conditioned climate may soon be a thing of the past, let’s do something about it.

Shall we get together and give the summer of 2011 something to look forward to? More greenery, more spring flowers, more coolness quotient to namma Bengaluru.

I know its been on your mind for long, and it has been on my mind too, and as we both waited for someone to initiate a project for TREE PLANTATION AND ADOPTION, the climate went from bad to worse.

The Art of Living International Foundation has joined hands with the BBMP to paint Bangalore city green this JUNE 5^th.

Mark this day on your calendars, apply for leaves from offices, even better: involve your teams, your company, and let’s do our part that was pending since long.

Our sankalpa is for 200,000 saplings across Bangalore.

Send me (gauravnath.vision@gmail.com) your name with phone number and email ID.

If you belong to the corporate circle, and wish to see your company involve as a strong Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) drive, send us the contact information of your HR or CSR Head.

Let’s get started RIGHT NOW.

p.s. (An average human uses the resources of 16 trees in a lifetime. Can we plant at least 17 ?)

WAKE UP! ...SIGN THIS PETITION AGAINST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD

2010-04-20T04:29:00.000-07:00

You know by now, the dangers of GM Food to your family and mine.

Simply refuse GM food.
...HOW?

Sign this petition
http://greenpeace.in/safefood/chavan-email/

Here are some latest happenings from the capital city, and some more real facts:
http://www.greenpeace.org/india/press/releases/citizens-uphold-their-right-to

Our words have power, lets use it wisely and timely. We want a cleaner, greener planet, and healthy people around.

Don't allow greedy, insensitive foreign MNC's to abuse this planet and stuff our bodies with time bombs (GM Food)!

A new series of universal knowledge

2010-04-20T02:20:00.000-07:00

Just browse through "your" topic...you will find something that clicks :-)
Knowledge from the Source

What Sri Sri Said July 4th 2002 Austin USA Public Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbSfXjBS8Rw

Sri Sri Conducts a Meditation - June 28th 2002 Chicago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w86_4zTTvXQ

What Sri Sri Said June 28th 2002 Chicago, USA Public Talk, Q+A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u155UokpJXU

What Sri Sri Said July 19th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang - The Significance of Yagyas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C50G8jJ_Tzo

What Sri Sri Said July 19th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang and Knowledge - Desires and Shraddaa(Faith)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huMtBg-DaE4

What Sri Sri Said Jan 15th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang Q and A and Birthdays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNnhWcymJiE

What Sri Sri Said Jan 15th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang - Speaks on Overcoming a Broken Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16LuXJ2ucDE

Sri Sri Sings a Bhajan Jan 15th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_QG6-609VM

What Sri Sri Said Jan 15th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang - Dealing with negative Emotion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPzs17OBE3c

What Sri Sri Said January 7th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang Q & As

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrhKr1-g3SA

What Sri Sri Said Jan 4th, 2001 Canada Q and A - Speaks on Same Sex Attraction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EektMq5mVwU

What Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Said Jan 4th 2001 Canada Q and A: Sex & Spirituality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYanZqJ9zg0

What Sri Sri Said Jan 4th, 2001 - Speaks on Dealing With Loss of a Loved One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlSoCgxhcv4

What Sri Sri Said Jan 4th 2001- Canada Q and A Sessions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaoeLWOiJnA

Love,
Gaurav

I liked this blog

2010-04-20T01:33:00.000-07:00

One of those elite few bloggers (like me :-)) , who blog about useful stuff, that all can use...

http://www.todayifoundout.com/

Most other bloggers are so community centric...the Microsoft communities, the Open Source community, the vegan community, the this community, the that community....and the other few simply blog to make noise and be heard and be famous...

In such dark times, universal blogs like

http://www.todayifoundout.com/, www.bawandinesh.name, www.gaurav-nath.blogspot.com (;-))

are lighthouses of knowledge that the HUMAN community can use and reuse and gain from.

Do you know more such blogs? share them here...let's spread knowledge, not gossip or war :-)

Bangalore's Mall Culture!

2010-04-19T02:27:00.000-07:00

THE MARKET

...is awash with rotten apples which go unnoticed to most consumers...most of us look forward to THE Sunday, and when its here, we waste half the day sleeping late (which topsy turvies the biological clock and metabolism...wow! what a dumb thing to do...), and one third of the other half, we waste inside a supermarket....especially if you walk into one of those noisy Big Bazaars...I compare the confusion to what probably chickens feel when they are crammed into cages inside factory farms! Loudspeakers babbling away about last minutes discounts...and frantic mothers trying to parallely manage crying kids and shopping carts @ same time...! and you'll find the local boys loitering inside...passing comments at so-called babes....!

The experience becomes worse when you are more aware of the air inside...its cluttered with thoughts, thoughts, thoughts...all thoughts of confused, weekend-starved professionals...who end up buying junk in that confused state of mind...and the air inside is stiffling! You know that when you step outside........

Personally I feel the shopping mall culture is killing off the good old Bangalore....and another chain of "environment and health" side-effects are on the way because of these malls, the same way that IT has done to Bangalore in the past!

The reasons most people go to malls:

1) Because suddenly you have nothing better to do...

2) You want to meet your friend, at a mall...and once you meet him/her, you both are clueless what to do

3) If your friend is same sex, and you are straight then you'll both stare away at the opposite sex...this is similar to what we have done when we are at home...stare away blindly at the TV..while eating, while studying, while entertaining guests, sometimes even just to fall asleep!!

4) If your friend is same sex, and you both are gays/lesbians, you'll stare at the same sex...LOL

5) If your friend is opposite sex, then you'll do either of the following:

   a) You are "just friends" with her, so she'll point out all the so-called hot guys, and you'll point out all the so-called hot girls

   b) You "friend" is your girl friend?? Oops...then you'll probably peek glances at the babe who just passed by...a subconscious fantasy will probably make you take a second peep!

6) You want to shop for yourself....apparel...food products...home needs...and in the process you will take home one or more plastic bags which you will dispose irresponsibly! You will fight for your currency change with the autorickshaw wala who drops you home, but you will not fight for the planet nor educate the rest of the zombie shoppers who are also taking plastic bags by the dozens!!

7) You want to eat at McDonald's (or KFC if your love towards your own body and environment is lost!) and feel good about all the goo that's going into your delicate system. And if you are one of those fast-food young mothers who use toilet papers (yuck!), then you will definitely pump your little child's system with generous doses of unhealthy McVeggies, McChicken...I promise you that your child has higher chances of:

   a) getting early puberty
   b) becoming dumber and dumber at studies
   c) becoming more aggressive with age
   d) getting chronic diseases: including gastritis, obesity (most common), heart diseases, sleep apnea, respiratory problems, Type 2 diabetes and worst of all, WEAKENED IMMUNITY!

If you tell me, "Oh, but I just take my son/daughter to eat junk "once in a while"."

I tell you, Every weekend is NOT "once in a while"!

Real communication has become passe, with more and more malls, and their fast food joints spreading like cholera...in fact most conversations nowadays are very focussed....on MONEY or GRATIFICATION. Gratification includes DOING NAUGHTY THINGS ON BED!

Definitions are also changing:

X Love for this funny cult of people is not love any more. It is "making love".

X Contributing to the planet means building software for foreign monopolies, that become cash cows for the already-rich foreign tycoons.

X As children, we played with toys, now most of you have stopped playing with toys...and started playing with human emotions

X Doing a random act of karmic kindness means helping the beggar woman (who will in turn give the money to her drunkard husband)

X Music means loud, metal, anti-Christ bands who exhibit suppressed emotional imbalances at rock shows, and invite a couple of alcohol brands as well to heighten the short-term madness

X Quality time with parents means dragging them to the nearest mall to buy you that latest watch or jewellery or gadget.

Bangalore and its mall culture (includes fast food, rock bands, smoky pubs) are drugging the minds of promising youth...

...Software code is more poetic than Rabindranath Tagore's poetry

...Bloody Mary and McDowell's is more refreshing than healthy herbal juices

...Junk food is more gratifying than home-made organic food

...Singing about heartbreaks (followed by getting drunk) is more soothing than spending time meditating or helping someone

...Urban Agriculture means Farmville on facebook

...Higher grades in high school mean a promising engineer or doctor or lawyer (as if we don't have enough unemployable ones already)

What is the purpose of your life?

