Oklahoma tornado: Search for survivors nears end

     Rescue workers are combing the ruins left by the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery.

Lankan army to reduce military presence at former LTTE stronghold in north.

     Sri Lanka Army has said that it would reduce the number of military camps in former rebel stronghold of northern Jaffna and hand over lands back to their original owners. "We will reduce the existing 17 military camps in Jaffna to just three," Army chief Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya said.

DID I MARRY THE RIGHT PERSON?

     During one of our seminars, a woman asked a common question. She said, "How do I know if I married the right person?"

     I noticed that there was a large man sitting next to her so I said, "It depends. Is that your husband?" In all seriousness, she answered "How do you know?"

Aim of Human Life!

Shree Hari     

     There is one main point and it is worth paying attention to, that this human body has been received only for attaining our salvation (Kalyaan). Earning money and enjoying pleasures – is not the purpose of this human body at all. Enjoyment of sense pleasures takes place in all the various different forms of birth. From the demi-gods (devatas) to those creatures lying in hell, they all get sense pleasures. 

How to Realize the Essence? - 2

          Shree Hari 

     I will share with you one very fine point, which I have read in books and heard from saints. God exists (is present) and exists at all times. There is no time when God is not there. The time is within God's enclosure. God is at no time non-existent, but in God the time is non-existent. God who is present at all times, therefore He is present now as well. If he was not there right now, then how can God be there at all times?

How to Realize the Essence? - 1

     When we were studying at that time the teacher wrote and explained "A, B, C, D…." and we accepted it as it being so and remembered it, and thus become learned in due time. Now we do not quite know how the "A" became an "A". Two lines were drawn vertically at an angle and one line was drawn through them and it was called "A" by the teacher, and we accepted it to be so, that yes Sir, this is an "A". Now we have no other way out, besides accepting it to be so.

North Lake in Flames, Bishop, California.