Rathnashikamani
Male, 47, India
Current profession: Civil Engineer
Past professions: Civil Engineer , Unemployed
Hobbies: Answering questions , Fitness , Poetry , Reading , Yoga
Website:Wikinut
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Namaste!

I bow to the divine in you.
We are one.

I wish you eternal joy.


8-micron image of the Spiral Galaxy Messier 81
Image by: NASA



Portrait of Our Dusty Past
Image by: NASA



The Disk of an Erupting Star
Image by: NASA




Birth of an Earth-like Planet

Image by: NASA

The infinite proceeds from infinite.
Then through knowledge,
realizing the infinitude of infinite,
it remains as the Infinite alone.

~Isha Upanishad



File:Voyager 2 Neptune and Triton.jpg

Crescents of Neptune and Triton by NASA JPL via Wikimedia Commons






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I enjoy WikiAnswers
randomly answering,
tweaking the answers and categorizing.



Operation Unflag was a journey
into the minds of dissimilar views.



Learning is an experience.
Interacting with people over here is a great experience.

Please write to me at <rathnashikamani @ wikianswers . com>.

Your suggestions are welcome.
I want to improve myself
and do my best by contributing what I think I know.



I am trying to understand what life is.

'All that exists is just ONE soul' is my perception.

I practice Yoga.

Sahasrara

by Vaikunda Raja via Wikimedia


Yoga is stilling of the movement of thought
- without expression or suppression -
in the indivisible intelligence.



Image by digitalart via freedigitalphotos.net


I believe that
anything we do with dedication
in helping each other is a way of Yoga.





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Nature is inspiring poetry
.

Image by rhygin via fotopedia



In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
~William Wordsworth
(Daffodils)


photo by Nicholas_T via fotopedia


My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!

~William Wordsworth
(The Rainbow)








Carbon footprint



Image by Notnarayan (via Wikimedia)


The world is on fire

Image: Danilo Rizzuti


Let us protect this Earth


Image by Digital Dustin via flickr




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I am spiritual.



"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
~ Teilhard de Chardin




I have no form nor do I have any limitations.
I am always existent in all animate and inanimate objects.
Be wherever you like;
do whatever you choose;
remember this well that all what you do is known to me.
~Sai Baba


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Who Am I ? Enquiry




Your own Self-Realization
is the greatest service you can render the world.
~Ramana Maharshi






'That inner Self, as the primeval Spirit,
Eternal, ever effulgent, full and infinite Bliss,
Single, indivisible, whole and living,
Shines in everyone as the witnessing awareness.
That self in its splendour, shining in the cavity of the heart
This self is neither born nor dies,
Neither grows nor decays,
Nor does it suffer any change.
When a pot is broken, the space within it is not,
And similarly, when the body dies the Self in it remains eternal.
~Ramana Maharshi


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The Life Divine




When darkness deepens strangling the earth's breast
And man's corporeal mind is the only Lamp
As a thief's in the night shall be the covert tread
Of one who steps unseen into his house.
A Voice ill-heard shall speak, the soul obey,
A power into mind's inner chamber steal,
A charm and sweetness open life's closed doors
And beauty conquer the resisting world,
The truth-light capture Nature by surprise,
A stealth of God compel the heart to bliss
And earth grow unexpectedly divine.
In Matter shall be lit the spirit's glow,
In body and body kindled the sacred birth;…
A few shall see what none yet understands;
~Sri Aurobindo(The Life Divine)


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Freedom and love




"Freedom and love go together.
Love is not a reaction.
If I love you because you love me,
that is mere trade,
a thing to be bought in the market;
it is not love.
To love is not to ask anything in return,
not even to feel
that you are giving something-
and it is only such love
that can know freedom."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti





Freedom from the desire for an answer
is essential to the understanding of a problem.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti





A tribute

to

The incomparable Mother



Mother Teresa is the inspiration that transformed lives.
She changed the way we think.

She showed that every one is worth living a happy life.
She was simple but divine.

She devoted her life to the society
in the service of humanity.


She is an epitome of spirituality.



From her life,
I realize that to show love to god is by seeing oneself in others.
She served the god in all.



Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is costly, care for it.
Life is wealth, keep it.
Life is love, enjoy it.
Life is mystery, know it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

~Mother Teresa





Anyway

"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway."
~Mother Teresa





It is not how much we do,
but how much love
we put in the doing.
It is not ho much we give,
but how much love
we put in the giving.
~Mother Teresa






Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person
.
~Mother Teresa





"So let us be one heart,
full of love in the heart of God

and so share the joy of loving
by sharing, helping, loving
and serving each other."
~Mother Teresa





Every human being comes
from the hand of God,
and we all know something of God's love for us.
Whatever our religion,
we know that if we really want to love,
we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
~Mother Teresa




God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Listening is the beginning of prayer.
~Mother Teresa




Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.
~Mother Teresa



If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
~Mother Teresa




Everytime
you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person,
a beautiful thing.
~Mother Teresa



The fruit of faith is love,
and the fruit of love is service.
~Mother Teresa





Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
~Mother Teresa





Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
~Mother Teresa





Let us always meet each other with smile,
for the smile is the beginning of love.
~Mother Teresa





Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
~Mother Teresa




Intense love does not measure,
it just gives.
~Mother Teresa





If you start judging people,
you will have no time to love them.
~Mother Teresa







The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
~Mother Teresa





My interpretation of the poem "LIFE"




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The best way




The best way to find yourself is
to lose yourself in the service of others.
~Mahatma Gandhi











If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.

If they turn away, and desert you when crossing the wilderness,
O thou unlucky one,
trample the thorns under thy tread,
and along the blood-lined track travel alone.

If they do not hold up the light when the night is troubled with storm,
O thou unlucky one,
with the thunder flame of pain ignite thy own heart
and let it burn alone.

~Rabindranath Tagore

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Have a heart that never hardens,
and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts.
~Charles Dickens


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Just 1%



Genius is
one percent inspiration,
ninety-nine percent perspiration.
~Thomas Edison

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Wordless wisdom!




A day without laughter is a day wasted.
~Charlie Chaplin




Trees always fascinate me

(Images via Wikimedia)






Allee im Schwetzinger Schlossgarten
by 4028mdk09








Clifden, Southland, New Zealand
by Alvin Feng from Seattle







Presidente Bernardes
by Fernando Stankuns (stankuns)







by Liné1





File:Cedro Limón.jpg
Cedro Lemon











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Green Tree






















File:Stiltroots ficus.jpg





File:Treethatownsitself.jpg






File:Washington Tree 2007.jpg



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File:Silos-Claustro.jpg



File:Robenhauser Riet - Jakob Messikomer "Messikommer Eich" 2011-09-02 15-09-16.JPG



File:Pi d'en Xandri.jpg



File:Platanus1(js).jpg



File:ImmortalTreeLow.jpg



File:Great katsura of wachi01s3000.jpg



File:Chaparro de la Vega (Coripe-Sevilla).JPG



File:BanyanatLāhainā.jpg



File:Arbol de Guanacaste.jpg







File:Bright green tree - Waikato.jpg




File:Green tree moss.jpg




File:Leafless.jpg




File:Sycamore Tree with Horses, Aston Eyre, Shropshire - geograph.org.uk - 489615.jpg



File:Autumn colour in Eggesford Forest - geograph.org.uk - 1569679.jpg



File:Isolated Scots pine in fields between Culloden wood and Culloden battlefield - geograph.org.uk - 1120011.jpg




File:Japanese Maple - geograph.org.uk - 1111786.jpg




File:Snow-covered tree - geograph.org.uk - 1143891.jpg




File:Foliage at Finsbury Circus - geograph.org.uk - 1593632.jpg




File:Caesalpinia pluviosa Tree.jpg




File:Frozen Pond at Cracrop Farm - geograph.org.uk - 1728045.jpg



File:Cambusmore Lodge - geograph.org.uk - 1193081.jpg




File:Legendary Tree - Cairncastle - geograph.org.uk - 697842.jpg



File:Asplands Husk Coppice - geograph.org.uk - 1118869.jpg




File:Woodland adjacent to Rutland Water - geograph.org.uk - 1067464.jpg



File:Mature Douglas Fir - geograph.org.uk - 902266.jpg




File:In the grounds of Mount Stewart (1) - geograph.org.uk - 762821.jpg




File:Late Leaf Fall, Penn, Wolverhampton - geograph.org.uk - 617303.jpg




File:Stand of Trees in Owl House Gardens, Lamberhurst - geograph.org.uk - 229665.jpg



File:Sun through Tree.JPG



File:Evergreen trees at Gougane Barra, Forest Park, Cork - geograph.org.uk - 1173979.jpg




