T 14. WOMEN

This is what Late Raja Ram Mohan Roy had rightly said decades earlier:
Women are, in general, inferior to men in bodily strength and energy. Consequently the male part of the community, taking advantage of their corporal 'weakness', have denied them those excellent merits that they are entitled to by nature, and afterwards they are apt to say that women are naturally incapable of acquiring those merits.
When did you provide them a fair opportunity of exhibiting their natural capabilities? If, after instruction in knowledge and wisdom, a person cannot comprehend or retain what has been taught, we may consider him as deficient; but as you keep women generally void of education and acquirements, you cannot, therefore, in justice, pronounce on their infirmity.
How right he was is amply proved by what women are achieving now!!!!!

T13. SILENCE

Going into SILENCE enables you to manage your thoughts better. You will find there is no need to worry. Most of the answers you are looking for will come to you without too much effort on your part.

T12. YOU MAY DISAGREE IF YOU LIKE!

Though man has language as a patent means of expression and he has the intellect also to argue his case and to convince others, yet man ultimately uses the ways of the animal who do not have language and reason to as their means to seek justice. So the lesson I learn from history is that man does not learn LESSONS FROM HISTORY.

SOME MORE JOKES

A Foolish man tells a woman to STOP talking, but a WISE man tells her that she looks extremely BEAUTIFUL when her LIPS are CLOSED.

News reader, T.V. (Delhi) - Weather report

There is a western disturbance which can become eastern at any time. Hence there will be thunder showers in North and North west. Weather wil remain dry in othe places provided it is not raining there.

Lawyer to client convicted of murder

This is my first case, if I can get you acquitted, you will be free to commit more crimes. In case we lose, you will be hanged and that will bring the story to an end.

Gynaecologist to a pregnant lady:

Your due date falls on 15th May, but we cannot deliver you before July 15th as the labour ward is booked till then.

P16. INTROSPECTION

One day in the rainy days,
A woman came to my humble abode,
In the lovely guise, of a beautiful bride.
To give my home an exotic fragrance;
To give my dreams - a little bit of sweetness.
Suddenly a wild wave broke over my shoulder,
And drowned all my words in my heart.
She stood steadily beneath the roof,
Slowly turned, glanced at my face,
Shyly and with faltering steps,
Came near and sat by my side;
Taking her hands in mine I said: -
You do not know me nor do I know you,
I wonder what it could mean -
What the future has in store for us?
She said 'lets try our best to build bridges
And overcome all hurdles that come in the way'.
Between two beings - each to the other unknown,
Thus started a journey on the family path!
Some smiles, some pains, some joys, some sorrows!
Through them we strived with our limited means,
Aided by the guidance of the time and our elders,
To chart a course on the journey of our lives,
And with diligence tried to build up a GOOD FAMILY.
Yes we have been strict, yes we have often admonished,
But in our hearts we had always LOVED and CARED.
We are really proud of your achievements,
And more so we are proud of our grandchildren.
And on this the GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS,
When all of us have gathered together,
We would like you to be the Jury,
And give us your collective judgment!!!!!
The memories of the times we've shared,
Together with the fun and laughter enjoyed,
Get revived often and today add a magical flavour.
We both sincerely wish all the Happiness,
Which your families so richly deserve,
In the days to come and remember,
Our good wishes come with,
A deep sense of GRATITUDE,
MINGLED WITH UNWAVERING LOVE.

P15. THE LAW OF SUCCESS

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you will not;
If you want to win but you think you cant,
It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you've lost,
For out in the World we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It is all in the state of the mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are;
You've got be sure of yourself before,
You can ever win a prize.
Will power and hard work both are a must.

Life's battles don't always go,
To the stronger or the faster person.
Sooner or later, the person who wins,
Is the person who thinks he/she can.

P14. SMILE

Smiling is infectious; you catch it like a flu.
When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realized I'd passed it on to him.
I thought about that smile: then I realized its worth!
A single smile just like mine could travel round the earth.
So if you see a smile begin, don't simply abort it, or leave it undetected.
Let's start an epidemic deliberately, and get the world infected!
Keep the smile going by, sending this on to a friend.
Everyone needs a smile.
And believe me you will never be considered,
As fully dressed up, unless you are wearing a SMILE.

P13. FATHER

It is said:
God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a winter sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle's flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so, He called it ... Dad.

P12. As a lover, I wonder if you have ever thought of Goodnight this way?

GOOD-NIGHT
Goodnight! Ah! No, the hour is ill,
Which severs those it should unite.
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be good night.
How can I call the lone night good!
Though thy wishes wing its flight,
Be it not said, thought or understood,
Then it will be 'good' night.
To hearts which near each other move,
From evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because my love,
They never say GOODNIGHT.
I THINK YOU WILL AGREE WITH THIS!

S5. FORGET AND FORGIVE

A kindergarten(KG school) teacher has decided to let
her class play a game. The teacher told each child in
the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a
few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a
person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes
that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will
depend on the number of people he/she hates. So when
the day came, every child brought some potatoes with
the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2
potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes.
The teacher then told the children to carry with them
the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even
to the toilet) for 1 week. Days
after days passed by, and the children started to
complain due to the
unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes.
Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry
heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved
because the game had finally ended.
The teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying
the potatoes with you for 1 week?" The children let
out their frustrations and started
complaining of the trouble that they had to go through
having to
carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go.
Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind
the game. The teacher said: "This is exactly the
situation when you carry your hatred for somebody
inside your heart. The stench of hatred will
contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you
wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of
rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what
is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart
for your lifetime?"
Moral of the Story:
Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so
that you will not carry sins for a lifetime. Forgiving
others is the best attitude to take. "Learn to
Forgive and Forget."

P10. I MISS YOU

I MISS YOU
Fate had only ordained that
We be part of one family,
But our mutual love and care has
Blended us in a MAJESTIC BOND
The sparks of life in me
Maybe slowly, but surely, fading
Yet the purity of my love
Still remains like it were just born.
When miles came between us
And our lives were drawn apart
Our thoughts remained together,
Tugging softly at the heart.
This loneliness without you
Reminds me of special moments shared,
And says across the miles,
How much we have always cared.
The emptiness that comes
With just the memory of your touch
Stirs a feeling from within that says
I MISS YOU VERY MUCH!

FL29 -FL35. INTERESTING 4-LINERS

WORLD
The world we are living in,
Is mighty hard to beat.
You get a thorn with every rose,
But aren't the roses sweet?

EATING
Though destiny may shape our ends,
I think it is only fitting,
To point out that some credit goes,
To eating and to drinking.

PARTED
When we are parted,
Let me lie,
In some far corner of thy heart,
Like a sweet melody!!!!

FORGET - ME - NOT
Down in a valley,
Carved in a rock,
Three pretty words -
FORGET - ME - NOT.

WOMAN
Such dear, are your sex companions,
Part truth, part fiction,
Some thought, much whim,
And all contradiction?

SIX HONEST MEN
I keep six honest men,
They taught me all I know,
Their names are What, Where, When,
And How, Why, and Who!!!!!

