Some interesting facts:

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hide them.

Moral: Do good and forget it.

This is an amazing left/Right brain coordination.
While sitting at your chair, make clockwise circles with your right foot. While doing this, draw no.6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change its direction.
If not , You are probable a genius capable of controlling your brain… Try this

True facts
There is no volcano in India(?)
No theatres in Bhutan
No coconut trees in UP
No rain at day time in Nepal
No rivers in Arabia
No trees in Antartica
No snakes in Hawai Island
No mosquitoes in France

Today's information

Three things in life once gone never come back...
1.Words
2.Opportunity
3.Time


A human body can bear a pain of 45 dels (unit of pain) of pain while alive..
But when a woman gives birth she bears 56 dels of pain
Mothers are great...
We have already given a deadly pain to her at our birth itself..
So let us try not hurt her anymore.
Love your mother....


The Basic difference between God and human is God gives and forgives. Human Gets and forgets.

The Light of Wisdom

What is the meaning of the word 'Bha-ga-waan'? 'Bha' represents the divine effulgence. 'Ga' represents the quality of spreading and pervading. 'Waan' means the capacity and ability to spread and pervade. Hence, 'Bhagawan' means the only being with the capacity and ability to spread this brilliant effulgence. In fact, the Atma inside us is of this nature. However, man is unaware of this. Hence, the prayer "Thamaso Maa Jyotirgamaya" (lead us from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom). This light of wisdom is essential for all humans.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

God, who is embodiment of love, can be attained only through love.

God, who is the embodiment of love, can be attained only through love, just as the effulgent Sun can be seen only through its own light. There is nothing more precious in this world than Divine love. God is Gunaatheetha (beyond all attributes). Hence, His love also is beyond attributes. But, human love governed by Gunas (attributes) results in attachment and aversion. Love should not be based on expectations of reward or return. Love based on such expectations makes it a business deal. Love is not an article of commerce. It is not like a lending a loan and getting it back. It is a spontaneous offering. Pure love of this kind can emanate only from a pure heart.

- BAGAVAN SRI SRI SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Mother and Motherland are greater than Heaven

Love is the form of the Divine. The first impulse that emanated from man was Prema (Divine love). All other things came thereafter. Every child that is born, immediately develops love for the mother. Every child tries to recognize at the outset its mother and father. In the same manner, every individual should recognise the land of his birth and his Samskrithi (cultural heritage). One's nation and one's culture should be revered as one's parents. The nation is one's mother. One's culture is the father. This profound truth was proclaimed by Lord Rama when He declared: "Mother and the Motherland are greater than Heaven itself."

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

HOW TO MAKE SANDWICHES:

Ingredients:
Bread
Butter
Potatoes
Chopped onions
Corriander leaves
Green chilies
1 tbs Garlic and Ginger paste
Oil
½ tsp Sombu(Big jeera)
Salt and sugar
A few drops of lemon

Method:

Pour some oil in a pan and allow to heat. Then put garlic and ginger paste. Smash sombu with green chilies and add to the pan. Stir for sometime.

After it has turned brown, add potatoes which have been cut in small cube shape. Close the cover of the pan and allow to cook. After the potatoes have boiled, add salt and a few drops of lemon and a bit of sugar. Allow to cook for a minute. Now the masala is ready.

Add the chopped onions and chopped corrainder leaves. Keep the pan aside and allow to cool.

Before switching on the toaster, spread butter on all of its sides. Close the cover and switch on the toaster. A red indicator light will appear.

Cut the sides of the bread. Apply butter on both sides. Place the masala in between the slices of bread.

Open the cover of the toaster and place the bread and masala after the red light disappears. Close the cover and leave to cook. The red light will appear again.

After less than 5min, the red light disappears again indicating that your sandwich is ready to eat!!!

TIPS:
If you want to serve for 1 person, use 4 slices of bread,1 big potato, 2 green chilies and 1 onion.

To get crispy sandwiches, sprinkle sugar on the top and bottom of the bread. When cooking the sugar will sizzle and make your sandwich great!

HOW TO MAKE ALOO PARAHTA:

Ingredients:
For 4 parahtas:
1 big potato
Medium size onion (chopped)
Corriander leaf (chopped)
2 green chili (chopped)
½ tsp black pepper powder
½ tsp coriander powder
¼ tsp Garram masala
¼ tsp Jeera powder
Salt for taste
1 Small lemon
A bit of sugar

Method:

Make dough for chapatti. This is the same dough used for Parahta.

Boil potato with salt and smash it. Add all the ingredients. The masala is ready.

