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- Must-see video: Baby sees clearly for the first time
- Here’s the science behind ‘The Hold,’ which claims to instantly calm a crying baby
- Download Free Baby Crying Sound Effects
- Different Types of Crying Sounds
- Sleepy Baby Cry
- Hungry Baby Cry
- Newborn Baby Cry
- Baby Crying for a Long Time
- Funny Baby Crying Sound
- Fun Uses for Baby Crying Sounds
- When In Doubt Contact Your Doctor
- BBC Trending
- More from BBC Trending
- How to avoid inappropriate videos on YouTube
Call him the baby whisperer or a pediatric YouTube star. A doctor’s simple tutorial for calming down a crying baby in seconds has become a blockbuster on YouTube, garnering millions of views in just days.
Dr. Robert Hamilton, who practices atPacific Ocean Pediatrics in Santa Monica, California, said his patients urged him “a million times” to share his advice online. When he finally uploaded the video on Sunday, it was the first one he had ever posted, and it’s had nearly 6 million views as of Thursday morning.
“I’m a little bit humbled,” Hamilton told TODAY Parents. “I never in my wildest dreams thought this would happen.”
The technique, which Hamilton calls “The Hold,” consists of four steps:
- Pick up the baby and fold his arms snuggly across his chest.
- Secure the baby’s arms with your hand after they’re folded. That hand also supports the baby’s chin.
- Gently hold the baby’s bottom with your dominant hand. Use the fleshy part of your hand, not your fingers, to ensure a secure hold.
- Position the baby at a 45-degree angle and gently rock him. The motion can be up and down, or you can try shaking the baby’s bottom. The key is to make the sequence smooth and avoid jerky movements. The angle is important because it helps you keep control of your baby.
That’s it. The results are quick and wonderful in the video, as demonstrated on babies who are fussy after receiving a shot. They calm down in moments.
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Use the technique on babies up to 2 or 3 months old. After that, they become too heavy to be held in this position, Hamilton said.
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“The Hold” works because it’s essentially swaddling the child, he explained.
“That’s a comforting position for a baby because you have to remember where they’re coming from — a very tight womb — and they’ve been in that position for a long time,” Hamilton said.
“By doing that, you’re really kind of recreating the womb, if you will, and that kind of comforts them, plus the gentle movement.”
Dr. Hamilton shows how to calm a crying baby.Robert Hamilton / YouTube
Hamilton, who has been practicing for 31 years, has been using the technique for decades, he said. He’s sure other pediatricians employ similar methods, but believes the unique part of “The Hold” is how he wraps the babies’ arms across their chests.
Hamilton has found this method will quiet 90 percent of babies. It doesn’t work on infants who are ill or hungry.
Other pediatricians praised the video. Babies cry most when they’re 4-8 weeks old and all that fussiness could lead exhausted, frustrated parents to shake and harm a child, said Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson, a Seattle pediatrician who writes the Seattle Mama Doc blog.
This technique provides another tool parents can try when their baby is upset and give them hope, she noted.
“I love that this is going viral. I hope it goes even more viral,” Swanson said.
“What I like about this technique is there are just enough things that are going on — it might be that it was the touch, the angle, the hold, the motion — that a baby is distracted, attended to and comfortable.”
“The Hold” reminded Swanson of Dr. Harvey Karp’s “5 S’s” method: swaddle, side-stomach position, shush, swing and suck.
She believes it’s safe to do and would recommend it to her patients.
As for Hamilton, he hopes it helps families across the country.
“This is my Christmas gift,” he said.
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Here’s the science behind ‘The Hold,’ which claims to instantly calm a crying baby
In a video that’s now been watched more than six million times, Dr. Robert Hamilton, a pediatrician, demonstrates something he calls “The Hold,” which he says he uses in his practice to quickly calm crying infants.
The technique appears to be quite simple: He folds the baby’s arms against her chest with one hand, using his fingers to prop up her chin. He holds the baby upright (leaning slightly forward) with one hand on the baby’s bottom, and “wiggles” her gently.
The previously wailing infant, who had just gotten a shot, appears to chill out almost instantly.
So what exactly is going on here? And does it really work?
We talked to Dr. Stephen Cook, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester’s Golisano Children’s Hospital, who told us that Dr. Hamilton’s technique seems reasonable as well as simple — which is important for new parents.
Folding the arms echoes the effect of swaddling, which is known to reduce fussiness; holding a baby at an upright angle can ease acid reflux; and gentle motion (never shake a baby) is typically calming to very young infants, since it mimics being in the womb. (Most of these are also covered by Dr. Harvey Karp’s famous five S’s, which include “swinging” and “swaddling,” which is wrapping a baby up snugly in a blanket so that their limbs don’t flail about.)
But there are a few important caveats.
First, Dr. Cook noted, these kinds of soothing techniques really only work in infants up to two or three months old. Don’t try this on a screaming one-year-old.
Second, babies are often crying for a reason, something Dr. Hamilton points out in the video. They might be hungry; they might be sick; they might need a diaper change. “It’s important to make sure the baby does not have something else major going on,” Dr. Cook said, because a little wiggle won’t fix that.
Parents should also remember that Dr. Hamilton’s video shows him using the technique just a few times, in a doctor’s office — that’s not a lot of data to go on. In a real-life, home setting, things might not always go as smoothly.
Dr. Cook suggested that “The Hold” may work less well or less consistently with colicky babies, with babies that have been fussing for hours, or with anxious and exhausted parents. “Those are the ones who will want to do it more — and who may get less help from it,” he said.
Still, he praised Dr. Hamilton’s video for being a straightforward and sensible presentation of an easy-to-follow technique.
“We have to think of better ways to communicate with families and give them simple tips,” Dr. Cook said, acknowledging that too much parenting advice is complicated and overwhelming. That’s part of why “The Hold” is so appealing: Watch the video once, and you’ll feel ready to try it out.
Just don’t expect it to work every single time.
A truly foolproof baby-calming technique would require magic, not just pediatric expertise.
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Narrator: Those cries and tears can be tough to bear and harder to quiet.
Pediatrician Desmond Runyon: It drives parents crazy and especially a new set of parents who aren’t used to this. It’s normal for babies to cry. They don’t have a lot of other ways of signaling what’s going on in their lives.
Narrator: Desmond Runyon is a practicing pediatrician and professor of pediatrics and social medicine at North Carolina Children’s Hospital at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Doctor: Babies cry for all the reasons you can imagine. They could be hungry, they could want attention, they want stimulation, to being touched. Babies cry. And the parent has to be a little bit of a detective.
Narrator: Fortunately, there are several things you can do to calm your crying baby, starting with looking for the most common culprits.
Doctor: The first thing is, is there something that I need to attend to? Has the baby been fed? Maybe the baby’s hungry again.
Mom: I can tell if she’s hungry because she’ll be sucking on her hand or her little mouth will be trying to get something.
Narrator: It might simply be a case of a dirty diaper.
Doctor: The diaper is a little soiled there.
Narrator: If that’s not it, perhaps your baby needs to burp or pass gas.
To burp him, lightly pat his back.
To help her pass gas, fold your baby’s legs toward her tummy a few times or move them gently in a pedaling motion.
Your baby may be crying because she’s hot or cold. Usually your baby can wear the same number of clothes and layers that you’re wearing.
If it’s cooler than about 68 degrees Fahrenheit, adding one more layer – or swaddling your baby – can help make her more comfortable.
If that fails, your baby might be overtired. Babies need lots of sleep, and very young ones may need some shuteye after being awake for just an hour or two.
Catching sleepiness early can help, since calming an exhausted baby can be even more difficult. Look for early signs of tiring, such as yawning or droopy eyelids.
Sometimes all your baby needs is attention or a change of scenery.
Try making eye contact and talking to her or taking her to another room.
