Say No To TOBACCO

Every year, on 31 May, WHO and partners mark World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption.

SO HERES SOME OF THE FACTS RELATED TO SMOKING, AS THE NUMBER OF DEATH DUE TO SMOKING IS MORE THAN ANY OTHER ADDICTION !

If you smoke then YOU MUST read this Estimated 800,000-900,000 tobacco-attributable deaths per year in India, experts say.According to Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) – India 2010,

SMOKING is the leading causeof preventable death in india. Cigarette smoking and exposureto second hand smoke and estimated average of 2500 deaths each day in India.

CONTENTS OF CIGARETTES:

If you think cigarettes are simply dried tobacco leaves rolled in paper, you’re about 599 ingredients off. The tobacco industry has become master mixologists with the additives. Some ingredients are added for flavor, but research has shown that the key purpose of using additives is to improve tobacco’s potency resulting in increased addictiveness–and the additives they choose to use aredreadful.

Acetone: You may recognize this as the active ingredient in fingernail polish remover.

Ammonia: A common ingredient in many cleaning products. Ammonia speeds up the delivery of nicotine to the brain, which keeps you addicted.

Arsenic is used for rat poison.

Benzene is a common ingredient in many plastics and has been linked with leukemia and blood disorders.

Butane is a main ingredient in lighter fluid.

Carbon monoxide enters your blood stream and takes the place of oxygen, causing less oxygen to be delivered to your brain, heart and vital organs.

Cadmium is an extremely toxic metal commonly found in industrial workplaces, particularly where any ore is being processed or smelted. Cadmium is also found in batteries.

Formaldehyde is used for embalming dead people.

Hydrogen Cyanide is a colorless, volatile, and extremely poisonous chemical compound whose vapors have a bitter almond odor.

Lead is a highly toxic metal that produces a range of adverse health effects.

Nickel is a human carcinogen that is poisonous if ingested and causes gastrointestinal problems.

Nicotine is the addictive drug in cigarettes.

Polonium is a radioactive metallic element. The polonium present in a pack a day, provides the same radiation as 4 chest x-rays.

Turpentine is also know as paint thinner and is extremely flammable.

Whale Vomit is not a chemical, but is added to cigarettes for flavoring.

For a start, here’s the who’s who of the most toxic ingredients used to make cigarettes tastier, and more quickly, effectively addictive:

Ammonia: Household cleaner.
Arsenic: Used in rat poisons.
Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber.
Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid.
Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas.
Cadmium: Used in batteries.
Cyanide: Lethal poison.
DDT: A banned insecticide.
Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals.
Lead: Poisonous in high doses.
Formaldehyde: Used to preserve dead specimens.
Methoprene: Insecticide.
Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics.
Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs.
Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India, in 1984.
Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element.

 Cigarette burning at an extremely hot temperature, which allows the nicotine in tobacco to turn into a vapor so your lungs can absorb it more easily.

The solution to the bitter-tasting cigarette was easy–have some chemists add taste-improving chemicals to the tobacco. But once they got rolling they figured out they could really maximize the whole addiction part, what a hook. They found that a chemical similar to rocket fuel helps keep the tip of the cigarette burning at an extremely hot temperature, which allows the nicotine in tobacco to turn into a vapor so your lungs can absorb it more easily. Or how about ammonia? Adding ammonia to cigarettes allows nicotine in its vapor form to be absorbed through the lungs more quickly. This, in turn, means your brain can get a higher dose of nicotine with each inhalation. Now that’s efficiency.

It’s bad enough that many of these ingredients are approved for use in food–but that they haven’t been tested for burning? When burnt, the whole mess results in over 4,000 chemicals, including over 40 known carcinogenic compounds and 400 other toxins. These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT.

Nearly 5,000 chemicals have been identified in tobacco smoke to date. Public health authorities have classified between 45 and 70 of those chemicals, including carcinogens, irritants and other toxins, as potentially causing the harmful effects of tobacco use.

Significant festival of India: Ganga Dashmi

Ganga Dashmi

Every summer, the Ganga Dusshera or Ganga Dashami festival venerates the auspicious occasion of the descent of the sacred river on earth from heaven. On this day, a dip in the holy river invoking the Goddess is said to cleanse all sins. A devotee worships by lighting incense and lamp, and offers sandalwood, flowers, and milk. Fishes and other aquatic animals are fed flour balls.

