Facts and Figures-58:

Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO of the Blackstone Group, whose salary last year was $702 million, was named the highest paid executive in America.

- Rafe Bartholomew, Harper's Weekly, August 18, 2009

Grateful thanks to Rafe Bartholomew and Harper's Weekly.

A Thought for Today-214:

Epigrams succeed, where epics fail - Persian Proverb

A Thought for Today-213:

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays - Persius

A Thought for Today-212:

Those who find happiness within are destined never to lose it; but those who seek it elsewhere are doomed never to find it - Jim Beggs

A Thought for Today-212:

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness - Evelyn Beilenson

A Thought for Today-211:

I think that there is always a close and intimate relationship between the end we aim at and the means adopted to attain it. Even if the end is right but the means are wrong, it will vitiate the end or divert us in a wrong direction. Means and ends are thus intimately and inextricably connected and cannot be separated. That, indeed, has been the lesson of old taught us by many great men in the past but unfortunately it is seldom remembered. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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Random Thoughts-31: "Sri Jayanthi"

Bhagwan Sri Krishna's birthday is celebrated by Hindus as 'Sri Jayanthi', 'Janmashtami' and 'Gokulashtami'. Generally, eighth day (ashtami) and nineth day(navami) of the lunar month are considered to be inauspicious days. Hindus generally avoid these days for undertaking anything important. The idea is if you start anything important on these days, you will not able to complete them and you may have to do them again and again. However, two major incarnations of Maha Vishnu, Sri Krishna was born on an 'ashtami' and Sri Rama on a 'navami'. Consider this along with the assurance of Sri Krishna in the Gita: "To protect the righteous, to destroy the sinful and to reinstate morals, I am born again and again in every age"; now, you get a special meaning. In every age, the Lord takes birth on this earth to destroy evil and protect dharma.

So Sri Jayanthi is very special. Now-a-days you have not just one KAMSA, but innumerable of them; they are more deadly and dangerous. So naturally we all wish and pray that Sri Krishna takes birth again and destroys all these Kamsas and protects us.

Written on Aug 13, 2009 and posted on Aug.14, 2009.

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