If that’s not it either, your baby’s cries could be prompted by a small irritation, like a hair wrapped around a finger or a clothing label scratching her skin. So inspect even where you least suspect.
If your baby’s cry sounds different than usual, take his temperature and trust your instincts. Don’t hesitate to call his doctor if he’s inconsolable. He may be sick and need medical attention.
Sometimes even after you identify the cause of your baby’s cries, your baby needs some help calming down.
And sometimes babies just cry for no real reason.
That’s when you need a bag of tricks for soothing a fussy baby.
Different babies respond to different methods, and what works one day may not work the next. So just give these comfort techniques a try. Soothing a young baby won’t spoil her.
Motion can work like a charm.
Doctor: You can walk around with the baby. Many people know that their baby starts crying as soon as they stop walking. Driving the car, that motion seems to work. And then just comforting.
Doctor: Sometimes the rocking back and forth like this will do it too.
Babies who have the inner ear stimulated a little bit often stop crying. So, I’ll put a baby in my arms and just gently move around, back and forth. It’s that vestibular stimulation of the inner ear. That’s why rocking chairs work, and so you can either rock a baby in your arms. You can get an infant swing and that appears to make a difference in terms of calming babies.
Narrator: Newborns like to feel as warm and secure as they did in the womb. Try snuggling with your baby or swaddling him in a light blanket. This can calm a young baby almost instantly.
Babies often like noise.
Doctor: Talking and noise makes a big difference. If you think about how loud it’s been for a baby whose ear has been smashed up against your aorta for nine months. And now the world is actually pretty quiet compared to that. And so noise and music and hair dryers make the baby feel a little more at home.
Narrator: Shushing loudly in your baby’s ear or turning her on her side or stomach when she is awake can often help a baby feel more secure.
Sometimes your baby may just want to suckle.
Doctor: So you can give a baby their own hand or you can use a little finger.
Narrator: A pacifier can do the trick too.
Doctor: Most babies can be calmed or quieted.
Narrator: If nothing seems to help – and you know that your baby’s not sick – you may just have to ride it out.
Doctor: Every baby has a fussy period. Some babies have two minutes of fussy period. Some babies have three hours of fussy period. It’s biologic, and it happens in Botswana in hunter-gatherer societies, it happens in the United States, it happens to chimps.
Narrator: Expect crying to intensify between 2 and 4 months, peaking around 3 months, with more crying in the evening. If you find you’re getting overwhelmed or angry, stop trying to calm your baby and give yourself a break.
Doctor: Sometimes you may need to just put your baby down in the crib in – on his or her back, make sure he’s safe and then walk out, and the baby can cry and you can collect yourself, and then take about 15 minutes and go back in and check on the baby.
Narrator: If you’re at the end of your rope, turn to your partner or a friend for relief.
You never want to end up shaking your baby out of frustration or exhaustion, as you may cause irreversible brain damage or even death.
Doctor: You have to recognize that sometimes babies are going to cry, that maybe that there is nothing else to do but just wait it out. And the good news is that babies rarely go to college still crying.
Doctor: Looks like we settled down pretty nicely here.
Mom: Yeah, she’s very calm now.
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When your baby cries, he or she is actually trying to communicate with you. You will hear a wide range of whimpering, whining, crying and screaming when the baby wants your attention. It may take a little time, but eventually, you will be able to distinguish between the different crying sounds that will help you determine what your baby needs.
Different Types of Crying Sounds
Babies are born with very different temperaments. Some are relaxed and easygoing while others seem to be more intense and dramatic. Some may cry occasionally and some cry about every little thing. When your baby does cry, there are different reasons for the crying and different types of crying sounds that your baby will exhibit. The crying will typically happen when the baby is tired, hungry, colicky, overtired, fussy, sick or in pain. In addition to listening to the different cries you should also observe the baby’s facial expressions and body movements which can help you determine why your baby is crying. The easiest cries to distinguish are when the baby is sick or in pain. When your baby is sick, the cry is a low energy, weak whimper, and the baby will look (and be) generally miserable. This is the time to watch for other symptoms of potential illness as well. When a baby is in pain, the cry is sudden, shrill and loud. His face will become red, his eyes will squeeze shut and he may also stiffen his arms and legs. First, you must try to determine what is causing the pain, do what you can to stop it and comfort your little one the best that you can.
Sleepy Baby Cry
When a baby is tired after a busy day, he should easily fall asleep. But when a baby is overtired, he may have a difficult time winding down and may need more time to calm down. Some signs of sleepiness include glazed-over eyes, rubbing of eyes and big yawns. A baby’s sleepy cry sounds breathy and intermittent. The cry has a ‘wah wah’ effect and can build in intensity from a whimper to a full-fledged, quivering wail.
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Hungry Baby Cry
When a baby is hungry, the cry is low-pitched, unrelenting, rhythmic and may come in short bursts. The cry can eventually become high-pitched as well. Other signs that your baby may be hungry is when he smacks his lips, sticks out his tongue, roots for the breast and may even suck on his fingers. This cry itself has an ‘eehh eehh’ sound followed by a quick successive cough-like sound.
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Newborn Baby Cry
Newborn babies cry and fuss approximately three hours a day. Your baby will eventually figure out that when he cries, someone will come and take care of his needs whether it’s a feeding, a diaper change or a simple cuddle. A newborn’s cry can sound like a short series of ‘neh nehs’ that may have a slightly raspy quality accompanied by quick, short gasps and/or squeaks.
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Some babies cry a lot over a long period of time. If they have episodes of intense, inconsolable crying and nothing seems to comfort them, they may have colic. The definition of colic is crying for more than three hours a day, three days a week for three weeks or longer. The crying may begin suddenly and for no reason. This type of cry has variations in the sounds, there are short ‘eh, eh, eh’ sounds followed by longer ‘wahhh, wahhh, wahhhs’. This cry can be characterized as intense wails or screams accompanied by fidgeting movements.
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On occasion, a baby will have a unique, interesting or downright funny cry. The baby in the following video has more of trilling sound when she cries and her cry sounds like a cross between ‘giving continuous raspberries’ and a little motor.
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You can actually download a free baby crying sound to use as a ringtone for your phone. One option is Zedge.net or you can download the Zedge Ringtones app. You will be able to browse and choose from a wide variety of baby cries that range from a typical crying baby to enhanced remixes of a crying baby. You just register on their website, choose a ringtone and .
If you need a crying baby sound effect, for example, to dub into a video or to help desensitize a dog to a ‘new arrival’, there are many websites, apps or YouTube audio videos to choose from. Yet, another option is to buy the crying baby sounds on iTunes or Amazon music.
When In Doubt Contact Your Doctor
If your baby is incessantly crying, is inconsolable and you simply can’t determine the reason why your baby is crying, you may want to contact your doctor. Be sure to describe how your baby is crying, when she is crying, and whether or not you can comfort her. The doctor may want you to bring her in for an examination.
Keep in mind this is your first means communicating with your baby. It may feel like a lot to figure out, but as your baby becomes a more effective communicator, you’ll become more proficient at understanding him.
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Thousands of videos on YouTube look like versions of popular cartoons but contain disturbing and inappropriate content not suitable for children.
If you’re not paying much attention, it might look like an ordinary video featuring Peppa Pig, the cheeky porcine star of her own animated series. But soon after pressing play on this particular YouTube clip, the plot turns dark. A dentist with a huge syringe appears. Peppa’s teeth get pulled out. Distressed crying can be heard on the soundtrack.
Parent and journalist Laura June almost immediately noticed something was not quite right as her three-year-old daughter was watching it.
“Peppa does a lot of screaming and crying and the dentist is just a bit sadistic and it’s just way, way off what a three-year-old should watch,” June says. She wrote about her experiences on the website The Outline.
