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Excessive anger is a great harm, but greater still is The unmindfulness born of excessive pleasure. Just as perpetual poverty slowly slays one's knowledge, So does frequent forgetfulness destroy one's prestige.
- Tirukkural 54: 531-532
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It's easy to see The errors of others, But hard to see Your own. You winnow like chaff The errors of others, But conceal your own-- Like a cheat, an unlucky throw. If you focus on the errors of others, Constantly finding fault, Your effluents flourish. You're far from their ending.
- Dhammapada 18, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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अंग्रेजी

जीजा ने हाल ही में अंग्रेजी सीखना शुरू किया था। 
एक दिन उसकी साली उसके घर आई। अंग्रेजी का रुआब झाड़ने की गरज से जीजा ने उससे कहा - "आई लव यू"


साली पढ़ी लिखी थी और जीजाजी पर जान छिड़कती थी। 

जवाब में बोली - "आई लव यू टू"

जीजा भी कहां पीछे रहने वाला था, बोला - "आई लव यू थ्री ....!"

Religious Thought 089



Those who abstain while allowing the mind to dwell on sensual pleasure cannot be called sincere spiritual aspirants. But they excel who control their senses through the mind, using them for selfless service.
- Bhagavad Gita 3:6-7
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Think not of the faults of others, of what they have done or not done. Think rather of your own sins, of the things you have done or not done.
- Buddha
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Beautiful Birds Paintings


Birds are an independent creation of God which feel free fly on the blue sky and keep themselves away from us. However one way to capture them is their beautiful and color painting. An amazing album consist of beautiful birds paintings are here. Take a glance and capture a bit for yourself too :-)
 
 
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Religious Thought 088



The body will be turned by the power of the spiritual consciousness into a true and fit and perfectly responsive instrument of the Spirit.
- Sri Aurobindo
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Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom and dignity. It is not enough, as communist systems have assumed, merely to provide people with food, shelter and clothing. Human nature needs to breathe the precious air of liberty.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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10 Popular 2012 Doomsday Theory Fails


The “end” of the Mayan Long Count Calendar is nearly upon us! The way I see it, we have two choices. A: buy into the sloppy and pseudo-scientific hype, stock up on canned corn and ammo, and pray that Nick Cage will save us all from the inevitable ancient jungle aliens and solar space volcanoes. Or B: do a little research, learn some cool new facts about how the universe really works, and maybe cut down on the T.V. time. If option B sounds more like your style, here’s a list to get you started.
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Mayan Doomsday Prophecy

First of all, the Mayan calendar doesn’t ‘end’ in 2012, despite many claims to the contrary. Most archeologists agree that the ancients never viewed this year as the end of the world. “It’s the time when the largest grand cycle in the Mayan calendar – 1,872,000 days or 5,125.37 years – overturns, and a new cycle begins,” said Anthony Aveni, a Maya expert and archeo-astronomer from New York.
The Maya believed that the dawn of our current creation cycle began in August 11, 3114 B.C, and they recorded this date as Day Zero (even though it preceded their civilization by thousands of years). This December, the era will come to an end. The complex, cyclical calendar will roll over again to Day Zero, beginning another long cycle, just as it has before. 



Religious Thought 087



Prosperity is not for the envious, Nor is greatness for men of impure conduct.
- Tirukkural 14:135
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Our very nature is Buddha, and apart from this nature there is no other Buddha.
- The Sutra of Hui Neng
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Religious Thought 086



This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva. And if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste or creed or race or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples.
- Vivekananda
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When you see a truck bearing down on you, by all means jump out of the way. But spend some time in meditation, too. Learning to deal with discomfort is the only way you'll be ready to handle the truck you didn't see.
- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"
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Will you marry me? - Naughty Joke

A man really loved a woman, but he was just too shy to propose to her. Now he was up in his years and neither of them had ever been married. Of course, they dated about once a week for the past six years, but he was so timid he just never got around to suggesting marriage much less living together.

