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You Get What You Want

Once Gautama Buddha was on a journey. As he was traveling by foot, suddenly one person started abusing him, but it did not affect Goutam Buddha, rather he smiled and went away from that place. A disciple later asked Lord Buddha, "Why you didn't say anything to that person?" Lord Buddha replied, "If I give you a gift and you don't take it, where will it go? It will remain with me. "Similarly if someone abuses me and if I don't accept the abuses, then where it will go? It will remain with that person."

What I Learnt Today

If  you are not satisfied  with what you are getting, then check out what you are are giving. There must be problem in giving.  If you want to fly, then give up everything that weighs you down.  If you want to empower others then give your power to them. (From Mukeshji's class) 

Valuable Thoughts

One drop of practice  is better than thousands of good thoughts, theories  and resolutions.  When you finally realize that nothing is permanent in this life, you become more tolerant, more forgiving and less judgmental. 

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

  "Each soul is potentially  divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these- and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details." 2nd January- "Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else." 3rd January- "You are the children of God, the shaders of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth- sinners!  It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature." 4th January- "The first thing that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion." 5th Jan- ...

The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty(Liberty Enlightening the World)  is a 225-ton steel reinforced copper female figure. It is 152 feet in height, facing the ocean from Liberty Island in Network Barbour(called Bedloe's Island prior to 1956). The right hand of the statue holds aloft a torch and the left hand carries a tablet upon which is inscribed :"July IV MDCCLXXVI".        The Statue was designed by Frederic August Bartholdi of Alsace as a gift to the United States from the people of France to memorise the alliance of the two countries in the American Revolution  and their abiding friendship. President Grover Cleveland accepted the Statue for the United States on 28th Oct'1886.

Official Publications

White Book - Official  publication of China, Germany and Portugal govt.   Green Book - Official  publication  of Iran and Italy govt.  Yellow Book - Official  publication  of France govt.  Blue Book- Official  report of the of United Kingdom govt.  Orange Book- Official  publication  of Netherlands (Holland) govt.  Grey Book- Official  report of the Belgium and Japanese  govts. 

Important Observed Days in India

              Important  Observed Days ·          January Ø   Jan-1     Army Medical Corps Establishment Day Ø   Jan-8     African National Congress Foundation Day Ø   Jan-9     NRI’s Day Ø   Jan-10   World Laughter Day Ø   Jan-11    Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri Ø   Jan-12     National Youth Day( Swami Vivekananda’s  Birth Day) Ø   Jan-15    Army Day Ø   Jan-23     Netaji  Subas Chandra Bose’s Birth anniversary Ø   Jan-26     Republic Day/ Tourism Day/ International Custom’s Day Ø   Jan-28    Birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai Ø   Jan-30     Martyrs’  Day (Death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi)/ World Leprosy Eradication Day   · ...

Queries on History(What, When, Who, Why, Where, How?)

1. What is Philadelphia Convention? Ans: Philadelphia Convention took place at Philadelphia from 25th May'1787 to 17th Sept'1787 to address the problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following Independence from Great Britain. The result of the convention was the United States Constitution.           The framers of the Indian Constitution accepted the influence of the west in this respect. Bandit Jawaharlal Nehru, while moving the Objective Resolutions in the Indian Constituent Assembly referred to the Philadelphia Convention, the French experiment and the Russian Revolution as sources of inspiration. Q.2- Where we're the first Olympic games held? And: The first Olympic Games we're held in Greece,  in a valley between the rivers Cladeus and Alpheus.  According to tradition they we're founded in 776BC.  After that date they we're held every  four years until they...