All prayers to the divine, irrespecitve of religion or religious bias reach to one supreme god.
This prayer to Jesus also shows how a human can relate to God a supreme power-we humans call in different names.

Prayer to Jesus, the Word Incarnate

Lord Jesus, by faith in your merits, I now take your precious blood and annoint myself right from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet. I claim total protection for my life. No weapon that is used aainst me shall prosper, and every tounge which rises against me in judgement, I do condemn. If there are those who have been speaking or praying against me, I forgive them, and having forgiven them, I bless them in the name of Lord. Lord Jesus protect me today from all evil sin temptaion attacks of the devil, afflictions fear of darkness fear of man, sickness and from all that is not of your kingdom.

A Powerful Healing Prayer

Heavenly father, I call on you right now in a special way. It is through your power that I was created. Every breath I take, every morning I wake up, every moment and every hour I liver under your power, Father I ask you now to heal me with that same power, for if you created me from nothing, you can recreate me fill me with the healing power of your spirit father. Cast out anything that should not be in me. Mend what is broken and root out any unprodudctive cells. Open any damaged areas. Remove all infalamtion from the outer and cleanse any infection caused by the outer and inner world. Father, restore me to full health in mind and body so that I may serve you father of supreme lord the rest of my life. I ask this through Christ Lord.

Thanks giving prayers

Thank you for giving God your angels charge over me, to guide me in all my ways. Thank you for blessing me as I come in and go out. Thank you for goodness and mercy that follow me wherever I go. Thank you for giving me a tounge that speaks of healing and life. Thank you God for the abundance of your love that casts out all fears. Thank you for fighting for me against my enemies and even making my enemies in peace. Thank you for the grace to choose life today. Thank you for enabling me to keep my heart on only God. Thank you for giving me a spirit of power, love and sound of mind. In you God I am more than conqueror. Thank you for giving me the ability to think your thoughts and walk steadfastly only on your ways. Thank you for giving me all your blessing in all my troubles and thank you for revealing your immeasurable and unlimited powers in times of my need.

THE ORPHAN AND THE DESTRESSED
(Tagore)

The orphan and the distressed
have heard your name God
They have come to thy door
let them not return in emptiness
Let the eyes of those crying
in hopelssenss be moped up
O let the mind trembling in fear
be blessed with fearlessness
So many hearts are there tattered
in bereavement weeping day and night
In whom would those drowned in vice
take refuge
Alas, where is the way! bless them God
with your appearance..

MADE IN INDIA

Made in India a brand and an incredible one.
Alisha Chinai sang Made in India....A beautiful tribute.
India imprints its own endorsement on Indian shores. Made in India, an exclusive design of course not made for traitors There may be maids in monster like butox's willing to do dish wash for any one but certainly not the real tri colour holders. True tri colour holders are neither fanatics nor elites but true citizens of India and they understand what is east and what is west and what this world is made out of. God gives brain to think and not supplement money. God does not call you and tell... you take so much cash as a gift. If you believe God gives money then you will have to believe god has given money to underworld goons, robbers and traitors and even beggars. How foolish a belief?. God exactly gives brain to use wisely and earn money in a proper and correct manner. If you make money out of deceit it is your choice not God's. There are people like renowned singer MS Subbalakshmi, for her money was only an instrument to help the needy, not to sting. A lot of good humans use money for the welfare of society and there are people who always feel concern for the poor and needy even when they are unable to direct service them. It is not money but attitude towards money matters. My maid's son bought a car recently and that shows how recession hit India in comparison to the maids in the US where Presidents and CEO's are sacked overnight without prior notices.

Made in India is a unique brand and drunken north wind does not need to label it on a furnace with offers of charity. India got one Intelligent Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to handle recession and god has gifted him with brains and thankfully not with money. He is a great econoist too. As a true educated Indian he understands what is good for India.