But one day, he became determined to ask her the question. So he calls her on the phone, "June."

"Yes, this is June."

"Will you marry me?"

"Of course I will! Who's this?"

White On white: Arctic Foxes In Canada


White on white: Arctic foxes in Canada photographed by Anna Henly


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An Arctic fox emerges from the mist. Apart from its nose and eyes, it is barely visible against the snowy backdrop. The award-winning image was one of many captured by British photographer Anna Henly at the Seal River, in Manitoba, Canada. 

Religious Thought 085



The world is just a set of false impressions. Give them up. Give up the illusion. Give up the world. And live freely.
- Ashtavakra Gita 9:8
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Let me tell you about the middle path. Dressing in rough and dirty garments, letting your hair grow matted, abstaining from eating any meat or fish, does not cleanse the one who is deluded. Mortifying the flesh through excessive hardship does not lead to a triumph over the senses. All self-inflicted suffering is useless as long as the feeling of self is dominant. You should lose your involvement with yourself and then eat and drink naturally, according to the needs of your body. Attachment to your appetites--whether you deprive or indulge them--can lead to slavery, but satisfying the needs of daily life is not wrong. Indeed, to keep a body in good health is a duty, for otherwise the mind will not stay strong and clear. This is the middle path.
- Discourse II
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Good One... !!!!!!!!!!!!!

U marry someone else. 
The one u marry 
becomes ur wife or husband 
And the one u loved 
becomes the password of ur mail id" 
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There's only one perfect child in the world & every mother has it. 
There's only one perfect wife in the world & every neighbor has it. 

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Three dreams of a man: 

To be as handsome as his mother thinks. 

To be as rich as his child believes. 

To have as many women as his wife suspects... 

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Husband & wife are like liver and kidney. Husband is the liver & wife the kidney. 
If the liver fails, the kidney fails. If the kidney fails, the liver manages with other kidney. 

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Generation Next Motto: Na hum shaadi karenge, na apne bachchon ko karne denge. 

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What's the diff between Dava & Daru? 
Dava is like a girlfriend, that comes with an expiry date and 
Daru is like a wife, Jitni purani hogi utna sir chad ke bolegi. 

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Wife ko Begum kyon kehte hain? 
Kyonki shaadi ke baad saare gum to husband ke hisse mein aate hain or 
wife Be-Gum ho jaati hai. 

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The Japanese have produced a camera that has such a fast shutter speed 
it can take a picture of a woman with her mouth shut!

Different types of Kisses



Kisses can be different - a kiss of two lovers, a kiss goodbye.
Here is a great collection of photos of kisses.

Religious Thought 084



That which is the source of the sun And of every power in the cosmos, beyond which There is neither going nor coming, Is the Self indeed. For this Self is supreme!
- Katha Upanishad
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Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom and dignity. It is not enough, as communist systems have assumed, merely to provide people with food, shelter and clothing. Human nature needs to breathe the precious air of liberty.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Religious Thought 083



The true seeker feels no elation, Even in that exalted state Which Indra and all the gods Unhappily long for. He understands the nature of things. His heart is not smudged By right or wrong, As the sky is not smudged by smoke.
- Ashtavakra Gita 4: 2-3
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From this point on you really know. This is called the pinnacle of Zen, the sovereignty of Zen. It is also called knowledge of what is knowable; it produces all the various states of meditation, and anoints the heads of all spiritual princes. In all fields of form, sound, fragrance, flavor, feeling, and phenomena, you realize complete perfect enlightenment. Inside and outside are in complete communion, without any obstruction at all.
- Pai-chang, "The Sphere of the Enlightened"
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Religious Thought 082



Mother of the Universe, I have no desire to exercise power. I would not even care to be an emperor. Sweet Mother, please grant me two simple meals each day and wealth enough to thatch the palm roof of my clean earthen house, where I offer dreaming and waking as red flowers at your feet
- Ramprasad
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If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.
- Buddha
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