What a noble Sacrifice of a Noble Son/daughter?
Why should I not be proud that I am lifting up my parents in front of God and everyone.
In one Palraa (basket) is Latchmi incarnate my Mother and the other my Father, Vishnu incarnate.
There is a great fortune hanging on my shoulders.
Serving parents is the path of truth and my own pilgrimage.
The weight of my parents is lighter than roses,
And with my head held up high,
I shall keep going forward
despite the sorrows that might come.
In my childhood I sat on my parents shoulders and I rocked with joy.
Today they are rocking with joy on my shoulders, and I am pleased in my heart,
that I have endeavor to fulfill their whishes
as long as life is there in their bodies.
Karma Yoga - It is the path of God realization through dedicating the fruits of one's work to God.
There are no religions that are better than others, but the truth is, that they are really all one and the same.
Moreover, they all shared the same moral values and fundamentals.
Even if their philosophical concepts, mythology, epic stories vary the basic thoughts and goals are the same.
Religions are different in their ponts of view, because of the influence of cultural ways, and ancestral ancient traditions, and rituals.
You see, when people say "their religion is the only way, or that it is better thatn other", it is because of the fact, that human nature is afraid of the unknown.
Therefore, many people out of ignorance, lack of knowledge about others traditional beliefs, feel "safe" rejecting, and not wanting to learn what they do not know.
God = is one an the same yesterday, today, and always.
God has many names and many ways, but they all takes us to the same center.
A health care plan to expand the insurance industry and hurt the sick and the poor. It sure does look like special interests are going to win. I am not sure that it has been everybody sitting at the table transparently. It does not even seem like the American people really had representatives just our corporations. I guess it is a good thing corporations are imortal and really don't need health care.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29988909/sick_and_wrong/7
It looks like we are going to have a health care bill everyone will hate other than the health insurance industry and pharmacuetical countries.
Approximately 1 million people will attend the Caribbean Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn on Monday, September 7. Help us spread information about our broken health care system and the Obama plan for health care reform. We will set up tables along the parade route with flyers listing online sources for issues such as comparative costs and results of health care spending (US vs. other countries), the economics of health care, how we will actually save a lot of money by investing in health care reform now, etc. We will also provide info on how to connect with other people who want to bring real change to our health care system and help people to get involved in pressuring Congress to pass a health care reform bill with a strong public option. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Details here.
Caring for people with arthritis and caring for yourself.
Aspirin or ibuprofen can give one irritation and/or heartburn.
Encorage others to become active.
Gentle exercises, and activities such as meditation and or Yoga can help to reduce the effects of arthritis. Follow the care plan instructions of your health care provider carefully, and don't forget to use canes or other walking aids as needed.
Jnana Yoga
It is the path of spiritual realization through a speculative philosophical search for Universal Truth.
Hello:My name is Allie Feldman, and I'm helping Ben Baruch with Organizing for America here in New York. We just wanted to make sure everyone sees the email and video below discussing OFA's next nationwide initiative -- the Pledge Project. Please feel free to contact me or Ben if you have any questions or concerns.Stay tuned for more updates coming by the end of the week!Thanks,Allie--Allie FeldmanVolunteer Organizing for America | New Yorkallie.feldman@gmail.com 908-370-2689
Ben BaruchVolunteer LiaisonOrganizing for America | New York
bennett.baruch@obamaalumni.com
Just over a week ago, President Obama submitted his first budget and made it clear he was ready for the fight to come.The President isn't alone. We're ready for that fight too -- it's what you built this movement for.Watch a video I recorded announcing our new initiative, the Organizing for America Pledge Project:Americans are ready for the bold new direction this plan offers. It's what they voted for in November, and it's needed now more than ever as we continue to face an unprecedented economic crisis.But the special interests and old ways of Washington won't go away easily. In fact, they'll only fight back harder.It's up to you to organize support for President Obama's plan throughout the country. It's the only way we'll get the change this country needs.Take the next step now in our fight to bring change:http://my.barackobama.com/pledgeprojectThanks,MitchMitch StewartDirectorOrganizing for America
Hello New Yorkers for Obama:
I hope you are as fired up as I am after President Obama’s address to congress the other night! Across the country and here in New York we are inspired by the President’s message and motivated to organize for change.
I wanted to introduce myself to those of you who I don’t yet know. My name is Bennett Baruch and I worked as a grassroots organizer on the Obama campaign. Just like many of you, I knocked on doors, made phone calls and held organizing meetings with teams of volunteers. Together we won this election.
I am excited to serve as New York’s Volunteer Liaison to Organizing for America and I'm thrilled to tell you that Organizing for America is up and running! OFA’s mission is to mobilize our grassroots movement in support of President Obama’s policies for change and to build on and strengthen that grassroots organization we have all built together. I am an unpaid volunteer (not an official OFA staffer) who has been asked to help coordinate our efforts here in New York with OFA’s national office.
I know that many of you are already utilizing the Obama network to organize in your communities. In New York, we held 198 house parties and collected 1,578 stories around the economic crisis. Your efforts helped pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act and your involvement will be critical to its success.
You can act today to support our economic recovery. We've put together an easy to use online tool to look up the phone numbers of your representatives who voted in favor of the economic recovery plan -- take a few minutes today to thank them for doing what's right.
Take a minute to thank the Senators and Representatives who supported the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and encourage them to continue working with President Obama to lift America out of this economic crisis. When you're done, report back to us about the calls you made.
