tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87036341471508223002024-02-19T09:02:56.514-08:00Jai Krishna PonnappanA Personal Blog Authored by Jai Krishna Ponnappan.Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-21924799383964142832018-10-31T15:19:00.002-07:002021-03-03T02:45:13.006-08:00Wheel Of the Year: The Last Harvest by Jai Krishna Ponnappan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Last day of the harvest. </i></span></div>
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The most profound Love</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">I've ever known can blaze through a mortal man's heart, </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Like a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/moonflower/" style="border: 0px none; color: #003569; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MoonFlower</a> that awakes imagination.</span></i></span></div>
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Yet.. without permission.</div>
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Love obeys no rules but <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/love/" style="border: 0px none; color: #003569; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">#LOVE</a>.</div>
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My Beautiful dawn,</div>
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My Beautiful mornings... .</div>
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Thoughts and high wings ...take flight into their dawn.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">And know is my only home... .</span></i></span></div>
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</span></i></span>Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-28299042096082912402015-05-09T04:26:00.002-07:002015-05-09T04:47:18.684-07:00PREPARE FOR THE WORST – HOPE FOR THE BEST<br />
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Being the optimist that I am I find it easy to hope for the best; however, hope is really not a strategy. The experience of life however, (--X--has taught--X--) is teaching me to prepare for the worst. Yes, these are those precious lessons you don’t gather from books, self-interested authors and schools but rather from real life, real world problems, gridlocks, failures, Human errors and the wisdom you find on the streets. Being intuitive is not for everyone; Trusting your gut instincts over and over again only strengthens it. People, places, things, systems and solutions, they all are bound to fail at some point, it is merely a question of time and probability. Clearly, this is the only real valid assumption the wise seem to have ever made without regrets. This is perhaps the most reliable strategy that effectively counters the imperfections of the not so ideal world..things..people..places we may encounter through our lives. It is nothing but harmless to take ownership of the facts, to do your due diligence and to be prepared against most odds more or less. Solomon teaches us, Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life. (Proverbs 13:12) How do you respond when situations don’t go as planned? The reality is there is absolutely no security on this Earth but there is plenty of opportunity for those who have a clear grasp and undiluted sense for the hard but plausible realities and facts of Life. Winston Churchill said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; and optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Yes, we need both optimists and pessimists. It only serves as a good mix full of balance. But the key to success will always remain in the hands of the ‘Realist’, who has already been there and done that... well (or badly) enough to understand and know the path and all the hidden dangers, pitfalls and risks that come with it. It’s been said, “The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.” But we also need realists. William Arthur Ward gives a a good summary to this discussion,“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” </div>
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May we always strive to perceive and accept reality for all of what it is(both good and bad) without resorting to easy and convenient assumptions, and may we strive to identify, work through and convert the abundance and opportunities it always presents. <br /><br />May we be Realists as we face the storms of life. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I dwell in possibility.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Maya Angelou:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Alice Walker:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“The most common way people give up power is by thinking they don’t have any.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lewis Carroll:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Henry David Thoreau:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anaïs Nin:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">J.K. Rowling:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I don’t think there’s any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nelson Mandela:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mahatma Ghandi:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Terence McKenna:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large — this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Alan Watts:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ram Dass:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion — and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Martin Luther King Jr.:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Robert Frost:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I shall be telling this with a sigh</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Somewhere ages and ages hence:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Two roads diverged in a wood and I-</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I took the one less traveled by,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And that has made all the difference.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Joan Baez:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can decide how you’re going to live now.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Audrey Hepburn:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can’t take it all in at once.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don’t try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself… All of which I’ve earned a living doing.”</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bob Marley:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Today, people struggle to find what’s real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Possession make you rich? I don’t have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>You have Passed on to a
Better Place. <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>We stand as one with tears
in our eyes, <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>These tears from our
hearts.. so heavy, so torn, <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>We stand as one In a world
so cold, numb and grey. <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>We haven't met but I picture
You now,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>A Soul so full of grace, </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Your Sacrifice is a call to
us all,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>A call to redeem the respect
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>These Sacred virtues.. of
Women everywhere,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Dear Sister, You are Free,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>You Heal us now, You Redeem
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Our Hopes rest in You, </i></b></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Dear
Sister, </i></b></span></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">We carry You.. </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>A treasure rich with Peace, Health, Happiness, and Eternal Love</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Do not give without it. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>but Give with sensitivity. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan</i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">A Season replete with Endless </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">& Timeless Victories </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">" Even though scolded by the wicked or insulted, ridiculed, calumniated, beaten, bound, robbed of his living or spat upon or otherwise abominably treated by the ignorant-being thus variously shaken and placed in dire extremities, the man who desires his well-being should deliver himself by his own effort through patience and non-resistance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">No one should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creature...seeing the same Lord everywhere, he does not harm himself or others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Reshape yourself through the power of your will...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve...Learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Then, you will achieve your destiny. "</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">India is a land of festivals. Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is celebrated with fervor and gaiety. The festival is celebrated by young and old, rich and poor, throughout the country to dispel darkness and light up their lives. The festival symbolizes unity in diversity as every state celebrates it in its own special way. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> The celebration of the four-day festival commences on Aswayuja Bahula Chaturdasi and concludes on Kartika Shudda Vijiya. The first day of the festival Naraka Chaturdasi marks the vanquishing of the demon Naraka by Lord Krishna and his wife Satyabhama. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Puranas' have it that Naraka, son of Bhudevi, acquired immense power from a blessing given by Lord Brahma after a severe penance. He soon unleashed a reign of terror in the kingdom of Kamarupa, harassing celestial beings with his invincible might. Unable to bear the tyranny of the demon, the celestial beings pleaded with Lord Krishna to save them from his torture. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But Naraka could not be easily killed as he had a boon that he would face death only at the hands of his mother Bhudevi. So, Krishna asks his wife Satyabhama, the reincarnation of Bhudevi, to be his charioteer in the battle with Naraka. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Krishna feigns unconsciousness after being hit by an arrow of Naraka, Satyabhama takes the bow and aims the arrow at Naraka, killing him instantly. Later Lord Krishna reminds her of the boon she had sought as Bhudevi. The slaying of Naraka by Sathyabhama could also be taken to interpret that parents should not hesitate to punish their children when they stray on to the wrong path. <b>The message of Naraka Chaturdasi is that the good of the society should always prevail over one's own personal bonds. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The second day is Amavasya when Lakshmi puja is performed. It is believed that on this day Goddess Lakshmi would be in her benevolent mood and fulfill the wishes of her devotees.