Vakra tund mahakaya
suryakoti sam prabha
nirvighnam kuru me deva
sarv karyeshu sarvada.
The story of watermelons by Manohar Parrikar:
“I am from the village of Parra in Goa, hence we are called Parrikars. My village is famous for its watermelons. When I was a child, the farmers would organise a watermelon-eating contest at the end of the harvest season in May. All the kids would be invited to eat as many watermelons as they wanted. Years later, I went to IIT Mumbai to study engineering. I went back to my village after 6.5 years. I went to the market looking for watermelons. They were all gone. The ones that were there were so small. I went to see the farmer who hosted the watermelon-eating contest. His son had taken over. He would host the contest but there was a difference. When the older farmer gave us watermelons to eat he would ask us to spit out the seeds into a bowl. We were told not to bite into the seeds. He was collecting the seeds for his next crop. We were unpaid child labourers, actually. He kept his best watermelons for the contest and he got the best seeds which would yield even bigger watermelons the next year. His son, when he took over, realised that the larger watermelons would fetch more money in the market so he sold the larger ones and kept the smaller ones for the contest. The next year, the watermelons were smaller, the year later even small. In watermelons the generation is one year. In seven years, Parra’s best watermelons were finished. In humans, generations change after 25 years. It will take us 200 years to figure what we were doing wrong while educating our children.”
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हम कौन हैं….
क्या हैं……
क्यों लोगों को समझाया जाय ?
कभी कोशिश करके देखो
जिन्हें जो मानना है
जो समझना है
वही समझेंगे .
क्या खारे …
नमकीन समंदर को
शक्कर डाल
मीठा किया जा सकता है ?
Judge your actions with you own mind:
Make only honest transactions.
Falsehood is harmful at the very source:
So go acquired the diamond of truth .
Sakhi- sanche sauda kijiye.
According to a 19th century legend, the Truth and the Lie meet one day. The Lie says to the Truth: “It’s a marvellous day today”! The Truth looks up to the skies and sighs, for the day was really beautiful. They spend a lot of time together, ultimately arriving beside a well. The Lie tells the Truth: “The water is very nice, let’s take a bath together!” The Truth, once again suspicious, tests the water and discovers that it indeed is very nice.
They undress and start bathing. Suddenly, the Lie comes out of the water, puts on the clothes of the Truth and runs away. The furious Truth comes out of the well and runs everywhere to find the Lie and to get her clothes back.
The World, seeing the Truth naked, turns its gaze away, with contempt and rage. The poor Truth returns to the well and disappears forever, hiding therein, its shame. Since then, the Lie travels around the world, dressed as the Truth, satisfying the needs of society, because, the World, in any case, harbours no wish at all to meet the naked Truth.
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Speech is priceless when it comes
From someone who knows how to speak.
Weigh it in your hearts balance
Before it leaves your mouth.
Sakhi- boli to Anmol hai .
उगते सूरज ने नम आँखों से देखा
एक नन्हा सा दीप
अपनी बंद होती
कमज़ोर आँखों से ,
आख़री लौ में जलता- बुझता
सूरज की कमी पूरी करने में
जी जान से लगा हैं.
सूरज ने अपनी पहली किरण से
उसे सहला कर अपने
आने की ख़बर दे दी .
Place the washed lemon in the freezer.
Once frozen, get your grater, & shred the whole lemon (no need to peel it) and sprinkle it on your foods!
On vegetables, salad, ice cream, soup, cereals, noodles, spaghetti sauce, rice, sushi, fish dishes, … the list is endless. All the foods will get an unexpected wonderful taste!
Most likely, you only think of lemon juice as vitamin C ?? Not anymore!What’s the major advantage of using the whole lemon other than preventing waste & adding new taste to your dishes?
Lemon peels contain as much as 5 to 10 times more vitamins than the lemon juice itself & that’s what you’ve been wasting! Lemon peels are health rejuvenators in eradicating toxic elements in the body.
The surprising benefits of lemon is the miraculous ability to kill cancer cells! It is 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy!! lemon juice is beneficial in preventing the disease.
Gibran and worms, it regulates blood pressure and an antidepressant, combats stress & nervous disorders.
So, give those lemons a good wash, freeze them and grate them. Your whole body will love you for it!!
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