HEAR THE LAUGHTER
Hear the laughter of the leaves,
And see cheerful faces around you.
Listen to the whisper of the flowers,
And let your soul soar high.

OL7. WISDOM IN ONE LINERS

Keep your chin up, it helps to keep your mouth shut?
Knowing that you don't know much is, knowing a great deal indeed!
It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong!
If the criticism is harsh, take the truth from it and forget the harshness!
If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time - don't drag your feet?
It is a healthy symptom when a man is dissatisfied without being discouraged!
A fanatic is one who refuses to alter his mind and will not change the subject!
Experience is a hard teacher, it gives the test first and the lesson afterwards!
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles on the road!
A man may fail many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame someone else?
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth!
It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it and trustworthy as you trust it.

MS15. MAGIC SQUARES

Magic Squares - Singly even order - new method. ALSO VISIT http://pranadit.wordpress.com

While it is very easy to construct odd order magic squares (the Hindu Rule is a very easy method for an nxn square where "n" is odd) and doubly even order magic squares, singly even order squares are not that easy. Border square method is the one most commonly used. I have developed a method for construction of (n+4) x (n+4) squares from nxn square where n is 6,10,14,18......to easily give multiple solutions without much effort.
I will illustrate my method by first constructing a 14x14 square assuming that we have a 10x10 square. The 10x10 square will occupy the center place. 14x14 square has numbers from 1 to 196 and 10x10 square numbers from 1 to 100. If we take half the difference between 196 and 100 we get 48 and if we add this to all numbers in our 10x10 square we will have a 10x10 square with numbers from 49 to 148 and total of 505 + 10x48 = 985. The 14x14`square needs to have a total of 1379, this leaves us with a difference of 394. The numbers from 1 to 48 and 149 to 196 can be used to form six 4x4 squares with numbers from i) 1 to 8 & 189 to 196, ii) 9 to 16 and 181 to 188, iii) 17 to 24 and 173 to 180, iv) 25 to 32 and 165 to 172, v) 33 to 40 and 157 to 164, and vi) 41 to 48 and 149 to 156, to give a total of 394 for all the six 4x4 squares. We will label 5 from these 6 squares from 1 to 5 and, the 10x10 square by 0, the sixth square will need to be split into two 4x2 square and has been labeled from A to P to fit our requirements of 14x14 square.

1 1 2 2 3 3 A B 3 3 2 2 1 1
1 1 2 2 3 3 C D 3 3 2 2 1 1
4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5
5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5
I K 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 M O
J L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N P
5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5
5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5
4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4
1 1 2 2 3 3 E F 3 3 2 2 1 1
1 1 2 2 3 3 G H 3 3 2 2 1 1

We can select any one of the six squares by turns for 1 to 5, the remaining sixth 4x4 square has to be formed slightly differently as already explained. We have to ensure that A + B = C + D = E + F = G + H = I + J = K + L = M + N = O + P = 197 and A + C + E + G = B + D + F + H = I + K + M + O = J + L + N + P = 394.
Since the 10x10 square occupies the center place the and that leaves us only two top rows and two bottom rows, and similarly two L.H.S. and R.H.S. columns, the five 4x4 squares have been split into two 4x2 squares and suitably placed in the corners. The 1 square will take care of our Diagonal totals for the 14x14 square, so we don't have to worry about diagonal totals in rest of the 4x4 squares which means having selected the 4x4 square from the available 712 squares (880 less the squares which have 3 numbers<9 and 1<8, or 3 numbers>8 and 1<9) we can switch its rows and columns giving 4!x4! i.e. 576 solutions for each of the 4 squares. As regards four 2x2 squares we are again free to switch A & B, C & D, E & F, G & H, in pairs and similarly the I & J, K & L, M & N, O & P, thus giving 576 solutions for each of them. In addition we can replace X's by Y's, doubling the number of solutions, from the square as it stands. And, of course, selection of 4x4 squares i.e., A,B,....can be done in 6! ways.
(P.S. simplest way to form the 4x4 square, say with numbers from 17 to 24 and 173 to 180, would be to add in an ordinary 4x4 square 16 to all numbers from 1 to 8 and 164 to all numbers from 9 to 16.)
When we go from 14x14 to 18x18 square, the base becomes 14x14 square and to all the numbers we add 1/2(18x18 - 14x14)=64 and the 14x14 square total becomes 2275. The total required for 18x18 square is 2925, this is less by 650 to be filled by the empty cells. We have now numbers from 1 - 64 and 261 - 324 to form 8 4x4 squares with each having a total of 650. Of these one will be required for extreme corners (like 1) and one for splitting into two 4x2 squares. From rest 6 we will have 3 squares for rows and 3 squares for columns, and the number of multiple squares that can be generated from this one 18x18 squares can easily be worked out.
I will now come to the first square that can be formed, i.e. the 6x6 square. I will prepare the ground by using one of the 880 4x4 squares, but for those not fully conversant, I give the basic square using alphabets and where Aa stands for A+a.
Aa Bb Cc Dd
Dc Cd Ba Ab
Bd Ac Db Ca
Cb Da Ad bc

Here A's can be given one of the values from 1,2,3,4 and a's can be given one of the values from 0,4,8,12. But each value can be given only once, i.e. if you give 1 to A you can give B only from 2,3,4 and so on. Alternately you can give to A's from 0,4,8,12 and a's from 1,2,3,4. After constructing the 4x4 square simply add 10 to all numbers. 10 is 1/2(36-16), this will take the sum in each row, column and diagonal to 74. Numbers now available to us are 1 to 10 and 27 to 36. Next I construct a 2x2 square such that its diagonals total 37.
2 & 35 and 1 & 36.
This enables me to take care of the diagonal totals as I am going to break up the 4x4 square into four 2x2 squares and place them in the corners. For my 4x4 square I give value 1 to a, 2 to b, 3 to c, and 4 to d, 0 to A, 4 to B, 8 to C and 12 to D. So my 6x6 square now looks like this:
11 16 00 00 21 26
25 22 00 00 15 12
00 00 02 36 00 00
00 00 01 35 00 00
18 23 00 00 24 19
20 23 00 00 14 17
(Here 00 stand for values yet to be filled in.)
Next I insert numbers, from those available, in columns 3 and 4 in rows 1,2,5 and 6 such that sum of numbers in each row is 37. Next I place numbers in rows 3 and 4 in columns1, 2, 5 and 6 such that magic sum of that each column total is 37. This ensures that the magic sum of 111 is available for each row, column and 2 main diagonals. My final 6x6 square is:
11 16 34 03 21 26
25 22 33 04 15 12
09 29 02 36 05 30
28 08 01 35 32 07
18 13 10 27 24 19
20 23 31 06 14 17
( 1 has been written as 01, 2 as 02, etc..)

