कन्दुकेश्वर लिंग

कन्दुकेश्वर लिंग

हिन्दू धर्म के पांच प्रमुख देवताओं में शिव साकार और निराकार दोनों ही रूप में पूजनीय है। शिव को अनादि, अनंत भी माना गया है। पंचदेवों के रूप में शिव जहां कल्याणकारी देवता माने गए हैं तो वहीं त्रिदेव शक्तियों में वह दुष्ट वृत्तियों के विनाशक के रूप में भी पूजनीय है। 

खासतौर पर शिव के निराकार स्वरूप शिवलिंग पूजा समस्त सांसारिक कामनाओं को पूरा करने और दु:ख-संताप का अंत करने वाली बताई गई है। यही नहीं शिवलिंग के दर्शन मात्र धर्म, अर्थ, काम और मोक्ष देने वाला बताया गया है। 

शिव पुराण में शिवलिंग प्राकट्य के प्रसंग भी निराकार स्वरूप शिवलिंग की शक्तियों और उपासना का महत्व ही उजागर नहीं करते, बल्कि घट-घट में बसे शिव स्वरूप की अपार महिमा बताते हैं। इसी कारण शिव ही नहीं उनके अनेक अवतार भी धर्म परंपराओं में संकटमोचक माने गए हैं। जिनमें हनुमान, भैरव लोक प्रसिद्ध है। 

शिवलिंग की ऐसी ही महिमा बताते हुए एक रोचक प्रसंग शिव पुराण में आया है। जिसमें शिव के एक अद्भुत शिवलिंग की स्थापना का रहस्य भी है। जानते हैं यह दिलचस्प प्रसंग - 

एक बार दो असुरों विदल और उत्पल ने तप कर ब्रह्मदेव से यह वर पाया कि उनकी किसी पुरुष के हाथों मृत्यु न होगी। इसके बाद दोनों असुरों ने देवताओं पर आक्रमण कर बुरी तरह से हरा दिया। पराजित देवगणों ने ब्रह्मदेव के सामने अपना दु:ख प्रगट किया। तब ब्रह्मदेव ने सभी देवताओं को यह बताया कि शिवलीला से दोनों असुरो का देवी के हाथों अंत होगा। 

इसी शिवलीला के चलते नारद ने दोनों दैत्यों के आगे पार्वती की सुंदरता का बखान किया। यह सुनकर दोनों उस स्थान पर पहुंचे जहां माता पार्वती गेंद से खेल रही थी। उनके रूप से मोहित दोनों दुष्ट दैत्य वेश बदलकर देवी के करीब पहुंचे। किंतु महादेव ने उनकी आंखों को देखकर यह जान लिया कि वह दैत्य हैं। शिव ने देवी की ओर संकेत किया। 

देवी शिव का इशारा समझ गई और उन्होनें बिना देरी किए अपनी गेंद से दोनों राक्षसों पर घातक प्रहार किया। जिससे चोट खाकर विदल और उत्पल नामक दैत्य धराशायी होकर मृत्यु को प्राप्त हुए और उस गेंद ने शिवलिंग रूप ले लिया। 

शिवपुराण के मुताबिक यही शिवलिंग गेंद यानी कन्दुक के नाम से कन्दुकेश्वर लिंग के रूप में काशी में स्थित है, जो सभी बुरी वृत्तियों का नाशक व समस्त सांसारिक सुख और मोक्ष देने वाला माना गया है। 

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नीले रंग के शरीर वाले ये हैरतअंगेज लोग

नीले रंग के शरीर वाले हैरतअंगेज लोग

19वीं सदी की शुरुआत का यह पोट्रेट कोई मजाक या फिर किसी कार्टून फिल्म का हिस्सा नहीं है। अमेरिका के कैंटकी में रहने वाले मार्टिन फूगेट का यह परिवार है। उनके सात बच्चों में से चार के चेहरे नीले थे। अब जाकर वैज्ञानिकों ने पता लगाया है कि ये वाकई सच था और ऐसा जेनेटिक म्यूटेशन की वजह से हुआ था।

