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Walk Ten Steps Backward if You are Angry! (Post No.5303)

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Date: 9 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5303

 

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A very hot tempered man was told by his Guru to walk ten paces backwards every time his temper rose and he felt like lashing out. The man had gone to another village and arrived home quite late at night. He came home to find someone else was sleeping in his place. Thinking the worst of his wife he unsheathed his sword and was just about to kill the two of them.

 

Just then he remembered what his Guru had told him and so he stepped ten paces backwards. While he was doing this , he knocked off something  and the noise awoke the person sleeping in his place. It was his daughter. As soon as he realised who the person was , he was grateful to have taken those steps backwards. Therefore it is better to be a little hesitant before an act than to be sorry when it is too late.

Source: Sikshapatri, Swaminarayan Mandir, Kalupur, Ahmedabad, Year 2000

 

My Comments:-

TAMIL VEDA TIRUK KURAL SAYS,

Great harm may be caused by anger.

Therefore one should restrain anger towards anybody-

Kural 303 (Tamil poet Tiruvalluvar)

 

If one wishes to safeguard oneself, one should control anger, If not it is bound to ruin oneself – Kural 305

 

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Head or Foot? Poet Byron Anecdote (Post No.5299)

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Date: 8 August 2018

 

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During one of Hobouse’s visit to Byron—Hobhouse was a College friend— at his villa near Genoa, and whilst they were walking in the garden, his lordship suddenly turned upon his guest, and, apropos of nothing, but always having his deformity in his mind exclaimed,
Now I know Hobhouse, you’re looking at my foot!
Upon which Hobhouse kindly replied,
My dear Byron, nobody thinks of or looks at anything but your head.

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LORD BYRON

ENGLISH POET

BORN ON JANUARY 22, 1788

DIED ON April 19, 1824

Age at death 36

 

Publications

1807 Hours of Idleness

1809 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

1812-18 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

1813 The Bride of Abydos

1817 Manfred

1818 Beppo

1819-24 Don Juan

1821 Cain

1822 The Vision of Judgement

 

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Lord Byron was a leading poet of the 19th Century English Romantic Movement. His life was almost as colourful as those of the moody, mysterious heroes of his poems.

George Gordon Noel Byron was born in London but spent his first troubled years in Scotland. When Byron was three, his father died, after spending his mother’s fortune, and Byron and his mother faced hardships. But at ten, he inherited a great uncle’s title and estates. Later he attended the prestigious Harrow School and Cambridge University. Byron’s first published poems, ‘Hours of Idleness’, appeared when he was nineteen and were strongly criticized. Byron responded with ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers’, a satirical poem attacking the major literary figures of the time.

At 21 Byron began a two-year grand tour through Southern Europe to Turkey. These travels inspired ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, a long poem about a world weary young lord’s journey through a Europe in need of reforms. The handsome author’s gloomy passion and pleas for justice and liberty attracted women admirers.

At 26 Byron married Annabella Milbanke. She soon left him, shocked by Byron’s affair with his half -sister Augusta. The disgrace made Byron leave England, aged 28.

In Italy, he had new love affairs and wrote his master piece ‘Don Juan’, a long, witty poem about a handsome man’s adventures with women. Byron also began ardently supporting Italian and Greek freedom from foreign control. He joined an Italian secret society and was leading Greek troops against Turks when he caught a fever and died.

 

–subham–

 

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BLIND POET MILTON AND DEAF INVENTOR THOMAS ALVA EDISON! (Post No.5296)

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Date: 7 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5296

 

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When Milton’s enemies mocked his blindness, the poet with great heat replied,
“I prefer my blindness to yours, yours is sunk into your deepest senses , blinding your minds, so that you can see nothing that is sound and solid. Mine takes from me only the colour and surface of things, but does not take away from the minds contemplation what is in those things of true and constant. Moreover, how many things are there which I would not see. How many which I can be debarred the sight without repining! How few left which I much desire to see! Vile men! Who mock us! The blind have a protection from the injuries of men, and we are rendered almost sacred.”

 

JOHN MILTON

Born on 9 th December 1608

Died on 8th November 1674

Age at death 65

 

Publications

1629- on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity

1631- L’Alegro

Il Penseroso

1634 Comus

1637 Lycidas

1645 Poems

1667 Paradise Lost

1671 Paradise Regained

1671 Samson Agonistes

 


John Milton was one of the greatest English poets. He was born in London and educated at Cambridge University. His father was a successful lawyer and composer who was wealthy enough to afford a second house in the country. Milton spent six years in private study thereafter finishing university in 1632. He had given up his original ambition to become a priest and decided to devote his life to God as a poet instead.

