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SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP

SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP

A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule "braying" or whatever mules do when they fall into wells.

After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving.

Instead he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened...and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.

Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back...a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back...he should shake it off and step up! This he did blow after blow.

"Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up!" he repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed the old mule fought "panic" and just kept right on shaking it off and stepping up!

It was not long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, stepped triumphantly over the wall of that well. What seemed like would bury him, actually blessed him...all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.

That's life! If we face our problems and respond to them positively, and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness or self-pity...the adversities that come along to bury us usually have within them the potential to benefit and bless us!

Remember forgiveness-faith-prayer-praise and hope.... All are excellent ways to "shake it off and step up", out of the wells in which we find ourselves!

One more thing..."never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the titanic."

Author Unknown

A Thought for Today

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much but Wisdom is humble that it knows no more. 
– Anonymous

Thought for Today : Doubt

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
-Buddha Wisdom

A Thought for Today

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. 
– George Santayana

Thought for Today

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.

~Author Unknown

A Thought for Today

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. 
– Anonymous

A Thought for Today

Pretend to be brave and you not only become brave, you are brave.

Thought for Today

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
-Buddha Wisdom

Ramayan : Super-Compressed

Once someone asked Guruji about Ramayan saraansh [summary] and this was his one-liner reply :

"Jab mann roopi Sita, Hiran roopi indriyo se mohit ho jati hai, tab wo Ravan roopi ahankar ke vash me aakar, Ram roopi Atma se door ho jati hai; phir Laxman roopi sajagta aur Hanuman roopi Shwaas ke dwara use Ravan roopi ahankar se mukt karke Ram roopi atma se punah milaya jata hai."

[ When Sita (mind), gets attracted by the Deer (sense objects), it comes under the clutches of Ravan (the ego) and goes away from Rama (the Self); then with the help of Laxman (awareness) and Hanuman (the breath), it is freed from Ravan (the ego) and united with Rama (the Self). ]

Is your Sita with your Rama? 

A Thought for Today

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Thought for the Day

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
-Pablo Picasso, painter, and sculptor (1881-1973) 

Thought for Today

Smooth roads never make good drivers 
Smooth seas never make good sailors 
Clear Skies never make good Pilots. 
Problem and hassle free Life never makes a strong person
Be Strong enough to accept the challenges of Life 
Don't ask Life, "Why Me?" ,
Instead say "Try Me!" 

A Thought for Today

"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

Brian Tracy 

Thought for Today

You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

A Thought for Today

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. 
Look well, therefore, to this day. 

– Indian Proverb

Earth Day

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional

Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse

Know that you are one with the earth, with the water,
with the fire, with the air that you breathe, with all living things,
and that all of these are one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Happy Earth Day

Keep the Earth Clean!
Make sure that everyday is an Earth Day!!

Thought for Today

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. 
-Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965) 

Happy Earth Day

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
– Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.
-Bourke Coekran

HAPPY EARTH DAY

Love the earth: it's the only one we've got.

Home... Sweet Home

We think sometimes that poverty is only
being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa

Thought for Today

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

A Thought for Today

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. 
– Anonymous

A Thought for Today

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

-Paul Boese 

Thought for Today

Buddha Wisdom:
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. 

A Thought for Today

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth. 
– Anonymous

Thought for Today

Do not give any time to your past you can't change what happened 5 minutes ago. 
~Unknown

A Thought for Today

Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art. 
~Frank Tyger

Thought for Today

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
 -J.B. Phillips, writer and clergyman (1906-1982) 

Thought for Today

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

~Will Rogers

A Thought for Today

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
-Buddha Wisdom

Thought for Today

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. 
-Buddha Wisdom

Buddha Wisdom

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.  -Gautam Budda

For Needy Students

Dear All, 
  
If you have come across any bright students coming from poor financial background who have finished their 10th standard this year and scored more than 80%, please ask them to contact the NGO - Prerana (supported by Infosys foundation). The NGO is conducting a written test and those who clear the test will be eligible for financial help for their further studies. 

Please ask the students to contact the people mentioned below to get the form: 
580, Shubhakar, 44th cross, 1st A main road, Jayanagar, 7th block, Bangalore .

Contact numbers:
1. Ms. Saraswati - 99009 06338 /
9900926505 
2. Mr. Shivkumar - 99866 30301
3. Ms. Bindu - 99645 34667 



We support only Bangalore Urban students. The student has to undergo a qualifying test. Let the parents of the students come and meet us at the below said address. They need to carry few documents with them while coming, Such as

1) Student SSLC Marks card copy
2) Student Parents salary certificate
3) Parents ID proof such as Voters ID, Ration Card, Electricity bill etc.,
4) House rent or Lease agreement.

Our Office address :
#28, Neeladri, 3rd main, Basappa layout,
Gavipuram Extension, Hanumanthanagar,
Bangalore - 560 019
Ph: 080 - 2660 1105 / 6533 7823

Try to visit the office and telephone may be busy/out of order

Even if you don't know anyone, please pass on this info, someone might be in need of this help..... 

  

Thought for Today

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. – George Santayana

Buddha Wisdom

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Buddha Wisdom

Buddha on 3:

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.