FINDING PEACE IN POVETY!

please free me from all sorts of and types of and hypes of poverties o lord!

MAHATMA ! come back!!

MAHATMA IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO COME BACK AGAIN! We can't find you through cureency notes and your big photographs,and idols.We want you alive and now.

Such is a situation, never before!

And before it is too late you need to do something.. your thoughts are very ridiculously crushed by us in the name of development and so on and what not?

The Varakari who never bothered to look beyond vithoba is now fighting against DOW......

and now we can't stop nor we can run after the mad agreemants or commitments of anybody in the name of global villaging.

Here is a message from one of my pals.

i'm was involved as a volunteer in the anti dow campaign in the pune.

if you check in this week's news then you'll find agressive protests from the locals.

but media has not raised the issue as they would have.

in spite of being educated...people are not aware of the enviornmental issue. if they gonna pollute the pune ...then it won't take much time to distroy the enviornment of the whole maharastra(considerig the geography and political sitautions.) i kindly request u to raise thios issue on your blog.
i'll be going to visit that location in pune ...shinde vasuli village on this sunday.

The protest requires now adays professional tools and street plays are the best. It is not defeating some company but we need to find out the truth and work upon living strategy.

Safdar Hashmi i remember you because bringing th street realities of life was your expertise and where are you?

Let me appeal the community to find the truth out of the turmoil and some resources for help on gandhian thoughts and followership... I was exploring on net on gandhi and i found oasis of these people with gandhilibrary.org

these are the people, member of the board of trustees of gandhilibrary.org .

Communicate with them and may be you will find some more better ways to fight for the cause of people and society.

Bhatt Deepak Jain Sulekh C. , B.S, M.S, Ph.D, MBAKothari Atul B. , MS, MBA, CPA, CFPLokey, Walter (Teb)Mahajan Devinder, BS, MS, PESteele Richard "Dick"Wani Manish K., MD, FACS
Bhatt Deepak
Deepak Bhatt did his engineering undergraduate study in India and graduate study in engineering and business administration in USA. He was a part-time faculty member of Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. He did Information Technology (IT) and Management Consulting for domestic and international companies. Since his retirement in 1996, he is enjoying literary, cultural, bridge, investment and community welfare related activities.
Contact Information:4918 Hillswick Dr, Sugar Land, TX 77479Telephone: 281-491-6683E-mail: deepakbh@ureach.com
Jain Sulekh C. , B.S, M.S, Ph.D, MBA
Sulekh is a technology consultant in Manufacturing and aerospace engineering. He is a Vice President of Metalworking Consultants Group LLC and President of MMTS Company ( both companies offer consulting services).He received Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Birmingham University ( U.K) in 1969 and MBA from Clark University, Worcester, MASS in 1977. He did Higher Secondary school in Delhi in 1955, B.Sc Engineering ( Mech Engg) from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, India in 1960 and M.Tech in Production Engineering from I.I.T Kharagpur ( India) in 1962. Sulekh currently resides in Sugar Land, TX.
Contact Information:4502 Saint Michaels Court, Sugar Land, TX 77479 Telephone: 281-494-7656 (Home). 281-494-7656 (Work) Mobile: 832-594 8005Fax: 281-494-7656E mail: scjain@earthlink.net
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Kothari Atul B. , MS, MBA, CPA, CFP
Atul is Certified Public Accountant, CPA, licensed to practice public accounting in State of Texas, USA, since 1979. He received his MBA from University of Houston in 1977. He received his MS in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1975. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, India with B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering in 1974. He received his high school diploma from Sainik School Balachhadi(Jamnagar), India in 1969.Atul currently resides in Houston, Texas. He has his own public accounting firm since 1984.
Contact Information:1015 Crossroads Drive, Houston, TX 77079Telephone: 281-531-1977 (Home), 713-785-3900 (Work)Mobile: 832-265-7936Fax: 713-785-6252E mail: akothari@gandhilibrary.org
Lokey, Walter (Teb)
Teb Lokey received his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971. After spending over 30 years in financial and regulatory positions with financial institutions and regulated natural gas pipelines, he retired in 2003 to devote his time to the study and advancement of peace and social justice. Teb is active in a number of organizations dedicated to promoting communication, respect and nonviolence in all relationships. Contact Information: 1917 1/2 Banks Street , Houston , TX 77098Telephone: 713-528-3521 E mail: wlokey@houston.rr.com

Mahajan Devinder, BS, MS, PE
Devinder (Dev) is a Professional Engineer retired from Dow Chemical USA as an Associate Consultant after 24 years of service. At present, he devotes his full time to various community service projects. He received his BS in Civil Engineering in 1962 from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan & MS in Structural Engineering in 1963 from the same university. Devinder & his wife Sushma currently reside in Houston, Tx
Contact Information:529 Trails End, Houston, TX 77024Telephone: 713-468-4339 (Home)Mobile: 713-494-5382Fax 713-468-4339E mail: mahajandn@yahoo.com

