CAT exams

hey CAT.. meeeow...

Cat is one of the most competitive written examinations in India so far. It is the entrance Criteria for almost any Management college in India. It stands for Competitive Aptitude Test. The cat is divided into three gruesome sections. One is the Analytical section, then there is an English section and the third is a Data Interpretation section. Now these three sections are supposed to test the awareness of the person, the amount of speed math the person is able to do and the verbal ability of the person. There are about two lakh participants who sit in this examination every year and the competition gets more and more difficult each year.


I happen to be one of them and have no prep whatsoever. May the great lord get me above 80 percentile. Rest I leave to lady luck :).

Shit Happens.. This is the way to camouflage it

If you have had a shit day.. Look on the bright side of it.. It might change your next.. ROTFLMAO.

"Daddy!  Daddy!  I got a 100 in school today!"

"That's great, Sweetheart," said her daddy.

"Come in to the living room and tell me about it."

"Well,"  began the confession, "I got 50 in spelling, 30 in math's and 20 in science."

Awesome Truth

One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.
That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver.     
As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities. 
The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.  
The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?"
He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it" 
If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.

Answers To the Questions about Relegion

It is true that it is believed that God is supposed to be an Omnipotent, Omniscient and personal being. In our philosophy there is one major God (Ishwara). He is assumed to be the creator and controller of all. Basically he can summon whichever power he wishes to and perform any task. Also there are Gods of different powers individually. They are reffered to as deities in the western cultures.

The concept I was trying to inculcate is still unclear with the above explanation. I was trying to explain that our scriptures talk about henotheism. This is a concept meaning devotion to a single primary god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities.

So while there is one single God (Ishwara), there are a lot of deities with unique powers and they in turn are responsible for the various acts of nature. For example, agni(fire), vayu(air), et cetra. We all believe that God is within us all. A person can become a Devotee and then a deity. As the book says, Ishwara lies within us all. So there is no need to become Ishwara. You already have Ishwara within you. In our concept it is more like you may use Ishwara to either do good deeds or do bad deeds and they will be repayed to your sons and daughters in time. There is a concept of Hell (Narak) and Heaven (Bhagwaan's place) as well.

So as we said the concept of omniscience is there. As God is always with us, since he exists in us and everything around us. The trees, birds, air, everything. And he knows all that is happening in the world. All that is planned to happen and all that has previously happened. It is even said that there is a person designated on the gates of death who keeps record of all the activities a living thing has performed, so that his/her/its place in heaven or hell can be determined at the time of death.

I hope this answers the first part of the question. The rest I'll answer in further posts.