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Posted: 11 years ago
Hi friends,
 
Since this thread of Sathish has reached more than 200 pages. I am opening this new thread so that there will not be delay in opening the pages.
Sathish will continue his writings here in this thread. I request the members to post your comments here too!!
Thanks Sathish for your posts here.
 
Here is the link to the first thread: In future if you are looking for this thread Please visit the mansion thread...in the annoucement area ( right on top here)
 
 
 
 
Edited by atina - 11 years ago
Posted: 11 years ago
Below is a most Beautiful incident in the life of Jagadguru Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal or Maha Periyavaal who was the 68th Jagadguru in the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam..

A family went to have the darshan of Maha Periyavaal. Along with them, they took one of their family friends who lived in the USA for some decades. The friend did not have any great faith in our religion, system and especially the monks wearing the saffron; he went along with him with utterly non-interested to meet Him. He was under the impression that Maha Periyavaal was a fundamentalist, an uneducated monk. This NRI had no great respect at all for Him. Not only that, he uttered such inauspicious things about Him, 'what does He know? Does He know English?'.

There was a big throng of devotees at the Mutt and the family was standing in a decent distance from Him. As usual, Maha Periyavaal saw this family with His graceful eyes, and called all of them near to Him.

They all went near Him, the friend too.

After all the usual courteous enquiry towards the family, the Master looked at the NRI friend and asked about his details, including his name, whereabouts, his predecessors, where he is working etc etc.

Then He asked, 'you are born in India, and you know Tamil; your wife was also born in India and should know the mother tongue. When you two converse will it be in Tamil or English?'

The friend replied 'We never use Tamil at home, we use only English. The same goes for the kids also.'

Then Maha Periyavaal asked, 'before speaking, you may have to think and conceive the sentence. Is the thought process in Tamil or English?'

The friend replied, 'That too in English only'.

Some minutes later, an old lady came to have Maha Periyavaal Darshan.

Maha Periyavaal looked at the NRI person and said, 'This old lady is now very poor, but once upon a time she was very rich. But even after she lost all the materialistic wealth her devotion towards the Mutt, Acharya and me has never changed even a bit. Could you please tell me what is the English word which will describe this unflinching devotion, which can't be changed by external situations? I would like to know.'

The man was flummoxed. He thought and thought for a while but did not know that word.

Maha Periyaval smiled and told him, 'please take your time and let me know'.

Even after some time, he could not come up with the required word.

Then Swamiji said, 'Can I suggest one word? Could you please confirm whether the same can convey this meaning? EQUIPOISED'.

The man was spellbound and fell on Maha Periyavaal's Feet to Pardon him for his ego..

Posted: 11 years ago
                        A collection of beautiful quotes

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Where life is more terrible than death,it is then the truest valour to want to live.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
Posted: 11 years ago
Old Jungle Sayings



The following are some of the Old Jungle Sayings that have become a tradition in Phantom comics. A story cannot be a Phantom story without these sayings appearing more than once in a while. These sayings are in many ways responsible for the mystifying aura seen in Phantom stories.



Sayings about the Phantom:

        The Phantom is rough with rough-necks.

        When the Phantom is rough, he is very rough.

        The Phantom has a thousand eyes and a thousand ears.

        Call the Phantom anywhere, and he will hear.

        Go into the jungle and call: the Phantom hears.

        The Phantom can be a dozen places at once.

        The Phantom moves as silently as a fog.

        The Phantom moves as silently as the jungle cat.

        The Phantom moves on cat's paws.

        Great cat is quick, the Phantom is quicker.

        The Phantom moves faster than a great cat, with the power of a charging bull elephant.

        The Phantom strikes like a thunderbolt but moves softer than a stalking great cat.

        When the Phantom strikes, lightning stands still.

        The Phantom moves faster than lightning flash.

        The Phantom moves faster than the eye can see.

        As for shooting, the Phantom can knock the flea off the ear of a warthog at 100 paces without hurting the beast.

        The Phantom has the strength of ten tigers.

        Phantom made of rock.

