Nice song, Wonderful lyrics...

हो मुझपे करम सर्कार तेरा... अरज तुजे, करदे मुझे... मुझसे ही रिहा...
अब मुझको भी हो दीदार मेरा... करदे मुझे मुझसे ही रिहा... मुझसे ही रिहा!

Song: Kun Faaya Kun

For all the sleeping beauties...

Came across an interesting article "The myth of the Eight Hour Sleep" that indicates how the sleeping pattern might have evolved over the last few hundred years and that "a consolidated eight-hour sleep may be unnatural".

Stages of sleep

Every 60-100 minutes we go through a cycle of four stages of sleep

Stage 1 is a drowsy, relaxed state between being awake and sleeping - breathing slows, muscles relax, heart rate drops
Stage 2 is slightly deeper sleep - you may feel awake and this means that, on many nights, you may be asleep and not know it
Stage 3 and Stage 4, or Deep Sleep - it is very hard to wake up from Deep Sleep because this is when there is the lowest amount of activity in your body
After Deep Sleep, we go back to Stage 2 for a few minutes, and then enter Dream Sleep - also called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep - which, as its name suggests, is when you dream
In a full sleep cycle, a person goes through all the stages of sleep from one to four, then back down through stages three and two, before entering dream sleep
Source: Gregg Jacobs

To read the complete article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

Three Men In a Boat

Came across a few quotes by Jerome K. Jerome. Made me add the book Three men in a boat in my Next-To-Read list. Sharing a few hilarious quotes here... :-)

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles

ROFL!!!

P.S. No offence meant to anyone :-p

Let Time Calm Your Mind...

Once when Buddha was walking from one town to another with a few of his followers, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha said to one of his disciples: "I am thirsty. Go and get me some water from that lake there". The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water, and right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink! So he came back and said to Buddha, "The water in the lake is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink". After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he found that the lake had absolutely clear water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha. Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said, "See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be, and the mud settled down on its own and then you got clear water."

Your mind is also like that! When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.

Courtesy: An article contributed by a co-worker in my department’s weekly newsletter

On Forgiving...

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong

- Mahatma Gandhi

ફળની અપેક્ષા...

"હું કરતા નથી, પણ કરતા પરમાત્મા છે" એ ભાવના થાય નહીં ત્યાં સુધી મન ભગવાનને અર્પણ થઇ શકે જ નહીં, અને તે અર્પણ થાય નહીં ત્યાં સુધી ફળની અપેક્ષા જાય નહીં; અને ફળની અપેક્ષા જાય નહીં ત્યાં સુધી શાંતિ મળનાર નથી.

- શ્રી બ્રહ્મચૈતન્ય મહારાજ ગોંદવલેકર