Even if we ignore choices for the central 2x2 square, we can from this one square alone
generate very large number of 6x6 squares. We have choice of 880 for the4x4 squares
and they can be rotated to give 4 times more squares. Next the numbers in columns 3
and 4 in the rows 1, 2, 5 and 6 can be interchanged and so can the numbers in rows 3
and 4 in columns 1, 2, 5, and 6. Also numbers in column 3 and 4 can be interchanged as
also numbers in row 3 with numbers in row 4.
To make my point clear I am replacing numbers in column 3 and 4 in rows 1,2,5 and 6 by
alphabets and also in rows 3 and 4 in columns 1, 2, 5, and 6.
00 00 A1 B1 00 00
00 00 A2 B2 00 00
C1 C2 00 00 C3 C4
D1 D2 00 00 D3 D4
00 00 A3 B3 00 00
00 00 A4 B4 00 00
(Here again 00 have been placed in the empty spaces to suit the format design.)

Here A1+B1=A2+B2=A3+B3=A4+B4=37, and C1+D1= C2+D2=C3+D3=C4+D4= 37
And so are interchangeable. So we have at least 880x4x24x24x2x2x2 squares!
Let us now go to construction of 10x10 square. First we add 32 equal to 1/2(100 -36) to
all numbers in one of the 6x6 square available to me. This will give me a total of
111+32x6=303 for the 6x6 square. Next I construct four 4x4 squares from the numbers
1 to 32 and 69 to 100 available to me by adding i) 0 to all numbers < 9 and 84 to all
numbers >8, ii) 8 to all numbers <9 and 76 to all numbers >8, iii) 16 to all numbers <9
and 68 to all numbers >8 and iv) 24 to all numbers <9 and 60 to all numbers>8, limiting
our choice to 712 4x4 squares, excluding those which may have 3 numbers < 9 and 3
numbers > 8. To go from 10x10 to 14x14, place 10x10 square in the centre increasing all
numbers by 1/2(196 100),i.e.48, to give a total of 985 for the 10x10 square, the 4x4
squares will give 394 making a total of 1,379, as required, for the 14x14 square. The 4x4
squares will number 5 and there will be 2 4x2 squares and placed just as in 10x10 square
when we proceeded from 6x6 square to 10x10square.
Similar procedures will follow from 14x14 to 18x18 etc. as clarified above. Try to form
The 10x10 square and if you have difficulty get in touch with me by email
bdtara@yahoo.com

MS 14. MAGIC SQUARES

COMBINATION OF 4X4 AND 3X3 SQUARE:
Here is another illustration of what we can do with these squares. Study the square below which has 4 numbers and 3 numbers in alternate rows.
30 00 44 00 43 00 33
00 49 00 54 00 47 00
41 00 35 00 36 00 38
00 48 00 50 00 52 00
37 00 39 00 40 00 34
00 53 00 46 00 51 00
42 00 32 00 31 00 45
The 4X4 square totals 150 and has numbers from 30 to 45. The 3X3 square totals 150 too and has numbers from 46 to 54. The main diagonals total 300 as expected.

UPSIDE DOWN SQUARE:
Another interesting square which totals the same read upside down and has_multiple solutions is shown below:
96 11 89 68
88 69 91 16
61 86 18 99
19 98 66 81
To get multiple solution all we have to do is for the alphabets A, B, C & D and a, b, c & d take the numbers 1,6,8,9. (Please note here Aa is not to be taken as A+a).

STAR-SHAPED SQUARE:
Some elegant constructions on star shaped figures (pentagons, hexagons, etc.,) can also be developed. An instance of octagon is illustrated below:
- - - - - - - 01 - - - - - - - -
- - - 02 - 11 - - 16 - - 05 - - -
- - - - 12 - - - - - 09 - - - - -
- 10 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 08
- - - - 06 - - - - - 07 - - - - -
- - - 14 - 03 - - 04 - - 13 - - -
- - - - - - - 15 - - - - - - - -
There are magic circles, rectangles, crosses and diamonds, which can be developed for fun!

CHESS BOARD MOVES:
Attempts have also been made to develop a 8_8 square based on the KNIGHT'S MOVES on the chess board. So far nobody has been successful. The square, as worked out, does not give the magic sum of 260 for the diagonals. See the square below:
47 10 23 64 49 02 59 06
22 63 48 09 60 05 50 03
11 46 61 24 01 52 07 58
62 21 12 45 08 57 04 51
19 36 25 40 13 44 53 30
26 39 20 33 56 29 14 43
35 18 37 28 41 16 31 54
38 27 34 17 32 55 42 15

SQUARES FOR ANY GIVEN NUMBER:
We can easily construct magic squares for a given calendar year or for any other number, but not always. For example for the year 1892 or 2002 we can construct a 11_11 square as both these numbers are divisible by 11. All we have to do is to start with 112 for getting 1892 and 122 for getting 2002._We can also construct 4_4 squares for odd magic sum. To get 35 add 1 to 13,14,15,&16. To get 36 add 2 etc. Of course for this it is necessary that we select a square in which 13,14,15&16 are so distributed that they appear in all rows, all columns and the diagonals.

POLYHEDRONS:
Polyhedrons are defined as solid objects with 6 or more surfaces. Hexahedron has 6 surfaces and is popularly called a cube. We can decide to have same order square on all sides or, if we so like, have a different order squares on each side. For example for a Octahedron, (which has eight sides), if we decide to have on all sides 4x4 squares with identical total, we will be required to use the numbers from 1 to 128 and the equisum will have to be 258. All we are required to do first is to select a 4x4 square which has 2 numbers less than 9 and two numbers greater than 8. Next we have to get the 8 squares by adding 0 to all numbers from 1 to 8 and 112 to all numbers from 9 to 16, 8 to all numbers from 1 to 8 and 104 to all numbers from 9 to 16, 16 to all numbers from 1 to 8 and 96 to all numbers from 9 to 16, 24 to all numbers from 1 to 8 and 88 to all numbers from 9 to 16, 32 to all numbers from 1 to 8 and 80 to all numbers from 9 to 16, 40 to all numbers from 1 to 8 and 72 to all numbers from 9 to 16, 48 to all numbers from 1 to 8 and 64 to all numbers from 9 to 16, 56 to all numbers from 1 to 8 and 56 to all numbers from 9 to 16.
If we decide to have squares of, say, order 8 on all sides, we require numbers from 1 to 512 with equisum of 2052, follow a similar procedure increasing numbers from 1 to 32 by 0, 32, 64 ...... and increasing numbers from 33 to 64 by 448,416, 384.... If, however, we decide on a 4x4 order square on one side, 5x5 order square on second side, 6x6 order square on the third side..... there is no problem except that totals on each side will depend on the numbers selected for each square. If we want a uniform total for all sides that will be possible but we may have to deal with very large numbers.

HYPER - MAGIC SQUARES:
I have stated earlier that we can impose varying conditions for these squares. I will now discuss some of these, they will be found only in some of the squares.

