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//////////////////////////////MSE=The best way to save money on property is in the price you pay. As a rule of thumb, for every £10,000 you borrow, you will pay back around £20,000 at average interest rates. Think about it. Negotiate and you can save, what for many, is more than a year’s salary. Know your local market. Despite National price increases many regions have seen falls of 5-10% over the year. Simply offering 10% below the asking price is exactly what Estate Agents expect so they price accordingly. If there are buyers queuing up to buy then there is little room for negotiation. In a buyers market use the various free websites to find out selling prices going back to the year 2000. Don’t be afraid to offer 20-30% below the current asking price. Andrew Smith is right when he says the worst that can happen is that the vendor says no.Be aware that interest rates are on the rise globally and the case for rising rates in the UK is getting stronger. Rates are at historic lows at the moment so don’t expect that to last. Ensure you future circumstances will allow you to afford increased monthly payments.
///////////////////Green Tea Boosts Antibiotics for SuperbugsEgyptian study finds drink increased effectiveness threefold
MONDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- Green tea can help antibiotics be three times more effective in fighting drug-resistant bacteria, even superbugs, according to a study by researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt.
Green tea is common in Egypt, and it's likely that many people there drink it while taking antibiotics.Therefore, the researchers wanted to determine if green tea would decrease or increase the effectiveness of antibiotics or have no effect.
"We tested green tea in combination with antibiotics
/////////////////////EDGE='Opposition to religion occupies the high ground, intellectually and morally,' wrote Martin Amis recently. Over the past few years, leading writers and thinkers have published bestselling tracts against God. John Gray on why the 'secular fundamentalists' have got it all wrong
An atmosphere of moral panic surrounds religion. Viewed not so long ago as a relic of superstition whose role in society was steadily declining, it is now demonised as the cause of many of the world's worst evils. As a result, there has been a sudden explosion in the literature of proselytising atheism. A few years ago, it was difficult to persuade commercial publishers even to think of bringing out books on religion. Today, tracts against religion can be enormous money-spinners, with Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great selling in the hundreds of thousands. [*] For the first time in generations, scientists and philosophers, high-profile novelists and journalists are debating whether religion has a future. The intellectual traffic is not all one-way. There have been counterblasts for believers, such as The Dawkins Delusion? by the British theologian Alister McGrath and The Secular Age by the Canadian Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor. On the whole, however, the anti-God squad has dominated the sales charts, and it is worth asking why. ...
[*] EDITOR'S NOTE: Dawkins's
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////////////////////THE ATHEIST DELUSION By John GrayThe notion that religion is a primitive version of science was popularised in the late 19th century in JG Frazer's survey of the myths of primitive peoples, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. For Frazer, religion and magical thinking were closely linked. Rooted in fear and ignorance, they were vestiges of human infancy that would disappear with the advance of knowledge. Dennett's atheism is not much more than a revamped version of Frazer's positivism. The positivists believed that with the development of transport and communication - in their day, canals and the telegraph - irrational thinking would wither way, along with the religions of the past. Despite the history of the past century, Dennett believes much the same. In an interview that appears on the website of the Edge Foundation (edge.org) under the title "The Evaporation of the Powerful Mystique of Religion", he predicts that "in about 25 years almost all religions will have evolved into very different phenomena, so much so that in most quarters religion will no longer command the awe that it does today". He is confident that this will come about, he tells us, mainly because of "the worldwide spread of information technology (not just the internet, but cell phones and portable radios and television)".
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"So you think we come from monkeys?"
Answer: "After meeting you, to say such a thing would be an insult to all monkeys."
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Three Gunas and the Gunatita
Swami Atmananda
In the fourteenth chapter of Bhagwad Gita, Lord Krishna reveals the truth about the three gunas and what lies beyond them. Lord says that in the beginning of the creation he blessed and empowered his divine Maya Shakti or Prakriti to start the process of creation. This divine mother has the three gunas inherent in her, which are the Sattwa, Rajo and Tamo gunas. Initially these gunas were unmanifest and also in a state of equilibrium, but the moment creation starts it is these gunas get vibrated and activated, and subsequently start manifesting. The entire creation is just the manifestation of these three gunas. Whoever understands these gunas understands the secret of creation.