To get into IIT? To get out of IIT? To get into Infosys? To get out of Infosys? To get married and create a generation of fast-food dependant children? To leave a huge property behind that has your younger generations spilling blood over?

Is the purpose of your life to struggle?

Is the purpose of your life to:

lose health working for a foreign MNC?
lose self-esteem by becoming a successfully "placed" MBA?
lose the priceless wealth of Vedic scientific knowledge that has survived millenniums, and inspired scientists and world leaders since the times of Archimedes?
lose the spirituality that has held together the magnanimity of the Indian civilization: the most prosperous, the oldest and the most welcoming of all civilizations?

If you want to break the chain, and do something worthy of becoming a legend...start with something very simple. And the simplest thing is to love yourself more, enrol for an Art of Living YES!+ workshop, do good to this planet, and care for more and more people around you. You will live a regret-free life that will inspire many lives around you.

VISTA INDIA: EDUCATING THE GIRL CHILD, EMPOWERING THE RURAL WOMAN

2010-04-12T04:53:00.000-07:00

Dear One,

I wish to introduce a major project headed by Pitaji, as we lovingly call R S V Ratnam—father to the Guru of Joy- His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Today, at the age of 88, through the noble project VISTA INDIA, He has reached a milestone no man or woman of his age would have done, to educate and empower the girl child. Today, he has identified 33 more villages for this work. Current project is ongoing at Sirsi village in Karnataka. Ladies are educated to be able to read, and are taught to stitch and tailor clothes, and jute bags. These are promoted by the Art of Living International Foundation, and all revenues are given back to the women, thus empowering them for this project that does this for our society:

· Creates interdependent women self-help groups

· Provides a platform for free education for the rural girl child

· Supports the jute and cotton industry of India, thus brings holistic, eco-friendly products with Indian artistry into the limelight

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

We require more sewing machines. Each costs 3000 rupees. This makes a very significant contribution from you.

Spiritually, a small contribution like this out of your earnings purifies the wealth. And what better way to contribute, than for a cause that is coming to fruition under the aegis of an 88 year old freedom fighter whose dedication is a lesson to be learnt and a cause worth joining.

As a donor, you will enjoy 80G tax exemption. This means 50% tax exemption on your contribution, recognized by the Income Tax Department of India.

If your contribution as an individual or a group or as an organization exceeds 50,000 Rupees, you are eligible for 35AC Tax Exemption, that is, 100% tax exemption.

Through cheque: In favor of “VISTA INDIA”. Please write your name and address at the back of the cheque.

You may also send cash. If a group of two or more donor pool in money for contribution, each donor will receive 80G certificates.

In either case, please mention your name and address (with phone number).

Contact me on gauravnath.vision@gmail.com, once you have readied the cheque or cash.

Love, best wishes

Gaurav

YES!+

2010-04-05T23:55:00.000-07:00

Living is truly an Art, which teaches the Science of Living!

http://yespluspunediary.blogspot.com/2009/01/hinjewadi-november.html

Re-living Life

2010-04-05T03:38:00.000-07:00

Are you a college goer?

A fresher?
A corporate professional who picked up smoking during college days and the peer pressure of "acting" cool?
A rebel who rebels in all the wrong ways that cause long-term damage to your own health?

I am sure after reading this blog by Jitesh, you will re-think why you started smoking in the first place. And why not meditation?

Simply because it is a sincere and innocent request to stop smoking and start re-living! :-)

And for the intelligent people like me and you too (if you are a non-smoker and you meditate everyday), we know what a HIGH meditation gives to the system! It is intoxicating.

By meditation, I mean the real meditation. Cos most people have this misconcept about meditation:

"close your eyes and imagine toony lights...concentrate..Concentrate...CoNcEnTrAtE! cOnCeNtRaTe! ConncennnTrAAteee!!! Boom! Bang! KaBoooommm! "
I'm sure you'll wake up with a splitting headache and disappointment because you didn't see disco lights going zigzag with eyes closed...No! thats not meditation. Meditation as GuruJi says, is "DE-CONCENTRATION"! and the EFFECT of meditation is "CONCENTRATION".

So simply relax, call any Art Of Living volunteer, and register for a YOUTH EMPOWERMENT and SKILLS (YES!+) WORKSHOP (if you are young at heart!). I promise You, it'll be the best investment you'll have ever made in your life.

Time to Re-Live the few beautiful remaining years of this life in the Best Way! Let's learn the Art Of Living!

This Beautiful Planet called EARTH

2010-04-03T04:48:00.000-07:00

Love is Unconditional

Youth is energy, Youth is enthusiasm.

"We not only need to globalize potato chips and coke, but we must globalize wisdom too!"-Sri Sri

"Broaden your vision, deepen your roots." -Sri Sri

Everything has a place in this Creation...Respect Life.

What is your Comfort Zone?

What is your Courage Zone?

When heart speaks to heart, melody is produced.

When head speaks to head, arguments are produced.

MAKE LIFE A CELEBRATION,
NOT A RACE

Smokers will find this very useful information

2010-04-02T04:57:00.000-07:00

ONE REQUEST: Its your life, please put it into perspective. And please enrich it with life-supporting habits, give back to the planet more life, not more smoke and disease.
Please.

Love,
Gaurav

Dont Postpone Your Happiness

2010-04-01T00:12:00.000-07:00

Deccan Herald, 22nd March, 2010

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Don’t postpone your happiness

Every living creature wants to be happy. Whether it is money, power, or sex, you get into it for the sake of happiness.

To be happy, we seek something. But despite getting it, we are not happy. A school-going boy may think that if he goes to college, he will be more independent, free and therefore happy.

If you ask a college-going boy whether he is happy, he feels that if he gets a job, he will be happy. Talk to somebody who is settled in their job or business, and you will see he is waiting to get a perfect soul mate, to be happy. He gets a soul mate, but he now wants to have kids to be happy. Ask those who have children if they are happy. How can they relax until the children have grown up and have had a good education and are on their own? Ask those who are retired, and done with all their responsibilities; are they happy? They long for the days when they were younger.

There are two ways of looking at life. One is thinking that, “Ill be happy after achieving a certain objective.” The second is saying that “I am happy come what may!” Which one do you want to live? All of one’s life is spent in preparing to be happy someday in the future. It’s like making a bed all night, but having no time to sleep.

How many minutes, hours and days have you spent your life being really happy from within? Those are the only moments you have really lived life. Those were perhaps the days when you were a small kid, completely blissful and happy or a few moments when you were surfing, swimming or sailing or on a mountain top, living in the present and enjoying it.

Happiness is living in the moment with joy, alertness, awareness and compassion. It is being free from within, feeling at home with everybody, without barriers.

Life is 80 per cent joy and 20 per cent misery. But we hold on to the 20 per cent and make it 200 per cent! It is not a conscious act, it just happens. Don’t judge and don’t worry about what others think of you. Whatever they think, is not permanent. Your own opinion about things and people keeps changing.

So why worry about what others think about you. To find harmony, it is not as if you have to physically seek it somewhere for years and practice. At some level, to some degree, everybody is meditating without being aware of it. There are moments when your body, mind and breath are all in harmony.

These are moments when you were surfing, swimming or sailing or are on a mountain top, living in the present and enjoying it. When your mind is in the present that’s when you achieve yoga. The art of living lies in the present moment. Happiness is a factor that we have to consciously pursue.

"Jai Gurudeva"

(Maintain the INNOCENCE of a DEVA and Cultivate the INTELLIGENCE of a GURU)

What is killing India?

2010-03-20T07:19:00.000-07:00

What is killing India?

Peep into this post and give yourself a weekend reality check....

· Pesticides and fertilizers- India is the world’s largest user of fertilizers and pesticides. Look at Bangalore: sparrows have dwindled, no doubt. But now, even the crows say No to the city.

India has been the country with the most advanced forms of irrigation and most holistic way of agriculture. Ancient Indian agriculture systems like the Vedic Farming alone, yields far more superior crops, fruits and vegetables, than any damned fertilizer or pesticides any scientist can create…and without the damage that is caused by fertilizers and pesticides.

What happened after Independence?? “Independence"?...where’s the Independence?

· Genetic Engineering- Just the south of India alone grows 150 varieties of rice! The smart way of agriculture is to grow different crops at different times on same soil…one type of crop enriches the soil for the next different type of crop to grow, thus allowing the soil to recuperate.

