Recently I received an invitation for Vastu Shanti.....the invitation was e-mailed ..and it was invariably in English....Subject line read...'Invitation for House Warming'....now Vastu Shanti is a Marathi word which means to cool off the house...whereas housewarming is exactly opposite...two words seemingly the same and having different etymological meaning....
and this isn't all....for vastu shanti we perform 'havan' in our house...thus we warm the house...strange our Gods require warmth to be 'Shant'....pretty confusing...
July 24, 2009
July 19, 2009
Art of winning friends.....
I just read a conversation between two friends….…!!!!...make no mistake…I am no authority on this matter…..i have met friends all my life…they have came & walked out of my life at will…I have tried to put it in different shapes, forms each time thinking I have spelled it right…but each new day proves me wrong….guess some things in life are never meant to be….
Coming back to the conversation…one of the friends talks about a quotation which he believes is of Shakespeare…his friend disagrees with him and says…no way…its straight from pages of Bible’…The simple discussion turns into a major heated argument…with neither of them yielding an inch…and finally the friends go away with bitter tastes in their mouth…
The gist of the matter is 99 out of 100 times, an argument ends with each of the party firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right…then why waste the time in arguing over things endlessly….once you have made your point and still your friend disagree…just leave it right there…even if you finally win the argument…you will cause resentment…and it will create a rift in your relation…so if you cant convince him…just keep quiet…on the other hand…if your friend’s argument has created a doubt in your mind…go back to the basics and check for yourself….and spare yourself unnecessary argument…
I also found a two-liner in the same book…
‘A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still’…
How true!!!!
Coming back to the conversation…one of the friends talks about a quotation which he believes is of Shakespeare…his friend disagrees with him and says…no way…its straight from pages of Bible’…The simple discussion turns into a major heated argument…with neither of them yielding an inch…and finally the friends go away with bitter tastes in their mouth…
The gist of the matter is 99 out of 100 times, an argument ends with each of the party firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right…then why waste the time in arguing over things endlessly….once you have made your point and still your friend disagree…just leave it right there…even if you finally win the argument…you will cause resentment…and it will create a rift in your relation…so if you cant convince him…just keep quiet…on the other hand…if your friend’s argument has created a doubt in your mind…go back to the basics and check for yourself….and spare yourself unnecessary argument…
I also found a two-liner in the same book…
‘A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still’…
How true!!!!
July 18, 2009
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