The greatest pain....

The greatest pain in life
is not to die,
but to be ignored.
To lose the person you love so much
to another who doesn't care at all.
To have someone you care so about so much
throw a party...
and not tell you about it.
When your favorite person on earth
neglects to invite you to his graduation.
To have people think that you don't care.

The greatest pain in life,
is not to die,
but to be forgotten.
To be left in the dust after another's great
achievement.
To never get a call from a friend,
just saying "hi".
When you show someone your innermost thoughts
and they laugh in your face.
For friends to always be
too busy to console you
when you need someone to lift your spirits.
When it seems like the only person who cares about
you, is you.

Life is full of pain,
but does it ever get better?
Will people ever care about each other,
and make time for those who are in need?
Each of us has a part to play
in this great show we call life.
Each of us has a duty to mankind
to tell our friends we love them.
If you do not care about your friends
you will not be pusinshed.
You will simply be ignored...
forgotten...
as you have done to others.

Ramayna : The epic Retold...

For the past week, our letterbox has been clinging feebly to the building, its walls blown outward, the flap dan¬gling, the interiors visible. It could make a competent entry into an abstract-art ex¬hibition under the title "Yawning Steel Maw Contemplates the Futility of Life”, but it's no longer equipped to do what it was built for. And all because late one night, some ruffian stuck a little bomb into its interior and then watched as the thing exploded noisily. This happens every year around the same time, and since the explosion is always loud enough for us to spring up horizon¬tally from our beds at 3am we have come to see it as our annual introduction to the Happy Diwali routine. Hal¬loween has nothing on our Festival of Frights.
Given that Diwali marks Lord Rama's return to Ayodhya after his victory over Ravana, I often spend my nights dream¬ing about missing letterboxes and postal misadventures that could have played a key role in the epic.
FLASHBACK
The mighty Lankan king Ravana trembles to learn that an army of monkeys, bears and squirrels is marching towards his palace, growling and chirruping with great ferocity. Even worse, Ramanand Sagar is outside with a video-camera.
Ravana: Vibheeshana, what's all this? Didn't Rama get my note?

Vibheeshana: What note was that, bhaiya?

Ravana: The one where I told him Sita was being ill-tempered and could he please send someone to collect her at the earliest.

Vibheeshana: Bhaiya, my spies tell me that some of the monkeys were playing around with firecrackers. They blew up Rama's letterbox with
the note still inside.

Ravana: What! Why wasn't I told about this earlier?

Vibheeshana: I sent u a telegram as soon as I heard.Didn’t you get it?

(In the back¬ ground, unseen by Ravana and his
brother, two courtiers exchange glances and giggle.)






Letterboxes aren’t the only things at risk in our colony. Last year, I found an unmonitored child carefully placing an "anaar" just be¬neath my car. "Par uncle," this bud¬ding terrorist explained, uiss se aapki carhelicopter ke jaise ban jayegi." I clipped him on the ear and sent him off, but it was difficult to get much sleep for the rest of the night. Troubled dreams came again.
FLASHBACK 2

In the final battle, as Rama draws closer Ravana tries to make a getaway in his fly¬ing chariot. Valmiki's draft of the epic originally included the following ex¬change between Ravana and his chari¬oteer:
Ravana (in des¬peration): Why isn't this chariot taking off, saarthi?

Charioteer: Maharaj, the en¬gineer forgot to bring an anaar to light under it.

Ravana (as the first of Rama's arrows finds its mark): Aarggh!

Monkeys: Yay! Now we get to go back home and invent a new festival. Back to the bridge, quick, before someone decides to use it as an alternate trading route. And don't forget the firecrackers — Ayodhya is full of nice letterboxes.

The Confidence.....

A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and ask him for a Phone Call.Shop-owner replied Sweety this is no a STD, but you can do one call.
The store-owner observed and listened to the conversation:
The boy asked, "Lady, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn?

