(a) Stand up, be Bold, be strong.

(b) Any expansion is life, all contraction is death.

(c) This is the gist of worship – to be pure and to do good to others.

(d) Strength alone Is the medicine for the world’s disease.

(e) We are what our thoughts have made us.

(f) In this world always take the position of giver.

(h) Faith, faith faith in yourselves! Faith faith in God! This is the secret of greatness.

(i) He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

(j) Work on as if on each of you depended the whole work.

(k) The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of Strength.

(l) Do not be afraid of a small beginning, great things come afterwards.

(m) When there is conflict between the heart and the brain, let the heart be followed.

By this time, I think the the readers came to know the person about whom I am talking about…

Yes, your guess is correct. He is none other than Swami Vivekananda.

Lets remember Him on his birthday being celebrated as 'National Youth Day'.

Narendranath Dutta, later became Swami Vivekananda is a great scholar who made India shine in the World by his famous opening words in his speech “Sisters and Brothers of America…..” at the World Parliament of Religions.

Lets read that famous speech :-

Sisters and Brothers of America,

It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions, and I thank you in the name of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.

My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation. I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated from my earliest boyhood, which is every day repeated by millions of human beings: "As the different streams having their sources in different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee."

The present convention, which is one of the most august assemblies ever held, is in itself a vindication, a declaration to the world of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: "Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me." Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.

Always remember His words and follow them to make India shine brighter with NO CORRUPTION.

Jai Hind.

2012 - 'National Mathematical Year'

                  Indian Prime Minister Dr.Manamohan Singh declared 2012 was declared 'National Mathematical Year' as a tribute to Mathematical Genius Sri Srinivasa Ramanujan.

                  Sri Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian Mathematician who made made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions.

           

                  Sri Ramanujan was born in Erode in a poor Brahmin family. He first encountered mathematics at the age of 10. By age of 12, he mastered advanced trigonometry. By age of 17, he discovered his own theorems in mathematics. At age of 27, he went to Cambridge and spent 5 years on research. In 1916, he was awarded PhD. He was the first Indian to be elected Fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge. During his short lifetime, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3900 results.

Best of many Examples of Sri Ramanujan's Talent:-

                  '1729'  Once, Hardy came to visit Ramanaujan in a cab numbered 1729. Hardy commented that the number seemed to be uninteresting. Then, Ramanujan stated on the spot that it was the smallest natural number which is representable in two different ways as a sum of two cubes i.e. 

The Three old men

                   A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She didn't recognize them. She said, "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."
                   "We will not go into the house together", they replied. The woman asked "Why is that?"
One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," pointing to one of his friends, and pointing to another, "He is Success and I am Love". Then he added, "Now go and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home"
                   The woman went in and told her husband about the three old men. Her husband was overjoyed and said "Then lets welcome Wealth and ask him to fill our home with full of wealth." His wife disagreed and said "My dear, Why don't we invite Success?"
                   Their Daughter-in-law was listening and she suggested, "Lets invite Love and ask him to fill our home with love."
                   Then in-laws agreed and invited Love into their house.
                   The woman went out and invited Love into their house. As soon as Love entered the house, The other two also got up and entered the house. The lady asked,"I invited only Love but why did all three of you came in?"
                   The three old men replied,"Where there is Love, we follow."

Hence, Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success.

Through the Looking glass

             A newly married bride came to Mumbai to live with her husband in a two-room flat on the top of a high-rise building. Adjoining buildings were equally tall and windows had always to be kept closed.
             From her window, the young bride could see her neighbor in the next building washing her clothes each morning and hanging them on the clothesline for drying.The girl always found these washed clothes looking dirty, and commented to her husband on the lack of effort by the neighbor.
             Each morning, the bride would look out as soon as she got out of bed, and would variably comment upon the 'dirty' washing. Her husband got fed up with this indulgence of her wife in the neighbor's affairs. This went on for some days.
             One morning, the bride got up and looked out as usual. She was pleasantly surprised to see that the clothes on the line are spotlessly clean. She remarked this to her husband, and added, "Perhaps my criticism reached her ears, and she used a better washing powder."
             Calmly, her husband replied, " I was so fed up with your habit of criticizing the neighbor that today, while you were asleep, I got up early, and cleaned the glass of our window."