Throughout the next weeks and months, I look forward to working with all of you to ensure that Organizing for America is successful here in New York. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or ideas as we continue to organize for change. Many thanks,Ben-- Bennett BaruchVolunteer LiaisonOrganizing for America | New YorkRespect. Empower. Include.
An open invitation to join : President Barack Obama Inauguration Day 2009 - Washington, DC Group!!!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/InaugurationDay2009
Make plans to be in DC on this historical day!
Make plans to be tuned in with TV and/or the Internet.
Be out in public with friends and fellow citizens.
A Grand and Wonderful Celebration!
The greatest casualty of the last eight years hasn’t been “main street” or the “pocket books of regular, hard working Americans”. It’s been intelligence. Speak to the 45 percent who favor John McCain, and it’s mindboggling how outright stupid people have become. At least four years ago people cared about inherently divisive issues like abortion and gay rights, issues savy, self-serving politicans embraced simply to use as agents of cultural and social discord.
Yet, this year it has sunk to an historic low. What is the number one issue? Taxes. Why? Well, for a lot of reasons. Just ask Joe the Plumber, to whom it appears Joe Six-Pack has passed the torch. Joe the Plumber is a succesful and accomplished McCain surrogate who somehow, in his infinite regular-guy wisdom, managed to pound it out of Obama to expose a deep, dark, hidden secret. It wasn’t easy, but by-golly, Joe did it. Obama was trying to pull a fast one on all of us, but Joe forced him to confess, despite all Obama’s best efforts at a cover up, to reveal that he wants to “spread the wealth”, which naturally translates into evil, baby-eating, anti-freedom, God-hating *gasp!* socialism. John McCain, however, has sought to allay the fears of real Americans by reminding them that he’s not running to be “Redistributionist in Chief” but rather Commander in Chief. Thank Allah - or as real Americans would say, God - for John McCain.
So what’s so historically low about taxes being the number one issue on the minds of Americans this election? The fact that taxes aren’t the only thing that is tearing this country apart, and aren’t even on the top of the list. Economics is defined in terms of the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. By Mr. Maverick’s logic, that would mean that economics is a god-hating redistributionist. In any election cycle, everyone’s an economist, and this election has been no exception. But ask any real economist - whose status as someone who is educated automatically acts as a disqualifier from the elite club of real Americans - and they’ll tell you economics is a lot more than just taxes. The strength of the economy is not determined simply by how low or high your taxes are. But you can bet your Bible (and Moose hunting rifle) that the strength of your economy is significantly influenced by how much money ($500 billion, in case you were wondering) you spend in a senseless war in Iraq.
Of course, there is always the self-absorbed Wall Street aspirant who says “trickle down economics works”. Clearly, obviously, undoubtedly, indubitably. Except for the fact that it hasn’t worked for almost a decade under the ostensible “deregulationist in chief”, who incidentally has become the most ardent champion of socialism since the advent of the wheel. What it all boils down to is that the backbone of a country is not the few at the top who, once given the incentive, will presumably, out of the kindness of their own black hearts, take pity on their ungrateful, greedy employees and pay them enough to upgrade to eating SPAM three times a week. The backbone of a country is a nation that produces and consumes, where a majoirty of the people are given the opportunity to earn a living and thereby purchase necessary commodities on a daily basis, the profits of which will still find their way into the off-shore bank-accounts of the few at the top. But the difference is that not everything is concentrated in their hands, and rather exists on a larger scale, and thus leads to more money being spent overall, because there are simply more people who do not fall into the tax bracket of Dick Cheyney and his cronies. What does that lead to? Trickle up economics, the kind where everyone wins.
But for some reason, the very people who are hurt the most by the profiteering corporate CEO have been struck by a spell of unfathomable stupidity and fail to see how seriously they are being conned by the Krypt Keeper and his Pitbull with lipstick. Instead, they listen to “averge” Joe the Plumber, who is so average that he has a publicist, is trying to stiff-arm his way into a book and/or record deal, whichever one he can get, and wants to run for Congress on his newfound hero-status.
First and foremost, take a look at education. Then take a look at energy, and then, if you still have the stomach for it, take a look at Iraq. If you’re not enlightened enough to see that those issues threaten our livelihood about 1,297 times more than taxes do, then clearly education should be your top issue because you’re an example of its miserable failures.
This isn’t to say that seeking to draw attention to more pressing issues is to concede defeat in the epic Taxes War of 2008. On the contrary: it’s to divert attention away from an issue that undermines the intellectual fabric of our country, as it exposes the epidemic of stupidty that has infected a sizable portion of the population, revealing the inability of these Americans to absorb basic, logical principles.
I think it would be safe to assume that most people would avoid paying taxes if possible. But then again, taxes won’t matter when there’s no clean water to drink, or pure air to breathe because the “Drill-Baby-Drill” band got their way. They’ll have their supposed low taxes, and children with three and a half ears to take to the spot where Disneyland once stood with all that extra cash. But while they wait to count that extra cash that their pandering savior never sent them because he sent to to those guys from Exxon who just reported record shattering profits, they can begin on their re-education by reciting “crap, we screwed it up again.”
This is it!
We're coming down to the final stretch and Barack Obama needs your help now, more than ever before!
Please bring your cell phone, a charger and a few fun friends who care about change and join with thousands of your neighbors in the largest ever-attempted phone bank effort in New York state history. The Obama campaign is hosting several of these "mega call centers" all over New York, so invite your friends and family to make calls to voters in key battleground states and change America for years to come.
Visit http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/nylastcall to find a location near you.