…But GM crops turn the agricultural soil sterile, and do not allow other crops to grow. This destroys the precious earth and leaves the farmers and the government defenseless at mercy of patenting laws. Patenting laws prevent farmers from saving crops.

· Plastic: Who invented the damned plastic? The world lived just as comfortably before plastic was invented.

· Bureaucrats: In terms of education quotient, politicians share the lesser blame compared to the so-called educated bureaucrats who are sucking up India and using politicians as pawn. If you feel responsible towards your country, what can you do? Write your Civil Services exam, become a responsible IAS officer. And while you are doing that, come to an Art Of Living workshop, tap enormous personal energy levels and broaden your capacity to take responsibility for yourself and for this planet.

· Education: We have enough unemployable, and poorly conditioned lawyers, engineers and doctors in this country: we don’t want anymore! We need our ancient system of education back which the British systematically wiped out, so that they could fuel religious feuds, misconstrue the caste system, train Indians as lab rats who learn the following plagiarisms:

o Galileo discovered that the Earth goes round the Sun’s orbit. (WRONG)

o Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity. (WRONG)

o Pythagoras discovered (a+b)² = a² + b² + 2ab. (WRONG)

o Oppenheimer discovered the atomic bomb. (WRONG)

o Drs. Steptoe and Edwards invented artificial insemination. (WRONG)

o Archimedes of Syracuse discovered the value of “Pi”. (WRONG)

o …I could go on and on.

All of the above and more were inventions or discoveries already made by ancient Indian scientists who were also spiritually enlightened meditators...such is the magnanimity of the world's grandest and most prosperous ("prosperous" in all senses) civilizations.

The bottom line is, our real Indian education system of Gurukul was systematically stolen by the English centuries ago, and plagiarized to form the Catholic system of modern education, and enforced upon us and the rest of the world during their colonization conquests.

· English medicine (alopathy): Given the plethora of negative side-effects on the body and continual abuse of environmental resources, pharma companies have no real claims to philanthropy, except that English medicines come handy only in emergency situations when it is ok to pop a pill. Some facts here for Indian consumers.

You thought painkillers were a fantastic invention? Wrong! Painkillers dilute the nervous system’s ability to experience real pain in the pain areas of body. It simply postpones the cause of the disease.

You thought anti-depressants are the best boon to mankind?

Wrong! Anti-depressants (...and psychiatrists) only postpone chronic depression to a later time, and this only snowballs into worse depression and suicidal/homophobic tendencies. What’s the solution? No brownie points for guessing: It is MEDITATION.

If you are stressed or depressed, Sudarshan Kriya Yoga alone can solve the problem. If you are not stressed or depressed, Sudarshan Kriya Yoga alone can give you that extra energy burst (with heightened awareness) to do more in less time, at work or at home.

You thought alopathy cures the disease?

No! Alopathy in most cases treats just the SYMPTOMS, not the root cause. :-(

What’s the cure?

Meditation and ayurveda.

Ayurveda attacks the CAUSE behind a disease, not the symptoms. And with zero side-effects…zero environment footprints.

And Panchkarma treatment ensures that diseases cannot touch your subtle body (that’s where diseases start incubating)

I couldn’t have found a better explanation of disease and health:

"Dis-ease occurs when any level of our existence is not at ease. Health is a disease-free body, a quiver-free breath, a stress-free mind, illusion-free intellect and obsession-free memory, an ego that includes all and a soul that is free from sorrow." – Sri Sri

· Computer Games: This doesn’t need elaboration. We all know what it has done to whole generations of kids and teenagers across the globe! some facts

· Junk Food: Carbonated drinks drain the body’s precious calcium and weaken digestion. Junk fast food: we all know what it does. I am amused that all we took from the west was coke and burgers, whereas in fact, we have much more to learn:

ü Team work from the Japanese

ü Precision from the Germans

ü Presentation and marketing from the Americans

ü Frankness and warmth from the Africans

ü Etiquette and manners from the British

ü Human and spiritual values from the Indians.

...choose a healthy lifestyle. Life is about living, and living is an art. ;-)

It is but obvious!

2010-03-17T06:20:00.000-07:00

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http://eco-chick.com/2009/05/3845/profits-before-people/

Thx eco-chick! :-)

Wake Up! SPEAK OUT

2010-03-17T05:43:00.000-07:00

Poison on the Platter from Jeffrey Smith on Vimeo.

(This video also features valuable comments of His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who besides being a guide to billions worldwide on holistic and people-centric sustainable science, is also educated on ancient vedic science and modern science. He is a visionary with unquestionable integrity, and an all-encompassing, loving, caring concern for this entire planet and all its life forms.)

I am not against GE per se. GE can be applied to human gene therapy, they can be creating medicines in a laboratory under very carefully watched conditions. BUT WE SHOULD NOT feed the products of an infant science to millions of people.

- Jeffrey M Smith

Founder, Institute for Responsible Technology

If you look at GM food from the perspective of a simple human being, not a biotechnologist, or a scientist or an activist,...and you ask yourself:

From all the evidence discovered about the REAL threat of GM food to you, to me, to all people on this planet...would you still support GM food that has NOT been sufficiently tested by neutral bodies???

You and I know that trials of GM foods on lab animals across the world have repeatedly shown that they cause bleeding stomachs, and adversely affect brain, lungs, liver, kidney, pancreas and intestine. They have been even linked to higher offspring mortality and causing infertility.

As the most evolved, visible beings on this planet with sufficient intelligence, we are directly responsible for OUR ACTIONS AS WELL AS INACTIONS.

I am responsible for global warming and I am responsible for the insecure IT professionals who are too busy saving brownie points for their next appraisal instead of creating brownie points for the planet they owe more to.

I am responsible for the corruption among the politicians and the distorted bureaucrats that's siphoning out our country morality underneath seats of power, and stashing black money into Swiss bank accounts.

I am responsible for the junk food generation of misled teenagers (more facts) and and few over-enthusiastic ambitious biotechnologists who are spirituality deprived and do not respect the planet and its delicate natural laws.

I am responsible for educating you about it.

But I am not responsible if you choose not to look at it neutrally or neglect doing your own research:

beyond your education conditioning if you are a biotechnologist

beyond your vote bank politics if you are a politician, beyond your comfort zone of "short term gain long term pain" attitude

beyond your insensitivity to your environment

“India is fast becoming the world’s biggest dustbin for this risky and unwanted technology. We are being told that these crops are essential for feeding the growing population, but there is not even one GM crop that produces higher yields. In fact, many of the GM crops produce less than the existing crops. And yet, as many as 56 foods crops are being genetically modified in India.”

-Devinder Sharma,

Food Policy key Analyst

“What we need is a moratorium on release of any GM crop and sale of any GM seed for at least next 5 to 7 years, till their safety is not assured through stringent and impartial tests, because what’s at stake here is not just our health but our very survival”

Dr Pushpa M. Bhargava

Founder Director, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology and Supreme Court’s nominee in the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC).

You know the facts now.
Make a responsible, good choice that is sustainable for you and the planet we share.

The harmony of Religion, Spirituality and Politics

2010-03-16T04:47:00.000-07:00

The role of religion is to make one righteous and loving And politics means caring for people and their welfare. When religion and politics don't coexist then you have corrupt politicians and pseudo-religious leaders.

A religious man who is righteous and loving will definitely care for the welfare of the whole population and hence becomes a true politician. And a true politician can only be righteous and loving. He cannot be anything but religious. All the Avatars and prophets have been caring for people and so were in politics. You can find many examples to this effect.

When religions restrict the freedom to worship and restrict modes of worship they become unsuitable for creating a harmonious society. When religion becomes all encompassing and gives full freedom to pray and worship in any manner -- that religion will bring righteousness and peace in people and will be suitable for any society.

People think politics and religion have to be kept separate because many religions did not give freedom to worship and did not care for all people equally. History has shown that religion has created conflict. But irreligious societies (e.g. communism) have created chaos and corruption.

Today both religion and politics need reform. Religion has to become broader and more spiritual to allow freedom of worship and broader to encompass all the wisdom in the world. And politicians have to become more righteous and spiritual.

- Sri Sri

Brilliant Answer from the Source!

2010-03-16T03:46:00.000-07:00

Feb, 2010, Bangalore International Centre, The Art Of Living International Foundation

Q: Guruji, I think life is miserable. What should I do?

