Video from hospital website

ஆத்தா உன் சேலை...

Madurai

நா ஒரு மதுரைக்காரன்...

Social media cartoon from NPR.com

Just liked this cartoon...well done. From NPR station (Capital Public Radio)

Pulse Polio Campaign - Images from India

From facebook posting of Dr. Navarathinasamy Duraisamy: Great work by these workers! Still have to reach some families like this. I am sure, the family did not know if this child received any vaccines as an infant - a combination of poverty and lack of awareness.

E-mail etiquette according to Lord Krishna

Received from Dr. Mohinder Thapar (Jan 2015):

Bhagvad Gita – E - Adhyaya 19 (recently added)

Arjun: Hey Vasudev, how can I do the most heinous and unpardonable act of forwarding E-mails that I receive, to my friends, relatives and revered elders.

Krishna: Paarth, at this moment, none of them is your friend or foe, relative or in-law, young or old and good or evil. You have no escape from following your Net-Dharma. Make haste to log on and send off E-mails to one and all. That is the only Karma expected of you and the Dharma you must follow.

Arjun: Hey Murari! Do not implore me to do something that  hurts my conscience and stirs my soul.

Krishna: O Kunti-Putra, you are caught in the vicious circle of Maya. In this material world, you are committed to no one except to yourself, your Dharma and your mouse.  E-mails have existed for the last 25 years and will remain long after you are gone. Rise above the Maya and perform your bounden duty.

Arjun: Lord Krishna, pray and enlighten me on how an E-mail is related to Maya.

Krishna: Vatsa, an E-mail is the 6th element in the universe – Aap, Vaayu, Jal, Agni, Aakaash and E-mail. It is at the same time animate and inanimate, living and dead beat. It overloads the system and fills up the hard disk. But it serves one great purpose. It leads people to believe that they are filling their time in an intellectual pursuit by reading and re-forwarding mails. It gives them a sense of achievement without investing their intellect and efforts.

Like the Atman that leaves one’s physical body and moves on to another, the E-mail moves from system to system and never gets deleted or dies.

Arjun: Great Giridhaari, kindly tell me what the true attributes of E-mails' are.

Krishna: Neither can fire burn it, nor air evaporate it. Neither can it be conquered nor can it be defeated. An E-mail is as omnipresent and immortal like your noble and eternal soul.

Unlike an arrow shot from your bow, many a time, the E-mail forwarded by you, will even return to you safely after some months or even years, allowing you to re-re-forward it to the same people.

Arjun: Great Saarathi, my salutations to you. You have opened my eyes to the cult of E-mail. I was lost in Maya and have been reading all the E-mails that I keep receiving and doing no other Karma. Now on, I will just press the "Forward" button without reading any of it and send it to all and sundry, friends and foes, relatives and in-laws, young and old. That will surely bring them to their knees in this epochal battle of Good against Evil, in Kurukshetra.

Krishna: Arjuna, victory or defeat is not in your hands. Do not ponder over the fruits of your labour. Just keep forwarding E-mails and make one and all go bananas reading it and you will have done your supreme duty.

Tathastu!

Count Your Blessings

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
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When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Count your blessings, name them one by one;
Count your blessings, see what God hath done;
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will be singing as the days go by.

When you look at others with their lands and gold,
Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold.
Count your many blessings, money cannot buy
Your reward in heaven, nor your Lord on high.

So amid the conflict, whether great or small,
Do not be discouraged, God is over all;
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.

(Copied from Dr. Benjamin Victor's facebook posting...don't know the original source)