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Monday, August 16, 2010
LIFE ON MARS!
Our Earth and Mars(right)
Vishnaic an extraordinary microbiologist from the University of Rochester in New York. Vishnaic spent 12 years in making devise (called wolf trap) to be sent to Mars in search for microorganism. He created Mars like enviorment on Earth in the dry vally of Antartica. He had succeded in generating microorganism. On Nov.8, 1973 he reached Antartica with one of his friend a geologist. A month later they were to collect the samples of their experiments. On Dec 10, 1973 he (Vishnaic ) met with an accident. His body was recovered at the base of a cliff. Many of Vishnaics microbiological stations are still sitting in Antartica.
Another great Cosmologist and Mathematician Stephan Hawking says, We shall be able to generate life on Mars in the coming years. We shall have to create oxygen water in liquid form and gravity there.
This general concept is called Terra forming, the changes of alien landscape into one more suitable for Human Beings.!
My above article got published in Hitavada dt.5/9/2010
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As I flip the pages of my diary I came across a quote: “The known is finite the unknown is infinite, intellectually we stand on the islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land!”
……………….T.S. Huxley 1887
I lay on my back in the open pondering gazing at the star studded heaven. Tiny sparkling lamps, who made them? What makes them shine? I could see a bright red star. It is called mangal tara I learnt. We call it Mars in English.
I was fascinated by Mars. I found out that it’s the fourth planet of our Solar System. I was amazed that we could see this beautiful planet with our naked eye. Soon I focused my telescope towards the sky.
Mars is named after the Roman God of War. The reddish appearance is due to the ironoxide present in its soil. Mars atmosphere is thin, comprising mostly of carbon dioxide some molecules of nitrogen argon and very small quantity of water vapour. The ozone layer is very small causing the infiltration of ultraviolet radiation. Because Mars is farther from Sun than the Earth its temperature is considerably
lower. Of all the planets of our solar system Mars seasons are most Earth like due to the similar tilts of the two planets rotational axis.
Mars has two moons 1)Phobos 2) Diemos
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) are probing Mars for any possibility of Life. They have sent reconnanissance satellite in the orbit . The spirit rover and opportunity are sending information. Mars is thoroughly mapped.
The landing on moon in 1969 has opened a new era for the humans. The renowned astronomer Carl Sagan says that, “If we survive , our time will be famous for two things1) at this dangerous moment of technological adolescence we managed to survive self destruction and because this is the epoch in which we began our journey to Stars!”
Talking about Mars it should be mentioned about two great scientist 1) Percival Lowell 2) Wolf Vishnaic.
……………….T.S. Huxley 1887
I lay on my back in the open pondering gazing at the star studded heaven. Tiny sparkling lamps, who made them? What makes them shine? I could see a bright red star. It is called mangal tara I learnt. We call it Mars in English.
I was fascinated by Mars. I found out that it’s the fourth planet of our Solar System. I was amazed that we could see this beautiful planet with our naked eye. Soon I focused my telescope towards the sky.
Mars is named after the Roman God of War. The reddish appearance is due to the ironoxide present in its soil. Mars atmosphere is thin, comprising mostly of carbon dioxide some molecules of nitrogen argon and very small quantity of water vapour. The ozone layer is very small causing the infiltration of ultraviolet radiation. Because Mars is farther from Sun than the Earth its temperature is considerably
lower. Of all the planets of our solar system Mars seasons are most Earth like due to the similar tilts of the two planets rotational axis.
Mars has two moons 1)Phobos 2) Diemos
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) are probing Mars for any possibility of Life. They have sent reconnanissance satellite in the orbit . The spirit rover and opportunity are sending information. Mars is thoroughly mapped.
The landing on moon in 1969 has opened a new era for the humans. The renowned astronomer Carl Sagan says that, “If we survive , our time will be famous for two things1) at this dangerous moment of technological adolescence we managed to survive self destruction and because this is the epoch in which we began our journey to Stars!”
Talking about Mars it should be mentioned about two great scientist 1) Percival Lowell 2) Wolf Vishnaic.
A Bostonian Scientist Percival Lowell had life long love for Mars. He was obsessed by the thought that life did exist on Mars. Before his death in 1916 he had made a remarkable contribution towards Mars also to the knowledge of expanding universe and he discovered planet Pluto. The first initials PL are from his name Percival Lowell.
Vishnaic an extraordinary microbiologist from the University of Rochester in New York. Vishnaic spent 12 years in making devise (called wolf trap) to be sent to Mars in search for microorganism. He created Mars like enviorment on Earth in the dry vally of Antartica. He had succeded in generating microorganism. On Nov.8, 1973 he reached Antartica with one of his friend a geologist. A month later they were to collect the samples of their experiments. On Dec 10, 1973 he (Vishnaic ) met with an accident. His body was recovered at the base of a cliff. Many of Vishnaics microbiological stations are still sitting in Antartica.