Take 2 small balls of dough and roll them into a small thattay size. Place the masala in the middle of the two chapattis and seal them with your fingers.

Then roll on top gently. After rolling to your desired size, cook normally like chapatti with oil of course!

TIPS:
When cooking, maintain a sim flame. Turn the parahta 4 times over.

Sai Baba's Eleven assurances

Who so ever puts his feet on SHIRDI soil, his sufferings would come to an end.

The wretched and misrable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness, as soon as they climb the steps of DWARAKAMAYEE.

I shall be ever active and vigorous even after leaving this earthly body.

My tomb shall bless and look to the needs of my devotees.

I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.

My mortal remains would speak from the tomb.

I am ever living, to help and guide all who came to me, who surrender to me and who seek refuge in me.

If you look to me, I look to you.

If you cast your burden on ME, I shall surely bear it.

If you seek my advice and help, it shall be given to you atonce.

There shall be no want in the house of my devotees.

Thought for the day

Bharatiyas have been celebrating the Navarathri festival from ancient times as a mode of worship of Devi, the Divine as mother. They worship the goddesses Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati during these nine days. The significance of Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati has to be rightly understood. The three goddesses represent the three kinds of potencies in man: Ichchaa Shakti (will power), Kriya Shakti (the power of purposeful action), and Jnana Shakti (the power of discernment). Saraswati is manifest in man as Vaak (the power of speech). Durga is present in the form of energy and dynamism. Lakshmi is manifest in the form of will power. The body indicates purposeful action - Kriya Shakti. The mind is the repository of will power - Ichchaa Shakti. The Atma is the power of discernment - Jnana Shakti.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

TamilNadu slowly turning into Bihar

My relative was traveling from Thiruvannamalai to Madurai by Bus. It was around 6.30 to 7 pm. He was wearing a diamond ring. The bus stopped at some shop near Tiruvannamalai so he stepped down from bus. Someone was standing near him. They made my relative’s finger numb using some injection or spray. Then they used some instrument to remove his diamond ring from his finger. He didn’t feel anything because of the numbness. But his finger was totally damaged. My relatives finger was torn out and his bone was dislocated. After that someone(a good guy) in the bus took him to the hospital. And now he is ok. This is a great shock that it happened in Tamilnadu. Is TamilNadu turning into Bihar?????

Listen to the words of wise

All religions have taught what is good, and everyone should lead a righteous life based on this knowledge. If the minds are pure, how can any religion be bad? All the religions are different paths leading to one and the same destination. All devotees should experience this truth and live up to it in their daily lives. They should lead righteous lives and thereby experience enduring bliss. Only then will their spiritual effort be fruitful. Listen to the words of the wise, purify your thoughts and concentrate your mind on God. God can be installed only in a pure heart. The aim of all Sadhana (spiritual practices) should be to purify the heart.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Turning Points in Indian History

Alexander's invasion in 326 BC
Alexander, the king of Macedonia, invaded India in 326 BC. This brought India in contact with the Greek culture.

The Kalinga War in 261 BC
Ashoka fought a war with Kalinga in 261 BC. This war claimed many lives. It led to a change in Ashoka. He gave u war and began spreading the message of love and peace.

The First Battle of Panipat in 1526 between babur and Ibrahim Lodi
This war brought the Mughals to India. The most important among them was Akbar. He established a powerful empire.

The Battle of Buxar in 1764
This battle made the English the masters of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. They slowly captured the whole country and ruled it for nearly 200 years

The first railway line in 1853
Lord Dalhousie introduced the railways in India in 1853. The first railway line was laid between Bombay and Thane.

The first war of Idependence in 1857
For the first time, the Indian rose in arms under Bahadur Shah Zafar, to fight the British. Some of the famous leaders were Rani Lakshm;ibai and Tantiya Tope.

Arrival of Mahatma Gandhi in 1915
on 9 January 1915, Gandhiji returned to India from South Africa. It was under his leadership that the freedom movement became strong.

Independence of India in 1947
After a long struggle, India became independent in 1947. Jawaharlal Nehr became the first prime Minister.

Mahathma

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.


A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.


A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.


A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.


A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.


A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.


Action expresses priorities.


Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.


All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.


Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.


Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.


An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.


An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.


An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.


An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.


Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.


Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.


As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

----- Mahathma Gandhiji .........

Thought for the day

One's selfish needs have to be sacrificed. There must be constant effort to do good to others. One's desire should be to establish the welfare of the world. With such feelings in one's heart, one must mediate on the Lord. This is the right path.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba..........