        When the jungle sleeps, the Phantom wakes.

        There are times when the Phantom leaves the jungle and walks the streets of the town like an ordinary man.

        You never find the Phantom, he finds you.

        When the Phantom asks, you answer.

        No man can refuse the voice of the Phantom.

        The Phantom freezes your blood, makes cowards out of strong men.

        The voice of the Phantom turns blood into ice.

        The voice of the angry Phantom freezes a tiger's blood.

        When the Phantom is angry, tiger's blood chills.

        When the Phantom is angry, the lion trembles.

        When the Phantom is angry, the jungle shakes.

        When the Phantom is angry, his blows sound like thunder.

        The Phantom's fists dart like a bee, hit like a bull elephant.

        The Phantom's steel hands can break men like straws.

        When the Phantom scares them, they stay scared.

        Better to stare into the tiger's eyes than into the cold eyes of the angry Phantom.

        The Phantom's fury is like a volcanic explosion.

        Furious Phantom is a sight to behold.

        Pirates to Phantom, like red flag to bull.

        Only a fool crosses the Phantom.

        Never take aim at the Phantom.

        The Phantom has the wisdom of elephants.

        The Phantom is a man of few words but wiser than Solomon.

        Where the Phantom is, the law's long arm reaches even to the halls of princes.

        The Phantom will never refuse a challenge.

        The Phantom's life is a lonely one.

        In China it is said, man who looks on Phantom's naked face must surely die.

        He who sees the Phantom's face, dies a horrible death.

        Man saw Phantom's face, flesh fell out of the man's bones, all at once.

Posted: 11 years ago
You either like it or you don't like it.
There is no in-between.
This is a Western world concept.
 
"Adjusting" is a lovely term we often use.
It implies you don't like it on the inside, but you pretend to like it on the outside...to keep the outside world in harmony.
But is the inside world in harmony? Only you can tell.
This is essentially a part of our Indian culture.
 
Now what happens when both these worlds meet?
 
Isn't it strange when we see an Indian being able to easily get rid of his Indian accent, change his Indian clothing, "modify" his Indian values...but he is unable to get rid of that classical "Indian nod"?
It comes as a reflex in the most desperate situations.
 
Indian nod? What "Indian nod"?
Any Westerner would instantly tell you.
It is that particular headshake Indians use in a wobble (or bobble) manner...often accompanied by a silent smile.
The headshake is a mixture of a nod and a shake.
 
The Westerner would ask "I am confused. Is he saying "yes"? Or is he saying "no"? Or is he saying "I don't know"?
The answer is often translated, "He is saying he totally agrees with you...he is very happy with what you are doing...see - he is even smiling on the outside😊 too"
And the Westerner walks away happily.
But we Indians who just translated those words know better, don't we?
Most likely, the Indian man to please him had smiled, but on the inside...he probably would have walked away with an 😕 expression in his mind.
Is this called "adjusting"?
Is this an Indian concept in the Western world?
 
Hard to tell, because I am an eye witness to this incident.
 
 
Posted: 11 years ago
Originally posted by s.satishkumar


You never find the Phantom, he finds you.
 
This is my personal favourite Phantom saying.
It spooked me every time I read the comics or I watched the cartoons as a little kid.
I was so scared I wouldn't want to turn off the lights when I slept at night!
 
I love how an imaginary character or tale can be so powerful and yet so scary at the same time...
I especially love a child's innocent fear towards such characters.
Even fear in its purest, innocent form of a child reacting to such stories is a joy to watch.
 
And now I'm grown-up.
 
Aren't grown-ups so boring?
Posted: 11 years ago
snippet from a converstion between chaplin and einstien

Albert Einstein said, "What I admire most about your art, is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet ... the world understands you."
 
- "It's true", replied Chaplin, "But your fame is even greater: The world admires you, when nobody understands you."
Posted: 11 years ago
GUIDE TO TRANSLATING "PERSONAL" ADVERTISEMENTS

Independent Thinker . . . . . . . Crazy.

High-Spirited . . . . . . . . . Crazy, hyperactive, and throws things.