Another great Cosmologist and Mathematician Stephan Hawking says, We shall be able to generate life on Mars in the coming years. We shall have to create oxygen water in liquid form and gravity there.
This general concept is called Terra forming, the changes of alien landscape into one more suitable for Human Beings.!
My above article got published in Hitavada dt.5/9/2010
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Monday, August 2, 2010
तुकाराम गाथा
जन विजन झाले आम्हां । विठ्ठलनामाप्रमाणें।१।
पाहे तिकडे मायबाप । विठ्ठल आहे रखुमाई ।२।
वन पट्टण एक भाव । अवघा ठाव सरता झाला ।३।
आठव नाही सुखदुःखा । नाचे तुका कौतुकें ।४।
दिवाकर अनंत घैसास म्हणतात:
थोड्या शब्दात महान अर्थ सांगणे हे तुकारामांच्या अभंगरचनेचे लक्षणच आहे. या लहानशा अभंगात फार उच्च मनोवस्थेचे वर्णन ते साध्या शुब्दात सांगत आहेत ....ज्याची भक्ती अंतरंगातील आत्मरूप परमेश्वरावर जडते त्याला विशिष्ट जागी बसून साधना करावी लागत नाही. योगसाधनेच्या प्रारंभी मात्र एकांतात, शुद्ध जागी, व अति उंच, न अति खोल अशा आसना वर, निवांत पणे बसावे, भोवती वर्दळ नको, घाण नको, ठराविक वेळी द्यानाला बसावे असे नियम घातलेले असतात .गीतेतही अद्यायात याचा उपदेश केलेला आहे . पण त्याची आवश्यकता मन बाहेरच्या विषयांकडून आंत वळण्यासाठी आहे.
एकदा अंतरी गोडी लागली व विठ्ठलनामाच्या नादस्पंदनात जीवभावाचे द्वैत विरघळून जाऊ लागले कि मग अरण्य काय किंवा भर शहर वस्ती काय , सकाळ काय नि दुपार , रात्र , सायंकाळ काय , भक्ताला जेथे तो असेल तेथेच सहजगत्या विठ्ठल रखुमाई हे पुरुश्प्रकृतीरूप अद्वैतच अनुभवास येत असते . मग सर्व ठाव स्थानाचे वेगळेपण व मीपणाचे वेगळेपण ही सरते होते, ओसरते. त्याचे अस्तित्वच उरत नाही . तो भक्त म्हणजे हरीची गोडीचं मूर्तिमंत झाली असा लोकानां प्रत्यय येतो . विठ्ठल नामाच्या तराजूत मग जनसंमदॅ अथवा अरण्य , वन किंवा नगर यांचे वजन सारखेच होते. हवे - नकोच ओसरते . अशा वेळी सुख म्हणजे नेमके काय आणि दुख म्हणजे काय याची आठवण सुद्धा रहात नाही . मग भक्त सुखदुख पलीकडच्या असीम आनंदात मोठ्या कौतुकाने नाचत असतो . तो साक्षात आनंदच होऊन राहातो .
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पाहे तिकडे मायबाप । विठ्ठल आहे रखुमाई ।२।
वन पट्टण एक भाव । अवघा ठाव सरता झाला ।३।
आठव नाही सुखदुःखा । नाचे तुका कौतुकें ।४।
दिवाकर अनंत घैसास म्हणतात:
थोड्या शब्दात महान अर्थ सांगणे हे तुकारामांच्या अभंगरचनेचे लक्षणच आहे. या लहानशा अभंगात फार उच्च मनोवस्थेचे वर्णन ते साध्या शुब्दात सांगत आहेत ....ज्याची भक्ती अंतरंगातील आत्मरूप परमेश्वरावर जडते त्याला विशिष्ट जागी बसून साधना करावी लागत नाही. योगसाधनेच्या प्रारंभी मात्र एकांतात, शुद्ध जागी, व अति उंच, न अति खोल अशा आसना वर, निवांत पणे बसावे, भोवती वर्दळ नको, घाण नको, ठराविक वेळी द्यानाला बसावे असे नियम घातलेले असतात .गीतेतही अद्यायात याचा उपदेश केलेला आहे . पण त्याची आवश्यकता मन बाहेरच्या विषयांकडून आंत वळण्यासाठी आहे.