MEDIUMS

World's concern on terror is admirable. Who invented this weapon; the most intelligent US brains. Instead of attacking directly use a medium and that medium is termed as terror. Traitors are readily available all over the world for such missions and it is easy for power holds to conduct such missions. When traitors are from country it is easy for terrorist to attack nation. The first Mumbai terror attack was aided by official traitors of nation; they allowed load full of explosives for a price. How powerful are the nations who install sting cameras in our Prime Minister's office and tap information from our defence source. Answer is simple, traitors intrude and definitely for a price. When a newspaper boy's and cook's foreign educated son can be easily brainwashed to do a mission against India why to blame uneducated terrorists from poor Islamic countries. Even the educated ones are brainwashed in no time by powerful nations it is no way difficult to transform the minds of innocent youngsters and unfortunately they turn as terrorists. When people are ready to do anything for money and circulate their support for the people who introduced terror why to sit and condemn terror through pages. First correct yourself instead of acting like Chandrahas of Ravan with many faces to victims of circumstances or to a woman. Instead of gathering 1.1 billion population to hate someone collect at least one rupee from 1.1 Billion. Easily you can accumulate 1.1 billion and instead of writing frontline substandard editorials go and distribute it to the farmers who commit suicide in India. Powerful and rich nations should mind their state of affairs instead of attacking and intruding into the line of controls of other countries. If you sell terror you are bound to get attacked and if you take bribe from terrorists like the police officials did it in Mumbai just to become richer you only nurture terror. Integrity of India will not get affected by traitors of any class.

Everyone agrees with a fact that education is the greatest wealth. But for a section of people, greatest asset in this world is money and power. Education set aside standards but for a few it is to learn how to use it effectively to demean others. Sachin and Ricky Ponting play cricket but look at their standards one famous for good cricket and the other infamous for Australian high end standard of sledging. I don't think Sachin should learn any thing from Ricky in terms of cricket or character.

Vivekananda says "use agreeable and wholesome language towards even the greatest enemy. " People who speak of Buddha and greatest of great things hide in masks and conduct the most heinous crimes. It is like a rapist goes to certify the integrity of a woman and for sure he first rapes her integrity if such a thing happens. And if he is rich and powerful even he knows how to get out of a criminal deed. World is ruled by such people and to fight with them is not an easy task. How efficiently they scheme up. I don't think people with integrity need any certification from these kind of biased groups.

What Vivekananda says "give me a genuine human; I do not want masses of converts".The Gerua robe is not for enjoyment. It is the banner of heroic work.Not for the kind of work, a printing unit with adequate care supplements to substantiate a few inflated egos. You scheme there, you manipulate there arrogantly and when you are into that why reprimand retaliations. What you give; you get back... Great lessons of life..... Marked and printed for all human beings...

QUOTES OF VIVEKANADA

This Earth is higher than all the heavens, this is the greatest school in the universe

The less help from men the more from Lord

Be brave, be brave, man dies but once my disciples must not be cowards

Those who love God need not fear any jugglery.

A few thousand graduates do not make a nation, a few rich men do not make a nation.

You must not depend on any foreign help. Nature like individuals must help themselves. This is real patriotism. If a nation cannot do that its time has not yet come. It must wait


THOUGHT OF THE DAY

This world will be an honest place to live if all scoundrels, thieves, pretenders, stingers and hackers decide to be honest enough to accept that they are criminals and shed off their masks.

Swathi Thirunal as a Patron of Arts

Swathi Thirunal’s reputation as a patron of cultural activities attracted several musicians, dancers and writers from all parts of India to his court . Eraimman Thampi, whom we refer to as the court poet, was also a great musical composer. Many of the songs of Thampi have become immensely popular on account of their pleasing melody as well as their sweet language.

