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By..K.N.Subramanyam Spirituality   has been defined in numerous ways. These include: a belief in a power operating in the universe that is greater than oneself, a sense of interconnectedness with all living creatures, and an awareness of the purpose and meaning of life and the development of personal, absolute values. It's the way you find meaning, hope, comfort, and inner peace in your life. Although spirituality is often associated with religious life, many believe that personal spirituality can be developed outside of religion. Acts of compassion and selflessness, altruism, and the experience of inner peace are all characteristics of spirituality. Many peoples all over the world are becoming interested in the role of spirituality in their health and health care. This may be because of dissatisfaction with the impersonal nature of our current medical system, and the realization that medical science does not have answers to every question about health and wellness. In mo...

   Mohandas Gandhi, the Mahatma, “the Great Soul” , was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize .  This has been a perennial source of unhappiness for those Indians inclined to view Gandhi as by far the most deserving candidate of the twentieth century, and the hand of Britain, and the imperial West more generally, is seen as having been instrumental in depriving Gandhi of this “great honor”.  Many Nobel Laureates in Peace are themselves agreed that Gandhi should have been honored before they were honored.  The Dalai Lama, in his acceptance speech in Oslo on 10 December 1989, described himself as accepting the award “as a tribute to the man who founded the modern tradition of non-violent action for change, Mahatma Gandhi, whose life taught and inspired me.”  [  Many others besides Indians have pondered over Gandhi’s omission from the list of winners, and as Gwladys Fouché and Sally Bolton wrote in the Guardian not long ago, the Norwegian Nobel Committ...

Tyagaraja was born in 1767 in Tiruvarur , Tiruvarur district , in what is now called Tamil Nadu , to Kakarla Ramabrahmam and Sitamma in a Telugu Brahmin family of the Mulukanadu subsect. [1] He was named Tyagaraja, after Lord Tyagaraja , the presiding deity of the temple at Tiruvarur . Tyagaraja was born at his maternal grandfather Giriraja Kavi 's house. Giriraja Kavi was a poet-composer in the court of the king of Thanjavur . Giriraja was born in Kakarla village, Cumbum taluk in Kurnool district (AP). By K.N.Subramanyam.    Tyagaraja began his musical training under Sri Sonthi Ramanayya , a noted music scholar, at an early age. He regarded music as a way to experience God's love. His objective while practising music was purely devotional, as opposed to focusing on the technicalities of classical music. He also showed a flair for composing music and, in his teens, composed his first song Namo Namo Raghavayya in the Desika Todi ragam and inscribed it o...

By.K.N.Subramanyam. The pineal gland (also called the pineal body, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis or the "third eye") is a small endocrine gland. It produces melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and photoperiodic (seasonal) functions. It is located near to the center of the brain between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two rounded thalamic bodies join. Unlike much of the rest of the brain, the pineal gland is not isolated from the body by the blood-brain barrier system. It is reddish-gray and about the size of a pea (8 mm in humans).  While the physiological function of the pineal gland has been unknown until recent times, mystical traditions and esoteric schools have long known this area in the middle of the brain to be the connecting link between the physical and spiritual worlds. Considered the most powerful and highest source of ethereal energy available to humans, the pineal gland has always been important in ini...

Forget about numbers: Be it age, height or weight… refuse to think about them or let them get You down.   Live   life to the fullest with lots of love. The only denomination that matters   is the amount of love....  We spread in a day. No other number has the power to last forever and ever….only LOVE. Be yourself: If you look around, you might see many younger people trying to be older and many older people trying to be younger. In most of these cases, it never works. It ends up looking like they are all trying too hard to be something they are not. Here’s a solution: Be yourself. Accept yourself as you are. Be all that you can be, reach for your potential, but don’t try to be anything you are not. Hold on to cheerful friends: Cheerful happy friends are like instant pick me ups. When I find such friends who laugh more than they complain…I hold on to them like my life depends on it…cause my Youthful heart does. Just thin...

F or every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.  Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be, .It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.  We have no scar to show for happiness, We learn so little from peace  Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.    Happiness is not something ready made., It comes from your own actions. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Wealth without work, Science without Knowledge , humanity without character, Pleasure without conscience ,Politics without principle,  Commerce without morality, Worship without sacrifice., will never bring you happiness. .    ...

By.K.N.Subramanyam   This afternoon I had a (very rare) nap. During that nap I had a lucid dream (most of which I no longer remember). As I was waking up, I was thinking about my dream and thought that it would be a great idea to write a list about dreams for the site. So, here are the   amazing facts about dreams.     People who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. It is hard for a seeing person to imagine, but the body’s need for sleep is so strong that it is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen. You Forget 90% of your Dreams Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.       Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whi...