Tamo Guna:
Tamo guna is responsible for all that is inert in the creation. Tamo guna is inert, and is thus the material cause of all inert things, the mountains, rivers, objects, and even the physical bodies of all living beings. Gunas effect everything including the moods & motivation of the mind. So whenever this Tamo guna starts increasing, we see inertia, inactivity and dullness in the mind. It is demotivated and disenthused and the mind is as though tired. The joy of people having predominance of tamo guna is in sleeping, loitering around with no sense of responsibility. The life is a burden for them and their value structure and accordingly formulated and accepted. While there are some benefits of tamo guna, its pre-dominance in the mind is a road to disaster and devolution.
Rajo Guna:
Rajo guna is the power behind activity. Wherever there is activity in the creation, the knower's of gunas, see it as a play of rajo guna. Rajo guna is compulsive activity, helpless activity. It is activity borne out of a sense of lack within, an activity motivated by seeking. Activity which shall ensure our very survival and existence. While this guna too in right ratio is a blessing it does become a curse for someone who has its predominance. Wherever there is rajo guna there is self-centricity and selfishness. Whether it is work, enjoyments or relationships, its all for filling our cup. Concern and sensitivity is just a matter of necessity and convenience. It is rajo guna alone which brings about intense desires and fiery anger. Arrogance, and the entire family of Shad Vikara (Kama-Krodha etc) are all seen to be effects of rajo guna alone. Mind is unstable and disquiet, person does not have patience to even study properly, they resort to imagination more than to valid knowledge. A mind having predominance of rajo guna is a sure shot recipe for endless seeking and choking dissatisfaction. Such people see the world from vyashti (individualistic) point of view. The society and the world is fragmented for them, and the ego-prompted wars are an inevitability. They are very prone & susceptible to diseases like hypertension and various psycho-somatic disorders (stress etc.)
Sattwa Guna:
The third guna is Sattwa. It is the power behind all knowledge oriented things & activities. It is the material cause of our mind & intellect and wherever there is sattwa guna, there is quietitude, thoughtfulness and better knowledge & wisdom. It is a blessing for all students and a doorway to all magnanimous & positive qualities and values. With sattwa guna there is a compulsive drive for more & more knowledge and its associated joys. Such people seek good books & good company, they prefer quietitude, simplicity and contentment, because it all facilitates their dedicated pursuit of knowledge. If they do not get good company then they are unhappy, and may go out of the way to seek good, wise company. They are basically healthy & good people. Its a joy to meet such people, because they are basically very sensitive, understanding and intelligent people. The main feature of these people is that they are not bothered about their needs & requirements. One, their requirements are very less, two, they do their best and truly leave the rest to god, moreover they do not crave for the ephemeral, transitory joys of the world outside and seek something more permanent. They live more to serve & give rather than get. Even though such people may be less, yet they are also very different from the rest. They too seek, but seek knowledge and more permanent joy. It is these people alone who make a good sadhaka & student, and thus it is these alone who realize the truth of their Self and the world on the whole. They alone can awake to the Gunatita awastha.
Gunatita:
Gunatita is that which transcends the gunas. It is existing in & through all gunas yet like the sky remains untouched by anything which is in it. It is like the screen of a movie theatre, on which alone projections are made, because of which alone all projections can be seen, yet it is something which remains untouched by anything which is projected on it. That which is gunatita is the very self of all that is existing anywhere, yet is immaculate & untouched. It is all-pervasive, infinite and is without any limits of any kind. It is the very self of all. It is Brahman, the timeless infinite truth revealed in the Upanishads. It is of the nature of Sat-Chit-Ananda, the pure blissful, self-effulgent, existence. A sattwic person is capable of directly knowing the existence of such a divinity as his very self and also the self of all.