Among the musical celebrities who adorned his court were four brothers Vadivelu, .Sivanandam, Chinnaiah and Ponniah, all experts and exponents in several branches of music and dance. Vadivelu was one of the best musicians and dancers of his time. He had marvelous skill in playing the violin, and the Maharajan was pleased to present him with an instrument made of ivory. But some people in recent times attribute some of the musical works of Maharaja to these brothers. Noted Veena maestro Balachander was the man who pioneered this theory. This is absolutely baseless, Maharaja’s manuscript copies are found, and all his compositions contain the stamp of devotion to Sree Padmanabha.
Among the experts in instrumental music in SwathiThirunal’s court was Ananthapadmanabha Goaswami, popularly known as Meruswami. Meruswami was a celebrity in the court of the Tanjore Raja, and he was a great exponent of Harikatha and Hindustani Music. The Maharaja sanctioned a handsome pension for him and permission for the free use of a palanquin.
The Maharaja’s appreciation of the Hindustani music was responsible for organizing a troupe of Hindustani artistes in the palace. There were in that troupe, three dancers and a Hindustani musical exponent, Allaudin from Mysore. Another musician from the North as Syed Sulaiman, a Pathan, whose special ability was in playing Swarabath, a musical instrument.
Sarangi players also received his encouragement . Chintamony of Tanjore was a great exponent of this. The Maharaja’s love for music was not confined to pure music, but it also comprehended the closely allied art, dance. He had great interest in Bharathanattyam and Mohiniyattam.
Bharathanattyam attracted the special attention of the Maharaja even from his childhood. Great exponents of that art like Nagaratnam of Srirangam, Pichu Bhagavather from Tanjore were invited to Thiruvananthapuaram for performances and they were generously rewarded. Vadivelu, whom we mentioned earlier, was the master of Bharathanattyam troupe and he is popularly known as Nattuvan Vadivelu – Nattuvan means dancer. Under the benign patronage and encouragement of the Maharaja, Bharathanattayam won immense popularity among the people of Travancore.
Several dancers came from Tanjore in those days and settled down in Trivandrum getting due encouragement from the palace. Vadivelu, Meruswami and others about whom mention has been made, were the important musicians attached to the court of the Maharaja. But there were a host of minor figures who also enjoyed the patronage of Maharaja. The palace records of the times furnish eloquent proof of the rewards and presents awarded by the Maharaja to musicians and experts in instruments. Among them may be mentioned, Anantharaman and Mukundaraman of mysore, Sivarama Sastrikal of Kalahasti, Lakshmana Das of Gwalior, Vellabarayar of Tanjore, Halavati an expert of Mohiniyattam fromTanjore and Parameshwara Bhagavathar of Palakkad.
There were several gifted musicians in Travancore who were contemporaries of the Maharaja. The foremost among them was, no doubt, Govinda Marar, who has won fame as Shadkala Govinda Marar. He is regarded as the greatest musician born in Kerala, who was able to win the approbation of his great contemporary Sri Thyagaraja, the celebrated musician and composer of South India.
But there were several other musicians who were attached to the court of the Maharaja. It reveals a remarkable fact that in those days, there were a large number of eminent musicians in Kerala, noted for their special skills, both in vocal as well as instrumental music. The ancient musical tradition of Kerala continues almost unbroken. Sangitaratnakaram Sri Rama Sastrigal, Kavirajan Avanavanjcherry Krishnan Bhagavathar and others, deserve special mention.
The Maharaja had in his court, eminent poets like Kilimanur Vidwan Koyi Thampuran and Eraimman Thampi and great scholars like Simhadri sastri of Mysore, and Krishnappa Sastri of Hydrabad, Vasudeve Acharin of Kumbhakonam and Krishna Sastri of Tanjore. There were also great astrologers like sankaranantha, a native of North Malabar, who won great fame as an adviser of Ranjit Singh, Lion of Punjab, and finally became as judge of the High Court of Travancore and a courtier of the Maharaja. There were likewise, equestrians, magicians, gymnasts, sculptors, physicians and painters. Dasini, a painter from Tanjore, was employed by the Maharaja for painting mural pictures in the Sree Padmanabha Swami Temple.
Notwithstanding this universality of his interest, his preference for music and literature was only too well known. From certain stories handed down by oral tradition, it appears that even poets had a grouse against the preference shown by the Maharaja, but the attendants repeatedly told him that the Maharaja was engaged with musicians. One poet even composed a verse expressing his feeling of disappointments and asking when poets like himself could have the privilege of an audience with the Maharaja.
The story need to be taken as a reflection on the attitude of the Maharaja towards literature, for he was himself a great scholar in several languages- Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Persian, English, besides Malayalam, and a good poet. It is also noteworthy that two of his greatest courtiers, Vidwan Koyi Thampuran of Kilimanoor and Eraimman Thampi were great literary jewels. Koyi Thampuran is well known as the author of a beautiful Kathkali work 'RAVANA VIJAYAM', and Eraimman Thampi one of the best poets of Malayalam. However, it may not be wrong to say what Swathi Thirunal showed an excessive fondness for music, and that was responsible for creating a feeling of jealousy in the minds of other artistes
The patronage given by the Maharaja to music and the encouragement given to the musicians and artistes deserve the highest praise. The Maharaja’s achievements are gratefully remembered, and his example will ever serve to inspire the world in the promotion of learning and fine arts. His, memory will forever be cherished as one of the greatest patrons of music and art in South India.

Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902) is one of the most inspiring personalities of India, who did a lot to make India a better place to live in. within a short span of time, he achieved a lot and went a long way in serving humans. He was the principal disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa. Well, in this article, we will provide you with the Swami Vivekananda biography that will give you valuable insight into the life history of Vivekananda.It is Swami Vivekananda who can be attributed the credit for laying the foundation for the establishment of Ramakrishna mission and math that are actively involved in carrying out philanthropic works.

The national day that is celebrated on the 12th of January every year is dedicated to Swami Vivekananda, as it is on this day that this impressive personality was born. His influence led to the introduction of Vedanta philosophy in America and England.His efforts were acknowledged even by the noted Indian leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose. Subhash Chandra Bose called him "the maker of modern India". According to Gandhiji, it was the influence of Swami Vivekananda that his love for his country increased thousand fold. He deserves a major credit for giving the nation a modern vision. His influence led to the introduction of Vedanta philosophy in America and England. Read on to know the complete story of Swami Vivekanand.

LifeBefore turning into a monastic, Vivekananda was called by the name Narendranath Dutta. He was born as the son of Viswanath Dutta & Bhuvaneswari Devi on the January 12, 1863 in Shimla Pally, Kolkata, West Bengal. This precocious child started meditating at a very early age. Even as a child, he was an all rounder. He was outstanding at studies, games and other extra curricular activities. In the year 1879, he joined the Presidency College for pursuing higher studies. After one year, he learnt philosophy from the Scottish Church College, Calcutta. It was in this college that he got to know about Sri Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar. Ramakrishna MissionThe Rama Krishna mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda, the chief disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa on the 1st of May in the year 1897. The Vivekananda Ramakrishna mission is actively involved in the missionary as well as altruistic works such as disaster relief.

The disciples that are serving the mission consist of both monastic and householder. Its headquarters are based near Kolkata, India. More… PhilosophySwami Vivekananda was a great social reformer and a very inspiring personality. He was the pride of India. He made an immense contribution to purify the souls of people. He always said that God dwells inside every heart. He was of the opinion that, a person who cannot see God in poor and unhealthy people, but claims to see God in the idol, is not a true worshipper.

Vivekananda Works He compiled a number of books on the four Yogas, namely Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga. His best literary works include the letters written by him, which have a lot of spiritual value. He maintained a very simple style of writing, so that the laymen, for whom the message is meant, are able to understand his each and every word. He was not just actively involved in writing, but also was a great singer and composed several songs.

