In this scientific era of the many discoveries and inventions, science making the impossible possible with the blink of an eye fixed , there’s no place for superstition. Science and superstitions are poles apart. Yet they’re the 2 sides of an equivalent coin unknown of their interdependence.
Superstitions are self-imposed selfish beliefs, something imaginary yet unimaginable disbelief, or mere beliefs. But science – the foremost well-known and popular word of this era. Science as is believed to be something realistic which even makes the unreal real; the unachievable achievable.
But still, these two unrealistic and realistic, unimaginable and imaginable, never-ending and ever ending concepts are interconnected somewhere beyond the universe by some unpredictable threads of God.
1. Eat curd and sugar before heading out Eating curd and sugar before stepping out for something new and important is taken into account to be good luck because the consumption of curd features a cooling effect on the stomach and sugar which is added provides instant glucose which makes your work easier and successful. This combination is indispensable for Indians and its consumption was slowly linked to good luck.
2. Don’t wash or cut hairs on certain days Washing or cutting hairs on certain days like on Tuesdays or Thursdays are considered to be bad luck but there’s no truth during this because it was one among the water management practices. And moreover, during those days, barbers got a vacation on those days. So, just to offer them a vacation people don’t cut hairs on those days.
3. Swallow tulsi leaves never chew
Tulsi leaves shouldn’t be chewed, it must be swallowed. The science behind his is that the tulsi leaves contain a touch amount of arsenic. Thus, chewing it directly could end in degradation of enamel.
4. Bathe after attending a funeral ceremony Earlier bathing was necessary after attending a funeral ceremony but today it’s not like earlier as our ancestors didn’t have vaccinations against smallpox, hepatitis and other deadly diseases. So they came up with this ritual of bathing so on prevent themselves from infection from the body .
5. Menstruating women are considered impure and unclean: during a country like India, it’s very prevalent and this gave rise to several other superstitious beliefs. At that point women weren’t allowed inside the kitchen, temples, mosques, and other religious spots. They are not allowed to perform any household duties. The reason is that at that time of your time women are comparatively weak due to tons of blood loss. So, they are given complete rest. Moreover, ancient stone statues of God maintain a particular equilibrium with the atmosphere and should collapse if any disturbance occurs. As women release tons of warmth during this era , they’re not allowed inside the temple since this might cause a disturbance within the natural equilibrium and should result in cracks in the idols.
6. Lizard falling on human is bad luck
It is said to be bad luck but the scientific reasons behind this is often that the lizard releases poisonous chemicals from its body so as to guard themselves from enemies and if it falls on physical body or food, it’s sure to contaminate it. So, bathe is taken after it falls on someone.
7. Using lemons and green chillies to avoid buri nazar The nimbhu mirchi tadka is one among the commonly visible superstitions among the society whose use is usually encouraged due to the qualities of lemon and chillies as they both are rich in several vitamins Ad create certain acidic odour which helps prevent insects. Thus, our ancestors used this as a logo during ceremonies which now became a tadka.
8. Bats entering the house means death it’s considered to be a nasty omen. The real reason behind this superstition is that the bats bring tons of deadly diseases along side them and when there was no medical facility available during those days, people would die thanks to rabies, Ebola, Nipah and other illness brought in by the illness.
9. Ghosts residing in peepal trees
This myth continues to prevail even today. But the scientific reason behind this is often that the trees use CO2 during the day and releases oxygen but in the dark , it’s the opposite way round. So, once you sleep under the tree, the surplus CO2 level can cause you to feel heavy within the fist and suffocated which is related to the sensation of being possessed by some spirits.
10. Throwing coins in fountains and rivers bring good
Most currencies in past were made from copper and by throwing copper coins into rivers, our forefathers apparently ensured that they were consuming pure water. Science has it that copper has antimicrobial property and it can kill 99.9% of infection-causing bacteria. However, today neither can we use copper coins nor can we drink water directly from the river. This belief has brought in additional pollution than good luck.

Time travel has always been one of the biggest fantasies for all of us. It is generally thought as something fictional. It can be actually defined as the movement between certain points of time. Albert Einstein introduced a theory that if a person can move at a very high speed then time will be slowed down for him. Light moves very fast with a speed as high as 670,616,629 miles per hour. In just one second, light can go around the earth three times. The only way to achieve time travel is by traveling at the speed of light in space. Light always travels at the same constant speed in a vacuum 700 million mph.

