Ultimate Learning from my own experience on the eve of Janmastami 2010.

It’s a fine morning today (2nd Sep 2010). I woke up at 4 am in ISKCON to attend Mangala Arati & wish my beloved lord a very enchanting birthday. 

We had countless funs during the same fest yesterday; Children from various schools came with props of Krishna, Radha, Meera, Gopi etc for fancy dress competition!!! They caught cake on behalf of Krishna. One of the most pleasurable moment of my life :-). Three TV channels (Sankara, TV9 & 24X7 were covering all these live telecasts... Also some well known Kannada stars & political personality came to attend the program & seek the blessings of Supreme Personality of Godhead. Today even more events & abhishekams are planned, but I returned back to home & did the Janmastami Puja (Laddu Gopal) in my little Puja Room. (Photos shared in my Orkut & facebook account) :-).

While arranging articles for the Puja, I had came across a situation which taught me a great lesson of life. I thought of sharing that with all, as everyone could be benefited from this. Just we need to change our perception in similar situations!!! Of course the thing that I am going to share is backed by unflinching faith with my loving God, Shree Krishna.

It happened so, by the time I finish my darshan & reached my room from ISKCON, it was bit late & most of the flower shops are closed, (except one) in my locality.

That lady was having many big big malas & some single roses & gemini flowers. When I asked for those single (untied) flowers, she straight away denied my request. Gave me the only option to buy the malas (kind of blackmailed me). I got little disappointment by seeing her behaviour towards me & the intension she was having, though that might or might not solve my purpose. Somehow I thought of coming out empty handed with the believe of fulfilling my requirement from another shop. &&& Krishna never leave His devotee empty handed; Just after walking 100 to 200 meters, I found another shop & this time without a single objection shopkeeper gave ample number of untied flowers with the same money; which was beyond my expectations!!!

It seems to be an ordinary moment, but taught a great lesson to me. When we try for something nice, with a clean heart & best effort, still fail to see the immediate result, we have the tendency to get frustrated. But in most cases the whole story is something different & with our limited vision most of the times we could not visualize the whole. Always God has some better plans for us & that gets revealed, sometimes in very short period (as happened with me today) or sometimes in a medium to long period. If I would ve been returned back with frustration or accepted the undesired one by hook or crook, ultimately I would have been the looser. But with little more patience and strong belief on my Krishna I endeavour for more possibilities... Its Krishna who controls the result of every action, so I was ready for anything. With that mindset when I got more than expected, my faith has tremendously strengthened yet again.

Its a great lesson for me & hoping that I could apply the same perception in every similar situations in life (when things are happening with greater magnitude).

Hope some of you could relate to this & it might be helpful for you too.

Wishing all a blissful & enchanting Janmastami.

May Krishna destroy all our ignorance & lead to eternal peace & harmony in life.

Jai Shree Krishna...

Cause of suffering !!!

We generally suffer either due to our ignorance, excessive attachment or due to our own laziness !!!
How true???

Any personified experience is highly appreciated.

Also please add other attributes which could be potential reason, beside what I ve jotted above... :-).

Differences between elements in CSS, which sounds similar

1.visibility vs display

Options: i) visibility: hidden / visible
             ii)display: none/inline/block

Difference : "visibility" will occupy the screen space even if it is hidden. But "display" will not take up any screen space if it is invisible(display:none).

NB: Use 'display' attribute more, as on need basis the screen space will be occupied.

2. readonly vs disbaled 


Both of the above attributes can be used to make the HTML elements non-editable.

But the additional thing that Disabled does is, the user cant even highlight to copy the text, not to select the checkbox etc. Also those disabled fields are not been submitted to the server, in subsequent post backs.

So better to use disabled, if we want to make the control readonly as well as in accessible by the user in all means. :-)

For Example: 

Sample - 1	produces this
READONLY>
DISABLED> ;

It's important to understand that READONLY merely prevents the user from changing the value of the field, not from interacting with the field. For many types of fields, READONLY is irrelevent because you don't normally change the value. In checkboxes, for example, you can check them on or off (thus setting the CHECKED state) but you don't change the value of the field. DISABLED, however, actually prevents you from using the field. Notice in these examples that you can set the checkboxes even though they are "read only":

Sample -2	produces this
READONLY>Krishna READONLY>Rama	Krishna Rama
DISABLED>Krishna DISABLED>Rama	Krishna Rama

My heartfelt words on Independence Day!!!

