VEDAS-POST2

Now we provide an overview of Vedic literature. 

Srutis (4): 

1. Rig Veda: ‘Rik’ means praise. Rig Veda contains praises for the deities like Indra, Agni, Rudra, and the two Ashwini gods, Varuna, Maruts, Savitru and Surya. Tapping the energies of the Nature is given high importance in Rig Veda. It contains 1017 hymns (poems) praising the gods. These hymns are composed of different metres. A metre comprises of 25 syllables to 104 syllables which are to be recited at a stretch. 

2. Yajur Veda: ‘Yajush’ means rituals. Yajur Veda contains different rituals and sacrifices to be conducted to pacify gods. When a mantra is recited and its power is felt, then to make the mantra useful, a certain type of offerings should be done to the concerned god. Yajur Veda explains about these offerings to be made to gods through Agni (fire). 

Yajur Veda is divided into ‘Krishna (Dark) Yajur Veda’ and ‘Shukla (Bright) Yajur Veda’. Bright Yajur Veda contains mantras used in the rituals while explanations exist in a separate ‘Brahamana’ work. The Dark Yajur Veda incorporates such explanations in the work itself, often immediately following the mantras. There are 101 branches for the Dark Yajur Veda and 17 for Bright Yajur Veda. 

3. Sama Veda: ‘Sama’ means song. Sama Veda contains verses to be sung. These verses are built in their root form using the 7 notes: Sa, Ri, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni which are the basis of the classical music now existing in India. These notes aid the liberation of soul by stimulating the energy centers (chakras) in the human body. 

Most of the verses in Sama Veda are taken from Rig Veda. There are several new verses added. Also, some verses are repeated. In all, it consists 1875 verses. These verses are addressed to Agni (fire), Indra (lord of gods) and Soma (moon). The verses of Sama Veda should be sung and not to be chanted. Singing these verses is called ‘Saamagaana’. 

4. Atharvana Veda: Atharvana Veda contains useful rituals to attain worldly happiness. It contains description of diseases, how to cure them, sins and how to remove their effects and means of acquiring wealth. Atharvana Veda is more applicable to modern society since it deals with different subjects like Science, Medicine, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology etc. Atharvana Veda contains about 6000 verses forming 731 hymns. 

Gmail Size Search Operator Locates all the Emails with Large Attachments.......

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Search Gmail messages by Size using the undocumented “size” operator

Wondering what email messages are eating up all the Gigabytes of space that you have in your Gmail mailbox? There are Google Scripts and external web apps that let you discover all the space-hogging email attachments but you don’t need them anymore.

Gmail supports an undocumented “size” search operator that will let you quickly find all the big emails in the mailbox whose size exceeds a particular threshold. The search syntax is:

size:[size in bytes]

To give a real example, a Gmail search query like size:5242880 will list all big emails who size is 5 MB or greater while size:10485760 list messages that are bigger than 10 MB.

The size operator requires size in bytes (1 MB = 1048576 Bytes) but to make things a bit easier to remember, you can also think of the number as 1 followed by 6 zeros.

Update: As some have pointed in the comments, you may now specify the size in MB as well which makes it a lot easier. For instance, size:5MB (or even size:5M) will find all Gmail message that are 5 MB or greater in size.

Once you have spotted the large emails attachments that are taking too much space, apply the #googleDrive label to directly save those attachments to Google Drive before deleting them from your Gmail mailbox.

The “size” operator was first discovered by TechSmog [via Lifehacker.com]

Streaming Audio To IOS Via VLC....

You can play a song on your PC and listen to it on your iPhone / iPad – converting your PC into a radio station. As with most things VLC related, it’s tough to figure out but obvious in retrospect.

The first thing to do is set up the MIME type for the streaming. This is a bug that has been fixed, but might not have made it into your version of VLC.

Go to Tools – Preferences.

Click on “All” to see all the settings.

Under Stream output – Access output – HTTP, set Mime to audio/x-mpeg.

At this point, you should restart VLC.