एकदा अंतरी गोडी लागली व विठ्ठलनामाच्या नादस्पंदनात जीवभावाचे द्वैत विरघळून जाऊ लागले कि मग अरण्य काय किंवा भर शहर वस्ती काय , सकाळ काय नि दुपार , रात्र , सायंकाळ काय , भक्ताला जेथे तो असेल तेथेच सहजगत्या विठ्ठल रखुमाई हे पुरुश्प्रकृतीरूप अद्वैतच अनुभवास येत असते . मग सर्व ठाव स्थानाचे वेगळेपण व मीपणाचे वेगळेपण ही सरते होते, ओसरते. त्याचे अस्तित्वच उरत नाही . तो भक्त म्हणजे हरीची गोडीचं मूर्तिमंत झाली असा लोकानां प्रत्यय येतो . विठ्ठल नामाच्या तराजूत मग जनसंमदॅ अथवा अरण्य , वन किंवा नगर यांचे वजन सारखेच होते. हवे - नकोच ओसरते . अशा वेळी सुख म्हणजे नेमके काय आणि दुख म्हणजे काय याची आठवण सुद्धा रहात नाही . मग भक्त सुखदुख पलीकडच्या असीम आनंदात मोठ्या कौतुकाने नाचत असतो . तो साक्षात आनंदच होऊन राहातो .
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
WHO SPEAKS FOR EARTH?
As I flip the pages of my diary I come across the quotation of Saint Gnyaneshwar “Hey Vishwachi mazhe ghar.” “The universe is my abode.”
Another quote of a famous scientist an American astronomer ,an astrophysicist,an astrochemist.. Carl Edward Sagan… “ Something in us recognizes the Cosmos as home. We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.”
The saints quest of the universe is within the body while the the quest of the scientist is outside . The paths to achieve the goal are different. The above quotation of Carl Sagan is from his book Cosmos,
which attracted my attention. I hurriedly devoured the chapter, “who speaks for earth?” Lets see what they(these modern Rishis) have to say about Universe and our planet earth.
The earth when viewed from space looks a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
There are worlds on which life has never risen. There are worlds that have been charred and ruined by cosmic catastrophes. We are fortunate, our Earth seems to be the only abode for life!
Suppose, in this universe of billions and billions of stars the solar system may have planets like earth & with proper chemistry – life may be possible there but how lonely and incomprehensible. The galaxies of stars encompasses and swallows them up like an atom so vastly greater is it in comparison. And yet this frail and fragile atom of life as Pascal said, “the entire universe need not arm itself to crush is able to comprehend the blind and uncomprehending hostility of the universe that around that knows not what it is doing. This awesome hostility of the universe may frighten it but even a frightened being conscious of its own peril is greater than the entire caravan of bright blind galaxies of stars that unaware of its own majesty and magnificence hurry along the intergalactic wastes without knowing why they hurry whence and whither they hurry and cannot even ask for….”
Another and another cup to drown
The Memory of this Impertinence! With the recent Technological development we are able to view these caravan of bright blind galaxies. The Hubble Telescope(NASA) is sending photographs and information which we cannot imagine . SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) formulated by Carl Sagan have contributed to a large share in recent Discovery.
Due to the global nuclear Arms race our earth is in real danger. Our human race has become an endangered species. With the accumulation of arms, the more and high sophisticated armaments the powerful is the Nation is the concept of the leaders. . We know who speaks for the nations. Bur who speaks for the human species . Who speaks for the Earth?
Another British scientist James Lovelock is concerned about the threat of global warming from the greenhouse effect. The damage has already been done no amount of tree plantation or curbing the greenhouse gases will save our earth.
The only solution is the use of Nuclear Power. He pronounced, that only nuclear power can now halt global warming!
To save the Earth, global awareness is required. Each one of us have to contribute in whatever small manner we can for eg, saving energy ,saving petrol,saving money, tree plantation rearing animals living simple life. No extravaganza or wastage. No leadership is required for this .Each individual is a leader of this movement. The welfare of our civilization and our species is in our own hands. If we do not speak for earth who will? If we are not committed for our survival who will be?
My above article was published in The Hitavada dt.27/5/2010
Prajakta Dighe
Another quote of a famous scientist an American astronomer ,an astrophysicist,an astrochemist.. Carl Edward Sagan… “ Something in us recognizes the Cosmos as home. We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.”
The saints quest of the universe is within the body while the the quest of the scientist is outside . The paths to achieve the goal are different. The above quotation of Carl Sagan is from his book Cosmos,
which attracted my attention. I hurriedly devoured the chapter, “who speaks for earth?” Lets see what they(these modern Rishis) have to say about Universe and our planet earth.
The earth when viewed from space looks a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
There are worlds on which life has never risen. There are worlds that have been charred and ruined by cosmic catastrophes. We are fortunate, our Earth seems to be the only abode for life!
