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Swami Vivekananda to Youth

Supreme value of youth period is incalculable and indescribable.  Youth life is the most precious life.  Youth is the best time.  The way in which you utilize this period will decide the nature of coming years that lie ahead of you.  Your happiness, your success, your honor and your good name all depend upon the way in which you live now, in this present period. Remember this. This wonderful period of the first state of your life is related to you as the soft wet clay in the hands of the potter.  Skillfully the potter gives it the right and correct shapes and forms, which he intends to give.  Even so, you can wisely mould your life, your character, your physical health and strength, in short your entire nature in any way in which you make up your mind to do.  And you must do this now.

O fortunate youth, recognize this great duty.  Feel this wonderful privilege.   Take up this adventure.  God watches you graciously, ever ready to help and guide. I wish you to be great.  The world has put its faith in you.  Your elders keep their hopes in you.  Now youth means to place your firm confidence in yourself and exercise your hopeful determination and resolution and willing good intentions in this beautiful task of self-culture.  This will truly bring supreme satisfaction and fulfillment not only to you, but also to all concerned.  The shaping of your life is indeed in your own hands.

Practise virtue, persevere in virtue.  Become established in virtue.  Shine as an embodiment of noblest virtue and heroic adherence to goodness.  Youth is meant for this grand process.  Youth life is the active development and fulfillment of these processes.  This period of your time provides the suitable and favourable fields for the working out of this extremely important and most indispensable process in life.  This is the special significance, the great importance and supreme value of youth life.  It signifies the creation of noble personality.  It is atma-Viakasa.  It is Atma –Nirmana.  Please try to understand the correct implication of the term successful life.  When you talk of success with reference to life, it does not merely mean succeeding in everything that you undertake or do; it does not merely mean succeeding in fulfilling all wants or getting whatever you desire; it does not just mean acquiring a name or attaining a position or imitating fashionable ways appearing modern or up-to-date.  The essence of true success is what you make of yourself. It is the conduct of life that you develop, it is the character that you cultivate and it is the type of person you become.  This is the central meaning of successful living.  Therefore, you will see this important matter is not so much a question of success in life.  ( Jivan – Me-  Safalta) but rather it is success of life. Such successful life is one that succeeds in producing an ideal individual, a noble man.  Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do.  Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness. 

 In our grand culture they conceived of life in four stage-preliminary stage, development stage, flowering or blossoming stage and the culminating fruitful stage. These can be described as he preparatory period, the practising period for the satisfactory growth of the latter stage.  Yours is the stage of preliminary preparations for right and successful living.  Herein is its supreme value and great importance.  This is like the ploughing and sowing of seeds in the field by a farmer.  Now, you can easily understand, what is the significance and importance of this in connection with the harvest, which any one would wish to reap later on.  And also, it is like the laying of the foundation for an important building you wish to construct.  If this building is something very important to you, then you just think how much more important its proper foundation becomes in your view.  The strong and continued existence of the building depends certainly upon the foundation.  This is the stage you are now in.  Let your preparations be wise, correct and of such kind that will lead to your true welfare, supreme good and lasting satisfaction and happiness.  This must engage your active, enthusiastic attention throughout the period of your youth life.  Our culture refers to this stage as the Brahmacharya Ashram or Vidyarthi Jivan.  Here, you acquire knowledge of not only subjects like History, Geography, Mathematics, etc., but also about human nature, correct Vyavahara, science of Self- control, art of developing pure mind, Dharma, the duties of man and the proper relationship between you, your family, your society and the world.

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All you want to know about the LokPal issue

This a forwarded mail I got from my friend on the Lokpal bill issue. Thought of sharing it as it contains most vital information about the Jan Lokpal and the Government Lokpal bill.

