Jun 26, 2009
Michael Jackson tribute - BBC News (life of a troubled STAR)
Life of a Troubled Star ...................
or Was it a life of a COMET ? .....who wanted to be a Star!!!!
Jun 19, 2009
Book distribution experience 14th June 09
1) Piyush pr is a big book distributor
he distributed all the krsna books
2) I tried saying " fundraising campaign for temple " to the indians & they reciprocated well.
I tried the Gita presentation also as done by HG Vaisesika Pr & it worked well.
Jun 11, 2009
Jun 10, 2009
Book distribution experience 6th June 09
Conversation with God
Conversation with God
God: Hello. Did you call me?
Me: Called you? No... Who is this?
God: This is GOD. I heard your prayers. So I thought I will chat.
Me: I do pray. Just makes me feel good. I am actually busy now. I am in the midst of something..
God: What are you busy at? Ants are busy too.
Me: Don't know. But I can't find free time. Life has become hectic. It's rush hour all the time.
God: Sure. Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you results. Activity consumes time. Productivity frees it.
Me: I understand. But I still can't figure it out. By the way, I was not expecting YOU to buzz me on instant messaging chat.
God: Well I wanted to resolve your fight for time, by giving you some clarity. In this net era, I wanted to reach you through the medium you are comfortable with.
Me: Tell me, why has life become complicated now?
God: Stop analyzing life. Just live it. Analysis is what makes it complicated.
Me: why are we then constantly unhappy?
God: Your today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. You are worrying because you are analyzing. Worrying has become your habit. That's why you are not happy.
Me: But how can we not worry when there is so much uncertainty?
God: Uncertainty is inevitable, but worrying is optional.
Me: But then, there is so much pain due to uncertainty..
God: Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
Me: If suffering is optional, why do good people always suffer?
God: Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don't suffer. With that experience their life becomes better not bitter.
Me: You mean to say such experience is useful?
God: Yes. In every term, Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Me: But still, why should we go through such tests? Why can't we be free from problems?
God: Problems are Purposeful Roadblocks Offering Beneficial Lessons (to) Enhance Mental Strength. Inner strength comes from struggle and endurance, not when you are free from problems.
Me: Frankly in the midst of so many problems, we don't know where we are heading..
God: If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Looking outside, you dream. Looking inside, you awaken. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides insight.
Me: Sometimes not succeeding fast seems to hurt more than moving in the right direction. What should I do?
God: Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you. Knowing the road ahead is more satisfying than knowing you rode ahead. You work with the compass. Let others work with the clock.
Me: In tough times, how do you stay motivated?
God: Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.
Me: What surprises you about people?
God: when they suffer they ask, "why me?" When they prosper, they never ask "Why me". Everyone wishes to have truth on their side, but few want to be on the side of the truth.
Me: Sometimes I ask, who I am, why am I here. I can't get the answer.
God: Seek not to find who you are, but to determine who you want to be. Stop looking for a purpose as to why you are here. Create it. Life is not a process of discovery but a process of creation.
Me: How can I get the best out of life?
God: Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.
Me: One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.
God: There are no unanswered prayers. At times the answer is NO.
Me: Thank you for this wonderful chat. I am so happy to start the New Day with a new sense of inspiration.
God: Well. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Don't believe your doubts and doubt your beliefs. Life is a mystery to solve, not a problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.