Steele Richard "Dick"
Richard "Dick" Steele retired from the active practice of law in 2002. He now spends his time doing pro bono legal work and working with religious and non-profit organizations. He is especially interested in interfaith relations. He is member of Live Oak Friends Meeting of Houston (Quakers), and represents South Central Yearly Meeting of Friends of The Texas Conference of Churches. He is a lay chaplain with the Community of Hope where he ministers to paroles. In addition to serving as a Trustee of The Mahatma Gandhi Library he is on the board of The American Friends Service Committee serving on the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and Friends General Conference Central Committee where he is Clerk of Friends Meeting House Fund, a mortgage company providing funds for Quaker meetings. He also is on the board of directors of Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston, the Houston Drug Court Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union - Houston Chapter.

Wani Manish K. MD, FACS
Manish received his medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine in 1994. He continued his training in Otolaryngology at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine. He is Board certified with the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Manish has been practice with Texas, Ear, Nose & Throats Specialists, P.A. in the Katy area since 2001. He resides in Katy with his wife and two children.
Contact Information:707 S. Fry Rd, Ste 250, Katy, TX 77450Telephone: 281-492-9844 (home), 281-492-7827 (office)Fax: 281-646-1416E-mail: manishoto@yahoo.com

THESE ARE THE SEVEN MORAL WARNINGS WE MAY THINK OF AND FOLLOW
7 Moral Warnings
Wealth without work
Pleasure without Conscience
Knowledge without character
Business without Ethics
Science without Humanity
Religion without Sacrifice
Politics without Principle
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NOT ME THIS TIME!

The doomsday fun was the reallife situation for me last week.My mother was hospitalised for heart related trouble and we were struggling for the meaning of life and death... if any thing goes wrong with your dearones you feel that it is the end of the world and when th end of the world will be there we search for new ideas.Or we want to settle for the idea that OH NOT ME THIS TIME!

I had a friend in advertising who called me some years back asking me whether i was alive and working.He had read some news in the newspaper and the similarity of the name he said made him feel as if ... fun apart the reality thereafter was totally different and he had an accident and leave us on the spot. I remembere him calling me and laughing at me asking voh mai to nahi? and i had said, NOT ME THIS TIME..

The speed of thought and action is creating a direct trouble and intervention in our living.We should know the limits of human being and being human ...

The incidence of hospitalisation and everybody rushing to get rid of the environment of fear is a mad scene in India.The health workers too suffer a lot due to work pressure.The great Dr NItu Mandke the worlds famous cardiac scholar had to die out of widows syndrome. The starck realities of life sometimes lead to avery funny troubles.The real hridayparivartan an start only if we practically accept few things.

That is

we are mortal.

We keep changing.

We have to keep changing for survival.

We may not contrubute anything to society but we have to retain and ramain with everybody.

My father a wellknown marathi poet and teacher died in 2001 due to cancer, and he wrote an article the last article in which he gave five basic realisations they are

I am for nobody.

Nobody is for mine.

I am for God.

God is for me.

I am the God or God is me.

These are the stages in the life one has to clearly understand and accept.He lived a great life meditated a lot and helped people with his emotional approach without intellectual barriers.We should not head towards our future forgetting our hearts.I remember ARATI PRABHU very reknown poet in Marathi at tis point of time and felt that we are all poets like WALYAKOLI TURNED WALMIKI.

Everytime for the dreams of our own desires and family members we rob our lives and the truth by drawing convinient meanings and associations with people, when our family members desert us we become WALMIKIS and that is the ramayana of life nothing else.Everybody has a different ramayana and if we don not understand it then mahabharaht happens.

So everyday one should say thanks god.... NOT ME THIS TIME.

गेले दयायचे राहुनी, तुझे नक्षत्रांचे देणे
माझ्या पास आता कळया, आणि थोडी ओली पाने
आलो होतो हासत मी, काही श्वासांसाठी फक्त
दिवसांचे ओझे आता, रात्र रात्र सोशी रक्त
आता मनाचा दगड, घेतो कण्हत उशाला
होते कळयांचे निमार्ल्य, आणि पानांचा पाचोळा

DOOMSDAY

Tomorow is supposed to be the doomsday! the CERN lab experiement is going to reveal the mystery of our origin and history of universe.You may better visit doomsdayguide.org and Survive2012.com with various predictions and aspirations.The divide in two teams of scientists says that a mini blackhole will be created and that is harmfull to the earth.many of them feel that it is just a small scientific experiment to confirm the bigbang theory.

