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| Formal Worship | |
| (These extracts are from a lecture delivered by Vivekananda in San Francisco on, April 10, 1900. I dedicate this post to my dear friends Lissome Lady, Jolly Jacob and Prachi Dublay who will find some of their thoughts being echoed here)All of you who are students of the Bible . . . .understand that the whole [of] Jewish history and Jewish" though...
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| 14:59 | 16/Apr/2008 |
| The Necessity Of Religion | |
| (Extract from a lecture delivered in London by Vivekananda)Of all the forces that have worked and are still working to mould the destinies of the human race, none, certainly, is more potent than that, the manifestation of which we call religion. All social organisations have as a background, somewhere, the workings of that peculiar force, and the g...
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| 10:15 | 14/Apr/2008 |
| Khuda Ke Liye Nahi Insaan Ke Liye | |
| (This blog is inspired by our dear friend Ekantapadhika’s thoughtful blog titled “Khuda Ke Liye” which raises some pertinent questions and partly by the various discussions I read on dear Lissome’s GB from time to time. )Problems arise when we use religion to govern society or we use social outlook to interpret religion. Either way it is a recipe ...
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| 23:18 | 10/Apr/2008 |
| My Impressions About Kundalini | |
| Body and senses give us a mode of conveying our love in the physical world. But eventually one has to rise above them. To all who have felt that melting feeling inside will know that it has nothing to do with physical desires of the body. That strange feeling when you get a feeling of complete surrender as some thing inside gives way inside the he...
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| 10:43 | 23/Mar/2008 |
| The dance of love | |
| If this doesn’t move you, if this doesn’t moisten your eyes, nothing ever will. What a beautiful ex-pression of love! A masterpiece ...
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| 13:27 | 19/Mar/2008 |
| Vivekananda provoked... | |
| (This letter makes a beautiful study of the man that was 'V'. So very human yet so fine...Man, was he angry!.:)))..)54 W. 33RD STREET, N.Y.,1st February, 1895.Dear Sister (Miss Mary Hale),I just received your beautiful note.... Well, sometimes it is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to e...
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| 22:51 | 20/Feb/2008 |
| Intellectual Laziness and The Way of Tao | |
| Some of my friends, whom I dearly love, call my tendency to quote Vivekananda as Intellectual-Laziness. Not as a criticism of my abilities but, perhaps, to goad me to write my own blogs. I, respectfully, accept their suggestion but differ with them on the interpretation. The fact is one has to realise that not all of us talk at the same intellectu...
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| 19:51 | 13/Feb/2008 |
| Thoughts on Gita by Vivekananda..Part 1 | |
| (During his sojourn in Calcutta in 1897, Swami Vivekananda…. talked eloquently in Bengali on the Gita. The following is the … summary of the discourse as it was entered in the Math diary) The book known as the Gita forms a part of the Mahâbhârata. To understand the Gita properly, several things are very important to know. First, whether it formed a...
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| 23:32 | 31/Jan/2008 |
| Mohammed | |
| (Delivered on March 25, 1900, by Swami Vivekananda in the San Francisco Bay Area. This article was recorded by Ida Ansell in shorthand. As, however, Swamiji"s speed was too great for her, dots are put in the articles to indicate the omissions, while the words within square brackets are added by way of linking up the disconnected parts.)The ancient ...
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| 01:05 | 26/Jan/2008 |
| Woman | |
| (I am not a woman; so any attempt to define her is always going to be a clumsy attempt. Rather, I attempt this blog to simply express my impressions about this most wonderful creation of God. Woman remains an enigma for all men. Woman and God can never be fathomed easily by men. The moment you attempt to describe either, you begin to fail. )History...
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| Vish Iyer | 00:20 | 13/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (175)
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| What Really Matters ? |
| Surely much of what makes life worth living comes down to our feelings of well being – our happiness and sense of fulfillment. Good quality relationships are the strongest source of such feelings. Good relationships nourish us and support our health. While toxic relationships can poison us. And our success and happiness on the job, in our marriage ...