मार्टिन फ्रांस से आए हुए एक अनाथ थे। अमेरिका में उन्होंने लाल बालों वाली गोरी महिला एलिजाबेथ स्मिथ से शादी कर ली थी। इनके संगम से जो जेनेटिक म्यूटेशन हुआ उसी का नतीजा था ये नीले चमड़ी वाले बच्चे। इस कंडीशन को मीथेमोग्लोबिनीमिया और आम भाषा में मेट-एच कहते हैं। इसमें खून में ऑक्सीजन ले जाने की क्षमता घट जाती है। इसलिए इन लोगों के खून का रंग भी आम खून से गहरा हो जाता है।

फूगेट परिवार कैंटकी के दूर-दराज इलाके में रहता था। इसलिए इनका लोगों से मेलजोल भी कम था। ऐसे में परिवार बढ़ता गया और आगे चलकर आपस में शादियां होने से बीमारी फैलती गई। 1958 में इसी वंश के ल्यूके कॉम्ब्स अपनी पत्नी को लेकर यूनिवर्सिटी ऑफ कैंटकी हॉस्पिटल आए तो यह मामला प्रकाश में आया था। यहां डॉक्टर्स का ध्यान उनकी बीमार पत्नी से ज्यादा उन पर था। तभी से इस पर रिसर्च चल रही थी। वैसे इससे उन्हें कोई नुकसान नहीं हो रहा था और इन लोगों का व्यवहार भी अच्छा था।

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5 Simple Steps to Fight Spam

We all know how frustrating junk emails can get. They clog up our email inbox and make us waste precious time cleaning them up. To make matter worse, these spam sometimes come with viruses or worms that make your system gohaywire. But all these meant little for theconned victims who actually believed in the fraudulent content and lost their money paying for ‘ransoms’ or ‘charity causes’.

Minimizing the amount of spam to your inbox equates to making it increasingly difficult for spammers to continue in their line of work. This not only benefits us, but also the internet community as a whole. Spamming becomes less attractive for them, thus reducing the total amount of spam out there slowing down servers and cheating victims of their monies.

Apart from a reliable spam filter software or plugin for your email client, there are still a few more things we should do to kill spam. Here are five simple tips to cut down on spam.

1. Don’t Unsubscribe to Spam.

This is a smart tactic by spammers to find out whether email accounts are active. We have all come across official newsletters or advertisements where we have the option to unsubscribe to them if we do not wish to receive further emails from them. Just when we thought we have the choice of ‘unsubscribing’ to spam, the spammers make use of that to notify themselveswhether our account is spam-worthy.

What should we do then? Don’t reply to them at all. If we suspect that an email is a spam rather than a legitimate one, delete the message or report it as spam. When we don’t respond to such spam, spammers will treat it as the email account has not been in used for awhile and thus no one will read their spam. They will more likely to strike us off from the spam list and we might not receive any more from them.

2. Don’t Reveal Your Email

Bots might harvest emails on the net wherever they could find the addresses listed in text. This includes forums, social media sites, websites, blogs, etc. One solution is to avoid posting your email address, but that might be rather inconvenient if you want people to contact you. Another solution is to edit your email address in the manner that these bots won’t identify it and capture it.

For the latter, one has to simply remove the ‘@’ from their email address, because that’s what those bots look for when they are searching for emails. If you ever wondered why some people put their email address in the format of xxxxxx (at) xxxxx (dot) com, It’s precisely because they want to avoid being a victim of spam. We can also make our email address appear as an image so that there’s no way these irritating bots could make out our address.

3. Reporting Spam

Minimizing the number of unsolicited emails to our inbox is a good thing, but why not make it great if we can lessen it for everyone else in the internet community? Simply direct spam to a spam reporting service site and they will do what is needed to prevent the spammer from spamming anyone else. Basically such a site would report to the hosting company of the email used by the spammer, where the hosting company would subsequently stop these spammers.

SpamCop is a free spam reporting service that allows victims of spam to report spammers to their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and sometimes their webhost. All we need to do is to create an account with them and send reports to them in the way they indicate. Do our part for internet users like ourselves and stop all the inconveniences and damages to our computers!

4. Use a Distinct Email Account

One way to automatically channel your spam away from your inbox is to create one email address which we will only give out when we register online any products we buy or download. We’ll never know if these companies sell a database of the email addresses they collected to anyone else, including spammers.

In any case, this separate inbox will house all the advertisements and what-not which most of us wouldn’t want to see it on a regular basis. The original email address which you access daily can then be used for personal and work emails, with the amount of spam minimized (or directed away).

