Einstein maintained that there was a relationship between time and space. He had also said that time travels backward beyond the speed of light.
There is a famous humourous Limerick on this time/space relationship.
"There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night"
This Limerick first appeared in an issue of the London humor magazine “Punch” in 1923.
The world has widespread inequality. This ineqality could have been accepted had it not been that it has resulted in gross injustice.
Injustice is the scourge of any civilization. From ancient times right-thinking people have raised their voice against it.
Cyrus the great is generally considered the world’s first to believe in human rights.
In 539 B.C., the armies of Cyrus the Great conquered the city of Babylon. But rather than rape and pillage, Cyrus freed the slaves, declared freedom of religion and established racial equality.
In the millennia following, there have been many who wanted all humans to be equal. Among them are Martin Luther King jr, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
And the lesser known Rosa Parks.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
"Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
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***The Fall of Constantinople came with the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading Ottoman army on 29 May 1453. The army commander was the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmed II, who defeated an army commanded by Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos.
The Ottomans conquest was due to the use of newly discovered power of gunpowder (which powered formidable cannons).
The Greeks fled with their timeless books on art and literature and came to Italy. And that was the beginning of the golden period of art in Europe : THE RENAISSANCE !
One of tbe immortal figures of the Renaissance was MICHAELANGELO. Among his timeless creations is the PIETA
The Pietà is housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères.
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why do we have to eat contaminated food ?
Take for example a loaf of your daily bread. it is made of wheat flour . wheat is grown in the farms where heavy amount of pesticides and fertilizers get into the wheat. Now they have started adding those poisonous herbicides also . Then in the Flour Mills the best nutrients portions of wheat get removed and refined flour is made available in the Bakery. At bakery they add preservatives, taste enhancers, antifungal agents bleaches and quite a few other things. By this time it is not the bread we used to eat in the past. On the wrapper you read that the bread is fortified with mineral and vitamins !
Now take the example of table salt. The commercial table salt is generally made out of processes you cannot imagine . Here is a link. read it to know what you are eating.
https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/dangers-of-salt/amp/?espv=1
These are just two examples.
Why is humankind committing suicide ?
Why are all these products not banned completely ?
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JAKHU TEMPLE
Jakhu Temple is an ancient Hanuman temple in Shimla.
It is situated on Jakhu Hill, 2.5 km from the Ridge, Shimla at a height of 8,000 feet. It offers a breathtaking view of the himalayas.
At this ancient Hanuman temple every year a big festival is held during Dussehra.
You can reach the temple by foot over a steep climb from Ridge or can hire a pony. Taxis also take you there.
Legend has it that hindu deity Hanuman ji stopped here to rest while he was searching for the Sanjivni Booti to revive Lakshmana during the war with Ravan.
Shimla was the summer capital of the viceroy during the Raj period. Earlier, most of the area occupied by present-day Shimla city was dense forest in the 18th century. The only habitation was the Jakhoo temple and a few scattered houses.
The area was named after a Hindu goddess, Shyamala Devi, an incarnation of Kali.
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The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known also as the Hare Krishna movement is a spiritual movement of Bhakti Yoga. ISKCON was founded in 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada . Its core beliefs are based on the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhagavata Purana.
ISKCON as of 2017 is a worldwide confederation. It has more than 850 temples and centres, including 60 farm communities, 50 schools, and 90 restaurants spread over the world.
Pushkar is a hindu pilgrimage town in Rajasthan, India. It is about 10 km from Ajmer city. It is located on the shore of Pushkar Lake which has many Ghats where pilgrims bathe.
[3] Pushkar is also significant for its Gurdwaras. One of the bathing ghats is called Gobind ghat built by the Sikhs in the memory of Guru Gobind Singh.[5]
Pushkar is famous for its annual fair (Pushkar Camel Fair).
The most famous among Pushkar temples is the red spired Brahma Temple built during the 14th century CE. It is considered a sacred city by the Hindus .
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OF STARS AND THE SKY
There is a faint star formation called "seven sisters" in the constellation of Taurus which you can't see if you live in a city . You cannot also see that dim star 'Alcor' in the constellations of 'Ursa Major' (in Vedic astronomy it is that dim star called "arundhati" close to the northern formation of "Sapta Rishi") unless you have perfect young eyes.
Star watching is fun on a very clear moonless night sky. You can see so many stars and constellations - Your Sun sign may be there if you know where to look for it. The milky way sweeps across the starry sky from the south to the north. And there are occasional shooting stars too !
The constellation of Oriental hunters in the west is always visible throughout the world and the stars in its "belt" are so bright ! The two brightest stars there are 'Beta Orionis' and 'Alpha Orionis'.This constellation is named after Orion, a hunter in Greek mythology
The twelve popular 'sunsign' constellations move along the sky everyday in the ecliptic which the Sun, Moon and planets all traverse.
