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THE FIVE RICE GRAINS REPRESENT FIVE PRINCIPLES FOLLOWED BY THE JAINS. THEY INCLUDE NON VIOLENCE, TRUTH AND NON- STEALING. THOSE WHO FOLLOW THEM WILL GET THE FULL BENEFITS AND SHINE IN LIFE.
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ரஷிய விண்வெளி வீரர்கள் விண்வெளி ஏகு முன் பாரம்பரியமாகச்
சில பழக்க வழக்கங்களை கடைப்பிடித்து வருகின்றனர்.
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அவற்றில் சிலவற்றைக் கீழே காணலாம்.
ரஷிய
விண்வெளி வீரர்கள் ரெட் ஸ்குயருக்குச் செல்வர். க்ரெம்ளின் வால்-இல் பூங்கொத்தை
வைக்கின்றனர்.
ஸ்டார்
சிடியில் உள்ள யூரி ககாரின் அலுவலகத்தில் விருந்தினர் புத்தகத்தில்
கையெழுத்திடுகின்றனர்.
ஒரு
மரத்தை நடுகின்றனர். யூரி ககாரின் காலத்தில் ஆரம்பித்த இந்தப் பழக்கம் இன்றளவும்
தொடர்கிறது.
ரஷிய
சர்ச்சின் பாரம்பரிய பாதிரியார் ஒருவர் ராக்கெட் விண்ணில் ஏவப்படுவதற்கு முன்
விண்வெளிவீரர்களை ஆசீர்வதிக்கிறார்.
கிளம்பும்
முன்னர் தங்கள் கதவில் விண்வெளிவீரர்கள் கையெழுத்து இடுகின்றனர்.
ராக்கெட்டை
நோக்கிச் செல்லும் முன்னர் பஸ் டயரில் சிறுநீர் கழிக்கின்றனர். யூரி ககாரின்
காலத்திலிருந்தே இந்தப் பழக்கம் ஆரம்பித்து இன்றளவும் தொடர்கிறது. விண்ணில்
பறக்கப்போகும் பெண் வீராங்கனையாக இருந்தால் ஒரு பாட்டிலில் தங்கள் சிறுநீரைப்
பிடித்துக் கொண்டு வந்து டயர் மீது ஊற்றி விட்டுச் செல்வது வழக்கம்.
கிராவிடி
டெஸ்ட் உள்ள பொம்மையில் விளையாடுவதும் ஒரு பழக்கம். இது ஒவ்வொரு சோயுஸ்
விண்கலத்திலிருந்தும் கொண்டு வரப்படுகிறது.
அக்டோபர்
24ஆம் தேதி எந்தக் கலமும் விண்ணில் செலுத்தப்படுவதில்லை. ஏனெனில் அந்த தினத்தில்
இரண்டு மோசமான விபத்துக்களை ரஷியா சந்தித்து விட்டது.
ஒய்ட்
சன் ஆஃப் தி டெஸர்ட்-ஐ விண்வெளி ஏகுவதற்கு முதல் நாள் விண்வெளி ஏகுவோர் பார்ப்பது
வழக்கம்.
மோதிரம்,
கால் தண்டை போன்ற சிறு அணிகலன்களை ஒவ்வொரு வீரரும் விண்வெளிக்கு எடுத்துச் செல்வது
வழக்கம்.பின்னர் இதை அவர்கள் பரிசுப் பொருள்களாக விரும்பியோருக்கு வழங்குவர்
அல்லது விற்று விடுவர். இதே போல நாஸாவிலிருந்து விண்ணில் செல்லும் அமெரிக்க
வீரர்களும் பரிசு வழங்க இருக்கும் பொருள்களை எடுத்துச் செல்வதுண்டு.
மூலத்தை ஆங்கிலத்தில் கீழே காணலாம். கீழே கொடுக்கப்பட்ட இணைய தளத்தில் இது தொடர்பான சில படங்களையும் காணலாம்.
There are a few
traditions that the astronauts do before going into space right now. Since the
only way for humans to get into space right now is through Russia, all of these
traditions are related to that program. There may have been some other
traditions for other space programs which won’t be listed here.
Here are my top ten
traditions, in no particular order.
1. Astronauts visit Red Square and lay carnations at the Kremlin Wall. Here,
Samantha Cristoferitti is participating.
2. They sign a guest
book at Star City, Russia at Yuri Gagarin’s office. Here you see the current
expedition members, Scott Kelly, Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko signing
the book.
3. Here, Karen Nyberg
is planting a tree. This tradition started with Yuri Gagarin and continues
today.
4. A Russian Orthodox
priest blesses the crew and rocket before launch:
5. Astronauts sign the
door to their room before departing. This is Chris Hadfield signing his.
6. One tradition that
is hard to find photos of (for obvious reasons) is the tradition of urinating
on the bus tire as the astronauts head to the rocket. Yuri Gagarin also started
this tradition. I have read that female astronauts may or may not participate
in this tradition. Sometimes they bring a bottle of their urine and pour it on
the tire.
