Monday, January 31, 2011

swami vivekananda

Self Effort vs. Divine Grace



Once Swami Turiyananda was discussing spiritual matters with some young monks of the Order, when one of them said: Maharaj, now I have understood the way.

Swami Turiyananda asked: What is that?

The young monk replied: ˜To sit quietly on the mast of the ship [referring to Sri Ramakrishna's parable of a bird sitting on the mast of a ship on the high seas after flying in vain to all corners”east, west, north,and south”and not finding any resting place anywhere].

Swami Turiyananda quipped gently: ˜But when did you fly at all?


MEDITATION TODAY:
Always free on the spiritual plane; never free on the mental and physical— hence the struggle.

- Swami Vivekananda.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Sabari Scandal

The Sabari Scandal

Clean Joke - Sunday Special

Clean Joke - Sunday Special

Republic Day – India A Sovereign Nation!

Republic Day – India A Sovereign Nation!

Yeomon services by Coimbatore based Thozhar Arakattalai: 1000 funerals for unclaimed bodies at free of cost.

Yeomon services by Coimbatore based Thozhar Arakattalai: 1000 funerals for unclaimed bodies at free of cost.

HARVARD AND STANFORD ON ATTITUDE++

Attitude++

Author Unknown


Harvard and Stanford Universities have reported that 85% the reason a person gets a job and gets ahead in that job is due to attitude; and only 15% is because of technical or specific skills. Interesting, isn't it?



You spent how much money on your education? And you spent how much money on building your positive attitude? Ouch. That hurts.



Now here's an interesting thought. With the "right" attitude, you can and will develop the necessary skills. So where's your emphasis? Skill building? Attitude building? Unfortunately, "Neither" is the real answer for many people. Perhaps if more people knew how simple it is to develop and maintain a positive attitude they would invest more time doing so.



So here we go. - Five steps to staying positive in a negative world:



1. Understand that failure is an event, it is not a person. Yesterday ended last night; today is a brand new day, and it's yours. You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and then you can expect to win.



2. Become a lifetime student. Learn just one new word every day and in five years you will be able to talk with just about anybody about anything. When your vocabulary improves, your I.Q. goes up 100% of the time, according to Georgetown Medical School.



3. Read something informational or inspirational every day.



Reading for 20 minutes at just 240 words per minute will enable you to read twenty 200-page books each year. That's 18 more than the average person reads! What an enormous competitive advantage . . . if you'll just read for twenty minutes a day.



4. The University of Southern California reveals that you can acquire the equivalent of two years of a college education in three years just by listening to motivational and educational cassettes on the way to your job and again on the way home. What could be easier?



5. Start the day and end the day with positive input into your mind.



Inspirational messages cause the brain to flood with dopamine and norepinephrine, the energizing neurotransmitters; with endorphins, the endurance neurotransmitters; and with serotonin, the feel-good-about-yourself neurotransmitter.



Begin and end the day by reading or doing something positive!



Remember: Success is a process, not an event.



Invest the time in your attitude and it will pay off in your skills as well as your career.



Think of it.......

Thursday, January 20, 2011

sales digest

Dynasty politics is about protecting ill-gotten wealth

R Vaidyanathan

The recent finding by Patrick French (India: A Portrait) is that more than two-thirds of the under-40 members of the Lok Sabha are hereditary and many of them are hyper-hereditary, based on their dynasty. Actually many of us forget that since 1885, members of the Motilal Nehru family have presided over the Congress party for 39 of its 125 years.

Motilal Nehru was president for two years, Jawaharlal Nehru for nine, Indira Gandhi for eight, and Rajiv Gandhi for seven. Sonia Gandhi holds the record both within the dynasty and the party by having the longest, unbroken tenure of 13 years and is still going strong.

The party has become a family enterprise and a non-family man like Narasimha Rao is not even recognised as a former prime minster. Following this tradition, we have Agatha Sangma from Megahalya to Omar Abdullah in Jammu and Kashmir to MK Alagiri in Tamil Nadu, inheriting the political throne.

The important point here is not about the national agenda of these political parties but their functioning and control. Whether it is DMK or the Shiv Sena, where the family battles have come out in open, or the NCP, where the heir apparent has been anointed — the issue is the family business called political parties. It is important to mention that Tamil Nadu is a pioneer of this model wherein the interests of the state, party, government, and people are subsumed for the welfare of the family enterprise.
Like in all businesses, it is required to delineate the nature of the business model adopted by these family enterprises. In any business, particularly listed business, the shareholders’ wealth maximisation is the main objective. Unfortunately, these regional parties are not listed on the stock exchanges and hence the correct market valuation may not be available. But the total wealth declared by these leaders (including that of their multiple wives!) during election time in the form of affidavits can be a guide for the net worth of the enterprise.