As I mentioned earlier, you might not need to do this if you have new enough a version of VLC that auto-detects the content’s MIME type.

Re-open VLC, and go to the Media – Stream menu.

Click Add and choose the file you want to stream. Then click on Stream.

Click Next.

Select HTTP and click Add.

Select Audio – MP3 and click on Stream.

At this point, the audio is being streamed at port 8080 of your machine. You can change the port and path in the menu above. (To find your local IP address, open the Command Prompt and type ipconfig.)

Open Safari on your iPhone or iPad, and visit http://your-ip-address:8080/

I haven’t figured out the right codec and MIME type to do this for videos yet, but hopefully will figure it out soon.

Gautam needs to overcome this ‘Gambhir’ phase.........

We knew it was coming. Even Gambhir did. Someone, who was once seen as a potential threat to Dhoni’s captaincy, was finally axed from the squad following a series of poor performances. The Delhi lad was lucky to have been a part of the squad despite not scoring a ton in the last three years. The selectors had to take this decision as the left-hander seemed to have lacked confidence, something which the team needs in plenty to combat against the mighty Aussies in the upcoming series. 

From the T20 triumph against Pakistan to the World Cup victory against the Lankans on the home soil, Gambhir has played some superb knocks over the years. He has been one of those pillars after Rahul Dravid in whose presence the other players felt free to play their natural game as he held the anchor at one end. He wasn’t as brutal as Sehwag or as dashing as Virat Kohli but still there was something very likeable about Gambhir – his ability to play big knocks out of sheer determination.Thus it i s hard to digest the fact that Gambhir’s willow failed to produce a century since January 2010 when he scored one against Bangladesh. 

Before cementing his place in Team India, he was a known figure in the domestic circuit but his poor shot selection cost him the 2007 World Cup ticket. But after that the 31-year-old came back with all guns blazing and became an integral part of the team. Gambhir became India’s most consistent batsman in all three formats of the game and his adaptability to the different formats of the game earned him praise and respect from all corners. 

After two humiliating losses in away series Dhoni somehow survived his captaincy and his place in the team. If there was someone, who could replace him as a skipper, it was Gambhir. But then the left-hander did nothing substantial to strengthen the debate. Then came a stage when he, along with Sehwag, struggled to get India to good starts and the form of the entire team dipped drastically. The runs had dried up and suddenly the captain-in-waiting became a dejected soul. 

Last twelve months have been like a nightmare for Gambhir. He has been involved in controversies, hasn’t been in the good books of Dhoni as well. He was stripped off the vice-captaincy ahead of the Asia cup. Things went murkier when MS Dhoni filed a complaint against him with the BCCI, accusing him of putting his interests above the team and for his self-centred approach. Under-fire Gambhir couldn’t do much about it, and runs deserted him in that critical phase. 

Gambhir was trying his best to stay at the crease, but he failed to convert those starts into big knocks. His stay at the crease hardly bothered the opponents as his teammates had a difficult time running between the wickets with him as he was involved with several run-outs. When asked about his poor form, Gambhir defended himself along with Sehwag by saying, "We still average 53 as an opening pair, which I think is one of the best when it comes to opening the batting in world cricket." "There are not many opening pairs who have played for such a long time and have an average of 53 per innings. And if 53 is not good enough, I don`t know what is good enough.” It was an arrogant statement and one could sense that it was just a matter of time he was dropped. 

It remains a mystery about how form has eluded him for so long. Throughout this phase the Kolkata Knight Riders’ skipper has been consistently poking at deliveries outside the off-stump and has been caught in the slips cordon on most of the occasions. 

I sometimes wonder if just like his name, the left-hander has been focusing on playing too much of ‘Gambhir’ cricket. While his teammates are often seen having fun during the net sessions, the left-handed batsman is hardly seen smiling. 

Gambhir should make the most of this opportunity and utilize the time to gain back his momentum. He needs to find out what made him India’s most consistent batsman from his comeback after the 2007 World Cup to the 2011 World Cup final. 

