Happy Gandhi Jayanti‬

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi 

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

2.Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.

3.Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

4.An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

5.Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

6.The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

7.A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

8.First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

9.Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

10.You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Honesty Not Controversy

Honesty Not Controversy.

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The Truth, The Whole truth, and Nothing but the Truth.

The Truth,

The Whole truth,

and Nothing but the Truth.

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Shri Radhe Maa's answers to all allegations

Shri Radhe Maa's answers to all allegations

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When Lord Vishnu performed a Ganesh Puja

Lord Vishnu grew agitated. He could not find his conch - Valampuri. Then he heard someone blowing Valampuri on Mount Kailash. Lord Vishnu prayed to Lord Shiva and asked him to get Bal Ganesha to return the conch.  Lord Shiva advised Vishnu to perform a Ganesh puja. Lord Vishnu agreed. The merciful Lord Ganesha returned the conch.  The form of Lord Ganesha that returned the Valampuri is known as the Valampuri Ganesh who is depicted with his trunk facing right instead of the customary left. 
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Bal Ganesha and the Cat

Little Ganesha played roughly with a cat and hurt it. He then ran to his mother only to discover that she had a wound exactly at the place where he had hurt the cat. It was "I who had assumed the form of a cat to play with you," said the Mother of the Universe. It is the Goddess herself who becomes all beings, and we should therefore desist from hurting anyone by word, thought or deed. Little Ganesha learned his lesson that. Did you? 

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Lord Ganesha's big fat wedding

Some Hindu depictions Lord Ganesha is a bachelor. In others he has two wives - Riddhi and Siddhi and is also the father of two sons Shubh and Laabh. 

Folklore has it that no girl wanted to marry a husband with an elephant's head. This upset Lord Ganesha who manifested his vignakarta roop - the creator of obstacles. He asked rats to dig holes in the paths of the celestial Devas as they journeyed to get their brides from their maternal homes. 

Lord Brahma was so moved by Lord Ganesha's plight and also with the poor Devas that he created two wives for him.  Riddhi is the manifestation of wealth and prosperity and the second wife Siddhi is the personification intellectual and spiritual achievement.  Thus was the Lord married, and wherever Lord Ganesha is invoked - there dwell all prosperity and well being. 

Where there is Ganesha, Siddhi and Riddhi follow, and their two sons Shubha (Auspiciousness) and Labha (Profit) also follow unfailingly.

May the pot-bellied one who is loved by Riddhi as well as Siddhi bless all his devotees! 

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