Never Give Up
One day I decided to quit... I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality... I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods to have one last talk with Lord Krishna. "Lord Krishna", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not to quit"
His answer surprised me... "Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo"
"Yes", I replied.
"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water.
The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year, the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.
And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo, he said.
"In year three, there was still nothing from the bamboo seed.
But I would not quit. In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed.
"I would not quit." He said.
Then, in the fifth year, a tiny sprout emerged from the earth.
Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.
It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive."I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."
He said to me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots"
"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you."
"Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful."
"Your time will come", Lord Krishna said to me. "You will rise high"
"How high should I rise" I asked.
"How high will the bamboo rise" He asked in return.
"As high as it can" I replied.
"Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can."
I left the forest to bring back this story.
I hope these words can help you see that Lord Krishna will never give up on you.
Never Give up…!!

Does God Really Want

Man to Eat Meat?


When discussing the topic of killing (meat eating) with Christians and Muslims. They ultimately justify killing animals for food by pointing to their scriptures. Thus the main reason why man kills for a living (meat eating) is religion. The Bible and Koran both state that animals are food. They both claim that their scripture is the word of God and thus there is absolutely nothing wrong in killing innocent animals.

This raises the question would God want man to eat meat?
This question can be answered by looking at the health, economic, and violence issues.
1. Health
Is meat good for us?
It's a scientific fact that vegetarians are healthier than meat eaters. Scientific studies show that vegetarians have a much lower risk of suffering from diseases like cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and other health disorders compared to meat eaters.
Scientific Studies Support a Vegetarian Diet
A major study reported in the British Medical Journal found that, of 5000 meat-eaters and 6000 non-meat eaters, vegetarians had 40% less risk of cancer and 30% less risk of heart disease than the meat-eaters and were 20% less likely to die of any cause (Oxford Vegetarian Study).
A US study of 50,000 vegetarians showed a very low rate of cancer (Seventh Day Adventist Study, Massachusetts ). It has been estimated that by following a low-fat vegetarian diet, the risk of food poisoning is decreased by 80%.
A balanced vegetarian diet is better for humans than one that includes meat (from TIME magazine, July 2002).

An 11-year study of 1,900 German vegetarians has found mortality from cardiovascular disease to be 61% lower in male vegetarians and 44% lower in female vegetarians than the general population.
Hypertension can contribute to heart disease, strokes, and kidney failure. A number of studies have shown vegetarians to have lower blood pressure than meat eaters (Sacks 1974, Armstrong 1977).
The British Medical Association (1986) stated that vegetarians have lower rates of obesity than meat eaters.
Vegetarians have lower rates of colon cancer than meat eaters (Phillips 1980).
There is overwhelming scientific evidence to prove that a vegetarian diet is much more healthier than a meat based diet. Eating meat can seriously damage your health.
What about Protein?
Most people are brainwashed into thinking that meat is the only source of protein. The simple fact is that there is plenty of protein in a vegetarian diet too.
Would God want man to eat food that will increase the chances of suffering from major diseases, reduce the quality of life, and reduce the life span?
Absolutely not.
Would you want your children to eat food that is not good for them? No?
Similarly God doesn't want his children, you and me, to eat food that is bad for our health.
2. Economic
Does it make economic sense to raise animals for food?
It takes at least 17 kg of corn, beans, grains etc., many gallons of water, and some time to produce just 1 kg of beef. This is like investing $17 in a bank term deposit and withdrawing $1 at maturity.
The 17 kg of corn, beans, and grains would feed at least 20 people while the 1 kg of beef would feed at most 2 people.
Does it makes any sense to feed an animal 17 kg of vegetation, many gallons of water, provide shelter, allow some time, and then cut it's throat and kill it to produce 1 kg of meat?
Would it be better just to take the 17 kg of vegetation and feed on it directly rather than having it go through an animal and then feeding on the animal a much reduced quantity of food?
The reason why somewhere in the World a child dies of starvation every two seconds is because of slaughterhouse mentality as described above. If the millions of acres of land, which is used to grow food for animals, were used to grow food for humans directly then there would be at least 10 times more food than currently. Thus there would be no poverty in the World.