7. My daughter’s
favorite tradition is of course the “gravity test” stuffed toy that
is brought onboard each Soyuz. Here, Anton Shkaplerov, Terry Virts and Samantha
Cristoforetti are conducting this important test
8. There is one
anti-tradition: No launches are ever scheduled on Oct 24th because Russia has
had two fatal accidents on that day.
9. The crew traditionally watch “Белое солнце пустыни / White Sun of the Desert”
the night before the launch.
10. The Russians in particular have always taken trinkets into space to give away later as gifts or to trade. This is also popular in the US with NASA astronauts, but the tradition is a lot bigger in Russia.
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அக்டோபர்
2019
நற்சிந்தனை காலண்டர்
கர்ம
வினை, செயல்பாடு
பற்றி 31
பொன்மொழிகள்
பண்டிகை
நாட்கள்-அக்.2- காந்தி ஜயந்தி; 7- சரஸ்வதி பூஜை, ஆயுத பூஜை; 8-விஜயதசமி; 26-தந்வந்திரி ஜயந்தி27-தீபாவளி, லக்ஷ்மி-குபேர பூஜை; 28-ஸ்கந்த சஷ்டி விரதம் ஆரம்பம்
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Can you name
at least 25 rivers? You can take 25X4=100marks.
25 நதிகளைக் கண்டுபிடியுங்கள் 25 X 4 = 100 மதிப்பெண்கள் (முதல் 4 நதிகளான சிந்து நதி முதலியன படத்தில் காட்டப்படவில்லை. 36 ஆறுகளில் 25 கண்டுபிடித்தால் போதும்.)
விடை-
1.சிந்து, 2.சீனாப், 3.ராவி, 4.பியாஸ் (வியாஸ). இந்த 4
நதிகளும் படத்தில் குறிப்பிடப்படவில்லை.
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அடைப்புக்குறிக்குள் உள்ள எண், அந்தச் சொல்லில் எத்தனை எழுத்துக்கள் என்பதைக் குறிக்கும்.
குறுக்கே
1.–6– பெரும்பாலும் வாரம்தோறும் கூடும்; மக்கள் சாமான் வாங்கப் போவர்-
இரைச்சல் மிக்க இடம்
4. — 3—பெரிய, வாய் அகலமான பாத்திரம்
5.–3– இனிப்பின்
எதிரி
6.–2– பருவகாலத்தில்
கொட்டும்/ வலமிருந்து இடம் செல்க.
7.–5– ராமபிரானின்
மகன்கள்
9.–6– விசாகம், புத்த பூர்ணிமா நடக்கும் 30 நாட்கள்/ வலமிருந்து இடம் செல்க.
கீழே
1.–6–தமிழர்களின் பொற்காலம்-
சேர சோழ பாண்டியர் அவையில் 400க்கும் மேலான புலவர்கள் இருந்த காலம்
2.–4—
பொங்கல் பண்டிகை வரும் 30 நாள்
8.-2–
முயல் உருவம் இருப்பதால் நிலவுக்கு இப்பெயர்
3.–5–
போர்ச்சுகீஸியர் இருந்த இரண்டு பகுதி; கோவா இல்லை
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gold or silver in bulk before coining, or valued by weight.
“gold bullion”
2.
ornamental braid or fringing made with twists of gold or silver thread.
“bullion cords”
Moses broke
the ‘Golden Calf’ in Israel according to the Bible (Exodus 32:1-4). Though it
is called Golden Calf it was a bull. Moses was against Idol worship.
The rust
free , gleaming metal was associated with the SUN in almost all the cultures. Mayans,
Aztecs aand Incas worshipped sun. Inca made sun images in gold.
Gold is
called chin in China. It symbolised the principal of Yang, the dualistic
complement of Yin (whose metal was silver.
Aztecs
called it divine excrement (Teocuitlatl = faeces of the Sun God).
The
alchemists maxim ‘aurum nostrum non est arum vulgi (our gold is not the gold of
the masses)suggests that to him gold meant not literally the metal, but rather
esoteric knowledge.
In classical
antiquity, medicinal herbs were dug out with golden implements, so that their
powers would not be diminished and gold jewellery was believed to ward off
magic spells.
In Babylonia
Scarcity ,
malleability and beauty made gold a desirable medium for the execution of holy
and valuable objects in the Near East.
Coins and
jewels were made up of gold. In Mesopotamia goldsmiths were distinguished from
other metal workers.
The earliest
gold objects discovered were rings dated around 5000 BCE. They were discovered
in a cave in Nahal Qana in Palestine. Occasional gold objects were discovered
from 4th millennium BCE. A FINELY MADE WOLF’S HEAD WAS DISCOVERED IN
Tepe Gawra in Mesopotamia.
Gold came
from Anatolia/Turkey and via Persian Gulf. It is electrum , viz naturally occurring
ore of silver and gold.
Lot of
golden objects were discovered from 3000 BCE.
Dasaratha
, Hindu King who ruled Syria -Turkey area sent an Egyptian pharaoh two golden
statues of Goddesses according to Amana Letters.
gold measure gold snake vahanagolden crow vahanagolden eagle golden chariot
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Page numbers and Volumes are given in brackets. They refer to Swami Vivekananda’s Speeches- The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda published by the Advaita Ashram, Mayavati.