Milton began to write poetry while he was at college. He completed one of his major works, Lycidas, perhaps the finest short poem in English at the age of 29. Five years later in 1642 the Civil War divided the country as Oliver Cromwell fought to overthrow the king. At the outbreak of war Milton stopped composing poetry and threw himself into writing political essays supporting Cromwell’s aims. in the same period Milton also became aware that he was slowly going blind.

 

In 1660 the monarchy was restored, and Milton retired to devote himself poetry. His ambition had always been compose an epic poem to rival the works of ancient writers such as Homer and Virgil. By then completely blind, he began dictating his poem, Paradise Lost , to his wife and daughters. The work published, when he was 55, was immediately recognised as an outstanding achievement. It tells the story of how Satan was thrown out of Heaven and how he came to earth to corrupt Adam and Eve. The themes of war and religious conflict it explores constantly remind the reader of the troubled times Milton lived through.

Source: Who wrote what when?, The Diagram Group,  Simon and Schuster, 1999

 
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DEAF EDISON!

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and business man. He had 1093 US patents in his name.

Thomas Edison was deaf but only a few of his friends were aware that in his case deafness was more psychological than physical. Once a specialist in diseases of the ear called upon Mr. Edison and unfolded a plan of treatment which he was sure would restore his hearing. To the proposition that he submit to the treatment, however, was opposed by Mr Edison. He gave an emphatic negative.

“What I am afraid of, said he, is that you would be successful. Just think what a lot of stuff I would have to listen to that I don’t want to hear! To be a little deaf and be the only one who knows just how deaf you are has its advantages. I prefer to let well enough alone”.


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Is Hinduism a Museum of Beliefs, Medley of Rites, Name Without any Content? (Post No.5266)

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Date: 28 JULY 2018

 

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Post No. 5266

 

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AUGUST 2018 ‘GOOD THOUGHTS’ CALENDAR

FESTIVAL DAYS- AUGUST 3- Adi Pathinettu (Tamil Festival), 5-Adi Krithikai, 11- Adi Amavasai, 13- Adi Puram,  15- Independence Day, Naga Panchami, 21- Avani Mulam, 24-Varalakshmi Vrata, 25- ONAM and Rig Veda Upakarma, 26-Raksha Bandan and Yajur Veda Upakarma, 27- Gayatri Japa,

 

 

FULL MOON DAY- 26

NEW MOON DAY- 10 Bodhayana amavasai, 11 Adi Amavasai

August 11 Solar Eclipse/ Surya Grahana not for India

EKADASI FASTING DAYS- 7, 22

AUSPICIOUS DAYS- 23, 29, 30

Is Hinduism a Museum of Beliefs, a Medley of Rites, a Name Without any Content? (Post No.5266)

 

I have given below 31+ quotations from ‘Radhakrishnan Reader – An Anthology’. Dr S Radhakrishnan was the
President of India . He was a great philosopher.

AUGUST 1 WEDNESDAY

It is a bewildering phenomenon that, just when India is ceasing to appear grotesque to Western eyes, she is beginning to appear so to the eyes of some of her own sons. The West tried its best to persuade India that its philosophy is absurd, its art puerile, its poetry uninspired, its religion grotesque and its barbarous. Now the West is feeling that it’s judgement is not quite correct, some of us are insisting that it was wholly right.

AUGUST 2 THURSDAY

The past course of Indian philosophic development encourages us in our hope. The great thinkers, Yajnavalkya and Gargi, Buddha and Mahavira, Gautama and Kapila, Samkara and Ramanuja , Madhva and Vallabha and scores of others are India’s grandest title to existence, a clear testimony of her dignity as a nation with a soul , the proof that she may yet rise above her self and the pledge of this supreme possibility.

AUGUST 3 FRIDAY

God’s Creation not an instantaneous act or a series of acts, but is an eternal process. There is no divorce between the natural and the supernatural. The two are continuous. If god is anywhere, he is everywhere.

