Think or sink!

JR said:
Wow! You are an amazing photographer, Raji ji!

Sometime back, inside my house, there was a cricket (or it could even be a grasshopper, I don't know). It was jumping here and there in the kitchen. I was cooking. I was so terrified its going to fall into my food while its still cooking in the stove, so at an opportune moment I killed it. Then I looked up on the internet and everywhere it said one should never, ever kill a cricket when it enters the house 'cause it supposedly brings good luck and killing means bad luck. How on earth will people be peaceful with a jumping cricket within the house? What if it jumps on their head in the middle of the night? I can't see a better solution than killing it...
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A cricket came into my house yesterday.
It was on the window net trying to get out through the net!
I beats me how it entered my house with nets all over the windows and doors. Any way it was there.
I too thought with horror what it tries to enter the ear canal or the nostril when we are in deep sleep!
I could not bring myself to kill the poor creature. I used a colander to cover it from jumping away and slowly guided it out of the window - after peeling off the net. I felt relieved and also not guilty after the incident!
 
JR said:
No, Madam,

We should not be deluded by the goodness shown by the predominantly wicked - if we get swayed by their ways, we fall into their trap.

Similarly, painting an evil picture on those who are good for a few of their bad traits keeps us far away from their hard-earned wisdom, that we miss a good chance for our own betterment which we would have by having them as an example.

This is what my good heart tells me.

The 'bye' is just to say 'hello', not really a 'bye', lol.
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Personally I feel that those who are qualified

to judge people may never ever do it.

Those who judge the others are mostly

those who need to be judged by the others!

For me :yo: is hello and :wave: is bye bye!

lol will look better in between two :: as :lol:
 
சொல்வணக்க மொன்னார்கட் கொள்ளற்க வில்வணக்கந் :nono:


தீங்கு குறித்தமை யான். :suspicious:
 
th


One can smile and smile and yet be a double agent!!!! :spy:
 
True. This is what Shri Narendra Modi in his interview and rallies in the runup to the loksabha election.

This election is not about numbers, it is about chemistry.

When Advani said BJP will lose all allies.

Visalakshi Ramani said:
Mathematics may be measure the world;

English may be essential for communication;

But it is Chemistry that rules the World! :thumb:
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sarang said:
True. This is what Shri Narendra Modi in his interview and rallies in the runup to the loksabha election.

This election is not about numbers, it is about chemistry.

When Advani said BJP will lose all allies.
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Mr. Modi must have thought in this line....

"WHO needs allies when the chemistry works better than them???" :thumb:

It is Chemistry, Chemistry, Chemistry every where! :)

In the kitchen :hungry:
in the bath room :bathbaby:

in the make up room :mullet:

in the forum...!!! :bump2:
 
The scene i like best in the movie Gandhi is the court scene!

When gandhi enters the court, every single person present there -

including the Honorable Judge - would spontaneously stand up! :thumb:

That is known as COMMANDING respect :hail:

as opposed to DEMANDING it ! :whip:
 
Lucky accidents happen all the time!

The sugar set on fire to melt became caramel sugar

before i could say "Jack Robinson or Vikram and VEtAl l!! :(

I guess the milk added to the pan - before the sugar - was the culprit .

I was of two minds to go ahead with the Mysurpaaku or toss the sugar?

I can always toss it - if it really got ruined.
So I went ahead with my original plan!
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To this day it is best Mysurpaaku I have prepared in my entire life. :)

It has pleasant slightly darker hue than the usual pale yellow

sickly looking thing. And it tastes divine.

I can always give it a new name "Caramel Mysurpaaku!" :thumb:
 
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A ladder helps people reach higher
though it can't go higher
despite being a ladder! :tsk:

A boat helps people to cross the rivers
but it can never get out of the river water. :tsk:

A teacher helps the pupils come up in life
and reach great heights and win honors though
the teacher himself/ herself is stuck in the muck
for the rest of his/her life! :tsk:
 
th


Can anyone imagine these watches discussing the watchmaker???

The watchmaker HAS TO BE above and beyond

the comprehension of these watches.

HOW ELSE CAN HE BE THE WATCHMAKER??? :shocked:
 
[h=1]உருவமும், அருவமும்[/h]
எங்கும் நிறைந்த இறைவன் எவனோ அவன்
எந்த உருவமோ அன்றி உடலோ இல்லாதவன்;
எங்கும் நிறைந்த அவனை வெறும் அருவமாக
எண்ணிப் பார்ப்பதும் வெகு கடினமே ஆகும்.

ஐம்பொறிகள் வழியே அனைத்தையும்,
ஐயம் திரிபற அறிந்து கொள்ளும் நாம்,
ஐயம் பொறிகளின் உதவி சற்றும் இன்றி
ஐயனையும் கூட அறிந்துவிட முடியாது.

உருவ வழிபாடு தோன்றியது இந்த
ஒரு காரணத்திற்காகவே அறிவோம்;
அருமை பெருமைகள் அனைத்தையும்
ஒருங்கே பெற்ற ஒரு அழகிய வடிவு!

நினைக்கும்போதே மனம் நிறைந்து
நனைக்கும் கண்ணீர்த் துளிகள் வழிந்து;
இனிக்கும் அந்த உருவத்திடம் மயங்கி
மனத்தை பறி கொடாதார் யாரோ?

உருவ வழிபாட்டை மறுக்கும் மதமும்
உருவங்களின் துணையையே நாடும்;
இறைவனின் தூதனாகவோ, அல்லது
இறைவனின் சிறந்த குழந்தையாகவோ.

வெற்றிடத்தின் மீது மனத்தைப் பதித்து,
வெகு நேரம் தியானம் செய்வது கடினம்;
உள்ளத்தைக் கொள்ளை கொள்ளும் அழகில்
உள்ளத்தைத் தொலைத்துவிடலாம் எளிதாக!

மந்திரம், தந்திரம், யந்திரம் என்கின்ற
மூன்றுமே பலன் அளிக்கும் ஒருபோலவே;
சுந்தர ரூபம் தரும் இன்பத்தை வேறு
எந்த ரூபமுமே தர இயலாது அல்லவா?

வாழ்க வளமுடன்,
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி
 
The Elephant Rhyme


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It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind
The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!”

The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, “Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me ’tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!”

The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a snake!”

The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
“What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain,” quoth he;
“ ‘Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!”

The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: “E’en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!”

The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
“I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant
Is very like a rope!”

And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
The Moral of the Elephant Rhyme:

So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!!

This rhyme is also known by the name The Blind Men and The Elephant. This was written by the American Poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887).

The moral of the rhyme is that people should not proclaim their views on subjects they know very little about or on things which they have never seen!

The six blind men touch the different pats of the elephant and form their impressions about it. Each one is staunch in his belief and proclaims that only he is right!

The first man says that the elephant is like a wall; the second man says that it is as sharp as a spear; the third man says that it is like a snake; the fourth man says that it is like a tree; the fifth man says that it is like a fan and the sixth man says that it is like a rope!

Each of them was partly correct and yet all of them were totally wrong!

It is better and safer to remain silent on topics we know nothing about and listen to people who have something to say and learn from them!
 
How will a man who does not trust the board

which says 'WET PAINT DON"T TOUCH'

and has to touch it and verify the truth

going to believe that there is supreme power

running the Universe with perfect order? :hail:
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
Isn't is a paradox that religion

which teaches the right way of living

is the one which breeds and spreads hatred???
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:nono: dear Sis!

Religions do not breed hatred! They only teach us to love all the living beings! :love: ... :grouphug:

It is the fanatic humans who breed and spread hatred, under the pretext of being religious! :rant:
 

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