Summary of All scams of India : Rs. 910603234300000/-

Existing System	System Proposed by civil society
No politician or senior officer ever goes to jail despite huge evidence because Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) and CBI directly come under the government. Before starting investigation or initiating prosecution in any case, they have to take permission from the same bosses, against whom the case has to be investigated.	Lokpal at centre and Lokayukta at state level will be independent bodies. ACB and CBI will be merged into these bodies. They will have power to initiate investigations and prosecution against any officer or politician without needing anyone’s permission. Investigation should be completed within 1 year and trial to get over in next 1 year. Within two years, the corrupt should go to jail.
No corrupt officer is dismissed from the job because Central Vigilance Commission, which is supposed to dismiss corrupt officers, is only an advisory body. Whenever it advises government to dismiss any senior corrupt officer, its advice is never implemented.	Lokpal and Lokayukta will have complete powers to order dismissal of a corrupt officer. CVC and all departmental vigilance will be merged into Lokpal and state vigilance will be merged into Lokayukta.
No action is taken against corrupt judges because permission is required from the Chief Justice of India to even register an FIR against corrupt judges.	Lokpal & Lokayukta shall have powers to investigate and prosecute any judge without needing anyone’s permission.
Nowhere to go - People expose corruption but no action is taken on their complaints.	Lokpal & Lokayukta will have to enquire into and hear every complaint.
There is so much corruption within CBI and vigilance departments. Their functioning is so secret that it encourages corruption within these agencies.	All investigations in Lokpal & Lokayukta shall be transparent. After completion of investigation, all case records shall be open to public. Complaint against any staff of Lokpal & Lokayukta shall be enquired and punishment announced within two months.
Weak and corrupt people are appointed as heads of anti-corruption agencies.	Politicians will have absolutely no say in selections of Chairperson and members of Lokpal & Lokayukta. Selections will take place through a transparent and public participatory process.
Citizens face harassment in government offices. Sometimes they are forced to pay bribes. One can only complaint to senior officers. No action is taken on complaints because senior officers also get their cut.	Lokpal & Lokayukta will get public grievances resolved in time bound manner, impose a penalty of Rs 250 per day of delay to be deducted from the salary of guilty officer and award that amount as compensation to the aggrieved citizen.
Nothing in law to recover ill gotten wealth. A corrupt person can come out of jail and enjoy that money.	Loss caused to the government due to corruption will be recovered from all accused.
Small punishment for corruption- Punishment for corruption is minimum 6 months and maximum 7 years.	Enhanced punishment - The punishment would be minimum 5 years and maximum of life imprisonment.

Please go through the details carefully & try to be part of this mission against corruption.

Things to know about Anna Hazare and Lokpal Bill-:

1.Who is Anna Hazare?

An ex-army man(Unmarried). Fought 1965 Indo-Pak war.

2. What's so special about him?

He remodeled a village, Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra. This village is a self-sustained model village. The village has carried out programs like treeplanting, terracing to reduce soil erosion and digging canals to retain rainwater. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills. In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is considered as a model of environmental conservation.

3. Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities. He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.

4. How that can be possible?

He is advocating for a Bill, The Lokpal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill) that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), bureaucrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.

5. It's an entirely new thing right..?

In 1972, the bill was proposed by then Law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan. Since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill to suit their theft (corruption).

6. Oh.. He is going on a hunger strike for that whole thing of passing a Bill! How can that be possible in such a short span of time?

The first thing he is asking for is: the Government should come forward and announce that the bill is going to be passed. Next, they make a joint committee to DRAFT the LOK PAL BILL. 50% government participation and 50% public participation. Bcoz u can't trust the govt entirely for making such a bill which does not suit them.

7.What will happen when this bill is passed?

A LokPal will be appointed at the centre. He will have an autonomous charge; say like the Election Commission of India. In each and every state, Lokayukta will be appointed. The job is to bring all alleged party to trial in case of corruptions within 1 year. Within 2 years, the guilty will be punished.

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Passed Google Adwords fundamental exam with 96% :)

On Friday, July 8th I went with my collegues to Google office located at old madras road to take up the Google fundamentals session/training and exam. Since this was our first attempt, we were all nervous and made sure all of us had studied the training material they provided.

