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Devas are related to angels there are two distinct meanings of Devas
In Hinduism and Buddhism are a lot more complex then those of the

Western world. In Sanskrit Deva means shining one.

Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society,

introduced to the West her own conception of devas. She saw them as
a type of angel. She thought they came from from previous planetary

periods. They came to earth before the elementals. They would stay

dormant until earth’s people evolved to a certain spiritual stage and

then they would help man evolve.
Certain people seemed to evolved to that point now. They have partnered

with the people at Findhorn in Scotland and Perelandra, in

Washington,DC.This partnership was discovered in the produce of

Findhorn in Scotland and Perelandra in Washington, DC.
Being a gardner myself these places have always fascinated me.
I have read extensively about the relationship between the Devas
and humans in these places. It seems that the Devas are assigned to

every living thing including the soil. In the above places they have

educated humans on planting, soil ammendments, fertilization, and

taking care of the plants there. They grew enormous vegetation in poor

soil and climate.
plant care.

I personally have called on the Devas of my little piece of land and I

have learned a great deal about growing things. The first year I was

here I planted trees that died and in certain parts of my yard I

planted and things grew well. I was puzzled but I called on the Divas

and they told me that the man who lived here before filled with compost

that had a lot of poisons in them. So I dug out certian parts of the

yard added compost that I made and sure enough things grew. I have not

had the results they had at Findhorn but I have not spent the time

talking to the Devas they did there either. I plan to start to spend

more time in my yard and with the Devas.
The Devas in my yard were quite astonished that the man who lived here

before was so destructive of nature but they have been perfectly

willing to work with me to improve the yard and to grow things. Devas

have the knowledge of all plants and the soil and any other information

you might want to know about the earth. They control all necessary

energies for growth and health for all living things.

Another thing I have learned from the Devas in my yard is how to use

the herbs I grow there to heal. I also have learned about Flower

Essences and their healing properties. As long as I am willing to spend

the time and meditate on the Devas they are willing to teach me and

their knowledge is unending.

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About the author: Judi Singleton is the publisher of An Angel On my

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The Path Is Winding:

Ever wonder why things that happen in our lives seem so cruel and undeserved? Why do these things happen to me? Why am I being punished like this? What am I doing wrong? All of us have sought answers to these questions dozens of times. Have you found the answer yet?

We all have some sort of dubious answers as to why they happen. Many are good events, and many are bad things. Maybe it’s just fate, or just coincidence. Your faith might have something to do with it. But, how could that be? God doesn’t torture us, or intentionally lead us astray. Does he?

Ten Steps To Find The Inevitable Answer:

1.Take a good look inside yourself.
2.Examine in detail how each sudden turn in the path altered your life.
3.List all of the reasons why you think that turn has unexpectedly made your life better in one way or another.
4.Make a list of all of the problems and difficulties that would have taken place if your life had not taken a turn.
5.Compare the lists you just created and discover the hidden connections.
6.Allow you mind to bring those connections into reality.
7.Find the inevitable answer.
8.Notice how unexplainably your life becomes more peaceful and fruitful.
9.Later, take a good look back and it all becomes understandable.
10.Recognize that you don’t just think it, you know it! God does walk with you!

1. Take a good look inside yourself:

We never give ourselves enough credit. You can find out what kind of person you really are. Ask yourself; are you always kind, tolerant, respectful, judgmental, feeling hate, a troublemaker, argumentative, and etc.?

Write down all the descriptive words that you believe fit you. If you lie, you lose. You do not need to go to a “shrink” to see what you are made of. Look at the list!

OK, so you fudged a little on a couple of the descriptive terms. We aren’t perfect. Sometimes we are like “this,” and sometimes we are the “opposite,” depending on the circumstances.

However, most of us are predominantly one or the other personality type as we go through life. It is really a challenge to describe yourself harshly, no holds barred! Knowing how you act and feel about things in life prepares you for the next step.

2. Examine in detail how each sudden turn in your path altered your life:

Life is never easy for anyone. You never get a free pass. Believe it or not, every event in your life, good or bad, does have a reason for happening. If you don’t believe that, then later on you might. For the time being, accept it.

Look at the circumstances that led up to what happened carefully. Where were they leading you?

Look at what happened after the issue was resolved. Then pay particular attention to what effect it had in the long run. Were you removed from a bad environment? Could you have been forced into a decision that you hated to make, and later you found peace with it? Well, you aren’t alone there.

Look critically for the positive results. They are there! Every one of these events has a positive spinout even though it doesn’t look or feel like it in the beginning.

3. List all of the reasons why you think that turn unexpectedly made your life better in one way or another:

Have you ever heard, “What you think in your mind will actually cause the future to abide by that?” It’s true. Do not think about listing all the negative things that you think was the result.