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| Divyani | 18:27 | 13/Mar/2008 |
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| Feminism |
| About my hip, unconventional friend:My friend S.C wrote in another of my friend’s blog:why woman’s day , why not humans day so that we learn to be more humane towards everybody . the talks of woman liberation , empowerment etc etc etc has been stretched a bit too far now . if woman are getting burnt , killed so also are the men , maybe in diffe...
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| Subodh Deshp... | 16:28 | 21/Mar/2008 |
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| Best wishes of holi Purnima ..(Purnima means the day on which you see a full moon in the sky) and holika dahan..!Today is the last festival of the year on which we burn all our bad things in us..this is why holi and holika dahan is important festival...Those who wanted to know much about todays festival may browse following link...http://www.thecol...
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| vira | 12:56 | 17/Apr/2008 |
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| MARBLE TRADER During the waning years of the Depression in a small southeastern Idaho community, I used to stop by Mr. Miller's roadside stand for farm-fresh produce as the season made it available. Food and money were still extremely scarce and bartering was used, extensively. One particular day, Mr. Miller was bagging some early potatoes for me. ...
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| AdityaDas Menon | 17:54 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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| Prefce to HOL-20 |
| Again somewhere down the line of memory, I smell the " sougandhika" , flowing through the silky skies and finally rousing my own romantic soul.........I could well hear the feeble yet scintillating vibes reverbarating from with in .....Am I poised to scribble another episode of HOL? Hol-20? a blog, tries to blend the romantic passion mixed with un...
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| Krishna Prasad | 20:08 | 13/Apr/2008 |
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| THOUGHTS ON A VISHU* DAY |
| THOUGHTS ON A VISHU* DAY I don"t know why my mind is wanderingGoing deep until I reachYears behind there I saw meAs a small kid We wait for Vishu alwaysSince we could play with CrackersMy father tell us to buy crackersFrom a shop known to him He knows my father very wellSo he will not sell anything harmfulI will ask him to give big onesShop guy nev...
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| ice candy | 00:24 | 9/Apr/2008 |
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| Splitting of self |
| This idea has been on and off in my thoughts for quite some time. While watching the nth movie on multiple personality disorder (MPD), I got thinking that if this is for real, then how does anyone decide which is the real self? Leaving aside the one murdering psychopath and other docile personality, suppose all the multiple personalities are harmle...
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| Lissome Lady | 11:01 | 3/Apr/2008 |
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| The human element in our epics calls for so much thought and reflection.So few writers and poets engage with this aspect. It's a pity. They never form any part of a student's repertoire and we talk of westernisation as if it were a disease. Do we have anyone to blame but ourselves? Sita is fascinating and very complex. Toru Dutt a lesser known poet...
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| Kush A | 13:19 | 19/Apr/2008 |
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| I feel intense hatred, murderous, against an element that has infiltrated society, which I cannot give a name to nor a definite face. I recognize it though instantly, when I see that which it has poisoned. I see its face very clearly when a pathetic book, a pathetic movie is reviewed well in newspapers and supposedly loved by all. I see its face ve...
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| ekantapadhika | 15:36 | 17/Apr/2008 |
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| Lochinvar |
| In school, we used to have elocution competitions. Our headmistresses, Mother Gabrielle, selected poems for each individual participant , in the different classes. Such was her love for poetry and for perfect diction that she would spend hours with us, making us recite them again and again and again, making us bite our lips when uttering a wor...
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| RAGHU IYER | 10:48 | 19/Apr/2008 |
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| Samprati Me | 18:59 | 18/Apr/2008 |
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| (The painting posted here, is my DS – which brought about some interesting discussion between me n my ilander friend Rahul- (rahulwrites.rediffiland.com) Felt like to share these GB exchanges with all my ilander friends now…Here it goes) Rahul - In all the faces on the painting in ur dreamspace, there is only one eye visi...
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| sunil | 05:22 | 21/Nov/2007 |
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| KASAM Main peeta tha , usne chhuda di apni kasam dekar, Mahfil me baitha to yaroon ne pila di uski kasam dekar. SWEET SMILE...............
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| vivek | 12:01 | 14/Apr/2008 |
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| TODAY I AM 'PASTING ONE OF MY PAINTINGS'- Desires of women........there are plenty but she is able to fulfill only a few
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