DIABOLIC SQUARES:
A Magic Square is called Diabolic, Perfect or Pandiagonal. It is diabolic if it has the same constant sum for its broken diagonals as it has for its rows, columns and diagonals. Examine the square:
01 08 11 14
12 13 02 07
06 03 16 09
15 10 05 04
The broken diagonals are; 1 & 10, 16, 09; 4 & 11, 13, 06; 12, 08 & 05, 09; 06, 10 & 11, 07; 15 & 08, 02, 09; 14 & 12, 03, 05. The square from ancient India and the Jaina square also have this property. I also reproduce below a 5x5 square with this property.
01 08 15 17 24
20 22 04 06 13
09 11 18 25 02
23 05 07 14 16
12 19 21 03 10
Obviously there can't be a diabolic square of order 3. Also there are no diabolic singly even squares like 6, 10, etc. An 8x8 square constructed from diabolic square of order 4 will also be diabolic. One property of diabolic squares, worth mentioning, is that if a pandiagonal square be cut into 2 pieces along a line between any two rows or columns, the pieces be interchanged, the new square, so formed, will also be a magic square and retain the property of being diabolic. This gives us another method for generating squares from an existing square. Reproduced below is a 5_5 square from the one shown above:
08 15 17 24 01_22 04 06 13 20_11 18 25 02 09_05 07 14 16 23_19 21 03 10 12

ASSOCIATIVE SQUARES:
An Associative or Symmetrical square is one that has pair of numbers symmetrically opposite the center and add up to n^2+1. A 4x4 square may be associative or diabolic, but not both, but an odd square order can be both (in that case the center number has necessarily to be in the center). Both a 4x4 square and 5x5 square with this property are shown below:
05 04 16 09
01 15 24 08
11 14 02 07
08 01 13 12

17 10 15 03 06
23 07 16 05 14
20 04 13 22 06
12 21 10 19 03
09 18 02 11 25

REGULAR SQUARES:
Just as we have regular squares of order 4, we can also have regular squares of order 8, 16, 32, 64, etc. The procedure is the same as for a 4x4 square.

DD30. DEFT DEFINITIONS

WAITING An ennobling exercise for the spirits.
WANT Mistress of invention.
WAR a) A hideous and apparently incurable corruption in the body of the mankind.
b) Failure of human wisdom.
WEATHER Something about which everybody talks but does nothing.
WIFE A fair member of the weaker sex whom her male counterpart wants to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness and just stupid enough to admire it.
WINDOW A device for looking through the doors.
WISDOM a) Realization that a child always needs support and freedom.
b) Legitimate child of experience.
WISDOM-TEETH Something that starts coming out the first time you bite off more than you can chew.
WISE-MAN One who constantly wonders afresh.
WISH Desire without deserving.
WIT a) A quick conception and an easy delivery.
b) Noblest frailty of the mind.
c) Salt of conversation.
WOMAN An angel at ten; A saint at fifteen; A devil at forty; A witch at sixty.
WONDER Basis of worship.
WOOD That remarkable material which burns so easily in a forest and with such difficulty in the fire-place.
WORD a)Skin of a living thought.
b) Are like leaves, and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
WORK a) The best way a man has ever invented to escape boredom.
b) The grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
WORLD a) It is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it as such. It is a temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of light and peace yet man disquiteth it.
b) A prison in which we are all serving sentences for things we have done elsewhere.
YAWN A silent shout.
ZEAL Sister of folly when without knowledge.
ZOO A place where we teach animals what behaviour we expect from them.

DD29. DEFT DEFINITIONS

TRAGEDY A peculiar sense of the presence of someone else's pain, a sense too that quickens our wits; we are given a new range of experience such as sufferings of our own bring but no shock to us past using it.
TREE Something that stands in the same place for days, months and even years and than suddenly, when you least expect it, jumps out right in front of your car.
TROUBLES a) Certain unfortunate events which it is best to relate to others since the world's dumb indifference could make you mad enough to keep you fighting.
b) They are like the hills ahead, they straighten out when advances upon them.
TRUTH a) A matter of taste.
b) Time is said to be precious, but truth is more precious than time, though all great truths begin as blasphemies.
TRANSLATION It is like a French lady. It can either be beautiful or faithful.
TWIN Womb-mate.
UNDERSTANDING Shortest distance between two minds intellects.
VACATION A period during which people find out where to stay away from next time.
VANITY a) Constant enemy of our dignity.
b) The beginning and end of the man's standing in society.
VENGEANCE a) A dish that must be eaten cold.
b) Test for forgiveness.
VICE The darkness that brings virtue to light.
VIOLENCE Last refuge of the scoundrel.
VIRTUE a) Cheating yourself of your natural desire to win at any cost.
b) A quality in human-beings that fattens on the vices of others.
VITALITY Ability to persist.
VOLCANO A sick mountain sufferings from hiccups.

DD28. DEFRT DEFINITIONS

TACT a) Knowing how far we may go too far.
b) Intelligence of the heart.
c) Art of handling people without bruising their eye..
d) One is said to have this quality when he has the art of talking to a woman as if he loved her and to every man as if he bored him.
TAILOR a) A man whose business is sew-sew.
b) Of the various types of social-beings inhabiting this earthly hell, it is only his type who behave sensibly. For they have the wisdom to take our measurements anew every time we go to them while all the others go on with old measurements and expect them to fit us.
TALENT Art of doing easily what others find difficult.
TASTE Finer impulse of our nature.
TATTOO Permanent proof of temporary insanity.
TAXES They are indeed very heavy. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our folly.
TEACHER One who is incapable of learning.
TEAR Dew of compassion.
TEARS a) Silent language of grief.
b) Summer showers of soul.
c) The telescope by which man sees far into heaven.
TECHNICIAN A man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its ultimate place in the order of the universe.
TECHNOLOGY Materialised fantasy.
TELEVISION A device which permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can.
TEMPER Something you can't get rid of by losing it.
TEMPERANCE One of the two best physicians of homo-sapiens, the other being labour.
TEMPTATION Something which when resisted gives happiness and when yielded to gives greater happiness.
TENDERNESS Passion in repose.
TENNIS A pastime where love all means nothing.
THRIFT Having an hen tomorrow rather than an egg today.
TIME a) The most valuable thing we can spend.
b) A mathematical puzzle which eludes solution.
c) Nature's way of keeping everything away from happening at once.
TOLERANCE Test of civilization.
TOMORROW a) The biggest labour saving device.
b) The easiest way of dealing with a problem.
TONGUE a) God's gift, Devil's toy.
b) A little member that boasteth great things. It defieth the whole body. An unruly devil full of deadly poison.
TOURIST A rich vagabond.
TRAFFIC-LIGHT A masterly device to get pedestrians half-way across the road safely.