AUGUST 4 SATURDAY

The Mahabharata says, ‘To you I declare this holy mystery, there is nothing nobler than humanly’– 12-300-20

Guhyam brahma tad idam vo bravimi
Na manuscat srestataram hi kincit

AUGUST 5 SUNDAY
The inadequacy of-religion-is evident from the disparity between outward allegiance and inward betrayal. Religion is confused with the mechanical participation in the rites or passive acquisition in the dogmas.

 

AUGUST 6 MONDAY

INDIA’S CAPACITY
Hinduism is not limited in scope to the geographical area which is described as India Its sway in early days spread to Campa, Cambodia, Java and Bali. There is nothing which prevents it from extending to the uttermost parts of the earth. India is a tradition, a spirit, a light. Her physical and spiritual frontier s do not coincide.

AUGUST 7 TUESDAY

For thinking minds to blossom, for arts and sciences to flourish, the first condition necessary is a settled society providing security and leisure. A rich culture is impossible with a community of nomads, where people struggle for life and die of privation.

 

AUGUST 8 WEDNESDAY
The huge forests (in India)  with their wide leafy avenues afforded great opportunities for the devout soul to wander peacefully through them, dream strange dreams and burst forth into joyous songs.

AUGUST 9 THURSDAY

Intellectual unselfishness or humility is the mother of all writing, even though that writing may relate to the history of philosophy.

AUGUST 10 FRIDAY

On God
God is not the great silent sea of infinity in which individuals lose themselves but the Divine person who inspires the process first , last and without ceasing.

 

AUGUST 11 SATURDAY

To say God created the world is an understatement. He is creating now and for all the time.

AUGUST 12 SUNDAY

I have had my own share of anxiety trouble and sorrow, but I have had blessings, too, more than I deserve, the chief being the affection and kindness which I receive
In abundance from other people. For all these a thanks offering is due.

AUGUST 13 MONDAY
Life is not a mere chain of physical causes and effects. Chance seems to form the surface of reality, but deep down other forces are at work. If the universe is a living one, if it is spiritually alive, nothing in itis merely accidental. “ The moving finger writes and having writ moves on.”

AUGUST 14 TUESDAY

Indian wisdom has also contributed effectively to the cultural developments of the regions of South East Asia. The characteristic features of Indian culture can still be discerned from ‘Ayuthia and Angkor to Borobudur and Bali’.

AUGUST 15 WEDNESDAY

Ancient Indians do not belong to a different species from ourselves. An actual study of their views shows that they ask questions and find answers analogous in their diversity to some of the more important currents in modern thought. The systems of Nagarjuna and Samkara, for example, are marvels of precision and penetration. Comparable to the very best of Western thought.

 

AUGUST 16 THURSDAY
The scientific mastery of natural force s has intoxicated the modern mind with a sense of material success and intellectual conceit.

AUGUST 17 FRIDAY

Though peoples of different races and cultures have been pouring into India from the dawn of history, Hinduism has been able to maintain its supremacy, and even the proselytising creeds backed by the political power has not been able to coerce the large majority of Indians to their views.

AUGUST 18 SATURDAY

There is an Indian saying that words are the daughters of earth but deeds are the sons of heaven. Words are born of intellect, deeds of spirit. It is faith that can move mountains. Faith is an attitude of will, the energy of soul, the response of the entire self.

AUGUST 19 SUNDAY

Pascal is right when he says “most of the mischief in the world would never happen, If men would only be content to sit still in their parlours “. Even worship is a means to gain solitude. But sitting still, being alone has become very difficult in these days. We devise ways to escape from solitude, such as play and drink, luxury and dissipation.

 

 

AUGUST 20 MONDAY

God is the living friend of all—suhridam sarvabhutaanaam— as the Bhagavad Gita has it.

 

AUGUST 21 TUESDAY

If we are spiritually alive, our capacity for love and service will be ever growing. We will be indulgent to others and hard on ourselves. The characteristic sign of a spiritual temper is to be inwardly hard and austere and outwardly genial and forgiving.

 

AUGUST 22 WEDNESDAY

A great Sanskrit poet Bhavabuti, maintains that though the artist speaks of different moods of laughter, pity, compassion, anger, love etc., they are all variations of a common theme, Karuna, compassion, love with suffering.

AUGUST 23 THURSDAY
If we should wish to build a society in which judges and evil doers are transformed into higher beings, into brothers forgiving one another, and thus free themselves from falsehood, guilt and crime, we must practise love.