Quick Facts: –

• There are several paradoxes like twin paradox and paradox of a man with no past riddled with the time travel making the concept very complicated.
• Despite all these complexities, it is believed by physicists that there are chances of time travel in the future.
• Famous scientist Stephen Hawking claimed that time travel was impossible.
• In the year of 2000, a person identified himself as John Titor and claimed to be a military time traveler.
• Time is the fourth dimension along with the other three which are length, height, and width.
• Going back to the past by time traveling is known as Retrocognition. It is also very much difficult to prove.
• Travelling to the future using the concept is known as Precognition. It gives you knowledge of future events before they happen.
• A time traveler was caught on a picture available on the Virtual Museum of Canada website

Stephen Hawking, in full Stephen William Hawking, (born January 8, 1942, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England—died March 14, 2018, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), English theoretical physicist whose theory of exploding black holes drew upon both relativity theory and quantum mechanics. He also worked with space-time singularities.

Hawking studied physics at University College, Oxford (B.A., 1962), and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Ph.D., 1966). He was elected a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge. In the early 1960s Hawking contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable degenerative neuromuscular disease. He continued to work despite the disease’s progressively disabling effects.

Hawking worked primarily in the field of general relativity and particularly on the physics of black holes. In 1971 he suggested the formation, following the big bang, of numerous objects containing as much as one billion tons of mass but occupying only the space of a proton. These objects, called mini black holes, are unique in that their immense mass and gravity require that they be ruled by the laws of relativity, while their minute size requires that the laws of quantum mechanics apply to them also. In 1974 Hawking proposed that, in accordance with the predictions of quantum theory, black holes emit subatomic particles until they exhaust their energy and finally explode. Hawking’s work greatly spurred efforts to theoretically delineate the properties of black holes, objects about which it was previously thought that nothing could be known. His work was also important because it showed these properties’ relationship to the laws of classical thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.

Hawking’s contributions to physics earned him many exceptional honours. In 1974 the Royal Society elected him one of its youngest fellows. He became professor of gravitational physics at Cambridge in 1977, and in 1979 he was appointed to Cambridge’s Lucasian professorship of mathematics, a post once held by Isaac Newton. Hawking was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and a Companion of Honour in 1989. He also received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 2006 and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. In 2008 he accepted a visiting research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

His publications included The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (1973; coauthored with G.F.R. Ellis), Superspace and Supergravity (1981), The Very Early Universe (1983), and the best sellers A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988), The Universe in a Nutshell (2001), A Briefer History of Time (2005), and The Grand Design (2010; coauthored with Leonard Mlodinow).

Steve Jobs, the American businessman and technology visionary who is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc, was born on February 24, 1955. His parents were two University of Wisconsin graduate students, Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian-born Abdulfattah Jandali. They were both unmarried at the time. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when Steve was born, said he had no choice but to put the baby up for adoption because his girlfriend’s family objected to their relationship.

The baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986). Later, when asked about his “adoptive parents,” Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs “were my parents.” He stated in his authorized biography that they “were my parents 1,000%.” Unknown to him, his biological parents would subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child, novelist Mona Simpson, in 1957, and divorce in 1962.

The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was five years old. The parents later adopted a daughter, Patti. Paul was a machinist for a company that made lasers, and taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands. The father showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage, demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild electronics such as radios and televisions. As a result, Steve became interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering. Clara was an accountant who taught him to read before he went to school.

Jobs’s youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. At Monta Loma Elementary school in Mountain View, he was a prankster whose fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school—a proposal his parents declined. Jobs then attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. During the following years Jobs met Bill Fernandez and Steve Wozniak, a computer whiz kid.

Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son’s higher education. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy. He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends’ dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple

In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, an electronics industry worker, founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs’s parents in order to sell it. They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer Mike Markkula.

Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.

Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated pancreatic cancer.

Full name of ‘Sachin Tendulkar’ is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. He was born on 24 April 1973. His father, Ramesh Tendulkar, was a well-known Marathi novelist and his mother, Rajni, worked in the insurance industry. He married with Anjali Mehta, the paediatrician daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta, in 1995

Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer and captain. He took up cricket at the age of eleven, He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries. He is the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International. He is the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievement. He received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India’s highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively.

After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister’s Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award. He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award. He also won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards. In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.

In December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs. He retired from Twenty-20 cricket in October 2013 and subsequently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, retiring on 16 November 2013 after playing his 200th and final Test match, against the West Indies in Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium.

