*******WHAT IS HINDU ********

Who is a Hindu? See also: History of Hinduism The actual term “Hindu” first occurs as an Old Persian geographical term (derived from the river Sindhu), to identify the people who lived beyond the River Indus. However, the modern origin is derived from the Arabic texts - Al-Hind (the Hind) referring to 'the land of the people of modern day India' - which then got vernacularised as Hindu.[3] In the world history “Hindu” was also used by all...

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Everest conqueror Sir Edmund dies

WELLINGTON: Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world’s highest peak Mount Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, died in hospital in Auckland yesterday, aged 88. He suffered a sudden heart attack shortly before he was due to be discharged after a period of treatment and had been in “high spirits” and looking forward to going home, a family statement said. As tributes poured in from around the world, flags flew at half mast in his homeland and it was announced that the man Prime Minister Helen Clark described as the best-known New...

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DESTINATION AFTER DEATH

****************Sarva-dvarani samyamya **********************Mano hrdi nirudhya ca *************Murdhny adhayatamanah pranam ***********************Asthito youga-dharanam “The yougic situation is that of detachment from all sensusal engagements. Closing all the doors of the sense and fixing the mind on the heart and the life air at the top of the head, one establishes himself in yoga.” One translation of the word yoga is “plus”-that is, just the opposite of minus. At the present moment, due to our materially contaminated consciousness...

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WHAT IS LIFE?

Any human being should take an interest in what you are living for. The biggest problem nowadays in the world of human beings, which can be seen, is that most human beings do not try to know why they are living and what they should have to live for in their lives. We should see this is the result that human beings have abandoned themselves by greed and ignorance for a long time. Our life and the result of our life that we wish for is being ignored by darkness and unhappiness. Is life really the question which nobody can know ? Some people say...

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Polio

Polio [PO-lee-oh] is a viral disease that can damage the nervous system and cause paralysis. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth, usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. Polio is preventable by immunization. Since polio immunization has become widespread in the United States, cases of polio are rare. However, polio remains a problem in many parts of the world. What is polio? Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is a disease that can damage the nervous system and cause paralysis. Since polio immunization...

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