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Ryan Brown Guardians

Horror
English
89860 Words
Ages 16 and up
81
0

This chronicle features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in South Florida in the year 2000. Eboni and Christine Brown are sisters that are bonded by blood and magic. In the underworld, they’re known as Guardians. They are feared and revered but possessing great power can also make them targets. A mysterious woman arrives in town with her gang of assassins to feast on human hearts, but her plans are more ambitious than just making everyone a snack. She wanted to convert every man, woman and child into her loyal subjects. The feral new threat was just one in many that threatened their daily lives. In addition, lately, factions have been making a play at bringing forth the End Days. Bossman owned Club Rodeo and was the overseer of the Rodeo Academy. A secret society put in place centuries ago by an evil wizard bent on destroying civilization. The regimen of duties was to destroy any semblance of humanity left within any pledge’s heart. The academy consisted of several hundred acolytes from around the South Florida region who were recruited as dope boys, transporters, and lookouts—but other more promising recruits were offered more life changing opportunities. Michael Walker was born and raised in O-Town where life as shorty should not have been so tough. Life was hard and chances of becoming successful were slim to none; he spent most of adolescence in Foster homes or on the streets. A speech impediment and being poor left him mocked and ridiculed. He often times wished for a better life, when not wishing to end his own. His wishes came true when he met Bossman. The impending apocalypse was one in a laundry list of events that were over the horizon. Graduation also loomed in the immediate future. Eboni had plans to attend college in the fall, as well as some of her friends, but with agents of evil ramping up their efforts against the struggle, she may have to postpone her academic career. [more]

Keywords: Guardians, Chronicles, Fiction, Slayer, New York, South Florida, Key West, Donald Keith, Graduation, Bossman

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Edwin L. Arnold Gulliver of Mars

Science Fiction
English
70397 Words
Ages 12 and up
165
2

Gullivar Jones is a good soldier, there is no question of that. He is driven to the ends of the Red Planet to find his love. But he does not bore the reader with constant reminders of what a good soldier he is. On the contrary, with the novel being written in the style of a memoirs, Jones is almost too humble about himself and the credibility of his story. The defining characteristic of the Martian civilization is that they are such an ancient, lethargic race that marriages are decided by public draw and assented to by an attitude just above apathy. Jones is an oddity not merely because of his strange dress and manner, but because of his passion for the princess. Contagious, it spreads to her and she is willing to risk her own life to provide Jones a means of identifying her ballot in the jar. Just when it seems his goal of bedding his mistress is reached, she is snatched away by the invading barbarians from afar. Furious, Jones tries to frenzy an army to no avail. The men of Mars are too cowardly, comfortable and indifferent. The only one who isn't is the prince, who sold off the princess out of jealously, the opposite of Jones' wholesome and manly red blood. Making his way by land and sea, Jones tours the Martian environs and befriends its people. Once or twice he even catches himself feeling more sympathy for the brutish, hairy barbarians than for the weak and waifish native peoples of his princess. Still he presses onwards to win her back to her people and his breast. Nevermind, of course, that he does have a girl back home that he was engaged to before the magic carpet spirited him away. She does come to mind occasionally whenever he fears that he will meet his end on this faraway world. He wonders what has become of her and what she must be feeling at this moment, but the wondering passes when he concentrates again on his quest to find his girl in this port. [more]

Keywords: gulliver of mars, edwin arnold, classic science fiction, science fantasy, historical romance, martian civilization

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Dr. Elizabeth Markel Win the Dine: Part 1

