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A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car.  Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautifully wrapped gift box.  Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, Silver-bound HOLY GEETA, with the young man's name embossed in gold. Angry, he raised his voice to his father and said "With all your money, you give me a Holy Geeta?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the Geeta.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him.  He had not seen him since that graduation day.  Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart.  He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new Geeta, just as he had left it years ago.  With tears, he opened the Geeta and began to turn the pages.  And as he did, a car key dropped from the back of the Geeta.  It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss Spirit's blessings and answers to our prayers because they do not arrive exactly as we have expected?

Because of expectations we loose relations and happiness. Don't ever make any conclusion till the end of eternity…

We are no one to JUDGE anyone…. We are no one……………..

That's how I live my LIFE…. OPEN YOUR ARMS and FEEL THEM AS WINGS….. AND FLY…. TO THE DISTANT SKY>>>>> Beyond INVISIBLE………..

Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each looks like every other horse. But if one stops the car, or is walking by, one will notice something quite amazing.

Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind. His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him. This alone is amazing.

Listening, one will hear the sound of a bell. Looking around for the source of the sound, one will see that it comes from the smaller horse in the field. Attached to her bridle is a small bell. It lets her blind friend know where she is, so he can follow her.

As one stands and watches these two friends, one sees how she is always checking on him, and that he will listen for her bell and then slowly walk to where she is, trusting that she will not lead him astray.

Like the owners of these two horses, Nature does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges. We should watch over everyone and even brings others into our lives to help us when we are in need. Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by our Spiritual Soul and those whom our condition places in our lives. Other times we are the guide horse, helping others.

It is hard to say at what time before the nineteenth century that the idea of evolution in the animal kingdom was first raised. Several Greek philosophers thought that the living world was subject to transformations. Their conclusions were based on philosophical ideas and speculations.


In 1801, the French naturalist Lamarck became the first to introduce the concept of evolution. He published his work in a book called Zoological Philosophy. Cuvier, another French naturalist published History of Fossilized Bones" in 1812, in which he compared present day animals with fossils showing the existence of extinct species.


Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist, laid the foundation of the evolutionary theory with his concept of the development of all forms of life through the slow-working process of natural selection. After graduating from Cambridge in 1831, the 22-year-old Darwin was taken aboard the English survey ship H.M.S. Beagle.


He noted, for example, that certain fossils of supposedly extinct species closely resembled living species in the same geographical area. In the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, west of South America at the equator, he studied some forms of life such as huge turtles and swimming lizards not found anywhere else in the world. Darwin saw that these animals were similar to more common forms. The similarities convinced him that the Galapagos animals were related to more common turtles and lizards. In Galapagos, Darwin saw finches that shared so many features, but differed mainly in their beak structures, eating habits, and their sizes. He thought they must have had a common ancestor. Each of the 13 famous finches of Galapagos was identified as a distinct species.


After returning to England in 1836, Darwin began recording his ideas about changeability of species in his Notebooks on the Transmutation of Species. Darwin's explanation for how organisms evolved was brought into sharp focus after he read An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), by the British economist Thomas Robert Malthus, who explained how human populations remain in balance. Malthus argued that any increase in the availability of food for basic human survival could not match the large rate of population growth. The latter, therefore, had to be checked by natural limitations such as famine and disease, or by social actions such as war.



Malthus introduced the term "Natural Selection" that Darwin popularized. Darwin immediately applied Malthus's argument to animals and plants, and by 1838 he had arrived at a sketch of a theory of evolution through natural selection. For the next two decades he worked on his theory and other natural history projects.
Darwin's theory was first announced in 1858. In a paper presented at the same time by Alfred Russell Wallace, a young naturalist had come independently to the theory of natural selection. Darwin's complete theory was published in 1859, in The Origin of Species. Often referred to as the "book that shook the world," the book was sold out on the first day of publication and subsequently went through six editions.


Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is essentially that, because of the food-supply problem described by Malthus, the young born to any species intensely compete for survival. Those young that survive to produce the next generation tend to embody favorable natural variations (however slight the advantage may be) and these variations are passed on by heredity. Therefore, each generation will improve adaptively over the preceding generations and this gradual and continuous process is the source of the evolution of species. Natural selection is only part of Darwin's conceptual scheme; he also introduced the concept that all related organisms are descended from common ancestors in his second book, Descent of Man (1871).


In The Origin of Species, Darwin did not offer solid evidences of human evolution, only suggesting in the conclusion that in the future, "Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." In the same book, Darwin described serious challenges to the whole concept of natural selection in three chapters with the following titles:
•         Difficulties of the theory, chapter 6.
•         Miscellaneous objection to the theory of natural selection, chapter 7.
•         On the imperfection of the geological record, chapter 10.


In his second book, Darwin presented his guesswork about humans and apes. He believed that humans were the products of biological evolution, and that they descended from primitive ancestors. His hypothesis did not state that humans descended from any of the great apes: orangutan, gibbon, chimpanzee, and gorilla. Both humans and apes descended from some common primate ancestors that are now extinct.


The reaction to The Origin of Species was immediate. Some biologists argued that Darwin could not prove his hypothesis. Others criticized Darwin's concept of variation, arguing that he could not explain the origin of variations. In fact, many scientists continued to express doubts for the following 50 to 80 years. The most publicized attacks on Darwin's ideas, however, came not from scientists but from religious opponents. The thought that living things had evolved by natural processes denied the special creation of humankind and seemed to place humanity on a plane with animals; both of these ideas were serious contradictions to orthodox theological opinion.

Every moment of my life is actually my "MENTOR".

Last Sunday, I was sitting in park in Rohini, Delhi. I saw an old man, probably some 90 plus years, sat feebly on the park bench. He didn't move, just sat with his head down staring at his hands. When I sat down beside him he didn't acknowledge my presence & the longer I sat I wondered if he was ok.

I asked him if he was ok. He raised his head & looked at me & smiled. Yes, I'm fine; thank u for asking, he said in a clear strong voice.

I didn't mean to disturb u, sir, but u were just sitting here staring at you hands & I wanted to make sure u were ok I explained to him.

Have u ever looked at your hands he asked. I mean really looked at your hands? I slowly opened my hands & stared down at them. I turned them over, palms up & then palms down. No, I guess I had never really looked at my hands as I tried to figure out the point he was making.

Then he smiled & related this story: Stop & think for a moment about the hands you have, how they have served you well throughout your years. These hands, though wrinkled, shriveled & weak have been the tools I have used all my life to reach out & grab & embrace life. They braced & caught my fall when I crashed upon the floor. They put food in my mouth & clothes on my back. My Father taught me to fold them in prayer. They tied my shoes & pulled on my boots. They dried my tears. They have been dirty, scraped & raw, swollen & bent. They have held children, consoled neighbors, & shook in fists of anger when I didn't understand. They have covered my face, combed my hair. They have been sticky & wet, bent & broken, dried & raw & to this day when not much of anything else of me works real well these hands hold me up, lay me down, & again continue to fold in prayer. He won't care about where these hands have been or what they have done. What He will care about is to whom these hands belong & how much He loves these hands. & with these hands He will lift me to His side & there I will use these hands to touch the face of God.

No doubt I will never look at my hands the same again. I will never forget him