4. List of Avatars

In Hindu mythology, ten avatars of Lord Vishnu are famous even though he has lot of more incarnations. There is a story behind these incarnations.

Long back once a king was performing some Vratham(Holy Penance). All sages/saints are invited. Vratham was almost over. Last step was to serve food to all sages and finally king has to eat before sunset. Everybody were waiting for sage Dhurvasa to come. Finally he reached. King invited him and offered him to have food. Then sage said that he and his disciples will go to nearest river and wash their hands and come back.

Again all were waiting for Dhurvasa to come back. It was almost sunset and if king didn't eat anything, vratham will be a waste. So some sage among them advised the king to have some water which will complete vratham successfully and as he didn't eat anything, it wont conflict with condition that he should eat after all sages finished eating. So king had some water. Exactly at that moment sage Dhurvasa arrived and got angry.

He started scolding the king furiously. He started cursing him like "You will take a life of fish, tortoise, pig, beast ... so on". That poor king was helpless and just folded his hands to god and meditating. Then Lord Vishnu took over his body and accepted all Dhurvasa's curses. After some time, even god got angry. He left his Sudharshan Chakra on him. Then sage Dhurvasa got scared and started running to save his life. He went to Lord Brahma. He said that he is incapable to defend Sudharshana Chakra. Later he went to Lord Shiva to get the same answer. Finally he went to Lord Vishnu and pleaded for mercy. Then Lord Vishnu told him to ask the king for forgiveness to save his life. Then Dhurvasa had to ask pardon to that king to save himself.

Later Lord Vishnu had to take all his avatars because of curses by sage Dhurvasa. Famous 10 among them are as follows:

1. Matsyavatar
2. Kurmavatar
3. Varahavatar
4. Narasimhavatar
5. Vamanavatar
6. Parashuramavatar
7. Ramavatar
8. Krishnavatar
9. Budhavatar
10. Kalki avatar

Urs,

Stages of busy life without missing fun in it !!!

Busy ...Busy ......Busy ...

I donno what am I doing , but I can say strongly I have been busy all the day :p

And...... Day by Day as time passes I am getting more busy than earlier :D

During my job days in pune, I was busy with heavy project schedule and weekend masti :) Weekdays busy busy work in office til late night, weekends busy busy timing with friends , chit chat with roomies till late night :) Busy with Fun .... enjoyed LIFE and learnt a LOT about LIFE during this busy phase of my life :)

During my married life in USA, days were more busier than before, It was a  new place for me, different food, have to prepare box for my hubby, making calls to India to be in touch with parents, relatives nd friends and more than that , need to got up early in the morning to manage all household things .........uuuffhhh,, I still wonder how did we manage to do all things those days.. even weekends were busy as the day starts at 12- 1PM for us :) even if we woke up early it would for a date outside :) Life has become more busy with much FUN, surprises and excitement in my new life :)

and nowwwwwwww, most loving phase of my life I would say,,, I am most busy than ever, and I am enjoying life at most than anytime...... Full time goes with my loving kid, her mischief...... How innocent these kids are.....Why cant we all ppl be such innocent for ever :p I doesn't even have time to think about job, and why to think lifez amazing like this,, why cant it be like this for some more time :)

Is life leading towards busyness all the time :D what ever time you see, its busy , busy and more busy :) But by god grace all the time he was with me and made me enjoy the true color of life ........... Bottom line I want to say ,, however busy you are.......... dont ever miss fun in your life, enjoy life at max, coz you never know you have another chance or not :)

cheers buddies :)

How do you Really Look At things ??

A small story I came across and would love to share it to everyone -

One day a father and his rich family took his son to a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family.

When they got back from their trip the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”

“Very good Dad!”

“Did you see how poor people can be?” the father asked.

“Yeah!”

“And what did you learn?”

The son answered, “I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden, they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden, they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon.”

When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless. His son added, “Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are!”

Isn’t it true that it all depends on the way you look at things? If you have love, friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life-you've got everything!

You can’t buy any of these things, but still you can have all the material possessions you can imagine, provisions for the future, etc., but if you are poor of spirit, you have nothing!!

Urs,

Dad's Retirement

43 years of dedication, hard work, never ending commitments and ever lasting responsibilities…. You should be real tired and stressed out by now and you deserve some rest. Congrats on your retirement dad. YOU ARE THE BEST.

My dad retired from his government service as a Senior Section Engineer on 30th June 2014. He begins his carrier as a painter and taking away promotions, he retired as a Senior Section Engineer. We’re so proud of his attitude and his colleagues comment on the way of his service he followed as a ideal to others and today’s younger generation.

We know how much you and mom strived to raise us. Bringing up four kids is a great challenge, but you stood for it and accomplished it in an outstanding way. No one else could have done better. You never compromised in providing us what we want or felt large family as a burden. You stood brave while in trouble, neither panicked nor lost the smile on your face. You tried every possible way and sailed this large ship to its destination. Now it is our turn to take good care of the tired sailor. The underlying truth is that, " Its hard to sail a huge ship to its destination through all the storms and cyclones out there, but if you could make it to the destination – the pay back is high". You proved yourselves as successful parents and now its our turn to prove. We admire the smile on your face and your attitude towards life. Dad...You are a true inspiration .

As some one said "retirement is from work, not from life" . I know you still have responsibilities but the best part is, Now you have children to share them. I have loads of feelings, but short of words to express them. Thanks for every thing you gave us. We feel blessed to be your children. CONGRATS DAD.

Urs,

When I was Kid

• I'd put my arms in my shirt and tell people I lost my arms.

• Would restart the video game whenever I knew I was going to lose.

• Had that one pen with four colors, and tried to push all the buttons at once.

• Waited behind a door to scare someone, then leaving because they're taking too long to come out.

• Faked being asleep,so I could be carried to bed.

• Used to think that the moon followed our car.

• Tried to balance the switch between On/Off.

• Watching two drops of rain roll down window and pretending it was a race.

• The only thing i had to take care of was a school bag.

• Swallowed a fruit seed I was scared to death that a tree was going to grow in my tummy.

• Closed the fridge extremely slowly to see when the lights went off.

• Walked into a room,. forgot what you needed, Walked out, and then remember.

• Thinking earthworms falls from sky when it rains.

Remember when we were kids and couldn't wait to grow up and now we think why did we even grow up?

Childhood Was The Best Part Of our Life

I know u have a smile on ur face while reading, bt frankly we all miss all those childhood days and now im feeling , experiencing and sharing same moments with my daughter.

Urs,