5. Disable HTML in Email

For more advanced spam, the content can be written in HTML format and contain JavaScript programs that direct the user to an advertised page, thus successfully delivering what it was meant to deliver: the spam content. The more problematic spam could even contain web bugs and install spywares unknowingly to the user’s computer system. Viruses can also be transmitted via such means.

Most email programs today Microsoft Outlook offers the option of disabling HTML upon receipt of any of such email messages. It is a good idea to do that because this wouldprevent any unauthorized installation or activation of programs via what is embedded in the HTML content. Once we see that the sender and the plain text content seems suspicious enough to consider it a junk email, we can delete it before any damage is done.

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better than the greatest intention

better than the greatest intention

Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash, was one of the greatest sages this country has ever known.  Some of his sayings:  1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. 2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. 3. There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works. 4. Never miss a good chance to shut up. 5. Always drink upstream from the herd.6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. 7. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back into your pocket. 8. There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. 9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. 10. If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there. 11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.12. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. ABOUT GROWING OLDER...  First ~Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. Second ~ The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.  Third ~ Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved. Fourth ~ When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra. Fifth ~ You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.  Sixth ~ I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top. Seventh ~ One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it's such a nice change from being young. Eighth ~ One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been. Ninth ~ Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable. Tenth ~ Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.And, finally ~ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

The smallest Good deed is better
 than the greatest intention.

Pathology Lab Clinic

Touching Lines On Sign Board Outside A Pathology Lab Clinic.

“For You It May Be Just Your Urine And Potty But For Us It Is Our Daal And Roti“

Beautiful Animals Portraits

Did you ever seen funny animals face or face expression? If your answer is no then you should need to see below listed pictures showcased. In today post shoacse, We would like to show you a naughty pets animals portraits which is capture by Lennette Newell, an American Photographer. Lennette’s pet animals photos are like little mixture of fashion and portrait photography. You will see a actually funny animal face with pure face expressions in this collections, specially the cat pictures. I hope this Animal Portrait Photography can be inspire you. Before 1 day ago I will post here most beautiful and astonishing macro photography of insect if you are lover of animals then you also love to see them.

SLACKLINING: A NEW EXTREME SPORT

Slacklining is a practice in balance that typically uses 1 inch nylon webbing tensioned between two anchor points. Slacklining is distinct from tightrope walking in that the line is not held rigidly taut (although it is still under some tension); it is instead dynamic, stretching and bouncing like a long and narrow trampoline.
 

The line's tension can be adjusted to suit the user and different types of webbing can be used to achieve a variety of feats. The line itself is flat, due to the nature of webbing, thus keeping the slacker's footing from rolling as would be the case with an ordinary rope. The dynamic nature of the line allows for impressive tricks and stunts.

Beautiful video that will make you cry!

Genetic Mutations Or Sacred Animals? 30 Examples Of Albinism

 Genetic Mutations Or Sacred Animals? 30 Examples Of Albinism

Albino animals are very rare in nature, and man has long had a fascination for these creatures since ancient times. Some cultures regard albinos as sacred animals, and they have even been the basis of great legends and folklore. Due to their uniqueness and rarity, albino animals are some of the most valuable attractions in zoological centers and circuses throughout the world.

Leucistic animals are often mistaken as being albino creatures, such as white lions. Leucism is a condition similar to albinism, characterized by reduced pigmentation in general and can also affect distribution of pigment on the hair shaft, but unlike albinism, it’s caused by a reduction in all types of skin pigment, not just melanin.

Albinism is a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a partial or total lack of melanin pigment in the eyes, skin and hair. Albinism results from inheritance of recessive alleles (genes) and the condition is known to affect mammals (including humans), fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians.

Albinism is hereditary; it is not an infectious disease and cannot be transmitted through contact, blood transfusions, or other vectors. The principal gene which results in albinism prevents the body from making the usual amounts of the pigment melanin. Most forms of albinism are the result of the biological inheritance of genetically recessive alleles (genes) passed from both parents of an individual, though some rare forms are inherited from only one parent. There are other genetic mutations which are proven to be associated with albinism. All alterations, however, lead to changes in melanin production in the body.

Most humans and many animals with albinism appear white or very pale. In some animals, especially albinistic birds and reptiles, ruddy and yellow hues or other colors may be present on the entire body or in patches due to the presence of other pigments unaffected by albinism, as well as carotenoid pigments derived from the diet. Some animals are white or pale due to pigment cell defects, do not lack melanin production, and have normal eyes — referred to as leucistic.