Sure Receipes to Conquer Your Sweetheart

Cooking
English
5147 Words
Ages 10 and up
28
0

Cooking is an art. It can not only satisfy the hunger but also create a magic in relationship, build it, renew it and bring a faith in it. We intend for a book that will give its readers in a nutshell a very great variety of dishes that will make the cook surely dearer to his or her sweetheart. A few quotes has been taken to prove the importance of cooking in our life. please go through the book and cook as you please following the advises and get a warm hug and a kiss for every dish. So, go ahead and enjoy! “It’s not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it’s about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then you’ll be a great cook.” – Thomas Keller “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” – WC Fields “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” – Harriet Van Horne “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf “I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.” – Madam Benoit “Cheese–milk’s leap towards immortality.” – Clifton Fadiman “The way you make an omelet reveals your character.” –Anthony Bourdin “Great food is like great sex. The more you have, the more you want.” – Gael Greene “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.” – Sophia Loren “Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian, wine and tarragon make it French, sour cream makes it Russian, lemon and cinnamon make it Greek, soy sauce makes it Chinese, garlic makes it good.” – Alice May Brock “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin “Cooking is the art of adjustment.” – Jacques Pepin “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw “Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” – Micheal Pollan “Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.” – Andre Simon “Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.” – Russian proverb “Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.” – Don Kardong “All sorrows are less with bread.” – Don Quixote “I can’t stand people that do not take food seriously.” – Oscar Wilde “The secret of good seafood stuffing is in starting with cubes of stale bread, rather than breadcrumbs.” – Anonymous “Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.” – Jeff Smith “Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.” – Marcel Boulestin “Cuisine has become too complicated — this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.” – Alain Ducasse “Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter and in wine.” – Polish Proverb “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.” – Julia Child “Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.” – Elizabeth Robbins Pennell “When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.” – Laiko Bahrs “The greatest dishes are very simple.” – Auguste Escoffier ”Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” – Federico Fellini “Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.” – James Patterson “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” – David Mame”Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.” – Jo Brand ”The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.” – Dione Lucas “Cooking is an observation-based process that you can’t do if you’re so completely focused on a recipe.” – Alton Brown [more]

Keywords: cooking, receipes, popular, world over, win

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Brent Westbrook Email Marketing, List Building, Traffic and Sales Generation Director

Business & Economics
English
5376 Words
Ages 16 and up
469
0

For about 4 years my websites had been featured high up among Google’s search results – for a lot of highly competitive keywords. To achieve this feat, I had to put in the hours … thinking back, forget hours, it was more like weeks and months of hard work and effort. The positive was that business was doing well … I was getting a decent amount of traffic, building a list and generating sales. Then out of the blue, Google attacked. First they closed down my Adwords account. Then they did what they called their ‘Panda’ update of their algorithm. In an instant, all my sites disappeared from Google … all that hard SEO work, down the pan. They even closed down my 7 year old blog (I’d made a school boy error in using the Blogger platform which of course Google owned), a blog that was getting on average 950 visits per day. To say I was ‘ticked off’ is an understatement. In fact, I was very tempted to just ‘throw my toys out of the pram’ pack it all in! And, it wasn’t just me who was greatly affected; thousands of marketers saw the same thing happen to their sites… with some poor souls literally losing everything. To see if there was any hope for my business, I started ‘lurking’ around the Internet Marketing forums to see how others were coping. Nothing I tried really seemed to replace the traffic that Google brought me. Although, I was interested in a method that a fellow Google ‘Panda’ victim was using. And so gave it a try. Results were patchy at first, but at least I could see the potential … Gradually, I tweeked the method, tested different things, changed things about and results started to improve. I stuck with it. And now it’s the ONLY traffic driving method I seriously use. How To Drive A Ton Of Targeted Traffic To Your Webpage, Squeeze Page Or Blog, Build A Huge List And Generate A Flood Of Orders The Stuff You’ll Need To Make The Traffic And List Building Magic Happen How To Build A Squeeze Page That Beats The ‘Pants’ Off Those Pretty Designer Squeeze Pages … And Convert At 40%-50% Your Supa-Dupa Free Product To Offer People In Exchange For Opting Into Where To Get Highly Targeted Traffic Rushing To Your Squeeze page, Opting Into Your List And Buying Your Upsells What To Use To Test And Track EVERYTHING To Ensure This Whole Process Builds You A Huge List And Generates Sales. All For FREE! How To Set Up Your Autoresponder Upsell Prices Another Fantastic Source For Driving Traffic To Your Website, Squeeze Page Or Blog Here’s How To Get Traffic From A Source That Very Few Marketers Use … But Adds 20 Or So Names To My List Per Day [more]