</b> One version says that it was on this day that Goddess Lakshmi emerged from Kshira Sagara (Ocean of Milk) when the Gods and demons were churning the sagara (ocean) for nectar (Amrit) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The other version is that when Lord Vishnu in the guise of Vamana, sought three feet of land from the generous demon king Bali, the latter had to surrender his head as Vamana had conquered the earth and the sky in two strides. Lord Vishnu banishes Bali into the Pathala Loka (netherland) by keeping his third stride on Bali's head. <b>Later, pleased by his generosity, Lord Vishnu grants him a boon and he in turn requests the Lord to guard his palace at Pathala Loka. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, the Goddess is unable to bear the separation and her grief affects the functioning of the entire universe. Brahma and Lord Shiva offer themselves as guards and plead with Bali to relieve Vishnu. So, on the Amavasya day, Lord Vishnu returns to his abode and Goddess Lakshmi is delighted. It is believed that those who worship Goddess Lakshmi on this day would be bestowed with all the riches. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The third day is "Kartika Shudda Padyami." On this day Bali would come out of Pathala Loka and rule Bhuloka (Earth) as per the boon given by Lord Vishnu. Hence, it is also known as "Bali Padyami"</b>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The fourth day is referred to as "Yama Dvitiya." On this day, sisters invite their brothers to their homes. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>For Bengalis, it is the time to worship Goddess Kali or Durga. </b>The Goddess Durga continued her "Vilaya Tandava" even after killing demon Mahishasura. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b> *And there are good reasons not just for Hindus but also for all others to celebrate the significance and auspiciousness of this great Festival of Lights.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1.<b>Goddess Lakshmi’s Birthday:</b> The Goddess of wealth, Lakshmi incarnated on the new moon day (amaavasyaa) of the Kartik month during the churning of the ocean (samudra-manthan), hence the association of Diwali with Lakshmi.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. <b>Vishnu Rescued Lakshmi:</b> On this very day (Diwali day), Lord Vishnu in his fifth incarnation as Vaman-avtaara rescued Lakshmi from the prison of King Bali and this is another reason of worshipping Ma Larkshmi on Diwali.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. <b>Krishna Killed Narakaasur:</b> On the day preceding Diwali, Lord Krishna killed the demon king Narakaasur and rescued 16,000 women from his captivity. The celebration of this freedom went on for two days including the Diwali day as a victory festival. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. <b>The Return of the Pandavas:</b> According to the great epic ‘Mahabharata’, it was ‘Kartik Amavashya’ when the Pandavas appeared from their 12 years of banishment as a result of their defeat in the hands of the Kauravas at the game of dice (gambling). The subjects who loved the Pandavas celebrated the day by lighting the earthen lamps.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. <b>The Victory of Ram:</b> According to the epic ‘Ramayana’, it was the new moon day of Kartik when Lord Ram, Ma Sita and Lakshman returned to Ayodhya after vanquishing Ravana and conquering Lanka. The citizens of Ayodhya decorated the entire city with the earthen lamps and illuminated it like never before.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. <b>Coronation of Vikramaditya</b>: One of the greatest Hindu King Vikramaditya was coroneted on the Diwali day, hence Diwali became a historical event as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">7. <b>Special Day for the Arya Samaj</b>: It was the new moon day of Kartik (Diwali day) when Maharshi Dayananda, one of the greatest reformers of Hinduism and the founder of Arya Samaj attained his nirvana. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">8. <b>Special Day for the Jains</b>: Mahavir Tirthankar, considered to be the founder of modern Jainism also attained his nirvana on Diwali day. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">9. <b>Special Day for the Sikhs</b>: The third Sikh Guru Amar Das institutionalized Diwali as a Red-Letter Day when all Sikhs would gather to receive the Gurus blessings. In 1577, the foundation stone of the Golden Temple at Amritsar was laid on Diwali. In 1619, the sixth Sikh Guru Hargobind, who was held by the Mughal Emperor Jahengir, was released from the Gwalior fort along with 52 kings. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">10. <b>The Pope’s Diwali Speech</b>: In 1999, Pope John Paul II performed a special Eucharist in an Indian church where the altar was decorated with Diwali lamps, the Pope had a ‘tilak’ marked on his forehead and his speech was bristled with references to the festival of light.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With all the conveniences and facilities we have because of science and technology, humanity has still remained as an absolute confusion, an absolute mess. Most people in the world live their lives without even understanding what it is that they really want for themselves. Or even if they know what they want, they neither have the will nor the vision to create this. Most of the time they settle for anything that they feel is easy or for whatever is within their reach without even seeing whether they really need it in their lives or not.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are always trying to create our life based on the current reality that exists around us at this moment. What we want as the highest in life need not have anything to do with our present situation. If we enslave our visions to current situations, then it is once again settling for what is attainable, what is easy, what you think is possible or not possible. It is just in terms of seeing what is your vision, what is the highest that you can seek in your life.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If man has a vision of what he wishes to do with himself and the world around him, it is not beyond man’s capacity to create it. It may happen in this life time, it may take a couple of lifetimes but what we want will definitely come. For that person whose vision of life is clear and he just seeks it every moment of his life, the highest things will come and fall at his feet. But man is most of the time a bundle of confusion and is seeking what he does not want. This lack of vision and will in his life is fundamentally because of a distorted understanding of the world around us.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What you know as the highest, you just seek that. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not going to happen, simply living with the vision itself is a very elevating, liberating and joyous process. Whether it is going to happen tomorrow or after a hundred years is not the point. You are not concerned about the result in the end. It is just that you have a vision and you give all your life towards it.This is one of the easiest ways to attain the highest also.The whole Gita is just about this – to simply give yourself to what you want, not caring whether it is a spiritual process by itself.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vision is an important way of transcending limitations within and outside ourselves. If what you want is very clear to you and if you are set on it, what seems to be impossible today, tomorrow it becomes a normal part of your life. Without any fuss it falls at your feet. But at every moment, if you logically question this and think in terms of, ‘is it attainable or not attainable?’ then the confusion that you create in your mind and in the world around you makes the world itself into a big confusion. It is time to really create a vision within ourselves as to what it is that we really care about.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>May it find its peace, </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>May Eternal and loving Eyes.. </b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Guide and Light its way forward</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Unto the awakening of dawn,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>May you evolve in the wisdom of the old</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>& May you accept the responsibility</b></i></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> Tada Gan Iarracht ~</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>(~ My Pulse, My Heart</i></span></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">And the great garths, and stacks, and quiet farms,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">And all the tawny, and the crimson leaves.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Under the star of dusk, through stealing mist,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">And blessed the earth, and gone, while no man wist.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">With slow, reluctant feet, and weary eyes,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">And eye-lids heavy with the coming sleep,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">With small breasts lifted up in stress of sighs,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">She passed, as shadows pass, among the sheep;</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">While the earth dreamed, and only I was ware</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Of that faint fragrance blown from her soft hair.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams;</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">There was no sound amid the sacred boughs.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Nor any mournful music in her streams:</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Only I saw the shadow on her brows,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Only I knew her for the yearly slain,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">And wept, and weep until she come again.” </span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">This time of the Year.<br />My Heart is in You.<br /><br />Love<br />~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">"Cha robh dithis riamh a’ fadadh </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">teine nach do las eatarra."</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">~ Two never kindled a fire but it lit between them.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Nurtured, protected and grounded in Love. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /><br />If we ignore the Soul, we will never be able to impress ourselves</b></span></div>
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My Dad often sends me these personal messages and words of advice. This is an insightful reminder I received from Him earlier today. I thought that a lot of people I meet and some of my young and close friends in particular might benefit from such sage, noble and humbling advice. </div>