It is amazing how many positive thoughts come up, that you hadn’t ever thought about. Give yourself a break! It will blow your mind!

4. Make a list of the problems and difficulties that would have taken place if your life had not taken a turn:

Surely you know where you were headed, but were just avoiding the issue. You say, “No, I never thought about it.” Here’s the chance to drum up some negative thoughts that produce a positive result.

Hidden in the mind are all these thoughts. But when you sit down to write them out, they are uncovered, like a miracle. Try it! See what happens!

What may seem so terrible in the beginning will actually turn out to be a blessing in disguise. It may take time to see it, but eventually you will know it. Don’t trouble your soul with doubt.

It’s a free handout that comes with faith. Take the handout and make a better life for yourself. That in turn will enrich all those around you.

5. Compare the lists that you just created and discover the hidden connections:

Buried within this pile of words is a revelation. Open your mind so that you can feel it. You will see that the sudden turn in your living path has certainly thrust you into a new and powerful hold on the value of your soul and life. Sounds like a bunch of BS. Right?

If you look at the direction you might have been going, that kink in the path that happened, and where you find yourself now, there is proof of the epiphany.

6. Allow your mind to bring those connections into reality:

Just take a close look around you. What do you see that is there now, and wasn’t there before? You can, if you look hard, see that all those things that were leading you down the wrong path have changed.

The changes place you in a unique position to grab onto opportunities that would never have existed before. See it and believe it!

7. Find the inevitable answer:

You can’t fight it. Remarkable as it seems, all these things happen for a reason. The reason only becomes obvious with time. Faith in a higher power permits the vision to come into focus. Then you will know the true answer.

God walks beside you all the way through your journey. Skeptics will ponder and wander, forever. You won’t.

8. Notice how unexplainably your life becomes more peaceful and fruitful:

Wow! You do feel the peace of mind. You experience the calmness of your soul. No one can convince you to believe anything different. Trying to explain the changes and the emotions that you now feel is easy and unnecessary.

What is so exciting about it is that all of those around you see this happening, and brings them closer to you than ever before. Nothing is better than that. Agreed?

Your business starts booming, you get a promotion, you don’t seem to be in a continuous struggle anymore, or someone special comes into your life. You will see your life expanding into productiveness, compassion, desire to help others, and satisfaction. That’s what we call “caring.”

9. Later, take a good look back and it all becomes understandable:

With the maturity of age and the wisdom brought about by experience and knowledge, we are able to look back at our lives with generous regard. There is no criticism, no judgment, no punishment that you previously laid on yourself.

You did the best you could under the circumstances, and all you need to do is forgive yourself. Just say out loud, “I forgive me for all those things. God has already forgiven me.”

10. Recognize that you don’t just think it, you know it:

Sometimes we just don’t stop to think about it. The gains of happiness, love, and faith creep up on us so subtly that it just seems to be a natural occurrence. It isn’t! We were being led through life with a guiding hand. And, at the same time, following the plan set up for us at the instant we were born.

We do choose the path we want to take to get there. But, if you notice, all the paths are heading in the same general direction. Getting sidetracked here and there is just part of the life-game. Now that you know, make it count!

The author, Curtis Graham, is president of L. & C. Internet Enterprises, Inc. For over 38 years in medical practice he wrote articles, medical information products for his patients, a book on infertility, and marketing information for his practice. He has been published in Modern Physician, an elite magazine for physician executives. Retirement from medicine permits expansion of his need to help people by writing articles. Check out his passion website: http://www.CampingOnUs.com

Copyright 2005, Curtis Graham, MD, L. & C. Internet Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Through our paltry stir and strife, Glows the wished Ideal, And

longing molds in clay, what life Carves in the marble

real.–Lowell.

We often hear people spoken of as idealists. The fact is we are

all idealists to a certain extent, and upon the ideals we picture

depends our ultimate success. You must have the mental image if

you are to produce the material thing. Everything is first

created in the mind. When you control your thoughts you become a

creator. You receive divine ideas and shape them to your

individual needs. All things of this world are to you just what

you think they are. Your happiness and success depend upon your

ideals.

You are responsible for every condition you go through, either

consciously or unconsciously. The next step you take determines

the succeeding step. Remember this; it is a valuable lesson. By

concentrating on each step as you go along, you can save a lot of

waste steps and will be able to choose a straight path instead of

a roundabout road.

Concentrate Upon Your Ideals and They Will Become Material

Actualities. Through Psychic - Concentration we work out our ideals in

physical life. Your future depends upon the ideals you are

forming now. Your past ideals are determining your present.

Therefore, if you want a bright future, you must begin to prepare

for it today.

If persons could only realize that they can only injure

themselves, that when they are apparently injuring others they

are really injuring themselves, what a different world this would

be!