Happy New Year 2011

The great Mother

Hi,

Since morning, I am thinking of what to write on today's blog.
Mother teresa appeared in my mind. I don't know why.
So,I am writing about the great mother.

                    Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on 26th August 1910. Though she was born on 26th August, she considers 27th August as her 'true birthday' because she was baptized on 27th. Her mother and father are Nikolle and Drana bojaxhiu.By the age of 12, she decided to commit herself to religious life and left home at age of 16 to join Sisters of loreto as missionary.
                    Agnes arrived in India in 1929. She took her first religious vows to become a nun on 24th May,1931. At that time, she chose the name of teresa.
                    The Bengal famine of 1943 and Hindu-Muslim violence in 1946 plunged the city into despair and horror. On 10th September,1946; she experienced 'the call within the call'. She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948. She started wearing a simple cotton sari decorated with a blue border. Teres adopted Indian citizenship and began her work to poor and slums.
                    Teresa received permission from vatican to start her new congregation by name 'Missionaries of Charity' at calcutta.Its mission was to care for, in her own words, "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."
                    In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the first Home for the Dying in space made available by the city of Calcutta. With the help of Indian officials she converted an abandoned Hindu temple into the Kalighat home for the dying, a free hospice for the poor. She renamed it Kalighat, the Home of the Pure Heart (Nirmal Hriday).
Mother Teresa soon opened a home for those suffering from leprosy, and called the hospice Shanti Nagar (City of Peace).
                    In 1955 she opened the Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, the Children's Home of the Immaculate Heart, as a haven for orphans and homeless youth.
                    Its first house outside India opened in Venezuela in 1965 with five sisters.Others followed in Rome, Tanzania, and Austria in 1968; during the 1970s the order opened houses and foundations in dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the United States.
                   The Missionaries of Charity Brothers was founded in 1963, and a contemplative branch of the Sisters followed in 1976. Lay Catholics and non-Catholics were enrolled in the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa, the Sick and Suffering Co-Workers, and the Lay Missionaries of Charity.
                    In answer to the requests of many priests, in 1981 Mother Teresa also began the Corpus Christi Movement for Priests,and in 1984 founded with Fr. Joseph Langford the Missionaries of Charity Fathers to combine the vocational aims of the Missionaries of Charity with the resources of the ministerial priesthood.
                    Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting pope john paul II.. After a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, after a battle with pneumonia while in Mexico, she suffered further heart problems.In April 1996, Mother Teresa fell and broke her collar bone. In August she suffered from malaria and failure of the left heart ventricle. She had heart surgery but it was clear that her health was declining.On 13 March 1997, she stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity. She died on 5 September 1997.Mother Teresa lay in repose at St.Thomas, Kolkata for one week prior to her funeral, in September 1997. She was granted a state funeral by the Indian Government in gratitude for her services to the poor of all religions in India.


Recognitions and Awards:-

1. Padma shri in 1962 
2. The Jawaharlal Nehru award for International understanding in 1969. 
3. India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna in 1980.
4. In 1962, Mother Teresa received the Philippines-based Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding, given for work in South or East Asia.
5. In 1971, Paul VI awarded her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, commending her for her work with the poor, display of Christian charity and efforts for peace.
6. The United Kingdom and the United States each repeatedly granted awards, culminating in the Order of Merit in 1983, 
7. Honorary citizenship of the United States received on 16 November 1996. 
8. Mother Teresa's Albanian homeland granted her the Golden Honour of the Nation in 1994.
9. Universities in both the West and in India granted her honorary degrees.
10. n 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace prize, "for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace." She refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $192,000 funds be given to the poor in India.

The beatification of Mother Teresa took place on 19 October 2003, thereby bestowing on her the title "Blessed."
So, Agnes has become Blessed Mother Teresa.
 
 Many many salutations to the Mother.

Merry Christmas.