Keywords: email marketing, traffic building, website traffic, blog traffic, sales generation, sell online, sell ebooks

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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful World of OZ Complete (Illustrated)

Fairy Tale
English
625398 Words
Ages 6 and up
259
0

1 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, get swept into the Land of Oz by a cyclone. She meets a living Scarecrow, a man made entirely of tin, and a Cowardly Lion while trying to get to the Emerald City to see the great Wizard. Also reprinted by various publishers under the names The New Wizard of Oz and The Wizard of Oz with occasional minor changes in the text. It was originally written as a one-shot book. 2 The Marvelous Land of Oz 1904 A little boy, Tip, escapes from his evil guardian, the witch Mombi, with the help of a walking wooden figure with a jack-o'-lantern head named Jack Pumpkinhead (brought to life with the magic Powder of Life Tip stole from Mombi), as well as a living Sawhorse (created from the same powder). Tip ends up on an adventure with the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman to help Scarecrow to recapture his throne from General Jinjur's army of girls. 3 Ozma of Oz 1907 While traveling to Australia with her Uncle Henry, Dorothy is swept overboard with a hen named Billina. They land in Ev, a country across the desert from Oz, and, together with new-found mechanical friend Tik-Tok, they must save Ev's royal family from the evil Nome King. With Princess Ozma's help, they finally return to Oz. 4 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz 1908 On her way back from Australia, Dorothy visits her cousin, Zeb, in California. They are soon swallowed up by an earthquake, along with Zeb's horse Jim and Dorothy's cat Eureka. The group soon meets up with the Wizard and all travel underground back to Oz. 5 The Road to Oz 1909 Dorothy meets the Shaggy Man, and while trying to find the road to Butterfield, they get lost on an enchanted road. As they travel they meet the rainbow's daughter, Polychrome, and a little boy, Button-Bright. They have all sorts of strange adventures on the way to Oz. 6 The Emerald City of Oz 1910 Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em come to live in Oz permanently. While they tour through the Quadling Country, the Nome King is tunneling beneath the desert to invade Oz. This was originally intended to be the last book in the series. 7 The Patchwork Girl of Oz 1913 A Munchkin boy named Ojo must find a cure to free his Uncle Nunkie from a magical spell that has turned him into a statue. With the help of Scraps, an anthropomorphic patchwork doll, Ojo journeys through Oz to save his uncle. 8 Tik-Tok of Oz 1914 Betsy Bobbin, a girl from Oklahoma, is shipwrecked with her mule, Hank, in the Rose Kingdom of Oz. She meets the Shaggy Man there and the two try to rescue the Shaggy Man's brother from the Nome King. This book is partly based upon Baum's stage musical, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, which was in turn based on Ozma of Oz. 9 The Scarecrow of Oz 1915 Cap'n Bill and Trot journey to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, the former ruler of Oz, overthrow the villainous King Krewl of Jinxland. Cap'n Bill and Trot had previously appeared in two other novels by Baum, The Sea Fairies and Sky Island [more]

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Santosh Jha Grammar of Life, Poetry of Living