The training was informative, started at 10.30 am and ended at 3 pm with 45 mins lunch break in between. The exam started at 3.30 pm. It's a 3 hrs paper with 113 questions. The passing percentage is 85. The exam was quite tough than imagined. Many questions had multiple correct answers and it was difficult to choose the answer Google was looking for. I manged to complete it at 5.45 and spent 20 mins reviewing the answers. Guess what? we all scored above 90% :) I got 96% and happy for accomplishing it :) .

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Yuri Gagarin

Born: 9 March 1934
Birth Place: Klushino, Smolensk Province, Russia
Death: 27 March 1968
Nationality: Russian

Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino, some 161 km West of Moscow, situated near the town of Gzhatsk (now named Gagarin in his honour). His father was a collective farmer and his mother a dairymaid. He started school in Gzhatsk but his studies were interrupted by the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia. The Gagarin house was occupied, and family had to live in a dug-out.

When he was fifteen he became an apprentice foundryman in an agricultural machinery plant at Lyubertsky outside Moscow. At the same time he enrolled in evening school. In 1951 he transferred to the Saratov Industrial Technical School. He graduated with honours as a foundryman-technician in 1955. In that same year he joined the Saratov Flying Club and earned his wings.

He decided not to take up his career as a foundryman but rather to become a pilot. He spent the summer learning to fly the Yak-18 before enrolling as a cadet at the Orenburg Pilot Training School. He graduated from there two years later. He immediately joined the Soviet Air Force as a fighter pilot.

Gagarin was not tall and his lack of height caused him some problems when he was assigned to MiG fighters; he had to resort to a cushion to raise himself slightly. In 1957 he was promoted to Lieutenant.

In late 1959 he applied to join the Soviet cosmonaut training programme. On his 26th birthday he was transferred to the cosmonaut team. He was selected to be the first man in space.

On 12 April 1961 Vostok I with Gagarin on board was blasted into space. He made a single revolution of the Earth before returning after a flight that lasted one hour and forty-eight minutes. Upon his return he was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union and received the Order of Lenin. These were the first of many awards he received during a series of world tours.

In later years Gagarin served as an instructor to the other cosmonauts, and became the official deputy to Lieutenant-General Nikolai Kamanin, the chief of the Soviet space programme commission. In 1963 he became Commander of the Cosmonaut Detachment. He was also made responsible for all projects connected with lunar exploration. He often said that he would make other space flights and his responsibility for the Soviet moon programme convinced many people that he was been prepared for this mission – Soyuz 3.

By August 1966 he was back in the active space programme again following his appointment as back-up to Vladimir Komarov, the Soyuz 1 pilot. Sadly the Soviet space programme suffered a major reverse when Komarov was killed during the return to Earth.

Colonel Gagarin died on 27 March 1968 when the MiG-15 he was piloting crashed near Moscow.

 

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When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

The spaceship put in orbit, and the carrier-rocket separated, weightlessness set in. At first the sensation was to some extent unusual, but I soon adapted myself... I maintained continuous communication with Earth on different channels by telephone and telegraph.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

On the 12th of April, 1961, the Soviet spaceship-sputnik was put in orbit around the Earth with me on board... there was a good view of the Earth, which had a very distinct and pretty blue halo. It had a smooth transition from pale blue, blue, dark blue, violet and absolutely black. It was a magnificent picture.

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The Jan Lokpal Bill

The Jan Lokpal Bill (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) is a draft anti-corruption bill drawn up by prominent civil society activists seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body  that would investigate corruption cases, complete the investigation within a year and envisages trial in the case getting over in the next one year.

Salient features of Jan Lokpal Bill

1.    An institution called LOKPAL at the centre and LOKAYUKTA in each state will be set up.

2.    Like Supreme Court and Election Commission, they will be completely independent of the governments. No minister or bureaucrat will be able to influence their investigations.

3.    Cases against corrupt people will not linger on for years anymore: Investigations in any case will have to be completed in one year. Trial should be completed in next one year so that the corrupt politician, officer or judge is sent to jail within two years.

4.    The loss that a corrupt person caused to the government will be recovered at the time of conviction.

5.    How will it help a common citizen: If any work of any citizen is not done in prescribed time in any government office, Lokpal will impose financial penalty on guilty officers, which will be given as compensation to the complainant.

