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This prayer is one of the famous and meaningful prayer by St. Francis of Assisi. I post it because it speaks out the internal spirit for many devoted christians in the world. I do have too much touch by this prayer and my top like prayer always.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred ……..let me sow LOVE
Where there is injury ……. PARDON
Where there is doubt ……. FAITH
Where there is despair ……. HOPE
Where there is darkness …… LIGHT
Where there is sadness ……. JOY

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled ….. As to console;
To be understood …… as to understand;
To be loved …… as to love,
For it is giving …… that we receive
For it is pardoning….. that we are pardoned,
For it is dying …… that we are born to eternal life.

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Collection of Proverbs

The joy of a book is in the pages you haven’t read.
The glory of your life is in the days yet to be lived.
Go meet the person you will become in the future.

You are disappointed because you are standing
Under an orange tree expecting mangoes.
Either change your expectation or change the tree

Success is failure delayed. Failure is success delayed.
Neither is failure final nor is success permanent.
Just don’t quit. It is just a game. Play it to the end.

Communication will win you the outer world.
Silence will win you the inner world.
Holistic living is in winning both the worlds.


Never be embarrassed to showcase your talents.
The woods would be too silent of no birds sang
Except those that sang the best

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"KOLAMS" (Rangoli) drawn with rice flour during Pongal Festival at Chennai

"PONGAL" FESTIVAL of TAMIL NADU

Pongal is one of the most important festival celabrated accross Tamil Nadu.The harvest festival of Tamil Nadu marks the withdrawal of the southeast monsoons and happy days of reaping of the harvest. Basically a rural festival, it is celebrated in the month of Thai (that falls in January) for four days.The month of Pongal is considered very auspicious for marriages and other kinds of activities. During the festival, Sun God is worshipped as a sustainer of life on Earth.It is the New Year festival of the State and hence is associated with cleaning and burning of the rubbish from the past. 'Kolams' (Rangoli) drawn with rice flour to feed the insects in the front yards of the houses, new clothes, adorning cattles with beads, bells and flowers and painting and capping their horns with metals, delicious traditional cuisines,typical style of worshipping rituals and a procession taken out from the Kandaswamy Temple in Chennai along with the bull fights or Jellikattu in Madurai, Tanjore and Tiruchirrapalli and community meals are the chief highlights of Pongal.

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Elloit Beach at evening hrs.

Elloit Beach at Chennai

Elliot's Beach is one of the cleanest beaches in the city of Chennai. It is located towards the south of Marina Beach and is an extremely calm and tranquil place. As the beach does not offer much activity, it is ideal for long walks. Moreover, the ones who want to soak their feet in the splashing sea water and lose themselves completely in the arms of the nature, head on. Elliot's Beach is one of the cleanest beaches in the city of Chennai. It is located towards the south of Marina Beach and is an extremely calm and tranquil place

It is also the favorite destination of foreign tourists for enjoying sun bath. Elliot's Beach offers very subtle activity, with only few food joints and restaurants. You can relish the mouth watering South Indian snacks and pamper your taste buds, here. Apart from this, there are some religious and historical monuments, to be explored, to add to your adventure. Ashtalakshmi Temple and Velanganni Church are some worth visiting places in the vicinity.

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St.Thomas Mount Church at Chennai

Inside of Mount Church.

Holy Shrine of St.Thomas Mount