About 70% of the crops grown in the US are fed to animals and not to humans. The mentality is that convert 17 kg of vegetarian food into 1 kg of meat so that at most 2 people can eat instead of at least 20. Also there is the thrill of killing the animals, which is very much liked by the followers of the non-Vedic religions.
If everyone in the world became a vegetarian, there would be no such thing as poverty. But unfortunately the majority of the humans simply can't give up the thrill of killing innocent animals and so the children will have to continue dying due to starvation at the rate of 2 every seconds.
Would God want man to turn 17 kg of vegetarian food into1 kg of non-vegetarian food (meat).
Absolutely not.
3. Violence
Is violence related to meat eating?
What do all the terrorists have in common?
What do all the violent criminals have in common?
What do all the murderers have in common?
The simple answer is that they are all killers of animals (meat eaters).
Have you heard of vegetarian terrorists?
Have you heard of vegetarian criminals?
Have you heard of vegetarian murderers?
How does meat eating make one violent?
By killing for a living (meat eating), the human mind develops a taste for killing, which leads to a mentality of violence. The mentality of killing animals spreads to killing humans too. People who kill animals are much more likely to kill people too. This is a fact as the terrorists, and the most violent criminals are animal killers (meat eaters).
The vegetarians don't kill for a living (no meat) and so their mind develops a taste for non-violence, thus a mentality of non-violence. The mentality of a vegetarian is that killing is totally wrong, thus the killing or even injuring of humans is totally unthinkable.
The US government spends billions of dollars each year on combating terrorism. They think by going after those with guns and bombs will solve the problem. They totally ignore the root cause of violence. Which is human mentality of violence, caused by killing for a living (meat eating).
The simple formula for stopping terrorism and violence in the world is:
No Meat= No killing = No mentality of violence = No terrorism/No violence
What about killing the plants?
There is a big difference between cutting grass and cutting the necks of chickens. Killing plants and animals is not the same.
Would God want man to kill for a living (meat eating) so that they can develop a mentality of violence and become killers of humans too?
Absolutely not.
Why is the Cow Sacred to the Hindus?
The human mother drinks cows milk, and from it produces her milk, which we humans drink at birth. Then at 3 months we start drinking cows milk in a bottle then in cups. We also eat delicious foods made from cows' milk. Foods like ice cream, yogurt, cheese, and curd. From our birth to our death we rely on cows milk. Thus the cow is considered a mother as she provides us with nourishing food for life. How can you kill such a mother
Every time you eat pizza, ice cream, yogurt, and other foods made from cow's milk, you should be very great full to the cow.
How can you kill a mother that provides nourishing food to you for life?
The cow is also the favorite animal of God, Lord Krishna. Why? Since the cow provides nourshing food to Lord Krishna's children, you and me. Lord Krishna is very much greateful to her. Would you be greateful to someone who feeds your children, or would you order them to be killed and eaten?

Lord Caitanya, who was an incarnation of Lord Krishna states in the Caitanya Caritamrta, Adi-lila chapter 17, verses.165-167.
"Cow-killers are condemned to rot in hellish life for as many thousands of years as there are hairs on

GREAT EPICS

AND

SOLUTIONS

There are many things to learn from our Epics like Bhagavatham, Mahabharatha and Ramayana. Eventhough they are of too old, but the and stories and characters still resembles our day to day life. These Epics provides many solutions to problems faced by man kind.

QUESTION - 1: In Ramayana, Vibhishana (brother of ravana) rejected his own brother and stood beside Rama during the crucial time of war

But in Mahabharata, Karna stood beside Duryodhana until last his breath. Although duryodhana was not a brother for him and didn’t committed any revolt against his own king.

So who is correct???

ANSWER: When there is war between DHARMA and ADHARMA, our stand should be DHARMA.

Here Vibhishana, even though ravana(ADHARMA) was his own brother. He revolted against him and stood against RAMA(ADHARMA)

In case of Karna, because of his friendship with duryodhana(ADHARMA). He stood against DHARMA. Even though he knows what is correct he can't be able to come out of that.

Likewise this is the solution for the present day people, who are facing many problems die to political leaders

Government officials and people should come out and revolt against political leaders when there is adharma

In this there are many solutions are there in our puranas and scriptures, which are useful even in our present day life.

What I have presented here is my personal opinion. If we find any faults in that please notice it to me. Your opinions, comments and discussions are entertained. If you have new ideas about our Epics please mail me.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Big-Bang experiment - Anti-Matter

Big-Bang experiment

&

Anti-Matter

Regarding Big-Bang experiment that was goin on now, scientists are eager to findout the secrets of the formation of Universe.