“But the animation is like close enough to looking like Peppa – it’s crude but it’s close enough that my daughter was like ‘This is Peppa Pig.'”
It’s far from an isolated case – BBC Trending has found hundreds of similar videos of children’s cartoon characters with inappropriate themes. In addition to Peppa Pig, there are similar videos featuring characters from the Disney movie Frozen, the Minions franchise, Doc McStuffins, Thomas the Tank Engine, and many more.
Some of the videos are parodies or have such over-the-top content that they’re clearly meant for mature audiences. Others are unauthorised copies of authentic cartoons or use the characters in innocent ways – troubling to copyright lawyers perhaps, but not necessarily harmful to children.
However many, like the video Laura June’s daughter saw, both contain disturbing content and can pass for the real cartoons, particularly when viewed by children.
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Hundreds of these videos exist on YouTube, and some generate millions of views. One channel “Toys and Funny Kids Surprise Eggs” is one of the top 100 most watched YouTube accounts in the world – its videos have more than 5 billion views.
Its landing page features a photo of a cute toddler alongside official-looking pictures of Peppa Pig, Thomas the Tank Engine, the Cookie Monster, Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Elsa from Frozen.
But the videos on the channel have titles like “FROZEN ELSA HUGE SNOT”, “NAKED HULK LOSES HIS PANTS” and “BLOODY ELSA: Frozen Elsa’s Arm is Broken by Spiderman”. They feature animated violence and graphic toilet humour.
The people behind the account didn’t respond to Trending’s request for an interview. We attempted to contact several other producers of similar videos – and got the same result.
How to avoid inappropriate videos on YouTube
• The YouTube Kids app filters out most – but not all – of the disturbing videos.
• YouTube suggests turning on “restricted mode” which can be found at the bottom of YouTube pages:
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• The NSPCC also has a series of guidelines about staying safe online, and there are more resources on the .
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Trending also contacted two companies behind the cartoon series being ripped off, Disney and EntOne – the distributor of Peppa Pig. Neither wanted to comment.
So should parents take more care when it comes to allowing their children to watch cartoons on YouTube?
Sonia Livingstone is an expert on child online safety and professor of social psychology at the London School of Economics,
“It’s perfectly legitimate for a parent to believe that something called Peppa Pig is going to be Peppa Pig,” she says. “And I think many of them have come to trust YouTube… as a way of entertaining your child for ten minutes while the parent makes a phone call. I think if it wants to be a trusted brand then parents should know that protection is in place.”
“I don’t think we want to police it for the whole world,” Livingstone says. “A lot of this material is satirical, creative – or actually offensive but within freedom of expression. What we need is child protection.”
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YouTube did not offer a spokesperson for interview, but in a statement said: “We take feedback very seriously. We appreciate people drawing problematic content to our attention, and make it easy for anyone to flag a video.
“Flagged videos are manually reviewed 24/7 and any videos that don’t belong in the app are removed within hours. For parents who want a more restricted experience, we recommend that they turn off the Search feature in the app.”
The company also suggested that parents use the YouTube Kids app, which is available for mobile phones and tablets, and turn on “restricted mode” which limits flagged content. It can be found at the bottom of any page on the YouTube site, but cautions that “no filter is 100% accurate”.
And since Trending began investigating, several of the channels that we brought to the attention of YouTube have been removed – including the one containing the video of fake Peppa visiting the dentist.
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Having a newborn can be hard, what with the lack of sleep, constant feeding and crazy nighttime schedules. Having a fussy newborn that won’t stop crying, however, is pretty much the icing on the new parent cake. Luckily one doctor has a solution for that, and it’s pretty darned genius if we do say so ourselves.
Meet paediatrician Robert Hamilton, a doctor with plenty of experience when it comes to crying babies. He is, after all, the one who gives them their shots.
In a YouTube video, above, the doctor demonstrates how to easily stop any baby from crying with a simple four-step holding technique designed to comfort and sooth. He calls it, “The Hold:”
1. Fold the baby’s arms across his or her chest
2. Secure the arms after folded
3. Gently grab the diaper area with your dominant hand
4. Hold they baby at a 45 degree angle and gently rock
That’s it. If you’re doing it right the baby should stop crying and simply be. According to the doctor it’s a technique he’s perfected over his years, and we have to say that watching him, we’d agree.
Of course it won’t work every single time. If the baby continues to cry, Dr. Hamilton advises the baby could be sick or hungry. Also, while the technique is gold for babies up to about two to three months, after that they get too heavy and become impossible to hold that way.
We’re kind of dying to try it out, but of course we’d need a new baby for that. In the meantime, we’ll just watch this video again for an extra dose of cuteness.


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Best Ways to Reuse your Bridal Gown
Often the bridal gown is wrapped and stored in a closet after the wedding. It is hardly used or even seen after that, and thus a wedding gown just become a cloth to be treasured after a while.
However, this scenario can be changed. The dress that you have bought after so much research can’t be simply put beneath the layers of linen. You can make the best use of this endearing piece of cloth in many ways. Not clear how? Well, we are here to help you with that. Listed below are some interesting yet easy DIY projects to reuse your bridal gown.
# Design a throw pillow
Your beautiful dress can give rise to some marvellous furnishings, like a decorative throw pillow. Simply cut the embellished part of the dress, or as you like to use the material in designing a throw pillow. You also have the option of using the entire dress for making a set of throw pillows. Bring on your creativity and mix and match various parts of gown to come up with something innovative. Use your favourite parts like beaded back, or the jewelled neckline to deck up the pillow. Or, you can make use of various colored fabrics for en edgy look.
# Sew a patchwork quilt
For making the maximum use of your bridal gown, patchwork quilt is an ideal option. It allows you to incorporate all the fancy features of your wedding gown and design a fascinating creation. To personalize the quilt, you can use special items related to your wedding day, like the hander kerchief used by your parents, or the shirt fabric wore by your husband during the ceremony. Glimpse of the gown wore by your mother on wedding day will further intensify the look of quilt. If not this, you can even bring photos of your weddings on the quilt to make it exclusively dedicated to your special day.
# Tote it up to go anywhere
Brides have one common problem. They all love their wedding dress so much that they wish to wear it every day. The convenient option to flaunt the splendour of your bridal gown is make a tote out of it, and then carry it wherever you go. Believe me it would be the most elegant way of carry your dress on daily basis. If your bridal gown is simple then a daily wear purse can be made out of it. However, if it is more fancy, then an evening tote would work.
#Cut out some accessories
How about making jewellery out of our wedding gown? You would be amazed to know that bridal gowns can also lend you some fresh, fascinating pieces of jewellery. All you need to do is just take out your favourite embellishments, or trimming from the gown, including beads, buttons etc. For making earrings, get earring backs from the art & crafts store and then glue accessories to it and enjoy you own unique pair of earrings.
Thus, you can see there are many big and small ways of repurposing your wedding gown and enjoy its grace over a long period of time.

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This anatomy and these dance poses are freaking amazing.
I’m eternally jealous.
FUCK I AM IN LOVE WITH THE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR BODY TYPES
I feel like I just walked in on something very private
this is really messy and i made it late last night and it may be inaccurate at times but basically if you don’t want to go through the whole thing here’s a summary.
- both women and men can be feminists but this is seen as a degrading thing for a man to do and this is not ok. i have several male friends who call themselves feminists and in our friendship group this is great but as soon as we talk outside of it the response is quite different.
- sexism is everywhere in this world, not just LEDCs, not just MEDCs but everywhere.
- you all know about the shooting.
- in pop culture, the sexulisation of women is commonplace, in fact even praised.
- events like this are related.
- we need to strike sexism right at the core of our society, in our everyday lives, in our culture. and then madmen like this will have no where to stand.