The preliminary expenses here are related to rabble-rousing on caste or language or pro-poor issues. Another method is to promise largesse in the form of free electricity, free TV, free cinema, free rice, to be paid for by the state exchequer. In this model, the actual business entity need not worry about expenses since post-power, there will be a continuous revenue stream.

The family business has to be conducted through various functional departments called commerce, agriculture, irrigation, roadways, education, power, and so on. Some are low-volume, high-margin centres like land allotment or C'Wealth Gamea or second generation mobile telephony spectrum, where one project can earn up to thousands of crores. Other business units, like elementary education, which is a large-scale transfer industry, are low-margin but high-volume business.

Every teacher transferred may provide only thousands of rupees, but the numbers are large. The family also needs to take care of the interests of other families (sub-regional or other caste parties), hence the creation of strategic business units. In this model, the expenses are borne by the government but revenues are enjoyed by the family. It is a win-win model that does not have any comparable international example.

The time-frame for maximising the family wealth is specified after one election and that differentiates it from the other regular business models. Due to the short time span, the family can and does become rapacious and they need continuous extraction of higher bribes to meet their collective greed. The turnover and attrition among supporters is also high, since their aspirations also grow. Hence, the need to create powerful entry barriers as well as exit costs.

But if you or your children opt out of politics, then you cannot be a “dacoit capitalist” anymore since your ability to formulate policies is gone and there could even be vendetta by the current rulers. So make sure your son/daughter/wives/sambandhis (children’s in-laws) are in some business unit or the other.

Will this business model meet its nemesis? Not for some years yet. One reason it will flourish is the increasing importance of land as a factor of production. In the 60s, capital was scare and land was easily allotted. Now capital is available, even from global sources, but land is scarce and that is the strength of these families. Control of land and its allotment is the primary sonrise (pun intended!) industry. To that extent, the family business will flourish.

With further fragmentation, many family enterprises will be either in a merger and acquisition mode or in a small business-smaller reach mode. In such situation, some can go sick. Second, due to the greed of some of these families, the margins demanded from projects may exceed the cost of the project.

The future of India is ironically linked with these 40-50 families with their capacity for rabble-rousing along and their rapaciousness and greed. Let us celebrate our grass-root democracy that enhances such “family values.


MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY

NEW DELHI: With mobile number portability ( MNP )) becoming operational from Thursday, telecom consumers now have the choice of switching their operator without having to change their mobile number. This facility is available to both postpaid and prepaid customers and subscribers of GSM as well as CDMA service. The only restriction is that you can change your operator without changing your number only within your current service area. Which means subscribers cannot take their Delhi number to an operator in Mumbai . They can only change their operator within Delhi.

The cost of porting a number to a new operator is Rs 19, with the maximum porting time capped at 7 working days by telecom regulator Trai except in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and North East service areas, where it will be 15 working days. However , consumers will have to remain with the new operator for three months before moving on.


Number portability has been delayed by three years, leaving many consumers anxious . Several subscribers, who feel disappointed with billing, customer care, and overall service delivery, have been waiting for this moment . But the real question is whether you should take the plunge and switch loyalties or not. Will the switch really be worth your trouble?


The real reason for change would be to access better quality of service or improved customer care and of course, the proposition of a better tariff package. This, however,will occur only if operators believe that the churn out of their subscriber base will be so high that they need to improve their service or customer care, etc. However , surveys have revealed that the net effect of number portability is practically negligible . This means most large operators gain and lose roughly the same number of subscribers, taking away any incentive to dramatically change quality of service or customer care or pricing owing to the threat of losing subscribers or the option of gaining subscribers.


For the consumer, this could mean you might switch your operator, but based more on a perception of improvement rather than a real difference. Trai’s September 2009 data suggests that at a pan-India level, the call set up success rate was upwards of 97.26%—the lowest being in UP (East) and the highest at 99.99% in Mumbai . Similarly the call drop rate according to Trai is less than 3% across the country with the highest at 1.9% in Rajasthan and the lowest at 0.42% in Orissa. In fact, the difference between GSM and CDMA operators is also negligible .


Further, all operators across the country score upwards of 90% with regards to the parameter called connection with good quality voice with the highest in UP West (CDMA) at 99.99% and the lowest in UP East (GSM) at 95.1%. It is also a well established fact that tariffs are extremely competitive and so moving to a dramatically lower bill is unlikely.