Sri Sri:

You think life is miserable because you are hanging onto desires of the past, impossibles of the past, you are not accepting the present, you are not moving ahead or you are hoping for something too much. Correct? Be practical. Life is a mixture of problems and pleasure. What does your mind do? It messes up the problems and blows it out of proportion and makes oneself miserable. So who is responsible for your misery? Yourself.
So when is the program? When is the program not to be miserable? (Laughter) Now, right now have you gotten over your misery right now? (A dim ‘yes’ from the audience) The ‘Yes!’ should be louder (A strong ‘Yes’ this time). That is it. You know, if the room is dark for 20 years, it doesn’t take another 20 years to bring light in. it just needs one connection, one switch on and the whole darkness goes away. Your life may have been miserable in the past, but wake up and see, so what? Problems come and go in everybody’s life.
Look at your past, problems came and they have all vanished. Right? We forcefully make the problem stay, just wake up and see, where is the problem? The problem is not there. You can have some physical problem in the body sometimes, some pain here and there but is there anyone who has never suffered physical illness? Everybody has some physical problem at some point in their lives and when you violate laws of nature, pain comes, suffering comes. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Responsible advertising

2010-03-15T01:21:00.000-07:00

This is one of the most meaningful and responsible adverts ever made ! :-)

I DIDNT ELECT THIS MINISTER...DID YOU??????

2010-03-11T02:23:00.000-08:00

Indian citizens have voted out GM food, and that’s a large sizeable chunk of educated citizens here, Mr Prithviraj Chavan.

What will it take our foolhardy administrators to realize that they must not misuse their seats of power, and that the votes that gave them the ability to take GOOD and LONG-SIGHTED HOLISTIC decisions, must not be taken lightly.

Especially in the scenario where the farmer populace of the country is concerned…because agriculture is one of the strongest pillars of India when it comes to prosperity factors. And introducing GM food will invite the not-so-desirable side-effects of GM food…

Legally it will make our country vulnerable to the monopolies of GM manufacturers (Monsanto being the kingpin) and we all know how such irresponsible, greedy and manipulative organizations have don to other countries. It is WISE to learn from others’ mistakes, wont you agree?

From business perspective, Bt Brinjal will open flood gates to other GM foods, and the trade-off between a “SHORT-TERM” increase in productivity will leave a plague in all other aspects of agriculture, business, ethics, etc.

Environmentally, it will bring EXTINCTION to the hundred plus crops that are a blessing to India. And yes, GM crops turn the soil sterile to other crops, seriously compromising the integrity of our eco-system.

Health-wise, GM food causes the maximum damage. We have already discovered few NEGATIVE side-effects to health caused by GM food. These, GM organizations are unsuccessfully trying to hide under their carpets. However, Mr Chavan, the larger percentage of damage to your family and to mine, will be visible only when we like educated fools start eating GM food… BECAUSE SUFFICIENT RESEARCH has NOT BEEN CONDUCTED on GM food. And the little research done so far…well, we all know who conducted it.

Why Monsanto sucks? http://www.monsantosucks.com/

Today Mr Prithviraj Chavan is underhandedly trying to introduce a bill that brings GM food into our country. As if, we do not have enough other important issues to take care of.

If The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill 2009 (BRAI) is passed in the current parliamentary session, what will happen?

This is what this preposterous bill proposes:

The bill proposes to gag the media (Section 63) since it infringes upon the fundamental right of freedom of speech.

The penalty for creating awareness (misleading the public) about the ill effects of Genetically Modified issues may lead to an imprisonment of minimum six months and up to one year with a maximum fine of Rs.2 lakhs. Our right to freedom of speech will be curbed if this Bill is passed. The clauses of this bill are draconian and more stringent than even the repealed acts like POTA, TADA.

The worst is this: There was no provision for action against the company for concealment of facts (ill-effects) as it happened in case of tobacco in the US where the court fined $250 billion after several years.

GM crops must be strongly discouraged UNTIL SUFFICIENT TESTS are conducted by INDEPENDENT BODIES
(The integrity of Monsanto tests is questionable right from grass-root level: http://www.monsantosucks.com/Newsnviews/revolvedoor.htm)

What say, Mr Chavan?

Otherwise, how would you like your children and grandchildren to remember you? I mean, God forbid it.

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar—the global face of spiritual and unconditional humanitarian leadership, has been educated in modern as well as Vedic sciences, and with the unquestionable integrity that He is known world over for, this is what He has to say,

“We don’t need a bill that encourages free entry of GM food into India, without ensuring health safety of the people, besides penalizing the voice of protest.”

What can people like you and I do to protect our country and loved ones from such foolhardy politicians?

Start a signature campaign:

among your close friends and family
among your colleagues
among your neighbors and social circles

Team up with NGO's who have taken up active responsibility.

EDUCATE PEOPLE AROUND YOU, that's the LEAST you can do.

"Kill the FREAKING Chicken"

2010-03-09T04:50:00.001-08:00

My super sweet, and evolved friends in Europe are already saying no to such health-damaging foods, and irresponsible Organizations like KFC and McDonald's...

I especially like the new acronym for KFC that my most special friend has coined...

KFC= "Kill the FREAKING Chicken"

Sounds like a neat punch line out of a wrestling match :-)

Foie Gras is cruel..McDonalds and KFC have unethical practices

2010-03-09T04:27:00.001-08:00

For all the obese consumers who don’t mind eating and treating friends and family at the nearest McDonald’s and KFC joints…

And for all the young, hormone-awash, media-stimulated, teenagers who think KFC and McDonald’s serve tastier food than their mothers can make…

For all the young corporates who are challenged and cannot think beyond KFC and McDonald’s when it comes to eating outside…

You and I are aware of the cruelty (includes the slavery in Africa that goes behind the scenes of these joints).

Why do you still haunt these joints?

Is your love for this beautiful planet that you are ACCOUNTABLE to, negotiable compared to your judgment about the dangers of such food, morally, spiritually, economically, and health-wise upon your health?

It doesn’t matter how old are you, which college you go to, which employer you work for, it doesn’t even matter if you rarely go to KFC and McD or you go there often. It is unhealthy and irresponsible. Please stop haunting KFC and McDonald’s immediately, for good.

IN THE END, IT WILL MATTER ONLY AND ONLY TO YOU.

For my friends in Europe, this is why you should immediately stop visiting KFC and McDonalds.

Looks Familiar? It's Foie Gras. Translated into English, it means "Fat Liver"
This luxurious menu dish originated from France.

But this dish comes from FORCE FEEDING a goose to make them develop the FATTY LIVER DISEASE!

The geese are force-fed

The metal pipe is made to pass through its throat to the stomach..ensures adequate pain and brutality to make the liver bigger and fatter

Small cages force the geese to stay in one position to avoid using energy, thus converting all food into fat.

Their legs swell up from standing all day

They are defenseless and this they learn quickly, after repeated torture.

They are force-fed until they are dead or their bodies cant stand with this

The survivors develop inflamed anal orifice...and they bleed profusely while they excrete, Their mouths, throat and stomach ache from this senseless force-feeding. Their legs swell to enormous sizes, and deprivation of sleep wrecks their nerves. Would you like to eat such an animal? What effect will such a diseased food cause to your nerves and to your body?

Isn't it unimaginable...the hidden cruelty and disease that goes into this dish that LOOKS tasty!

I would never take my significant other or my loved ones to a restaurant or food joint that serves such diseased cruelty-laced dish.

Would you?

STOP THE DEMAND AND THE SUPPLY WILL END

For readers in India, who are wondering how does visiting KFC and McDonald's once in a while affect these mute geese: Every penny you spend at KFC or McDonald's is a generous contribution to the Organization that sells such food in any corner of this world.

Are you evolving or devolving now?

PASTEURIZATION KILLS MILK!

2010-03-09T02:31:00.000-08:00

Pasteurization deprives children of the essential constituents that clean, raw milk can provide.

As for the health-conscious consumers who need REAL milk, pasteurized milk is fooling them into an illusion of milk, whereas fact is they are just consuming some white liquid that has near-zero essential nutrition.

What’s worse is all this artificial treatments to milk (and other food products) have created a generation of weak individuals who have weak immunity levels…due to excessive hygiene of course. This should be a reality-check for readers who say “raw milk may just be full of harmful bacteria”…I am sure the human race existed, in fact they thrived better long before Pasteur was heard of.

Pasteurization had set out to accomplish 2 things: destruction of germs, and preventing milk from turning sour (this is funny…because sour milk is super good for invalids, as a laxative). It did achieve the mentioned goals, at a greater cost that destroys the purpose itself.