Sachin Tendulkar is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. The Master Blaster is considered one of the complete batsmen ever. He has all the shots in the book. He is the most admired cricketer in the world. Every Indian should be proud of him. None of the batsmen can replace him and no words can express his amazing talent, power and achievement.

It is rightly said that if cricket were a religion, Sachin would be the god.

The Ouija Board was invented within the early 1890’s by William Fuld. It is now sold by Parker Brothers. An Ouija may be a small board with various symbols printed on its surface. These symbols include all letters of the alphabet, the numbers 1 to 9 and 0 and therefore the words yes and no. A smaller board, shaped sort of a heart, called a planchette or pointer is employed to direct the answers.
Two or more people rest an Ouija on their laps and press their fingers lightly on the pointer. One of them asks the board an issue . The pointer supposedly answers by indicating a word or variety or by spelling out words. According to people that believe the Ouija , spirits guide the pointer. Others think the fingers of the questioner influence the pointer. There are basic guidelines that ought to be followed for using Ouija boards. If any of you’re willing to undertake one you ought to inspect a number of the safe things to try to to to guard yourself or anyone else from possible harm. As many of us improvise an Ouija as a game, it’s always best to guard yourself. Where there’s no protection from evil forces extremely frightening things can occur. Sinister messages are often spelt out, claimed to return from the devil. As to prove that nobody person is purposely pushing the pointer, tales are told of all removing their fingers except one and therefore the pointer continuing to whiz around in manic fashion – or of the pointer jumping up within the air or hurling itself off the table and smashing. Also evil spirits are known to lie around who they’re tricking the users into further danger.
You have to be the judge of the knowledge you receive. To believe everything that comes through on the board simply because it’s from the opposite side is extremely gullible and is like believing everything that you simply read within the newspaper or see on TV. If your mind tells you there’s something wrong, there probably is. If the knowledge you’re getting seems new you, compare it with other channeled material and see if you’re comfortable with it. The important point to recollect here is LIKE attracts LIKE. Ouija boards work , but the type of beings you’re likely to draw in is directly associated with the extent of spiritual development of the participants and their intent. Remember an Ouija is simply a tool for contact which relies on no practice, learning or spiritual development to form it work. It’s like dialing a random central and hoping for the simplest . However, with practice, learning and spiritual development the probabilities of getting through to the proper person are greatly increased.
If used properly, the Ouija are often a positive tool to creating new friends and gathering information. However, you should not just stop there and rely on the board. Work on your own spiritual development and this may not only enhance your use of the board, but may render it obsolete – while at an equivalent time improving your whole life.

Many folks have explored Spirituality in our own ways. Although this quest is extremely individual (i.e., we all have our own personal definition of Spirituality), it’s collective in spirit. This is because Spirituality in people’s minds is synonymous with an enquiry for meaning, for purpose and direction in life.
In Sanskrit, Spirituality or Spiritual science it’s called Paravidya (Supreme science), while all other sciences are called Aparāvidyā meaning inferior science. By ‘science’, we mean modern science. Rationalists and most of the people think that science and Spirituality are two separate disciplines. However, Spirituality is that the knowledge of infinity, that is, knowledge of all subjects. It covers the entire physical world and therefore the subtle unseen world, all the physical and spiritual regions, all physical and subtle frequencies, energies and vibrations, all positive and negative entities and every one living beings and non-living beings within the whole Universe. Spirituality contains all the knowledge and memory of the past, present and future, from the start to the top of the Universe.
Spirituality is that the capacity of persons to transcend themselves through knowledge and love, that is, to succeed in beyond themselves in relationship to others and thus become quite self-enclosed monads.” Spirituality may be a dimension of a person’s being that’s actualized as a life project and practice. Spirituality may be a developed relationality instead of a mere capacity. It is not generic. For example, we will distinguish during a qualitative sense between a healthy and rigid spirituality, even within a spiritual tradition. A spirituality is as unique as a personality is exclusive . Spirituality can be religious or secular. A secular spirituality remains a “relationship between what one truly is and everything that is” (Peter Van Ness). A religious/secular spirituality, according to Schneiders, is “the experience of conscious involvement in the project of life integration through self-transcendence toward the ultimate value one perceives.” Generally, the term spirituality is that the human capacity for self transcendence, no matter whether that have is religious or not. Here, the activity of the human spirit, not Holy Ghost , could also be the reference. The fact is that no religion has complete ownership of the term spirituality as it once had with reference to the Holy Spirit, the product of a religious tradition. There are definite qualities of the word spirituality which are made clear in today’s secular and non secular uses of the word. First, it denotes an experience. It is not abstract idea, or theory or movement. It is, however, a personal-lived reality with both active and passive dimensions. It is something that is experienced. Secondly, it is an experience of a conscious involvement in a project. It is not temporary, but an ongoing and coherent approach to life, always consciously pursued. Thirdly, it involves one’s whole life as an integrative process. It is not a short lived attitude, but rather an attitude about life that others model. It involves a life-integration, mind and body, emotions and thought, activity and passivity, social and individual aspects of life. Spirituality promotes an integrated synthesis of ongoing growth and development. Fourthly, spirituality pursues a uniform self-transcendence toward ultimate values. It is positive and not negative in direction. It excludes narcissistic egoism and self-destructive behaviors and thoughts. There must be a self-transcendent quality which is ultimate. This may include personal or social well-being, the good of the earth, justice for all or union with God as an ultimate value. In a culture without a self transcendent attitude in the form of gratitude, humility, awe and some form of a spiritual outlook, healing personal growth and well-being are often compromised.
Regardless of who we are and where we come from – our got to experience happiness in our lives drives all our worldly pursuits. This need is common to all or any folks no matter cultural background, religion, gender, social or financial status, etc. However, through spiritual research, we have found that on average people experience happiness only 30% of the time.
One of the most reasons we experience unhappiness is thanks to problems in life. Everyone knows about the physical and psychological causes of problems in life. However, what many folks don’t know is that problems that are physical or psychological in nature can have a spiritual root cause. This means that albeit a drag is primarily thanks to spiritual reasons, it can manifest as a physical or psychological problem.

