A TALE OF PARALLELS: VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH

 Unveiling of A TALE OF PARALLELS by Ms Shweta Rohira, author and an actress, Mr Sudhanshu Mani, the T-18 man and an author, and Mr K L Pandey, former Additional Member, Railway Board, musicologist and an author.  

The event was hosted by Seema Saxena of Jashn Events.

A TALE OF PARALLELS is published by AKS PUBLISHING HOUSE. 

Get your copy on Amazon.com or Amazon.in

In case you missed yesterday's session, you can watch it at:

https://www.facebook.com/Jashnevnt/videos/4633182423387704/

*India's Mission Kabul*

 

*India's Mission Kabul*

 For the last 3-4 days we are seeing that Indian Air Force planes are bringing Indians stranded in Afghanistan from Kabul.  It sounds very easy to see and hear, but we should also know how much hard work and diplomacy of the Indian government behind this.  First of all, we do not have any direct plane route to go to Afghanistan.  For this the most shot cut route is through Pakistan but as always Pakistan is a big hurdle in this.  That's why Indian planes have to take a long route and go through Iran.  For this, the Government of India first obtained approval from Iran for the use of airspace for Indian Air Force aircraft.  Getting this approval was not such an easy task because no country allows the airspace of another country to use its airspace.  But the Indian government was successful in getting this permission from Iran.  Even after obtaining this permission, there was another issue that Indian planes could not land directly in Kabul.  Because India's relations with Taliban have never been good.  Therefore, the Indian government could not rely on the Taliban enough to keep the Air Force plane standing there for a long time.  On the other hand, in view of the chaos and huge crowd at Kabul Airport, it was not possible that the Indian planes could remain there.  To solve this, the Government of India found another way.  For this he resorted to the airport of Kazakhstan.  Once again Indian diplomacy was successful and Indian Air Force plane got permission to use Kazakhstan airport.

 Now the Indian government also had another problem that how to transport Indians to Kabul airport because after the capture of Taliban, Taliban fighters have set up their check posts at different places and they do not only complete search of every person coming to Kabul airport.  Rather, he also puts an egg in it.  On the other hand it was not even possible for Indians to gather together at Kabul airport due to the chaos at Kabul airport.

 Eventually the Indian authorities found a solution for this too.  He arranged a large garage near the Kabul airport where he could house around 150-200 Indians at once.

 Now everyday Indians are first gathered in the garage.  This work of gathering Indians goes on day and night.  For this, the Indian officers themselves take their car and reach the place where the Indians are staying.  Taking them, he takes them to the garage adjacent to the Kabul airport, while beating their heads at the Taliban check posts built all over the place.  When enough Indians have gathered in the garage, the information is passed on to the Indian Air Force officers stationed in Kazakhstan and the US officials stationed at Kabul Airport.  It is noteworthy that the ATS control and security control of Kabul Airport is in the hands of the US Army.  After this, clearance is given by the US Army to land the plane of India.  Then the Indian Air Force plane standing at Kazakhstan Airport flies from there and reaches Kabul, by the time the plane's landing, all the Indians from the garage reach inside the airport in the US Army car.  They are immediately boarded in the Indian Air Force plane standing there and within 15 minutes, this Indian Air Force plane flies towards its country with the Indians.

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 * Now think deeply that if any Pappu of Pappu company had been sitting here, would it have been possible *

'Relocating to Nursing Home (in Western Countries, Retirement Homes are called Nursing Homes):*

 

'Relocating to Nursing Home (in Western Countries, Retirement Homes are called Nursing Homes):*

This is an article on the internet that  has caused many to reflect over their own lives. The author is a retired writer, and she expressed emotion when she was about to go to a nursing home.

I'm going to a nursing home. 

I have to. 

When life gets to where you are no longer able to take care of yourself completely, your children are busy at work and have to take care of their children and have no time to take care of you, this seems to be the only way out.

The nursing home is in good condition, with clean single rooms equipped with simple and practical electrical appliances. All kinds of entertainment facilities are complete, the food is fairly delicious, the service is also very good. The environment is also very beautiful, but the price is not cheap.

My pension is poorly able to  support this. But I have my own house. If I sell it, then money is not a problem. I can spend it on retirement, and the rest will be left as an inheritance for my son. 

The son understands very well: "your money and your property should be enjoyed by you, don't worry about us." 

Now I have to consider preparing to go to a nursing home.

As the saying goes: Breaking a family is worth tens of thousands, which refers to many things. Boxes, bags, cabinets, and drawers are filled with all kinds of daily necessities: clothings for all weathers and beddings for all seasons.

I like to collect. I have collected a lot of stamps. I have also hundreds of purple clay tea pots. There are many small collections, and such small items as pendants of emerald and walnut amber, and two small yellow croakers. 

I am specially fond of books. The bookshelves on the wall are full.

There are also dozens of bottles of good foreign wine. There are full sets of household appliances; various cooking utensils, pots and pans, rice, oil, salt, noodles, floue,spices, various seasonings, in fact the kitchen is also full. There are also dozens and  dozens of photo albums..., looking at the house full of things, I'm worried!

The nursing home has only one room with a cabinet, a table, a bed, a sofa, a refrigerator, a washing machine, a TV, an induction cooker and a microwave oven -- all the things I will really need. 