DD27. DEFT DEEFINITIONS

SMILE a) Channel of a future tear.
b) Sword of beauty.
c) A curve which can set a lot of things straight.
d) It costs the least and does the most.
SMILES Serious moments in life endure serenely.
SMOG The 'air' apparent.
SNOB You have delighted us long enough.
SNORE a) Thunder in bed-room.
b) Minor earthquake.
SNORT Your personal air-pump working full blast.
SNOW Frozen breath of ocean.
SOCIETY A joint-stock company in which the members for the better securing of the daily bread to every shareholder, agree to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
SOLITUDE Nurse of wisdom.
SORROWS a) They are like the thunder-clouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely grey.
b) Visitors who always come uninvited.
SOUND Child of silence.
SPEECH a) Index of the mind.
b) Hair-brained chatter, irresponsible frivolity.
c) A good one is like a lady's skirt, short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the substance.
STATISTICS a) They are like a bikini-bathing suit. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.
b) They are like a mini-skirt. They cover up all the essentials but they give you ideas.
STOMACH A bowl-shaped cavity containing the organs of indigestion.
STORY A sweet dish that enhances contact between human beings.
STUPIDITY The greatest force in human nature that makes them act as they do.
STYLE Dress of thoughts.
SUCCESS a) Not committing the same blunder once.
b) Something you get when you load the camera of the mind with the film of intelligence, release the shutters of goodwill and press the button of diligence.
SUICIDE a) A crime which, if successfully committed, can invite no punishment.
b) Refuge from confessions.
c) A terminal solution, often for temporary problems.
SUPERSTITION a) Religion of futile minds.
b) A premature explanation that overstays its time.
SURGEON A man with real inside knowledge.
SUSPICION You're either in the loop or you're out of the loop. But more likely you don't know where the loop is or even if there is, indeed, a loop.
SYMPATHY The key that fits the lock of any heart.
SYNONYM A word you can use when you don't know how to spell the one you first thought of.

T11. TIME WE AGAIN TALKED OF LOVE

Love is sharing all the wonderful things of life with someone you care about. By caring for each other your lives get forever intertwined. By sharing your hopes, your thoughts, your dreams, your lives will flourish as never before. Working with each other to build your lives together you strengthen your love. Love as it tightens its grip offers the best in life with that person at its center. Your love having brought you closer together will create a HOME you will be proud of.
That Home will still express your individuality and yet your love for one another will make that Home an abode for Peace, rich in Happiness and filled with Love for all.

A16. A LOOK AT SOME WORDS ENDING IN 'TY'

A16. LET US LOOK AT WORDS ENDING IN 'TY'

No value can be placed on some of the words that we can form which end in 'ty'. But there are many words and this is an attempt to examine some of them, you are welcome to add to them!!!

Ability - cultivate it and nurture with industry.
Ambiguity - avoid it at all cost.
Animosity and hostility are twin brothers - look before you leap.
Anxiety - don't rush towards it.
Austerity - should be welcomed with open arms.
Beauty - it is in the eye of the beholder.
Brevity - results of doubtful value - exercise caution all the time.
Brutality and Cruelty are just twin sisters - keep your distance from both.
Calamity - face it courageously and you will not be disappointed.
Capacity - needs to be exploited fully unless intent is to do harm to someone.
Charity and Generosity are twin sisters - they deserve all encouragement
and respect. But they should be showered after understanding the
purpose.
Chastity - is a virtue beyond words?
Clarity - welcome it and stick to it.
Complicity and Duplicity are twin brothers - keep away from them,
whatever be the circumstances.
Creativity - it demands single-minded devotion, encourage the artist.
Dexterity - give due respect to those who have it, but don't be envious.
Dignity - a shield, it promises to guard you whatever the odds.
Duty - an indispensable gem, it needs to be polished from time to time.
Facility - be always willing to provide it.
Haughty - look at it after dropping both 'h' and 'y'.
Honesty - is the best policy eternally, strive to revive it if it has lapsed.
Humanity - child of circumstances, rarely is one able to rise up to it.
Humility - avoid the path, which may cause it.
Laxity - put a 'no entry' board for it.
Loyalty and Fidelity need careful analysis - loyalty towards whom?
Judiciously examine the consequences.
Mighty - they, whose deeds, are universally recognized, in their field of activity.
Modesty - to a limited degree only, don't stick to it at the cost of your self-respect.
Nasty -don't let this label spoil your image any time.
Pity - cousin of Sympathy with a touch of sarcasm.
Promiscuity - keep away from it and those who indulge in it.
Propriety - lay a red carpet for it.
Purity - is commendable, but like Virginity it has to be defiled if life is to survive.
Quality - maintain it and don't allow it to suffer at anytime.
Sensitivity - excellent, but at times only.
Simplicity - spread it.
Spirituality - a matter of faith and inner conviction.
Stupidity - knows no age, color or race barriers for its manifestation,
Temerity - keep a good distance away from it.
Tenacity - has its own rewards with patience to guide it.
Treaty - be sincere in observing the terms.
Unity and Diversity - two opposites, but they can be good friends with a
little help from sanity.
Vanity - it is undue recognition of one's own importance keep away.

MS 13. MAGIC SQUARES

DOUBLY MAGIC SQUARES:
Now I come to doubly magic squares: In these squares not only the basic square has the equisum property, but, if the numbers in each cell are replaced by their squares, the resultant square maintains the equisum property. Of course, in the new squares, the numbers will not be in sequence. I reproduce the 8x8 and 9x9 squares with these properties:
05 31 35 60 57 34 08 30
19 09 53 46 47 56 18 12
16 22 42 39 52 61 27 01
63 37 25 24 03 14 44 50
26 04 64 49 38 43 13 23
41 51 15 02 21 28 62 40
54 48 20 11 10 17 55 45
36 58 06 29 32 07 33 59

26 65 32 63 48 15 43 01 76
61 46 13 44 02 77 27 66 33
45 03 78 25 64 31 62 47 14
29 33 71 12 60 54 73 40 07
10 58 52 74 41 08 30 24 72
75 42 09 28 22 70 11 59 53
68 35 20 51 18 57 04 79 37
49 16 55 05 80 38 69 36 21
06 81 39 67 34 19 50 17 56
Here too from this one square a number of new squares can be generated. For example for the 8x8 square if we simultaneously interchange rows 1 & 2, and 7 & 8, and thereafter columns 1 & 2 and 7 & 8, we get the square:
09 19 53 46 47 56 12 18
31 05 35 60 57 34 30 08
22 16 42 39 52 61 01 27
37 63 25 24 03 14 50 44
04 26 64 49 38 43 23 13
51 41 15 02 21 28 40 62
58 36 06 29 32 07 59 33
48 54 20 11 10 17 45 55
It will be seen that combination of numbers in all rows, columns and diagonals is the same, so the resulting square will be doubly magic square. There are more such changes possible. In the case of 9x9 square besides such changes there are additional changes possible. For example 23+58+42=40+24+59, and their squares are also equal being 529+3364+1764=5657=1600+576+3481. Similarly 44+2+77=5+80+38, and their squares are also equal being 7869.

TREBLY MAGIC SQUARES:

It is possible to have magic squares where on replacement of numbers in each cell by the cube of the numbers the resultant square retains the equisum property, but, so far as it is known, we can have it only for the 128_128 square.

OTHER TYPES OF SQUARES;

I had stated that the Magic Squares must have, as one of the conditions, consecutive numbers. I now consider some other types of Squares which have the equisum property.

PRODUCT SQUARES:
We can, certainly, have squares where the sum of the products of the numbers in each row, column or diagonal is the same constant number. All we have to do is to write, instead of the numbers m,m+1,m+2,m+3...........: m,m^2,m^3............

SQUARES WITH ONLY ODD OR EVEN NUMBERS:
We can have squares which have only odd or even numbers in all the cells. Foe odd numbers square, all we have to do, is to increase all even numbers by n^2-1, and for all even number square merely increase all odd numbers by n^2+1, or simply double all the numbers in the cells.

