Gautam Buddha

These days I have been reading on Gautam Buddha, in his respective biographies. While reading about him, his life, and his doings I really found him an inspiring character.

Buddha means 'the enlightened one'. And Gautam Buddha was one of the greatest religious teachers that the world has seen. His teachings expounded in Buddhism, are immensely popular in Burma, China, Japan and other South Eastern Countries.

Talking about his early life……….Siddhartha was made to lead a very sheltered life as the astrologers had predicted that he would give up worldly pleasures to follow a different path. The King wanted to avoid this at all costs and so did not let him out of the palace. He hoped that Siddhartha would one day become king.

When Siddhartha had grown into an intelligent young man, he ventured out of his palace one day, and chanced on a few sights that changed the course of his life. He first saw a very old man who could barely walk, a sick man who was in a great deal of pain, and lastly a corpse. He had never been exposed to pain before, and so these sights had a deep effect on him. His servant explained that pain and death were inevitable.

All these sights disturbed him and he went out of his house, leaving all the amenities of life in the search of truth and the end of pain and misery. When he went through many people who were following the same path, he himself concluded that when one follows a midway between very easy or happy going life and very harsh and painful life, we can overcome all desires which are the root causes of grief and misery.

For 45 years, Buddha spread his message of a spiritual life. He did not believe in rituals but pointed to an 8 - fold path towards salvation - that of right speech, understanding, determination, deeds, efforts, awareness, thinking and living. Even in the contemporary world which we call modern, live on the discriminatory bases of rich or poor or castes etc. Whereas as he at those times taught us to live a life of equality where none was inferior or superior. He taught us to be non-violent and the path of peaceful life, he said the life is a gift of god to everyone and none has a right to take it away accept for god. Though being purely non-violent Buddhist path affected people of this religion with miserable happenings in their lives when they could not save themselves from the attackers especially in the areas at the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan which had a strong hold of Buddhism. Now these areas are totally Muslim and Buddhism is completely wiped out. What is left there is violent Taliban who recently broke the sacred old and preserved statue of Gautama Buddha.

Anyway, The Buddha died in 483 BC at the ripe age of 80 years, after successfully spreading his message to the world. Buddhism still lives and has a strong following in various Asian countries.

The singing legend of all times....

Md. Rafi..

For those people, who don’t know Mohd Rafi, I would like to quote that he is the only legendary singer in Indian Film Music. Following is about his life, his birth, his singing career etc..,

Rafi was born on 24^th December 1924 in Kotla Sultan Singh, Amritsar, in a middle class Muslim family. His elder brother, Janab Hamid Sahab, was the first to take notice of the divine gift in Rafi’s voice. He decided to concentrate all his efforts in providing all the support needed by his brother to make it big in the music world.

At the age of seven, Rafi learnt Hindustani Classical music under the renowned Ustaad Bade Gulam Ali Khan and Vahida Khan.

Mohd Rafi started his career at the age of 20, with a punjabi song, Soniye Hiriye, teri yaad ne bahut sataya for the movie Gul Baloch, which was released on 28^th February, 1944.

K.L.Saigal & Pandit D.V. Palusker had no words for Rafi’s praise. When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, Rafi sang a song Suno Suno Ay Duniya Walon, Bapu ki Yeh Amar kahani written by Rajinder Krishan and music by Hunslal Bhagatram, which touched everyone and was a great hit.

No singer at that time or even now in this era,can match Rafi. Rafi’s singing style was so unique, nobody could imitate it. Even if they tried, they were not successful. His verstality was very different and way too impressive. His contemporaries were either ineffective in this front or were unwilling to compromise.

I am one of greatest fans of Md Rafi. I just love his voice.The versatility in his voice is commendable. Both ways as a person and a singer he is the best.I have never attempted to compare him to anybody because I know as far as his voice and the art or style are concerned, he can never be compared with any other singer. Even Lata I think lacks behind somewhere in that versatility and the happiness or sadness he inject into our ears while singing is simply enthralling. His patriotic, religious, ghazals, romantic, sufi, or any other kind of songs are mind blowing. I mean I feel he was perfect as a singer with almost no attitude in him. On the other hand he was a great badminton player and none could beat him in this game in the whole industry. A great god gifted man with a smile on his face all the time did not live for very long and lost many opportunities to receive many awards for his talent and contribution.

All this was about his singing career. But as a person, he was much more. Rafi did not imitate any one nor did he stop any one from imitating him. Where there was cut-throat pressure, Rafi was always totally with himself. Through out his career Rafi has not been accused of anything. Nor did he stop any new singer from taking his position. He was such a whole-hearted person, who would agree to sing for producers who couldn't afford him in return to nothing. Listening to Rafi is like rowing down a river in a moonlit night.

Such A Small Difference b/w Life 'N' Dealth

Life Goes On............