Ganga Dussehra celebrates the descent of Ganga from its heavenly abode to purge the land with its pure waters. Ganga Dussehra (or Ganga Dashmi) always falls in the Hindu month of Jyeshtha The day is also celebrated as Gangavataran (descent of Ganga). Celebrations stretch across 10 days starting on Shani Amavasya and culminating in Ganga Dashmi on the tenth day.

Ganga Dashmi Significance

Bathing in the waters of Ganga (Ganga snaan) on this day is considered extremely auspicious and is believed to absolve one of all their sins. Devotees throng to the banks of the Ganga for this ceremonial dip and also offer alms and charity.A person taking a bath on Jyeshtha Shukla Dashami is freed of ten sins. Three of these sins are related to actions, four to speech and three to psychology. A person is freed from all of them.

Ganga Arti

A bath should be taken in river Ganga on this day. If a person is unable to reach river Ganga, he may take a bath in a nearby river or a pond. A person should worship Goddess Ganga and should recite the following mantra :

“Om Namah Shivaya Dussheraye Narayanye Dussheraye Gangaye Namah”

After this, you should devote five flowers to Bhagirathi in order to thank him to bring river Ganga to the Earth. You should also recite the following mantra :

“Om Namo Bhagvate Aen Srin Shrin Hili Hili Mili Mili Gange Ma Pavaye Pavaye Swaha”

The Rituals

Those unable to take a dip perform a puja or aradhya on the banks of the holy river, the Dashapapahara shloka is chanted on this day and for those who are unable to bathe in the waters of Ganga, it is enough to bathe with water infused with a few drops of ganga jal. It is believed that listening to Adi Shankara’s Ganga Stotram also has beneficial effects in washing sins away and in finding peace of mind.

Celebrations and rituals that begin on the dark, moonless night finally culminate on the tenth day (phase) of the new moon.

The Aim Of Life

The aim of life is to be free from suffering and to attain infinite
bliss consciousness and that is........God

The only aim of life is to get away from the delusion of this material world.

Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that “something else” he
hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending. For those
individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He
is that Something Else.

Many people may doubt that finding God is the purpose of life; but
everyone can accept the idea that the purpose of life is to find
happiness. I say that God is Happiness. He is Bliss. He is Love. He is
Joy that will never go away from your soul. So why shouldn’t you try
to acquire that Happiness? No one else can give it to you. You must
continuously cultivate it yourself.

Man has come on earth solely to learn to know God; he is here for no
other reason. This is the true message of the Lord. To all those who
seek and love Him, He tells of that great Life where there is no pain,
no old age, no war, no death — only eternal assurance. In that Life
nothing is destroyed. There is only ineffable happiness that will
never grow stale — a happiness always new.

In an instant you may be required to leave this world; you will have
to cancel all your engagements. Why then give any other activity first
importance, with the result that you have no time for God? That is not
common sense. It is because of maya, the net of cosmic delusion which
is thrown over us, that we entangle ourselves in mundane interests and
forget the Lord.

The love of God, the love of the Spirit, is an all-consuming love.
Once you have experienced it, it shall lead you on and on in the
eternal realms. That love will never be taken away from your heart. It
shall burn there, and in its fire you shall find the great magnetism
of Spirit that draws others unto you, and attracts whatsoever you
truly need or desire. 

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MAA BHARTI'S BRAVE SON---MAHARANA PRATAP

Maharana Pratap Singh (9 May 1540 – 29 January 1597) was the ruler of Mewar, a region in north-western India in the present day state of Rajasthan. His birth anniversary (Maharana Pratap Jayanti) is celebrated as full fledged festival every year on 3rd day of Jyestha Shukla phase. He was son of Maharani Jayantabai and King Udai Singh II founder of Udaipur. He belonged to the Sisodia clan of Rajputs.Maharana Pratap Singh is widely regarded as a fearless warrior and ingenious strategist, who successfully fought the Mughals and safeguarded his people until his death. In popular Indian culture, he is hailed as an inspirational figure for exemplifying gallantry and resourcefulness, and for being one of the earliest proponents of Indian patriotism.