OL 6. WISDOM IN ONE LINERS

You can't get rid of your temper by losing it?
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.
Work banishes three great evils - boredom, vice and poverty!
When it comes to shopping, some people have no shelf-control?
Want to see the bright side of your problems - talk to someone?
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus!
When you make a mountain of a molehill don't expect anyone to climb it!
What is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful!
Without doubt it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying work together!
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than at leveling up our means!

T10. WATCH

Let me now place a Thought for the day:
Watch your thoughts, they become your Mindset.
Watch your mindset, they become your Words.
Watch your words; they will govern your Behaviour.
Watch your behaviour, they become your Actions.
Watch your actions, they will evolve into a Pattern.
Watch these patterns, they will become your Habit.
Watch your habits,they will ultimately reflect your Character.
Watch your character, why?
They lay the path that your destiny will tread upon!!!!

FL25 - FL28. INTERSTING 4-LINERS

BE GOOD SWEET
Be good sweet, and who will be clever,
Do noble things, not dream all day long;
And so make life, death and that vast forever,
One grand sweet song!!!!!!

CONSPIRE
Ah Love! Could you and I with Him Conspire,
To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits ~ and then
Remould it nearer to the heart's Desire.

ALL ALONE
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,
And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,
So I turn the leaves of 'fancy' till in shadowy design,
I figure the features of an old sweetheart of mine.

CHESS
I haven't played chess,
Since my funds got less,
My account is overdrawn,
And my pawns are in pawn!

A NICE TALE

A mother dropped a beautiful orange vase on the floor it splintered into dozens of pieces. She swept them up and threw them into the wastebasket.
An hour later she found her little daughter had collected the pieces and had pasted them on a piece of cardboard. Then using a green crayon, she had drawn stems and leaves on each piece, converting them into a bouquet of lovely flowers.
The mother was moved to tears. Where she had just seen trash, her daughter had seen a treasure.
And we? Do we see "treasures" in those around us? Are we willing to collect the bits and pieces of broken lives and bind them together again? Are we willing to take the trouble to make a lovely bouquet of flowers from the wastebasket of life.

DD26. DEFT DEFINITIONS

SAILOR A man who makes his living on a wave which he never touches on shore.
SAINT One who is in harmony with his creator.
SARCASM It is like a sword-stick, it appears at first sight to be much more innocent than it really is till, all of a sudden, there leaps something out of it, sharp and deadly, and incisive which makes you tremble and recoil.
SATAN The guide of those who refuse to be guided by others.
SATIRE 1) Art of stepping on somebody's toes.
2) Humour that has lost its patience.
SCANDAL A breeze whipped up by two or more wind -bags.
SCHOOL-WORK Something parent's ought to know.
SCIENCE 1) Topography of ignorance.
2) Systematic classification of expression.
SECRET An item of news which we pass on to our dear friends after taking a pledge from them that they will not disclose it to others forgetting that we ourselves had given a similarpledge.
SECRETARY The person behind the phone.
SELFISHNESS That detestable vice which no one will forgive in others and yet no one is without in himself.
SELF-PITY The most crippling handicap one can impose on oneself.
SENSUALITY Sister of infidelity.
SHAME An ornament to the young ; a disguise to the old.
SHOE An article of footwear which if tight, is a blessing in disguise, for it makes us forget all of our other troubles.
SICKNESS A belief which can be annihilated by the mind.
SILENCE A state which is said to be golden, but in the opinion of this lexicographer, if it does not involve tact it is not golden, for it is tact alone that gives it that quality.
SIMPLICITY A quality, which beyond a certain limit, leads to ruin.
SIN An action one who: Commits it is a man, Grieves at it is a saint, Boasteth of it is a devil.
SINCERITY A tree that takes a long time to grow and develop.
SLANDER A winged snake.
SLEEP 1) One normally gets it when it is time to get up.
2) Best cure for waking troubles.

MS 12. MAGIC SQUARES

TYPES OF SQUARES - BREAK-UP:
The split of the 880 squares by type as defined by us is:
Regular Squares - 528.
Type A - 120, 3 numbers <9 in one diagonal and 3 numbers >8 in the other.
Type B - 64, 2 numbers <9 and 2 numbers>8 in each row, column and diagonal, but not a Regular Square.
Type C - 120, all odd numbers in one diagonal and all even numbers in the other.
Type AB - 48, all odd numbers in one diagonal and all even numbers in the other, but otherwise Type A.

MAGIC SQUARES FROM MAGIC SQUARES:
We have seen earlier how we can construct a large number of squares of order 5 and above. We now discuss another special and interesting method for construction of 'p' order squares, where p = mxn, with both m and n being eaul to or greater yhan 3. The method requires that we replace the integers by the squares of of the other order. We illustrate this method for the 12x12 square, 12 being equal to 3x4.
The 12x12 square will have 144 cells, numbers to be used will be from 1 to 144, and the magic sum will be 145x6=870. Imagine these 144 cells being divided into 9 compartments having 16 adjacent cells in 4 rows and 4 columns. If we allot to the compartment numbers from 1 to 9 as if we are constructing a 3x3 square, all we need to do is to replace these numbers 1 to 9 by 4x4 squares. This is what we have to do:
1 is to be replaced by 4x4 square with numbers from 1 to 16 and total 34.
2 is to " " " " " 17 to 32 and total 64+34=98.
3 is to " " " " " 33 to 48 and total 128+34=162.
......................................... 9 is from 129 to 144, total 512+34= 546.
Now in the 3x3 square one set of diagonal is 4,5&6, so we get the for the mail diagonal a total of 192+34+256+34+320+34= 870, the required total for a 12x12 square. All numbers from 1 to 144 have been used once only etc. While there is only one solution for the 3x3 square (the square however can be rotated) there are 880 choices for each of the 9 squares we have to use, and since all of them can be rotated we have in all 880x4^9 squares that can be obtained, each different.
Alternately we divide the 144 cells into 16 compartments numbering from 1 to 16, forming the 4x4 square, all we have to do now is replace 1 by a 3x3 square with numbers from 1 to 9, 2 by a 3x3 square with numbers from 10 to18, and so on...
As we can use 880 squares for the 4x4 square we have 880x4^16 squares. Of course, for odd number squares the Hindu Rule is always there and for singly even order squares the border square method.

MORE ABOUT 8X8 SQUARE:
Before we proceed further note that there are exceptions. The 8x8 square can be constructed with the help of 4x4 squares. This is possible because the total required is 260, and so if we have 4 compartments of 4x4 squares each having a total of 130, we get the 8x8 squarte. The only restriction here would be that we cannot use all the 880 squares but 712 squares. (We cannot use squares of Type A and Type AB for obvious reasons).

MORE ABOUT 12X12 SQUARES:
In the same manner we can also construct 12x12 squares from 6x6 squares, provided we construct the 6x6 squares by De La Hire's method. The 4 squares required are to be formed by adding:
0 to numbers from 1 to 18 and 108 to numbers from 19 to 36.
18 to " 1 to 18 and 90 to " from 19 to 36.
36 to " 1 to 18 and 72 to " from 19 to 36.
54 to all numbers.
Note: For the last square all the 880 squares can be used as the same number 54 is being added to all numbers.
We can similarly form other squares also with due precaution of selecting the right squares.