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Modern furnishings and lighting interior design – Bloom home
Modernize your house with contemporary furnishings & contemporary lighting can add beauty and comfort and ease of house to live. Using red tends to make a effective assertion, so red furnishings and gear should be clean and in great situation. Bloom house is a great instance of a house interior which decorated using uncommon minimalist furnishings, created by Greg Lynn and situated in Los Angeles,CA.Contemporary lighting is utilized to total an up to date appear to any interior. Light fixtures are practical and simple but are produced with innovative designs and supplies: square lampshades, stainless steel hanging light fixtures and inventive wavy canvas light covers. Contemporary interior furnishings is sleek and practical. Asymmetrical circular and square lines should be integrated into a couple of items which are utilized to enhance the interior.
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Heavily Glitzy Stone And Sequin Embellished Gown With Net Skirt And Crystal Embellished Round Neckline
Check out this dress from BG Haute G3208! A lovely round neckline is charmingly embellished in chunky rhinestones, which beautifully lead to the sheer mesh chest. The heavily decorated bodice leads to a mesh center panel, with flattering crystal embellishments. A net skirt charmingly completes the picture.

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Rev.Lalaji Maharaj the Advent.
My salutations to all of you, the co-travelers on the path.
We have heard silence so far for about an hour; perhaps we would like to take something which disturbs the sweet through some salt, the words.
The ADVENT: Great men were born; they tried to talk to us about the need to improve our living conditions and to come out of the slavery from Britishers and others. There was the mutiny, in the language of Britishers of course, but it was not a mutiny but a freedom struggle. But there were none to restore the path to that eternal peace which we have been longing for. Every soul has been trying for it and continues try for it, if you remember Babuji Maharaj's sentences that, we are all are sailing towards for own Homeland and marching towards, but there is none to help us at that time. We find the advent of Lalaji Maharaj. His coming is really remarkable, those of you who had read the story of Lalaji Maharaj know that His mother who is a saint herself also thought that she should have children, I find here a great lesson there, she was not finding herself a fulfillment just in the Realisation of God or the devotion towards God but wanted an expression which would justify her existence before she departs. Her eke was communicated through some Avadhoot who came to prosthesis in his own language, the language which we have got to read into, because he simply said One, two and said murmuring one two he left. What is one and two he never explained then nor is it explained now unless you look into your heart .The two great souls, Lalaji Maharaj and his brother (Sri Raghubar Dayal) came, they got together. I find the greater service of the great saint, the brother of Lalaji Maharaj who seems to have just merged in his brother and that is all about him and just worked for him, just worked for him. Who ever thinks about a Rama invariably thinks about a Lakshmana that is how the tradition is. Whether Lakshmana is the one, if you ask, what has he done? There is nothing he has done except to be with his brother. So was this great man, the brother of Lalaji Maharaj.
About Lalaji Maharaj: When we think about our Grand Master, about whom we came to know only in 1973. Babuji Maharaj used to write that His Master is everything but nobody knew who that Master was, except the name that he was also one Sri Ramchandraji of Fatehgarh. The story of Lalaji Maharaj was written by Babuji Maharaj in the book Truth Eternal and for the first time we came to know some details about this great personality. Yesterday we had an occasion to remember many things that He (Lalaji Maharaj) said. But we find, here is a person who knew that He has to do something very early in his life. What is that something which He wanted to do? To please God, He must do something here. If you read that story written by Babuji Maharaj, where he writes," There cannot be more glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he may render himself most acceptable to the Creator by doing good to His creatures". This is how he describes in his own way Lalaji Maharaj's life, if only we take a lesson from that then see firstly whether our actions, our thoughts, our behavior brings credit to that great Creator, the cause of all, and two to our guide, to our Master, the beloved Babuji Maharaj. He did not spare any efforts to improve the quality of our life, spiritual life. Then you see, you become committed to yourself first to improve the quality of your own life first that it becomes something that God would appreciate. Naturally, I tend to do what my parents like most that is the minimal human dignity. If that dignity is there then sadhana gains a different meaning.
Making of Special Personality: And what did he think of? He thought that the world is suffering for the want of a method and a Guide who can help the persons realize the goal of their life. The point that was clear to him was that everyone is bounded by his desires, his wishes and it seemed to be that there is some limitation with everyone. So He thought 'if I can create a person without limitations, if I can create a person who has no wishes except the wish to please God then that would be the best job I can do here'. And he went about the job of structuring our Master. The task that he has taken is an interesting task from one angle and from another angle it is something unimaginable. Nobody dare to take such a task. Because we know what type of people we are. How much bound we are, we know. How much of a slave we are, we know. How much creatures of comfort we are, we know. From this to think about creating a person who will have no such bondage is an unimaginable objective so far as I am concerned. If we were to have such an idea at any point of time, we need not fulfill that. Even to entertain the thought, I do not think I have the courage.
The more we try to see our self we become aware of how many difficulties we pass through in the whole process of negation i.e. self negation. Self negation means literally negation of our wishes, our desires, our drives and negation is not a mathematical or philosophical concept for us. We are trying to negate ourselves. What we are not trying to negate is the inner Divine spirit behind. We are only trying to negate what we have added to our selves. Consistently and very persistently we have been collecting dust for ages and ages. Such perseverance is something, when we look at ourselves we laugh at ourselves thinking, 'how on earth could I have thought of collecting so much of rubbish'. If we look at our wishes, if we look at our desires then we see what is the rubbish we have assiduously collected. Many times the dirt seems to be very pleasing. Think about eradication of these things which becomes a problem for us. And here is a person who thinks to structure another man to that extent. Naturally you cannot accomplish a thing which you are not yourself having. When he has taken that it goes without saying that he is already in that condition. Imagine a person who has negated all his desires, all his wishes, all his wants trying to structure another person who will be useful to Humanity. And that is the flower that he wanted to offer to that great Lord of all us, namely God. When we see so much work he has done then we understand how much loaded is that sentence of Rev.Babuji Maharaj that I mentioned earlier.
Whether he has succeeded or not, if you put that question, we know, he has succeeded, because we have got our Special Personality with us, a person who is serving us, who is ever willing to enter into our hearts just for asking. Think over, Think over what is the task he has done, then you will feel how much indebted we are to be to him. Now when you feel that much amount of indebtedness to him then that much amount of devotion to him would be swelling in our heart. Then would we like waste time talking these words and that is what was preventing me from talking in the beginning. Here, in spirituality the silence speaks, for that matter it roars.
Remembrance of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj's Life: We know his ancestors were so great in intellect that they could convince the Mughal emperor Akbar and get 555 villages of Jagir. And from stage to a stage of living in a small house, few of us have visited few years back is hard to imagine. That beats me, how a man can sacrifice that much, if you have been a Lord for 555 villages and then you find yourself placed in a small hut, how do you feel that? A small demotion in career would make us feel terribly bad, a person who does not get his promotion in turn feels something bad happened to him, something most miserable has happened to him in life while there is no such misery. It is an imaginary misery.
Rev.Babuji gives beautiful descriptions of his Master in this book. I was wondering why this gentleman was keeping quiet for all these years, from 1944 to 1972 who never thought of writing even one sentence about his Master anywhere all of a sudden comes forward with descriptions about his master, For first time when I read, I was bit annoyed also. Why should I be interested in a man who is not there? If he was available I could go and meet him but he is not there. He has left long back. He gives a graphic description of the hair of the person and he says how bewitching his eyes are. And if he said only one word "Accha "and it yielded the required relief. He talks about his manners, he talks about his voice, he talks about how he keeps company with his disciples, goes around for walks, trying to take them for some excursions, some bandaras. I was just wondering why he said all these things after so many years. Then perhaps I thought that he was asking us to tell our next generation something about that Great Personality.