Had he scored three more runs in the final of the ICC World Cup 2011, his contribution (97) in that significant innings would have become even more memorable. A century in a World Cup final is no joke. Add to that the huge pressure of the Wankhede crowd and it looks like a marathon innings. Gambhir has given us some of the best cricketing memories to cherish. 

He is just 31 and has enough cricket left in him. And just like he did after the 2007 World Cup, there is no reason why he can’t bounce back from this ‘Gambhir’ phase.

(The views expressed by the author are personal)...

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India's first monorail....

India's first monorail successfully ran in Mumbai, to become operational in August 2013

TRANSFER CONTACTS FROM ANDROID TO IPHONE/IPOD TOUCH

Two easy methods to move contacts from your Android phone to iPhone/iPod (and keep them in sync).
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TRANSFER CONTACTS FROM ANDROID TO IPHONE/IPOD TOUCH

Trace Mobile Phone Number Location And Service Provider Details In India

The number of mobile subscribers in India are rapidly increasing. Its very rare to find someone without a mobile phone these days. This explosive growth in mobile phone users have led to an increase in receiving phone calls from unknown people and phone numbers. If you got a missed call from an unknown number, then its never a good idea to call back to that number to find out who called you. Fortunately, there is a way to find more details and trace a mobile phone number without calling back.

How To Trace A Mobile Phone Number in India

Simply, go to this tool to trace mobile phone number location in India, and enter your mobile number. Note that you just need to enter your mobile number and no need to add a zero in front of it, irrespective of your location.

Click Get Details button and the mobile number tracking tool will instantly display the location of the mobile number you entered. Along with the location (state), it will find the name of its mobile operator, the signaling type (GSM or CDMA).

This mobile number tracer tool is very fast and accurate and is being updated every month to include the new series phone numbers introduced by TRAI.

Now you can easily find more details about a missed call from an unknown number, or track the location of a prank caller and someone who have been sending you those annoying sms messages. Just use the tool to trace mobile phone number in India.

Meteors and Dashcams......

Meteors and Dashcams

I'm sure all those videos of the awesome Russian meteor made you wonder why they were all filmed from inside moving cars. I found the answer here:

The dashboard-camera videos of the meteor, which proliferated on the Internet all Friday morning, represent an intersection of astronomical forces with the technological and sociohistorical conditions of Russian life. Dash cams, as reported in Animal, have become ubiquitous in today’s Russia, where road hazards range from “insane gridlock” to “large, lawless areas” habited by “police with a penchant for extortion and deeply frustrated drivers who want to smash your face,” and where courts rarely award damages without video evidence. A large percentage of Russian car crashes are thus captured on video and aggregated on a devoted LiveJournal page that gets more than four million views per month.

The link in that excerpt elaborates on why so many Russians drive around with a video camera on their dashboards. It also features a video collection of raw footage of many, many colliding vehicles, and men going berserk. [Caution: Another video at the bottom is too gruesome to watch; you've been warned.]

Curiosity Mars rover to ingest drill sample very soon...

London: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has not yet ingested the rock sample it picked up a week ago, but the mission’s scientists are hoping that it will happen very shortly. 
The sample that is sitting in the stem of the tool must be moved to the onboard labs for analysis. 

John Grotzinger, the mission’s chief scientist, told BBC News that they have to first confirm that the powder has moved up the drill stem, and from there, it will go into something called the drill assembly, which is about as big as a hockey puck. 

It is where the sample gets portioned before going through a set of tubes that takes it to some sieves, he said. 

According to him, only particles measuring 150 microns (millionths of a metre) across, or less, will be sent to the two big labs in the belly of the rover - Chemin and Sam. 

The scientists will describe the mineralogical make-up of the mudstone and try to identify any interesting carbon chemistry that might be present. 

A couple of Curiosity’s survey instruments have already probed the powder - the mast-held laser spectrometer, Chemcam, and the X-ray spectrometer, APXS, on the end of the robotic arm. These devices can determine some of the basic chemistry in a target rock. 