Generation Gap is a term given to the gap or age difference between two sets of people; the young people and their elders, especially between children and their parents. Everything is influenced with the change of time- the age, the culture, mannerism and morality. This change affects every one. Generation gap is an endless social phenomenon. Every generation lives at a particular time under certain circumstances and conditions. So, all generations have their own set of values and views. Every generation wants to uphold the principles they believe . This is a problem that has continued for ages.
People born in several time periods under different conditions have their own views supported the circumstances they need been through. The patterns of life are changing continuously consistent with time. Everyone wants to measure and behave in his own way and nobody wants to compromise together with his or her values and views. There has always been a difference in attitude or lack of understanding between the younger and older generations. This attitude has augmented the generation gap and it’s becoming wider day-by-day. This gap now has started impacting our lives during a wrong way.
It is always good to possess a good range of ideas, views and opinions. It indicates how we are developing and advancing but sometimes this becomes worrisome when the views and concepts aren’t accepted by both the generations. Parents create a particular image in minds for his or her children. They want to mention their children with values that they need been mentioned with and expect their children to follow an equivalent . Parents want children to act in accordance with their values, as they believe, it’s for his or her benefit and would had best to them.
Children on the opposite hand have broader outlook and refuse to simply accept the normal ways. They want to try to to things in their own ways and don’t like going by any rulebook. Mostly, children experience conflict during their adolescence. They are desperately searching for self-identity. Parents sometimes fail to know the stress of this fast paced world. Ultimately, despite love and affection for every other both are drained out of energy and unable to grasp the opposite . Consequently there’s a scarcity of communication and abandoning on relationships.
Nothing are often as beautiful as a parent-child relationship within the world. It should be nurtured very delicately then it’s important to bridge the gap between the 2 generations. It is time to understand that neither is totally right nor wrong. Both the generations need to develop more understanding and acceptance for every other. Having a dialogue with one another calmly, with the thought of checking out conflict amicably in ideas, changing their mindset for every other and coming to a middle ground can be the foremost helpful instrument in bridging the gap between the 2 generations.
Spending longer with one another like family outings, vacations, picnics, shopping, watching movies together might be some effective ways to create up a robust bond with one another . Both the generations need to study the ways of the society during their growing period and have mutual respect for it. To reduce the friction between the 2 generations, both parents and youngsters need to give space to every other and define certain boundaries that the latter should respect an equivalent .
Generation gap occurs because society is constantly changing. It is the responsibility of both the generations to fill this gap amorously , affection and trust. Both the generations should have mutual respect for the views and opinions that they uphold and advance cautiously with the event of the society.
In order to shrink the generation gap, we must be open minded about learning from other generations. There is often a stigma within each generation that older or younger generations are wrong because their opinions and values are different. … there’s always room to grow and learn.