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' If we ignore the Soul, focus only on materialistic goals and build our lives on the foundation of this “transactional faith”, we will never be able to impress ourselves or the world for long. We can never ever enjoy permanent peace, happiness or contentment. God is impressed with us only when we live with a constant awareness of the true purpose of our lives. There is an enlightening story that illustrates this. Once, a billionaire who had spent most of his life accomplishing worldly goals, died and his soul stood before God, God looked at him and asked, “My dear child, you have been away for many years. How have you spent your life? What have you done to impress Me? The billionaire proudly said, “God, I impressed thousands of people and became very famous.” God asked, “Where is your fame now?” The rich man replied,”Sorry God, I lived it and left it behind.” God asked, “What happened to your property and wealth?”. The billionaire said, “Now that you ask me, I could n’t bring them either. My once handsome body is also burnt to ashes.” God smiled and said, “The only thing that you can bring back here is the love engraved on your Soul. I sent you to Earth with a huge treasury of love. What did you do to bring out this love? How many tears did you wipe and how many hearts did you heal? How many people did you share your wealth with? The billionaire sadly said, “I was so busy with my own work that I had very little time for anything else. Now I have nothing to offer you.”<br />
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If we spend all our time in fulfilling our own personal needs and ambitions, we forget the very purpose of life. Our Soul remains like a blank CD with no impressions on it. What is impressed on the Soul is what we express outside. The deeper the impression, the more Divine is the expression. As we meditate every day, we create an impression of Selfless Love on our Soul and waves of joy and contentment flow from us to envelop us as well as the world. A sense of faith and belief based on a deep trust in our Self is ignited in us. Then we will never waste time trying to impress anybody. We will simply shower them with Unconditional Love and the way we look at life will change drastically. </div>
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<br />Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-43257058703202203852012-03-18T14:59:00.005-07:002020-02-17T05:25:31.993-08:00The Promise of A Triumphant Spring…..<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Every Spring bursts forth </b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>with delightful songs of renewal, </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>And Our One and only Omniscient Forest’s joy,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>And the rocks in the desert </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Her spirit so free and ever caring, </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>The Bliss of True Love </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>A Miracle that makes the Oceans roll </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>A Cycle that Dispels our deepest desolations </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>With its Endless and Ineffable Truth. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>A Truth that stills Hearts that are the Bravest </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Shall Glory and life abound </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>For it keeps a record of those, the True at Heart,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>It keeps its Vows Strong, Nurtured and Nourished</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>A pause can’t keep Her from Breathing</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>For She is led by the Reverberations, </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Heartfelt Regards,</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Jai Krishna Ponnappan :)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled, it shone, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>With back turn'd to Britain, her face to the West,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Erin stands proudly insular, on her steep shore, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>And strikes her high harp to the ocean's deep roar.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>But when its soft tones seem to mourn and to weep,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>The dark chain of silence is cast o'er the deep;</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>At the thought of the past, tears gush from her eyes,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>And the pulse of the heart makes her white bosom rise.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"O, sons of green Erin! lament o'er the time</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>And moulded their God in the image of man.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"When the int'rest of state wrought the general woe;</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>And clasp'd the invader more close to her breast.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"When with pale for the body, and pale for the soul,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Church and state join'd in compact to conquer the whole;</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>And while Shannon ran red with Milesian blood, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Ey'd each other askance, and pronounc'd it was good!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"The cause it is good, and the men they are true;</i></span></div>
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Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-22975618909988308902012-02-14T17:05:00.000-08:002020-02-17T05:28:35.979-08:00LOVE YOUR TRUE SELF<div style="text-align: left;">
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A lot of the time awareness, attentiveness, care, concentration and the knowledge, transformation, awakening and the self realization that comes with it is purely determined by the intensity, drive, faith, courage, Love and the determination of the intelligence behind it all. I think there is a strong tendency for many eager people these days to pursue such things by the means of the mind, the senses and to some extent the heart alone but it would really help if people could go beyond these sensual things and mundane experiences and enter into the realms of Spirituality and come to know that they will always have a Soul and a Spirit and its powerful intelligence that pervades the rest of their being. Its ever evolving eternal existence will always remain awake in them.. although they might be unaware, asleep or half awake to the reality of the True Self that defines them, their identity and everything else they have always been, are and continue to be. People often seem to be asleep, blind, half awake or kind of dead. That's why they say when a wise man talks to some one he listens to their words but is ever attentive to the Soul that speaks from the heart and shines through the very depths of another's eyes. The goal through life should always be, to awaken to these things, then stay meditated, rooted and poised, aware and alive in them and strengthen the quality and the intensity of such things as drive(of the Human Will), Faith, Courage, Love and the Determination of the intelligence of the Soul and its Spirit. The imperishable is what you always are that is your true essence, it longs to grow and get better through the beautiful and colorful experiences of Life. And yes, nothing, no creature, no place, no object and no one in this world is void of a Soul, a Spirit and these beautiful energies that we're all so easily inclined to be blind to. It takes a little effort and a little help to sow the seeds of intelligence and awaken all Souls; it's only a question of time, the moment when everything falls into its rightful place. Thank you Dennis, for some really beautiful, helpful, encouraging and eye opening posts."<br />
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Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-90863350352550844292011-11-23T20:20:00.000-08:002013-11-28T10:01:43.701-08:00Happy Thanksgiving :)<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>If you ever feel as if any part or anything in your life isn't quiet "enough", try practicing an attitude of thankfulness and you will soon begin to realize how good you have it after all. Gratitude is never so important as during those times when everything appears to be lost. <span class="st">Life gets so much better and easier when you adopt a gratitude attitude. Being thankful is what you need to be when you travel on that long but hopeful road to your destiny. Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving </span>~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>“<i>Silent</i> gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”<br />
~G. B. Stern<br />
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"We are so taken up with the affairs of the present that we don't have time to give thanks for blessings of the past." <br />
~John A. Broadus<br />
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"We tend to take all the gifts and pleasures and happiness and the joy without saying much to God. We take our health and strength, our food and clothing and our loved ones, all for granted; but the moment anything goes wrong we start grumbling and complaining and we say 'Why should God do this to me, why should this happen to me?' <br />
How slow we are to thank and swift to grumble."<br />
~Martyn Lloyd-Jones<br />
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"True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, <br />
and not to tell Him what we have done for Him." <br />
~George R. Hendrick <br />
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"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." <br />
~Cicero<br />
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"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies." <br />
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<span class="style1">"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."</span></span> <br />
<span class="style1">~William Arthur Ward</span> <br />
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"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." <br />
~Ambrose of Milan<br />
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<span class="style1">"Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives</span> <br />
<span class="style1">is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God.</span> <br />
<span class="style1">Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin."</span> <br />
<span class="style1">~Jerry Bridges, Respectable Sins</span> <br />
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<span class="style1">"O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."</span> <br />
<span class="style1">~Shakespeare </span><br />
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<span class="style1">"He who remembers the benefits of his parents is too much occupied with his recollections to remember their faults."</span> <br />
~<span class="style1">Béranger</span><br />
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<span class="style1"> "We never approach God without cause for gratitude. </span><br />
<span class="style1">Thankfulness, a duty and delight greatly prominent in the Bible, is the declarative mood of gratitude - a bright fire in the world's frigid zone, the memory and homage of the heart, </span><br />
<span class="style1">a master force in soul-building, the greatest tonic faith has. Be ye thankful." </span><br />
<span class="style1">~Robert G. Lee</span> <br />
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<span class="style1">"I hate ingratitude more in man than lying, vainness, drunkenness or any taint of vice, </span><br />
<span class="style1">whose strong corruption inhibits our frail blood." </span><br />