On July 4, 1902, at a young age of 39, this great man headed his way for heaven

BHAGAT SINGH
Born: September 27, 1907Died: March 23, 1931
Achievements: Gave a new direction to revolutionary movement in India, formed 'Naujavan Bharat Sabha' to spread the message of revolution in Punjab, formed 'Hindustan Samajvadi Prajatantra Sangha' along with Chandrasekhar Azad to establish a republic in India, assassinated police official Saunders to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, dropped bomb in Central Legislative Assembly along with Batukeshwar Dutt.Bhagat Singh was one of the most prominent faces of Indian freedom struggle. He was a revolutionary ahead of his times. By Revolution he meant that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice must change. Bhagat Singh studied the European revolutionary movement and was greatly attracted towards socialism. He realised that the overthrow of British rule should be accompanied by the socialist reconstruction of Indian society and for this political power must be seized by the workers.Though portrayed as a terrorist by the British, Sardar Bhagat Singh was critical of the individual terrorism which was prevalent among the revolutionary youth of his time and called for mass mobilization. Bhagat Singh gave a new direction to the revolutionary movement in India. He differed from his predecessors on two counts. Firstly, he accepted the logic of atheism and publicly proclaimed it. Secondly, until then revolutionaries had no conception of post-independence society. Their immediate goal was destruction of the British Empire and they had no inclination to work out a political alternative. Bhagat Singh, because of his interest in studying and his keen sense of history gave revolutionary movement a goal beyond the elimination of the British. A clarity of vision and determination of purpose distinguished Bhagat Singh from other leaders of the National Movement. He emerged as the only alternative to Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, especially for the youth.Bhagat Singh was born in a Sikh family in village Banga in Layalpur district of Punjab (now in Pakistan). He was the third son of Sardar Kishan Singh and Vidyavati. Bhagat Singh's family was actively involved in freedom struggle. His father Kishan Singh and uncle Ajit Singh were members of Ghadr Party founded in the U.S to oust British rule from India. Family atmosphere had a great effect on the mind of young Bhagat Singh and patriotism flowed in his veins from childhood.While studying at the local D.A.V. School in Lahore, in 1916, young Bhagat Singh came into contact with some well-known political leaders like Lala Lajpat Rai and Ras Bihari Bose. Punjab was politically very charged in those days. In 1919, when Jalianwala Bagh massacre took place, Bhagat Singh was only 12 years old. The massacre deeply disturbed him. On the next day of massacre Bhagat Singh went to Jalianwala Bagh and collected soil from the spot and kept it as a memento for the rest of his life. The massacre strengthened his resolve to drive British out from India.In response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for non-cooperation against British rule in 1921, Bhagat Singh left his school and actively participated in the movement. In 1922, when Mahatma Gandhi suspended Non-cooperation movement against violence at Chauri-chaura in Gorakhpur, Bhagat was greatly disappointed. His faith in non violence weakened and he came to the conclusion that armed revolution was the only practical way of winning freedom. To continue his studies, Bhagat Singh joined the National College in Lahore, founded by Lala Lajpat Rai. At this college, which was a centre of revolutionary activities, he came into contact with revolutionaries such as Bhagwati Charan, Sukhdev and others.To avoid early marriage, Bhagat Singh ran away from home and went to Kanpur. Here, he came into contact with a revolutionary named Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, and learnt his first lessons as revolutionary. On hearing that his grandmother was ill, Bhagat Singh returned home. He continued his revolutionary activities from his village. He went to Lahore and formed a union of revolutionaries by name 'Naujavan Bharat Sabha'. He started spreading the message of revolution in Punjab. In 1928 he attended a meeting of revolutionaries in Delhi and came into contact with Chandrasekhar Azad. The two formed 'Hindustan Samajvadi Prajatantra Sangha'. Its aim was to establish a republic in India by means of an armed revolution.In February 1928, a committee from England, called Simon Commission visited India. The purpose of its visit was to decide how much freedom and responsibility could be given to the people of India. But there was no Indian on the committee. This angered Indians and they decided to boycott Simon Commission. While protesting against Simon Commission in Lahore, Lala Lajpat Rai was brutally Lathicharged and later on succumbed to injuries. Bhagat Singh was determined to avenge Lajpat Rai's death by shooting the British official responsible for the killing, Deputy Inspector General Scott. He shot down Assistant Superintendent Saunders instead, mistaking him for Scott. Bhagat Singh had to flee from Lahore to escape death punishment.Instead of finding the root cause of discontent of Indians, the British government took to more repressive measures. Under the Defense of India Act, it gave more power to the police to arrest persons to stop processions with suspicious movements and actions. The Act brought in the Central Legislative Assembly was defeated by one vote. Even then it was to be passed in the form of an ordinance in the "interest of the public." Bhagat Singh who was in hiding all this while, volunteered to throw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly where the meeting to pass the ordinance was being held. It was a carefully laid out plot, not to cause death or injury but to draw the attention of the government, that the modes of its suppression could no more be tolerated. It was decided that Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt would court arrest after throwing the bomb. On April 8, 1929 Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs in the Central Assembly Hall while the Assembly was in session. The bombs did not hurt anyone. After throwing the bombs, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt, deliberately courted arrest by refusing to run away from the scene. During his trial, Bhagat Singh refused to employ any defence counsel. In jail, he went on hunger strike to protest the inhuman treatment of fellow-political prisoners by jail authorities. On October 7, 1930 Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru were awarded death sentence by a special tribunal. Despite great popular pressure and numerous appeals by political leaders of India, Bhagat Singh and his associates were hanged in the early hours of March 23, 1931.

THUS SPOKE RAVISHANKAR

There is an ancient sanskrit proverb that says the words of rishis and enlightened ones are immediately translated into experienc.

Human body is made up of atoms. Being with this truth kindles energy in humans and elevates consciousness. When we sing Bhajans, the sound energy gets absorbed into every atom of our body just as microphone absorbs sound and converts it into electricity, the body absorbs sound and converts it into consciousness. When we sit in bhajans entire body get soaked in energy and transformation happens. If you sit and listen to gossip or violent music or send negative messages then that gets absorbed by your body. But when we hear knowledge or chant with concentration consciousness is elevated.... Sound when stretched becomes Music..

(Note: I am not a hard core follower of Sree Sree Ravishankar. I just watch, read, listen all these gurus with curiosity to understand them.)

