Man Vs Horse

Today I found a very interesting article on BBC about the race between human and horse.We have always heard of human competing against each other to prove their endurance and sprinting capabilities. But till now I have never heard of a race between human and an animal and we 'homo sapiens' trying and actually beating a beast like horse.
Man vs Horse marathon is in its 30th year where around 50 horses with their riders run besides hundered of runners.Horses are always better at running sprints but running a marathon is not only challenging for humans but for horse too.
It was only 2 times that humans have won over horse. It doesn't mean that we are faster than horse but rather there are couple of factors which can lead to human victory over the horse.

1. Humans beat horses on hilly or rough ground.
2. Horses overheat more easily , so a human is more likely to win on a hot day.
3. We suit distance running, while horse excel at sprint.

So before you plan to prove your running skills over a horse, challenge it for a marathon on a rough course rather than a sprint on a flat course.
Happy running... !

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The day u'll overcome fear of falling is the day, u'll learn to fly

"The day you will overcome the fear of falling is the day when you will learn to fly". I suppose similar words hen-eagle would tell her fledgling when she asks them to try flying. She knows that when they will jump out of their nest, after short free fall they will open up their wings and start flying.
But that's the case with birds because they have wings ... If we human being will ever be motivated to jump like that from a high rise building and try to fly (ofcourse without parachute), we would most certainly land up in a hospital bed or fly too high that we would never return from our flight ..!
We have heard similar statements numerous from great leaders, elders and may have read it somewhere. These sounds too inspirational but we usually don't understand their true nature until we experience it by ourselves.

My Experience of Falling and falling too hard.
Recently I experienced the full nature of this statement , when I came to know that how painful and embarrassing a fall can be at times. It was in Jan 2011 when i joined ice skating lessons in my town. I always have an urge to learn and do different things. I feel the more i experience different things more I will learn about myself and the life too. Few weeks ago when I did skiing for the first time , I was pretty happy with my performance as I completed 40 rounds on the beginner hill with 2-3 falls. Having enjoyed my time on the snow doing skiing, I was expecting the similar fun and easiness in learning ice skating.
Even before I walked few steps on ice , 1st thing that was taught to me was "how to fall". At that very moment I understood that learning ice skating is going to be a very painful . I just wished that I shouldn't fall and get hurt in my training program. But it doesn't happen the way you want it to happen. Even walking on ice was real tough challenge for me with fear of falling in my head everytime. My Coach Jenny taught me some exercises and asked me to practice those. I fell many times during my first class and among the whole class I was the only student who was falling now and then. Everytime I fall, my classmates used to come to me ask if I am ok and didn't get hurt myself. In their mind , they might be thinking that this poor fellow is not even able to balance his body weight on skating shoes. The fact is that I really wasn't. It was only because of my fear of falling that I used to bend forward to avoid falling backwards and vice versa. Bending didn't worked me because when upper body bent , my legs went in opposite direction resulting in a fall.
During my sessions, one time I was so afraid of falling that I thought of quitting the skating course. Somehow, I overcame that fear and managed to attend my classes.
I practiced walking, doing skating exercises including a little bit of gliding. Although my falling rate reduced from multiple falls in a class to 1 time every session, but I was still afraid of falling.
My training course was about to get finished and I was not able to skate on ice. Then I thought that there won't be any use if after attending a full beginner training course , I am unable to skate. I thought that I will try harder and prepared my mind to be ready to fall. I focused practicing which I improvised with Jenny's perfect guidance and help. I remember once I learnt the correct technique of gliding and overcame the fear of falling, I skated like never before. I was also able to do speed skating very confidently.
On that day, I learnt one more lesson from life via ice skating....!

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Brahma - The Creator of Universe

As per Hindu Vedas, Brahma is considered to be the creator of our universe.
Saptarishi - 7 great sages who helped brahma to create the universe. They are also called manas putra or mind sons or spirits as all these sons were born out of Brahma's mind rather than body. Brahma created 11 prajapatis who are considered to be the father of human race.

Creation of Brahma and Universe(Brahm- anda)

One Theory
As per Puranas, Brahma is self born in the lotus that grew from vishnu's navel at the beginning of the universe. For this reason , Brahma is also know as nabhija.

Another Theory
Brahma was born in water. In this he deposited a seed that later became the golden egg. From this golden egg, Brahma the creator was born hiranyagarbha. The remaining materials of the golden egg expanded into the Brahm -anda or Universe.

Brahma is also considered to be the son of Brahman and the female energy known as Prakrti or Maya.

In Brahma Purana, Brahma is regarded as a creator and not necessarily as God. Rather, he is regarded as a creation of god. Life span of Brahma is 100 Brahma Years and after a gap of 100 Brahma years, another Brahma or creator will begin the process of creation. This cycle is thought to repeat without end.

Brahma is not much worshiped by Hindus and there are only few temples dedicated to him.
Stories related to less worshiping of Brahma:
When Vishnu and Brahma decided to find the end and beginning of a huge shiva linga , vishnu(in form of boar) who started digging the earth gave up and bowed to shiva but brahma(in form of swan) asked ketaki flower to bear false witness about brahma's discovery of Shiva's beginning. Shiva all knowing was angered by brahma's ego. As per shiva purana, shiva cursed him that no being in three worlds will worship him.

