CULTURAL QA08-2023-29A Q1 Whatare some mind blowing facts that most people don't know?
A1 Krishna Kamat, May 27 Samsung is responsible for 25% of SouthKorea's GDP. Around 8% of the world population hasan extra rib. It's possible to find rivers andlakes beneath the ocean. All the ants in the world weighabout the same as all the people in the world. The Sun is large enough thatapproximately 1.3 million Earths could fit inside. There's enough space between theEarth and the moon to fit in all the rest of the planets in the solar system. Q2 Whatperson doesn't lose life easily? A2 Adam Kite, 19h Juliane was born in Peru on October 10, 1954 and her parents worked inthe Amazon jungle, so Juliane grew up in an environment quite differentfrom most children her age. When she was 17, at Christmas time, she and her mother boarded a planeto travel to Germany. The plane took off in the middle of a storm and, shortly after taking off, wasstruck by lightning. It broke when it was 3 km high. Juliane was thrown out of theplane, but miraculously survived. Although she was knocked unconscious by theimpact, she only broke hercollarbone and had a swollen eye. Experts believe that the seat and leafy vegetation cushioned the fall.When she woke up, she screamed for help, but no one answered. The firstthing she did was look for her mother, who was flying by her side. After 4 days wandering throughthe forest she found the plane in pieces and many lifeless bodies. Juliane did not find hermother among the bodies, but she did find a bag of sweets, which sheused as food. The young woman kept walking in search of help for daysthat seemed eternal. During that time, she could only see through her inflamedeye, and her open wounds filled with maggots and mosquitoes when she slept. Ten days after the accident, she encountered some lumberjacks. When sheexplained that she was a survivor of the accident, the men helped her and tookher to the nearest town, which was a 7-hour boat ride away. At the hospital, she was toldthat her mother's body had been found and that she too had survived the fall,but had died a few days later. So she became the sole survivor of the plane's91 passengers. Q3 Whatare the stories of Lord Krishna that give you goose bumps? A3 Apoorv Barange, MBBS from All India Institute Of MedicalSciences. Updated 2y This story of Lord Krishna isbased on true event and always gives me goose bumps because this story is telling us thathow much love Lord Krishna have for his true devotees irrespective of theirreligion and caste. This story is giving us a message that all thesedifferences are made by humans and everyone is equal before “ The Lord of theCosmos Shri Jagannath Swami (another name of Lord Krishna). So, Let's getstarted….. Aurangzeb, the most cruel Mughal ruler,during his reign tried his best to destroy our culture and religion. He orderedhis soldiers to destroy temples, to forcefully convert Hindus into his ownreligion. Mughal soldiers used to forcefully marry Hindu girls and widows andconvert them to Islam. One such soldier of his army was Lalbeg,who forcefully married a Hindu widow and named her as Fatima. He restricted her to follow herown religion. Aftersome years of their marriage she gave birth to a male child, they named him asSalbeg. As Lalbeg was a soldier, his son Salbeg also became a soldier as hegrew older. Once Lalbeg and his son Salbeg was on a war. Salbeg got severelyinjured in this war and was about to die. His father left him and his mother, as hedidn't need them anymore. His mother tried her best to cure her only son butthere was no hope. Her son asked her one day “ Mother, I don't wanna die,please save me anyhow”. His mother replied him “ I was a Bramhingirl before my marriage Son. My father was a devotee of Lord Krishna. He taughtus that Lord Krishna helps everyone who calls him. Pray him Son, he will cureyou”. He thought that, I don't know itwill work or not, but I'll do it because there is no one to cure me. He start chanting Lord Krishna’sname. Twelve days passed in this way. Twelfth day he saw a dream in which Lordkrishna gave him some 'bhabhoot' (Devine Ash) and ask him to apply it on hisbody. When he woke up there was that bhaboot in his hand, he applied it on hisinjuries. He got cured. He called his mother and told her his dream andthat how he get cured. This incident changed his mind set and now he devoted his life in thebhakti of Lord Krishna. He roamed in the streets of Vrindavan, composed manyverses in the praise of Lord. His compositions like “Ahe Nila Shaila” andmany more are famous even today. Once he was in Vrindavan and a devotee told him that he should go to Puriwhere Lord Krishna is in his eternal form. He can get glimpses of LordJagannath during his annual Chariot festival, when Lord himself come out oftemple to give glimpses to those who cannot enter the temple ( even today onlyIndian Hindus, Buddha and Jains are allowed to enter the temple. Even IndiraGandhi was not allowed to enter this temple in 1984. This is just becauseforeign invaders attacked 18 times this temple.)Then Salbeg visited Puri and pour his devotion in front ofhis Lord in Rath yatra (Chariot festival). The very next year, he was inVrindavan and someone told him that Chariot festival is about to start in Puri. He thought that how I'll getthere in this short duration, how I'll get the darshan (glimpse) of my Lordthis year( distance between Vrindavan and Puri is about 1600 km). He prayed to Lord “ O Lord! Pleasewait for me until I reach there. I can't live without your divine darshan”.While he was in his way to Puri, the Rath yatra started in Puri. Thousands ofdevotees, horses, elephants ( those days horses and elephants were also used topull chariots) started pulling chariot and it started moving. But Lord Jagannath, once again heard plea of his devotee Salbeg andhis chariot stopped in the midway. More and more elephants and horseswere tied to pull the chariot but it didn't moved even an inch. Pujaris werethinking that why this is happening, why the chariot is not moving even afterapplying this much force. They decided to pray to Lord at the same place whereit stopped. After some time, Salbegreached there. He was thinking that Rath would have already entered the templetill now, as I'm late. But to his amaze, Lord was still waiting for him. Seeing his Lord in front of him he cried andstarted singing hymes in Lord's praise. As soon as he touched the ropes of chariot it startedmoving once again. Everyone watching this scene was stunned. They all hailed “Jai ShreeJagannath Swami” and entitled Salbeg as Bhakt Shiromani Salbeg. He spent hislast days in Puri praising his Lord and after dying he was cremated at the sameplace where Lord waited for him. Even till now the chariot is stopped in frontof Salbeg's samadhi to pay tribute to this great Muslim bhakt of LordJagannath. This story is giving us a deep message thateveryone is equal. No one is superior and no one is inferior in front of LordJagannath. Q4 Whatis the biggest lesson you learned that no one teaches? A4 Sherry Cam, Psychological Counselor (2014-present), LA10mo You win, or you learn. The real test is being kind tounkind people. If you can’t convince them,confuse them. Feeling sad sometimes for ‘noreason’ is completely normal. Sometimes, their behavior is theanswer you need. Nobody cares about your fake lifeon social media. Your progress does not need to be seen orvalidated by others to be real. Q5 Whatare some mind blowing facts that most people don't know? A5 Krishna Kamat, Apr 30 Mumbai was the first city to start a busservice in India. Frogs cannot vomit. If oneabsolutely has to, then it will vomit its entire stomach. Bananas are curved because of howthey grow — toward the sun. It takes a sloth two weeks todigest its food. If a statue of a person in thepark on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. Saint Lucia is the only country in theworld named after a woman. Like humans, koalas actually haveunique individual fingerprints. Your blood makes up about 8percent of your body weight. Bats are the only mammal that can actually fly. The first 7 star hotel was the Burj Al Arab in the UAE. All the above QA are from Quora websiteon 29 -08-2023. Quora answers neednot be 100% correct answers. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 79, on 29-08-2023. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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