Interesting MythBuster

I came across this interesting mythbuster. Go through it....

http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/lectures/10_ArchimedesFAQ.html

What Husbands Hear!!

Sri Sri Radha Kunjabihari 

Gaura-Nitai 

Another Gorgeous Photo

Krishna Janmashtami

Weekend!!

Its been a while since I blogged. Had too much of work at office and had totally forgot about blogging until kari reminded me of it (Thanks kano). This weekend I was very busy at the temple since Krishna Janmashtami is nearing. Its on the 26th of August and there are lots of preparations going on in the temple here at Seattle. Will be in the temple whole of Friday and Saturday. Will post the Photos .
bye for now.

Know how this works???? Here you go!!!!

So as of today, the space given by google is 2135.73MB. However on May 1 the space will be 2150. Want to know how???

.....................
If you open the source code of this page, you will find the following variable

var CP = [
[ 1114308000000, 2125 ],
[ 1114930800000, 2150 ]
];

Now copy the following code and paste it in IE,
javascript:alert((new Date(1114930800000)).toString());

You will get a popup saying Sun May 1 00:00:00 PDT 2005. This means that on May 1 you will have a space of 2150 MB for your gmail account...

Cool stuff hmmm.....

Unconditional Love for all

Unconditional Love for all. Very good one.


All of us need to believe that we are loved and are lovable. We begin life secure in our mothers love, swaddled in our innocence. Love was never in question, but over time, we become increasingly unsure...In The Path to Love , Deepak Chopra says that by bringing spirituality back into our relationships, we can discover a world of depth and meaning. He says: You were created to be completely loved and to be completely lovable for your whole life.The problems begin when we start taking love for granted and get possessive about life. We deny freedom and space to the people we love our children, spouse, friend. Unknowingly, we start killing our love. And we create bondage for ourselves, too, when we curb the freedom of the person we love.Osho says: Freedom is a higher value than love. Love stifles and gets stifled when it encroaches upon the space of another. Love blossoms in the space of freedom, in breeziness. Once we realise the nature of true love, we no longer fall in love we actually rise in love.At this point love becomes unconditional. We give our love and feel grateful to all those who receive it, because this way we unburden ourselves.Osho says when the clouds are full of rain water, they have to shower. It is their need. Similarly, when we become full of love it is our need to give our love to one and all. Then we are not concerned whether or not we receive love in return. We simply enjoy giving.Conditional love is attachment; it is bondage, so it is also an illusion. We say we want to be free but are we brave enough to be alone? We fear loneliness. We fear being unoccupied. We started out looking for love, but maybe we were really looking for attachment. Our need may have been attachment all along. Love was the way to attain it, the bait.Unconditional love will not become attachment. But the moment you say to your partner, Love only me, you begin to possess her. And in possessing, youre making your lover into an object to be used.Immanuel Kant said that to treat another person as a means is an immoral act. In other words, if you see your lover as being there for your gratification, or to fulfil your sexual desires, or to provide something else for you... youre reducing your partner to an object.You are in bondage so inevitably, youll eventually desire freedom. You will be bored by what you have and yearn for what you dont have. Or you could try to be free even while possessing your partner, causing a struggle.Osho says, I want to be a free person, and yet I want you to be possessed by me; you want to retain your freedom and still possess me this is the struggle... We must remain individuals and we must move as independent, free consciousness. We can come together, we can merge into each other, but no one possesses. Then there is no bondage and then there is no attachment.Love becomes a blessing, a real celebration when love breathes fresh air free from possessiveness and jealousy. There should be no judgment, no blame, no expectations and no attempts to control.The soul can grow only in freedom and unconditional love provides freedom. Osho says: My message is beyond biology and theology... Love is nothing but sharing of your consciousness with as many people as possible; not only with people, but with animals, trees, birds, clouds, stars.

BP Raise!!!