The woman replied, "I already have someone to cut my lawn."

"Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now." replied boy.

The woman responded that she was very satisfied with the person who was presently cutting her lawn.

The little boy found more perseverance and offered, "Lady, I'll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of North-Palm beach, Florida."

Again the woman answered in the negative.

With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver.

The store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy and said," Son... I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job."

The little boy replied, "No thanks, I was just checking my performance with the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady, I was talking to!"
Thanks

The most Beautiful Heart ....

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said, "Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine."

The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was beating strongly, but full of scars, it had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing. The people stared -- how can he say his heart is more beautiful, they thought?

The young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."

"Yes," said the old man, "Yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love - I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared.

"Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges -- giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?"

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with trembling hands.

The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.

The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart flowed into his. They embraced and walked away side by side.

Lock the Past & throw away the KEY....

Just think about this for a moment: How many times have you done something in your past that you were not too happy about? It could be anything. Let's say that you are an addicted person. You may be addicted to drugs, or alcohol or the wrong type of man. Perhaps you are addicted to stressful jobs that bring you little pay. It doesn't matter what the circumstances may be. Hey, it doesn't even have to be that harsh. Perhaps you have tried to start your own business or create something in your life where you could make a living doing something you are passionate about and it failed, so you gave up. It doesn't really matter. But every time you turn around, you are falling victim to the same thing over and over again. Hey, it happens. We all fall down. But the good thing about it is we get up. Just because you fell down doesn't mean you have to stay down. Get up! Why are you still sitting there? We all maie mistakes. But the great part about it is that God allows us an opportunity to learn from our mistakes and move forward. Just because you fall down today, doesn't mean that tomorrow you must remain down.
Ever slipped out in public and actually fell down? Jumped up real quick, didn't you? The next thing you did was looked around and prayed that nobody saw you. Just as quickly as you bounced up from a real fall,
you can bounce back from a figurative fall. One thing that I have noticed from speaking with a lot of people is that they understand that we fall down but never understood that we get up too.
No matter what the circumstances are in your life that might
have tripped you up, no matter what you have been through, no matter what happened in your past, you can always get up and make changes, right now, that will forever banish or make obsolete, the bad things that caused you to fall in the past. Don't get me wrong...I hear some very legitimate sounding excuses as to why people feel that their life will forever be the way that it presently may be. I hear things like "I was molested when I was young." "My mother abandoned me when I was two years old and left me because she was out chasing the pipe." "I have an addiction. How can I possibly get a job that pays more than minimum wage." "I don't have an education. How can I ever expect to get a good job?"
Stop living in the past! We all fall down. But remember, "A Saint is just a sinner who fell down and got up." Your past should be a reference point, not a residence. But so many of us continuously live in the past. We went out and bought a welcome mat and
promptly placed it at the door of our past. We can't break away from it. We wear it as some sort of badge of honour because we simply won't let it go.
Just because you made a mistake or circumstances led you to do something that you now regret, doesn't mean that for the rest of your life you will have to beat yourself up because of it. Doesn't matter if you made two mistakes or three. Heck, it doesn't even matter if you made over a million mistakes in your life. What matters is today, right now.
You know the mistakes that you've made because you have that mistake as a reference point now and for the rest of your life. You weren't born for sorrow. You weren't born to be a doormat for others to wipe their feet on. You weren't born to be used up and then disregarded. You were born to glorify God and live a happy and abundant life. And if you aren't living that way, it's simply because at some point, you fell down. But now is the time to get up and start living the life that you were born to live. And that is a life of purpose. That's a life of happiness and abundance.
Now, you ask, "How do I get out of the past and get up?" Well, I would
like to say, "it's simple." But that wouldn't be the truth. There's nothing simple about it. It's a daily process that you must work on. You have to be committed to making changes in your life. You have to believe that God has a purpose for you. You will have to work on you. You will have to realise that what happened yesterday, is gone. You can never get that time back and, therefore, there is nothing you can do about it. But right in front of you is another minute or another hour or another day, week, month, year. Those things haven't happened yet, so you can start to orchestrate your present so that your future will be more to your liking.
Start by telling yourself, "My past has no bearing on who I am now. And, therefore, is not important. I am here to glorify God. I am God's child and, therefore, worthy of greatness." If you take this simple phrase and say it to yourself all day long, you will soon start to notice changes in your life. All of a sudden, without even thinking about it, you will start to pack your old baggage from the past and move them to a closet that you will lock and throw away the key.