But the mission’s scientists may not disclose their results until Chemin and Sam have done their full-on analysis. 

Not necessary to bring Mahatma Gandhi’s items back to India: Granddaughter....

New Delhi: Preservation of Mahatma Gandhi's belongings is important and any items related to him which are well preserved outside need not necessarily be brought back home, feel his kin. 

"I don't like the idea that everything belonging to Gandhiji should return to India. If something is well preserved outside India, these should be allowed to remain there. He was a universal human being," says Gandhi's 78-year-old granddaughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee. 

She, however, does like a price tag to be put on Gandhiji's belongings. 

"All things belonging to Gandhiji are priceless and we're putting a price tag on these. I don't want a price tag to be put," Bhattacharjee, whose book "Reflections Of An Extraordinary Era" hit the stands recently, told a news agency. 

Her son Vinayak says Gandhi didn't have many belongings as he lead a minimalist life and shunned material possessions. 

"So it is a mystery from where all these 'possessions' are emerging. This said if someone owns items said to be of Bapuji, he or she is free to do with it as he pleases. We can't be so presumptuous to maintain that we know better," he contends on the issue of auctioning of Gandhiji's belongings. 

"With this perspective, the auction process is actually quite useful in bringing genuine possessions into public and national ownership in the cleanest and most transparent way. The bigger issue is that, apart from letters, it is very difficult to prove that specific items were genuinely owned or worn by Bapuji." 

"Reflections Of An Extraordinary Era" is a translation of Bhattacharjee's 2009 work "Asadharan Yug Ke Sadharan Din". 

Published by HarperCollins India, "Reflections Of An Extraordinary Era" has a foreword by Vinayak. 

Bhattacharjee says "Reflections Of An Extraordinary Era" is about her memorable experiences with Gandhi when she was a child. 

Aliens living among us....

London: Aliens are living on Earth, according to the Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev.

He claimed that he has a “top secret” folder containing info about extraterrestrials in Russia, the Daily Star reported.

“Along with the briefcase with nuclear codes, the President of the country is given a special ‘top secret’ folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet,” he said. 

“Along with this, you are given a report of the absolutely secret special service that exercises control over aliens on the territory of our country,” he added. 

But he said that he would not reveal how many extra terrestials were already here because it might spark panic. 

The former President made his comments at the end of a press conference. 

Footage was then released on YouTube, making him a laughing stock. 

One girl tweeted: “It’s sad when the former president and current prime minister of your country is simply a pathetic person.” 

Medvedev also had a pop at President Vladimir Putin for being late and said he believed in Father Frost, the Russian Santa. 

ALIENS......

London: Humans could make contact with alien life within 12 years, with the aid of the world's largest radio telescope, a leading UFO expert has claimed. 

One of the key questions whether extra-terrestrial life exists, could be answered by 2024 with the development of a supersized 1.3 billion pounds radio telescope, the Daily Express reported. 

The development of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope will unleash "new and exciting possibilities", according to former UK Ministry of Defence UFO Project leader Nick Pope. 
Scientists leading its development have suggested the SKA will be 50 times more sensitive, and will survey the sky 10,000 times faster, than any other telescope. 

"It will give astronomers insight into the formation and evolution of the first stars and galaxies after the Big Bang, the role of cosmic magnetism, the nature of gravity and possibly even life beyond," a spokesman for the SKA said. 

"If there is a civilisation within 100 lightyears this telescope could find it. We are now beginning to have the technology whether it's the SKA or maybe other telescopes that are being developed that will allow these possibilities. 
We are searching all the time for a shadow earth," Pope added. 

Recent research suggested that nearly 10 per cent of the population has seen a UFO, equally more than 6 million people just in the UK. 

"When I was investigating UFOs, I investigated 2-300 reports each year. 10 per cent is an absolutely astonishing figure," Pope added. 

The UFO expert also speculated as to how the extra-terrestrial life could make contact. 