Free-Spirited . . . . . . . . . Crazy and irresponsible.

Ample . . . . . . . . . . . . . Large.

Huggable . . . . . . . . . . . . Large.

Zaftig . . . . . . . . . . . . . REALLY Large.

Fat and Sassy . . . . . . . . . Large and loudmouthed.

Slender . . . . . . . . . . . . Skinny.

Svelte . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anorexic.

Petite (I am). . . . . . . . . . Short.

Petite (you are) . . . . . . . . Size 2.

Dynamic . . . . . . . . . . . . Pushy.

Assertive . . . . . . . . . . . Pushy with a mean streak.

Excited About Life's Journey . . No concept of reality.

Moody . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manic-depressive.

Unpredictable . . . . . . . . . Manic-depressive and off medication.

Soulful . . . . . . . . . . . . Manic-depressive and quiet.

Poetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manic-depressive and boring.

Looking for Mr/Ms Right. . . . . Looking for Mr/Ms Rich.

Very Human . . . . . . . . . . . Quasimodo.

Uninhibited . . . . . . . . . . Lacking basic social skills.

Irreverent . . . . . . . . . . . Mean and lacking basic social skills.

Aging Child . . . . . . . . . . Self-centered adult.

Freedom-loving . . . . . . . . . Undependable.

Young at Heart . . . . . . . . . Over 40.

Youthful . . . . . . . . . . . . Over 50 and in major denial.

Chatty . . . . . . . . . . . . . Never shuts up.

Humorous . . . . . . . . . . . . Watches too much TV and never shuts up.

Financially secure (I am). . . . Has a job.

Financially secure (you are) . . Rich.

Affectionate . . . . . . . . . . Horny.

Romantic . . . . . . . . . . . . Horny.

Passionate . . . . . . . . . . . REALLY horny.
Posted: 11 years ago
Auschwitz - This is fascinating.

The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15, 2008. It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world.

REMEMBER AS YOU READ -- IT WAS IN A SPANISH PAPER
Date: Tue. 15 January 2008

ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We
destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all,  as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted  to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.

Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made  by miserable Europe
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. They have received the following NobelPrizes:

        Literature:
        1988 - Najib Mahfooz

        Peace:
        1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
        1990 - Elias James Corey
        1994 - Yaser Arafat:
        1999 - Ahmed Zewai

        Economics:
        (zero)

        Physics:
        (zero)

        Medicine:
        1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
        1998 - Ferid Mourad

        TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

        Literature:
        1910 - Paul Heyse
        1927 - Henri Bergson
        1958 - Boris Pasternak
        1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
        1966 - Nelly Sachs
        1976 - Saul Bellow
        1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
        1981 - Elias Canetti
        1987 - Joseph Brodsky
        1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

        Peace:
        1911 - Alfred Fried
        1911 - Tobias Mi chae l Carel Asser
        1968 - Rene Cassin
        1973 - Henry Kissinger
        1978 - Menachem Begin
        1986 - Elie Wiesel
        1994 - Shimon Peres
        1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

        Physics:
        1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
        1906 - Henri Moissan
        1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
        1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
        1910 - Otto Wallach
        1915 - Richard Willstaetter
        1918 - Fritz Haber
        1921 - Albert Einstein
        1922 - Niels Bohr
        1925 - James Franck
        1925 - Gustav Hertz
        1943 - Gustav Stern
        1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
        1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
        1952 - Felix Bloch
        1954 - Max Born
        1958 - Igor Tamm
        1959 - Emilio Segre
        1960 - Donald A. Glaser
        1961 - Robert Hofstadter
        1961 - Melvin Calvin
        1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
        1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
        1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
        1965 - Julian Schwinger
        1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
        1971 - Dennis Gabor
        1972 - William Howard Stein
        1973 - Brian David Josephson
        1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
        1976 - Burton Richter
        1977 - Ilya Prigogine
        1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
        1978 - Peter L Kapitza
        1979 - Stephen Weinberg
        1979 - Sheldon Glashow
        1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
        1980 - Paul Berg
        1980 - Walter Gilbert
        1981 - Roald Hoffmann
        1982 - Aaron Klug
        1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
        1985 - Jerome Karle
        1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
        1988 - Robert Huber
        1988 - Leon Lederman
        1988 - Melvin Schwartz
        1988 - Jack Steinberger
        1989 - Sidney Altman
        1990 - Jerome Friedman
        1992 - Rudolph Marcus
        1995 - Martin Perl
        2000 - Alan J. Heeger

