gyanjyoti

The Universe, with its illimitable possibilities, has always imbued the mankind. NASA with other space agencies, round the world, have alomost redoubled their efforts in the past decade to find evidences of life in outer space. But the search seems to never ceasing.Since our first close-up picture of Mars in 1965, spacecraft voyages to the Red Planet have revealed a world strangely familiar, yet different enough to challenge our perceptions of what makes a planet work. With each day, Mars' ne...

NASA's mass rover "CURIOSITY", a car sized robotic rover equipped with sophisticated instruments meant to explore "Gale crater" on Mars as part of Mars Exploration Program,  has conducted some successful ventures on the Red Planet since its landing in the month of August. Major among them being - February's "mini drill test" and April's plunge into an autonomous operation mode for approx. 25 days to monitor atmospheric and radiation data. It exercised the first drilling operation on the ...

prologue : Keeping the undergoing havoc in northern India by the nature in view, this is my small endeavour  to express the grief and immense torture felt by the flood victims through the following words.

" ALAS ! The pain is too much. We lost everything that we once hold dear to us. Our home, property, village, fields and most importantly the future that we once dreamed of. Had we acted with more alacrity, many more lives could have been saved.

What we hear a great deal nowadays is about BCCI- the umbrella organization behind today's face of Indian cricket albeit it is for some "not so good" reasons. And amongst many of them is spot fixing. Spot fixing has visibly rocked India. Chandila, the main accused, is yet to extricate himself from all legal charges. And sadly there has been no appreciable action taken by bcci. Some may say," You must not give facile  remarks." But i am just saying what the ...

Getting to the top is never easy, but for this person it was harder then for most. Listen to what he felt:

Every child faces embarrassing situation, of not looking good enough or not being good enough for his peers, or being teased or, basically, of not fitting in to some degree. I experienced these feelings daily. It wasn’t easy. I had stutter and a double thumb. This set me apart from other children, it made me different. I didn’t fit in. I was teased so often that I begun...

Adhira : one who is not sober and is always disturbed

Adhoksaja : not approachable by material mind and senses, a name for Krsna

Adi-purusa : Krsna, the Supreme Primeval Person

Avidya : ignorance

Brahma-bhutah : the stage of liberation in which one realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes free from hankering and lamentation

Brahmachari : a celibate student

Brahman : the all prevading impersonal aspect of Krsna

Brahmana : a liberal person who knows the...

In this vacation I am learning to cook simple vegetables. Contrary to my expectations, it is not easy to cook. One has to stand in front of the hot stove in this scorching summer. By the time one finishes cooking one is covered in sweat from head to toe. Moreover chopping onions is itself a tall order. They can bring tears to one’s eyes even if one is eternally happy. Hats off to all the mothers and wives who cook for their family every day, without a single word of complain. Ladies you...

This story was narrated to me by my HOD(Head of the department) Maam Mrs Manjula in November 2009. She was motivating us to do well in boards and in life. So here it goes.

Once there was a boy and his mother, who were walking on a road. The boy was curious about life. He asked a lot of questions and irritated his mother.

Further on the road they met a saint. He was in deep meditation. Mother asked her son to go and ask all his doubts about life from the saint as he was a learne...