What kind of girl you are?

You Are A Blue Girl

Relationships and feelings are the most important things to you. You are empathetic and accepting - and good at avoiding conflict. If someone close to you is in pain, it makes you hurt as well. You try to heal the ones you love with your kind and open heart.

What Color Girl Are You?

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Swami Vivekananda--Quotes

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”

"A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century."

"Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet."

"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act"

“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!”

"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. "

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. "

"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. "

What is SIMI?

RENDEZVOUS WITH SIMI

10 Aug 2008, Jyoti Punwani

In my initial days of interaction with the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), I ignored the clear indications of extremism, indulgently attributing them to the over-enthusiasm of youth. If they had their way, they would put everyone in purdah , I was warned. But they were hardly likely to have their way, I laughed.

This was in the mid-'90s.

Some time then, a SIMI member asked me why, since I wrote so much about Muslims, I didn't convert to Islam. I had so many doubts about my own religion, it was hardly likely that I would accept another faith, I replied. "But that's because your religion is so imperfect, sister," came the rejoinder. "Islam is perfect, it has a solution for everything."

The cocky youngster who made this audacious comment laughs embarrassedly now at the memory. He left SIMI soon after it plastered the walls of Mumbai's Muslim areas with the infamous poster, 'Waiting for Ghaznavi' which had as a backdrop the Babri Masjid's domes dripping blood. This was to mark December 6, 2000. Why Ghaznavi, I'd asked him. "These have been printed by the central leadership, I can't understand why," he had replied, obviously ill at ease. But the youngsters hanging around SIMI's office in Kurla weren't ill at ease at all. For them, Ghaznavi was a hero, not just because he broke idols and thereby served Islam, but also because he raided Somnath to liberate the devdasis enslaved there by the priests. Seeing my skepticism, they named certain historians and alleged such 'truths' were never taught to Indians in school.

What about the inflammatory potential of such a poster? That was a stupid question, because this was March 2001 and they'd just successfully inflamed passions in Mumbai over the burning of the Quran in Delhi by the Bajrang Dal. The BJP was in power, and the media had downplayed the incident as a rumour. But SIMI had downloaded a Reuters photograph of the incident from the Internet and published it as a poster. Frantic efforts by community elders and mohalla committees had restrained Muslims across Mumbai, but near SIMI's headquarters, a morcha had been taken out and buses stoned. Then next day, the police had called the morcha participants for questioning. Unable to bear the humiliation of having his name on the police files, a teenager, the first boy in his family to enter college, had committed suicide after his return from the police station.

The futile end to a life full of promise - that's what you achieved by this protest, I told the SIMI youngsters angrily. Of course they were unrepentant. They had diligently performed their duty of alerting their community about the injustices being done to their faith. The 17-year-old had become a shaheed for Islam. How come they never thought of taking out morchas for the other injustices done to their community? Why didn't they join the campaign to get justice for families devastated by the 1992-'93 riots? What about fighting the discrimination their community faced in admission to schools, in jobs?

"Let Muslims in India starve," they finally declared. "That's not our problem. Our duty is to arouse the community whenever Islam is in danger, be it in India, Afghanistan, Bosnia or Chechnya. If we have to come out on the streets for that, we will."

That was the essence of SIMI. They didn't feel they belonged to India, or any one country, but to the global Islamic community. Their lives were ruled not by the Indian Constitution, but by the Quran. The fact that they lived in a country overwhelmingly populated by non-Muslims only strengthened their resolve to convert it into an Islamic State. Living in harmony with the non-Muslim majority, as their community had for centuries, meant abdicating their religious duty as Muslims. If, in working towards an Islamic state, they offended the sensibilities of the majority community or broke a law or two, so be it. The latter were kafirs anyway.

The continuous targeting of Muslims, not just by the BJP, but also by the 'secular' State since 1984, the sell-out of established Muslim politicians, the promising start of SIMI as a religious counter to communism and consumerism - all this made Muslim elders go out of their way to shield SIMI from the consequences of their acts.

The Ghaznavi poster was a turning point. But before that, within SIMI, the disenchantment had begun. Its senior cadre in Mumbai had resigned, publicising SIMI's growing jehadi thrust and ISI influence. Muslims would have completely distanced themselves from the new SIMI - had they found the State committed to curbing the RSS after it banned SIMI. Gujarat 2002, the arrest only of Muslims after every bomb blast, the blackout of the RSS' terrorist acts, and the recent Jammu violence show that has yet to happen.

JAGO PARTY-- What can we hope?

I saw this party's ad in India Today and my first reaction was Oh! One more party ! Another group of corrupt politicians making all false promises.

But this party is with a different mission. At least they say so!
They are against reservations.
Job for all through free English medium education.
Death sentence for terrorism, corruption, murder & rape.
Court judgment in three months.
All voters will get Rs. 600/- per month.
24X7 electricity supply for all towns & villages and comfortable train journey by privatization.
Less government activities & more private enterprises.
No income tax upto Rs. 4.0 Lakh per annum.

I don't think this party will be able to make its presence felt in rural areas of UP, Bihar and other states where leaders are chosen on the basis of castes.

But atleast we, as educated and concerned citizens of India, give this party an opportunity to serve the country.

I hope this party stick to its mission once elected. As their own site says "Smallest action is much better than the noblest intention !"

May be in coming years the basis on which our country votes changes and our people start thinking above caste ,creed and choose deserving candidates.

Website: http://www.jago.in/

Building Life -- An inspirational story

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family.He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.

The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you.

"What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.

So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized that we would have done it differently.

Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project." Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today.

Chankaya Niti-- Some Quotes

About Chankaya---
Chanakya (Kautilya) was the minister of Chandragupta c. 321-c.297 BC Maurya who was the first emperor of the Mauryan empire. Chandragupta came to rule much of India. Chandragupta rose to power under the influence of Chanakya.
Much of our knowledge about state policy under the Mauryas comes from the Arthashastra written by Chanakya.The book, written in Sanskrit, discusses theories and principles of governing a state.
Arthashastra remains unique in all of Indian literature because of its total absence of specious reasoning, or its unabashed advocacy of realpolitik, and scholars continued to study it for its clear cut arguments and formal prose till the twelfth century.

Some quotes from Arthashastra:

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

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

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

“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

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

“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first.”

“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.”

"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."

"It is better to be without a kingdom than to rule over a petty one; better to be without a friend than to befriend a rascal; better to be without a disciple than to have a stupid one; and better to be without a wife than to have a bad one."

"Do not inhabit a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends, or cannot acquire knowledge."

"Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune."

"Even from poison extract nectar, wash and take back gold if it has fallen in filth, receive the highest knowledge (Krsna consciousness) from a low born person; so also a girl possessing virtuous qualities (stri-ratna) even if she were born in a disreputable family"

"Though men be endowed with beauty and youth and born in noble families, yet without education they are like the palasa flower, which is void of sweet fragrance"

"A stillborn son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life."

"Consider again and again the following: the right time, the right friends, the right place, the right means of income, the right ways of spending, and from whom you derive your power."