Don't Compare Yourself

Don't compare yourself with any one in this world.

If you compare, you are insulting yourself.

Don't complain about others;

Change yourself if you want peace.

It is easier to protect your feet with slippers,

than to cover the earth with carpet.

No one can go back and change a bad beginning,

but anyone can start now and create a successful ending.

God - A New Concept

The universe is continually changing. In fact, change is the Law of Nature. Even in our short span of life we have seen so many changes in practically every field of human activity - political, social, economic, cultural. The scientific knowledge has also not lagged behind; scientific theories and concepts have undergone a great metamorphosis. The transformation in the various fields of human activity is mainly due to the mental development of the mankind. The spiritual field cannot remain isolated in this panorama of human activity.

How to overcome your shyness?

- Dr. Anjana Maitra

Shyness is a human quality that everybody feels at some point of time in their lives.

Shyness reveals itself in various ways - dry mouth, shaking hands, sweaty palms, loss of words etc.

Where does shyness come from? In some cases, genes contribute. Parents of shy children are often shy themselves. The social environment or certain incidents of our early life also make us shy. For example, if you are a sensitive child and your teacher ridicules you for giving a wrong answer in the class, you may not raise your hand to give an answer in future.

At the root of shyness is self-doubt, leading to self-defeat. Professionally we are afraid to express our needs and goals to our superiors. Socially, we are unable to go forward and say "hello" and we by-pass the opportunity of meeting an important person.

More often than not, we feel that everyone's eyes are looking at us, each of our smallest actions are being minutely observed and that our manner or gestures are under a searching look. As a result we stop going out, avoid mixing with people, do not take the initiative to introduce ourselves at a social gathering, expressing our views and so on.

How, then, can we fight against shyness? A few tips given below will help you to overcome shyness and face the world bravely.

Astonishing Facts (worth a Read)

1) If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side. 

2) If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off. 

3) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 

4) Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it. 

5) The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'. 

6) The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. 

7) The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing. 

8) The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. 

9) Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. 

10) The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. 

11) Dalmatians are born without spots. 

12) Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 

13) The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings) . 

14) Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left. 

15) The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids. 

A Mathematician's Love Letter

De-Morgan's Law,

Binomial Avenue,

United States of Matrices.

My Dear Love,

Yesterday, I was passing by your rectangular house in trigonometric lane. There I saw your cute circular face,conical nose and spherical eyes,standing in your triangular garden.

Before seeing you my heart was a null set, but when a vector of magnitude (likeness) from your eyes at a deviation of theta radians made a tangent to my heart, it differentiated.

My love for you is a quadratic equation with real roots, which only you can solve by making good binary relation with me.

The cosine of my love for you extends to infinity. I promise that I should not resolve you into partial functions but if I do so, you can integrate me by applying the limits from zero to infinity. You are as essential to me as an element to a set. The geometry of my life revolves around your acute personality. My love, if you do not meet me at parabola restaurant on date 10 at sunset, when the sun is making an angle of 160 degrees, my heart would be like a solved polynomial of degree 10. With love from your higher order derivatives of maxima and minima, of an unknown function.

Yours ever

loving,

Pythagoras

How Thermos keeps coffee Hot or Lemonade Cool...

According to Prevost's Theory of Exchange, the colder of two bodies always absorbs heat waves until both bodies are the same temperature. By this theory, it would be natural for scalding coffee or ice-cold lemonade in a thermos to lose heat or gain it respectively. But a thermos is designed to cut down the exchange of heat between the inside and the outside of the bottle by hampering the three ways in which heat can travel: Conduction, Convection and Radiation.

How to control our mind?

• Mind can be controlled by constant effort to fix it on God.
• Sit alone and watch the mind and its moments.
• Be indifferent and unattached. Remain a witness. Do not identify yourself with the thoughts.
• Do not think of the past. Do not plan for future. Live in the present.
• Read spiritual books. Do meditation regularly. Participate in satsang.
• Do help a person in need or suffering.
• Repetition of a mantra destroys impurities of the mind.
• Make the mind inward. In this Kali Yuga, the easiest way for controlling the mind is singing the Lord's name.
• Food influences the mind. Take fruits, vegetables and nuts frequently.
• Practise moderation in diet. Selfless service with a feeling of unity with everyone is highly effective in purifying the mind. Do no struggle with the mind.
• Be regular in your sadhana.

9 Things I Hate About Everyone

1. People who point at their wrist asking for the time... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn Right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?

5. When people say while watching a film, "did ya see that?" No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor!

Antimatter

In 1930, Paul Dirac developed the first description of the electron that was consistent with both quantum mechanics and special relativity. One of the remarkable predictions of this theory was that an anti-particle of the electron should exist. This antielectron would be expected to have the same mass as the electron, but opposite electric charge and magnetic moment. In 1932, Carl Anderson, was examining tracks produced by cosmic rays in a cloud chamber. One particle made a track like an electron, but the curvature of its path in the magnetic field showed that it was positively charged. He named this positive electron a positron. We know that the particle Anderson detected was the anti-electron predicted by Dirac. In the 1950's, physicists at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory used the Bevatron accelerator to produce the anti-proton, that is a particle with the same mass and spin as the proton, but with negative charge and opposite magnetic moment to that of the proton. In order to create the anti-proton, protons were accelerated to very high energy and then smashed into a target containing other protons. Occasionally, the energy brought into the collision would produce a proton-antiproton pair in addition to the original two protons. This result gave credibility to the idea that for every particle there is a corresponding antiparticle.

Five Principles

While receiving God-knowledge a seeker pledges to follow five principles given below:

1. One should consider all one's worldly assets - physical, mental and material as ultimately belonging to God and one may utilized them as a trustee and should not be proud of these possessions.
2. One should not feel proud of one's religion, caste, colour and creed as also the status (Ashram); one should love everyone as a fellow human being.
3. One should not hate or criticize others on account of their diet or dress which may be different from his or her own.
4. One must not leave one's hearth and home, become recluse or ascetic and be a burden on others; one must earn one's own livelihood through honest hard work and fufill one's responsibilities as a family person.
5. One must not divulge to others the divine knowledge as revealed by the True Master, without a word from him. This will save him or her from the pride of being in possession of God - knowledge.

If followed systematically, these principles of the Mission serve as a simple, easy and successful means for a balanced and harmonious social life.