AUGUST 24 FRIDAY

Difficulty of defining what Hinduism is……….
‘To many it seems to be a name without any content. Is it a museum of beliefs, a medley of rites, or a mere map, a geographical expression? If there is not a unity of spirit binding its different expressions and linking up the different periods of its history into one organic whole, it will not be possible to account for the achievements of Hinduism’.

AUGUST 25 SATURDAY
Half the world moves on independent foundations which Hinduism supplied. China and Japan, Tibet-and Siam, Burma and Ceylon look to India as their spiritual home.

 

AUGUST 26 SUNDAY

The Hindu attitude to religion is interesting. While fixed individual’s beliefs mark off one religion from another, Hinduism sets no such limits. Intellect is subordinated to intuition, dogma to experience, outer expression to inward realisation.

AUGUST 27 MONDAY
The chief sacred scriptures of the Hindus, the Vedas, register the intuitions of the perfected souls. They are not so dogmatic dicta as transcripts from life. They record the spiritual experiences of souls strongly endowed with the sense for reality. They are held to be authoritative on the ground that they express the experiences of the experts in the field of religion.

AUGUST 28 TUESDAY

The Vedic tradition became surrounded with sanctity, and so helped to transmit culture and ensure the continuity of civilisation. The sacred scriptures make the life of the spirit real even to those who are incapable of insight.

 

AUGUST 29 WEDNESDAY

While other civilisation s have perished or absorbed in the changes that have transpired in the march of over five thousand years, the Indian civilisation, which is contemporary with those of Egypt and Babylon, is still functioning.

AUGUST 30 THURSDAY
How has she managed to remain more or less the same in the midst of social migration s upheavals and political changes that have else where changed the face of society? Why is that her conquerors have not been able to impose on her their language, their thoughts and customs, except in superficial ways? It is not by the use of force or by the development of aggressive qualities that India has succeeded in her missions.

AUGUST 31 FRIDAY

Hinduism is an inheritance of thought and inspiration living and moving with the movement of life itself, an inheritance to which every race in  India  has made its distinct and specific contribution. Its culture has a certain unity, though on examination it dissolves into a variety of shades and colours.

 

SUBHAM

MORE QUOTES FROM THE SAME BOOK

SAINT TUKARAM

We seem to give value to god, more than god to us. Saint Tukaram says “That we fall into sin is thy good fortune; we have bestowed name and form on thee; had it not been we, who would have asked after thee, when thou was lonely and unembodied?
ON FEAR
Religion is the conquest of fear, the anti dote to failure and death. The fear which is an expression of mans rationally cannot be removed by any change in his circumstances. It is an instinctive fear which can be displaced by the stimulation of other instincts.

STRANGE ALCHEMY

By what strange social alchemy has INDIA subdued her conquerors them to her very self and substance?, transforming.

MISSIONARY RELIGIONS

All missionary religions, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam believe in their own superiority . They all profess that they have the highest truth. How is anyone claim to be preferred to others?

–THE END–

 

 

 

 

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FORTUNE, FATE, FEAR, FATALITY- VALLUVAR AND KALHANA AGREE! (Post No.5263)

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Date: 27 JULY 2018

 

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Post No. 5263

 

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COMPARISION BETWEEN KASHMIR POET KALHANA AND TAMIL POET TIRUVALLUVAR

 

Fortune
Fortune which merchants obtain by misappropriation of deposits, which courtesans get by deceiving their lovers, or princes through treason, is after all impermanent– Raja Tarangini of Kalhana 4-181

 

All profits, that makes others weep, depart with tears. Even if lost, blessings flow from good deeds-– Tiruk Kural 659 of Tiruvalluvar

 

Fortune moving about unsteadily, like the lightning playing in the sky, always follows the cloud of destiny. With whom does it abide permanently? Rajatarangini of Kalhana 8-1896

An adverse destiny blunts a man’s intelligence  and makes him lose his wealth, whereas when he gets good luck it quickens his intelligence and promotes prosperity- Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar 372

When extraordinary good fortune of overwhelming glory comes to a man, retreating misfortune increases the power of its sorrows – Rajatarangini 7-795

Through the influence of fate all good means of acquiring wealth may prove disastrous, and all foul means prove helpful- Tirukkural couplet 375

Fate grants fortune to that person whom those who think themselves wise, persist in considering as unfit –Rajatarangini 8-491

 

Fortune like a prostitute daubed with a magic powder conquers even the strong minded, making them unlawful- 8-189