Your birth chart or Horoscope is nothing but a split second photograph of these constellations and the planets 'overlapping them' at the precise moment of your birth.
And your rising sign is the constellation on the eastern horizon at that moment of your birth.
There is a relationship between the star and you which science has yet to know. The whole game of matter and energy is built around electromagnetic fields which science is slowly discovering (For instance science did not know that human beings have their own electromagnetic field until 1950s ! ) So it will take time for science to discover Astrology and retrieve it from the hordes of so called astrologers and reinvent it.
You must find sometime away from the routine and on a clear night lie in the open under the stars and gaze at them. It works like meditation , energising you and taking you to another level of existence.
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Surkanda Devi is a temple situated in Tehri District Uttarakhand India. It is at an altitude of about 3,030 metres, or 9976 ft. It is near the hill station of Dhanaulti . From the last motorable point,Kaddukhal, one has to walk on foot for three kilometers uphill to reach the hill top temple.
There are WORDS that are frozen in history . Uttered at the right moment by famous persons, these words become timeless gems. Here are a few!
'PECCAVI'! This was a one word telegram sent to England by Gen. Charles Napiere when he annexed
the Sind province (now in Pakistan) to the English domains in India. In doing
this he had exceeded his brief that he would only quell the rebellion and
come back. PECCAVI, a Latin words, means ' I have sinned' and the PUN
was intended to convey, in one word, a moment of contrition and a
conquest !!
And what do we see here ! An absolutely naked man running down a busy city-road shouting 'EUREKA.!
EUREKA ! '( I have found it, I have found it !). He is on his way to the palace of king Heroin the second. The man is none other than the great ancient Greek scientist Archimedes and he has just 'accidentally' made a discovery while sitting naked in a bath tub trying to figure out the solution to a problem tormenting his king !The sheer serendipity of such simple discovery made him forget that he was stark naked !
Next we arrive in ancient city of Rome. The great Roman dictator Julius Cæser has just been stabbed in the recorded
history's most infamous act of betrayal. And you can feel the anguished dismay in the exclamation of Julius Cæser as he says "ET TU BRUTE !" (And you too Brutus !) as he looks back and collapses after being stabbed in the back by his most trusted friend Marcus Brutus and dies.
'ET TU BRUTE' has come to symbolise an act of betrayal of trust !
VENI, VIDI, VICI IS a latin phrase meanung "I came; I saw; I conquered" attributed to Julius Caesar after he had achieved a quick victory in his short war against Pharnaces II of Pontus at the Battle of Zela. The phrase is used to refer to a swift, conclusive victory.
You can add more phrases !
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CRISIS IN PRIORITIES
Mindblowing amount of money is being spent in search of water on Mars; on Space Ships to the outer limit of our Solar system ; on the relationship of the massive gravitational pull of Black Holes to the radiations that manage to escape it. And so on . . .
All this would have been OK had there been enough money to burn. Research on an alternative to Internal Combustion Engine - a hundred odd years old anachronism- is crying for massive funds . Similar has been the fate of solar energy: scientists continue to be stuckup with photovoltaic cells. No money for this while they are burning trillions of dollar in search of the so called God Particle somewhere in switzerland.
One particular field that needs massive funds for research is the human mind . There have been recurring mindless shootings in school , restaurent and holy places in many parts of the world.
With the alarming pile up of nuclear weapons human survival is at stake. What will we going achieve by finding out the mysteries inside the enigmatic Black Hole if we to perish in a nuclear holocaust.
The villain here is the EGO. Wars are the result of super egos. Amassing money to a nauseating level has ego behind it. Even religions are not immune to this.
Science must find a way to curb this EGO as spiritualism seems to have failed.
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How were the great pyramids made ? what machinery was used to lift such enormous blocks of stones and to give them such a perfect shape and finish?
How did the ancient Indians , Greeks and Babylonians know such accurate details about the universe and about the smallest of particles and their inter relationship. How did they measure the diameter of the earth and other planets so accurately .
All religions refer to a deluge ? Science brushes this under the. carpet by calling it 'local floods'. Civilizations are not wiped out in local floods. It is time there is a Nobel prize for prehistoric archeology. A city called old Dwarka is lying buried in the waters of Arabian sea off the coast of Gujarat. Other such sites have been located.
Science must find an answer to this. Mysteries of other universes can wait.
YOUR PALM
Here is a Sanskrit verse :
"Karaagre Vasate Lakshmi Karamadhye Sarasvati | Karamoole Tu Govinda Prabhaate Karadarshanam"
Meaning:
"At the Top of the Hand Dwells goddess Lakshmi and at the Middle of the Hand Dwells Goddess Saraswati, At the Baseof the Hand Dwells Sri Govinda; Therefore one should look at one's Hands first thing in the Morning on getting up".