Need to tell about Lalaji Maharaj to our posterity: After all we have descriptions of Lord Rama whom we have not seen. We have descriptions of Lord Krishna whom we have not seen. We have also descriptions of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj whom we have not seen. But a point of difference here, I do not know in my spiritual life how much Lord Rama has helped me. I do not know in my spiritual life how much Lord Krishna has helped me, but I know this much in my spiritual life I am given a guide by this great person. He is more relevant to me and his form is more relevant to me. I would like you co-aspirants to appreciate this angle and then pass on the stories of that great person. You may have to concoct. If saints have written about Lord Rama and Lord Krishna after about five thousand years or four thousand years whom they have not seen in their stories and described the incident of Sadhvi Ahalyas' liberation from a state of stupor in the form of a stone boulder as "Gundu rathiki kalu vacchi guna guna nadichen" is it because they saw that incident. Surely not. The poet found that as a very beautiful way of putting how Lord Rama was able to give relief to Ahalya. He hit a stone and somebody wrote a story and the poetry goes "Gundu rathiki kalu vacchi guna guna nadichen". Beautiful Telugu poetry. What is the difficulty for us to revel in such poetry with this Great Personality who has more meaning , more relevance, more significance. Why is it that literature is being not brought on this level? Why is it we are denying the most important aspect of our life, the emotion. The emotions that are now wasted on film stars, the Hollywood actors, the Bollywood actors, and the Tollywood actors who I do not know who they are. But then we are wasting our time on them, if not we our children are wasting their time, if not they their friends are wasting time.
So there is a very very important aspect of our life namely the emotional aspect of it which is being ignored. We cannot deny it .There is no point in denying it. Now what is the sublimation that is possible, what is the way in which we can make our Masters relevant to us and our children in that plane of emotion? Okay. So far as we are concerned, we think we have something to do with Ananda maya kosa only, or we are seeking something beyond that. But then that is not relevant to our grand children, they want something, why is it we have been just keeping quiet for ages. This has been the question that was there with me for a long time, I think this is the first time I am openly expressing my feeling. Because I am not a poet, I have good imagination but I don't think I can express it in words to make it very pleasant for other people's ears. Perhaps I sing in my bathroom, but I am not a singer but there must be several singers here, there must be several artists here, there must be some poets here, there must be some novelists here. In this context I must mention one Sri Narasimha Rao, who is no more. He was a perfect gentleman and was a Dt.Judge ( I think I am correct). He and his wife whose name I do not know had a common pen name as Binadevi - Telugu novelist and writer. They did mention about the Pranahuti in their writings. Their understanding of Pranahuti may be different from ours. They could weave it into their stories. I am not aware of other things. But it is possible for us to weave stories and novels on these great Masters because our commitment is there to the coming generations just as Rev. Lalaji Maharaj thought of his commitment to humanity at large and structured a personality like
Rev. Babuji Maharaj. We are surely not capable of such accomplishments as his as I have already submitted, but we are capable of doing this type of small service.
When we think about the great work that he has done, there should also be some great words to express it. Great words which can attract all people, not the dry words of sunya, nothingness, or void, it makes no sense to the children. It does not make any sense to many sadhakas also. Can we not write something about his stroll in the banks of Ganges? If we could think about a Lord Krishna playing in the banks of Yamuna, we can surely think in terms of this Great Person moving along with his disciples along banks of Ganges from where he was. Because when we ask you to think about the Great Master, it becomes very difficult for you to close your eyes all the time and try to visualize void.
Express Gratitude to the spiritual condition bestowed: I am sure I am disturbing all of you with this talk, a task which I don't want to do. But somebody wants me to do, so I do it. Because after a good meditation, one would like to be in that meditative mood as far as possible, through the day, perhaps through the year, perhaps through the life. One incident like this was enough for people to contemplate during their entire life time as we find in the lives of some of the great saints. One small experience, they have got and that was enough to carry them on the path. Why? It has never carried them anywhere and they remained in that condition. But here in this system of Rev.Babuji we are filled in, and carried forward every second. Every second we are moving on the path so we do not dwell in any one condition but we move on. If I try to make you understand the changes in the condition that we are going to have, still nothing prevents us from being grateful to the conditions that are blessed. Every spiritual stage has to be acknowledged and gratefulness expressed. Of course we try to offer our hearts as the Prasad. We have all accepted this nobler and spiritual method, otherwise we know after the Basanth morning meditation we used to have only some sweet food as Prasad at a very physical level. Sure it used to taste well. But then the type of Prasad we are trying to offer now is not a Prasad in which we can partake because we are asking Him to partake in that Prasad. What is that we can give to God except our tiny heart and that is what we have done for the past one hour? That is what we have done and we are grateful for it. We know what we have done. We are also grateful for the Master for having given the capacity to do that. That is his capacity. It is a gift to us. Left to ourselves we would have kept our hearts as I told you on so many other things. It is where our hearts go and it is to the hearts liking. I do not like it. It is something I can use but I don't like it. Liking is for what? For the silliest things we seem to be loosing our heart. Having known such stupidity, we have taken a decision to offer our hearts to our Master. Who would be interested to say that we have given our heart to that ice cream not that we don't like that or taste of that. It is not our option, it is not our priority. Priorities are decided on needs. What is the need we feel, on that priority is decided.
Character, Customs and Society: We all seem to feeling the need to realize ourselves and to see our relevance to human existence. I may and can be relevant to my Master only when I do what he wants me to do. That is the excellent character that we have got to build up because that is what he wanted. That is what Rev. Lalaji Maharaj has shown in his life. He was uncompromising on that. When read His story we will find that he is uncompromising with regard to character. He insisted every person should have very great character. He held that even if we are having any amount of spirituality without character then we have nothing to boast about. And character is a very big word and that is where society has got it's a role. You cannot say 'that this particular convention that is there, I will care for it, because it is not right for me'. Customs were built not by one man but it has come about through several generations. None of us have got any business to demolish such an edifice carefully constructed but we can modify it. You have every right to modify it. You have got every right to paint over it. But you have got no business to destroy. It may be that the religion has got solidified and in spiritually they may not be relevant. That is why many great saints who have come out of it still had respect for it. That is why Rev. Lalaji Maharaj says 'I don't care for a spirituality devoid of respect for tradition and character'. It is not that spirituality can co exist with such type of religious and fundamentalist aberrations. Beyond certain limit, that statement of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj, I don't recognize. You see the meaning behind it. No permission is given to choose a different path. There are others, some others do partake in it. He was not prepared to wear silken clothes and you find a contrast in Lord Krishna who seems to be one reveling in silken clothes, He is Pitambaradhari. We do not know whether anybody has seen Him in Pithambara or not but then the poets have described Him so. I was also wondering whether the influence of Chinese was there 6000 years back because that is the time when Lord Krishna lived. I am not sure because we were told that only from the Mauryan period there were visitors from across the Himalayan borders from China. We do not seem to know about the culture of wearing the silken clothes prior to that. What an amount of ahimsa it is? What an amount of aesthetics it is? How many worms were killed for it. What for? To satisfy the Chinese? Even now we have got so many electronic goods with us, to satisfy the Chinese? Chinese always seem to be doing some trading with us in a peculiar way. I am not against them. At the moment I have neither a friend nor a foe. I do not know any one of them. Pitambaradhari is something concocted by somebody because there seems to be no evidence whether such clothes were there in Vedic times and Lord Krishna was a Vedic personality. Why I am trying to tell all this is that such poetical additions have been made into the stories of the great Masters and we also can do it.