American Return

American Life

Happy Vishu

Today is the Tamil New year's day. We celebrate it as Vishu since we are the Kerala brahmins. Since I am away from home this vishu, I thought that I will celebrate it as my parents do. So I went to Safeway today and purchased all the Vegetables, Fruits, Badam, Cashew, Grapes etc..
I have kept the vishu kani at my place. This kani consists of all the vegetables, fruits, cashew, badam, grapes, lots of money (both Indian and US currency) and flowers. So I will get up early in the morning tomorrow and see the kani. I will also take some photos and post here. Keep watching....

ELLARUKKUM VISHU VAZTHUKKAL.

Ugadiya Hardhika Shubhashayagalu

Ellarigu, Ugadhiya Hardhika Subhashayagalu. Today, April 9th is celebrated as Ugadi by the people belonging to the states of Karnataka, Andhra and as Guddi Padwa by the Orissa folks. As part of this festival, Krishnan, HarishT and myself were invited by Suresh and family to have the Ugadhi feast. Suresh is a Teluguite and is from Hyderabad. He had invited us for the lunch. DK came to my house at around 12pm noon. We went to Mayuri and picked up some nice saffron ladoos(mouth watering!!!).We arrrived at Suresh's house at around 12.45pm. He stays at the Colony Woods apartment in Bellevue. We had to search a little bit for his house but we figured out his house within a couple of mins. We went to his house and were welcomed by his wife and him. He has two cute kids, one daughter and one son. Daughter is 4 yrs old and the son is nearly one year old. His B'day is coming in the month of May (precisely on 15th).
Usually the lunch time is around 1 or 1:30pm but since harisht had caught up with some work we waited until he came. In the meantime, we had nice Vadas as appetizers.:-)

Harish came at around 2:15pm and we chatted for around 20mins. Then we headed towards the dining table, where lots of items were kept. Here is the list of items that his wife had made by taking so much pain. Thanks to her.
Mango Rice, Ugadi Kichidi (this contains a mix of sweet and sour items), Vadas, Sambar, Papad, Plain Rice and two varities of pickles (Mango and Lemon). We finished our lunch at around 3:15pm. It was a very very HEAVY LUNCH:-).

Then we started to watch TV. Some crappy movie was playing. We chatted for around 45 mins regarding the Indian Film industry and how hopeless it has become these days. During that time Suresh told us the he read an article in Rediff about Narayana Murthy giving tips for the Indian Film industry. It seems that he has given a 5-pt plan to the Indian film industry. Hope NM is not venturing into the Film Industry:-) Here is the link to the site http://us.rediff.com/money/2005/apr/08murthy.htm

We then had Desserts served by Suresh's wife and it had 4 varieties of Ice Cream and Gulab Jamoon. I had 4 Jamoons and my stomach was really aching with fullness. Suresh told that Jamoon was a very good appetizer. It seems that if you have a very heavy meal and would like to digest it very fast have Jamoon with Ice cream. Hope that is true.

I initially thought that I will go to office and work, but because of eating sooooo much, I changed my mind and went home.

It was a fantastic Ugadi Celebration. Thanks to Suresh and his wife for showing us so much hospitality. I had home food that I was longing for months.

HAPPY CHANDRAMANA UGADI TO ALL OF U

Port of Seattle

A View of the Port of Seattle from the sky. It is such a beautiful sight. The small red cranes on the right hand side are the gaint cranes that are used in the port. It is on the Washington Lake. Just besides this port is the world famous Pike's Market. I had been to Pike's market on my earlier visit to Seattle. In this market the main attraction is the fun the people have with the salmons. I have taken a couple of photographs, i will post them here.

Beautiful Photo at Denver!!!

A beautiful photo at Denver.

No, I did not go to Denver:-). I got this photo from one of my friend.

MSVedic Website is Up

Here is the MSVedic Website URL. It contains all the presentations and LiveMeeting sessions for the first 4 classes.
http://msvedic.members.winisp.net

Gopal!!!

Gopal Diety at our house whom we worship daily

Sri Radha Madana Gopal.

Puzzle!!!!

Hi,
Here is an interesting puzzle. Solve this!!!