Pasteurization ended up destroying even the beneficial bacteria which is why we drink milk. Not just that, pasteurization destroys nutrition in the milk. And this measure taken to prevent milk from souring, creates more favorable conditions for UNDESIRABLE GERMS to MULTIPLY very very fast.
The problem which Pasteur missed is that, its dirty milk causes menace, NOT raw milk. RAW MILK IS GOOD.

Some zealots say raw milk can cause tuberculosis. I have discovered some studies conducted on this assumption which revealed that pasteurized milk had also caused tuberculosis.

The last discovery I made is, pasteurization is the main offender when it comes to turning the much –needed calcium in milk, into insoluble by the body! RESULTS: rickets, bad teeth, nervous troubles. This also depletes the phosphorus associated with Calcium. RESULTS: serious effect on bone and brain formation. Pasteurization also destroys 20 percent of the iodine present in raw milk. RESULTS: constipation.

Now, for those special few people in denial (who ironically also happen to be intellectually stimulated), here are the numbers and figures: http://www.karlloren.com/aajonus/p15.htm. End Of Discussion :-)

Instead of forcing dealers to set up expensive machinery for turning raw milk into a mutant white zero nutrition liquid, can the government ensure our dairy-farmers produce clean, raw milk?

For more information: http://www.realmilk.com/

Milk is no more healthy !

2010-03-08T23:27:00.000-08:00

It goes without elaborating that the milk of Indian cows..real Indian cows is the most nutritious in the world.

videos.desishock.net/449905/Desi-Cow's

And today this breed of cows (desi cows) are fast disappearing...and a new kind of cows are appearing swiftly and silently...like a plague.
What's the difference between desi cows and jersey cows? Someone answered on Wiki answers "One is dumb, the other isn't" :-) isn't it obvious because the jersey cows are not natural breeds...they are dumb no doubt...LOL

These cows are injected with oestrogen hormones to increase their production of milk from 40 to 60. For those who are aware that oestrogen is a female hormone, it reveals why children as young as 10 and 11 years of age are getting puberty in India...thats because the milk children drink nowadays...this packaged milk is adulterated with oestrogen, and more...girls as young as 6th standard, are getting periods! And boys as young as 10 are getting visible signs of puberty!

Nandini milk has become a household name.
But how many educated, intelligent consumers actually do their own research? Do you?
...which is why, I thought it smart to share this with you:
The milk that you buy is obtained from machine milking of cows. You would have guessed by now, what harm this does to the milk. PUS and BLOOD go into machine-extracted milk!!

Do you wish to drink milk containing pus and blood???

Nandini Dairy (and all other packaged milk manufacturers) PASTEURIZES their milk. PASTEURIZATION KILLS THE MILK. Pasteurization heats the milk to high levels and kills the nutrition, before it even reaches your next-door shop.

Nandini Dairy (and all other packaged milk manufacturers) HOMOGENIZES their milk. HOMOGENIZED MILK KILLS BLOOD VESSELS.

If you are already mentally complaining that, in such a case "what shall I eat then???" I'll say run to the hand-milked cow shed in your neighborhood. And before that, feel grateful that we live in a country like India, which still has real Indian cows in many pockets of this country.

If you donot have this luxury (an ironic but realistic term now), then make REAL SOYA MILK at home. Real Soya Milk, is NOT the silken soya milk that you buy at RelianceMart or Spencer's. Oh btw, I am amused too see that, with all the monies that go into their marketing gimmicks, these retail outlets don't see the direct tangible gains they will get in marketing, if they invest even a fraction of that invisible marketing monies into procuring and promoting jute and cotton bags as a ECO-FRIENDLY measure for the planet. Just a priceless marketing tip!
(Here is where to procure jute bags in bulk from: http://www.jeevanakala.com/support/ssrdp.htm

)

Now, I know you are already asking me "How" to make soya milk at home?

Here's how to make real soya milk at home :-)
http://www.homelifeweekly.com/cooking/how-to-make-soy-milk/

http://www.soya.be/how-to-make-soy-milk.php

COCONUT MILK is a SUPERB alternative to milk!
And coconut water :-) I could go on and on about its amazing nutritional brownie points :-)

natural isotonic beverage- the same level as in human blood! :-)
electrolytic balance in coconut milk= electrolytic balance in our blood.
Coconut Water is

:-) More Nutritious than whole milk - LESS FAT, NO CHOLESTEROL

:-) Healthier than Orange Juice - MUCH MUCH LOWER CALORIES.

:-) Contains lauric acid, which is present in human mother's milk- better than processed baby milk

You thought sports drinks are better because your favorite sportstar promotes it. Wrong!

Coconut water

:-) contains more potassium (at about 294 mg) than most sports drinks (117 mg) and most energy drinks
:-) has less sodium (25mg) where sports drinks have around 41mg and energy drinks have about 200 mg.
:-) has 5mg of Natural Sugars where sports and energy drinks range from 10-25mg of Altered Sugars.
:-) is very high in Chloride at 118mg, compared to sports drinks at about 39mg. (Data based on a 100ml drink)

Coconut water is a universal donor - Its identical to human blood plasma. Coconut water has saved lives in 3rd world countries thru Coconut IV.

"Coconut water is the very stuff of Nature, biologically Pure, full of Natural Sugars, Salts, and Vitamins to ward off fatigue and is the next wave of energy drinks BUT natural"-Mortin Satin, Chief, United Nation's Food & Agriculture Organization

I dont understand the agenda of the media...do news channels like NDTV and CNN IBN exist solely to have higher viewership ratings? (the answer is obvious, seeing day in and day out coverage of the Commissioner's pet dog having run away, or of Rakhi Sawant's personal life!) Do daily newspapers like Times Of India, DNA, MidDay, Deccan Herald etc spend man hours and energy only to garner more and more and more subscribers? In fact they have been partially successful in manipulating the reading psychology of the public...partially successful. Why don't the media cover issues of such paramount importance? Because they and a chunk of the public would prefer to live in denial...until it strikes their own homes. Funny civilization we live in.

I'm really lovin it!

2010-03-08T06:52:00.000-08:00

I'm in love with this song, and fascinated by Jason Mraz...such a versatile singer!

Dedicated to someone...you-know-who :-)

The Master is a Garbage Collector for the World

2010-03-07T22:07:00.000-08:00

I am You, You are Me.

The head longs for the NEW...the heart longs for the Old....

2010-03-06T03:16:00.000-08:00

A joke that'll make sense to many :-)

2010-03-06T03:08:00.000-08:00

A mom comes to visit her son Kumar for dinner...who lives with a girl roommate Smitha.

During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty Kumar's roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious.

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Kumar and his roommate than met the eye.
Reading his mom's thoughts, Kumar volunteered, 'I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Smita and I are just roommates.'

About a week later, Smita came to Kumar saying, 'Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver plate. You don't suppose she took it, do you?'

Kumar said ,'Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure.'

So he sat down and wrote :

Dear Mother:
I'm not saying that you 'did' take the silver plate from my house, I'm not saying that you 'did not' take the silver plate.. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.
Love, Kumar

Several days later, Kumar received an email from his Mother :

Dear Son:
I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep with Smita, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with Smita. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the silver plate by now under the pillow...
Love,
Mom.

Lesson of the day:
Don’t lie to your mother…
Especially if she is Indian

The MEANING of SWASTIK Symbol

2010-03-06T02:58:00.000-08:00

SRI SRI:

"Swastik is a symbol and they are the people who make something out of the symbol.For eg, the `Do Not Enter´ symbol is only recognized in USA and Europe. It is not known in India and hence it has no significance.

The Swastika represents the 4 time zones, also represents the 4 stages in life - in 100 years, first 25 years is for studying (studenthood) , next 25 years is the life of a householder, next 25 years is the time to do service for society, last 25 years is the time for being a recluse - completely detached from everything. There are several such 4s like the 4 Vedas etc. The ancient symbol of Swatika was in the clockwise direction and signified the cyclical nature of time. Hitler changed it make it go in the other direction and preverted the meaning"

Beautiful! :-)

In love with Apple iPad? Here's something "cheaper+better"

2010-03-04T04:22:00.000-08:00

Notion Ink just did it!
Labeled an iPad Killer, ADAM is Notion Ink's answer to Apple iPad...thanks to Anupam for sharing this with me

http://www.notionink.in/adamoverview.php

I particularly like their punch line which says,

"It's not a tablet or a book reader. It's a new species, and we call it ADAM. The First."
Experience the power of Tegra-Android, where hardware talks to software more often"

what will it cost....something between 327 USD and 800 USD! Neeeaaatttt ! :-)

Tyre Art....whatz thatt?