As all are wishing, I am also wishing u a (so called) happy Independence Day, but I felt sorry for what we are celebrating. L

We are celebrating this day, as we got freedom from British people on this day, but are u sure??? Have we actually got the freedom?

Sorry to say they have created just an illusion of being free. Though we have very rich culture, we are still following theirs. In the name of Modern civilization we keep on cultivating slow poison in our country & trying to spread it even in small villages, where people are so simple, true from their heart...

In the name of Fast Food we are eating all Junks!!!

In the name of fashion, our attires are getting shorter & shorter!!!

In the name of time pass, we are getting attracted to Pubs & Discos, smoking boozing & doing all nonsense things!!!

In the name of women liberalization more sexual harassment, rapes & divorce cases are getting registered!!!

In the name of politics, ministers & bureaucrats are doing mostly false propagandas & cheating, bribery is continuously cranking up our country from the inside!!!

And last but not least, in the name of globalization we are killing our own people & our Swadeshi industries / products!!!

   If I am not wrong, Its Mahatma Gandhi whom we give maximum credit for achieving our freedoms, then why we are not following any of his principles??? I think by discarding the foreign items, he has strengthened his mission to its maximum.                                                                                                             

If we have followed his principles & abide our own culture then by now we must have reached to such a stage where in all means we would be self sufficient. 

I don't deny the progress that we have achieved, but look at China. It got her independence far late then us & where are they standing now??? If we investigate deep in to World History we can get many such examples where  the county & its citizen have reached to the pinnacle of success, achieved ultimate peace & harmony... All by not selling out their own culture & civilization, but by strictly abiding to them.

May be my voice is insignificant & has the reach to very few people, but still if it can hit few attentions, then it can bring revolution. Please give it a thought. 

If possible please pass this message to every Indian & kindle the inner fire. The revolution can start if our  youth can initiate it... 

Happy Future Independence day :-)

Link : http://bikash4u.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-heartfelt-words-on-independence-day.html

Three last wishes!!!

Alexander, the great Greek king, after conquering many kingdoms, was returning home.  On the way, he fell ill and it took him to his death bed.  So, the mighty conqueror lay prostrate and pale, helplessly waiting to breathe his last.

He called his generals and said, "I will depart from this world soon, I have three wishes, please carry them out without fail."  With tears flowing down their cheeks, the generals agreed to abide by their king's last wishes.  "My first desire is that," said Alexander, "My physicians alone must carry my coffin."  After a pause, he continued, "Secondly, I desire that when my coffin is being carried to the grave, the path leading to the graveyard be strewn with gold, silver and precious stones which I have collected in my treasury."  The king felt exhausted after saying this.  He took a minute's rest and continued.  "My third and last wish is that both my hands be kept dangling out of my coffin."  

Alexander's favorite general kissed his hand and pressed them to his heart.  "O king, we assure you that your wishes will all be fulfilled.  But tell us why do you make such strange wishes."  At this Alexander took a deep breath and said: "I would like the world to know of the three lessons I have just learnt.  I want my physicians to carry my coffin because people should realize that no doctor can really cure any body.  They are powerless and cannot save a person from the clutches of death.  So let not people take life for granted.  

The second wish of strewing gold, silver and other riches on the way to the graveyard is to tell people that not even a fraction of gold will come with me.  I spent all my life earning riches but cannot take anything with me.  Let people realize that it is a sheer waste of time to chase after limitless wealth.  And about my third wish of having my hands dangling out of the coffin, I wish people to know that I came empty handed into this world and empty handed I go out of this world."  With these words, the king closed his eyes.  Soon he let death conquer him and breathed his last. 
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It’s really a great story & indeed the teachings are really profound; But we are so much entangled in this material world that very next moment we will forget this until the said stage comes (Death Bed), when every man can only realize, but cant rewind back their life...

We are heavily bound by Laws of Karma, so sufferings will continue till we get the real knowledge!!!

Only the wise person can (perceive) see things as they are, but sorry to say this is not same with every intelligent person K. Be wise, mere intelligence is not sufficient to remain peaceful in life.