Psychology
English
41671 Words
Ages 16 and up
108
0

If you feel, honesty is musical, simplicity is sweet, reality is multidimensional and life-living is experiences optimization process; this eBook is for you. However, it is only half a book; remaining half shall happen after you shape up its emergence. Melody, rhythm, verve emerge, as you willfully orchestrate them. Magic awaits you in 2022; beyond. Grammar and poetry have been laid out. Step in. Exhausted, bitter; probably a bit down, after prolonged stretch of chaos and gloom! You are looking for novel, alternative life-living experiences, choices! The current madness is deep; remedial wisdom is complex and clarity of insight mired in mist of fake realities. This eBook is a process of simplifying solutions in melodious, lovable ways, with a magical togetherness, never engineered before. The eBook talks about complex life-living issues, with an aim to create novel and alternative ways to optimize beauty, bliss, brilliance and buoyancy in times of chaos and gloom. The knowledge, which shall create pathways to potentials, is also very complicated and huge. But, they have been simplified, with daily life examples. You have option to seek content suitable to your specific needs. Change is inevitable. However, often; wrong and undesirable changes happen, not because of lack of information but by partial, fake and half-baked information. In this eBook, we talk about life-living, novel and alternative changes, based on objective, holistic and scientifically updated information. We talk about how and why there is express need to reorient the populist and culturally dominated ideas and idealism of success, richness, relationship, intimacy and many other life-living ‘realities’. Special care has been taken to simplify complex ideas and processes, with examples from life-living experiences. The eBook is unique in the sense that it extends you the choice to personalize it by ensuring, what content you want to have, suiting your needs and personal fittingness. Everything is Information and all constituents and parts, forming this infinite plexus and system of Information, including humans, have only one identity – We are Fields, Landscapes, Information; within the colossal reality of infinite cosmos. This awareness is maturity. The practice of this reality is actually being alive. Only alive can understand grammar of life and poetry of living. Our consciousness has the potential to show us the realities of the cosmos and even beyond. We only kill its true potentials by restricting information to it only from a very small and localized milieu. Knowledge and its internalization open up and expand the milieus and it aligns us with the vastness of Information in the wider landscape of the cosmos. Larger and wider the Information landscape, better and greater is the potential of consciousness to create realities of novel and alternative experiences to us. This is the Grammar of Life. We shall elaborate all aspects of this grammar in this eBook. The Poetry of Living involves this very critical but exclusively personal ingredient of Awareness, its internalization and holistic usage to process out integration and assimilation of myriads of elements (information) in internal and external milieus. Many people have the knowledge of Grammar but very few can create Poetry. This happens as they are good at ingredients but not as good and successful at processes. We talk about these processes here in details, with examples and daily-life experiences to facilitate understanding. At the very outset, we need to talk about ‘Reality’ of ‘Success’ and ‘Richness’. The wise of humanity tells us that true success and richness of life-living is not in money, power, fame and consumption. It is in quantitative and qualitative abundance of probabilistic experiences of myriad shades and hues of Realities. These are complex ideas but this eBook has made it simple and easy. I humbly assure; this eBook shall make you truly rich and successful. Thanks. [more]

Keywords: Blissfulness, Richness, Experiences, Reality, Life-Living, Choices, Novelty

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Santosh Jha Journey Into Intentionality Of A Woman