        Economics:
        1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
        1971 - Simon Kuznets
        1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
        1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
        1976 - Milton Friedman
        1978 - Herbert A. Simon
        1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
        1985 - Franco Modigliani
        1987 - Robert M. Solow
        1990 - Harry Markowitz
        1990 - Merton Miller
        1992 - Gary Becker
        1993 - Robert Fogel

        Medicine:
        1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
        1908 - Paul Erlich
        1914 - Robert Barany
        1922 - Otto Meyerhof
        1930 - Karl Landsteiner
        1931 - Otto Warburg
        1936 - Otto Loewi
        1944 - Joseph Erlanger
        1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
        1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
        1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
        1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
        1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
        1953 - Hans Krebs
        1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
        1958 - Joshua Lederberg
        1959 - Arthur Kornberg
        1964 - Konrad Bloch
        1965 - Francois Jacob
        1965 - Andre Lwoff
        1967 - George Wald
        1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
        1969 - Salvador Luria
        1970 - Julius Axelrod
        1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
        1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
        1975 - Howard Martin Temin
        1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
        1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
        1978 - Daniel Nathans
        1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
        1984 - Cesar Milstein
        1985 - Mi chae l Stuart Brown
        1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
        1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
        1988 - Gertrude Elion
        1989 - Harold Varmus
        1991 - Erwin Neher
        1991 - Bert Sakmann
        1993 - Richard J. Roberts
        1993 - Phillip Sharp
        1994 - Alfred Gilman
        1995 - Edward B. Lewis
        1996- Lu RoseIacovino
        TOTAL: 129!

The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.

The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:

"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel ." Benjamin Netanyahu

General Eisenhower warned us it is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead. He did this because he said in words to this effect:

'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history someone will get up and say that this never happened'

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the, 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way.

Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
Posted: 11 years ago
A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet.

She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Three times, even.. The total had to be exactly perfect.. No chance here for mistakes.

Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall's Drug Store with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door.

She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention, but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a scuffing noise. Nothing. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good. Finally she took a Quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did it!

'And what do you want?' the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice.. I'm talking to my brother from Chicago whom I haven't seen in ages,' he said without waiting for a reply to his question.

'Well, I want to talk to you about my brother,' Tess answered back in the same annoyed tone. 'He's really, really sick...and I want to buy a miracle.'

'I beg your pardon?' said the pharmacist.

'His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now. So how much does a miracle cost?'

'We don't sell miracles here, little girl. I'm sorry but I can't help you,' the pharmacist said, softening a little.

'Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn't enough, I will get the rest. Just tell me how much it costs.'

The pharmacist's brother was a well dressed man. He stooped down and asked the little girl, 'What kind of a miracle does your brother need?'

' I don't know,' Tess replied with her eyes welling up. I just know he's really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy can't pay for it, so I want to use my money..'

'How much do you have?' asked the man from Chicago .

'One dollar and eleven cents,' Tess answered barely audible.

'And it's all the money I have, but I can get some more if I need to.'

'Well, what a coincidence,' smiled the man. 'A dollar and eleven cents---the exact price of a Miracle for little brothers.'

He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her mitten and said 'Take me to where you live. I want
To see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the miracle you need.'

That well-dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed free of charge and it wasn't long until Andrew was home again and doing well.

Mom and Dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led them to this place.

'That surgery,' her Mom whispered. 'was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost?'

Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost...one dollar and eleven cents...plus the faith of a little child.

In our lives, we never know how many miracles we will need.

A miracle is not the suspension of natural law, but the operation of a higher law.

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