My SCRAPBOOK (సేకరణలు): A COLLECTION of articles in English and Telugu(తెలుగు), from various sources, on varied subjects. I do not claim credit for any of the contents of these postings as my own.A student's declaration made at the end of his answer paper, holds good to the articles here too:"I hereby declare that the answers written above are true to the best of my friend's knowledge and I claim no responsibility whatsoever of the correctness of the answers."

Saturday, June 21, 2014

1522- WHY ARE PEOPLE UNHAPPY?


(from my scrap book - Murari Bapu, Femina, March 8 - 22, 1984)
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A man had fever and therefore went to a nearby dispensary. On the way, he fell down and had many bruises. When he met the doctor, he was given two medicines- one to swallow for his fever and the other for purely for external application.
 

The man in his fevered ignorance, came home and drank up the medicine given for the bruises and applied the on the wound- healing neither his fever nor his bruises.

In the same manner...

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1521- Karma, Morality and Transmigration:

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Basically there are three kinds of Karma.
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1)Sanchita or the possible karmas based on past lives,
2)Prarabdha or the past karmas now due, and
3)Agami or the future or possible karmas.

1)Sanchita constitutes all the accumulated Karmas of past life times of an individual. Sanchita is the totality of accumulated karma that one has collected from past lives.
Sanchita karma= The aggregate of actions done in the past including past lives -minus - Prarabdha karma

2) From sanchita karma, one chooses a portion to work on during this current life time, is Prarabdha karma. Prarabdha karma is visible during this current life time in a man’s character, evinced by his tendencies and aptitudes, capabilities, and desires. These karmas are ripe for reaping and can’t be avoided or altered. These are both productive and destructive, positive and negative. They can only be worn out through living them out, just as an individual settles past debts.
Prarabdha karma = The aggregate of actions that begin to bear fruit the moment one is born and is to be worked out in this life.

3)Agami karma= The aggregate of actions that one is yet to do.”
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“There is a beautiful analogy in Vedic lore.
1)An archer has bundle of arrows in his quiver. The quiver contains his Sanchita karmas.

2)The archer has already shot an arrow. The arrow it has left his bow. There is no way he can recall it . The one he has shot represents his Prarabdha (past).

3)He is about to shoot another one. The one that he is about to let loose from his bow constitutes his Agami (future) karma.

Of these, the archer has complete control over the (current) Sanchita and Agami (future) karmas. Nevertheless, he has to very meticulously work out his (past) Prarabdha. The past that has started to take effect, he has to undergo.
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There are three kinds of actions, -they are good, bad and mixed.

 Good Karmas are those that make the individual Divine, a god or angel in heaven.
Bad Karmas cast the individual you into lower wombs (of reincarnation).
Mixed actions are responsible for giving an individual a human birth.

All karmas are a blend of good and evil. In this world, there are seldom absolute good karmas or absolute bad karmas.

This manifest universe constitutes a relative plane in which, if a person performs an action, it will have a constructive and destructive component( because God contains it all). Hence we must all strive to perform actions which will bring us maximum good and minimum evil.”
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source: www.yogawiz.com
(Thanks to Moojiji)

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Friday, June 20, 2014

1520- SCAM


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1519- Kasimedu at dawn _ Ramesh Raja's photo.


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1518- Songs and emotions



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1517- Victoria Memorial (Corner View), Kolkata, West Bengal, India February, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/PhotographyPageOfManabendraDey


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1516- Ripon building -Srinivasan Ka's photo.


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1515- Summer basking.. Chennai - '14. _ Chepauk Ramesh's photo.


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1514- Place: Varanasi- Mahesh Balasubramanian's photo.


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1513- Aging


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1512- Light House - HDR Chennai -shared Aswin Natesh's photo.


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1511- Sweet stall allahabad / INDIA - Santhana Krishnan's photo.


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1510- Humour

Banta & Santa 😀😈
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After returning from a foreign trip, Banta asked his wife, "Do I look like a foreigner?"
Wife: "No! Why?"
Banta: "In London a lady asked me Are you a foreigner?"
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Santa: My mobile bill how much?
Call centre girl: sir, just dial 123to know current bill status
Santa: Stupid, not CURRENT BILL my MOBILE BILL.
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Banta: I think that girl is deaf..
Friend: How do u know?
Banta: I told I Love her, but she said her chappals are new
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Sir: What is difference between Orange and Apple
Santa: Color of Orange is orange, but color of Apple is not APPLE
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1509- Flower vendor


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1508- Affection or perfection


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1507- Veggie!

Pythagoras believed that animals may have the transmigrated souls of human ancestors. Therefore, he said that eating animal products was cannibalism.

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1506- Tejal Mewar's photo — at Dummas Beach


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1505- Chef or cook?


The Hindu

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1504- What is ego?

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"You are egoistic, when the beautiful fragrance of Existence surrounds you, but you plug your nose with stinky fingers!"
-Nityananda
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1503- To just be


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1502- Fatherhood explained


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1501- Spiritual destination - Godhead!

 
Train Ride of Human Life - Destination Back to Godhead
from Science of Self-Realization by ISKCON Founder-Acharya Srila Prabhupada
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"There is certainly a great deal of comfort in the first-class coach of a train, but if the train does not move toward its destination, what is the benefit of an air-conditioned compartment?

Contemporary civilization is much too concerned with making the material body comfortable. No one has information of the real destination of life, which is to go back to Godhead. We must not just remain seated in a comfortable compartment; we should see whether or not our vehicle is moving toward its real destination.

There is no ultimate benefit in making the material body comfortable at the expense of forgetting the prime necessity of life, which is to regain our lost spiritual identity. The boat of human life is constructed in such a way that it must move toward a spiritual destination..."
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

1500- chet singh ghat , varanasi -Radha Swami's photo..


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1499- Fish market Pondicherry-Joe Hack's photo. (c)


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1498-life of fishermen and their children.. Naveen Gowtham's photo. Ammapattinam, Pudhukottai, Tamilnadu, India


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1497- Determination

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
Tommy Lasorda

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1496- ANNAPOORNA (Credit : Na Vasanthakumar Place: Kalur, Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu: Village life)


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1495- Yogesh Gupta's photo. Khajjiar, famous as mini switzerland, in himachal pradesh.


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1494- What religion you should follow!


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1493- Naveen Gowtham's photo.


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1492- To attain peace,

Staying out mentally, and observing dispassionately, like a psychoanalyst, our activities & thoughts as we observe others, without being judgemental...
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When the body is born, all kinds of things happen to it, and you take part in them - because you take yourself to be the body. You are like the man in the cinema house, laughing and crying with the picture, though knowing fully well that he is all the time in his seat and the picture is but the play of light. It is enough to shift attention from the screen to oneself to break the spell. When the body dies, the kind of life you live now - succession of physical and mental events - comes to an end. It can end even now, without waiting for the death of the body. It is enough to shift attention to the Self and keep it there. All just happens; there is a mysterious power that creates and moves everything. Realize that you are not the mover, only the observer, and you will be at peace.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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1491- Palais Du Grand.. central place in Brussels..


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1490- “Head in the Forest, Hands in Society”

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Sri SatyaSai Baba often used to quote- “Head in the Forest, Hands in Society”.

‘Head in the forest’ means ‘let the mind be at rest.’ To maintain that peaceful state is to keep one’s “head in the forest.”

'Hands in society!'- Hands represent action, service and work. So work in society . Serve in society. Act in society. Do not run away from society.

To lead a spiritual life, only two things are important. The mind should always be filled with Divine thoughts and the hands should be involved constantly in work, in activity, in service to society.
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