Simplicity in Rev. Lalaji Maharaj's Life: Similarly we can write something about Rev. Lalaji Maharaj but one thing we know, that we will be never be in a position to describe Rev. Lalaji Maharaj wearing silken clothes because that is distortion of facts. A few chapattis or rotis along with some dhal and chatni was good enough for Him and He never took breakfast leave alone coffee. That is the simplicity of his life. If you look at his simple living , you can see to what extent he can go to be simple and plain and we know it is not because he could not afford . He could surely afford. There were days when he could afford and there were days he could not afford. He was always not in poverty but there were days of poverty. Ten rupees for us is a very an insignificant amount and in those days of 1900's it was something phenomenal. Otherwise his salary of ten rupees would not have been mentioned in his story. Let us not look at ten rupees from our angle. Look at the ten rupees from an angle when we are told that a sovereign of gold was six rupees in 1910's. So ten rupees was a good amount, he could eat whatever he wanted but he was not prepared for it. That amount of restraint is required.
Spiritual Duty: So when we think about a Great Personality of that type, we think about what exactly made Him a Great Personality. His only job was how to structure a person in such a way that there is nothing of his is left. That he could complete, but not during his life time. The Special Personality came into existence in 1944 clearly after 13 years of his passing out of the mortal coil. In this context I invite your attention to the interesting statement he made in his death bed that, "I am happy that I have got few liberated souls around me that means that the time has come for me to go". So when can we go? When we have prepared some people like us who can guide others. So to keep a spiritual representative who can guide others on the spiritual path is the duty to be done before one leaves the mortal coil. What a noble idea. Have you ever thought about it? We are thinking about whether we are going to save something for our grand son or great grand son or his great grand son. We hear 'I have finished my entire responsibilities sir!' What are they? Marriages of daughters, all sons are employed. All my children are settled and now I can part. Is it the time to go? NO. For a spiritual man that is not the time to go. For a spiritual man, the time is when he has kept a man in the service of others and who can help others. If he has been helping others in spirituality he shall find another person who can help others. Now you see the sweetness of the heart of our Master. Rev. Lalaji Maharaj seems to be a person who stated that there were so many liberated around and allowed them to know their duty. Here is a person who comes forward and says now that you please say whether you are prepared to work in this direction and equip yourselves. Let it be in such a way that you can do such a service. And for the first time in the history spirituality you find what is called as the institution of preceptors coming out in the field of spirituality. These are the guides to whom we go; the Guru is the same for all. He has kept several people who can help others to come to his path. We are not here just trying to tell about the great system of Rev. Babuji Maharaj or Rev. Lalaji Maharaj. But here we are seeking to help them practically in the path, a claim that is only permissible in the case of Rev. Babuji Maharaj. No other saint and no other Avatar have ever done that. There have been greater saints perhaps. There are many saints here. Yes. There are many saints here. Agreed. But then there is no greater Master than ours because he could create a method of doing things for ever where you will find somebody to help you. Whether we are discharging that duty or not is a matter for each person who has been given that responsibility or who have chosen that responsibility to decide. But I am cent percent sure that this new method that he has created will have its own difficulties. Any new thing will have its own difficulties because it is something new. It is not some accustomed pattern of doing things. It not a known route, it is a tough job. The duty assigned is entirely different.
Mergence in Master: That is where we say and insist that none of the persons here is a guru. There are some people who can help, assist very actively in your sadhana but none can be a guru except the Master, Rev. Babuji Maharaj. When I talk about Rev. Babuji Maharaj, I also mean by implication the Great Grand Master, what ever word you may use for Rev. Lalaji Maharaj. Because their mergence is something Rev. Babuji said has happened. When we say that there is a mergence, what exactly do we mean? Rev. Lalaji merged in me means that I am equally prepared like him to create zeros. He created one zero in me and I will equally prepared to create a zero in you. That is the real meaning of mergence. There was no physical mergence. There was no mental mergence. But there is one spiritual mergence namely, the spiritual commitment to create perfect human beings. When are we perfect? Only when you become zero. That is the only time when you can serve others without any motive., without any interest. That is selflessness, that means the demand is for nothingness, nothing of you and everything of Master. Every one of us is asked to become that. That is the call and if you see today's message, you will find one of a call to get rid of our bondages, self created bondages. Who created those bondages? We created them.
The point I like to stress is that we have become slaves by choice, we are bound by our choice, and this message is one of the most important aspects of his writings. Tradition has always said that we are formed of samskaras, agreed. There is lot of literature on that sanchita, agami and prarabda. Have I become wiser by using the Sanskrit words? We try to tell the other man that I am more educated, more scholarly and more wise than you. Except for the words we never knew what they were and how we have acquired them. Rev. Babuji says you have become bounded by our own option, self imposed and self acquired. Therefore he comes forward with the theory to get rid off it through our own will. We have acquired them through our will and get shall get rid off them through our will. But then when all these things are removed and you become Zero to the extent that is possible, because perfect vacuum as every one of us know is not possible: when that is the position, then what shall we do? Your only task is to serve the Master. In what manner? Trying to take a photograph, garland it, offer some Prasad, construct a temple may be in villages, may be in some towns or may be in some cities. Is it what the service is? NO. Your job is to structure similar persons like you. Once you come to a stage when you may say that I am nominal self, you will be in a position to structure others. Why all these? Then only it is service, the real service and the only means to be happy. Happiness is the goal. Happiness is what God wants. No parent would want his son or children to be suffering, least of all God. God is never unkind. God wants us to be happy, only thing is we are not clear what is happiness and what pleasure is. Secondly we seem to have odd notions of what happiness should be.
Negation: But then we know there can be a flow of consciousness that brings in abiding calm in us and a state of peace in us and that is Happiness. Happiness gains a different meaning. There has been something within all and can be shared only when we have negated ourselves. So what type of personality shall we become? We shall be the same type of personality as our Masters. That is what he meant when he said that I make masters. These are all not the people who will be sitting in some Gaddi and having some big danda and go on telling people that you should do this and you should not do this, and all the while not practicing anything himself. This is not the master that he was talking about. But a person who is a master of one's own drives and desires. And one who knows where to put full stop to any action and says this is about this and no more than this. Can you say that? Then you can say you are the master.
Master is one who can do and can undo. If I want I can eat and if I don't want I will not eat. Apply this with respect to other drives and is it the condition in which we are. That you can say only when you do not have odd notions. Certainly you cannot say you are a master because you are a born slave and God has made you so in the two realms of Kama (desire) and Krodha (anger). That is why humanity is bound to be there so long as animal is there all the time. That is what Rev. Babuji has said. Please note there will be some deficiencies. Do not get guided by people who have read philosophies and who say they have got out of it. They have not got out of it and there is no such case. It is a bluff of the greatest variety propagated by pseudo vedantins. But in the texts of Vedanta or the Vedas we do not see this type of bluff. If you want to see the relevance or understand Vedas in sadhana in the correct perspective please read Rev. Lalaji Maharaj's articles in the book called 'Truth Eternal". Then you will find an entirely new perspective of what Vedas mean. And he says it is no book or no scripture, It is Sruti and if you know that is another word for Vedas, used in tradition. Sruti comes to me, comes to you and comes to all. It has some how happened that it was expressed in that language because that was the language spoken on that day by learned people. But then we know a small fact that it is in Sanskrit, samskrtam means refined. That means there was some thing which was unrefined earlier. So it is not that language in which it has come and that is the language into which it was converted. That is my point and that is point of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj also. This will be shocking for many and you cannot accept it but the word (Sanskrit) says so. The original thing is a Sruti, a vibration that has been converted into some language. There was an insinuation from some speaker that it is nowhere written that it is Apourusheya. Apourusheya it is because it has come from the source that is non personal, not because it has not identified the source. It is only the later day writers and poets who always write their name in their writings lest their insignificant self is forgotten. If the last makutam of Vemana satakam is removed then I liked it most because even otherwise Vemana satakam is sensible. Viswadabhirama vinura Vema, we need have one Abhirama nor create one Abhirama. They have created one, he is supposed to be an associate of Vemana, this is a fiction. We don't require that. The last line is not required at all. The first three are sufficient. What does it matter who gave it? If it is not Vemana it could be some other, what does it matter. Similarly Vedas will be Vedas even otherwise. If we all know that these things have been collected, compiled much later; to tell that this particular version is right, that particular version is wrong is not correct. When they say it is Apourusheya, it means where ever it is, it is true, it is not limited to a person. These are correct not because of the alleged origin but because it is the valid experience of the person and you are to see whether it is relevant to you.