<span class="style1">~Shakespeare</span> <br />
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<span class="style1">"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil of which thanks naturally grow. </span><br />
<span class="style1">A proud man is seldom a grateful man, </span><br />
<span class="style1">for he never thinks he gets much as he deserves."</span> <br />
<span class="style1">~Henry Ward Beecher</span> <br />
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<span class="style1">"That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works." </span><br />
<span class="style1">~Psalm 26:7 </span></i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. <br />
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." <br />
~John Henry Jowett<br />
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"To hear someone say 'Happy Turkey Day' makes me sad because they have nothing to be thankful for <br />
and no one to whom to be thankful." <br />
~Robert Flatt<br />
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"Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed <br />
or those we enjoy now." <br />
~A. W. Tozer<br />
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"We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction." <br />
~Harry A. Ironside<br />
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<span class="style1">"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. </span><br />
<span class="style1">No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving." </span><br />
<span class="style1">~H. U. Westermayer</span> <br />
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"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, <br />
and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." <br />
~<span class="style1">Dietrich Bonhoeffer</span> <br />
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<span class="style1">"You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled." </span><br />
<span class="style1">~Charles Haddon Spurgeon</span> <br />
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<span class="style1">"Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor </span><br />
<span class="style1">and praise for His goodness." </span><br />
<span class="style1">~Robert Casper Lintner</span> </i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span class="style1">"Our rural ancestors, with little blest, patient of labor when the end was rest, indulged the day that housed their annual grain, with feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain." </span><br />
<span class="style1">~Alexander Pope</span> <br />
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"Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!" <br />
~Henry Ward Beecher<br />
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“A thanksgiving-day hath a double precedency of a fast-day. <br />
On a fast-day we eye God’s anger; on a thanksgiving-day we look to God’s favor. <br />
In the former we specially mind our corruptions; in the latter, God’s compassions; <br />
therefore a fast-day calls for sorrow, a thanksgiving-day for joy. <br />
But the Lord’s day is the highest thanksgiving day.” <br />
~George Swinnock <br />
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"The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing <br />
and thanksgiving all day long." <br />
~Warren Wiersbe<br />
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"No longer forward nor behind <br />
I look in hope or fear; <br />
But, grateful, take the good I find,<br />
The best of now and here."<br />
~<span class="style1">John Greenleaf Whittier </span></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span class="style1">P.S ~ I wish you, your family and friends a very very Happy Thanksgiving </span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span class="style1">Love & Regards,</span></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span class="style1">Jai Krishna Ponnappan </span></i></b> </span> </div>
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Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-25053375633146716072011-11-20T19:50:00.000-08:002011-11-23T22:22:02.085-08:00The Unity of Love: We Stand as One, When We Stand in Love<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span class="sqq">“Be ever faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself, and thus make the self in all of us indispensable” ~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan</span></b></i></span></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Torn by dust and darkness</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">I see this Light</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Between blades of hate </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">And the lures of lust</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">I felt its strength </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Raise a storm within my Heart</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Between blades of hate and endless storms</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">I began to Live</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">When I found this Love</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Our differences can never define us</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">They make us whole</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">They bless us with this Unity</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">When we stand as one</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">They bless us with this Unity</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">When we stand in Love</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Entwined together in a moment </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">A rising Spirit towers through and above</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Entwined by a breath of Love</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Our Souls cry out in Joy </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">A strange Truth Speaks </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">To weary and worn but familiar Souls</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Passing seamless and endless</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shattering through the veil that covers our Hearts</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">We feel its message </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Light the lamp of Love</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">In Love the worst of misfortunes</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Is worth the sweetest of treasures </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">To Love this way is to Live in Eternal Bliss</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">In Love the worst of pains</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Is worth the blessings of birth…..a life renewed…..a Soul reborn</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">We become this treasure….. When we become this Love</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Wishing Heartfelt Love & Blessings to You All</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan :)</span></i></b></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=f4e6c64a-97a9-4611-bfd9-7aa30528cd91" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div>Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-1646119166627191662011-09-26T14:11:00.000-07:002011-09-26T16:05:17.879-07:00In Search of Home<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Trust your heart ..... Follow your heart. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>It will never fail to show you the way. </i></b><b><i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br />
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</div>Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-42757169958057147792011-09-21T13:09:00.000-07:002011-09-21T19:31:42.823-07:00The Underlying Spirituality of Chaos & Instability<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a "child of darkness" who is equal and complementary to the more obvious "child of light."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>~Laurens van der Post </td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">‘I read an article on AOL business today about businessmen consulting psychics for the edge in business. Financial mogul J.P. Morgan, known for his ruthless manipulation of the markets, did not operate alone. In fact he would not make a single move on the stock market without listening to the advice of his psychic consultant, Evangeline Adams.’ He proudly proclaimed: "Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">This is an excerpt from a similar post,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">‘…….In this challenging economy, when <st1:country-region><st1:place>U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> unemployment is far too high and our national and personal bank balances are much too low, one profession that continues to thrive -- and perhaps even benefit from all the uncertainty -- is psychics. According to Penelope, a "hands on healer and psychic medium" who charges $125 for an hour session, she has seen an increase in male customers amid these hard times.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I do think that [men] are more open now because I feel that they don't know where to go to get direction at this point," she says. "You're not going to your mortgage broker or your banker or your investment person for guidance because nobody really knows what's going to happen, everything's unstable. So they're looking for outside things, to have an edge, to understand the market conditions. There's all different variables for them."……..’</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">People are like stained-glass windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross </td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> As with all things of Power and Privilege, Dear Cary, an individual or group of people can either use such gifts and resources or abuse it left, right and center. There are good people and there are bad. In the game of Good vs. Bad, Light vs. Darkness, Hate vs Love, Greed vs. Humanity.....sadly it's not too hard to tell who is dominating the scene with all the prevailing and rampant oppression, manipulation, exploitation, intimidation, discrimination, war, violence and suppression. Unlike the conflict some may have been observant enough to study in <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s recent history this struggle has always been played out in older and more established cultures ranging from everyday life to politics, scandals, warfare, propaganda, trade and commerce. In other words this is not out of the ordinary; it has always been commonplace to those who are familiar with its pros and cons. My greetings and well wishes to those psychics, healers and astrologers who divine to do the right thing for the right reasons without defiling the sanctity and purity of their sacred traditions, gifts, faculties, ESP's, blessings<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and customs. As for the rest who have chosen to become an abusive burden to their fellow being and serve the people who perpetuate their greedy, selfish and sadistic agendas through them, time and nature and all the very things that have brought such small but significant blessings and gifts to these men and women will themselves eventually correct and right the wrongs perpetrated by the likes of these that have gone too far astray. It is not too hard for the Truth in Love to turn the world in which these men live with all their advantages, ego and edge upside down overnight. They must learn to accept the greater advantages of humility, Love and everything else that comes with being grounded and selfless. All this wealth, knowledge combined with greed and an insatiable and irrational lust and thirst for power has only fed and fueled their arrogance as opposed to cultivating attitudes and habits of charity, collective thinking, social responsibility, morality and welfare. I wish a day will come when they too will have the chance to heal and redeem their Souls and the much neglected humanity that lay dormant in them. Masked and overpowered by the degenerate, vile and pretentious facades and hypocrisies they put on and exercise, such people must eventually find the road to reconciliation and peace, not just with the world in which they coexist but more importantly with themselves.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