In 1568 during the reign of Udai Singh, Maharana Pratap's father Chittorgarh Fort was conquered by the Mughal emperor Akbar after the third Jauhar at Chittor However, Udai Singh and the royal family of Mewar had left before the fort was captured and moved to the foothills of the Aravalli Range where Singh had already founded the city of Udaipur in 1559. Rani Dheer Bai wanted her son Jagmal to succeed Udai Singh^[6] but the senior preferred Pratap, as the eldest son, to be their king. The desire of the nobles prevailed.

Nearly all of Pratap's fellow Rajput chiefs had meanwhile entered into the vassalage of the Mughals. Even Pratap's own brothers, Shakti Singh and Sagar Singh, served Akbar. Indeed, many Rajput chiefs, such as Raja Man Singh of Amber (later known as Maharaja of Jaipur) served as army commanders in Akbar's armies and as members of his council. Akbar sent a total of six diplomatic missions to Pratap, seeking to negotiate the same sort of peaceful alliance that he had concluded with the other Rajput chiefs. Each time, however, Pratap refused to accept Akbar's suzerainty, arguing that the Sisodia Rajputs had never accepted any foreign ruler as their overlord, nor will he. The enmity was long-standing: the grandfathers of Pratap and Akbar - Rana Sanga and Babur, respectively — had previously fought against each other.

On 21 June 1576 (or 18 June in other calculations), the armies of Pratap and Akbar led by Sayyed Hashim Barha son of Sayyed Mahmud Khan met at Haldighati, near the town of Gogunda^] in which Pratap's army was defeated.

Maharana Pratap's first and most favorite wife was Maharani Ajabde Punwar. Maharana Pratap altogether had 11 wives. All of Pratap's other marriages were conducted for political reasons. He had 17 sons and five daughters. Of his children, Amar Singh, who was born to Ajabde, was the eldest.

Maharana Pratap died of injuries sustained in a hunting accident at Chavand, which served as his capital, on 29 January 1597, aged fifty-seven A chhatri, commemorating Pratap's funeral, exists at Chavand and is an important tourist attraction.

It is recorded that as he lay dying, Pratap made his son and successor, Amar Singh, swear to maintain eternal conflict against the Mughals. Amar Singh submitted Mewar to Akbar, conditionally accepting the Mughals as rulers. The subsequent treaty between Amar Singh and the Mughal king Jahangir included obligations that fort of Chittor would not be repaired and that Mewar would have to keep a contingent of 1000 horses in the Mughal service.It also stipulated that Amar Singh would not have to be present at any of the Mughal Darbars. At Amar Singh's laying down of arms, many members of Pratap's family of Sisodias became disillusioned and left Rajasthan. This group included Rathores, Deora Chauhans, Pariharas, Tanwars, Kacchwaha and Jhalas. Amar Singh himself regretted letting down his people so much that he was never publicly seen outside his palace again.

MOTHER- an idol of sacrifice, penance, and love

Who is Mother ??

 

A Mother is Idol of love penance sacrifice compassion.

Mother always intends to give.She is another name oflove,gentle,forgiving,understanding unconditional love, compassion ,generous ,thats what resembles god.

She carrys you for 9 month in her womb with all her love ,happiness and care, on the other hand you get tired of carrying even simple objects with lighter weights, celebrating or grreting such mother once in a year is it a right practice ???

Our indian culture teaches us to worship our mother,father and guru as you wake up from sleep.

As soon as you feel hurt ou instinctively scream for mother, you look for her help rather than father or anyone else, for example like, ooi maa, hay maa, not ooi papa, hey papa, bcoz mother is such a personality who defends you from every trouble, sorrows and griefs in life. Mothers austerity and love is evident in you, hence each and every second,every moment of your life to her.

youth fades,love droops,the leaves of friendship fall,……………. mothers secret love outlives them all.

Compressed Biogas- CBG

Compressed biogas is the fuel of choice and necessity for India and the world. Biogas can be purified and compressed to  meet the nation’s fuel requirements and thus throw a good opportunity for development and growth of biogas plants in the country. India, especially with her huge cattle population and limited amount of land will benefit the most with the use of compressed biogas. We have an inexhaustible source of biological waste, by utilising that waste for power generation we can avoid dumping in the landfills, thus save land for cultivation.