It is one thing to be wealthy, but to attain wisdom is quite another. This is the two fold nature of this world- Tirukkural 374

 

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Destiny
Destiny can be opposite if and when jackals victoriously control a lion- Rajatarangini 8-1470

Except as ordained by the Lord, who measures out each man’s meet,

Even the millionaire cannot enjoy his hoards- Tirukkural 377
The mighty are cheated by the infirm and those who hold all might in their control, are deluded by the power less- Rajatarangini –Rajatarangini 7-959

 

The constructive industry that produces wealth, and the destructive indolence

That brings about adversity in life, are both the outcome of fate- Tirukkural 371

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Death
A man will not be slain even by a stroke of lightning before his time but one who has reached his allotted span might die even from a flower –Rajatarangini of Kalhana 8-531

 

The characteristic feature of the world is the transitoriness of the life. The disappearance today of one who existed yesterday is a common occurrence – Tiruk Kural 336 of Tiruvalluvar

 

What is there more potent than fate? It forestalls every expedient one may resort to for averting it- Tirukkural 380

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Devotion to king
Devotion to one’s sovereign does not change in honest men till they die –RAJATARANGINI OF KALAHANA 7-1322

 

Men of clear vision do nothing base and displeasing or take undue advantage of the leader’s (king’s) favour- Tirukkural 699

One should behave towards the leader/king as befitting his splendour, never making light of him on the score of youth or kinship- Tirukkural 698

The minister whose mind plots treason against the ruler is worse than millions of open enemies- Tirukkural 639

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Diamond; Great people help
The diamond is not cut by any other precious stone but on the contrary it cuts them. Rajatarangini 4-51

The great for a few favours give much of their own. Rajatarangini 3-276

Valour, honour, a great tradition and loyalty- these are the four defences of an army- Tirukkural 766

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Earth/ Heroism
The earth has been preordained for enjoyment of the valiant. 7 Rajatarangini -1288

Courage
The heroic think an object attainable by courage, the timid by caution; otherwise between them there could be little difference. Rajatarangini 6-363

 

Brave traditional heroes do not quail before a crisis; they hold the field; risking life – Tirukkural 762

That alone is an army which has the courage even to meet death advancing in anger and to confront him in a body- Tirukkural 765

 

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FEAR

If the banks of rivers will only smell of a lion, to elephants they will seem as though they are on fire –Rajatarangini 8-3013

It is folly not to fear what should be feared; to fear that which should be feared is the way of the wise- Tirukkural 428

The mean follow the law for fear, and sometimes, when there is hope of profit- Tirukkural 1075

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Followers
The lightning of prosperity, the crane of celebrity, the thunder of boldness, and the rainbow of prowess, follow the cloud of prudence. Rajatarangini 7-1455

 

The world clings to the feet of the great leader who  wields his sceptre with love for his subjects- Tirukkural 544

 

Whatsoever a great man does, the same is done by others as well; whatever standard he sets, the world follows- Bhagavad Gita 3-21

To esteem men who are greater than oneself and follow in their footsteps is the highest of all powers- Tirukkural 444

–subham–

 

 

 

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ALL PROSTITUTES CAN WEAR JEWELS- ENGLISH KING’S ORDER (Post No.5249)

 

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Date: 23 JULY 2018

 

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Post No. 5249

 

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VANITY ANECDOTES continued

 

MY DAD WANTS TO BE A BRIDEGROOM IN EVERY WEDDING!

It was one of his own sons who so aptly characterised Theodore Roosevelt, saying,
“Father always had to be the centre of attention. When he went to a wedding, he wanted to be the bride groom; and when he went to a funeral, he wanted to be the corpse”.

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DISRAELI’S TRICK

There is a good story told of the way Disraeli got rid of an unfortunate applicant for a baronetcy (the rank of a baronet) upon whom, for many reasons, it was impossible to confer the honour.
“You know I cannot give you a baronetcy, said Disraeli, but you can tell your friends I offered you a baronetcy and that you refused it. That is far better.”

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GENERAL WOULD HAVE DIED YEARS AGO!– LINCOLN

In an interview between President Lincoln and Petroleum V. Nasby, the name came up of a recently deceased politician of Illinois whose merit was blemished by great vanity. His funeral was very largely attended.
“If General……….
Had known how big a funeral he would have had, said Mr Lincoln, he would have died years ago”.

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YOU ARE WONDERFUL!