We live in volatile times that will only exceedingly increase in its intensity until change can set straight and purge the Souls of men enslaved and usurped by greed, selfishness, hate, violence and immorality. Only change can return the rightful place of Truth, Love, Light & Liberty in the hearts and minds of men. Thank you for the interesting and factual post, <st1:city><st1:place>Cary</st1:place></st1:city>. Regardless of how wealthy a man may fool himself to think he is there is nothing noble, noteworthy, admirable, memorable or respectable about men who neglect the world in which they live and confine themselves to the senseless overindulgence of securing and progressing their own affairs, propagandas and agendas. Like AOL's biased article posted on their newly acquired platform (The Huffington Post) aiming for Google. It is understandable and acceptable that they all have their own reasons to launch well timed, market and propaganda campaigns against those whom they compete with. Rather than being inspired by their rival's success it is amazing how quick they are to act contrary to what is in the best interest of all men. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>~Michael Strassfeld </td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the average Joe or Jane maybe entirely naive of the Spiritual and worldly environment in which they live they must learn to loose their fears and they must learn to trust and learn to have faith, all in the hope that the Truth will triumph when the time is right and the time is ripe. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"> This speech is perhaps among the best that I have ever read. It is definitely worth a read because the speech is just as relevant today as it was 71 years ago. Regardless of your political inclinations, ideologies, priorities and religious views, I'd highly recommend you watch this video. I am sure that over the years the speech has had a truly profound impact on all of its audiences. I hope that it will have the same effect on you as well.<br />
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We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The way of life can be free and beautiful.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>But we have lost the way.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Greed has poisoned men’s souls – has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say “Do not despair”.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish…</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Soldiers – don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you – who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate – only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers – don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written ” the kingdom of God is within man ” – not one man, nor a group of men – but in all men – in you, the people.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let’s use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Soldiers – in the name of democracy, let us all unite!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i>~</i><b><i> Charlie Chaplin</i></b></span><i> </i></div>Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-31323697645075425002011-09-20T16:27:00.000-07:002011-09-20T20:30:59.401-07:00WHEN SEXISM BLINDS SCIENCE: THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORESS<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside every relationship, human, spiritual, worldly or otherwise, it is important to first understand who’s coming into the relationship, it is not just you but the woman inside whose womb you and the rest of your fathers were fashioned and created. You understand yourself better when you know that her qualities, her face, her Spirit, her endless inner beauty and her Soul will always shine through you.<br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WHEN SEXISM BLINDS SCIENCE:</b></span><br />
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This is a comment in response to an interesting article I read today,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I know it's tough, even though it’s 2011 and much of what is considered as Western ideologies, rationale, philosophies, sciences, culture and outlook are more or less still clearly and firmly based and modeled around a not so ancient Greco-Roman & Anglican past. It is still very evident how hard it can be to try to uncover the Truth, concepts and facts when we are so fixated with only relating with the accepted norms of our way of thinking, world view and outlook, and nothing beyond it or outside it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The only reason why some men avoid connecting the dots is because of constricting habits and preferences that defy and deny.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Unfortunately like so many others before, this article/theory including the genetic studies that support it seems to have deliberately or unknowingly brushed aside well established scientific and anthropological truths about the legacy and dominance of matriarchal and matrilineal martial tribes, customs and traditions, not to mention the prevalent genetics that cuts right across the length, breadth and history of Europe, Eurasia, Central Asia and India. Being sexist is like being stuck in the dark ages or being in denial of who we are, our own past and genetic history..... Downgrading the central role that woman have played in our genetic, sociological and evolutionary history is merely a sad reflection of the existing condescending attitudes and shameful sexual disparities that plague the world in which we live.....I really want to keep myself from wondering what strange delusions can make an educated man think that an Agro-pastoral warrior such as a Celt or Viking would be less trusting, faithful and loyal to his Mother, wife and Sisters whom he regards as 'Goddesses', defenders and caretakers of his progeny, land and wealth . </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Perhaps unlike me, some of their genetic cousins and their ancestors, they seem to have adopted a very different treatment and attitude towards women in general including their Mothers, Sisters, Partners and daughters. Indeed this is nothing short of a very disturbing trend that seems deplorable, artificial and unnatural to me. Sexism, gender disparity and an exploitative, unhealthy, unnatural and dehumanizing attitude towards women is by far one of the leading factors and root causes for many of our socio-economic woes, issues and societal imbalances. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I Hope this will change someday soon....I trust that Nature has a very strange, mysterious and special way of fixing and correcting all her problems and the forces and ideas that cause them to perpetuate.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>P.S ~ I wish to dedicate this message to her.....</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In honor of her,</b></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE FORGOTTEN MOTHER, </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE FORGOTTEN SISTER, </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE FORGOTTEN WIFE</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~ THE FORGOTTEN WARRIOR.</b></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> To Aryama or the mother, progenitor and matriarch of all branches and sub branches of ethnic, native and nomadic Aryans and her story as described in many ancient Hindu and Indoeuropean scriptures and folk lore predating written history. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Whether you are a woman or a man, please do not let obvious scientific contradictions, iconoclasm, false supremacists, ignorance, gender disparity, narrow mindedness or obsessive and curtailing fixations damage your respect for women and the world cultures that were spawned, nurtured, preserved and strengthened by HER.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><br />
~ <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Jai.Krishna.Ponnappan">Jai Krishna Ponnappan </a><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thank You for this question dear friend, there is nothing more refreshing and inspiring to the mind, heart and Soul like Love.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Love is eternal, an endless river that flows beyond time. Love both feeds and transcends all.... thoughts, ideas, creation, time, distance, karma, distractions, pleasures, faces and places. It is like the rain that showers all souls from the heavens above, some are nourished by it yet others will eventually do so in time. Everything else all virtues, beings and worlds are strung upon it, like beads that hang from a necklace. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Sadness isn't the absence of Love it is a deep and innate sense of awareness that cuts through the illusion which keeps us blind to Love. Sadness is a deeper emotion, like guilt or remorse, it is like a deep yearning from within; it is something that has its purpose and place in time. Like all other imaginable things of meaning, virtue and value, Love is something more glorious, lustrous and valuable than all the treasures in all of existence. We are all capable of both giving and receiving, this all sustaining Spiritual currency. You can Love the Earth, Love all life, all of humanity, trees, animals, creatures both big and small, books, thoughts, ideas and inanimate things that no one cares about. Love is blind to the illusions and imagined differences that separate and divide us. The Spirit of Love illuminates like a lamp that brings to light all knowledge, it showers itself upon all its children equally. We would do well to walk in Love's footsteps, along this path by celebrating the equanimity that is germane to all Love. The most difficult and most beautiful instance of Love is to give that warmth in your heart to the very things that repulse you. Again, I call it unconditional equanimity, kindness, affection and Love. It is said 'Love your enemies...' . Do it every single day you live and I guarantee you that from their Souls to yours it will always flow back to you as a blessing that was willed and decreed from above. