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Chapter 4 - Glorify The Divine  Day 25 Nature has its own plans. In every heart, the Lord resides. Honour everyone, respect everyone, humility will bring that in you. Your good deeds, your Knowledge, skills, can all give you such pride, that you are somebody. The best Knowledge can bring you an awareness that you are nobody.  So many people say that only through Knowledge can you cultivate humility no, not cultivate, only through knowledge can you enliven that humility. But some other people say that they depend on each other love and humility.  Love and Knowledge go hand in hand. Others say it depends on each other. Knowledge and love, they go together. Only when you have love, do you take interest in. Knowledge, you like to know about it.  Suppose you have no love for astronomy, would you ever become an astronomer? Can you be a good astronomer? Not possible. If you love physics, then you can be a good physicist. So because of love, you gain knowledge, b...

Chapter 4 - Glorify The Divine  Day 24 One moment of such a love, such ecstacy in life, that taste of complete love, pinnacle of Love, is worth our entire life. That is good enough. If a few drops of tears have fallen from your eyes in love, that is worth your life. This is an end in itself.  Love is the end in itself. Faith is the end in itself-not a means. But our mind is so clever, it wants everything to have some illusion of comfort or pleasure. No doubt faith brings comfort, but if you are intelligent, you will not try to use it for comfort.  It is like selling diamonds to buy a bottle of Coca Cola. (Laughter) Offering finger chips, selling a bag full of diamonds to buy a packet of french fries. Divine love is itself an end is itself the fruit.Even to God pride is not palatable.  See, God loves these two instances. When a doctor tells a patient, “Don’t worry, I'm here. I will take care of you” or when someone says, “I own this piece of property’ - Go...

Cashew (Anacardium occidentale) Did you know that Cashew, a nut from the tropical evergreen tree is India’s favourite dry fruit with 170,000-195,000 MT of annual production and ranking first in the world in production, originally native to Northeastern Brazil and Southeastern Venezuela, was brought to India by the Portuguese to Goa in mid 1550s? Cashew, known by the botanical name Anacardium occidentale in the Anacardiaceae family, also called Vrikkaphala in Sanskrit, a product of the tropical evergreen Cashew Tree, is a kidney-shaped seed or nut, one of the most delicious nuts around the world. The versatile cashew tree produces the cashew seed or nut and the cashew apple accessory fruit. The cashew seed is commonly considered a snack nut (cashew nut) eaten on its own, used in recipes, or processed into cashew cheese or cashew butter. Like the tree, the nut is often simply called Cashew. In India, Cashew nuts are used mostly in desserts and traditional preparations to e...

Tavare or Kamala or Indian Lotus Did you know that Tavare or Kamala or Indian Lotus, sacred to ancient Indian religions, a perennial water plant, growing from a tuberous rootstock lying in mud at the bottom of lakes and ponds, is often cultivated for its sweet-scented, elegant flowers, and also for its edible rhizomes and seeds? The Tavare or Kamala or Indian Lotus with the botanical name Nelumbo nucifera or nuciferaGaertn in the family of Nelumbonaceae, is not only native to India but also to China and Japan, north to the Amur region of Russia, New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia. The family Nelumbonaceae has single genus, Nelumbo, with three species: N. Komorovii, N.lutea, and N.nucifera, and the last one is subdivided on the basis of anatomical charachters. For "Nelumbo", DNY analysis has indicated an age of 100 million years as likely for its lineage.  Nelumbo nucifera is a derivative from the Sinhalese word 'neḷum' or Tamil...

Plectranthus amboinicus or Doddapatre  Did you know that Plectranthus amboinicus, known popularly as Doddapatre in Kannada language, is a herb with a pungent combination of the aromas of oregano, thyme, and turpentine but with a sharp mint-like flavor? Plectranthus amboinicus, once identified in English as Coleus amboinicus, a member of the mint family Lamiaceae, a succulent perennial herb, with extensive culinary and medicinal uses, has a pungent combination of the aromas of oregano, thyme, and turpentine, and its leaves in particular giving a sharp mint-like flavor. Its leaves are Tikta (Bitter) and Katu (Pungent).  Plectranthus amboinicus, previously native to tropical South Africa from whence it was carried to India and Southeast Asia by Arabs and Portuguese, later to Europe and from there to the New World (majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere). In English, it is also called Indian borage, country borage, French thyme, Indian mint, Mexican mint,...