Oscar Levant was known for his self-esteem. Occasionally he would tell this story on himself. “Once I was saying to an old friend how remarkable was our congeniality since we had practically nothing in common.
Oh, but we have, replied the friend, I think you are wonderful and you agree with me.”

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HENRY IV EXEMPTED PROS.
Henry IV enacted some sumptuary laws, prohibiting the use of gold and jewels in dress; but they were for some time ineffectual. He passed a supplement to them which completely answered his purpose. In this last he exempted from the prohibitions of the former after one month, all prostitutes and pickpockets. Next day there was not a jewel nor golden ornament to be seen.

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I AM D’ANNUNZIO! DON’T YOU KNOW?

In London, D Annunzio, the Italian poet asked a policeman to direct him to his destination and remarked,
“I am D Annunzio! The bobby did not understand. Where upon the genius burst forth into oaths and commanded his secretary to present that ignorant lout with copies of all his works”.
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OBITUARY COLUMNS BEFORE DEATH!!! (Post No.5246)

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Post No. 5246

 

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More Vanity Anecdotes

PT Barnum craved free publicity. When he was near death the ‘Evening Sun’  of New York, asked the great show man’s publicity agent if Barnum would object to having his obituary published before he died. The agent said, ‘the old man will be delighted’.

Next day Barnum read four columns about his own death, and he loved it.

(Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, politician, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus-wikipedia)

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Theodore Roosevelt, at the height of his prominence in American pubilc life, was once approached by a man on the street who tipped his hat and said,
‘Mr Brown, I believe?’
Roosevelt looked at the man and replied bluntly,

‘Sir, if you believe that, you will believe anything’.

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Oscar Levant is said to have once asked George Gershwin,
Tell me George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

(George Jacob Gershwin (/ˈɡɜːrʃ.wɪn/; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.[1][2] Gershwin’s compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), as well as the contemporary opera Porgy and Bess (1935).- Wikipedia)

Gershwin observed Oscar Levant, was the happiest man on earth. He was in love with himself and did not have a rival on earth.
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When Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts he was once host to A visiting English man of some prominence. The latter ostentatiously took a British coin from his pocket, saying,
‘My great great grandfather was made a Lord by the King whose picture you see on this shilling.’
Coolidge laconically produced a nickel.
‘My great great grandfather, he said, was made an angel by the(Red) Indian whose picture you see on this coin’.

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An English newspaper once published the following bit of gossip

James Mc Neil whistler and Oscar Wilde were seen yesterday in Brighton , talking as usual about themselves.
Whistler sent the paragraph to Wilde with a note saying
‘I wish these reporters would be accurate. If you remember, Oscar, we were talking about me’.
Wilde sent him a telegram saying,
‘It is true, Jimmie, we were talking about you, but I was thinking of myself’

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A little fable was formerly current about Theodore Roosevelt. The great man, after his death, was-supposed to-have ascended to heaven. There he bustled about made himself a nuisance by insisting that he be entrusted with some major responsibility. At last wearily the higher powers instructed St. Peter to authorise T.R. to organise and train a celestial choirs to replace the old one, which it was felt had gone to seed. T. R. continued to be a nuisance by the fierce persistence with which he pressed his requisitions.
I must-have 10000 sopranos, he told the bewildered and weary St. Peter And 10000 contraltos, and 10000 tenors
And hurry hurry everything is waiting on you.
Yes said Peter, how about the basses?
Roosevelt fixed him with a scornful glare.
I will sing bass! He bellowed.

Xxxx SUBHAM xxx

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More Vanity Anecdotes (Post no.5228)

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Date: 17 JULY 2018

 

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Post No. 5228

 

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WORDS ARE SHARPER THAN SWORDS!

A magnificent ball was given in Paris. Pauline Bonaparte decided “to blot out every woman there “ She entered the ballroom when all the guests had already assembled. At sight of her the music stopped, silence fell upon the assemblage. Her costume was of the finest muslin bordered with golden palm leaves. Four bands, spotted like a leopard’s skin, were round about her head, while these in turn were supported by little clusters of golden grapes. She had copied the headdress of a Bacchante in the Louvre. All over her person were cameos and just beneath her breasts she wore a golden band held in place by an engraved gem. She had indeed blotted her rivals.

Nevertheless Madame de Coutades, who halted her, took a sly revenge. She went up to Pauline, who was lying on a divan to set off her loveliness, and began gazing at the princess through a double eye  glass. Pauline felt flattered for a moment and then became u easy. The lady who was looking at her said to a companion, in a tone of compassion,
What a pity! She really would be lovely if it were not for that!
For what? asked her escort.