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> On a personal note I’ve come to realize the greatness of Love. I’ve come to understand the importance of Loving unconditionally. There is no greater religion, rule or Truth than the endless debt to Love one another as we Love ourselves. We are not alone here, all life, the open skies, the stars above and the Earth in all her glory are here with us, in this moment to share with us, Love us and strengthen us as we discover and heal are deepest bond with the source, that wonderful heart, an eternal fountain from where all Love flows endlessly and unconditionally.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I’d like to thank Catherine for her profound and wonderful question. Love is endless. It was always there. The illusions that blind us have a beginning and most certainly will be faced with an end, but Love will carry on. Every Soul in every heart, beats in its own sweet rhythm, asking to find and be guided back to its home in Love. Love is the answer to Love, everything else is brought to life and existence by the knowledge and the power that is Love.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">May you all be blessed with the unparalleled Abundance that is Love.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Best Wishes & Regards, </div><div class="MsoNormal">Jai Krishna Ponnappan :)</div>Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-48829529074075349292011-06-20T10:32:00.000-07:002011-07-09T01:15:10.416-07:00WHEN LOVE COMES ALIVE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm1A7wzf_jGgGcOsFYwxmwWfPMzt5UDI5guo-0a42RonGVsez0vr4F7uEShIawHjsV8uA-AlcUPLFobmdf7Bzyi-PiZAeFkV8ZIRFh5xx4wougIcD1JyzB44PHkFWOwMK3d44IeI1L/s1600/radha_krishna3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm1A7wzf_jGgGcOsFYwxmwWfPMzt5UDI5guo-0a42RonGVsez0vr4F7uEShIawHjsV8uA-AlcUPLFobmdf7Bzyi-PiZAeFkV8ZIRFh5xx4wougIcD1JyzB44PHkFWOwMK3d44IeI1L/s640/radha_krishna3.jpg" width="465" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's not for the beauty, the vanity, the worldly delights or the obvious superficiality.... but madly, deeply and profoundly for the most admirable and lovable virtues that come to light and glory from deep within another Soul. Such is the intelligence, the intensity and the purity of Love. You can not play with it. Love is no game, it cares little for the follies of your perishable flesh. Your existence is defined by what it depends on. Love gives so much and takes ever so little. A Love so true, so content, so pure and eternal is born between what dwells within and between my heart and yours. The intelligence of Love is ineffable but you can still experience its Truth somewhere in the depths of your Soul, in that special place within the intelligence that governs your heart. The truth in my words will be the Love and the sweetness inside you. Love delivers those who wait to have it sanctified deep inside that sacred and special place within their hearts. </i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a short message inspired by an article I read this morning. I've been writing about this subject for the last 2 years. It has come off like a plague that torments the very nature of Love ....I hope that someday men will learn to understand and distinguish between the Spirit and the flesh....between Love and Lust. I hope that someday the Lord will rid them of their Spiritual blindness. Love is so much more than a mere virtue but it can transform, transmute and become a virtue that truly captivates, captures and holds still the joy in your heart. Once you find it, don't let go of it, no matter what! Let it feed and be the Life and the bliss within you. Love is the most beautiful thing this existence will ever know, like how a child knows its mother. It's not a sin to have a heart, it's not a crime to go to a place that feels like eternity. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You'll find the article at,</i></span><br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-orloff-md/lust-love-difference_b_876162.html"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-orloff-md/lust-love-difference_b_876162.html</i></span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">P.S ~ Soul mates part ways when one decides to trust a stained and tainted deck of tarots. Love is not lost between the traps ensnared by the damned Souls among the dead or those forsaken ones who are haunted by it....I have been scorned since I was a child, saith Love....this world is burdened by those who dislike my ways and my Love. Selah. Yes, Moses did see a face, and your Soul hides in fear from it. Love will bring us both together. My patience is endless and eternal, saith Love. My dear Angel of Love, you are alone today, but fear not, my flesh and my blood will honor you with its strength, for it seeks no other, it seeks the Truth in Love............ </i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan </i></span></b></div>Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-22807319350708807202011-06-13T02:58:00.000-07:002011-06-13T02:58:39.966-07:00To Love: A Note to Self<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZAXwniAKmBZMX6EGxgzitPrLarBswhQ0qpnN-mOWafXK4JGbF8ACHOgfNhvw0StACOTVbvw9eYLYDmA-1cbZSbqAuH5fmf2FHdLBvcbYFAJk4l5E3acNz88BGSTxWc9Y5gDBS-u9/s1600/To+Love-+Jai+Krishna+Ponnappan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZAXwniAKmBZMX6EGxgzitPrLarBswhQ0qpnN-mOWafXK4JGbF8ACHOgfNhvw0StACOTVbvw9eYLYDmA-1cbZSbqAuH5fmf2FHdLBvcbYFAJk4l5E3acNz88BGSTxWc9Y5gDBS-u9/s1600/To+Love-+Jai+Krishna+Ponnappan.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>To Love, and to keep persisting and prevailing in endless and eternal love with strength, valor, resilience, honor and courage is the hallmark of those blessed Lion hearted Souls that serve, defend, protect and preserve the fragile, the weak, the meek and the defenseless. To surge ahead, undeterred and tireless, in the face of insurmountable odds, hardships, strife, struggles, dangers, miseries, oppression and ordeals. Striving to glorify and mark the victory of Love above fears, bondage, darkness and death. All eagerly marching forward, hearts entwined, seeking to liberate into their destiny by glorifying and offering their very existence and being as a sacrifice meant to honor that miraculous, all redeeming, imperishable and heaven sent blessing called Love. </b></i></span></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=17df5383-8e8d-493e-be72-e5029f4653d9" style="border: none; float: right;" /></div>Jai Krishna Ponnappanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255375094508637367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703634147150822300.post-59030413745084899602011-05-18T12:16:00.000-07:002011-05-24T23:34:34.034-07:00The Spirit of Freedom ~ The Spirit of Love<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This is a response made to a very valid, interesting and mind opening note made by my friend Princess Erika de Krutova on facebook,<br />
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" I do not understand. America is so strong on freedoms. I have read your Constitution many times in an effort to incorporate some ideas and items into our country. How is it that freedoms can be taken away? Everyone in my country and almost all I know across Europe envy the American way of life and freedom it brings." - Princess Erika de Krutova<br />
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Some of the colorful and inspiring responses that were made.........<br />
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Simon Templar:"When considering American freedom you should start with the Declaration of Independence "We hold these truths as self evident..." Then move on to the Constitution. The Constitution is more of a document outlining how the national government should operate and the authorities it is granted. The first ten Amendments secure many of the freedoms that Americans enjoy. However, the power of big government is always a threat to those rights. The Constitution clearly states that those powers not enumerated within the document are reserved to the states and the people. However, the "New Deal" the federal government usurped many of those rights under the banner of the "Interstate Commerce Clause." The degradation of rights among the American people can be directly attributed to this one interpretation of the Constitution. Freedom is lost through fear. When fear enters our society the people willingly forfeit their freedoms so that they feel safe and secure. Therefore, you will always see some incident that creates fear in the people, economy problems, terrorism, etc. prior to the government removing rights and liberties. And always remember, there is the ideal of American freedom and the reality that those freedoms are always subject to a politician's interpretation........"<br />
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Sherry Lee: "Freedom cannot be taken away of heart mind and spirit but evil people empowered by satan want to enslave because that is the nature of the beast. They want to destroy happiness on the planet and light and fill every soul with terror. I have worked with these people. There is no logic, love or sanity in their universe. Only darkness. They create destruction. If they enslave a few they will enslave the world through advanced technology. I wrote a book about this. It is called 'In Satan We Trust'- Age of destruction. The devil gains whatever power he can. The foolish servants of the anti Christ dominate to get control. Anyone with half a brain knows this sick power won't stay in the hands of a few. It will spread and lead to world destruction unless it is stopped. This can't have a good outcome...."<br />
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Michael Scott:"Seems to be a combination of greed based economics and an evil need to change something established by a previous person in power. Freedom is a commodity it seems in so many ways and a country can go bankrupt in private and turn the tables of any constitution. There is much to say about this. I am so glad you are asking. It is wonderful to hear you interest and passions......"<br />
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My comment and response to add to this excellent discussion, <br />
