Bhagavad gita & Newton's law

Newton's Law of Energy: Energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but can change form

Bhagavad Gita :  What did you produce, which you think got destroyed? Nothing can be produced out nor destroyed but only change its form. 

Doesn't both look similar?????

Our good old Kakka (Crow) story & Archimedes principle

I guess everyone of us would have heared of the good old Thirsty Crow story..
Archimedes principle too talks of the same..
When the stone is put inside the pot by crow it displaces equal amount of water...
Nice that v were taught science even before v join school :):D

Trash to Toys

I came across a interesting link which i found out to be very useful for school goers whether it is the students or teachers..
Check out and post if u find it interesting...

http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/toys.html

Naduvula konjam pakkatha kanoom

Conversation between me & my daughter on a evening..
Janu: Ma, appa enga? (Where is father?)
Me: Appa office poi irukanga (He went to office)
Janu: Eppo varuvanga? (When he ll be back?)
Me: by 9 in the night
...
After 10mins
Janu: Ma, appa enga? (Where is father?)
Me: Appa office poi irukanga (He went to office)
Janu: Eppo varuvanga? (When he ll be back?)
Me: by 9 in the night


This continues until my husband returns back from office... :)

What is love?

What is love? This is a difficult question. Here are my favourite love quotations i found on Internet.

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles

"Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John Tarrant

"We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum

"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker

"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud

"Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain

"Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

"A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." - unknown

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm

"In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram, Iowa Quad Cities Times

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."
- Dorothy Parker

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."

Sri Ramakrishna Quotes

Sri Ramakrishna - How long does one hear noise and uproar in a house where a big feast is being given? So long as the guests are not seated for the meal. As soon as food is served and people begin to eat, three quarters of the noise disappears. (All laugh.) When the dessert is served there is still less noise. But when the guests eat the last course, buttermilk, then one hears nothing but the sound 'soop, sup'. When the meal is over, the guests retire to sleep and all is quiet.

"The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds — all reasoning and disputing — come to an end. Then you go into samadhi — sleep —, into communion with God in silence."

Small Things

I’m not a Michael Jackson fan, I have to confess. Haven’t been for years. He simply became too eccentric for me. But, in the days since his passing, I’ve listened to the radio stations play music from him that I haven’t heard in years. I’ve heard “Beat It”, “Thriller”, “Billie Jean”. And my favorite, “The Man in the Mirror”.

That’s probably the first time I’ve heard it in my life. When I heard it as an adult, I thought of how true this song is. How many times do we see a homeless person and just walk on by, caught up in our own lives and our own problems?”

I’ll be the first to confess that I am guilty of this. I’ll see a homeless person, think, “What a shame” and go on about my merry way, thinking of groceries that need to be bought, bills that need to be paid. And it doesn’t strike me as ironic that these ”problems” that I’m so caught up in and stressed about are problems that this person I just passed would love to have?

Not only do I not stop enough to count my blessings, I haven’t done anything in years to make a positive change in the area around me. Yes, I teach, and that probably makes a small impact, but when was the last time I volunteered in a food kitchen, gave to a homeless shelter, or other worthwhile cause? Or really did something to make someone else feel better?

I think we get caught up in our own lives and think things should be changed, but we always expect someone else to do it. We think that’s someone else’s job. But really, Michael’s right. It starts with the Man (or Woman) in the Mirror.

It starts with us.

Mother Theresa said, “We cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”

So, I’m committing myself to do one small thing a week this month. What small things? I’m not sure yet. I may buy a few extra groceries and throw them in the Food Bank donation box on my way out. I may check off that “Share the Light” box on my utility bill and help out someone who can’t afford their light bill this month. Or I was watching the morning news last week and the council for the elderly needed box fans to help keep our elderly cool. Or I may just do all three.

All small things.

And I’m challenging you to do the same. Do one, two, three, four, or however many small things. Forward this blog, challenge a friend. And tell us your stories. What small thing did you do?

Peace!

I’m out!