2010-03-03T07:29:00.000-08:00

For every problem which the majority of mankind produces, creativity always walks a step ahead and solves it...for the some of us who have always wondered what to do with old worn-out tyres, here is someone who produces brilliant pieces of art, that steps out of the garage and right into your living room.

Don't wanna smoke anymore?

2010-03-01T04:02:00.000-08:00

Here is the most effective program in the world that EFFORTLESSLY empowers you to kick this dangerous addiction...

STOP GENETIC CONTAMINATION

2010-02-27T22:16:00.000-08:00

Bt Brinjal could be back because science and technology minister Prithviraj Chavan is trying to change the rules of the game.

Mr. Chavan pushed for Bt Brinjal in a letter he copied word for word from a study funded by biotech seed companies, including Monsanto.

So now he is presenting an undemocratic GM bill to ease the legalization of Bt Brinjal, rice, and more—without any public input.

Mr. Chavan is supposed to serve the people of India. Instead, he's serving the interests of biotech seed corporations.

Greenpeace is taking a petition asking the Prime Minister to stop Minister Chavan from poisoning our food.

I have already signed this petition. You can also sign it and ensure that the PM takes necessary action.

www.greenpeace.in/safefood/chavan-petition/

Our efforts can save our food from genetic contamination.

Stop Minister Chavan from poisoning our food

2010-02-26T00:06:00.000-08:00

RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD?

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION

http://greenpeace.in/safefood/chavan-petition/

The changing face of Bangalore music culture

2010-02-23T04:46:00.000-08:00

http://www.whatthebleep.com/crystals/21 Feb, 2010:
Palace Grounds, Gayathri Vihar:
Evening: 5pm

Enter a host of Indian and international music bands, who set the tone for Richard Marx and the Backstreet Boys to hit the stage...

The uniqueness was, there were a few aunties and family folks...which was a pleasant surprise. Not quite a surprise if one knows the popularity Backstreet Boys enjoy in India-- the country where music continues to be @ the peak of excellence and diversity, since the past many millenniums.

Just two hours before the show, I had no clue I was gonna be there, but of course, I have a superb Guru...who knows what I want (I wanted to watch Richard Marx live, just the previous day...not knowing that Richard Marx was in Bangalore the next day! surprise...not anymore...I'm usd to miracles now... :-))
....and there I was, with Anjana (thx to her, I was there)...and enjoyed superb guitar work by Richard Marx...what really caught my eye, were the extra effort Richard took to change a guitar for every song..he certainly gave us the best experience...and also that he was extremely witty and bright on the stage...he was very Deva kinds :-) playful..really playful on the stage...

well he made sure, that, he plays "Right Here Waiting" for us...!

and of course another number that hasnt gone into production yet ...well, :-)

Next were the Backstreet Boys who simply set the fans (including the aunties) going wild by their mere presence...I must appreciate they did put in a lot of hard work there and did their moves right...superb dance moves, great singing, and lots of love for their fans...it all showed immensely. Given that, they have come to learn the immense impact Indian music has had on the world music scene...they did admit they were gonna come back again to India next year (yes :-) good news for the big chunk of Indian music lovers who have grown on an everyday dose of Backstreet Boys)..and they also confirmed their openness to collaboration with Indian singers.... sounds good :-)

Its nice to know, for a change we have some good music coming into Bangalore....besides the usual hard rock and gothic music...

Music is vibrations, and these vibrations affect every cell of the human body (which is 90% water) likewise...good, positive, melodious music uplifts...whereas violent, anti-Christ, metal noise simply distorts every water molecule in our bodies...thus creating more violent, negative-minded, individuals..

Life is an upward trend, not a downward spiral. Life is a celebration, not a race.

DON'T ASSUME

2010-02-22T00:46:00.001-08:00

Childhood memories..thank you youtube!

2010-02-20T02:25:00.000-08:00

Beautiful reality check

2010-02-20T02:01:00.000-08:00

This thing just came in this morning: :-)

In true love there is no heartbreak.
A broken heart means broken demands, broken expectations, broken hopes.
How can love break?
Love cannot break!

~Sri Sri

True, isnt it?

Legendary Love

2010-02-19T22:35:00.000-08:00

Legendary is the love that withstands rejection. It will be free of anger and ego.

Legendary is the commitment that withstands humiliation. It will be one-pointed and will reach its goal.

Legendary is the wisdom that withstands turbulence. It will be integrated into life.

Legendary is the faith that withstands a million chances of doubt. It will bring perfection-- siddhis.

Legendary are the events that withstand time. They will become morals for the millions.

-Montreal Ashram, Quebec, Canada, July 5, 2000

A eunuch made my day

2010-02-18T22:23:00.000-08:00

I was a little low on energy after:

a vampire movie (Twilight part 2: slow, but interesting...little too mushy..Ashley Greene should have smiled more often..everytime she was with Robert Pattinson, she looked like she was suppressing a terrible headache inside :-) LOL) last night
day-long laptop radiation
excessive cell phone usage @ night
barely any sleep
Bangalore morning traffic and its stressed out, spaced out commuters throwing oodles of stress energy all around

...@ Sony World traffic signal, lights went red, my auto driver (some Mr Khan) and I were cajoled by a eunuch (a daily routine for eunuchs), and routine-wise the auto driver handed her a few coins

...for those who don't know, in India, eunuchs donot have any rights, and hence they have formed a closed community which goes around asking for money...though most of them are happy souls, there are some aggressive souls too...thanks to these aggressive souls, most people do not get into an argument (God forbid!) and dole out some cash...

well, she blessed the auto driver, and next was my turn, I smiled, mentally blessed her, and handed her some cash too...she went all out pulling @ my cheeks (real hard..ouch!) and mouthed in heavy-accentuated Tamil...

"bless you...be happy...well, why dont you grow a moustache..you'll look handsome" ...this went hand in hand with the sign language she used to describe moustache (BIIIIG moustache), and moved on.

Microsoft Paint zindabaad! :-)

Understanding the fact that sporting a big burly moustache makes you a much-sought after guy in south India, I only smiled imagining how I'd look in moustaches. (considering that I am allergic to sporting moustaches)

Of course after she left I wondered at the irony. In a country like India, where communism has spread like a plague in over 400 territories out of 600...will even a single fanatic communist even bother to cry his/her voice hoarse for the right of eunuchs. I am sure, they wont. After all, their warm-blooded agenda's are selective and motivated by thirst for power. Of course they are blind to their own history when communism failed in the Soviet Union, and left so many crores of people dead, and many more in worst living conditions.

I no longer feel anger at our short-sighted FMCG-mentality politicians, and the communists who are misleading simple-hearted gullible youths in naxalism...I only feel compassion.

The HR-interviewee dialogue :-)

2010-02-16T23:47:00.000-08:00

No matter who you are (HR or an employee), where you are (Mumbai or Finland), you will find this useful :-)

The funny world that we live in...HUMOUR vs. AGGRAVATION

2010-02-16T03:53:00.000-08:00

HUMOR
http://www.baconbabble.com/index.php/2010/02/12/theyre-homeless-not-humorless/

Versus

AGGRAVATION
http://listverse.com/2008/11/20/10-extreme-examples-of-gender-inequality/

McDonald's: I'm NOT loving it

2010-02-15T00:57:00.000-08:00

Looks delicious? Feeling the mouth water slightly?

We defend our freedom so strongly, don't we? Our freedom to expression, our rights as a citizen and as a consumer...in fact we all know someone who has blown the lid over smaller issues like "Why can't I use this road??? I pay road tax!" or "Why is Vodafone charging me like crazy?? Call your manager!"

Do we honor others' right even a pinch as ferociously as we defend ours?

Time to do a double-check. You indulge in a McDonald's burger...somewhere in the long inventory, who does it support and who does it hurt?

Check this out

McDonald’s is the world’s largest user of beef, and of all companies, probably has the most colorful animal rights history.

Remember the McLibel Trial (the longest trial in British history) when McDonald’s sued British activists for exposing McDonald’s practices in the pamphlet: “What’s Wrong with McDonald’s -- Everything They Don’t Want You to Know”.