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I agree with several of the valid points made by Simon. I strongly believe that this ' Ideal of American freedom' is still truly well within the reach of all Americans regardless of the political environment, primarily because this ideal and the very Spirit of it is something deeply rooted in the hearts and minds of almost every generation of American to date. You must never alienate the fact that the capitalism we have here and the economy it supports has thrived alongside this freedom. Perhaps most of the doubts, wider issues, corruptions, fears and the rest of the problems we face today stem from the inherent flaws of capitalism, whether it is the uneven distribution of wealth, opportunities or the current ill health of our economy. For better or for worse, with time change is imminent and inevitable. As far as the ideas of corruption, uneven distribution of power and abuse of authority are concerned we are still in the infantile stages as compared to some of the well established cultural norms and structures elsewhere in the world. As long as Americans can still vote, Politicians can and will be replaced. As long as Americans still have a voice and some of the brave and pro active journalists continue to do their jobs we will always question, expose and root out any and every form of high handed corruption that threatens our freedom and liberty. Freedom is a rare quality, with many facets and dimensions. This ' Ideal of American freedom' is more than just a sentiment; it is immaculate and has no hypocrisy or so called evil infiltrating its definition since its birth several centuries ago. This is something emotional, psychological and most certainly something beautiful and spiritual that every American carries deep within his heart and mind. Psychologically, yes, I agree that fear comes and goes but most certainly it has a role and a part to play in giving us the window of opportunity to weed and root out some of the flaws and socio-economic problems we face today. Unlike many resentful perceptions, this Freedom is something very obvious in almost every generation of Americans. If you compare an average American with let’s say someone else there is something very obvious, unique and special in the way he/she is thinking, evolving and functioning, that sense of independence has a very strong personal side to it, which has been handed down from generation to generation and can rub off very easily on someone who is open minded and open hearted enough to accept the truth that is innate and germane to this freedom and to this nation. Perhaps the only serious threat that many of us overlook and side step is the fact that if what we face today continues to dwell and grow, creating an environment where corruption, high handedness and abuse of authority prevails and instills growing fears in the hearts and minds of our young working men and women, the youth of this nation and the new generation, then we risk creating a generational gap and may fail to propagate this gift of freedom to our children and to our future. This to me is very unlikely because of the level of awareness that is currently widespread among the educated, enlightened and bright minds that serve as the wheels, the engine, the fuel and the driving force of this nation. On a broader economic context, capitalism has its cycles, and just as they did during the great depression, the Americans of today will face and overcome this test with the strength of our Spirit. They will never fail to surge this nation forward and this ' Ideal of Freedom' is certainly somewhat of an untainted divine gift that serves as their God given right to continue to face their fears, problems and strive forward into a future filled with socio-economic and cultural evolution, opportunities to growth and prosperity for all, and the many countless gifts that come with carrying the ideal of freedom in your heart. The Spirit of freedom will never fail those who have placed their trust in it. That's what it takes to be an American. This, my opinion, is the Truth that I have had to live with, the Truth that I have observed and the Truth that I continue to study. It doesn't matter where you're from or where you're going, this sense of freedom will stick and stay with your Soul no matter what. As they say Freedom isn't free but it is worth so much more than all the gold in the world, and we treasure it with all our hearts and all our lives.<br />
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Many thanks to my friend <a href="http://www.facebook.com/erikaanastasiaromanov">Princess Erika de Krutova</a> and her friends for providing such an insightful and eye opening discussion. I hope, pray and wish everyone the best of what the Spirit of freedom has to offer and give to all its children.<br />
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Love, Peace, Freedom, Best Wishes & Blessings to You All,<br />
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Jai Krishna Ponnappan :)<br />
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Among the most beautiful of things <br />
All of existence will ever know<br />
A father's pride, a brother's joy and a husband's prize<br />
She lay down in a place of rest and repose<br />
Possessing all the beauty <br />
Personifying ineffable and untold wisdom<br />
Her ways are filled with a multitude of delightful virtues<br />
Like Angels she carries each of them in the womb of her heart <br />
Heaven holds a sense of wonder<br />
How her thoughts can silence a storm<br />
The kiss of her blade <br />
Rains down waves of justice and peace<br />
She moves the waters of the Heavens<br />
As she blesses and nourishes the Earth with the works of her Love<br />
Like a Mother's Loving embrace<br />
Her touch can be gentle, nurturing, kind and humble<br />
Here is an Art no Lightning and thunder can rival....<br />
She will rise again....<br />
Hungry in search of the things she adores<br />
Ready to serve the ones she Loves<br />
Brave and bold her ways are Immortal<br />
Just as her Spirit is Eternal and Endless<br />
She will rise again....<br />
Noble, righteous, strong and virtuous<br />
The Earth will manifest again....<br />
Her most beloved of offspring<br />
Filled with this beautiful, divine and wondrous Spirit<br />
The weight of her footsteps will be welcomed by the Earth<br />
An Age of joyous and delightful relief </span></i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><i>She will usher in with her Love. <br />
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P.S ~ This is a poem I wrote today, inspired by the photo of a female warrior posted by my friend Mary Trainor-Brigham on facebook. I dedicate this to her and to all the women of the world. Be bold and you will bloom better and more beautiful than the best of the Earth's most colorful and scented flowers :)<br />
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<i> Freedom is the Strength of the Soul that helps Love find its home in Your Heart. Guided by Love the Soul travels along the Long and winding path that leads it to its home in the everlasting heart within the Truth. </i><br />
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Among the many worldly, unworldly and surreal adventures and experiences that rock my Soul this note is a special dedication to the community at Soul Rock Nation. <br />
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I recently shared a very powerful and enlightening experience exchanging ideas, moments and lessons with a younger Actor/Model friend of mine. I'd like to share with you all a brief prolog of the things that came about as thoughts, exchanges and emotions during that time. <br />
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I’m glad to say that being young in this day and age still means being blessed with an innocent heart and an eager Soul. Working and living in Hollywood with that big city lifestyle all around you, can make it all the more vital and important for some of my young and eager friends and people such as myself, Artists and like minded professionals to have a strong sense of self realization, integrity, inner peace, balance, humbleness, faith and spiritual direction. Become what you aspire from deep within the needs and the longings of your heart and Soul. Avoid becoming what society, circumstances, opinions and people may suggest, dictate, force and pressure you to become. To do this is to be able to respect yourself and thus find the means and the heart by which to care for, Love and respect others. More importantly it means to be able to experience life with that most liberating of gifts called freedom. To live freely in the long run on both a mundane and a deeper and higher Spiritual level, makes it possible for us to pursue life with Liberty, and our Souls to pursue the bliss of Liberation. It is necessary to learn to find a way by which to lay a strong spiritual foundation and core within yourself and help lay the spiritual seeds for the same to transpire at its own pace in those around you. The goal is to be able to forge ahead with intent and focus and to cultivate and build on these very personal and unique experiences through life, and make it as creatively and spiritually progressive, self sustaining and meaningful as possible. <br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every Seed has a Life of its Own: Lay the Seeds and Create a Strong Foundation with Roots that Run Deep</span></div><br />
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It could be anything ranging from a simple yet radical piece of advice or an idea you introduce to someone, an experience you share with another, a brief conversation, a more subtle and stronger exchange of deeper and higher emotions. All of these are different ways in which to set forth a liberating intelligence in motion. Trust me every seed has a life of its own and a guiding intelligence innate within it that won’t rest until its purpose is served. A simple piece of advice and a few minutes of your time could mean a lot to someone, it could possibly have a deep and life changing impact on them and possibly their family, friends and those around them. Sometimes you may not really witness the change because this form of spiritual initiation and how it evolves and unfolds is unique to each person in question, sometimes the seeds may lay dormant until the circumstances and environment are more favorable and nurturing. On the contrary the seeds of sin are just the same for they lay dormant and ever present in your intelligence and intellect. And at times when the mind is weak, the body is tired and your faith and free will are off guard, the underlying intelligence of this seed can grow, cause malefic action and sin to bear fruit to more sin. It is funny how easy it can be to tame and root out the seeds of sin in every form once you have cultivated the many faculties of your very human higher-self and developed a clear understanding of the psychological, emotional and spiritual mechanism that defines these seeds of intelligence and knowledge in you. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Joy of Creation is entwined with Freedom</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Where the fundamental rights of one person is very readily denied by the other or the immediate human collective around him/her. Justice even with the most highly respected and expensive attorneys and lawyers can be very hard to come by and injustice seems to spread itself rapidly like a tormenting fire that first takes down the branch and then threatens to turn into ashes the entire tree. When a child is born it has an essential and rudimentary need to breathe and as a person grows older he still has to be granted the essential freedom to breathe emotionally, psychologically, creatively and spiritually. Given today’s lifestyle people increasingly associate their identity and expand the definition of their false ego with the clothes they wear, the cars they drive, the houses they live in, their occupation, their employers and all the other mundane and finite things they acquired slowly. This becomes a burdensome extension of their identity and their false sense of ego. If you were to look at the way a child relates to its world freely it hasn’t quiet entangled itself with any of these things, it has barely got its mind wrapped around the idea that its flesh is who it is or the notion of ‘I am what I see, feel, sense, perceive and own’. The intelligence of its Soul is still free of the illusion that is the ego. Just as you can tell when you look into their eyes that every child is special and unique, so are the Souls within those eyes. The Soul continues to have this need to be free of the illusory effects of the ego and the sensual things that we wrongly associate our identities with. The danger is off course that it has become very difficult to achieve this creatively and spiritually empowering sense of freedom even through intense meditation thanks to the enormous proportions that the false ego is allowed to take on in a society such as ours. My actor friend was shocked to find out that she really didn’t know who she was when she stripped herself and her mind off of the money, expensive clothes, tastes, boy friend, car, house, opinions, emotional