The secret of awakening to this 'gunatita awastha' is just by 'seeing' this fact very clearly that every activity without any exceptions whatsoever, are just the play & effects of the three gunas alone. Whether there is something is is knowledge-oriented and thus bringing greater light, activity oriented or even something which is deluding, it is all the domain & realm of three gunas. The implication of seeing this fact is that 'I' the subject, becomes free from the doership of all activities. We discover that I am just a witness, who is basically a non-doer, whose existence is untouched by anything whatsoever. Such a wise person discovers a quiet, untouched, inactive, infinite existence in & through all activities. This discovery doesn't call for the cessation of any activities, yet I see myself as a non-doer. This is the aparokshanubhuti of the Self as Brahman, the direct knowledge of the truth of Self. This is the awakening into the gunatita awastha.
An awakened person thereafter doesn't cease any natural activities. That which is the doer are the gunas, and their flow goes on. We just watch the show. Gunatita is neither averse to any activity nor wishes the cessation of anything whatsoever. He just negates all notions of personal involvement or doership. The only activities which stop are those which were initiated by the the wish of personal fulfillment and aggrandizement. There is inactivity inspite of all activities. A person who sees himself as one who transcends the gunas remains untouched by the activities of all gunas. The gunas dance in his presence, and none of this dance is for any personal objectives. The very seeing of that which transcends the three gunas takes away any wish for any further self-centered activity. So there is no identification or even involvement with any gunas. Such a person is thus seen to be balanced and non-reacting in all situations, good, bad or ugly. This awakening is the door to freedom. This is in short the essence of the fourteenth chapter of Bhagwad Gita.
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//////////////////The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
////////////////////Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, does protects you from age."
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Nishkamata and Moksha
hari om guruji,hope all is well. hav a question
in the 3rd part of advaita makaranda you mentioned that someone who is 'nishkaam' would not even bother about gaining moksha. what does that mean?? self realisation is the goal, isnt it? we shoudnt be result oriented even in this regard??gurudevo namah
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Hari Om R,
You are right that in nishkama karma one should not even have any desire for moksha, and it is this selflessness alone which paves the path for moksha. Only those people who can afford such a selflessness, whose sraddha about their divine nature has become so very deep-rooted, that they get prepared for moksha.
Moksha is not reaching somewhere, but realizing that you are, were and shall always will be Brahman. Knowledge is all about knowing an existing fact. So while this sadhaka humbly knows that I am yet to awake, yet now there is no doubt that Moksha is all about knowing my real self, which is Brahman. The beauty of real sraddha & belief is that even before you directly 'see' the truth you can start singing the song of fulfillment. A Karma Yogi is one who fully believes this and therefore, lives like a fulfilled & blessed person, even before you directly realize this.
One can live a blessed selfless life, even by seeing the ever showering blessings of God, and to the extent one can live with such selflessness, to that extent one lives like a Karma Yogi.
With Love & om,
Guruji
VS.........
/////////////////Scientists find that squid beak is both hard and soft, a material that engineers want to copy (3/28/2008)
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Dosidicus gigasHow did nature make the squid's beak super hard and sharp -- allowing it, without harm to its soft body -- to capture its prey?
The question has captivated those interested in creating new materials that mimic biological materials. The results are published in this week's issue of the journal Science.
The sharp beak of the Humboldt squid is one of the hardest and stiffest organic materials known. Engineers, biologists, and marine scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have joined forces to discover how the soft, gelatinous squid can operate its knife-like beak without tearing itself to pieces.
UC Santa Barbara is a mecca for this type of interdisciplinary study, and draws scientists and engineers from all over the world to grapple with questions that cross a wide range of science and engineering disciplines.
The key to the squid beak lies in the gradations of stiffness. The tip is extremely stiff, yet the base is 100 times more compliant, allowing it to blend with surrounding tissue. However, this only works when the base of the beak is wet. After it dries out, the base becomes similarly stiff as the already desiccated beak tip.
Humboldt squids, or Dosidicus gigas, are about three feet wide and can injure a fish with one swift motion. According to the article, … "a squid beak can sever the nerve cord to paralyze prey for later leisurely dining."
"Squids can be aggressive, whimsical, suddenly mean, and they are always hungry," said Herb Waite, co-author and professor of biology at UC Santa Barbara. "You wouldn't want to be diving next to one. A dozen of them could eat you, or really hurt you a lot." The creatures are very fast and swim by jet propulsion.
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