Psychology
English
42496 Words
Ages 16 and up
86
0

Beyond biology, morphology; epistemology of form, firmament; ontology of typology; there is a landscape, of probabilities of self; a novel and alternative intentionality. Is that you? There are dimensionalities, on the other side of populism of feminine frontiers and individuality of womanhood. Step in to probe the pandemic of pathologies of perceptions in scammed cultures. Say hello to a new you. Labeling, objectification, insinuations of inferiority and subjugation; as a woman, you faced them all. You’ve been made to believe ‘realities’ about your personhood, against your discretion. You felt conflicted, consternated, even violated handling ‘dualism’ of your womanhood? Dump them; journey your true realities, potentials, as a woman, human with 21st century Science of Self & Intentionality. Since the inception of civilization, humanity has strived to unravel the mysteries of Self or ‘I’ but their journey could not be fruitful as only 21st century modern science has now deciphered the deep and complex mechanism-processes of Intentionality. For a woman; this journey into her true and real Intentionality is the core-critical knowledge she must have as since ages; she has been told and made to accept her own Self and Intentionality, explained and imposed on her, without her own personal and subjective experiences and knowledge. It is almost like you accepting your own face and persona, which a distorted and scammed mirror shows you. Objective, logical and singularly explainable science of Reality, especially the human realities have shown the doors to all hypocritical and stupid perceptional beliefs about almost every aspect of life-living, which humanity has held true since ages. Contemporary scientific knowledge of realities tell us that the Intentionality of your Self or ‘I’; as it stands in perpetuity of interactional loop with that of all Others; may not always be restricted and smothered to this Form-Finality of populist and culturally benchmarked Gender identities and realities, which are assigned to forms. The Reality is too colossal and its causalities are too massively complex to enslave it to and chain it with peripheral element of male-female situation. The Consciousness, cognition, causalities and the Intentionality, which pervades them, are too multidimensional to be restricted to populist gender-validities. This ‘I’ is a huge landscape. The consciousness, this feel and finality of ‘Me’, the subjective self, is a universe in itself. Why? Simply because ‘I’ and Consciousness is probabilistic! The Intentionality is probabilistic. The morphology, the body-mind causalities, the form-finality are only a miniscule aspect of the vastly stretched reality of ‘I’. They are only a ‘context’ and ‘specificity’ for certain causalities and there are infinite contexts for expansive realities. The experiences, feelings, perceptions, purposes, the will, expressions, learning et al are massive landscapes, all constantly and endlessly evolving within ‘I’ in entire lifetime. These landscapes of ‘I’ are interacting with infinite causalities and gender morphology is only a small ‘context’ of these massive interactions. Modern science has added magic into the process of understanding the Self or ‘I’ and its Intentionality. The Intentionality now has scientific basis. Not only human mechanisms and processes; rather, everything about Reality, is now available for completely novel, deeper and holistic understanding and internalization. Many Walls, between You and Me, which hindered and vitiated mutual understanding, now stands crumbled, thanks to the objective knowledge contemporary science has extended to us. ‘I’ can now journey better and deeper into the landscape of ‘your’ Consciousness, as pathways are clearer; broader. I can now journey into your Intentionality, which even ‘You’ may not have ever thought is You and inside You. Knowledge is the cure of all pathologies. Enter the landscape of scientific knowledge, wellness and true empowerment. [more]

Keywords: Womanhood, Feminism, Dimorphism, Intentionality, Individuality, Consciousness, Gender Labeling, Cultural Scams, Populist Pathologies, Criminality Of Mind

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Mohammad Amin Sheikho, A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani Stories of the Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho - Part One

His Life, His Deeds, His Way to Al’lah

Biography & Autobiography
English
23887 Words
Ages 8 and up
290
0

Mohammad Amin Sheikho Birth: 1890 A.D. Death: 1964 A.D. Precept: Interpretation of the Holy Qur’an Early Years Scholar Sheikho was born in al-Ward district in Sarouja Quarter, one of the historical districts of Damascus, in Syria which was called mini-Istanbul during the period of the Ottoman rule. He was raised in an Arab style house situated opposite the famous public al-Ward Bathhouse. This house stands there to the present day. Scholar Sheikho was still young when his father, the merchant Ismael Sheikho, departed this world. Mohammad Saleem, the only and elder brother of Mohammad Amin, was assigned as a director of the Military School during the Ottoman rule. Education At the age of twelve the boy who was to become the great scholar was enrolled at al-Rashidiya School, he then went on to complete his studies in Amber, the Royal Ottoman Faculty in Damascus. He received many certificates of praise and commendation during the Ottoman rule and then under the reign of King Faisal in Syria. There are many copies of these certificates still preserved in trustworthy hands. One of His Pupils Professor A. K. John, alias al-Dayrani is the best known and most distinguished among the pupils of Scholar Sheikho. He received a certificate of General Education (a Syrian certificate which included the study of nine different sciences). Prof. al-Dayrani collected and verified more than fifty books which were dictated by Scholar Sheikho and written on his behalf. Therefore his name is always mentioned in association with the name of Mohammad Amin Sheikho. A Glimpse of his distinguished thoughts and views He disclosed the true meaning of the letters (acronyms) that are reported at the beginning of the Fortresses of the Holy Qur’an, which was not understood by previous Muslim scholars and said that, “Al’lah knows best His Purpose behind them.” He disproved the stories which are ascribed wrongly to the noble Envoy Mohammad (cpth), such as the story of his being affected by the action of magic, the story of cutting his noble chest (cpth), and all that would put him (cpth) in the wrong. He elucidated that the noble Prophets are impeccable in all of their words, actions and deeds. - He was the first in the world to reveal the source of fresh spring and river water, which is the ice of the North and South Poles. - He gave an exact definition of the ‘human spirit’ and clarified the difference between that and the ‘soul’. - He differentiated between the ‘mind’ and ‘thought’ - He talked about al-Azal world, the very beginning of creation in the world of immaterial spirits, and demonstrated the Godly Justice in that world and the reason for the coming of mankind to this world. - He elucidated the wisdom in turning towards al-ka’ba when communicating with God (praying); he explained the reason for fasting and the meaning of the Night of al-Qadr (Evaluation) and how to attain it. - He interpreted from the noble Qur’an how to derive the proportion of Zakat (almsgiving). [more]