Now Thats Life

HEALTH IS NOT A STATE OF CONDITION BUT OF MIND........

Healthy mind is wealthy. To maintain good health, one should be mentally and physically active. Mind only gives order to the body so that mind should be positive in thinking. This helps in right kind of attitude in life.. When mental health is lost, everything is lost. Unless mind is active, however physically a person is strong can not achieve well in life so health is a condition of mind. Mind and body are interrelated and so one should take care of good mental status to keep good body condition of health.
Body and mind are related in maintaining good health.
Body itself is designed by the mind
Age of the body has no connection with youthfulness and it is the state of the mind.

Buddha’s recipe of happiness is, “If with a pure mind you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow.”
Laughter improves self-esteem, enhances social interaction, and generally makes life more enjoyable. Laughter can provide a cathartic release, a purifying of emotions and release of emotional tension. Laughter, crying, raging, and trembling are all cathartic activities which can unblock energy flow. Laughter is more than a visual and vocal behavior. It is accompanied by a wide range of physiological changes

"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied." —Charles Caleb Colton
A Peaceful Mind, A Peaceful Life
To us, however, life is simply to live. To experience, To seek deeper and wider. The road might be long, winding, bumpy, and even painful. It is important for us to find out what my highest level of endurance is and whether I will be able to cultivate it in the long run. Oftentimes, though, I feel like it is time for me to move on to another level, to another place, to another time. One thing that I truly believe, though, that those memories are my vessel to escalate my endurance level and make me a better person, a person I have always wanted to be, dreamed of and sought for
A definitive conclusion on your statement is difficult to arrive. But, there is a certain connection between health and mind, I believe. Physical health is consists of physical matters no doubt about it. These physical matters changes in many ways, internal and external, and we find a change pattern in our health. It is neither possible to keep those constant, nor can be controlled perfectly through a laid out mechanism. The mind is responsible for the internal changes that happen due to secretion of fluids (Chemicals) by various glands situated all over the body. When we are in happy mood, the fluid secreted is good for our body; otherwise it is just the opposite. So, by keeping the mind healthy it is possible to counter effect the negativity of external inputs inside the body; thereby maintain the good health."For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." —Owen Arthur

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The Burial

Today I had a burial of my dead.
There was no shroud, no coffin, and no pall,
No prayers were uttered and no tears were shed
I only turned a picture to the wall.

A picture that had hung within my room
For years and years; a relic of my youth.
It kept the rose of love in constant bloom
To see those eyes of earnestness and truth.

At hours wherein no other dared intrude,
I had drawn comfort from its smiling grace.
Silent companion of my solitude,
My soul held sweet communion with that face.

I lived again the dream so bright, so brief,
Though wakened as we all are by some Fate;
This picture gave me infinite relief,
And did not leave me wholly desolate.

To-day I saw an item, quite by chance,
That robbed me of my pitiful poor dole:
A marriage notice fell beneath my glance,
And I became a lonely widowed soul.

With drooping eyes, and cheeks a burning flame,
I turned the picture to the blank wall's gloom.
My very heart had died in me of shame,
If I had left it smiling in my room.

Another woman's husband. So, my friend,
My comfort, my sole relic of the past,
I bury thee, and, lonely, seek the end.
Swift age has swept my youth from me at last.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

LIFE..

The KING OF POP...

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he made his debut as an entertainer in 1968 as a member of The Jackson 5. He then began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group, and that successful career led to him being dubbed the "King of Pop" in subsequent years. Jackson's 1982 album Thriller remains the world's best-selling album of all time and four of his other solo studio albums are among the world's best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and History (1995).

Jackson donated and raised millions of dollars for beneficial causes through his Heal the World Foundation, charity singles, and support of 39 charities. Other aspects of his personal life, including his often changing appearances and eccentric behavior, generated significant controversy that damaged his public image. Though he was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993, the criminal investigation was closed due to lack of evidence and Jackson was not charged. The singer had experienced health concerns since the early 1990s along with conflicting reports regarding the state of his finances since the late 1990s. Jackson married twice and fathered three children, actions which caused further controversy. In 2005, during People v. Jackson, Jackson was tried and acquitted of different sexual abuse allegations and several other charges.

Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California His personal physician, Conrad Murray, says he found Jackson in bed, not breathing but with a faint pulse, and administered CPR to no avail. Initial reports indicated that Jackson died one hour after receiving an injection of pethidine (Demerol), a painkiller to which his friends say he was addicted. Murray has said he did not prescribe or furnish Jackson with Demerol.

His death triggered an outpouring of grief around the world, creating surges of internet traffic and causing sales of his records to soar. He had been scheduled to perform 50 sold-out concerts to over one million people at London's O₂ arena, from July 13, 2009 to March 6, 2010, which he had implied during a press conference would be the last of his career.