Chanakya Neeti :: Some quotes of CHANAKYA

1 "A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are cut down first."

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2 "Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

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3 "The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody! It will destroy you."

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4 "There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

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5 "Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."

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6 "As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."

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7 "The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."

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8 "Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."

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9 "The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."

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10 "A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

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11 "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."

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12 "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."

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13 "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."

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14 "Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."

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The Nine Unknown Men Theory ▓ A Truth or A Myth ▓

There is a secret society that is said to be the most secretive society in history. They are also the most powerful and most influencial on humanity. A society founded by the Indian Emporer Asoka after his conversion to Buddhism. It is called the “Nine Unknown Men”.

“Nine Unknown Men” was founded to protect and develop knowledge and technology that would be dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands, and have been doing so ever since 270 BCE. The Nine were also charged by Asoka with manipulating the culture of India to present an image of a backwards and mystically-oriented people to the outside world in order to conceal the advanced scientific knowledge that was being accumulated within. Another motivation for Asoka to create this society was because of the alleged distruction of the Rama Empire (which is similar to Atlantis) by advanced weaponry thousands of years ago.

The Nine Unknown Men still exist today, sporadically but anonymously assisting humanity, such as providing the cure for Cholera. It is said to be a secret society that works quietly for the good of humanity.
It gets better. They each have a book to keep. Each book is an accumulation of potentially hazordous information in nine specific fields. The 9 subjects of these books are as followed.

Propganda and Psychological Warfare
Physiology
Microbiology (including advanced biotechnology)
Alchemy
Communication (especially with extra-terrestrial life)
Gravitation (including the construction of the Vimana, an interstellar saucer type vehicle)
Cosmology
Light
Society (including rules concerning evolution of societies and how to predict downfalls)
The Nine Unknown Men are also heavy in the Buddhism and other worldly religions. This explains the I-ching prominance, the use of 108 (as it is a sacred number in Buddhism) and also the DHARMA ideals. This explains the Heiroglyphics. This explains all the culture clash on the island.

According to theory in the Buddhist religion, there is a secret lost land where the Nine Unknown Men conduct their research for the benefit of mankind as well as keeping it hidden from them. There is also a prophecy determined by one of the Dharmic wheels (the wheel of time) that refers to an armageddon-like cosmolical spiritual challenge. It’s a rapture-esqe event that is said to bring about the end of the world, except for the realm of Shambala is supposed to emurge and save the world from it. Shambala is the land in Buddhism that is said to be the place where people of higher life are gaining knowledge and power for this event. Recent belief speculate that this may be a lost land anywhere in the world, instead of just on top of the Himalayan mountains. The Island is the protectorate of this information, and also the prophecized land referred to in Buddhist belief. That’s why there is a security system to it, because the survivors arent supposed to be allowed to venture towards the secrets being held there.
The VIMANA

The Vimana is an ancient flying craft said to have been used in ancient India/Egypt. It is also said to be one of the secrets contained in book 6 (gravitation) held by the Nine Unknown Men. An ancient manuscript describes how to build the Vimana is said to is said to build a device that gives…

“The secret of constructing aeroplanes,
which will not break, which cannot be
cut, will not catch fire, and cannot be
destroyed.
The secret of making planes motionless.
The secret of making planes invisible.
The secret of hearing conversations and
other sounds in enemy planes.
The secret of receiving photographs of
the interior of enemy planes.
The secret of ascertaining the direction
of enemy planes approach.
The secret of making persons in enemy
planes lose consciousness.
The secret of destroying enemy planes.