Keywords: amin, islamic culture and history, islamic morals, islamic scholars, islamic stories for children, mohammad, sheikho

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Mohammad Amin Sheikho , A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani Stories of the Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho - Part Two

His Life, His Deeds, His Way to Al'lah

Biography & Autobiography
English
28748 Words
Ages 8 and up
278
0

Mohammad Amin Sheikho. Birth: 1890 A.D. Death: 1964 A.D. Precept: Interpretation of the Holy Qur’an. Early Years Scholar Sheikho was born in al-Ward district in Sarouja Quarter, one of the historical districts of Damascus, in Syria which was called mini-Istanbul during the period of the Ottoman rule. He was raised in an Arab style house situated opposite the famous public al-Ward Bathhouse. This house stands there to the present day. Scholar Sheikho was still young when his father, the merchant Ismael Sheikho, departed this world. Mohammad Saleem, the only and elder brother of Mohammad Amin, was assigned as a director of the Military School during the Ottoman rule. Education At the age of twelve the boy who was to become the great scholar was enrolled at al-Rashidiya School, he then went on to complete his studies in Amber, the Royal Ottoman Faculty in Damascus. He received many certificates of praise and commendation during the Ottoman rule and then under the reign of King Faisal in Syria. There are many copies of these certificates still preserved in trustworthy hands. One of His Pupils Professor A. K. John, alias al-Dayrani is the best known and most distinguished among the pupils of Scholar Sheikho. He received a certificate of General Education (a Syrian certificate which included the study of nine different sciences). Prof. al-Dayrani collected and verified more than fifty books which were dictated by Scholar Sheikho and written on his behalf. Therefore his name is always mentioned in association with the name of Mohammad Amin Sheikho. A Glimpse of his distinguished thoughts and views He disclosed the true meaning of the letters (acronyms) that are reported at the beginning of the Fortresses of the Holy Qur’an, which was not understood by previous Muslim scholars and said that, “Al’lah knows best His Purpose behind them.” He disproved the stories which are ascribed wrongly to the noble Envoy Mohammad (cpth), such as the story of his being affected by the action of magic, the story of cutting his noble chest (cpth), and all that would put him (cpth) in the wrong. He elucidated that the noble Prophets are impeccable in all of their words, actions and deeds. - He was the first in the world to reveal the source of fresh spring and river water, which is the ice of the North and South Poles. - He gave an exact definition of the ‘human spirit’ and clarified the difference between that and the ‘soul’. - He differentiated between the ‘mind’ and ‘thought’ - He talked about al-Azal world, the very beginning of creation in the world of immaterial spirits, and demonstrated the Godly Justice in that world and the reason for the coming of mankind to this world. - He elucidated the wisdom in turning towards al-ka’ba when communicating with God (praying); he explained the reason for fasting and the meaning of the Night of al-Qadr (Evaluation) and how to attain it. - He interpreted from the noble Qur’an how to derive the proportion of Zakat (almsgiving). [more]

Keywords: amin, islamic culture and history, islamic morals, islamic scholars, islamic stories for children, mohammad, sheikho

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BS Murthy Sundara Kãnda: Hanuman's Odyssey