6.    So, you could approach Lokpal if your ration card or passport or voter card is not being made or if police is not registering your case or any other work is not being done in prescribed time. Lokpal will have to get it done in a month’s time. You could also report any case of corruption to Lokpal like ration being siphoned off, poor quality roads been constructed or panchayat funds being siphoned off. Lokpal will have to complete its investigations in a year, trial will be over in next one year and the guilty will go to jail within two years.

7.    But won’t the government appoint corrupt and weak people as Lokpal members? That won’t be possible because its members will be selected by judges, citizens and constitutional authorities and not by politicians, through a completely transparent and participatory process.

8.    What if some officer in Lokpal becomes corrupt? The entire functioning of Lokpal/ Lokayukta will be completely transparent. Any complaint against any officer of Lokpal shall be investigated and the officer dismissed within two months.

9.    What will happen to existing anti-corruption agencies? CVC, departmental vigilance and anti-corruption branch of CBI will be merged into Lokpal. Lokpal will have complete powers and machinery to independently investigate and prosecute any officer, judge or politician.

10.    It will be the duty of the Lokpal to provide protection to those who are being victimized for raising their voice against corruption.  

Source: http://indiaagainstcorruption.org/

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The secret of hapiness

A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was looking for.

However, instead of finding a holy man, our hero entered a room and saw a great deal of activity; merchants coming and going, people chatting in the corners, a small orchestra playing sweet melodies, and there was a table laden with the most delectable dishes of that part of the world.

The wise man talked to everybody, and the young man had to wait for two hours until it was time for his audience.

With considerable patience, the Sage listened attentively to the reason for the boy’s visit, but told him that at that moment he did not have the time to explain to him the Secret of Happiness.

He suggested that the young man take a stroll around his palace and come back in two hours’ time.

“However, I want to ask you a favor,” he added, handling the boy a teaspoon, in which he poured two drops of oil. “While you walk, carry this spoon and don’t let the oil spill.”

The young man began to climb up and down the palace staircases, always keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. At the end of two hours he returned to the presence of the wise man.

“So,” asked the sage, “did you see the Persian tapestries hanging in my dining room? Did you see the garden that the Master of Gardeners took ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my library?”

Embarrassed, the young man confessed that he had seen nothing. His only concern was not to spill the drops of oil that the wise man had entrusted to him.

“So, go back and see the wonders of my world,” said the wise man. “You can’t trust a man if you don’t know his house.”

Now more at ease, the young man took the spoon and strolled again through the palace, this time paying attention to all the works of art that hung from the ceiling and walls. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around the palace, the delicacy of the flowers, the taste with which each work of art was placed in its niche. Returning to the sage, he reported in detail all that he had seen.

“But where are the two drops of oil that I entrusted to you?” asked the sage.

Looking down at the spoon, the young man realized that he had spilled the oil.

“Well, that is the only advice I have to give you,” said the sage of sages. “The Secret of Happiness lies in looking at all the wonders of the world and never forgetting the two drops of oil in the spoon.”

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Minto Eye Hospital, built in 1913 is one of the oldest speciality eye hospitals in the world. The Ophthalmic hospital is located on AV Road, Chamrajpet, Bangalore. It is affiliated to the Bangalore Medical college and Research Institute (BMCRI), and is an institution of national importance*.

The hospital offers world class technology at highly subsidized rates to the poor and at affordable charges for others. Vitreo- retina, cornea, glaucoma, squint, oculoplasty, uvea, community ophthalmology are the ophthalmic subspecialities functioning at the hospital. As part of BMCRI, Minto Ophthalmic Hospital is providing world class training to the undergraduates, post graduates and fellows in superspecialities of ophthalmology.

I had the opportunity to visit the hospital and I found it as one of the cleanest and well maintained Government hospital I have ever visited. The dedicated Doctors and staffs are truly diligently working towards fulfilling the hospital mission to eradicate blindness, empower young Ophthalmologists with latest knowledge & skills and excel in patient care and resource management. 

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