"The old fashioned idea was that there would be this landing on the White House lawn. First contact might just happen via email, but more likely it will be through radio signals," Pope said. 

Russian meteor exploded with force of 30 Hiroshima N-bombs.......

New York: The meteor that streaked across the Russian skies on Friday, injuring around 1,200 people, exploded with a force 30 times greater than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, NASA scientists say. 

The 55 foot wide rock with a mass of 10,000 tonnes lit up the sky above the Urals region, causing shockwaves and damaging thousands of homes in an event unprecedented in modern times. 

"It had an energy greater than (all) the weapons used in World War II," Bill Cooke, leader of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, told the 'New York Daily News'. 

The dazzling fireball burned brighter than the Sun as it unleashed nearly 500 kilotons of energy, around 30 times the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. 
"Imagine a shock wave coming through a city with glass flying from all these tall buildings. Walls collapsed ... doors were blown in and a lot of people were injured by flying debris," Cooke said. 
The meteor is the largest reported since 1908 when one crashed into Tunguska, Siberia, about 4828 km to the east. 

"We would expect an event of this magnitude to occur once every 100 years on average," said Paul Chodas of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office

VEDAS-INTRODUCTION LESSON

| VEDAS || VEDAS | Indian Hindu Vedas
Rig veda, Yajur veda, Sama veda, Atharvana veda
‘Va idam Vedam’ – Veda means to know. What to know? As human beings, we need to know two things. 1. ‘iham’ – how to live when we are in the physical body. This relates to keeping our body and mind strong, spreading peace and love to our neighbors, strengthening the society by producing good children, working for others’ welfare, etc. 2. ‘param’ – how to live after leaving the physical body. This relates to working for spiritual growth so that the soul attains powers to reach higher worlds, getting help from gods, doing good to other souls etc. These two objectives are fulfilled by the knowledge embedded in Vedas. So Vedas are embodiment of knowledge. 

Indian Hindu Vedas

Rig veda, Yajur veda, Sama veda, Atharvana veda

BUILDING ATTITUDE....

A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train's window shouted...

"Dad, look the trees are going behind!" dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old's childish behavior with
pity, suddenly he again exclaimed ... "dad, look the clouds are running with us !" the couple couldn't resist and said to the old man... "why don't
you take your son to a good doctor?" the old man smiled and said ... "i did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he
just got his eyes today..."

Every single person on the planet has story.
"don't judge people before you truly know them. the truth might surprise you...
think before you say something...!!!

IAS INTERVIEW....

Awesome Answers In IAS Examination

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Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)

Q. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23rd Rank Opted for IFS)

Q. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands. (Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. you will never find an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs, He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)

Q. What looks like half apple ?
A: The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?
A: Dinner.

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A: Liquid (UPSC 33 Rank)

Interviewer said "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!" The boy thought for a while and said, "my choice is one really difficult question." "Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this.
"What comes first, Day or Night?"
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on the correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, "It's the DAY sir!"
"How" the interviewer asked.
"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!"
He was selected for IIM!

Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is the master of presence of mind.
This is a famous paper written for an Oxford philosophy exam, normally requiring an eight page essay answer and expected to be backed up with source material, quotes and analytical reasoning. This guy wrote the below answer and topped the exam!

OXFORD EXAMINATION BOARD 1987, ESSAY QUESTION
Question: What is courage? (50 Marks)
Answer (After 7 blank pages, at the end of the last page…): This is courage

LOVE.....

Boy : A,B,C
Girl : Wat
Boy : Always Be car ful
Girl : aha then
Boy : D,E,F,G
Girl : ??
Boy : Don't Ever Forget That
Girl : Hmmm
Boy : I'm H I
Girl : What H I
Boy : Happily In Love
Girl : So ??
Boy : J,K,L,M
Just Keep Loveing Me
Girl : And How about N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Z
Boy : No Other Person Quite, Reasonable , Shall
Treat U Very Well Xcept me You'll Zee

 

KEEP SMILING :)