File:Tree and Track to Peppering High barn - geograph.org.uk - 94943.jpg



File:Anglesey Abbey - geograph.org.uk - 1416991.jpg




File:Old oaks - geograph.org.uk - 439469.jpg



File:Avenue of fresh snow lined trees - geograph.org.uk - 1153645.jpg



File:The Tarnished Trees Could Be Brass Too.jpg




File:Trees in Spring, Penn, Wolverhampton - geograph.org.uk - 808013.jpg



File:Grosvenor Gardens, London N14 - geograph.org.uk - 781197.jpg



File:Willows Along the Beeston Canal - geograph.org.uk - 1045775.jpg



File:More Elms2.jpg




File:Shinmonzen Street in Gion.jpg



File:Grimaud-village-01.jpg




File:Early Autumn Mature Oak - geograph.org.uk - 309668.jpg







File:Acer at Down Gate, Westonbirt Arboretum - geograph.org.uk - 69669.jpg




File:Pine Trees on Innisidgen Hill, St. Mary's - geograph.org.uk - 932139.jpg



File:Beginning of the spring.jpg



File:Great Trees in Porto - Apr 2011.jpg




File:Frosted Tree Detail - geograph.org.uk - 1652814.jpg




File:Tree planted by William Gladstone on the Holnicote Estate - geograph.org.uk - 821384.jpg




File:Yew Tree and Wall at Croucheston - geograph.org.uk - 302746.jpg



File:Beech Trees by the Track - geograph.org.uk - 1717482.jpg



File:Beech trees, Manmoel - geograph.org.uk - 638206.jpg



File:Specimen tree - geograph.org.uk - 465581.jpg



File:A red tree....that's it^ - geograph.org.uk - 103707.jpg




File:Young beech tree - geograph.org.uk - 277820.jpg




File:Triplaris weigeltiana Female Tree.jpg



File:Hornbeam Tree - geograph.org.uk - 45603.jpg




File:Old Woodland Tree - geograph.org.uk - 764512.jpg



File:Traffic Island between Lichfield Street and Lichfield Road (7) - geograph.org.uk - 1501180.jpg




File:North Downs Way in autumn - geograph.org.uk - 1585991.jpg



File:The Penn Hornbeams, early summer, Wolverhampton - geograph.org.uk - 1441079.jpg




File:You've been framed - geograph.org.uk - 1228060.jpg




File:Cedar of Lebanon - geograph.org.uk - 860518.jpg



File:Sheltering from the sun - geograph.org.uk - 540257.jpg



File:Golden Glow in Savill Glade at Westonbirt - geograph.org.uk - 69576.jpg



File:Elterwater's Maple Leaves - geograph.org.uk - 1550037.jpg




File:Autumn Gold at Westonbirt - geograph.org.uk - 69587.jpg



File:Tree planted by William Gladstone on the Holnicote Estate - geograph.org.uk - 821384.jpg





File:Flowering tree on Green opposite apartment block on corner of Bincote Road, Enfield - geograph.org.uk - 752290.jpg





File:London Plane trees - Friar Gate, Derby - geograph.org.uk - 562155.jpg



Tree lined road to Tallentire



File:Tree East of the Church at East Shefford House - geograph.org.uk - 73713.jpg



File:Venerable tree, Breamore Down - geograph.org.uk - 1263858.jpg



File:Tree, Abbotts Ann - geograph.org.uk - 1161252.jpg




File:Twisted Tree and canopy - geograph.org.uk - 106478.jpg





File:Flowering tree on Green opposite apartment block on corner of Bincote Road, Enfield - geograph.org.uk - 752290.jpg





File:Cassia brewsteri var. brewsteri (1).jpg




File:M62 motorway beyond the tree - geograph.org.uk - 291341.jpg










File:Flickr - don macauley - Beautiful tree in Kenya.jpg




File:Beautiful Tree - geograph.org.uk - 1001320.jpg




File:A beautiful Robinia tree beside the National Theatre - geograph.org.uk - 882272.jpg




File:Beautiful Oak tree at Yorkshire Sculpture park - geograph.org.uk - 1210286.jpg




File:Beautiful Isla River and surrounding countryside - geograph.org.uk - 1325089.jpg





Quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma) also known as Kokerboom in Namibia
by Le Grand Portage


File:Adansonia grandidieri04.jpg
Grandidier's Baobab (Adansonia grandidieri)


File:Portland Japanese Garden maple.jpg
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum)
by Jamiriquai







File:Anthracoceros albirostris -Kuala Lumpur Bird Park, Malaysia-8a.jpg
Oriental Pied Hornbil (Anthracoceros albirostris)
by AbZahri AbAzizis (via Wikimedia)



File:Rainbow Bird in Jurong Bird Park.jpg
Rainbow Lorikeet
by Michael Spencer (via Wikimedia)



File:Bird India.jpg
Bank myna (Acridotheres ginginianus)
by Thomas Schoch (via Wikimedia)




Bird of paradise (Paradijsvogel)
by Urville Djasim (via Wikimedia)










Nankeen Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)
by Michael Spencer (via Wikimedia)


Roadside Hawk (Buteo magnirostris)
by Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes (via Wikimedia)