OCTOBER 1
TUESDAY
The perfect
man sees nothing but god (II.50)
OCTOBER 2
WEDNESDAY
The real
man, therefore, is one and infinite, the omnipresent spirit (II.78)
OCTOBER 3
THURSDAY
Man has
infinite power within himself, and he can realize it – he can realize himself
as the one infinite Self (VIII 101)
OCTOBER 4
FRIDAY
Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God (VIII.26)
OCTOBER 5
SATURDAY
Man is
the greatest being that ever can be (VII. 76)
Man is
the only animal that naturally looks upward, every other animal naturally looks
down (III.3)
OCTOBER 9
WEDNESDAY
There are
three things n the make up of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and
there is the soul (V.463)
OCTOBER 10
THURSDAY
The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish (II -465)
OCTOBER 11
FRIDAY
Man dies
but once (V -87)
OCTOBER 12
SATURDAY
Each man
has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past karma (III -152)
OCTOBER 13
SUNDAY
Great occasions
rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone
is the really great man whose character is always , same wherever he be (I -29)
OCTOBER 14
MONDAY
Never say
any man is hopeless (I-208)
OCTOBER 15
TUESDAY
There is
however, one great danger in human nature, viz the man never examines himself
(I-66)
OCTOBER 16
WEDNESDAY
Man is
born to conquer nature (IV-155)
OCTOBER 17
THURSDAY
As soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal (III. 359)
OCTOBER 18
FRIDAY
Man is
made up of three qualities – brutal, human,
and godly (VI – 112)
OCTOBER 19
SATURDAY
Man is
individual a the same time universal (VI- 121)
OCTOBER 20
SUNDAY
Man is
first to be saved; he must be given food, education and spirituality (VI -451)
OCTOBER 21
MONDAY
No man should be judged by his defects (VII-78)
OCTOBER 22 TUESDAY
As soon
as a man or nation loses faith , death
comes (VIII-228)
OCTOBER 23
WEDNESDAY
The highest
kind of men silently collect true and noble ideas (I-105)
OCTOBER 24
THURSDAY
It is an
insult to a starving people to offer them religion; It is an insult to a
starving man to teach him metaphysics (I -20)
OCTOBER 25
FRIDAY
Man is
like an infinite spring, coiled upon in a small box, and that spring is trying
to unfold itself (I- 389)
OCTOBER 26
SATURDAY
Man is not travelling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower truth to higher truth (I-17)
OCTOBER 27
SUNDAY
A man can
be of gigantic intellect, yet spiritually he may be a baby (II-40)
OCTOBER 28
MONDAY
Angels or
gods , whatever you may call them, have all to become men, if they want to
become perfect (II- 271)
OCTOBER 29
TUESDAY
Him I call
a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a
Duratman (wicked soul)- V-58)
OCTOBER 30
WEDNESDAY
The greater
a man has become, the fiercer ordeal he has had to pass through (VII – 126)
OCTOBER 31
THURSDAY
Know it
for certain that there is no greater Tirtha (holy spot) than the body of man (VII
-119)
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The last
stop in my Karnataka tour in September 2019 was Kukke Subrahmanya Temple in
Karnataka. After visiting Sringeri, Kollur, Agumbe, Udupi we came to Kukke. It
is a small village surrounded by the Western Ghats. Kumara Parvatha Hills and
River Dhara added beauty to Kukke. The temple attracts thousands of devotees
from Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Astrologers advise people who are
affected by certain Doshas, particulary Naga Dosha (Dosha= defect, drawback) to
do certain Parikaras or Prayachittas (atonement) in some temples. Kukke
Subrahmnya was one of such temples.
My driver
Narasimha told us that people come stay there for two to five days and finish
the rituals. If you do online bookings the temple itself would make
arrangements for the Pujas and food. Cheaper accommodation is available in the
nearby places. The temple has lot of Naga Prathistas (installation of Snake
idols). We were there for short time and had to buy Rs.100 instant Darshan
ticket so as to reach Bengaluru by 8 pm.
When the curtain
was raised at 12-30 pm we had good darshan in the temple. Another crowd was
waiting for the Naga Prathista ceremonies.
Where is
Kukke?
It is
situated 100 kilometres from Mangaluru and 164 kms from Udupi. The original
name was Kukke or basket with which the priest of the temple covered the
Kukkelinga ( Lord Shiva). Snake worship is popular in this temple and hundreds
of Naga idols are seen.
The legend
is that Vasuki, the snake, sought refuge from Lord Subrahmanya to escape from Garuda,
the eagle. So snake and Subrahmanya shower grace on the devotees. Other names
of Subrahmanya are Skanda, Kartikeya, Kumara and Muruga.
People can
bathe in River Dhara and climb or trek Kumara Parvatha Hills if they want to.
But one can reach the gate of the temple straight in a car or bus. Along the
route people can see small waterfalls, fog topped and cloud capped hills.