strings, pride, vanity, beautiful blonde hair, high maintenance lifestyle, insecurities, entanglements, habits, compulsive social engagements, vocations etc… etc. She didn’t know who she was, or what she wanted and where she was going with her Life. She had inadvertently become a slave to her ego and the things, pleasures and people it associated with, and everything else that fed it. She joked about becoming a rich, powerful soulless zombie (real creatures that have come back to life thanks to the films, young urban pop culture, social conditioning and the trend here in tinsel town). Well, she discovered a neglected train wreck when she finally managed to do some deep and profound Soul searching and look inside herself, but at least now I’m glad that she managed to see the Truth as it was and ceased to be a powerless slave to the lie that she believed and embraced as and when it was fed to her. It is a priceless gift to develop a sense of inner clarity, and it serves as a powerful tool that can expose the Truth to those who sincerely Love, serve and seek it, both within themselves, others and the environment around them. It is like being able to see and perceive the Truth in the world with your eyes closed, a special type of spiritual and divine vision with which to behold and understand all things both beautiful and wicked as the Truth in them defines it to the Truth in you. You can always create and recreate all these worldly things like wealth, fame, honor, comfort, riches, relationships etc. with the tiniest amount of intelligence, will power, creativity and faith. But at all times be sure to give the Soul and the Self within the Soul its rightful place above the temporal and finite ego. Stay on top of the ego at all times to govern, tame and control it, never succumb to its illusions or let your Soul become a slave to its blind, demanding, depleting, degrading and binding servitude. Use it like the masks an actor adorns and carefully inscribes and takes off depending on the roles that he plays on stage and in real life. My advice to her when we last spoke was to strive to identify and correct the flaws she came across within herself and more importantly her self-perception, and see how drastically it alters her perception of the world and the people around her. Your intentions to overcome these flaws within yourself slowly but surely will transform into a mission to help others surmount their own struggles, flaws and challenges in Life <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Freedom: The Life & Spirit of the Fruitful Tree</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaoCpFAFNM4CkSY0cfdgBtt5frn2B1StReEMsa7XDp97_RA-dHo-KLzhJXuy5GnMwXqLWsszvSWFtCICx3iwGEaD9AMZ4nTNlgfk4wrGAoeBuaazjJKWSbN9YJU44t0mNpiQZ6-pw/s1600/jai-krishna-ponnappan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaoCpFAFNM4CkSY0cfdgBtt5frn2B1StReEMsa7XDp97_RA-dHo-KLzhJXuy5GnMwXqLWsszvSWFtCICx3iwGEaD9AMZ4nTNlgfk4wrGAoeBuaazjJKWSbN9YJU44t0mNpiQZ6-pw/s400/jai-krishna-ponnappan.jpg" width="287" /></a></div><br />
If you were to travel around the world and meet people from all walks of life, cultures, businesses, professions and craft, trust me I guarantee you that you’ll notice that the elite that thrive, flourish and grow the most are the ones that have been granted an abundance of this freedom. You will see it not only in each person in the form of their behavior, inner character and the things that they do, but more importantly in the synergistic vibe of the environment that surrounds them. It’s like they literally feed off of a bounty of freedom innate in the people, opportunities and the environment that surrounds them. Freedom is a quality with many dimensions. If you are like me… multi-dimensional and complicated with a passionate eye for detail you would probably look for it in the psychological makeup, intellectual exchanges, emotional expression and the ambitions and intentions of those who seem to feed off of this powerful blessing called freedom.<br />
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I understand that Life can be short, and resources and connections can only go so far for many people who have but an everyday grasp of the realities, forces and principles that govern all things mundane and Spiritual. It can be a hard pressing dream to try and change the world overnight, but my advice to you would be to change your attitude towards others, yourself and your perception of the world instead. ‘Love thy neighbor as you Love thyself.’ And if you don’t Love yourself start doing it right now, it will be your very first step towards perceiving the all pervading realities of the Truth and you will have a life time full of loving still left to do. Take it day by day, one small step after the other and one person at a time. For there is immense victory in doing this, the Truth in it can set you free in more ways than you can possibly imagine. It can set you free for an Eternity. The idea is to learn from the success, lessons and failures of others that have tried to overcome these internal and external obstacles that impede their innate need for freedom and spiritual growth. Treat them as teachers and then try your best to incorporate these lessons into your own life and help evolve the hidden intelligence within your Soul that is ever eager to inspire, expand and grow creatively beyond all the beautiful wonders that your dreams and imagination can possibly fathom. <br />
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My deepest and most sincere Love to you all, and especially to those who have cared to read and understand the deeper meaning of these words that have helped clarify, transform and unveil a Soul’s purpose and sense of belonging in this world.<br />
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I’m grateful to my friend for having entrusted me with the task of paving the way for her. I’m glad to say that her days are now filled with real happiness and she finds her life to be more authentic, beautiful and meaningful. Thank You for permitting me to write about this story, both yours and mine.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Note: My Deepest Respect, Regards & Apologies </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62vwzowPbTrYYwyR_ina4ieQf7gbv8sE9ag-DNellhTTu-e_sqjZUxRW6E7gUGyueDJ-kD5my1eYjevKQaCIh9SCoEDVq5RFALl3ZlHDpNB7Z62rBkPzntoZ5I72xN2limvQgL2Tz/s1600/jai-krishna-ponnappan2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62vwzowPbTrYYwyR_ina4ieQf7gbv8sE9ag-DNellhTTu-e_sqjZUxRW6E7gUGyueDJ-kD5my1eYjevKQaCIh9SCoEDVq5RFALl3ZlHDpNB7Z62rBkPzntoZ5I72xN2limvQgL2Tz/s400/jai-krishna-ponnappan2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> On a more personal note, spiritually reclusive as I am, I’m thankful to the Supreme for having made many instances of these acts of devotional service, Love and the rest of it all possible for me and my dear friends. Just as some men trust and rely heavily on their guts, instincts, prayers, experience and intuition, I rely heavily on these and the spiritual guidance, wisdom and mandates my Soul receives; this can happen only if you are perpetually situated in a state of Yoga or union with the Supreme. Before I act out even the most simplest of things I fully place my faith and free will in the Loving hands of that which guides, controls and commands my eyes to read, my stomach and flesh to meet, deprive or satiate its attributed needs, and my senses to engage outwardly or inwardly in this world. Perhaps you can guess and tell from my name that I have my lineage, ancestry and its endogamous heritage, liberating values, principles, customs, scriptures and culture to be thankful for. Although outwardly it may seem like many such like minded Souls live worldly lives, inwardly although it may be very hard for the untrained eye to discern, they truly are still progressing and maturing spiritually in their association and union with the Supreme. My apologies to members of my ethnic community and teachers, who perhaps consider and strongly believe it to be more apt, befitting and appropriate to live a spiritual life that is more reserved, private and reclusive; Focusing on my Karmic, social, professional and moral duties and obligations rather than the perpetuation of wisdom and Light to those who may or may not try to learn from it, tarnish it or see reflections of their own self indulgence, desires and vanity in it. My ethnicity, culture, native language, heritage and its ways are dying and being replaced by my own people who have adopted and chosen the ways of the larger herd. I don’t have it in me to do such a spineless and dehumanizing thing when I know I can be both flexible, respectful and strong, my identity is evolving and transforming in a respectful, rational, cultured and civilized manner like it has done for so many others over several millennia. To those who want to throw their authority, ego, base values, worldly ideas, addictions, obsessions and powers around and upon people such as myself, you are more than welcome to try your luck, waste your time, strength and resources. Why use cooperation and prosperity as a pretentious facade for exploitation and give me your coins and treasures when I have no greed, need or use for them. Surely amidst your haste and burning desires you must have overseen the Truth that I have my own and the means and wisdom to multiply my blessings. The Truth weighs the hearts of men as it pierces through the blinding clouds of illusion to reveal itself to those that are deserving and worthy of it. Isn’t it foolish to tell someone who they are or who they should be when they have it in the resourcefulness of their own Soul, intelligence, flesh and the many facilitating processes and blessings of life to discover and define their own story and ever evolving identity? So let them use their freedom and its true meaning to do this. To get to know your own Soul is to know the Soul of the Supreme, the creator, the Divine Spirit, the whole of creation and all of existence, its many expressions, energies and diverse forms. Why not do it when you have all the human and spiritual faculties and the means? I might as well disseminate these words of value here in the West as life presents people and opportunities that are more receptive and enquire of me to do so. I always persist in staying very humble, grounded and blissfully engaged in meditating and serving the Supreme. And the Truth persists, steady, strong and eternal regardless of whether you believe in it or not, it is indifferent and seemingly oblivious to the wild sways of the disillusioned, entangled and conditioned. But remember that its considerate correction, Love and grace are always available to you. The Truth may remain a myth to those who deny it or choose to dwell in the cowardly comforts of ignorance, insatiable desires, lust, sensual excesses and darkness. I see no harm or sin in selflessly going out of my way to help someone who approaches me and requests me for my time, kindness, advice and favor. <br />
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The world isn’t a perfect place filled with perfect beings but perhaps together, you and me can stand this test and walk a step closer towards making it so. Divine Grace is truly a beautiful, universal and boundless wonder that applies to all existence and all humanity; it can empower and strengthen faith with each passing moment and fill it with the miracle of heartfelt Love, the mystery of the absolute Truth and the sheer magic of zestful devotion.<br />
~ Jai Krishna Ponnappan<br />
P.S ~ Love, Light, Freedom, Hope & Blessings to you All :) <br />
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