Some consumers who are frequent callers, an equivalent of closed user group—or family members who are currently on different networks could now move to single network to take advantage of attractive tariff packages, including free calls within the same network, etc.But before you make any switch check whether your operator is providing a similar option.

Monday, January 17, 2011

astrological signs-courtesy msn news

Dear all,

The latest message from MSN news is placed for every one's analysis !

regards




Washington, Jan 15 (IANS) Astronomers suggest an overhaul in the process of defining horoscope on the basis of one's birth date as the earth's position vis-a-vis the sun and other stars has changed since the astrological signs were determined over 2,000 years ago.

Apart from the existing 12 astrological signs, the experts include a 13th sign Ophiuchus, a formation which the ancient Babylonians discarded because they wanted 12 star signs.

According to astronomers, the 'real' dates of all the 12 astrological signs will be altered for about a period of 30 days.

Here are the 'real' dates of astrological signs:

Capricorn: Jan 20 to Feb 16.

Aquarius: Feb 16 to March 11.

Pisces: March 11 to April 18.

Aries: April 18 to May 13.

Taurus: May 13 to June 21.

Gemini: June 21 to July 20.

Cancer: July 20 to Aug 10.

Leo: Aug 10 to Sep 16.

Virgo: Sep 16 to Oct 30.

Libra: Oct 30 to Nov 23.

Scorpio: Nov 23 to 29.

Ophiuchus: Nov 29 to Dec 17.

Sagittarius: Dec 17 to Jan 20.


T K Parthasarathy Chennai

Sunday, January 16, 2011

sales digest

A VALENTINE INCIDENT - FEBRUAR, 2000

6 AM, February 14, 2000. The weather was cool and sleep inducing. My telephone bell started ringing disturbing my deep slumber. I ran to the front room and lifted the receiver. “Yes, please”, I responded.


“I love you, I love you, and I love you so much, Darling”. A cool romantic voice cooed in from the other side. I was shell shocked and stunned for a few seconds, but soon regained my composure. Matching the tone in Maddy’s cinematic expression I chirped responding.

“I too love you, sweetie. Thank you so much for understanding and appreciating that even at 68, I will be able to manage situations and perform to mutual satisfaction arising out of our deep love”.


Her instrument fell dead.


- It happenedK Mathew Thomas

sales digest

A SALESMAN’S CREED

As a Salesman, I consider serving my
customer as the most important
part of my career activity. I believe
that my customer, my employer and
I are interdependent. I am
dependent on my customer in joint
interests - his interests, my
employer’s interests
and my own interests. I will live
and function as a role model imbibing
in me the best in personal and
professional qualities. Integrity,
I believe is the fountainhead
of character.

My customer trusts me to serve his
interests by providing him with quality
goods and services he needs, in time
at fair cost and help him earn his
rightful reward that enables him
to confidently continue and prosper
in his profession

I will inscribe in my heart
that my customer and my employer
can never be a pebble in my shoe unless
I fail them in upholding their interests,
rights and privileges and guiding them
in the right path to tread on and progress.
I should strive hard to achieve the best
in customer relationship without
sacrificing the interests of my employer.
It will be my endeavor to do equal
justice to all those whom I have to
serve and live up fully to their
expectations

As a Salesman, the fulfillment of this CREED is my LIFE MISSION.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

INDIAN GUINNESS RECORD --SAPPAATTU RAMAN

INDIAN GUINNESS RECORD --SAPPAATTU RAMAN

A New Dawn Of A Better Tomorrow!

A New Dawn Of A Better Tomorrow!

Shining Light

Shining Light

sales digest

The tragedy of an old man

In 1952, I was doing my second year in St. Berchmans College in Kerala. For the students College never was an attraction. But the Masala Dosa of Nehru Cafe and the nearby New Theatre were big student pullers. The short, stocky, bald-headed New Theatre Owner Mathachen had many antics to attract the students. One day suddenly a big banner appeared in front of the theatre with three sexy teenagers painted over it. Their dance was a bonus for the cinema viewers. Before the dance the three girls in their gowns were presented to the audience along with their father - a handsome graceful looking person in his late fifties. I saw the dance which was crude and soon forgot about it.

