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  THE BHAGAVAD GITA For the Hindu philosophers, the Bhagavad Gita has been always of great importance. It was also translated from Sanskrit into other languages. As a work of literature, the epic was immensely important to the cultural life of India and even beyond her shores.  According to Sargeant, the  Gita is, "said to have been translated at least 200 times, in both poetic and prose forms". Richard Davis cites a count by Callewaert & Hemraj in 1982 of 1,891 translations of the Bhagavad Gita in 75 languages, including 273 in English.   The Gita also found a rapt audience in the West. The Gita was first translated into English in India in 1785 by Charles Wilkins, a merchant with the East India company.  Sir Charles Wilkins was an English typographer and an orientalist and founding member of the Asiatic Society. He is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English. The first Sanskrit edition came out in 1806 under the supervision of Sir...

DILIP KUMAR-THE VETERAN INDIAN BOLLYWOOD ACTOR DILIP KUMAR EARLY LIFE: Dilip Kumar , the original name  Muhammad Yusuf Khan , was born December 11, 1922, in Peshawar , British India ,  now in Pakistan. He was one of the twelve children of  Lala Ghulam Sarvar Khan and his wife Ayesha Begum. His father was a fruit merchant. Khan was schooled at Barnes School, Deolali.   In 1940 he moved to Pune and set up a dry fruit shop and a canteen. Khan never acted under his birth name.  In an interview in 1970, he said that he adopted this name out of fear of his father, who never approved of his acting career.   He began working in a British army canteen, where he was noticed by Devika Rani, a leading actress of the time, and her husband, Himanshu Rai, who hired him to act for the Bombay Talkies, a film company they owned.  CAREER: Kumar made his acting debut with the film Jwar Bhatta (1944), but it was not until a few years later that he had ...

Mother  Teresa Born Mother Teresa  was born  in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her real name was  Agnes Gonxha  Bojaxhiu   ( Gonxha means flower bud in the Albanian language).    I n multi-cultural Skopje then part of the Ottoman Empire and now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.  Mother Teresa  had an ethnic Albanian   mother  whose family came from Kosovo .  Mother  Teresa   was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.   She grew up in a  wealthy family . Nikola  was  a merchant, trading in tobacco, medicine, and gold, from Macedonia to Romania.  She was the youngest of five siblings, it is believed that when she was only 12 years old, she realized that she would devote her whole life to human service and at the age of 18 she joined Sister of Loreto, after that she went to Ireland. Mother Teresa   famous for: Mother Teresa has been endowed with various a...

TWO COACHES IN VOLLEYBALL WHO GET BOTH ARJUNA AND DRONACHARYA AWARDS Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the program at the Atlanta in 1996. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. These are the two coaches in volleyball who get both Arjuna and Dronacharya awards. G. E. Sridharan Our Legends, G E Sridharan G E Sridharan is a former Indian men's national volleyball team player from Tamil Nadu, India who played during the late 1970s to late 1980s.   He was the second player from Tamil Nadu to receive the Arjuna Award in 1982. He is the current coach for the Indian men's national volleyball team and former coach for the Tamil Nadu Volleyball team.   He's o...

MILKHA SINGH Milkha Singh: India’s ‘Flying Sikh’  Milkha Singh: India’s ‘Flying Sikh’ dies of COVID aged ninety-one. Singh, a four-time Asian Games gold medalist, died at a hospital in the north Indian city of Chandigarh. His domestic partner Nirmal Kaur, a former volleyball captain, had died of the virus merely days earlier. She was 85. “He fought exhausting, but God has his ways in which,” Singh’s family same in a passing statement.  Milkha Singh was the first Indian contestant to win at the Commonwealth Games inside the 400m division in 1958. He narrowly omitted on an Olympic honor, finishing fourth in the 400m final of the 1960 Rome Games. Singh represented the Republic of India at the athletic contest in 1956, 1960, and 1964 .  Indian women’s court game star Sania Mirza said that the “world will miss a legend like you”. Young Indian runner Hima Das recalled Milkha Singh’s felicitous message once she won the 400m gold at the 2018 world under-20 championships. Boll...

Our Legends, Bhagavad Gita       1.     The Yoga of despondency, of Arjuna 2.     Sankhya Yog 3.     The Yoga of action   4.     The Yoga of Wisdom 5.     The Yoga of Renunciation of action 6.     The Yoga of Meditation 7.     The Yoga of Wisdom and Realization 8.     The Yoga of the Imperishable Brahman 9.     The Yoga of the Kingly Science and the Kingly secret 10.    The Yoga of the Divine glories 11.    The yoga of the vision of the cosmic form 12.    The yoga of devotion 13.   The Yoga of distinction between the field and the Knower of the field 14.   The Yoga of the division of the three Gunas 15.   The Yoga of the Supreme Spirit 16.   The Yoga of the division between the divine  and  the  demoniacal 17. Yoga the division of the three-fold ...