Why are you blind? It is so remarkable that you surely must see it.
Pauline was beginning to lose her self composure. She flushed and looked wildly about wondering what was meant. Then she heard Madame de Coutades say,
Why, her ears? If I had such ears as those I would cut them off!
Pauline gasped and fainted away.


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One of Disraeli s admirers, speaking about him to John Bright, said,
You ought to give him credit for what he has accomplished, as he is a self-made man.
I know he is, retorted Mr Bright ‘ he adores his maker’.
Xxx

 

Henry James, the novelist, once lived near the estate of a millionaire jam manufacturer, retired. This man, having married an earl’s daughter, was ashamed of the trade whereby he had piled up his fortune.
The jam manufacturer one day wrote Mr James an insolent letter, vowing that it was outrageous the way James servants were trespassing on his grounds Mr James wrote back,
Dear sir, I am sorry to hear that my servants have been poaching on your preserves.
P.S. you will excuse my mentioning your preserves, won’t you?
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When Jack London was in Korea reporting the Russo Japanese War, an official came to his hotel one day and told him that the entire was gathered in the square below to see him . London felt enormously set up to think his fame had spread to the wilds of Korea. But when he mounted the platform that had been erected for him, the official merely asked him to take out his bridge of artificial teeth. The crowd watched closely as he did it . And then for half an hour they kept him standing there, taking his teeth and putting them back again, to the applause of the multitude.
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A Chicago matron was recently seated next to Mrs Cabot at a Boston Tea Party During the crisp exchange of conversation, Mrs Cabot advanced the Information that
“ in Boston, we place all our emphasis on breeding “
To which the Chicago matron responded,
“ in Chicago we think it is a lot of fun , but we do manage to foster a great many outside interests.

Xxx subham xxx

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WHO IS A SCOUNDREL?(Post 5230)

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Date: 15 JULY 2018

 

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Post No. 5230

 

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Politeness, Stupidity and Practical Joking Anecdotes!

Henry Clay and John Randolph had had a violent quarrel in the Senate. For a long time they did not speak when they encountered one another outside.

It chanced one day that they found themselves confronted with one another at a narrow point created by repairs underway on the sidewalk. They stood silently for a moment, faced by the question of which was to step aside and let the other pass.
At last Randolph said haughtily,
“I never turn out for scoundrels”
“I always do”, said Clay, stepping politely out into the mud, giving Randolph the right of way.
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Practical Joking: Lady’s Ignorance!


Turner, the famous British painter, was much irritated by the fashionable ladies who talked pretentiously about the masters. One day when such a woman was gushing ignorantly about Cimabue (Italian Painter),

Turner interrupted,

“Do you seriously think, your ladyship, that any of his works can compare with those of great Florentine , Mortadella da Bologna?”

Nothing daunted the lady replied,

“But how much better is Cimabue’s colour?”

“Not if you are a connoisseur of Italian sausages, Madame?”
Politely purred the painter to the general hilarity.

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Brahm’s Joke!
Brahms once took the most elaborate pains to hoax Gustav Nottebhom, the famous Beethoven scholar. The poverty stricken scholar often  strolled with him in the Prater , and habitually bought his cold supper there from a certain cheese and sausage peddler.


Kalbeck ammusingly reports how one evening he received his victuals wrapped in old music paper covered with crabbed notes, apparently in Beethoven’s hands . Fighting down his excitement, he marched to the next lamppost, unfolded the paper, examined it carefully through his spectacles , smoothed it and without a word shoved it into his Pocket .

 

The cheese he kept in his hand and ate as he walked, assuring the others that he was unusually hungry that day. And never did he drop a paper, the subject seemed to warm him up and soon he syllabled about his find—to the huge disappointment of the company who had been let by Brahms into the secret.

 

For the mysterious sheet contained a variation of the latest popular song hit. That rascal Brahms fabricated it in masterly imitation of Beethoven’s hen scratches, and enjoined the peddler to wrap it around the professors cheese!