The ancients in India, Greece and many other civilizations maintained that Gods dwell in your hands The index finger belongs to Jupiter the middle finger to Saturn, the third finger to Appolo or the Sun and the little finger to Mercury.
So if you have a very long Jupiter finger you are a natural leader, if you have a very long middle finger you are a saturnine character, if you have a very long Apollo finger you are a creative artist and if the little finger is too long you are a good public speaker.
There have been many palmist the world over who contributed much to the study of this subject - William G.Benham, Comte de St Germain , Noel Jacquin and the most important of them all - CHEIRO. But the most detailed guide for palmistry is the voluminous book by William G.Benham.
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It was a long time back in 1965 when. I first visited the Birla institute campus in Pilani. Towards the lend of my journey by bus I was passing through what look like typical desert area with stumps of small strange looking trees dotting a. land of desert. Pilani is in a semi arid area north west of Rajasthan , having almost a desert climate .
In sharp contrast to the last part of my journey, Pilani township was a beautifully planned township with well paved roads lined on both sides with evergreen trees of high quality like Neen. Peepal, mango, Ashoka and so many other varieties., with fountains, canals , temples, museum and very open and comfortable residential quarters for the teaching and other staff.
Known as BITS (Birla institute of technology and science) this educational institute had a humble beginning. In 1929, the Birla Education Trust established an intermediate college at Pilani.
In 1943 and 1950 respectively there was an addition of science and pharmacy colleges. The Birla College of Engineering, offering degree programs in electrical and mechanical engineering was, then, started in 1946.
Unique feature of pilani township is that ,with desert like vegetation all around it , it is an Oasis. It has more greenery than most townships in Rajasthan.
The master's program in electronics was introduced in Pilani college in 1955. In 1964, the Birla Colleges of Science, Engineering and Pharmacy were incorporated into Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS).
Birlas, the industrialist and philanthropist family of 20th century India established a number of educational institute, grand temples and other institute for general public all over India.
At their BITS campus Pilani they also constructed a grand Saraswati Temple in marble. Saraswati is the Goddess of knowledge and learning.
A unique feature of this temple is that the outside walls have carvings of famous persons from all over the world in marble.
*NADI VIGYAN (the science of pulse reading)
Nadi Vigyan is the ancient
science of medical diagnosis by an analysis of the pulse.
You place the first three fingers (leaving out little finger) in such a way that the index finger is closest to the base of the thumb. Pulse beats will be felt on the fingertips of these three fingers. The nadi vaidya checks the strength (and weakness) of the beats from the manner in which blood is coursing through on each of these fingers. It is a profound study and it is exceedingly difficult to master.
The very elementary principle of ayurveda is that VAT (the AIR element) is diagnosed from the index finger, PITTA (the HEAT element) is diagnosed from middle finger and SHLESHMA (loosely speaking you can call this cough element) from the ring finger. This is of course a very elementary explanation.
Dr. Brahaspati Dev Triguna of Delhi had taken this science of nadi-diagnosis to an exceptionally high level, difficult for a vaidya in the modern times to ever reach.
Dr.Triguna was by far the best nadi vaidya in the world. He seemed to possess a divine gift (SIDDHI) for pulse reading. He was a devout worshipper of God Shiva and there was a shiva temple adjascent to the hall where he saw his patients. On occasions when I reached his clinic much before the opening time I had found him seated in the shivalaya, deep in meditation.
Here is a link to more about Dr. triguna on his visit to USA :
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-03/news/vw-9301_1_pulse
*NADI VIGYAN (the science of pulse reading)
Nadi Vigyan is the ancient
science of medical diagnosis by an analysis of the pulse.
You place the first three fingers (leaving out little finger) in such a way that the index finger is closest to the base of the thumb. Pulse beats will be felt on the fingertips of these three fingers. The nadi vaidya checks the strength (and weakness) of the beats from the manner in which blood is coursing through on each of these fingers. It is a profound study and it is exceedingly difficult to master.
The very elementary principle of ayurveda is that VAT (the AIR element) is diagnosed from the index finger, PITTA (the HEAT element) is diagnosed from middle finger and SHLESHMA (loosely speaking you can call this cough element) from the ring finger. This is of course a very elementary explanation.
Dr. Brahaspati Dev Triguna of Delhi had taken this science of nadi-diagnosis to an exceptionally high level, difficult for a vaidya in the modern times to ever reach.
Dr.Triguna was by far the best nadi vaidya in the world. He seemed to possess a divine gift (SIDDHI) for pulse reading. He was a devout worshipper of God Shiva and there was a shiva temple adjascent to the hall where he saw his patients. On occasions when I reached his clinic much before the opening time I had found him seated in the shivalaya, deep in meditation.
Here is a link to more about Dr. triguna on his visit to USA :
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-03/news/vw-9301_1_pulse