There is no place to store the wealth that I have accumulated throughout my life.

At this moment, I suddenly feel that my so-called wealth is superfluous, and it doesn't belong to me. I just take a look at it, play with it, use it. It actually belongs to this world. The wealth that come in turns are just passing by. 

Whose palace is the Forbidden City? The Emperor thought it belonged to him, but today it belongs to the people and society.

You look at these, you play with these, you use these but you can't take them with you in death.

I really want to donate the things in my house, but I can’t get it done. To deal with it has now become a problem. Very few children and grandchildren can appreciate what I have collected. I can imagine what it will be like when my children and grandchildren face with these painstakingly accumulated treasures of mine: all the clothes and bedding will be thrown away; dozens of precious photos will be destroyed; books will be sold as scrap. Collections? If you are not interested, you will dispose of them. The mahogany furniture is not practical and will be sold at a low price.

Just like the end of the Red Mansion: only a piece of white left, so clean.

Facing with the mountain of clothes, I only picked a few favourites; I only kept a set of pots and pans for kitchen supplies, a few books that are worth reading; a handful of teapots for tea. 

Bring along my ID card, senior citizen certificate, health insurance card, household register, and of course a bank card. Enough!

It's all my belongings!  I'm gone. I bid farewell to my neighbours, I knelt down at the door and bowed three times and gave this home back to the world.

Yes! In life, you can only sleep in one bed, live in one room. Any more of it is merely for watching and playing!

Having lived a lifetime, people finally understand: we don’t really need much. Don’t be shackled by superfluous things to be happy!

It's ridiculous to compete for fame and fortune. Life is no more than a bed.

*For people over 60 years old, shouldn’t we think carefully about how to take the last journey in life?*

*Let go of fantasies and baggage, and of those things that can't be eaten, worn, used.*

*Be healthy and be happy*

*With Best Wishes

A GOOD POST WORTH READING

“Vladimir Putin”

 

During the Second World War, a soldier obtained leave allowing him to return to his home.

As soon as he reached the street near his house, he saw a parked military truck loaded with corpses and knew that the enemy had bombed his city.

The truck was carrying dozens of dead bodies and was preparing to transport them to a mass grave.

The soldier stood in front of the piled-up corpses to take a last look at them and noticed that a shoe on a woman's foot looked like a shoe he had previously bought for his wife.

He went to his house in a hurry to check on her but didn't find her. He quickly retreated and went back to the truck again to check the body and found his wife.

He was left shocked. He said, "I'll not want my wife buried in a mass grave".

So he asked her body be pulled from the truck in preparation for a proper burial.

During the transfer, it was found that she was still breathing slowly but with difficulty. He carried her to the hospital where the necessary first aid was given to her and she came back to life again.

Years after this incident and at the end of the war, the wife who was almost buried alive became pregnant and gave birth to a boy in the picture above named “Vladimir Putin”

He is the current president of Russia

*🙏Hare Krishna 🙏*

 

 

 

*Hare Krishna *

Our Rakhi Return Gift

Lord Krishna is saying 

But those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My transcendental form  *to them I carry what they lack,*

*and I preserve what they have.*

Have you ever thought what we have or possess that Lord *Promises to Protect & Preserve*

Any guesses ??

So let me tell you 

*Our Human Body* which we got after 84 Lakhs births , just see how precious is our life. 

Next coming to 

What is it that we lack & Lord Krishna is so eager *give us*. He has given us chance to ask for. 

So what should we ask for.  *Again any guesses ???*

So again let me help you all

We should ask Lord Krishna to help us to imbibe all those qualities of a pure devotee, which He has clearly explained in *Bhagavad Geeta*

2)Association of a True Pure Krishna Conscious Devotee

& What we really lack is 

*Unconditional Pure Devotion/ Bhakti* 

So don't forget to ask for this.

3) O almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor do I desire beautiful women, nor do I want any number of followers. *I only want your causeless devotional service, birth after birth*

*Hare Krishna Hare Krishna*

*Krishna Krishna Hare Hare*

*Hare Rama Hare Rama*

*Rama Rama Hare Hare*

 

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REIGNITING THE FLAME

A Facebook Account as forwarded

 

 

 

A man named Tom Nicholson posted on his Facebook account,  the sports car that he had just bought and how a man approached and told him that the money used to buy this car could've fed thousands of less fortunate people.

 

His response to this man, made him famous on the internet.

READ his story, as stated on Facebook, below:

 

 A guy looked at my Corvette the other day and said,

 

"I wonder how many people could have been fed for the money that sports car cost?

 

I replied I'm not sure;

it fed a lot of families in Bowling Green, Kentucky who built it,

it fed the people who make the tyres,

it fed the people who made the components that went into it,

it fed the people in the copper mine who mined the copper for the wires,

it fed people in at Caterpillar who make the trucks that haul the copper ore.

It fed the trucking people who hauled it from the plant to the dealer,

and

fed the people working at the dealership and their families.

 

BUT,...

I have to admit, I guess I really don’t know how many people it fed.

*That is the difference between capitalism and the welfare mentality*.

When you buy something, you put money in people’s pockets and give them dignity for their skills.

When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self-worth.

 

*Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value*.

*Socialism is having the government take your money against your will and give it to someone else for doing nothing.*

 

I think this is well written.