While technology to compress biogas has already been devised, it has been used only in rural household for cooking purposes only. It was utilized for the traditional purpose of using it as manure. No effort was made to use this waste for the purpose of production of energy to run power plants, vehicles etc. Whereas compressed biogas has the potential to match CNG standards by use of advanced technologies. Biogas has 60% of methane content and 40% of carbon dioxide, the purified form obtained after processing matches the methane content of CNG. The CBG produced can be used in the same cylinders that store CNG; it will be equivalent to the efficiency of CNG, and can be used to run power plants and vehicles.

By an approximate formula, 100 cows will give/day 1000/Kg of cow dung, this in a bio digester will yield about 40 M3 of Gobar gas. After removing impurities such as CO2, Sulphur, Moisture etc will yield about 20M3 or 17Kg of pure methane gas. Gober gas is purified of all impurities and moisture. Pure Methane gas is than Compressed. This Compressed Bio – Gas thus obtained is capable of running Power plants & Vehicles.

CBG helps in reducing Carbon Emissions

As a transport fuel it reduces

·         CO emissions by 90-97% & CO2 emission by 25%

·         NOX emissions by 35 – 60%

·         Hydrocarbon emissions by 50 -75%

·         Emits little or no particulate matter

Sukhoi Superjet 100

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 (Russian: Сухой Суперджет 100) is a modern fly-by-wire twin-engine regional jet with 8 (VIP)[8] to 108 (all Y) passenger seats.[9] With development initiated in 2000, the airliner was designed and spearheaded by Sukhoi, a division of the Russian civil aerospace company (UAC), in co-operation with several foreign partners. Its maiden flight was conducted on 19 May 2008. On 21 April 2011, the Superjet 100 undertook its first commercial passenger flight, on theArmavia route from Yerevan to Moscow.

Designed to compete internationally with its An-158, Embraer and Bombardier counterparts, the Superjet 100 claims substantially lower operating costs, at a lower purchase price of $35 million.

The final assembly of the Superjet 100 is done by Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association. Its SaM-146engines are designed and produced by the French-Russian PowerJet joint venture and the aircraft is marketed internationally by the Italian-Russian SuperJet International joint venture. {source: wikipedia}

Books are a uniquely portable magic

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• Sacred texts are treated with respect; they are never placed directly on the floor, nor touched with feet or dirty hands.
• Prayers are often recited before using or consulting them.
• Texts are often wrapped in silk cloth.
• Sometimes they are placed in a shrine and offered worship.
• Ancient texts were etched on leaves, such as palm.
• Books are used for recitation, personal study, theological training,  (see Other Forms of Worship) and consultation on matters of spiritual and secular law.
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• Sacred texts are sources of:

  1. Philosophical concepts
  2. Information on personal values
  3. Practical injunctions
  4. Story and myth
  5. Prayers and mantras
  6. Details of worship/liturgy
  7. Various arts and sciences
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The Great Giveback

In India, one of the most striking images is that of cows wandering on the roads. In cities, towns and villages numerous cows and bulls either sit or wander about peacefully, chewing the cud. It gives the impression of a society in harmony with cow. The holy cow, the Mother of India is revered by all and, in most states, is not allowed to be slaughtered.

India has an open garbage system, which means open garbage bins on the roads overflowing with stinking waste.Cows eat whatever they can find to survive. The numbers of stray cows are equal to the amount of garbage on which they feed and multiply.

In cities and towns, large numbers of cows on the roads eat from garbage bins, foraging for fruit and vegetable leftovers, anything edible and smelling like food.

Since plastic bags have invaded our lives, almost all garbage and food waste is disposed in plastic bags. These bags spill out either on the road or from municipality dustbins. Because these plastic bags are usually tied in a knot at the mouth, cows are unable to reach the food leftovers inside and end up eating the plastic bags whole. Owing to cows’ complex digestive systems, these bags never get expelled and, over time, accumulate inside the rumen, which is the first stomach of the cow. There, these bags get entangled and become hard like cement.

These cattle, owned or stray, often obstruct traffic and cause accidents. The municipality removes the animals from the road to be sent to godowns, goshalas(shelters designed for cows), or temples, or they are simply dumped at the garbage landfills on the outskirts of the city. From there they ‘disappear’ into trucks for transport to slaughter.

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