Nation

"A distinctive feature of our nation is unity within diversity."

"As soon as man or nation loses faith in himself death comes."

"Nations, like individuals, are made, not only by what they acquire, but by what they resign."

"A nation does not die. Men and women come and go, but the nation goes on."

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

Anger

"I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath,my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.'

"Anger is great vice. So too is pride. Together they can destroy a man's common sense.
Their explosive combination can even destroy his basic sense ofself-preservation."

"Anger destroys the best virtues, so keep calm."

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Car

Dear All

FOR YOUR SAFETY

Please do not turn on A/C immediately as soon as you enter the car. Open windows after you enter car and turn ON the air-conditioning only after a couple of minutes.

As per research, a car's dashboard, sofa, air freshner emits Benzene, a cancer causing toxin (carcinogen - take note of the heated plastic smell in cars.

In addition to causing cancer, it poisons your bones, causes anemia, and reduces white blood cells.

Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer, may also cause miscarriage.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft...A car parked indoors with the windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Ben=zene.

If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level.... & the people inside the car will inevitably inhale an excess amount of toxins.

It is recommended that you open the windows and doors to give time for the interior to air out before you enter.

Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver, and is very difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.

'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.' - Chinese Proverb

Stress

Some simple ways to relieve stress

-Watch a sunset
-Go to the beach
-Be positive
-Sing a song
-Pet a dog
-Tell a joke
-Listen to music
-Blow bubbles
-Take a nap
-Dance a jig
-Take a walk
-Write a letter
-Have a cup of tea
-Ask for help
-Smile
-Take a break
-Do it now
-Stretch
-Keep a journal
-Hum a tune
-Practice patience
-Get up early
-Meditate
-Do Tai Chi
-Play a drum
-Prioritise
-Give a hug
-Throw a ball
-Play with a child
-See a movie
-Plant a flower
-Say "No"
-Set limits
-Eat a snack
-Read a book
-Practice kindness
-Light a candle
-Laugh out loud
-Lie in the sun
-Walk in the rain
-Run in the park
-Talk to a friend
-Avoid negative people
-Take a deep breath
-Take a bubble bath
-Ask for what you need
-Go to bed on time
-Walk a labyrinth
-Give a complimet
-Clean a closet
-Go barefoot
-Give a blessing
-Watch a sunrise
-Say a prayer
-Watch a running train
-Count your blessings
-Guard against hyporates
-Avoid arguements
-Broaden like-minded friends circles
-Don't regret
-Play any instrument
-Collect positive words
-Laugh, but not at another's expense
-Give time on hygiene
Source-The Telegraph quoting Awakenings.

Heart

I got this vital mail message from a friend. I would like to share with my readers.

Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue




STROKE:Remember the 1st Three Letters....S.T.R.

My nurse friend sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree.
If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.Seriously..
Please read:

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics). she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening

Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 pm Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die. they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
S *Ask the individual to SMILE.
T *Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)(i.e. It is sunny out today)
R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your Tongue

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue.. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other,that is also an indication of a stroke.
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.

I have done my part. Have you?

Shiridi Sai Baba

It was May 3 and time was 10.30 pm sharp. I managed to dodge the securitymen, who were driving out all devotees before the start of the evening Arati (prayer) inside the Shiridi Sai Baba Temple, about two-hour drive from Maharastra's Manmad Railway Junction.

I, however, managed to slip into an ante-room and found a couple of VVIPs chatting with ten/fifteen persons, and waiting for the last Aarti of the day. Except me, there was no other common devotee present inside the sanctum sanctorium at that hour.

The VVIP had brought two persons---one still photographer and another videographer, both shot and clicked away the pious image of Sai Baba, flouting the temple rules that warn against such acts.

I hope the temple authorities will take note of it in future. It's not a complaint, but a request to adhere to your own rules.

Sooth your soul

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use."

"Act the way you would like to be and soon you will be the way you act."

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves."

"Life without affection is like a tree without blossoms or fruits."

"Sometimes questions are more important than answers."

"I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday if you do it right today."

"Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway."

"Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality."

"The life given to us by Nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal."

"It takes both rain and sun shine to make a rainbow."

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

Friendship lasts till you keep your grip flexible

Lion

Man should learn what affection is.