TAM - Discovery of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj: What a very beautiful way of bringing that cosmic interdependency into the Ten Commandments. If you see that from commandment 1 to commandment 10 it has been linked up to the cosmic phenomenon .You can't change as you like. People talk so much about Savitri supposed to be longest poem written by Sri Aurobindo. I find greater Savitri in the first Commandment, Why I am referring these two is, it is where we are directly acknowledging the research of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj about the state of TAM. The state of TAM was something that was pointed out in the first Commandment of the Master, discovered by Rev. Lalaji Maharaj and stated simply THAT IS WHAT IT IS. That is the central region. He immediately stated that it is not to be confused with Tam or Tamas of the Trigunas. Except trying to bring in some Greek mythology into Savitri, what is the great thing about Sri Aurobindian work is a question that any serious and practical aspirant will ask. I went through that big poem long back as a student and I know a bit of what it is. Lot of images, lot of English, lot of Latin, lot of Greek, I do not want to talk about further on that work. What ever is there is there. Because, It does not throw up any frontier which was unknown to us earlier its practical significance in sadhana is little. As a piece of poetry it has its merits and I am least competent to talk of that.
Sandhya is nothing new to us; we have known its value in practice. But when we come across Rev. Babuji's interpretation of that in the first commandment, actually we are asked to also think about the concept of TAM which was brought in that context. That is what it is. You can reach only when you start your meditation at dawn and not at any time you like. Not in the way in which you want. There is no rigidity but it is a necessity. It is an imperative. Between rigidity and necessity we must understand the difference. It is imperative that you must meditate at that time of Dawn. People take exemptions unwarrantedly and give excuses. Don't try to justify your lapses. It is good to know your lapses. Lapses are there and are bound to be there. If you know that perhaps you should take recourse to the 10th Commandment. There is no question of saying that it is unjustified Commandment. I am not going to say that we are not following the Commandments. Because, I am sure from the light I have seen from your hearts this morning that you all must be practicing in your own way. It is not perhaps the way in which I perhaps seek. I cannot question your love for the Master nor can I question your commitment to the Master.
PAM: It is always there, each one of us is trying to do in our own way and in this another angle you would appreciate Rev. Lalaji Maharaj. Several people went to him from several levels. For each one he taught them in their own way. Rev. Babuji has not done that. Rev. Babuji has not chosen that path of trying to tell several ways of doing things. Every one of us is given the same method of training. But it true that Rev. Babuji Maharaj also used to say to us at a particular time to do a particular practice, but then it depends upon the amount of faith you had in him. But what is absolute bare minimum he has made it clear and on this there is no doubt about it. We all meditate in the heart. That is where you are going to find the relevance of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj. He said the path to Reality is through meditation in the heart not through other methods. There is a reference why Rev. Lalaji Maharaj came into being in the story of Lalaji Maharaj, which is relevant now and so in future also. It says something like"The mushroom growth of rites and rituals forms and formalities, dominated the religious sphere of India." And to solve the problem then he was born. I think it is more true now after the independence. Previously there were religious wars and along with it some political struggles were there. But once we got the political freedom, we were too eager to get an economic freedom. While going for what we call the economic freedom we seem to have thrown aboard almost every conceivable value. We have nothing in our mind except economic criteria and that meant the slavery again to the same people who ruled over us for centuries depriving us of our riches, culture, tradition, customs and beliefs and to use not a good phrase which however was literally true in the past few centuries 'licking the boots of foreign rulers.' The slavery of the worst type we have chosen again after independence. How are we trying to solve that problem of slavery now? It is through rite and rituals, ceremonies and festivals of all types and concoctions. You will find Ganeshas by the dozen in every street. In every street you have got one and no one worships it. All worship their wishes. If you worship your wishes and find a tool that works it is immediately deified. The tool however works only now and then. It is not reliable and alternatives are not wanting. But the misfortune is the tool is non existent and therefore it is fraud. If it is a real tool it will work. How do you explain? So much of degradation in the religious institutions, the endowment departments and one is fed up with the complaints from trusts. You fill find today every where and in every street corner one mahatma and perhaps one Samartha guru in every town and some other better word for every city. The situation is pathetic.
Let us try to negate ourselves and let us try to become as much zero as possible allowing the Divine to function through us rather than our trying to function on our own. Once you try to become zero then God knows what to do with you, you don't have to do anything. But there is always that desire that I must do something and that is ego, nothing else. Doership is the worst thing that you can ever have. We are not the doers. But every one of us tries to tinker here and there. Iimitation is the worst offshoot of humanity. We try to tinker some nut here and some bolt there. You will find Rev. Lalaji Maharaj tried to train people of different varieties, But Rev. Babuji found that the whole variety seems to be only one, the greedy type. There is only one type now and he has written in a Preceptors circular where he said, greedy people are there in his group also. We may note that material greed is there but spiritual greed is much worse. He wrote but we are not even ready to accept that defect. If greed is our problem then one Master and method is enough.
But meditation in the heart is the method that the Master has given. Rev. Lalaji Maharaj gave the method of meditation in the heart and then said you are not all that handicapped and there are people to help you provided you know where to go. And where to go will depend upon what you want to have.
The day, like this should not be wasted like this instead I would ask you , excuse me for this and also for bringing to your notice that sentence of Master , where he said," This is the time when we should get ourselves drenched and try to be in Master alone." Try to be as much as possible in the thought of the Master but surely not from our greedy angle and surely not from our selfish angle but from an angle that considers how can we please the Master and how can we be nearer to him. How can we be nearer to Him, by only pleasing Him. Hope you will find the solution by the day.

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Erectile dysfunction and an almost non-existent libido caught me off guard with shock and disbelief several years ago. It then put me through a decade-long roller-coaster filled with ups and downs. There were dark and gloomy periods where I all wanted was to give up. But there were also happy moments when I sensed glimmers of hope. However, in the end, the journey did have a happy ending. It did have a happy ending because I found a solution to my problems. And the solution was simply to change many of the ways in which I lived my life.
Before making these changes, I had acquired many unhealthy lifestyle habits that caused my body (and mind) to be out of balance. My body and mind were simply far away from their optimal conditions. And because my body was not working optimally, I started having health problems. Two of these health problems were erectile dysfunction and a very weak libido.
The solution to these problems was to change the way I approached sex. As a first stop, I basically stopped anything sexual. I cut masturbation and porn out of my life and I stopped having sex (I later allowed myself to have sex, but cut masturbation and pornography completely). I then limited how often I would let myself have orgasms. I also changed my diet to an ultra-healthy one. I started taking supplements to try to cover any nutritional deficiencies. I also started taking supplements specifically aimed at sexual health. I started exercising more and better. I also made a very conscious effort to stress less in life and try to relax more. I changed my sleeping habits to ensure I got enough sleep. I tried to get direct sun exposure during days when this was possible, and I tried to ensure I was in psychological and social balance by living a good life with good friends.
By doing this, I became nicer to myself and my body. I provided a healthier and better environment for my body (and mind) to operate in. Instead of putting myself through distress and abuse (because abuse is what it really was in many cases), I freed my body from the chains that were holding it back and gave it a chance to reach its potential.
And my body and mind responded positively. As I was experimenting with these lifestyle changes, my libido would in periods get stronger and more intense. In periods, I would also no longer struggle with erectile dysfunction – my penis would suddenly work just fine. And then as I became more consistent and more conscious of implementing these positive habits, my libido would remain rock solid, and erectile dysfunction faded into history as something of the past. By being consistent with these changes, by keeping them up and by giving my body and mind what it needed, I overcame my problems of erectile dysfunction and a very weak libido.