Big bang theory is that, Once upon a time, there was no matter i.e., no planets and no living organisms only vacuum. From that vacuum, unfortunately there was big explosion that leads to creation of all planets like earth, sun, mars and some gases etc….. So after the creation of earth, automatically due to reactions of some chemicals living organisms are formed on earth.

Like this Bigbang theory explains creation of universe and living organisms were formed unfortunately or automatically.

So every man who is having common sense can ruleout this false theory.

Even scientists also doesn’t this agree on this theory, but they will support as it explains about the formation of universe some what better than the theories which were proposed earlier.

During the year1959, a historical event was happened in the history of science. It is one of the most significant breakthroughs in modern science. Two scientists discovered that universe is formed not just only of ‘matter’ but also with some other material called “ANTIMATTER”. They were awarded noble prize for that.

But after this discovery, almost 50 years were passed out, but scientists were not left with a single clue to find more about this “ANTIMATTER”.

Even recently conducted Big-Bang experiment’s main aim is to findout the what is this “ANTIMATTER”.

Of course the existence of antimatter is nothing new to those who are learned in the ancient Vedic science. The existence of both matter and antimatter is clearly described in the 5,000 years old Bhagavad-gita by Lord Krishna as follows: "O Arjuna, this universe was formed because of my shakthi(energy), and my energy is of two forms ParaPrakruthi(matter) and Apara Prakruthi(Anti matter), both ParaPrakruthi and AparaPrakruthi are in Me." Bhagavad-gita 7.5

So what is matter? And what is antimatter?

Matter is broken down into five gross material elements described in the Bhagavad-gita as follows: "Earth, water, fire, air, ether -- all together these five constitute my ParaPrakruthi(matter)." Bhagavad-gita 7.4

Antimatter consists of innumerable antimaterial particles. What is the nature of those antimaterial particles? They are also described in the Bhagavad-gita.
"The antimaterial particle, which is the vital force, is never born or created. It exists eternally. It has neither birth dates nor death dates. It is neither repeatedly created nor repeatedly destroyed. It is eternally existing, and therefore it is the oldest of the old, and yet it is always fresh and new. Although the material particle is annihilated, the antimaterial particle is never affected." Bhagavad-gita 2.20

So Our body is survives because of matter and antimatter. Our body is made of matter i.e., Earth, water, fire, air, ether and “ANTIMATTER” is atomic particle which gives chaitanya( or life) to the entire body. But we are actually that ANTIMATTER, but not just matter.

So antimatter is the stuff of which we, the living entities, are made. Each one us is an antimaterial particle, the atomic soul. At the present moment in that material world we, the antimaterial particles, are foolishly misidentifying ourselves with matter. Antimatter is eternal, full of bliss, and full of knowledge, while matter is temporary, full of ignorance and misery. To misidentify ourselves with matter is the biggest mistake we can ever make. To do so completely ruins our ability to taste the unlimited happiness, which is our constitutional birthright and to see things as they are. In its natural state the antimaterial particle is a liberated being. It is only in an unnatural state that it is covered by matter. The great spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, explains, "The perfection of science will occur when it is possible for the material scientists to know the qualities of the antimaterial particle and liberate it from the association of nonpermanent, material particles. Such liberation would mark the culmination of scientific progress."
Now that science has discovered antimatter, we sincerely hope that it will progress further now to perfect knowledge of matter, antimatter, and liberation.

Response of a Ph.D on the issue related to this

This is really great information on matter and antimatter. As a physicst I can just say that:matter and antimatter coalese to release enery, they disappear due to complete conversion from matter to energy as per the famous expression give by Einstein.
But what you have given is a totally unique interpretation based on religion.
DR.B.SARAF Ph.D.

Refernces:

http://folknet.in/SS2008/folknet.html

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1089460.aspx

onam @ nitc

ONAM celebrations @ NITC

hi frnds,
First I wish u all onam ashamshegal(which means happy onam).Here in our National Institute of Technology,Calicut,Kerala we have celebrated onam festival grandly in the electrical department, its a very happy experience for me.
I'm also happy to say that i'm one of the organisers of this festival from M.tech in our department. I have organised this along with my frnds Jeevanand and Mayiriram.This is the second time for me to organise such a grand function.first one is National level training programe for lecturers of AICTE accredited colleges, which was conducted in our college.
On this occassion we organised some traditional games like pot hitting game and Tug of war which were very successful and we enjoyed alot.

Who am I

hi frnds I Wish u a Good Day to all,

I am Sai Krishna.Gandrothula.I'm from Palakol,West Godavari dt. of andhra.