We say a man is as changeable as the weather. What is meant is

his ideals change. Every time you change your ideal you think

differently. You become like a rudderless boat on an ocean.

Therefore realize the importance of holding to your ideal until

it becomes a reality.

You get up in the morning determined that nothing will make you

lose your temper. This is your ideal of a person of real strength

and poise. Something takes place that upsets you completely and

you lose your temper. For the time being you forget your ideal.

If you had just thought a second of what a well-poised person

implies you would not have become angry. You lose your poise when

you forget your ideal. Each time we allow our ideals to be

shattered we also weaken our will-power. Holding to your ideals

develops will-power. Don’t forget this.

Why do so many men fail? Because they don’t hold to their ideal

until it becomes a mental habit. When they concentrate on it to

the exclusion of all other things it becomes a reality.

“I am that which I think myself to be.”

Ideals are reflected to us from the unseen spirit. The laws of

matter and spirit are not the same. One can be broken, but not

the other. To the extent that ideals are kept is your future

assured.

It was never intended that man should suffer. He has brought it

upon himself by disobeying the laws of nature. He knows them so

cannot plead ignorance. Why does he break them? Because he does

not pay attention to those ideals flashed to him from the

Infinite Spirit.

Life is but one continuous unfoldment, and you can be happy every

step of the way or miserable, as you please; it all depends upon

how we entertain those silent whisperings that come from we know

not where. We cannot hear them with mortal ear, but from the

silence they come as if they were dreams, not to you or me alone,

but to everyone. In this way the grandest thoughts come to us, to

use or abuse. So search not in treasured volumes for noble

thoughts, but within, and bright and glowing vision will come to

be realized now and hereafter.

You must give some hours to concentrated, consistent, persistent

thought. You must study yourself and your weaknesses.

No man gets over a fence by wishing himself on the other side. He

must climb.

No man gets out of the rut of dull, tiresome, monotonous life by

merely wishing himself out of the rut. He must climb.

If you are standing still, or going backward, there is something

wrong. You are the man to find out what is wrong.

Don’t think that you are neglected, or not understood, or not

appreciated.

Such thoughts are the thoughts of failure.

Think hard about the fact that men who have got what you envy got

it by working for it.

Don’t pity yourself, criticise yourself.

You know that the only thing in the world that you have got to

count upon is yourself.

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Before the emergence of Islam, the state of women was destroyed and shameful.They were treated as chattel in early Roman society. In France, they were termed as half - soul creatures responsible for destruction of society. Chinese considered them as devl’s soul. Japanese preferred to lead Braham-charia life (unmarried life). So, in this way, they deprived women of its due place. While, Arabs buried their daughters alive considering them as a sign of disgrace. It’s now crystal clear that before arrival of prophet (S.A.W), how much, she was respected.
Allah felt mercy on mankind and sent this last messenger, the holy prophet Hazrat Mohammad (S.A.W), who made it clear that:
A woman is a symbol of honor and respect if she’s your daughter or sister. She is your life partner as wife and if you are good to your family, then you are better among people. In case of mother, “Heaven lies under the feet of mother.” further, if a Muslim has two daughters, and he properly brought them up, Hazrat Mohammad (S.A.W) in Heaven. Briefly, in this way, Islam secures women’s respect and honor.
Islam, as a complete code of life and religion of nature, distributes responsibilities among men and women in finest way. All Humans are equal in the eyes of Allah, only the goodness of a person makes him superior to one another. And goodness is to obey in Islamic society, women have no place. In fact, it is propaganda and correct position is converse.
due to so _ called freedom, humanity is suffering from AIDS, Depression, suicide, destruction in family system, lack of inner peace, divorce etc.
This man _ made laws had deprived women of its honor or status. Parents are thought as burden and here deprived mother of her due place. It present women(mothers, daughters, sisters, wives) on sale. Either in the form of prostitution, or in the form of advertisement where women is presented as a tool to attract customers.
This reflect in a non _ Islamic or partially _ Islamic societies, how much they are respected.
At present, by a survey report, for every 21 minute, one women is molested. and for every 51 minute, one women is sexually harassed. Why ? I ask you why ? Surveys can do nothing except make you think. I can tell you! Humans have strayed from Islam, which is the only solution (panacea) to all problems.
Moreover, for the ease of women, earning by her is not obligatory in Islam. Instead, father, brother, husband or children are responsible to care her, as she is performing her role of daughter, sister, wife or mother respectively. so, in this way, she can lead a life easily and happily as being the queen of her family!
For Muslim women, I would like to mention that Ayahs 30 —> 31 (Surah Noor) 33 —>34, 59 (Surah Ahzab) are about pardah, which Islam teaches for the welfare of women and society as whole

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The author Shahrukh Rao is BS(SE) student in University of Karachi

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