Sound like a Vimana has the ability to protect the island, but it also has the means to bring planes and other mediums down. I bet what we saw in the preview for "Lockdown" where Locke hears talking in the speaker is the Vimana detecting communication in a craft coming close to the island, and the "hatch" starts acting up because it is going to do whatever is necessary to protect the island from this nearby threat.

It is said to run off of the propulsion of electromagnetism. Here are some engineering diagrams… these diagrams are provided courtesy of http://greatdome.net/nikkinet/vat
I apologize for any violations this created as I was unaware that these diagrams were copyrighted.


Look familiar? The hatch is a Vimana…It has all the elements of being so, including the airtight seal to it. The Vimana is supposed to be able to travel through air, space, and underwater. After all, it does have a “hatch”, which any vessel meant to travel through a different medium than land has. Hanso let DHARMA use it as a lab until someone contacted the outside world revealing some of the secrets held NUM, causing whatever to happen that dismantled DHARMA entirely. The geodesic dome that the computer is in would be the “bridge” of the Vimana, like it is said to have in ancient writings.
And if you think its idiotic, think about Alias, J.J. Abram’s other brain child. What did it involve plot wise that was completely out of the ordinary.
-A prophecy of the end of the world
-The prophecy coming from a dead man who predicted events perfectly 500 years in advance
-secret organizations and societies hiding it
-huge historical congruencies.

This sounds like an idea that J.J. Abrams would definitely come up with.....So is it true that such ppl still exist or they r juss historical numbers...lets wait and watch only time will tell us ..what to believe and what not to believe......

CHASE YOUR DREAMS…I meant go for them at any cost !

I recently read a small piece by Sri.Tejomaya Tarun and was really impressed by it….So I thought to share it ! This was in the context of long-term success and short-term success. Citing an incident from the Ramayana he refers to the ignoble act of Ravana kidnapping Sita and how valiantly Jatayu tried to stave him off .As we all know Ravana chopped off Jatayu’s wings and took Sita away.
The point here is that Ravana succeeded in his efforts at kidnapping Sita. And Jatayu failed in his efforts at trying to save Sita. So Jatayu was a failure and Ravana was successful. What does this show?
That failing in our attempts to do something good is far better than succeeding in doing an ignoble act. In the end it was Jatayu who became a role model and not Ravana.

The point here is that in any action there is an immediate objective and ultimate objective. Ravana’s immediate objective was to kidnap Sita and he succeeded in it. His ultimate objective was to marry Sita but he did not succeed in that. In the case of Jatayu his immediate objective was to save Sita in which he failed, but prevailed in his ultimate objective of saving Sita’s chastity.

Guess we need to look at success and victory in a deeper perspective and not superficially. More often than not small, temporary setbacks block our vision preventing us from looking further. As someone said a situation is never good or bad – it is how one reacts to it that makes it good or bad!

‘ EVERY WORTHWHILE ACCOMPLISHMENT, BIG OR LITTLE, HAS ITS STAGES OF DRUDGERY AND TRIUMPH; A BEGINNING, A STRUGGLE AND A VICTORY’ - ANONYMOUS

Many of us refuse to begin. Those that do leave half way through not willing to go through the struggle. How then can you savor victory? Go behind your dreams like one possessed and victory shall possess you!

Remember…' Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades…!'

Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead.

I have read this before and have come across this after a long time,juss moments ago . Its so practical. Lets live a quality life and take it as it comes by...

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you conscious ly went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.
Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

Don't let the cups drive you... Enjoy the coffee instead.

A B C D of Optimism..

