TO MY CHILD . . .
Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face and
laugh when I feel like crying.
Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear,
and smile and say how perfect it is.
Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry, and pick
you up and take you to the park to play.
Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let
you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.
Just for this afternoon, I will unplug t…
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Added by harish rajpal on December 10, 2009 at 7:58pm —
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BABU-GIRI AND RED-TAPISM IN INDIA
Read to the end............and pull your hair...........
This is simply brilliant thinking...... ...............this is a real "Babu-giri"
A Team comprising of a Writer, a Producer, a Director, etc applied to the Government of India with a Script to produce a Movie on Mahabarath. All of them committed suicide later and the reason is very obvious as
Subject: Mahabharata
To:
The Writer, Film Director & Film Producer,
Mumbai
Ref: Film story submitted by…
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Added by harish rajpal on November 6, 2009 at 2:53pm —
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"Birth of Lord Krsna"
As stated in the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that His appearance, birth, and activities, are all transcendental, and one who understands them factually becomes immediately eligible to be transferred to the spiritual world. The Lord's appearance or birth is not like that of an ordinary man who is forced to accept a material body according to his past deeds. The Lord's appearance is explained in the Second Chapter: He appears out of His own sweet pleasure. When the time was…
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|| Vakratunda Mahakaya Suryakoti-sama-prabha Nirvighnam kuru me deva Sarva-karyeshu sarvada ||
Meaning
'Oh, the curved-faced, gigantic Lord Ganesha, you are like a million suns in brilliance; always kindly free us from hurdles in all our endeavors.'
Ganapati is the Hindu elephant-headed God, Ganesha (or Ganesh) is known (by various names in different parts of India and on different occasions) as the Remover of Obstacles, the God of domestic harmony and of success. He is the most beloved and rev…
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Added by harish rajpal on August 9, 2009 at 9:58am —
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Villagers in India manifest a deep loyalty to their village, identifying themselves to strangers as residents of a particular village, harking back to family residence in the village that typically extends into the distant past. A family rooted in a particular village does not easily move to another, and even people who have lived in a city for a generation or two refer to their ancestral village as "our village."
Scattered throughout India are approximately 600,000 villages. The Census of Indi…
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Added by harish rajpal on July 15, 2009 at 4:53pm —
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"The Himalaya is a great devatatma, a great spiritual presence, stretching from the west to the eastern sea like a measuring rod to gauge the world's greatness." - wrote Kalidasa, Ancient Indian poet.
From the Himalayas has originated so many life-giving perennial rivers that have sustained such a rich civilization.
Of these the Ganga is the most respected one. Shankaracharya (788-820), who propounded the Mayavad doctrine, referred to the holy river as the goddess of divine essence, and establ…
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Added by harish rajpal on April 27, 2009 at 9:46am —
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When you change your thinking, you change your beliefs.
It begins with the mind. Beliefs are nothing more than a by-product of what you have thought long enough about that you have bought into--always remember that. What you believe is a collection of continual thoughts that have formed themselves into a conviction.
"Although not all change is the same, there is one common element to change, and that is thinking." That is a great truth. When you break down the process of thinking into manageab…
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Added by harish rajpal on April 6, 2009 at 12:28pm —
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Holi (referred to as Phagwa in Bhojpuri), also called the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad, the UK,and Nepal. In West Bengal of India and Bangladesh, it is known as Dolyatra (Doljatra) or Boshonto Utsav ("spring festival").
The main day, Holi, also known as Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi, is celebrated by people throwing coloured powder and coloured water at each other. Bonfires are lit the day before, also known as Holika Dah…
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Added by harish rajpal on March 11, 2009 at 11:16pm —
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How can leaders form a true coalition of a diverse group of people with limited resources? By demonstrating how such an arrangement can add value for everyone involved.
The concept of building a learning coalition is interesting. There is a fairly large body of knowledge, research and documentation regarding the composition and characteristics of a coalition. The nature of a coalition becomes apparent when it's contrasted with a team:
a) A team is a group of individuals with similar values, ch…
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Added by harish rajpal on January 15, 2009 at 9:44pm —
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Does downturn sink all sales-boats in the same way? In the past, economic glooms have a way of separating good sales forces from the rest. However, successful companies use downturn as a challenge to identify and optimize their selling opportunities.