Religion
English
40926 Words
Ages 16 and up
693
3

WhileMahabharata's Bhagvad-Gita is taken as a philosophical guide, Ramayana's Sundara Kãnda is sought for spiritual solace; many believe that reading Sundara Kãnda or hearing it recited would remove all hurdles and usher in good tidings! Miracles apart, it's in the nature of Sundara Kãnda to inculcate fortitude and generate hope in man for it’s a depiction of how Hanuman goes about his errand against all odds. Besides, it portrays how Seetha, on the verge of self-immolation, overcomes despair to see life in a new light? With rhythm of its verse and the flow of the narrative this sloka to sloka transcreation of the canto beautiful of Valmiki's adi kavya - the foremost poetical composition in the world, Hanuman's Odyssey that paves the way for Rama to rescue his kidnapped wife is bound to charm the readers and listeners alike. Interestingly, as the following verse illustrates, it was the forerunner of the magic realism of our times – “Gripped she then him by shadow / Cast which Hanuman coast to coast, Recalled he in dismay then / What Sugreev said at outset / That one fiend had aptitude / To grip its prey by mere shadow.” On a personal note, my paternal grandfather, Bulusu Thimmaiah-garu, like many in his time, was a life-long practitioner of Sundara Kãnda parayana (the epic’s daily recital in part or full), whose spirituality could have providentially guided me in this, rather an effortless, trans-creative endeavour. Cantos of the Kanda 1 - Hurdles in Skies 2 - City in Clouds 3 - Prelude to Entry 4 - Foray into Fort 5 - Life in Lanka 6 - Precincts to Beat 7 - Palace in the Plane 8 - Pushpak’s Prowess 9 - Harem at Night 10 - Women in Want 11 - Qualms of Celibate 12 - At Wits End 13 - Errand in the Bend 14 - Garden of Grief 15 - Withered Flower 16 - She is Seetha 17 - Guards all Hideous 18 - Ravan on Heat 19 - Dame in Despair 20 - Womanizer at Work 21 - Steadfast in Love 22 - Deadline to Death 23 - Guards that Pander 24 - Carrot and Stick 25 - Hapless Soul 26 - Wandering Thoughts 27 - Dream of a Nightmare 28 - On the Verge 29 - Good Tidings 30 - Hanuman’s Dilemma 31 - Rama’s Ballad 32 - Is it True? 33 - Genesis of Exile 34 - Swings in Mood 35 - Winning the Trust 36 - More of the Same 37 - Aborted Move 38 - Story to Tell 39 - Doubts to the Fore 40 - Repeats the Dose 41 - Rampage in the Park 42 - Panic in the Town 43 -Itching for Fight 44 -Takes on Prahastha’s Son 45 - Marshals in the Mire 46 - Generals in the Dumps 47 - Akshay’s Life on Line 48 - It takes Indrajit 49 - Ravan’s Darbar 50 - Cause of Loss 51 - Advice to Deliver 52- Placates the Sibling 53 - Tail on Fire 54 - Arson to Hurt 55 - What of Seetha? 56 - Havoc of a Take-off 57 - Flight sans Hassles 58 - Odyssey in a Nutshell 59 - Pep Talk to Peers 60 - Angad on Rebound 61 - Eying the Madhuvan 62 - Orgy in the Garden 63 - Sugreev’s Reading 64 - Return of the Platoon 65 - News in Brief 66 - Tears in Torrents 67 - Hanuman’s Replay 68 - Times of Hope Yuddha Kanda: War on Ravan 01- Embrace of a Gift 02- Coronation and After [more]

Keywords: Indian mythology, Ramayana, Sundara Kanda, Rama's story, Lanka, Hanuman, Sita's captivity, Sanskrit Classics, Religion, Hinduism, Hindu mythology, Sanskrit epics, Hindu epics, Indian epics, Valmiki, Rama, Sita, Ravana, epic poetry, epic verse, epic Indian verse, epic Hindu verse, verse, Indian verse, Religion and Spirituality [more][Less]

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