Purple-naped Lory (Lorius domicella)
by kwang chong (via Wikimedia)



Peacock
by Janderk (via Wikimedia)



Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
by PhotoBobil (via Wikimedia)


Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)
by Sankara Subramanian (via Wikimedia)



Blackbird (Turdus merula)
by Malene Thyssen (via Wikimedia)



Red cardinal (cardinalidae)
by Dori



Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus)
by Gerry Lynch (via Wikimedia)





Mallard drake
by Kitkatcrazy (via Wikimedia)




Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)



File:Ara ararauna -Bird Kingdom -Toronto-8a.jpg
Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)
by Smart Destinations (via Wikimedia)



Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)





White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta-carolinensis)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)




File:Secretary Bird with open beak.jpg
Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius)
by Keven Law (via Wikimedia)



Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)


File:Long Tail bird.jpg
Long Tail bird (Urocissa erythrorhyncha)
by Charles Lam (via Wikimedia)



Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)




Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)




File:Haliaeetus leucocephalus -George C Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, British Columbia, Canada -juvenile-8.jpg
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
by Bill Stilwell (via Wikimedia)




American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)



Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulea)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)



Western Kingbird (Tyrannus-verticalis)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)




Keel-billed Toucan or Sulfur-breasted Toucan or Rainbow-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus)
by Lauri Väin (via Wikimedia)



Yellow Warbler (Dendroica aestiva)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)



Dosya:Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius)4 -bird feeder.jpg
Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius)
by Lesley Smitheringale (via Wikimedia)



Green Violet-ear (Colibri thalassinus)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)


  • Java Sparrow (Padda oryzivora)
  • by Jason L. Buberel (via Wikimedia)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)




Finch-billed Myna (Scissirostrum dubium)
by Tomfriedel (via Wikimedia)


Black Vulture (Coragyps-atratus)
by Mdf (via Wikimedia)


Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)
by mdemon (via Wikimedia)



Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco)
by Axel Bührmann(via Wikimedia)




Inca Tern (Larosterna inca)
by Alvesgaspar (via Wikimedia)




Western gull (larus occidentalis)
by Dori







Flowers are my lovers!

(Images via Wikimedia)


File:Beautiful pink tulip flower photo with waterdrops.jpg
Pink tulip
by Freefotopia





File:Blume mit Schmetterling und Biene 1uf.JPG
by Uwe H. Friese


File:Aster Tataricus.JPG
Aster tataricus


File:Aster Tataricus droste effect.jpg
Aster tataricus. Droste Effect
derivative work by Nevit Dilmen


File:Chamaemelum nobile 002.JPG
Chamaemelum nobile, Asteraceae
by H. Zell



Sun flower

By Kirk Carter[CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons




Primula (species Primula hortensis)
by André Karwath aka Aka


Colors of Primulas (species Primula hortensis)
by André Karwath aka Aka


File:Rosa Gold Glow 2.jpg
Rosa Gold Glow



File:Eschscholzia californica in Sedovo 001.jpg


File:Taraxacum officinalis DSC02042.JPG



Garden Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)



Pink Dahlia



File:Calystegia sepium sepium - side (aka).jpg
Hedge False Bindweed (Calystegia sepium sepium)
by André Karwath aka Aka




Daisy (Coleostephus myconis)




File:Galanthus nivalis close-up aka.jpg
Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis)
by André Karwath aka Aka




Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum)



Märzenbecher



Cornflower or Bluebottle (Centaurea cyanus)
by Llez













Allium 'Lucy Ball' Purple Flower
by Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man)



Japanese Anenome flower (Anemone hupehensis var. japonica)




Aquilegia formosa



Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)






File:Campanula chamissonis 09-2.jpg
by Σ64



File:Mariano, DSC02033.JPG
Canna glauca



File:Cichorium intybus-alvesgaspar1.jpg
Blue wild flower of ''Cichorum intybus"
Convallaria majalis
by FoeNyx




Lilium columbianum
by Peter Stevens







File:Alcea rosea and blue sky.jpg
Alcea rosea



File:Arctotis.jpg
African daisy (Arctotis)



File:Gentiana pneumonanthe 0002.jpg
Calathian violet (Gentiana pneumonanthe)




File:Löwenzahn-JJ5.jpg
Common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)




Convolvulus arvensis



File:UIUC Arboretum 20070922 img 1781.jpg
Begonia
by Dori



Morning Glory
by Dori






My friends


All of you are my soul-mates. Best wishes to you all.

I thank you all for your kind words.

We are all One small voice in the right place.



"A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day
."
~Emily Dickinson


Image by markuso via freedigitalphotos.net

--But who is that on the other side of you?
~T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land)


File: Iss007e10807 darker.jpg

Horizon by NASA

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