Th yahoo news story has a brief account ...

As physicists get set to recreate the Big Bang, German chemistry professor Otto Rossler predicts that their experiment will actually create a mini black hole that will suck all life and light into it and lead to the end of the world. On Wednesday, somewhere below the French-Swiss border, scientists at CERN (a European organisation for nuclear research) are getting ready to drive two beams of particles into each other at close to the speed of light in a machine called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
This will recreate the Big Bang and answer questions about the origins of life, the universe and everything. Black hole creation Though no one really knows what 'will' happen, all sorts of theories of sudden annihilation abound.
CERN's strongest opponent Otto R and #246;ssler, a German chemistry professor, argues that just as with the Big Bang, this experiment too will create a mini-black-hole, an intense gravitational field that will keep sucking in matter until the entire world, and all its light, is gone. To counter the bad press, a rap video on CERN is doing the rounds on YouTube.

WILL IT END TOMORROW?

I have read swami vivekananda quoting about the cycle of universe in some book, he said this is a never ending cycle and when it will happen we human beings in this form of evolution will not be there at that time..

Curiousity,anxiety and seeking truth have different shades of life. Let us see what happens...

Local events that hit global perceptions

BAIL SAVASIN AAI/
APAN PITARANCHE THAI/
THOR VECH JALA NASHTA/
AVAGHYA APSAVYA CHESTA/
VISHAYANCHE CHARAVANI/KELI AYUSHYACHI GALANI//
Nowadays the local changes that are taking place especially in rural india make lot of sense in the social chemistry of indian society.I am typing this seating here just 25 km away from a place where this happended and i can not accept it.A house wife caught under fire finally died and her creamation was objected by the villagers and in the mob anger they set fire in the inlaws house in the village when they were in the funeral of the unfortunate girl.
How do you you understand this?
विवाहीतेला पेटविल्याच्या संशयावरून तीन घरे जाळलीगोरंबे, ता. ६ - बेलवळे खुर्द (ता. कागल) येथील विवाहीतेला पेटवून ठार मारल्याच्या संशयावरून येथील ग्रामस्थांनी पतीसह सासूला बेदम चोप देतच त्यांची तिन्ही घरे, मोटारसायकलसह सर्व प्रापंचिक साहित्य जाळून टाकले.संतप्त झालेल्या जमावाने अर्ध्या एकरातील ऊसही हातानेच मोडून टाकला. सौ. दीपाली युवराज पोवार (वय- २५) असे या दूर्दैवी विवाहीतेचे नाव आहे. भारतीय सैन्यात जवान असलेला पती युवराज कुंडलिक पोवार, सासू सौ. लक्ष्मी, सासरा पुंडलिक, जाऊ ज्योती हे सर्वजण फरारी झाले.

याबाबत अधिक माहिती अशी, सात वर्षांपूर्वी दीपालीचे युवराजशी लग्न झाले होते. त्यांना गायत्री नावाची साडेपाच वर्षांची मुलगीही आहे. गेल्या महिन्याच्या २८ तारखेला रात्री बाराच्या सुमाराला ८५ टक्के भाजलेल्या दीपालीला गंभीरावस्थेतच कोल्हापूरातील खासगी रूग्णालयात उपचारासाठी दाखल केले होते. त्यानंतर तिथे चार दिवस उपचार झाल्यावर पुढील उपचारासाठी तिला पुण्यातील सैनिकी इस्पितळात हलविण्यात आले होते. परंतू तिथे शुक्रवारी दुपारी एक वाजता तिचा मृत्यू झाला. त्यानंतर पती, सासू व सासरे मृतदेह घेवून मध्यरात्री दीडच्या सुमाराला गावाकडे आले. त्यावेळी गावाच्या वेशीवरच थांबलेल्या पाचशे ते सहाशे ग्रामस्थांनी कूटूंबीयानीच दीपालीला पेटवून मारल्याचा आरोप करीत पोलिस येईपर्यंत मृतदेहावर अंत्यसंस्कार करू नका, असे सांगितले. तरीही पहाटे चार वाजता कुटूंबीयांनी मृतदेह गावातील घरी आणला. साडेचार वाजता सर्व विधी आटोपून मृतदेह अंत्यसंस्कारासाठी नेत असतानाच ग्रामस्थांनी त्यांच्या घरावर हल्ला केला. या हल्ल्यात पोवार कुटूंबीयांच्या राहत्या घरासह, त्यांच्याच मालकीच्या त्या घराच्या पाठीमागीलही दोन्ही घरांना संतप्त ग्रामस्थांनी आग लावली. ही तिन्ही घरे पेटत असतानाच काही ग्रामस्थांनी घरावंर चढून भिंती, वासे व कौलांची मोठ्या प्रमाणात मोडतोड केली. यावेळी या तिन्ही घरांतील प्रापंचिक साहित्याचे जमावाने ठिकठिकाणी ढीग केले व तेही पेटवून दिले. यावेळी स्प्लेंडंर मोटारसायकल, फ्रिज, टीव्ही, पलंग, तिजोऱ्या, १५ ते २० पोती धान्य यासह बहुतांशी संसारोपयोगी साहीत्य आगीच्या भक्ष्यस्थांनी सापडले होते. घरापाठीमागील गोठ्यातील तिन्ही म्हशींच्या दोऱ्या कापून टाकून, म्हशींना बाहेर घालवून जमावाने गोठ्यालाही आग लावली. घटनेची माहिती कळताच कागल पोलिस ठाण्याचे दोन कॉंस ्टेबल गावाकडे येत होते. गावाच्या वेशीजवळच संतप्त गावकऱ्यांनी त्यांच्या दीशेनेही दगडफेक करायला सुरुवात केली. दरम्यान, दीपालीवर अंत्यसंस्कार करून परत आलेल्या पती युवराजसह, सासू लक्ष्मी या दोघांना जमावाने बेदम चोप दिला. त्यानंतर सर्व पोवार कुटूंब फरार झाले. /www.esakal.com/esakal/09072008/Kolhapur0E82208C34.htm