With all its corporate might, McDonald’s could disprove that McDonald’s junk food does not affect rainforests, heart disease and cancer, or food poisoning and starvation in Third World. Despite all its corporate might McDonald’s could not disprove that it EXPLOITS CHILDREN, FALSELY CLAIMS THAT ITS FOOD IS NUTRITIOUS, is responsible for ANIMAL CRUELTY, and pays its EMPLOYEES LOW WAGES.

Down the line, the Company has seen an ugly chain of exposures from non-vegetarian French fries to factory farming. Personally, I have stopped eating at McDonald’s…and so have many of my friends after they did they did their own research on the McDonald’s eco-system from the US to Bangalore.

As for those who love chicken, I wont talk you out if it. You very well know what you are eating…mutilated birds that were killed under extreme pain. This releases fear hormones in their systems, and the same stuff goes into your bodies. Not to mention, the antibiotics with which these birds were pumped during their short lifespan in factory farms.

And for those who think chicken tastes great, try eating chicken without the herbs and vegetarian spices that make your taste buds crave for chicken.

I’ll be surprised if you make it to your late 30’s without an acquired chronic disease…the least being weak digestion, and the worst being cancer of course.

I can make BETTER BURGERS than McDonald's and sell them @ HALF THE PRICE of what McDonald's charges (also without the plastic bags that McDonald's gives its "educated" consumers)

Drop in for a treat, if you're in town next time...and you'll not long for another McD's again.

The ONE and ONLY ONE TRUE VALENTINE

2010-02-14T23:59:00.000-08:00

The Times of India, 12th February, 2010

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

This Valentine’s Day, make the Divine your valentine. See the Divine in your valentine and make the divinity your valentine. Have the same love for everyone, with different flavours. You cannot behave the same way with everyone, but you can love all of them. Love transcends behaviour and etiquette.

Abiding in the Self, you become the valentine for the whole world. Spirit is the valentine of matter and matter is the valentine of the spirit. They are made for each other. If you hold on to matter and do not respect the spirit, then matter is not pleased. If you honour the spirit, then you will care for the world, and when you care for the world, it will take care of you. Keep your heart in a safe place; it is too delicate. Events and small things make strong impressions on it. A precious stone needs a setting around it - gold or silver - to hold it; in the same way wisdom and knowledge are the settings that will hold your heart in the Divine. To keep your heart safe and your mind sane, you cannot find a better place than the Divine. Then the passing time and events will not be able to touch you; they will not create a scar.

Often, you do not know how to respond, or feel obliged and bound, when someone shows a lot of love. The ability to receive genuine love comes with the ability to give love. The more you are centred and know by experience that love is not an emotion; it is your very existence, the more you feel at home with any amount of love expressed in any manner.

There are three kinds of love. The love that comes out of charm, that which comes out of comfort and divine love. The love that comes out of charm does not last long. It comes out of unfamiliarity or attraction. In this, you lose the attraction fast, and boredom sets in. This love may diminish and bring along with it a fear, uncertainty, insecurity and sadness.

The love that comes out of comfort and familiarity grows, but it has no thrill, no enthusiasm, joy, or fire to it. For example, you are more comfortable with an old friend who is a familiar person rather than with a new person. Divine love supersedes both the above. It has an ever present newness. The closer you go, more charm and depth come to it. There is never boredom and it keeps everyone on their toes.

Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky which is limitless. From the bottom of the ocean, soar into the vast sky. Ancient love transcends all these relationships and is inclusive of all the relationships. Let love be. Don’t give it a name. When you give it a name, it becomes a relationship, and relationships restrict love.

Often, one experiences love at first sight. Then as time goes on, it decreases, decays, turns into hatred and disappears. Ancient love never decays. Although its mortality rate is high, love dies very young. After a few days, weeks, months, or years, it dies. In society, you say love is never a tree, it is a seasonal crop.

When the same love becomes a tree with the manure of knowledge, it becomes ancient love that goes from lifetime to lifetime. That is our own consciousness. You are not limited to this present body, this present name, this present form and the present relationships around you. You may not know your past, your ancientness. But just know you are ancient, that is good enough.

Pain goes with love. Because you love someone, even a small action can hurt you. And in hurt, you feel very delicate, very deep. Love also creates the same sensation. Separation creates the same symptom. If you don’t love somebody, you will never feel hurt by them. Understand and accept this. Then that hurt will not turn into a sore feeling. Rather, that very hurt will take you deep into dispassion and meditation.

When love glows, it becomes bliss; when it flows, it is compassion; when it blows, it is anger; when it ferments, it is jealousy. Let love be. Don’t give it a name!

The Story of Cap and Trade

2010-02-14T23:29:00.000-08:00

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What's the difference between Appeasement and Empowerment?

2010-02-14T22:32:00.000-08:00

Giving a hungry person bread is appeasement
Teaching him to bake bread is empowerment

Appeasement makes you dependent and weak, always whining and servile
Empowerment makes you strong and independent

When you do appeasement, and solve one problem for someone, that person/community will come up with 30 more
When you do empowerment you dont solve any problem, but you nudge the person/community into coming up with ideas and solutions to solve their own problems, then when you pose a problem to them, they come up with 30 solutions :)

Appeasement gets you votes and its short sighted at best
Empowerment will make the country great… and takes time, and will eventually make you a legend!

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MIND MATTERS!

2010-02-13T01:42:00.000-08:00

There are two types of mind .

One is an open mind;

another is a closed mind.

A closed mind is that which says, "This is how it is'', "I know it. That is it''. It gets hardened.
An open mind is, "Oh, may be! Perhaps! I do not know!'' Limited knowledge and conformity to it makes a mind very hard.

Whenever you seem to understand a situation and label it - "This is how it is'', that is the beginning of your problem.

All problems always arise from knowing, not 'not knowing'! If you do not know, your mind is open, and you say, "Oh! May be! Perhaps something I don't know.'' You do not label something you do not know. Whenever you think injustice has been done to you, whenever you think you are a victim, whenever you think something bad has happened to you, all this falls in the category of 'I know it, this is how things are'.

Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
A question is a sign of limited knowledge.

But when there is amazement, patience, joy, waiting, you are in a state of `I don't know, may be, something, Oh, what is it? I don't know.' Something you cannot pinpoint. The whole life is a shift from the limited 'I know', to all possibilities. You think you know the world and this is it. That is the biggest problem. This is not just one world, there are many layers in this world.

When you are upset, you are not just upset for no reason. There is some string that is being pulled. When your mind is open to all possibilities, an event happens and there could be many possibilities for that event to be that way, not just in the gross but some other reason in the subtle as well.

Suppose you enter your room and find that someone at home has made a big mess in your room. You are irritated. Now you attach that cause for your anger to just that person who is there. But there is something more happening in the subtle. At that moment something else is in the air but you could only see that person creating a mess around and you attribute all the anger to that person.

This is what limited knowledge does. Even after experiencing that you don't see something beyond. This is the most amazing thing. There is a proverb in India that says: you fell in the well in the daytime, which you could see in the night. You fell in the pit in the daytime, which you could see in the night. You saw the pit in the night, you were careful, you avoided and walked, but in the daytime you fell in the same pit. This means what? That your eyes are not open, you are not sensitive enough to see and recognise what is going on.

As we attach the events and emotions to individuals, the cycle continues. You will never be free from that. So first detach an event and emotion from that person, space and time. This is called Astrology. It is the knowledge of oneness of the universe.

If a pin is pricked into your hand, your entire body knows it, feels it. So every cell is connected with the whole of you. In the same way every body is connected to the entire creation, to everybody, as there is only one life at a very subtle level, though it appears to be many in the gross.

If you go deeper and deeper, it is one existence, one divine. So the wise person never labels individuals; infact, in a wise person, all individual existence ceases. That is why one should not see any intention behind the other's mistakes or attribute mistakes to somebody and grudge over them because one thoroughly knows and understands that it is nobody's business, nobody's mistakes.

The mind drops cravings and aversions and becomes free. This is one way of saying. Another way of saying is that the mind ceases to exist. So when the mind goes away, only the self remains.

~ Sri Sri

MEDITATION and WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ??!!!

2010-02-13T01:23:00.000-08:00

India may have lost Siberian cranes forever!

Tokyo to receive 2 Pandas from China next year.

Fewer tigers in forests than captive in US

US troops eating scorpions, drinking cobra blood: Report!