In the sixties I came down to Madras from Bombay as a Salesman of Johnson & Johnson Ltd. Opposite to my house there lived a family with hosts of children and an old fair-complexioned person. I was then a bachelor and my stay in Madras was confined to a week or so in a month as I had to tour all over the South. This old man was a regular visitor to my place and he used to share his woes with me. I could make out that it was a great relief for him and he enjoyed my company and my traditional self-prepared Kerala brand black coffee. I too loved this man for his plain speaking. Since his accounts may taste bitter to many where old parents stay along with them, I refrain from going into the details. But one particular instance he referred to, I will never forget and I want every one to read it. It ran like this:-


“This morning I went to the Egmore station to book a ticket and from there I had to walk down to the Govt. Eye Hospital for an eye checkup. It was around 2.00 p m. On the right side of the road I saw many beggars sitting on the footpath and having their food. I looked at their aluminium plate and I found two to three items along with the rice in it. I compared myself to them and I suppressed my emotion and tears”.

One day he said he belonged to Kottayam, a town in Central Travancore. I told him of my job related Kottayam connection and added that I had my college education in St. Berchmans, Changanacherry. He had loved me as a son and had nothing to hide from me.

“That town is known to me. My children had a dance program in a theatre there”. Suddenly it struck to me that this was the graceful old person I had carried in my memory for years. Our loving relationship went for months together. The opposite house where he lived was the finest example of a house of what one should not be. When the quarrel between the spouses reaches the high pitch the old man used to run out and seek refuge in my house. I was very good to him, and he was so noble and upright that he had never used to exploit my warmer feelings for him. My heart was full of pity and sympathy for him. In the middle of one night during such a high pitch
battle between husband and wife, he rushed to me and he wanted to spend the rest of the night with me. I had no great facility to accommodate him, but both of us shared the room for the rest of the night. Early morning he got up and both of us prepared and shared a hot black coffee. He then asked for a favour from me for the first time. He said he wanted to go to Kottayam and see his first daughter. He wanted money. He promised that he would come back soon. Immediately I obliged because to me he was a fatherly figure in my heart. With tears in his eyes he looked at me for sometime and in a cracking voice he mumbled “Life has become very difficult for me. I trace my sufferings decades back when my wife went on her heavenly call leaving these three girl children under my care. God only knows the trials I went through these decades to bring them up to this stage. Now I have become the ‘old man out’. He continued “One day I will put my head on the rail and this unwanted life will end once for all”.

“That would be a rash act” was my response. He wiped his tears off the face and left. The next day he left for Kerala. He returned after a week or so, but I was not in Station. I was on business tour. I returned after a fortnight and the opposite house was very clam. I looked for the old man as I had such a liking for him and his smile was the greatest motivation and inspiration I ever had in my life. But that smile was no more, his graceful face was no more and his tears too were no more. Days earlier, in the dead of night he left the house, went to a busy railway crossing, placed his head on the rail and the approaching train cracked his neck upwards. The man broke his journey of life for ever and the train and cruel family continued its journey in different directions. To the best of my understanding the family recognised the body at the mortuary but did not claim it to save money on funeral expenses. It was buried or utilised like any unclaimed body.

At times I go through that phase of my life with him and tears flow through in plenty, unchecked. Even now as I write this.

This is a real story - K. Mathew Thomas.

Monday, January 3, 2011

US and Australia sentence 2 billion Indians to climate death in 21st century Anglo-imposed climate genocide

US and Australia sentence 2 billion Indians to climate death in 21st century Anglo-imposed climate genocide

cynosure

How to Become a Person Everyone Wants to Know

1
Observe.
Take notice of how you act and how others act.

2

Listen. Instead of talking about how cool you are ask others questions. When you show interest in others they end up wanting to know more about you.

3
Be more interesting.
Do things differently, mix your life up! If you always say hi to the same people talk to different ones.

4
Save it.
If someone doesn't ask you something then keep it to yourself. Unless they've told you something about what you want to say.

5
Lay back and relax.
Don't get all worked up over people. This really turns them off as to wanting to know you.

6
Be happy.
People want to be around people that make them feel happy and make them forget about their worries.

7
Study hard and succeed.
People naturally like smart people. Dumb people aren't going to get far in life and you want to get far.

8
Take certain things seriously.
First of all when it comes to school or being on top of things don't joke and make a fool out of yourself. Casually make jokes and act less stressed out but don't, I repeat, don't slack off. You can be serious and still have fun.

9
Take the clues.
First, know who you can joke around with and who not. Next, don't make jokes about things that bother them or that they are serious about, respect them.

10
Be yourself.
A whole lot of people say this and it is completely true. People are attracted to people who have confidence in who they are and aren't so weak that they have to bend who they are for others.

11
Be beautiful. Beautiful is not being gorgeous, but being comfortable with who you are and owning it, minus the ego. Love
yourself and others.