The Evolution of knowledge God and me!

every time the festival of Ganesha brings a delightful environment in my mind because i have enjoyed all types of celebrations with him. And every time i have celebrated a new idea with him,he has empowered me with lot many new ideas. So it has been an evolution of knowledge for me in these years and every year i am enlightened to get into it.The modesty on his part is that he accepts whatever we offer and he offers whatever we cherish for.
The very essence of his being with us in these days creates great mood in the surroundings.I have worked with tarun mandals, julus and street dancers and or competition and at many occasions in variety of roles and he offered me many privileges also.He accommodates all my ignorance with akind heart.Let us worship him again.

Sri Ganesh stotram!

Sri Narada uvaca:
1. Pranamya sirasa devan gauriputram vinayakambhaktavasam smaren nityam ayus kamartha siddhaye

2. Prathamam vakratundam ca ekadantam dvitiyakamtrtiyam Krsna pingaksam gajavaktram caturthakam
3. Lambodaram pancamam ca sastam vikatam eva casaptamam vighnarajam ca dhumravarnam tathastamam4. Navamam phalacandram ca dasamam tu vinayakamekadasam ganapatim dvadasam tu gajananam
5. Dvadasaitani namani trisandhyam yah pathen narahna ca vighnabhayam tasya sarvasiddhi karam param
6. Vidyarthi labhate vidyam dhanarthi labhate dhanamputrarthi labhate putran moksarthi (moksama-apnuyat)*
7. Japet Ganapati stotram sadbhir masaih phalam labhetsamvatsarena siddhim ca labhate natra samsayah
8. Astabhyo brahmanebhyas ca likhitva yah samarpayettasya vidya bhavet sarva Ganesasya prasadatah
iti sri narada purane samkastanasana -ganesa stotram sampurnam
* some time: (labhate gatim)

Sri Narada says:1. With head bowed, let me unceasingly worship in my mind the god Vinayaka, the son of Gauri, the refuge of his devotees, for the complete attainment of longevity, amorous desires and wealth.

2. Firstly, as the one with the twisted trunk. Secondly, as the one with the single tusk. Thirdly, as the one with the fawn colored eyes. Fourthly, as the one with the elephants mouth,

3. Fifthly, as the pot-bellied one, Sixthly, as the monstrous one, Seventhly, as the king of obstacles, Eighthly, as the smoke colored one

4. Ninethly, as the moon crested one, Tenthly, as the remover of hindrances, Eleventhly, as the Lord of the hordes, Twelfthly, as the one with the elephants face.

5. Whosoever repeats these twelve names at dawn, noon and sunset, for him there is no fear of failure, nay, there is constant good fortune.

6. He who desires knowledge obtains knowledge. He who desires sons gets sons. He who desires salvation obtains the way.

7. Whosoever mutters the hymn to Ganapati reaches his aim in six months, and in a year reaches perfection, on this point there is no doubt.

8. Whosoever makes eight copies of it, and has them distributed to as many brahmans, he reaches knowledge instantaneously, by the grace of Ganesh

EARTH IS CRYING!

The situation in Bihar is beyond imagination of any disaster one may try with...We have to help them pray for them and pray mother earth to bless us with peace and shelter.

I will be praying every morning at 8:00 a.m. will you joine me at that time.