Roller

Really a 'Roller' coaster ride for us ?

Juicy quotes

Juice to brains:

"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man....A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading....

"Never read any book that is not a year old or never read any but the famed books or never read any but what you like....The art of reading is to skip judiciously....I love to lose myself in other man's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. Books think for me....

Fool

Here is a quote that will advice a person not to play tricks with others.

"He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."

Media

I appreciate the following lines spoken on the present day media by noted journalist Vinod Sharma at a function organised by a religious channel;

"Honest voice is being suppressed...it is losing in the melee...deficit of trust and crisis of credibility...

Hats off, Sir

Cancer

I got the following human interest piece by mail, would like to share with my readers.

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY
TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to
detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental,food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumour size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumour destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's amino or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more toxic build-up.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Florescence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, hatred and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

Thought

In this world of uncertainty where spare time has become a rare commodity, I destress myself from the following quotes.

Even the hands that make crowns of thorns are better than idle hands: Kahlil Gibran

In my father's garden there are two cages. In one is a lion, which my father's slaves brought from the desert of Ninavah; in the other is a songless sparrow.

Every day at dawn the sparrow calls to the lion, "Good morrow to thee, brother prisoner: Kahlil Gibran.

Granny's humility

This is an email that has been forwarded to me by my friend Mr Nirmalaya Nag, and am using it in my blog because I was thrilled after reading it. I think people will appreciate in pasting it in my blog. Regards

THE TIMES - - Letter of the Year: A SENIOR MOMENT - (I PRAY TO GOD THAT I HAVE THEM LIKE THIS......)

An elderly lady actually wrote this letter to her bank. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in The Times and this newspaper thanks him most sincerely.

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month.

By my calculations, three 'nanoseconds' must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it.

I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my Pension, an arrangement which, I admit, has been in place for only eight years. You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account £30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.

My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and letters, when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, re-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become.

From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person.

My mortgage and loan payments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank by cheque, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate.

Be aware that it is an offence under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope.

Please find attached an Application Contact Status which I require your chosen employee to complete. I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative.

Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Solicitor, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof.

In due course, I will issue your employee with a PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modelled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service. As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Let me level the playing field even further.
When you call me, press buttons as follows:

1-- To make an appointment to see me.
2-- To query a missing payment.
3-- To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.
4-- To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.
5-- To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
6-- To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home.
7-- To leave a message on my computer (a password to access my computer is required. A password will be communicated to you at a later date to the Authorized Contact.)
8-- To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through 89-- To make a general complaint or inquiry, the contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service.

While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.

Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement.

May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous, New Year. Your Humble Client ************ ********* ****** Addendum from The Editor:

IMPORTANT to REMEMBER that this letter was written by a lady who is a 98-year-old woman; DOESN'T SHE MAKE YOU PROUD!!!?

curtsey -- Nirmalya Nag (নির্মাল্য্ নাগ) http://fullymad.blogspot.comhttp://tukrokatha.blogspot.com

Namaskar

I always love to greet with a big namaskar (Indian-sytle to greet others) to all and sundry. But I fail to understand the moment I say namaskar, the person am talking to pitches in a domineering manner, as if am his servant. In most cases they end up in voice as if they are my bosses.

Still I try to ignore their snubs and bossy replies, consouling myself with Gandhian thoughts.

Whoever reads this blog should come up with comments as to how to deal with such persons.

Here I would like to quote E. H. Richards---"A wise old owl sat on an oak, the more he sat the less he spoke; the less he spoke the more he heard; why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Come on brothers let us not belittle one another by arrogant talks.

Dhoni

Good news for Ranchiites

Cricketer M S Dhoni told a news channel that he would be getting married within two years and New Zealand would be his destination for honeymoon.

"The woman cries before the wedding, the man afterwards."

Mute

Several times I was made mute when people ask me who are you and why are you disturbing us---here one remembers the famous lines of Kahlil Gibran---

"Someday I shall become a tree, and the wind will sing in my branches, and the sun will dance on my leaves, and I shall be strong and beautiful through all the seasons."

Heart

Valuable Piece of information

Let's say it's 6.15 pm and you're going home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated.

Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw.

You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this.. It could save their lives!!

A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Rather sending jokes pls contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person's life...