It is also considered that a great sage Brahmarishi Bhrigu went to invite Brahma for a great fire sacrifice i.e yajna. Brahma was so immersed in music played by Saraswati that he could hardly hear Bhrigu's call. Bhrigu then cursed Brahma that no person on Earth would ever worship him.

Brahma's powers
Brahma is also considered to possess the knowledge of all four vedas and each head represents a veda.
Brahma's swan is considered to have a virtue called Neera Ksheera Viveka or ability to separate milk and water from a mixture of two.

Satyalok is considered to be home of brahma and vishnulok is above it.

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We are both spectators and actors in the great drama of existence..!!

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I'm the master of my fate, I'm the captain of my soul..

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Dead Sea: How can a sea be dead.. !!!!

Dead Sea

Shore of dead sea is the lowest dry point on earth(1300 ft below sea level). Dead sea is called so because of high salt content in its water due to which no organism other than microbes can survive in it.
Salt content : 28 to 35 percent i.e 4-5 times as compared to other oceans which have 3 to 6 % salt.

Reason for high Salt content: Dead lies in a valley surrounded by West Bank , Jordan and Israel and water coming from Jordon river is trapped in this valley. Water evaporates and leaves behind salt in the water.

Dying Dead Sea: Due to increase in salt content and evaporation of water, it is expected that by 2050 dead sea will be really dead i.e no water content would be present and will be left only with hard salt formations.

Saving Dead Sea: Two seas canal (180km) is a part of plan to channel some water from Red sea to Dead Sea.
Dead Seas highly saline water has the capability to cure some diseases like asthama and other skin problems.


Due to high density of dead sea water, people are able to float without any effort and can even read books. Tweet

Yuga

As per Hindu Mythology, Vedas tell that there are 4 yugas i.e Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, dwapar yuga and kali yuga. Total of these yugas is 4.32 million years with kaliyuga (4,32,000 years), dwapar yuga ( 8,64,000 years), treta yugas (1,296,000 years) and satya yuga (1,728, 000 years). One cycle of these 4 yugas is called as maha yuga or divya yuga.

Satya Yuga + Treta Yuga + Dwapar Yuga + kaliyuga = 1 Maha Yuga or Divya Yuga

1000 MahaYuga = 1 day of Brahma or 4.32 billion earth years = 1 night of Brahma

1 day and night of Brahma = 2000 Maha yuga or 8.64 Billion Years

It is said that after a day cycle of brahma, life is destroyed in universe and new life is formed.

Life of Brahma = 36000 Brahma Years

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Brahma lives for 36000 Brahma days which equals to 40 billion Earth years. After the death of brahma, universe is again created for next 40 billion years. Then a new Brahma is born and the cycle starts itself again. Each yuga involves the changes that happens on the earth and on the mankind.

Explanation of time of Yugas

In the explanations of the measurements of time found therein, one cycle of the four yugas together is 12,000 years of the demigods, called divine years. Each of these years is composed of 360 days, and each of their days is equal to one human year. So Krita-yuga is 4000 divine years in length, Treta-yuga is 3000 divine years in length, Dvapara-yuga is 2000 divine years in length, and Kali-yuga is 1000 divine years long, with the addition of the conjoining portions of the Sandhya and Sandhyansa.

In this way, each yuga is preceded by a period called a Sandhya, which is as many hundred years in length as there are thousands of years in that particular yuga. Each yuga is also followed by a period of time known as a Sandhyansa, which is also as many hundreds of years in length as there are thousands of years in the yuga. In between these periods of time is the actual yuga. Therefore, we have:
Krita-yuga = 4000 divine years, Sandhya = 400 divine years, Sandhyansa = 400 divine years. Total = 4800 divine years x 360 days = 1,728,000 human years.

Treta-yuga = 3000 divine years, Sandhya = 300 divine years, Sandhyansa = 300 divine years. Total = 3600 divine years x 360 days = 1,296,000 human years.


Dvapara-yuga = 2000 divine years, Sandhya = 200 divine years, Sandhyansa = 200 divine years. Total = 2400 divine years x 360 days = 864,000 human years.


Kali-yuga = 1000 divine years, Sandhya = 100 divine years, Sandhyansa = 100 divine years. Total = 1200 divine years x 360 days = 432,000 human years.




Within these immense periods of time the human life span decreases from 100,000 years in the Satya-yuga (the Golden Age), to 10,000 years in the Treta-yuga (the Silver Age), 1,000 years in the Dwapura-yuga (the Bronze Age), and finally 100 years in the Kali-yuga (the Iron Age). All these numbers are multiples of 108, the number of beads in Eastern prayer necklaces. Rama lived in the Treta Yuga.


Satya Yuga is the " Yuga of Truth" when mankind is governed by gods.The average life expectancy of human being in this era is 100,000 years. Dharma Bull which symbolises morality, stood on all four legs during this period. Later in Treta yuga it would become three and two in the later dvapara yuga and in kaliyuga it stands on one leg.

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