The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them - Mark Twain
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket - Chinese Proverb
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all - Abraham Lincoln
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity - George Steiner
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting - Edmund Burke
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers - Charles W. Eliot
A room without books is like a body without a soul - Cicero
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body - Sir Richard Steele
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you - Harold Bloom
Love
Where there is love there is life - Mahatma Gandhi
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread - Mother Teresa
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace - Jimi Hendrix
You call it madness, but I call it love - Don Byas
There is no remedy for love but to love more - Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love - Jane Austin
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant - Martin Luther King, jr.
I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am When I am with you - Roy Croft
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all - St. Augustine
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone - Love Quote
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread - Mother Teresa
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace - Jimi Hendrix
You call it madness, but I call it love - Don Byas
There is no remedy for love but to love more - Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love - Jane Austin
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant - Martin Luther King, jr.
I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am When I am with you - Roy Croft
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all - St. Augustine
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone - Love Quote
What God Wants??
Monday, April 27, 2009
What does god want???
This is the question that drills my mind when I visit temples, churches, mosques. We decorate Him with flowers daily. We do abhishekas with milk, ghee, curd. We build temples for Him with gold. We pray Him daily by giving our most valuable time. But does He really need this??
FOOD, FLOWERS, GOLD, TIME
We often visit temples. We offer God some money there. But on our way back, we find many beggars sitting out and looking at us for some offerings. Do we even care for them?? Do we give them at least half of what we offered to God?? Do God need our offerings??
We build temples with gold. We make shrines of God worth crores. We design and offer ornaments and jewellery made of diamonds, rubies etc. We encompass the walls for His temple with gold, silver. Does God really need this??
We offer litres and litres of milk, ghee, curd for his abhishekas. To be literal, those are used to wash his idol. To clean Him of all the sins He accepted from us. Does God really want this??
Every time i think of such things, i always feel the answer is NO. Temples, shrines and holyplaces become workplace and home for the disabled and beggars. God want us to help them. He has given us reasonably good life to help the poor, to support the unfortunate. The Almighty wanted to teach us the essence of thinking about the poor, essence of cheering them up, helping the needy.
Let me guess what he want???
Food to hungry, because that is what they expect from God.
More than flowers, make people smile. He loves his children smiling.
More than money, educate someone and encourage the needy.
More than gold, support for the livelihood of a family, save someone's life.
More than praying, meet someone in the oldage waiting for some affectionate talk.
More than our time, meet His children at orphanage and never make them feel under privileged.
These things please God more than the gold, flowers and food we offer him.
Helping hands are more Holier than Praying lips
manavaseve madhava seva
This is the question that drills my mind when I visit temples, churches, mosques. We decorate Him with flowers daily. We do abhishekas with milk, ghee, curd. We build temples for Him with gold. We pray Him daily by giving our most valuable time. But does He really need this??
FOOD, FLOWERS, GOLD, TIME
We often visit temples. We offer God some money there. But on our way back, we find many beggars sitting out and looking at us for some offerings. Do we even care for them?? Do we give them at least half of what we offered to God?? Do God need our offerings??
We build temples with gold. We make shrines of God worth crores. We design and offer ornaments and jewellery made of diamonds, rubies etc. We encompass the walls for His temple with gold, silver. Does God really need this??
We offer litres and litres of milk, ghee, curd for his abhishekas. To be literal, those are used to wash his idol. To clean Him of all the sins He accepted from us. Does God really want this??
Every time i think of such things, i always feel the answer is NO. Temples, shrines and holyplaces become workplace and home for the disabled and beggars. God want us to help them. He has given us reasonably good life to help the poor, to support the unfortunate. The Almighty wanted to teach us the essence of thinking about the poor, essence of cheering them up, helping the needy.
Let me guess what he want???
Food to hungry, because that is what they expect from God.
More than flowers, make people smile. He loves his children smiling.
More than money, educate someone and encourage the needy.
More than gold, support for the livelihood of a family, save someone's life.
More than praying, meet someone in the oldage waiting for some affectionate talk.
More than our time, meet His children at orphanage and never make them feel under privileged.
These things please God more than the gold, flowers and food we offer him.
Helping hands are more Holier than Praying lips
manavaseve madhava seva
Be The Change To See The Change
Saturday, April 25, 2009INDIA
A country with a great history. Land which gave birth to many scholars, intellectuals, leaders, scientists, sportsmen and many, who showed the world what my country is capable of.
But whats the true state of india?? We are still a developing country for the past 60 years. When will India be a developed country????
I have many thoughts of how my country should be, the society in which we should live.. Everyone has their vision to build a strong and great India. Lets get together to realize our dream. Compare with the better countries to be motivated to reach their standards. I want to see a change here, we all need to see a change here..
Education is the base for a strong country. Increase in the literacy rate will decrease corruption. So lets eduacte as many street children, as many orphans as we can. Education provides a permanant solution to many problems. Educated India will be a Corrupt free India.
Lets stop complaining and start compiling.
Let us be change to see the change
A long journey starts with a single step. Start as one and build into many
Talk the words you walk and
Walk the words you talk
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