But not only that, I have so much more energy now that it’s sometimes almost too much. I particularly have heaps of energy in the mornings after my breakfast. I also don’t easily get fatigued or tired during the day, and I no longer have those periods in the afternoon anymore where I can hardly stay awake.
I also hardly get sick anymore. In the past, I would always get one or two colds in the winter, and also often at some point during the winter struggle with the flu. As I am writing this, I can’t remember the last time I had a cold or the flu.
My general attitude is also positive and happy and I feel upbeat about life and the privilege of being alive. My confidence is also healthy and I just generally feel empowered.
Although this journey to overcome erectile dysfunction and an almost non-existent libido took me more than a decade, and although it put me through an almost countless number of disappointments and frustrations, it was totally worth every single effort and every single heartache. I say this because being able to again function well sexually has given me my happy life back.

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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to light switches, and, more particularly, is concerned with a light switch having memory capability for storing light usage patterns therein.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Light switches have been described in the prior art. However, none of the prior art devices disclose the unique features of the present invention. It is felt that a light switch capable of storing usage patterns would be useful.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,160,853, dated Nov. 3, 1992, Simon, et al., disclosed a programmable timer for turning a light on and off in response to changing sunset, daylight savings time, and other programmable conditions. The programmable timer includes an input device, a microprocessor, and a switch. The input device provides calendar, geographical, and daylight savings information to the microprocessor, which stores the programming information. The microprocessor computes an effective switching time from the stored information. The microprocessor employs program logic that compares the effective switching time to the current time to generate a timing control signal. The timing control signal, in turn, causes the switch, to turn a light on and off. In the preferred embodiment, the microprocessor and the switch are included within a housing which mounts on a wall in place of a normal light switch. A liquid crystal display is disposed on a face of the housing to provide a read out of the programming information and of the time of day. The input device is disposed on the face of the housing and includes a key matrix having a plurality of finger settable key type programming switches. Information is programmed by depressing each key while the programming logic is in a particular program mode.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,465,031, dated Nov. 7, 1995, Nilssen disclosed a self-contained programmable actuator which can easily be mounted directly onto the outside of the face plate of a standard wall switch having a built-in light dimmer. This actuator can be programmed to adjust the position of the dimmer's mechanical control input in accordance with a program that automatically repeats on a diurnal, weekly or other cyclical basis. The actuator includes a small battery, a miniature electric motor with a gear/linkage mechanism operable to engage with and to move the dimmers mechanical control input over its complete range, and a quartz clock-based programming means having programming input keys and time display means.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,629,587, dated May 13, 1997, Gray, et al., disclosed a programmable lighting control system for advertising, decorative, artistic and Christmas lighting applications, which consists of a standalone controller, an optional power booster device, and a personal computer compatible software program. The controller receives power via a standard AC outlet receptacle and includes: a plurality of AC output receptacles for connection to either series or parallel connected Christmas tree type lights or the like; a microcontroller to provide timing and control signals that are applied to solid state switching devices to drive the outlet receptacles; a non volatile memory to store custom user defined lighting sequences; a rotary switch to enable the selection of either pre-programmed sequences or user defined sequences: and a serial communication port. The personal computer compatible software program enables the user to create custom lighting sequences, which can be downloaded to the light controller non-volatile memory via the serial port. The optional power booster device can be used to increase the output power capability of each of the individual controller output circuits.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,279,012, dated Jul. 14, 1981, Beckedorff, et al., disclosed a programmable apparatus for providing random on/off control of electrical devices such as appliances. Such control may be programmed for an entire week, with different programming for each day, and with programming control over small blocks of time, e.g., thirty minutes. Programming is secured by the use of a combination or lock and, in addition, the AC line cord of the electrical device, which receives or does not receive AC power depending upon the status of the program, is locked into the apparatus. During operation, the program in the apparatus may be interrogated and displayed; otherwise, the time of day is displayed. The apparatus also includes a look-ahead feature, turning on an appliance, such as a television set, earlier than programmed in order to provide sufficient warm-up time.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,344,000, dated Aug. 10, 1982, Schornack, et al., disclosed one form of a timer which is designed to be mounted over and behind a conventional wall switch cover plate and includes a two position time condition-setting arm, a rotatable and depressible time setting dial knob and an indicator on the front of the cover plate. When the arm is moved to a timer-on position, the indicator flashes to indicate that timer programming is needed. This may be achieved in real time over the first twenty-four hours after a 30 minute play period by depressing the knob acting as an on and off power switch control push button to turn the light circuit on and off in a normal manner. Fast normal programming is achieved by rotating the knob to various time settings and depressing the knob to se ON or OFF markers in timer memory. A full twenty-four hour programming is completed by either completing a full rotation of the knob over the full twenty-four hour time settings, which at least one ON and one OFF depression, or by a similar pair of knob depressions without such a full rotation, OFF markers then being automatically set by the time to complete the timer programming. The indicator comes steady on to indicate that the timer is fully programmed and in an automatic mode of operation. The automatic operation is temporarily overridden by depression of the knob or permanently overridden by a simple distinctive speed or time duration depression of the knob.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,354,120, dated Oct. 12, 1982, Schornack disclosed an electrical timer which automatically actuates an output electrical load device such as electric light according to a program stored as markers in a memory unit over a 24-hour interval, whereupon the program is recycled. By actuating one or more electric lights within an empty dwelling, an illusion of occupancy is thus conveyed to an observer. In the preferred form of the invention the memory unit is a recirculating shift register. A daily variability of the timer output is provided to prevent precise daily replication of the load device duty profile. One version causes the program output to be delayed by 15 minutes on alternate days by alternately taking the output from the last or the next-to-last storage element of the shift register. The stored duty profile is in 15-minute blocks. A second version uses 30-minute blocks and minimizes possible output distortion during the transition from normal to delayed display by using two timing pulses 16 minutes apart to display the program output on alternate days 8 minutes early or 8 minutes late. The second version allows use of a smaller amount of memory storage.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,570,215, dated Feb. 11, 1986, Chan disclosed a fully automatic programmable wall switch timer for controlling lighting circuits. The device provides user selected lighting circuit operation at predetermined event times, for predetermined event duration at said times, and at a selected light brightness or intensity level. The device is microprocessor controlled and is intended for installation in a standard wall switch box using existing wall switch plates. Included are a time of day and programming display and a three-way switch option. Separate switches are provided for isolating the unit from the power line, selecting lighting circuit operation, and advancing the display time. Additionally, various user-programming modes are provided by operation of said switches and in conjunction with each other.
While these automatic light switches may be suitable for the purposes for which they were designed, they would not be as suitable for the purposes of the present invention, as hereinafter described.
The present invention discloses a light switch designed physically similarly to a present day conventional light switch having a face plate and on/off switching capability for connection to standard house current using 110/115 volts AC electricity. The present invention discloses the light switch having memory capability wherein the light usage patterns actually used by the household resident can be stored into memory so that when the household residents are away from home they can activate the memory of the present invention so that the light switches are operated in their absence according to the actual usage pattern which has been exhibited by them while present in the house.
An object of the present invention is to store home light usage patterns of residents for later use when the residents are away from home. A further object of the present invention is to provide improved home security so the actual light usage pattern of the residents is used when the residents are away in order to deter thieves from the home. A further object of the present invention is to provide a timer for light usage when the residents are away from the home.
The foregoing and other objects and advantages will appear from the description to follow. In the description reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments will be described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention, and it is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and that structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the invention. In the accompanying drawings, like reference characters designate the same or similar parts throughout the several views.
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Turning now descriptively to the drawings, in which similar reference characters denote similar elements throughout the views,