the posh

Watched my first football match live in UK.
The posh won :-)

Gandhi's 10

1. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

2. You must be the change you want to see in the world.

3. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

4. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

5. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

6. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

7. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

8. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

9. I look only to the good qualities of human. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

10. Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Some quotes...

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

Is this my first post on Gandhi... hmm :)

Happy Republic Day!

I am happy.
I made a 'couple' of my friends happy!

Nice Home Rules!

If you move to a new place and happen to live with the people you like, then

1. Don't speak short, elaborate the words and run them through your thought process and slang words, to avoid communication gaps :)

2. Better tell them in advance, your way of life in the past and some unique behaviors you have, so you wont hurt them by chance :)

3. If every one are from different paths of life, it is natural to have a little friction which should be accepted by you. ex: you may like to play cricket, but not all will be interested same as you.

btw, if you don't listen me, you will experience me :-)

Update on 26th March, 2010: Operation success, relationship died :(

Here is a man who is more learned than all of our learned professors put together!

Here is a man who is more learned than all of our learned professors put together!

Three religions now stand in the world which have come down to us from time prehistoric — Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Judaism. They have all received tremendous shocks and all of them prove by their survival of their internal strength. But while Judaism failed to absorb Christianity and was driven out of its place of birth by its all-conquering daughter, and a handful of Parsees is all that remains to tell the tale of their grand religion, sect after sect arose in India and seemed to shake the religion of the Vedas to its very foundations, but like the waters of the seashore in a tremendous earthquake it receded only for a while, only to return in an all-absorbing flood, a thousand times more vigorous, and when the tumult of the rush was over, these sects were all sucked in, absorbed, and assimilated into the immense body of the mother faith.

From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists, and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu's religion.

Where then, the question arises, where is the common centre to which all these widely diverging radii converge? Where is the common basis upon which all these seemingly hopeless contradictions rest? And this is the question I shall attempt to answer.

-Swami Vivekananda

An excerpt from the Paper on Hinduism, read at the Parliament of Religions, Chicago 1893.

Jan 12: Celebrating Swami Vivekananda's birthday!