All this news in one day...So much love inside all of us, so much good work to do for the planet...so much we have already consumed greedily without giving even a fraction of it back to this beautiful planet...man hasn't even spared man...

There are always choices in life: the way of inner-engineering, knowledge and service...or the highway...and only one with a broad vision, can drop petty me-mine mentality and do something worthwhile in this lifetime with a Sangatchadwam attitude.

As Guruji says, "three things can get a job done: fear, greed, or love."

Certainly the best way is of love. And love emerges from belongingness...belongingness comes through awareness...and awareness...well, the smart people on this planet know the secret to better awareness: meditation, of course. The energy, the enthusiasm, the strength meditation brings, nothing can match it...The ones who ain't meditating today, now, are missing out on a lot in life...A LOT!

"Love is paying attention to the smallest details"

2010-02-12T00:22:00.000-08:00

"Love is paying attention to the smallest details." ~Sri Sri

Meoooww what is Valentine's Day without yooouuuuu...

Don't overwork...

Take a bubble bath...

Get a hare job done

Eat healthy

Don't hog!! Let your partner take the first bite

Take some time out and snuggle...doctors say 'touch heals'

Kiss generously...muchha muccha mucchhaaa

...and spread the love vibes

We are made of a substance called Love. It's very revolutionary, it cuts through all barriers and unites.- Sri Sri

Happy Valentine's Day to you all!

WAYE to Go!

2010-02-11T01:52:00.001-08:00

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The ShivSena misfits!

2010-02-11T00:04:00.000-08:00

"ShivSena"!

I am sure no smart entrepreneur would name his/her venture this name...ever! Shiv and Sena are oxymorons, in any sense...because Shiva-- the Siva element in the universe represents: peace, unonditional love, and non-dual one..."Shivam Shaantam Advaitam Anandam"...and Sena means an Army....oxymoron right...

originally "Shiv Sena" was an allusion to Shivaji the great Emperor's army. Shivaji a legend of great might, wit, wisdom, and above all, patriotism, of course! But to name a political party by that name...a political party that has gone berserk, is a grave injustice to the name of Shivaji Maharaj.

I need not get into the exploits of the political party, they are quite infamous already...but I'll share Pooja Bedi's sentiments towards ShivSena's fantaticism...and I am sure many Indians (at home and offshore) also share the same sentiments...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Pooja-Bedi-Peace-cant-be-achieved-by-violence/articleshow/5542736.cms

"I simply cannot comprehend... the Shiv Sena and MNS getting upset that Australians and Pakistani terrorists are attacking Indians. No doubt that it’s an atrocity and appalling in every sense, but somewhere the Senas need to get their perspectives sorted. Have they forgotten that they themselves have been hitting, beating, ostracising, abusing and threatening Indians in India? Er...yes, all Mr. Thackerays... sorry to break this to you, but North Indians are Indians too! And the same aggression, shock and anger you feel when Indians are being attacked is what we feel every time you do the same to other Indians! Why do you expect others to love and respect all Indians when you clearly don't do so yourself?
I simply cannot comprehend... how parties like the Shiv Sena, that lose the elections, still get to dictate to the city, state and country their agenda. Clearly the masses voted against such ideologies. So why are they allowed to still prevail with their rule of terror?
I simply cannot comprehend... why a cosmopolitan city like Mumbai, that contributes over 40 per cent of the country's income tax and corporate tax, hasn't had the state and central government jumping in to protect its image and tax-paying populace from terror attacks, menacing goons and divisive politics...
I simply cannot comprehend ... why the Jain, Sindhi, Marwari, Parsi, Gujarati, South Indian communities and business/industry heads, along with every single tax-paying non-Marathi individual in Mumbai (that's a massive chunk of Mumbai and tax payers right there) don't demand an apology from the two Senas for their actions and from the elected government for its inaction!
What I can comprehend ... is that peace cannot be achieved by violence. It can only be attained by understanding... but will the Senas comprehend that? Probably not! Because it's a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote. And forget being Marathi, he's not even Indian!"

These days, I was pondering over an emerging trend in the country...From macro-division, from Pakistan, and Bangalesh decades ago...mentality has narrowed into micro-division...with the likes of UP-Bihar divide...the Uttaranchal divide...now flashes of political idiots misguiding people in the state of Andhra Pradesh to divide it into Telengana (people who are originally Telegu-speaking) and non-Telengana...and fuelling gullible people and hormone-awash youth into creating violence...

I ask this fundamental question...We all know this is just a political stunt of the idle mind (devil's workshop) to divide the state and have more number of governing bodies who can exercise full control on their portions, but @ the end of the day, people are divided...more decentralization (which is bad, in this case) happens...take an unbiased public poll..and we all know what people will say: everyone wants to stay together...

I leave you guys with one question: AP if divided, will leave Hyderabad to the Telengana part! For anyone who knows even a bit about Hyderabad, will know what a misfit Hyderabad will be in in hands of the other team....LOL

"Get well soon, our politicians!"

...I am not going to blink an eyelid, if tomorrow, the Shiv Sena's demand a separate state...hahaha...

...this brings me back to the matter of prime importance, today we are better off with senseless political parties like Shiv Sena being out of power...will it stay the same tomorrow...it depends on one question:

DO YOU VOTE?

Remember, as children, how we were protective of our toys...some of us, have grown...from toys to people...and some of us, have grown from toys to land...my land, my political power, my boy friend, my girl friend, my this, my that...

Can we start this all over again, and say, my country- my Valentine...even better: my planet- my responsibility!

Lack of spirituality is the root of all problems!

My WOW! Guru

2010-02-10T02:31:00.001-08:00

That's my WOW! Guru

...and my WOW! YES!+ teachers with WOW! universal Amma :-)

Jai GuruDeva!

Something to do...

2010-02-10T01:27:00.001-08:00

Check out their slide shows...i like their range of topics..

especially the one with "Best Young Entrepreneurs"

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Learning never stops! :-)

Discovery!

2010-02-10T00:29:00.001-08:00

I just discovered real nice blogs...and simply want to share them with you...

These blogs have become books and best sellers at that, too!

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"Immortal Love is within Reach"

2010-02-08T22:54:00.000-08:00

Deccan Herald, 8th February, 2010

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Some say the purpose of life is to ensure that one doesn't come back to this planet because it is bereft of love. They feel if there is love then why is life so painful? All that one want in life is love. Every human being is longing for a love that doesn't die out, a love that doesn't cause pain, a love that grows and stands forever. By taking a multilateral view of life, one can see life in a different way and realise that the purpose of life is to achieve this kind of love and blossom in that ideal love.

Suppose you are immensely successful and have all the riches at your command but there is no love in your life, then life would not really be worthwhile; it would appear barren. But still most of the people lead a loveless life. Have you ever thought why this happens? It is your ego that prevents you from achieving that love. As long as there is ego, there cannot be love. And when there is love, there is no sign of ego. What is ego? Ego is simply being unnatural. Half knowledge brings ego but when knowledge becomes complete, ego drops and simplicity dawns.

The question arises that if the ego is so unnatural then why does every human being have an ego? We have the ego because it is necessary in some way for our growth in life. That doesn't mean it should not have been there from the very beginning. Ego is necessary, but with knowledge you can now grow out of it. In the Narada Bhakti Sutras one sutra says: "Knowledge is one of the aids to uncover the naturalness". Through observing oneself and deep into one’s self in meditation one can overcome ego.

Often, when someone shows a lot of love you do not know how to respond, you feel obliged and bound. This is because you are not natural. There is an ego coming in between. The ability to receive genuine love comes with the ability to give love. The more you are centered and natural and know that love is not an emotion it is your very existence, the more you feel at home with any amount of love expressed in any manner. A seed has a covering or shell over it, and when you soak it in water, it sprouts and then the shell peels off. Similarly, the ego is a necessary unnaturalness that develops as you grow. When you were a child of two or three years, there was no ego; you are in a state of total, innocent, blissful love. Then the ego forms a cover. Knowledge uncovers this shell and make you a child again; natural, simple and innocent. When you are natural, simple and innocent, there is no ego. The ego is not a substance; it is a non-substance, much like darkness. Darkness is only lack of light. There is nothing called an ego that has substance. Ego is just a lack of total development, a lack of total understanding. It is just a lack of maturity or lack of knowledge.

Jai Gurudev

("Maintain the innocence of the Gods and cultivate the Intelligence of the Guru")