87-Year-Old Social Worker’s Body Donated To Sola Medical CollegeAhmedabad: Death of nears and dears is generally considered a mournful occasion as the body is taken for the last journey amid tearful eyes of the relatives. However, when the body of Bhikhu Shah, 87, a resident of Shastrinagar, Naranpura, was carried out in a procession, it was not a case of mourning, but of festivity as the body reached amid music and drum beats to Sola Medical College on SG Highway on Monday morning.
Shah
became the third body donor from his family and it was his last wish
that he be taken for the donation in a festive mood and that nobody shed
tears on his death. As for him, itwas the beginning of a new life where his body would be helpful for research by budding medical professionals.
Mayur Shah, Bhikhubhai’s sonin-law, told TOI that Shah had come in contact with Farsubhai Kakkad of Satkarya Sewa Samaaj and got to know about the eye donation and body donation activities. Impressed by the concept, Shah also spread message about the activities in his relatives after which six had pledged to donate their bodies. “The first of the donors was his wife Subhadra, 87, who died in 2002. The second donor was his sister Shardaben, 75, who died in 2007. Both the bodies were donated to BJ Medical College. On Monday morning, Shah, who was suffering from old-age illness breathed his last. After completing the last rites, we contacted Farsubhai and Sola Medical College for the body donation,” said Mayur Shah. Dr H R Jadav, head, anatomy department, Sola Medical College, said that it was a memorable occasion as more than 300 students and faculty members made human chain and paid respect to the deceased when the body was brought to the campus for donation. “Right from the entrance to the morgue, Shah was given honour of a special guest as relatives paid homage to him after prayers. We laud the spirit of the man who dedicated life for social work and even continued to contribute to social growth with the gesture,” he said. Farsubhai said that his organization so far has been instrumental in getting 286 body donations that come from various medical colleges in Ahmedabad and other cities of the state. “The scenario has undergone a sea change in the past one decade as more and more people are coming to the fore for the donation after we tell them about acute shortage of bodies in government medical colleges. We’ve also mooted a proposal of a dead body stock unit with the state government so that the bodies can be used by more students across the state,” he said. A precious gift Talking about the contemporary scenario of body donation in the state, Dr Jadav said that a medical college on an average needs 15 to 20 cadavers for introducing students to human anatomy and conducting trial surgeries before applying it to the patient. “Earlier, there were three medical colleges in the city that has now increased to five. Likewise, number of medical colleges in the state has seen manifold rise. Thus, we need around 100 bodies every year. In such a scenario, the initiative taken by Shah is commendable,” he said. |
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Where is Truth....?
A man once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?"
"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage."
The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked.
"There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work.
"Where are you going to install the idol?" The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.
"If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.
The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside.
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For My Gurudev....
My Salutations to Gurudev who revealed to me that Truth, which is unfragmented, infinite, timeless divinity, and which pervades the entire universe – movable or unmovable.
My Salutations to Gurudev who opened my eyes, by applying the divine principle of self-knowledge in my eyes, which had got blinded by the cataract of ignorance.
My Salutations to Gurudev who revealed to me that which pervades everything in this world, whether animate-inanimate, or movable-immovable.
My salutations to Gurudev who revealed to me that self-effulgent divinity (the pure unconditioned consciousness) which pervades all the three worlds, with all its movable and immovable objects.
My Salutations to Gurudev who is like a sun for the blossoming up of the lotus like mantras of upanishads; and at whose lotus feet lie the beautiful flowers, symbolizing the best of jewels of vedas.
My Salutations to Gurudev who is verily the eternal consciousness, which is of the nature of peace. You transcend space (& time), the concept of zero, the primordial sound and all parts.
My Salutations to Gurudev, who is established in Knowledge and Power, who is adorned with the garland-of -Knowledge and who grants both worldly prosperity and spiritual liberation.
My Salutations to Gurudev who by imparting the Self-Knowledge, has burnt away the very bondage of actions in a whiff, which had even though taken infinite lives to accumulate.
Even by the very sipping of the charanamruta (the water with which the feet of Gurudev are washed), we get blessed by the eternal wealth (of liberating knowledge), and which dries up the endless ocean of seeking & the subsequent sorrows. My Salutations to the lotus-feet of This Gurudev.
There is no higher truth than the Guru, no higher penance than (service to) the Guru, and there is nothing higher than Realisation of the Knowledge of the truth imparted by the Guru. My salutations to such a Gurudev, who is himself that very timeless truth (and who has taken up a form to bless his disciples like me with real knowledge).
The Gurudev is the beginning of the Universe, yet he himself is without a beginning, the Guru is the highest deity, and there is none higher than the Guru. My salutations at the lotus-feet of such a Gurudev.
O Sir! You are my mother, my father, my brother, and my friend. You are the knowledge, my real wealth.
Always wishing your soft hand upon my head for your blessings
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The Socrates "Triple Filter Test".......Apply these filters in Stock market too...........
In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the greatphilosopher and said, “Do you know what I just heard about your friend?”
Hold on a minute,” Socrates replied. “Before telling me anything, I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”
“Triple filter?”
That’s right,” Socrates continued. “Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you’re going to say. That’s why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is TRUTH. “Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“No,” the man said, “actually I just heard about it and…”
All right,” said Socrates. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of GOODNESS. “Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?”
“No, on the contrary…”
“So”, Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about my friend, but you’re not certain it’s true. You may still pass the test though, because there’s one filter left: the filter of USEFULNESS. “Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?”
“No… not really…”
“Well,” concluded Socrates, “If what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor useful, why tell it to me at all?”
This is why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem. So, lets use this triple filter each time we hear loose talk about any of our near & dear ones (friends/relatives/colleagues). It will save us time and trouble.
Apply these filters of True......Good....and Useful ......in Stock Market Trading............
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Read the following interview ………and apply the same in stock market trading ………
The question was asked... What cricket teaches you? Because though you have scored 14000 plus runs...you can bowl out on the first ball too?
Sachin: First of all…. Cricket has taught me to stay on stable level… because the moment you starts to think, that you are bigger than the sport or your profession then it’s sure that you are going to bowl out on the first ball….because No one is bigger than the game or his profession; …As a young kid “the name, the fame & photographs in Daily news papers on regular basis in those days was not a normal thing for one middle class family, but neither my family nor me get carried away by these things … If I had scored a century then at the most we used to keep sweets or Pedhas in front of god,…. but after that simple celebration … the success was never discussed too much…too long… Cricket teaches you, how to deal with various situations & to find out solution in those situations…one should not get carried away by the success neither get extremely disappointed by the bad one… In the difficult situation How you react… determines your next step….suppose, If you are playing a test match … and if your team is batting first on the first day of the test match and in the first session, at lunch if the score board is 3 for 60 & if you are batting on 21 then you will have to think in this manner that if “I will stay” then end of the day, I shall be at 120-30 and my team’s score would be 270 or 280…. “Get rich slowly…..””Get Rich Step by Step…..”
This was Sachin’s first ever…. almost one hour Marathi Interview,in five parts … in front of big crowd, in his long last 21 years carrier. Hope so, that, those who are able to understand Hindi, would understand the same...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nbrvcRk5qk&feature=relmfu