These were often civilized people who invested a lot of hard work in their business, sacrificed family time, and often had family homes on the line for what they believed in. Yet at the same time, other businesses made it through the tough times an…
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Added by harish rajpal on January 15, 2009 at 9:40pm —
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Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. The Govt thought.. - "Someone may steal from it at night."
So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Govt Said..
- "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?"
So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies. Then Govt Said..,
- "How will we know the night watchman is doing the task…
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Added by harish rajpal on January 15, 2009 at 2:09pm —
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Tithi
This festival,
unlike other Hindu festivals,
is not dependent on the position of the moon,
but
on position of the sun.
On this day,
the sun enters the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
To compensate for the difference that occurs
due to the revolution around the sun,
every eighty years the day of sankrant
is postponed by one day.
In the present period
Makar-sankrant falls on 14th January.
History
Sankranti is considered a Deity.
According to a legend Sankranti killed
a demon named Sankarasur.
T…
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Added by harish rajpal on January 14, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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A tailor was at work. He took a piece of cloth and with a pair of shining, costly, scissors, he cut the cloth into various bits.
Then he put the pair of scissors at his feet. Then he took a small needle and thread and started to sew the bits of cloth, into a fine shirt. When the spell of sewing was over, he stuck the needle on to his turban.
The tailor's son who was watching it asked him: "Father, the scissors are costly and look so beautiful. But you throw them down at your feet. This needle…
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Added by harish rajpal on January 4, 2009 at 9:46pm —
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1. Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning. The inevitable morning mishaps will be less stressful.
2. Prepare for the morning the evening before. Set the breakfast table, make lunches, put out the clothes you plan to wear, etc.
3. Don?t rely on your memory. Write down appointment times, when to pick up the laundry, when library books are due, etc. ("The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory." - Old Chinese Proverb)
4. Do nothing which, after being done, leads you to tell a…
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Added by harish rajpal on December 31, 2008 at 2:13pm —
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." So what if that first step is a little painful?
You see, if you want to accomplish something, there are two kinds of pain you might encounter: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret.
Whenever you take that first step toward a new goal, you often experience the pain of discipline: the pain of hard work, the pain of sacrifice, as you single-mindedly pursue your dream.
On the other hand, if you don't go after your dreams, you migh…
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Added by harish rajpal on December 23, 2008 at 11:44pm —
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The President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad .
Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?
We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , h…
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Added by harish rajpal on December 6, 2008 at 3:26pm —
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Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
~Charles E. Jefferson
I love this quote because I find it so true.
Life presents us with many choices in so many areas of our lives. We
often make just the right choice for our present circumstance, and
often simply think of it as luck. Then, there are times when we make
a wrong choice. We miss calculate and we make a mistake. We are then
devastated, and it tears away at us because we are at a loss of how
to make right what h…
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Added by harish rajpal on December 1, 2008 at 12:43pm —
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One day a man saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help.
So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her.
Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn't look safe; he looked poor and hungry.
He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how…
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Added by harish rajpal on October 25, 2008 at 12:04pm —
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From one pumpkin to another!
A woman was asked by a coworker, 'What is it like to be a Christian?'
The coworker replied, 'It is like being a pumpkin.' God picks you from the patch, brings you in,
and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff.
He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, and greed. Then He carves you a new smiling face and
puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see.'
I liked this enough to send it to all the pumpkin…
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Added by harish rajpal on October 19, 2008 at 11:45am —
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There was once a man who was very rich and very miserly at the same time. The villagers disliked him intensely. One day he said to them, "Either you're jealous of me or you don't understand my love of money-God alone knows. But you dislike me; that much I know. When I die, I won't take anything with me. I will leave it all for others. I will make a will, and I will give everything to charity. Then everyone will be happy."
Even then people mocked and laughed at him. The rich man said to them, "W…
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Added by harish rajpal on October 9, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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