Suppose, in this universe of billions and billions of stars the solar system may have planets like earth & with proper chemistry – life may be possible there but how lonely and incomprehensible. The galaxies of stars encompasses and swallows them up like an atom so vastly greater is it in comparison. And yet this frail and fragile atom of life as Pascal said, “the entire universe need not arm itself to crush is able to comprehend the blind and uncomprehending hostility of the universe that around that knows not what it is doing. This awesome hostility of the universe may frighten it but even a frightened being conscious of its own peril is greater than the entire caravan of bright blind galaxies of stars that unaware of its own majesty and magnificence hurry along the intergalactic wastes without knowing why they hurry whence and whither they hurry and cannot even ask for….”
Another and another cup to drown
The Memory of this Impertinence! With the recent Technological development we are able to view these caravan of bright blind galaxies. The Hubble Telescope(NASA) is sending photographs and information which we cannot imagine . SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) formulated by Carl Sagan have contributed to a large share in recent Discovery.
Due to the global nuclear Arms race our earth is in real danger. Our human race has become an endangered species. With the accumulation of arms, the more and high sophisticated armaments the powerful is the Nation is the concept of the leaders. . We know who speaks for the nations. Bur who speaks for the human species . Who speaks for the Earth?
Another British scientist James Lovelock is concerned about the threat of global warming from the greenhouse effect. The damage has already been done no amount of tree plantation or curbing the greenhouse gases will save our earth.
The only solution is the use of Nuclear Power. He pronounced, that only nuclear power can now halt global warming!
To save the Earth, global awareness is required. Each one of us have to contribute in whatever small manner we can for eg, saving energy ,saving petrol,saving money, tree plantation rearing animals living simple life. No extravaganza or wastage. No leadership is required for this .Each individual is a leader of this movement. The welfare of our civilization and our species is in our own hands. If we do not speak for earth who will? If we are not committed for our survival who will be?
My above article was published in The Hitavada dt.27/5/2010
Prajakta Dighe
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Gudipadwa & Ramnavratri
New Year begins with Gudipadwa . Its Chaitra shukla pratipada . I woke up early,took bath and dashed out towards the Lord Hanuman Temple down the Hill. I saw the rising Sun . The crimson and soothing. Chanted the Gayetri Mantra. Men and women flocked the temple. With renewed fervor prayed to the Almighty.
Every day, i make it a point to take my lords darshan and then climb up the hill. We reside on the hill top area. Its peaceful and less crowded . With the padwa, beings the Ramnavratri too. On the ninth day of chaitra Shukla navmi ,Lord Ram was born. We read Ramayan all these nine days and celebrate the ninth day with gusto.
I have invited few family friends to relish prasad . The nine days of chanting lords name ,lighting akhand jyot(lamp) reciting shloks Ramraksha etc. and path . The imbibing the religious thoughts from the epic Ramayan . Remembering the sages Valmiki and Tulsidas. Valmiki , was the first poet to tell the story of Shri Rama,in his 'Ramayana'. Later, Tulsidas composed Rama-charita-manas. He was a great vedic scholar philosoper. Devotee Hanuman helped him to attain darshan of Prabhu Shri Ram . Tulsidas declared: 'Bhakti is the only way leading to God's Grace.' People in North India recite his verses,which are sweet couplets in beautiful rhyme. These sanskars we got from our parents are very nicely nurtured.
Its the beginning of the Chaitra month , the ladies celebrate haldi kumkum and distribute sweets and prepare snacks from newly harvested gram pulse, the new season of raw mangoes (kairi) is in abundance in the market. Preparing sharbat from the raw mangoes (sharbat/ called panha) is savoured in homes by all young and old. It acts as cooling agent .
Its the advent of summers. The Neem tree is blooming . Its fragrance beats the costliest scent in the world. I walk the path, both the pathways are surrounded with houses . The blooming colorful bougainvilleas catches my eye. The much awaited mogra unveils its grandeur. The perfect time the Lord is born. Lord Vishnu is worshipped in his human incarnation as Rama, the divine ruler of Ayodhya.....
Its the ninth day(Navmi) i hurriedly come home from my morning walk . Prepare breakfast and cook prasad . Then gods(images) are beautifully garlanded and sprayed with gulabjal. The whole atmosphere is charged. I and my family & my neighbour sing praise for our beloved Lord Rama. We sing and blow conch after the arti.
I distribute prasads to everyone. In the afternoon the delicious meals is served to the invited guests. 'Atithi dev bhava.' Then the family members maids and servants too eat .
In the evening ours friends and relatives too visit each other. The doors are opened to all. We do not have to take appointment to meet on such occasion. Huge chariot processions(Rathyatra) of Shri Ram Sita Laxman Bharat and devotee Hanuman are taken out.. Scenes depicting from Ramayan are skilfully decorated. People get mesmerised and transferred to the epic age. Its a good message for starting and wishing each other on the beginning of our New Year.
Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year!
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