A15. YOU WILL ENJOY READING THIS TALE

A kindergarten (KG school) teacher has decided to let her class play a game.
The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic Bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates. So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes.
The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for 1 week. Days after days passed by, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended.
The teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?" The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go. Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: "This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart.
The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime?"
Moral of the Story:
Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not carry sins for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take. "Learn to Forgive and Forget."

A14. A LOOK AT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
1) There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger. Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
2) English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France
3) Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
4) We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
5) And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing; grocers don't groce; and hammers don't ham?
6) If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
7) Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
8) If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of
them, what do you call it?
9) If teachers taught why didn't preachers praught?
10) If a vegetarian eats vegetables, are humanitarians cannibals?
11) In what language do people recite a play and play at a recital?
12) Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
13) Have noses that run and feet that smell?
14) How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
P.S. Why doesn't Buick rhyme with quick?

DD25. DEFT DEFINITIONS

QUALITY a) The best is cheapest.
b) Signature of excellence.
QUOTATIONS Short sentences based on long experience.
REACTIONARY A somnambulist walking backwards.
REALITY Not what you feel, but how you feel.
REASON a) Every why hath a wherefore.
b) A cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
REBELLION Medicine necessary for the sound health of the government.
REGRET It might have been !
REJUVENATION One step backwards in order to take a better leap.
RELATIVITY That hour, which when you are courting a nice girl, seems like a second, while on the other hand, when you sit on a red-hot cinder, it is the second that seems like an hour.
RELIGION a) Opium of the people.
b) Tries to explain the nature of the unknowable.
c) Root cause of all serious conflicts.
d) A daughter of hope and fear explaining to the ignorant the nature of the unknowable.
e) Something men wrangle about, write about, fight about, die for, do anything but live it.
REMEMBERANCE A form of meeting.
REPENTANCE Promise made and kept to do something no more.
REPUTATION An enviable possession so long has one does not have to live up to it.
RESEARCHER He sees what everyone sees, but he thinks what none of us thought.
RESPECT A state of mind forced upon children by their parents, it becomes a habit, in due course of time, and sticks.
REVOLUTION A successful effort to get rid of an existing bad government and its replacement by a worse one.
RHETORIC Art of ruling the minds of men.
RIDICULE Evidence of wit or bitterness which gratifies a little mind or an ungenerous temper but is no test of reason or truth.
RING (WEDDING) The smallest hand-cuffs known to homo-sapiens and generally willingly É..
RITUALS Some tangible thing that adds beauty to worship and bears testimony to splendour and the majesty of God.
ROBOT An industrial worker with a lot of brain but without intelligence.
ROMANCE a) Dance-tune.
b) Romance is to love what a picnic is to the business of eating.
RUDENESS Weak man's imitation of strength.

MS11. MAGIC SQUARES

ORDER 4 MAGIC SQUARES - ALL 880 SQUARES.
Coming back to order 4 squares, we examine them is detail as there are only 880 solutions.
When can we not have them?
First point to be noted is that the sum of all odd numbers between 1 & 16 is 64 and all even numbers is 72. Since the magic sum figure is 34 (an even number), each row or column or diagonal will have either 2 or 4 odd numbers. But if we have odd numbers only in one row (or column), the other row (or column) will necessarily have only all odd numbers and we will fail to get the magic sum. However, one diagonal can only have odd numbers provided the other diagonal has only even numbers.
Similarly we cannot have a square if sum of the corner numbers does not add up to 34. The sum of the corner numbers has to be 34 only, not more nor less.
We also cannot have only odd (or even) numbers in corners, since if we have odd (or even) numbers in the corners, all middle numbers will have to be even (or odd) numbers, and including diagonal numbers it makes for 12 numbers, while we have only 8 even and 8 odd numbers. And if we take only odd numbers in both diagonals again we cannot get the magic sum.

RULES FOR FORMATION
Now let us examine the Rules that will enable us to generate more squares from already generated square (may be by trial and error or by the auxiliary square method). Let us for this purpose, represent the magic square as seen below:
a b c d
e f g h
i j k l
m n o p
Rule 1. For all types of squares we get a new square by simultaneously changing
b&c, h&l, n&o, e&i f&k, g&j.
Rule 2. Change inner numbers f,g,j,k to corner numbers a,d,m,p and corners numbers to places occupied by f,g,j,k, but otherwise retaining the numbers of the rows and columns.
Rule 3. Change all even numbers to odd numbers by decreasing by 1, and odd numbers to even by increasing them by 1.
Rule 4. Subtract all numbers from n^2+1 = 17.
Rule 5. If f+k = g+j = 17, we can inter-change the middle rows or columns, both can be inter-changed but not necessary in view of Rule 1.
Rule 6. If b+c = either f+g or j+k and n+o = the remaining of f+g or j+k and f+k = b+o or b+n we can inter-change b,c & n,o with f,g &j,k. Same holds good for e,i & h,l.
Rule7. If e+h = 17 and i+l =17, we can inter-change e,h& i,l. Same is true for b,n & c,o. Or if e+i = h+l = 17, we can replace h,l by e,i, and vice-versa. Same holds good for b,n & c,o.
(It will be seen that some of these rules will not be valid for some of the squares. In particular Rule 3 will not be valid for a square, which has only odd numbers and even numbers in its diagonals. Rule 4 may not produce a new square if corner numbers are complementary, i.e. add up to 17 in pairs).
Rule 8. Applicable to only Regular Squares which number 528 in all. Change diagonal a,f,k,p to first row and m,j,g,d to 4th row and rewrite the numbers between a to m & d to p. Similarly change diagonals to columns and vice-versa to get a new square.

Now let us see how these rules work for a particular square. We start with the Main square shown below:
01 12 14 07
06 15 09 04
11 02 08 13
16 05 03 10
Rule 7 will give 3 more squares as shown below:
01 12 14 07 - - 01 14 12 07 - - 01 14 12 07
04 15 09 06 - - 06 15 09 04 - - 04 15 09 06
13 02 08 11 - - 11 02 08 13 - - 13 02 08 11
16 05 03 10 - - 16 03 05 10 - - 16 03 05 10
If we now apply Rule 1 to all these squares we get 4 more squares:
01 14 12 07 - - 01 14 12 07 - - 01 12 14 07 - - 01 12 14 07
11 08 02 13 - - 13 08 02 11 - - 11 08 02 13 - - 13 08 02 11
06 09 15 04 - - 04 09 15 06 - - 06 09 15 04 - - 04 09 15 06
16 03 05 10 - - 16 03 05 10 - - 16 05 03 10 - - 16 05 03 10
Now we apply Rule 8 to the main square to generate 2 more squares.
01 15 08 10 - - 01 12 14 07
06 12 03 13 - - 15 06 04 09
11 05 14 04 - - 08 13 11 02
16 02 09 07 - - 10 03 05 16
Rule 7 applied to the left-hand side square along with Rule 1, will give 8 new squares. Rule 5 applied to the right-hand square along with Rule 1 will give 4 new squares. In all, as such, we get in all 20 squares.
Now applying Rule 3 to the main square we get:
02 11 13 08
05 16 10 03
12 01 07 14
15 06 04 09
When we apply Rules 1, 5, 7 & 8 we get additional 19 squares or in all 20 squares.
Also let us apply Rule 2 to the left-hand side square and then Rule3 to the newly generated square and see what happens. We get the following 2 squares:
06 15 09 04 - - 05 16 10 03
12 01 07 14 - - 11 02 08 13
03 10 16 05 - - 04 09 15 06
13 08 02 11 - - 14 07 01 12
These 2 will also generate 19 additional squares, giving us in all 40 squares.
So from 1 main square and applying the various Rules we have been successful in getting 79 additional squares!!!!!!