A monk stays in a hut on the edge of a forest, next to a small hill. On top of the hill is a temple. There is only one path that leads from the monk’s hut to the temple and it winds through the hill. One day the monk leaves his hut at 9 AM, walking along the path towards the temple, traveling at his own speed, resting at times. He reaches the temple at 9 PM and stays overnight. He starts his journey back at 9 AM on the second day, along the same path, again traveling at random speeds, and reaches his hut twelve hours later, at 9 PM.

You have to prove there is at least one point on the path that the monk crossed at the same numerical value for time on both the journeys (i.e. he crossed a particular point at X am or pm while traveling to the temple and at exactly X am or pm whatever the case may be on the return journey).

MSVedic Website

We are creating a website for hosting the discussions that take place every thursday at Microsoft. The programme is conducted by Govind Charan Das and it is a very wonderful discussion that we all have on the topic of Bhakti. I was able to attend the first one (the title was: A Deep Dive into the Vedic principles of life). I attended the discussion through livemeeting. But for the next 2 weeks I was not able to attend completely because of the meeting with my team here. I am planning to go to the programme this thursday. Hope that I will go to Building 31 and attend it there:-) so that it will be much fruitful.
Today I chanted 8 rounds and I am feeling very satisfied. Tomorrow is ekadasi and I am planning to observe Ekadasi. Let me see how it goes..
I will give the link of the website once it has been hosted.
Thatz it for now

-HARIBOL

In Microsoft Building 4. Mariano,myself,Monah,Sunita and Shankar

Mathematics!!!

Here is a good website to which I always refer whenever I need some information on Mathematics.n'Joy..
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Graph.html

Gaura Nitai.......

Yesterday was Lord Nithyananda's appearance day. I had to go to the temple, but because of some issues, I could not make it. My room-mates had been to the temple and they told me that I really missed it. However, they got me good prasad:-) and you know what, I had cakes, noodles etc...All these stuff was without eggs. That was really awesome.
Finally I downloaded the movie Michael Madan Kama rajan to my laptop. I need to watch this movie today after going home from office. It is such a wonderful movie. Now I have put Nayagan for downloading, hope that too gets completed without any issues.

Poonal Change

Yesterday I changed my poonal since one of the threads got cut. I had forgot the mantram that needs to be chanted while changing the poonal. However, I thought that I would search it on the net and would definitely give it. My search criteria in google was upanayanam change:-). However I did not get any good results. Then my friend DK told me that just put Poonal change and to my surprise it was the first one to appear on the screen. The site www.vishuji.com is really very good for this. The mantrams are perfectly correct on this site. I then changed my poonal and did also my sandhi. Also my roommate had to change his poonal. So I helped him to change his as well.
Rest of the day went only in reading. I completed all the fundamentals of DS again and also solved some challenging Algorithmic problems. Did not got to the temple because of this. At night, Sundar got some prasad from temple and we all had it together. Even sarva was there with us. It was a nice time. Then narayanan,sarva and myself chatted till 12:30am about various aspects of programming. It was really a very nice discussion.

GauraNitai

This is Gaura Nitai Dieties at the Sammamish Iskcon Temple.

Jaganatha,Baladev,Subhadra Mata

This is Lord Jagannatha, Baladev and Subhadra Mata at the Sammamish Iskcon Temple.

Sri Sri Radha Neela Madhava at Seattle

These are the dieties of Radha Neela Madhava at Seattle (precisely Sammamish). Actually this photo was taken about 4 months earlier. Now we have good Altars for all the dieties and it looks wonderful. Thanks to Sarva and Naresh Prabhu for importing them from India.

Ekadasi Celebration

Yesterday, I had been to the Iskcon Temple in Sammamish. Since it was Ekadasi, we recited some cantos from the Bhagavad Gita'. It was such a wonderful time in the temple. Then we had prasadam which was fried potatoes, soup, kichidi and fruit salad. It was such transcendental to have such a prasad. Finally I got an oppurtunity to clean the temple. It was such a wonderful experience!!!!.
The seattle dieties are really very very beautiful. Here are the photos of Sri Sri Radha Neela Madhava, Gaura Nitai and Jagannatha, Baladev, Subhadra Mata.
The link to the temple's URL is http://www.iskconseattle.com