Vishvambhar
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.-- Abraham Lincoln
Fwd: 3 coverings over the Body
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| "I felt helpless." the student admitted. He was asked to first pick a needle and a thread from a box and then pass the thread through the eye of the needle. All this he had to do with boxers gloves on! A second youngster had to do the same with the wicket keeper's gloves on, the third with surgeon's gloves and the fourth with his bare hands. |
| This exercise marked the beginning of the Prerana festival on Saturday, entitled "Be conscious of your consciousness." H.G.Radha Gopinath Prabhu, the speaker for the occasion, explained the exercise by reading aloud the translation and purport to the verse 3.38 http://vedabase.net/bg/3/38/en from the Bhagavad Gita . Srila Prabhupad begins the purport with the statement,"There are three degrees of covering by which the living entity's pure consciousness is obscured." The exercise perfectly illustrated this point. With a glove covering the hand performing even a simple task was difficult. Similarly when the consciousness is covered, the living entity finds it difficult to perceive the truth. The following are some excerpts from the lecture that followed. |
| There are five stages of development of consciousness which can be compared to the blossoming of a flower. 1) Covered.(Acchadita) The example is that of plants and rocks. 2) Contracted.(Sankucita) . The example is that of animals, birds and reptiles. 3) Budding (Mukulita) . Human beings who are capable of using a logical mind belong to this category. They can be further classified as a) Immoral Atheists . Primitive people who live almost like animals belong to this category. They follow the principle of 'Might is right'. Some of them may be civilized but their goal of life is eating, mating, sleeping and defending. They follow the philosophy -universe is a combination of atoms, existence ends with the body, excellence of humanity is its sophistication. |
| b) Moral Atheist . They do not accept the universal standard of morality set by the creator and manufacture a whimsical system that is pleasing to the body, mind and senses. The difference between a moral atheist and an immoral atheist is that while the immoral atheists clean the house and put the dust in the neighbor's compound, moral atheists decide a common place for everyone to throw their dust. Moral atheists can perform extremely sinful activity and justify it as correct. For example, abortion is considered to be perfectly moral today. c) Moral Pseudo theist. They say that they believe in God, follow some moral codes but they can't exactly give the definition of God. They consider believing in God a moral duty. d) Impersonalists. They do not believe in the form of God. |
| 4) Developed (Vikasita). This marks the beginning of faith. 5) Fully developed ( Poorna Vikasita ). This is the stage where spontaneous love of God is manifest. The consciousness can be purified from any state of consciousness by coming in contact with the Lord's intimate associates whose consciousness is fully blossomed. For example Narada Muni delivered Nalakuvera and Manigriva who had consciousness almost like that of trees, Rasikananda Prabhu delivered one elephant, and in the modern era Srila Prabhupad delivered thousands in to dancing white elephants(his western devotees). |
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Jun 6, 2009
Jun 4, 2009
Implementation of teachings of gita in our day to day to Life.
Survivors Syndrome
The next flight? Air France 447.
"Survivors" like these often need psychological counseling, said Guillaume Denoix de Saint-Marc, whose father was among the 170 people killed in 1989 when Libyan terrorists downed UTA Flight 772 with a suitcase bomb. He now heads an association that helps victims of airline disasters.
"They can have big psychological problems. We meet a lot of people like that," said Denoix de Saint-Marc, who was asked by French authorities to counsel relatives of the victims of Flight 447 at a crisis center at Paris' airport.
In the case of UTA flight 772, some of the pilots and cabin crew who had flown the French DC-10 jetliner before handing it over to the doomed crew "couldn't resume their careers," Denoix de Saint-Marc said.
"They lost their flying licenses because of big psychological problems or alcoholism," he said.
Such traumas have a name: "Survivors' syndrome," seen often in combat and other crisis situations in which those who make it feel as though they fled, deserted their buddies or were cowardly, said psychiatrist Ronan Orio.
But being saved by the ticket counter, traffic or other caprices of life should not be considered traumatic, said Orio, who has worked with victims of hostage situations, terror attacks and airline crashes.
Instead, near-miss situations should be viewed in a positive light, he said.
"People who take a plane and have a second chance win the lotto. They have the right to continue where the others died," he said.
Benouargha-Jaffiol and her husband Claude Jaffiol got a second chance last Sunday.
The couple, who live in Montpellier, France, had pulled strings to try to get on Flight 447, even drafting a family friend, a Dutch diplomat, to phone Air France and try to get them seats on the overcrowded plane.
"My husband demanded that Air France put us on that flight," Benouargha-Jaffiol said. "But nothing doing, the flight was totally full."
She and her husband finally left the airport, returning Monday after the disaster.
"This type of tragedy should give us all a lesson in humility and humanism," she said. "No one lives forever. We often forget that."
Associated Press writers Ali Zerdin in Ljubljana, Slovenia; Hubert Vialatte in Montpellier, France, and Elaine Ganley in Paris contributed to this report.
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----------- You get to live but are like dead while living --- thats all what survival syndrome means ----------
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