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Endurance

nisarg — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:57:11 +0000

Fauja Singh

Age : 100

Endurance is life

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
- Buddha

“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.”
- Bruce Lee

Fauja Singh (born April 1, 1911) is a centenarian Sikh. He is a marathon runner of Indian descent who is a world record holder in his age bracket. His current personal best time for the London Marathon (2003) is 6 hours 2 minutes,and his marathonrecord, for age 90-plus, is 5 hours 40 minutes, at the age of 92, at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2003.

Running Career
- Rediscovered at age of 81
- Marathons run: London (5), Toronto (1), New York (1)
- Marathon debut: London, 2000, aged 89
- London Flora Marathon 2000: 6:54
- London Flora Marathon 2001: 6:54
- London Flora Marathon 2002: 6:45
- Bupa Great North Run (Half Marathon) 2002: 2:39
- London Flora Marathon 2003: 6:02
- Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2003: 5:40
- New York City Marathon 2003: 7:35
- London Flora Marathon 2004: 6:07
- Glasgow City Half Marathon 2004: 2:33
- Capital Radio Help a London Child 10,000 m 2004: 1:08
- Toronto Waterfront Half Marathon 2004: 2:29:59

Do you care to dare?

Efforts

nisarg — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:14:54 +0000

Crowded Hour

nisarg — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:40:48 +0000

Growth and Risk

nisarg — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:23:54 +0000

Rain

nisarg — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:02:39 +0000

‘The waters which are from heaven, and which flow afer

being dug, and even those that spring by themselves, the

bright pure waters which lead to the sea, may those divine waters protect me here.’

- Rigved

How beautiful is the rain!

After the dust and the heat,

In the broad and fiery street,

In the narrow lane,How beautiful is the rain!

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Summer rain is here, feel the rain, resonate with rain,

dance on the beats of rhythm divine & bring purest soul home!

River

nisarg — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:05:14 +0000

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The soul is a river. Good karma that one accumulates is the steps on the banks of the river. Truth is the water that flows in it. Character is the banks of that river. Compassion is a wave in it. Oh son of Pandu, take a bath in such a river. The inner mind is cleansed by such introspection but not by water.

- Hitopadesha, Sandhi

Can I learn to live like river by sitting in my bedroom, watching Discovery program about Ganga? No, I must walk towards bank of Ganga.

Fool’s worry

nisarg — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:48:07 +0000

Dying

nisarg — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:49:14 +0000

Dhobighat

nisarg — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:02:41 +0000

Dhobighat : Glorifying psychological flunks of society under ‘City Heritage’ propaganda,using hotchpotch of abstract film making concepts.

I read in several interviews/articles about Dhobighat that this movie is about Mumbai.This is about Mumbai’s heritage.They were partially right. This movie was indeed about Mumbai who is suffering from psychosomatic issues & that’s it.Mental illness is not city specific and certainly it should not be considered as City Heritage.There are many movies showing weak side of society (with more intense show) but they don’t market movies as “Mumbai Heritage” & yeh..showing frequent frames of different areas of Mumbai was not expected, any amateur artist would do it. (PS: what I consider as psychosomatic issues, many might find normal..:) )
There was not only representation of anomalies of society(or of Mumbai) but also glorification of them by showing them as normal!

About film making – I noticed that director has good skill to observe & shoot emotions as is and I must appreciate efforts but then experimenting everything in 95 minutes? Felt hotchpotch.

Movie zealots should see it once.Mass should avoid it.

Fly

nisarg — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:47:34 +0000

Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can’t see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that’s not marked by boundaries, it’s not a map. We’re not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there’s a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards.

— Richard Bach

Fly infinite.

May your Kite reaches that infinite.

Happy Kite Flying!

- LifeMantras Team