ELITE CLUB

What is elite? best, privileged, influential. For few rich and the ones who attend high level club gathering is elite group. If you go and find the dictionary of God and there you will not find any of these high gathering club profiles there. There you find only sincere humans who do selfless service to society, those ones who do not cause any intentional harm or humiliation to a fellow human. They will not hit with hammer on others head for money or they will not sell miseries of others for a price. They will not circulate rumors about other humans and they are humble enough not to announce their elite tag in front of any one. You find many such souls in this universe.
To be more precise elite can be classified according to their distinguished characteristics:

GOD'S ELITE

Any human irrespective of wealthy or not of any status do sincere service to society without causing harm to any one.

MY ELITE

Any one who fights for justice, Freedom Fighters, people who do sincere service to society.

HITLER'S ELITE

Ruthless ones, Spies, Anyone who can install sting cameras in his enemies life, Any one who can scandalize events, Any one allows him to publish humiliating stories of his enemies, hot sixty and above botox beauties, who can announce boldly on a new year dawn that old should go, page three segments, traitors of any segment (elite or poor), any one who writes stories in favour of him.

I prefer to be in God's elite group, but I know I have reached only 75% of refinement and 25% I need to be refined to reach their and with hard work and determination I can reach there.Time being, I prefer not to be in any clubs of elite. I join a musical club instead...

I have read a good caption today
" growing old is mandatory,
Growing wise is optional....
It is applicable for all clubs....

GITANJALI
(Tagore)

On many idle days have I grieved over lost
time. But never lost, my God. Thou hast
taken every moment of my life in thine own
hands.
Hidden in the heart of things thou art
nourishing seeds into sprouts buds into
blossoms and ripening flowers into
fruitfulness.
I was tired and sleeping on my idle bed and
imagined all work had ceased. In the morning
I woke up and found my garden full with
wonders of flowers...

EKLAVYA
Drona was the Brahmin teacher appointed by the Royal Family of Hasthinapura to teach the young Kaurav and Pandav princes the fine skill of archery. On reaching Hasthinapura, Eklavya managed to meet Drona and requested him to accept him as his student. Drona was quite impressed by young Eklavya’s sincere interest and keen desire to learn, and more so, to master the art. Consequently, Drona started enquiring about Eklavya’s background and family etc. and learned that Eklavya was a ‘Shudra’ (belonging to the lowest social community according to the Vedic Caste System). Drona being a Brahmin teacher, and more than that, being the teacher of the princes, would not teach Shudra kids. He told Eklavya to go away. Poor Eklavya’s heart was deeply hurt by Drona’s words of refusal. Disappointed but still firm on his ambition to learn archery, Eklavya left the palace. Eklavya returned to his home in the jungle and made a statue of Aacharya Drona. He accepted the statue of Drona as his guru and practised in front of the statue every single day. His belief that the statue would teach him kept Eklavya going on in his pursuit. One day the young Kaurava and Pandava princes from Hastinapur came hunting with their teacher Drona in the jungle where Eklavya lived. While the princes were hunting around in the jungle, one of their dogs reached the place where Eklavya was practising. The dog began to bark at Eklavya who was in the middle of his practice. Eklavya was distracted and could not concentrate. He was very upset and decided to do something to get back to his practice. As a means to stop the disturbance, Eklavya shot arrows into the dog’s mouth in such a skillful way that they did not hurt the dog but stopped him from barking. Having done that, Eklavya went back to practice. The dog in the meanwhile returned to his masters, the princes who had come to the forest on a hunt. The young princes were amazed at the unusual manner in which the arrows were shot in the dog’s mouth. The princes gently removed all the arrows from the dog’s mouth and informed their guru Drona. Then the dog led them to the place where Eklavya was practising. Drona was greatly impressed by Eklavya but all the young princes were getting jealous of Eklavya’s archery skills. Drona inquired from Eklavya as to who his teacher was, and was surprised to hear Eklavya reply humbly that it was Drona himself. To test Eklavya’s skills further, Drona asked Eklavya to compete with the princes. Confident Eklavya accepted the challenge and defeated every one of them including Arjuna, the famous Pandava prince who was an expert archer and Drona’s favourite student. As a witness to Eklavya’s fine archery skills Drona was both upset as well as angry that Eklavya had defeated even Arjuna, his best disciple. Drona did not like it, as he was very fond of Arjuna. He somehow wanted Arjuna to be the best. Drona was also infuriated by the fact that Eklavya made him (Drona) his guru even after his denial because of Eklavya being a shudra. So Drona demanded Eklavya to give him ‘guru dakshina’ (A disciple’s offering to a teacher after mastering a subject) since it was Drona who Eklavya considered to be his teacher. Eklavya was only too happy to give whatever his teacher asked for as he thought that his guru had accepted him.