Xxxx

Hell? Why use dynamite when insect powder will do?
Rough and Ready Anecdote


When Carter Glass first began to make himself heard in 1913, in caucuses of his party in the Senate, he talked rather ponderously and frigidly. On one such-occasion, the subject seemed to warm him up and soon he was not only emphatic but pugnacious. At this point one of his partisans in the caucus shouted

“Give them hell”, Carter.
Mr Glass’s reply has become historic.
Hell? Why use dynamite when insect powder will do?
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Stupidity Anecdotes

 


The story is told about a wealthy man who was desirous of building a luxurious hunting lodge in the North Wood s of Wisconsin. After having his plans drawn up a famous architect, he dispatched them to a local carpenter with instructions to go ahead and build it according to the blue prints.
Scarcely a day had passed when a post card arrived at the rich man’s house saying the plans is all wron . I can’t do anything till you get them straightened out.
Being in a hurry to get the house finished, the man sent a letter post haste assuming the local workman that the plans were all right and to proceed as ordered.
By return mail came the following,
“I don’t aim to saw a plank until I get the plans straightened out. Why if I was to build that house the way its laid out here you  would have two bathrooms.
Xxx SUBHAM xxx

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Truth may be blamed, but cannot be shamed! (Post No.5218)

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Date: 14 JULY 2018

 

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Post No. 5218

 

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More  Proverbs on Truth!

Truth and oil are ever above!

Truth is always visible; perceivable. No one can hide it. It stands out.

In Tamil there is a proverb, you can never hide a whole pumpkin in the cooked rice. White pumpkin grown in Tamil Nadu is of the size of four foot balls. (Tamil-Muzup puusanikkaayai sotril maraikka mudiyaathu)

Truth needs not many words.

A liar must concoct a big story. To justify one lie another lie is added. From a mole hill a mountain is created. But with the truth, just the facts will do the work.

Truth may be blamed, but cannot be shamed.

We normally attribute all our failures to something. It may be a fact, but it wont justify our action.

A poor man says that he stole something because of poverty or starvation.

A prostitute may say that she entertains people because she needs money.

So one may blame the truth but it can never be shamed. That is the real fault lies somewhere no on truth.

Tamil poet Tiruvalluvar’s Tamil Veda Tirukkural says,

Even it be to save your own beloved mother from starvation, let not your hands be defiled with what the sages have condemned as a heinous wrong.(656)
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1.Many a true word is spoken in jest

2.In wine there is truth

3.Children and fools speak the truth

These three proverbs are very interesting.

Drunken men, children and fools speak the truth!

Even saint Rama Krishna Paramahamsa said this: “Heaven sometimes speaks through the mouths of lunatics, drunkards and children”.
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1.Nothing hurts like the truth!


2.Truth finds foes, where it makes none

3.All truths are not to be told

4.Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

 

Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar and Manu, the law maker agree on this point.

 

Tamil Veda Tirukkural says,

What is truthfulness? It is the utterance of such words that smack not of even slightest taint of evil (Kural 291)

Manu says

In a case where telling the truth would cause the death of a servant ,Sudra or a ruler/Kshatriya or a Brahmana, one should tell a lie, for that is better than the truth- Manu Smrti 8-104

If it will produce pure, unmixed good, even falsehood may be considered truth — Tirukkural, 292

satyam bruyat priyam bruyat na bruyat satyam apriyam
priyam ca nanrutam bruyat esha dharmah sanatanah

Speak truth in such a way that it should be pleasing to others. Never speak truth, which is unpleasant to others. Never speak untruth, which might be pleasant. This is the path of eternal morality, sanatana dharma (Manu Smrti 4-138)

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Lies have short legs

Liars have need of good memories

Great talkers are great liars. (Think about our politicians)

It is a well known fact that one lie must be supported by another lie. They will expose themselves. They cannot last long.
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A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

All of us know the famous fable. A villager always called everyone for help saying Tiger is comin, Tiger is coming; When all the villagers ran for his help he mocked at them as fools. Oe day when he was really attacked by tiger he raised the same slogan and no one came for his help. The consequence is obvious.

One lies make many

Murder will be out ( cannot be hid)

A traveller may lie with authority.

Lying and thieving go together.

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It is true that all men say.

If many honest impartial voice their opinion and if it is the same, then there must be truth in it. One doesn’t need to worry about common man.

 

Tamil Veda Tirukkural says,

the arrogant fool, who denies what all the world firmly believes

will be considered a veritable demon stalking the earth- kural 850
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Common fame is seldom to blame

Paper won’t blush 

 

I have already given Sanskrit proverbs on Truth in an article.

Please read my earlier posts.

–Subham–

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