To achieve your dreams, Remember A to Z

A Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits

B Believe in yourself

C Consider things from every angle

D Don’t give up and Don’t give in

E Enjoy life today; Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come

F Family and fiends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches

G Give more than you planned to

H Hang on to your dreams

I Ignore those who try to discourage you

J Just do it

K Keep trying no matter how hard it seems – it will get easier

L Love yourself first and most

M Make it happen

N Never lie, cheat or steal; always strike a fair deal

O Open your eyes and see things as they really are

P Practice makes perfect

Q Quitters never win and winners never quit

R Read, study and learn about everything important in your life

S Stop procrastinating

T Take control of your own destiny

U Understand yourself to better understand others

V Visualize it

W Want it more than anything

X Xcellerate your efforts

Y You are unique of all God’s creations, nothing can replace you

Z Zero in on your target and go for it

Death's Call...

When I was born,
I had a heart, mind and soul.
Now, filled with all that is foul
Now I lay bound and broken, my insides torn
I really can't deal with this pain anymore.

Pain. Pain of what?
Mistakes? Regrets? Unhappiness? Insecurities?
some of it might be the past.
the past, that still holds witnesses.
my scarred body,
me, alone and unloved.
me alone, selfish and unjustified.

My mind is preoccupied,
Telling me to ambitious,
Achieve whatever I can in this lifetime,
To reduce the pain, as I never gain
Even the trigger of a spark, of happiness and hope.
It all died, a long time ago, with my soul.

I wish to be happy,
The curse of being human.
Don’t want the materialistic things that are all crappy.
But just, no more burdens.
Ii want to live light and free.
And live by the sea
Although, you are watched by the waters
It’s dark malevolent eye.
Be invisible and watch the world go by.
Maybe.... all I want to do is die.

You came, thought you'll take my pain away
Guess, i was just selfish,
And, I didn’t even love you.
I had one heart, that I sacrificed to 'nobody'.
Being the warrior, I hurt you, you bled
Gave you a lot of pain, yet with me you stayed.
All I want to do is kiss life goodbye
After all, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

My Lyf....Dissected

Like a canvas is my life
Sometimes it can be sharp
And can stabb me like a knife
This is my life you see
On one side it has the colours
Dull & bright
It also has darkness & light
It is sometimes interesting and boring
It also needs some colouring
And at times it can be wonderful
And can have spring
But, every good side has a bad side also
One cannot always takes things easy and relax
You also have to pay the tax
So you can achieve your goal
You should get the will power from your soul
And give it the best you can
Don't go as a fast as the rail
Even if you fail
Have faith in God.

Stranger..

Stranger. That's who you are to me.
Dry, ignored, unimportant is how you make me feel.
No signs of recognition, its just the cold blank expression.
You, the one I use to adore,
Now don't even call back anymore,
Its better if you don't, its just old silent blank conversation.
The touch of love, the warmth of passion, leaves me frozen.
In my bed, right here, all alone, and memories, now, less than a dozen.
You don't have to call back. I know your comfortable and taken care off.
You'll be back someday, when the world shuts its doors on you,
And I'll be there, to preach words of wisdom, perhaps even massage your ego.
For now, stay where you are and let me be. Don't tell me you love me,
It long belonged to someone else who still carries it in her pride.
Let me be, let me go. find myself, and disappear from your life.
Maybe when I'm gone, you'll finally realise who I've been and who I am.
Now a stranger, long abandoned and forgotten. I'd remain unknown.

I Am....

Today I am a free bird; the sky is all mine
there is no one who can stop me
I have left my fears behind…..

I can talk to the flowing breeze,
and spread my wings wide
There is no stopping me today
This freedom makes me shine….

My spirit is shining now; I can feel the glow within
‘You’ don’t exist for me anymore
There is no such thing as ‘grim’…

Today I am a free bird; the freedom is all mine…

Only felicity resides in my life now
I enjoy every bit of pain
Life has attained a new meaning
though every other thing remains the same

Yes, today I am a free bird;
the pain is all mine
there is no one who can stop me
I have left my fears far behind…..