GITANJALI
A poem by Tagore
(Song of Offerings)

The same stream of life that runs through
my veins night and day runs through
the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through
the dust of the earth in numberless blades
of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves
of leaves and flowers
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean
cradle of birth and death in ebb and in flow
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the
touch of this world of life. And my pride is
from the life throb of ages dancing in my
blood of this moment

HONESTY

People are generally honest to their egos; east or west, north or south. It is same; honest egos. It appears in unbelievable languages, prints, formats and it is easy to display when one got a powerful medium and heavy accent. What is curse actually? I don't believe in curses and people who curse others are generally guilty ones and they curse others to substantiate their ego. I am honest to my consciousness and I like to be in that group. What is honesty, even you go to Jails you find honest people there as prisoners because they can not prove themselves against powerful misappropriations. Even terror camps and underworld goons claims to have honest subordinates. And shame, if you have strong media connection, it is easy to demean one easily and if that is considered honorable standard, I disagree. I remember this particular case of a Banker; his rival bribed a reporter and made a false claim in a well known daily that this Banker had to close his financial institution as people withdrew all deposits and closed their accounts. He had to sell his house and properties to repay. A media can kill someone instantly. Let my voice be different. Otherwise too, legends teach in simple language... You come alone and go alone. But I am surprised what people do in that short span of time. Humiliate fellow beings and curse them when things go wrong because of their own creative miseries. When you experiment with others life how can you expect faith from them. What is there to scare another human if you are sure of yourself that you have not committed any crime? There are people who do crimes with a strong belief that they can escape through influence. That is called honest ego. And the one who protests always ends in life long humiliation. That is part of life and there is no shame in protesting against humiliation. Without knowing full facts if any one supports a claim for selfish motive to be called a traitor and if any one wishes to call them brave I will not curse them back but sympathize. Let these brave activists place a sting lens to their own family members and display it to the world. First clear the mess from your own mind. For them they live only to curse and punish others for their own blunders. Their level is that. Let the whole world join them and print any number of pages to prove their braveness. I prefer to be honest to my own consciousness. If I like some one I say that and If someone stings me even I say that.... honestly. And that northern curse of honesty, let me not curse back, let me sympathize. I am honest enough to say that.

COURT OF GOD

Judiciary is not a fool proof functional unit and it is hard to receive justice from a human court. Submit a petition there and you experience how evil minded influential people purchase judiciary in their hands. A world they have created above all prevailing laws. With power and print they torment and humiliate the unfortunate souls who accidentally cross roads in front of them. Years of struggle can only give mental agony to the innocent victims. Such Victims go to God to escape from traps of such power, not to file a petition. There is no need to file a petition to Lord who knows each and every graphical line of human minds. You can not file a false petition, claim in God's court nor can you purchase him like how you purchase people. You can only do such gimmicks with humans. God will not dance on refined politeness of pretend. He judges on real refinement and do not fall for sting inks. In front of God, a man who stings woman is no better than a man who beats woman; both are animals when they do such actions. And a woman with heart surrenders to God in trouble, not to file a petition but to communicate with him in confidence and that source is reliable and never biased. Heartless are the ones who throw blue ink on humans for a win. God sympathises with such heartless brains and he corrects their minds through down falls. He never considers name or fame when he rectifies such brains and he does it with such refined measures and humans redefine it as destiny in life.

(Humility is neither angered nor angers any one. Humility attracts God's grace to the soul. A starlet once spoke about that which makes a man humble. The ways to humility are bodily labors done diligently, considering oneself below all others , alongside ceaseless prayer to God. For resentment is one thing, anger another, irritation another and being disturbed yet another. Disturbance is the movement and stirring up of thoughts which arouse and irritate others. Irritation is a vengeful uprising against the person who offended you, which gives rise to presumptuousness. If you so wish you can extinguish even irritation before it leads to anger. But if you continue to disturb yourself you will be like a man who adds fuel to fire and so produces flames, which is anger and anger if it lingers turns to resentment from which a man will not be freed for a lifetime. Those who surrender their inner selves to god will not go behind life long resentment. )