REGULAR SQUARES
For Rule 8 we talked of Regular Squares - so what is a Regular square? If we reduce all numbers from 1 to 16 by 1, we get numbers from 1 to 15, and it will be noticed that all these numbers are a combination of 1, 2, 4 & 8. Let us now place the numbers from 0 to 15 in a 4x4 square to give a total of 30 for all its rows, columns and 2 main diagonals. Now if we split the numbers of this modified square into its components of 12, 2, 4 & 8 and place them in separate 4x4 squares, and the squares get so formed that none of the numbers 1, 2, 4 & 8, occur more than twice in any row, column or diagonal in their respective squares, we get what is called a Regular Square. Let us try this for the main square discussed earlier. Reducing all numbers by 1 we get the square:
00 11 13 06
05 14 08 03
10 01 07 12
15 04 02 09
And the split numbers get arranged in the squares as under:
X 1 1 x - - x 2 x 2 - - x x 4 4 - - x 8 8 x
1 x x 1 - - x 2 x 2 - - 4 4 x x - - x 8 8 x
x 1 1 x - - 2 x 2 x - - x x 4 4 - - 8 x x 8
1 x x 1 - - 2 x 2 x - - 4 4 x x - - 8 x x 8
(x has been placed to fill up blank spaces.)
It will be noticed that the numbers fall in the pattern required for a Regular Square.
If we, however, examine the square reproduced below it will be found that it is not a Regular Square:
01 10 15 08
05 14 11 04
16 03 06 09
12 07 02 13

G6. BIRTHDAY WISHES

Like the fresh drops of morning dew,
People like you are both rare and few.
Like all those who are generous and kind,
You rate among those who are hard to find.
So, go ahead and celebrate in a special way,
Just the way you like with all our GOOD WISHES.

WORDS NEEDING ATTENTION - 5.

COURAGE - Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead to break through seemingly insurmountable barriers.

DIFFICULT TIMES - Sometimes, when we are at a difficult time in our lives, we do not reach out for help. Maybe it is because we are proud, maybe we think we would be bothering someone with out troubles. Perhaps we are embarrassed. Or we might think that what is troubling us has never bothered anyone before and we are afraid to show our fears or feelings. Is it correct? We should learn to share our miseries, in a tactful manner, just as we would like others to share our joys, and take guidance.

A13. MAYBE THIS IS WHY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS SO HARD TO MASTER.

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce, produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) We bank upon bank for safety of our savings.
23) The king's court framed many rules but the king simply ruled ignoring the rules.

DD24. DEFT DEFINITIONS.

a) PRAISE Sweetest of all sounds.
b) A bitter pill. Only a few people can swallow it.
c) In relationship to oneself must be done daringly. Something will always stick
PRAYER A wish turned heavenward.
OM work.
PREACHER One who cannot do.
PREJUDICE a) A mist, which in our journey through the world, often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.
b) A device that enables you to form opinions without getting the facts.
PRIDE a) The only thing a women in love cannot keep.
b) A ridiculous encumbrance.
PRINCIPLE A passion for truth and right ?
PROCRASTINATION a) Thief of our self-respect.
b) Opportunity's natural assassin.
PROGRESS Exchange of one nuisance for another one .
PROMISE Resolve made to be broken.
PROPHETS Men whose forecasts, if right ,no one remembers and, if wrong, no one forgets.
PROSE Words in their best order.
PROVERB a) A short sentence based on long experience.
b) Creation of wise men repeated by fools.
Psychologist a) A person who observes us when we are looking at girls in the swimming pool.
b) A man who, when a beautiful girl enters the room, watches everyone else.
Psychiatrist is a man who pockets your money for dismantling your dreams
PUBLIC A spoilt child.
PUBLIC-OFFICE First refuge of the incompetent.
PUBLIC-OPINION A vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be an average man.
PUN Lowest form of humour when you don't think of it first.
PUNISHMENT Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand and foot for foot.
PURITY A noble perception which, like virginity, must be violated if life is to persist.

WORDS NEEDING ATTENTION - 4

BLESSINGS - I am a confirmed believer in 'blessings in disguise'. I prefer them undisguised when I happen to be the person blessed. But the theory that blessings in disguise are constantly happening to other people I find consoling. It enables me to bear their troubles without feeling miserable.

CHARACTER - The most authentic witnesses of our character are those who know us in our family and see us without any restraint or rule but such as we voluntarily prescribe for ourselves.

CHILDREN - God has sent children to enlarge our hearts and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections rather than merely to keep up the race. - Children assist us in more ways than one: to give our souls higher aims; to call out all our faculties: to extended enterprise and exertion; and to sing round our firesides - bright faces, happy smiles and loving tender hearts.

CONTENTMENT - The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to see happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief's which he proposes to remove.

DD23. DEFT DEFINITIONS

PLAGIARISM The unoriginal sin.
PLATITUDE Simple truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
PLEASURE Fruit of a tree called toil.
POET A sick soul of society.
Bad, mad, glad, sad, human being.
POETRY Best words in the best order.
Expression of imagination.
Painting with the gift of speech.
Record of the best and the happiest moments of the best and the happiest minds.
A perfume which on evaporation leaves in our soul the essence of beauty. 6.Men's thoughts tinged by his own feelings.
POLITENESS It is like an air-cushion, there may be nothing in it, but, it eases our joints wonderfully.
POLITICIAN A necessary evil in democracy.
POLITICS Science of exigencies.
POPULACE Contemporary of blotters. They soak it all in but get them backwards.
POPULARITY A crime from the moment it is sought.
Avirtue when men have it whether they will it or not.
POST A strange volume of real life in the daily pocket of a post-man.
POVERTY Violence against humanity.
POWER Iron hand in a velvet glove.

WORDS NEEDING ATTENTION - 3.

AMBITION - The passion of ambition is the same in a courtier, a soldier or an ecclesiastic; but from their different educations and habits they will take very different methods in gratifying it.

AWE- Out of our recognition in fear and awe that there is an unknowable comes all that is best in the exploration of the mind, even though that recognition often misleads us into superstition, enslavement and over-confidence.

BENDING - The exercise most frequently performed by human beings. We bend over backwards for some people; we bend low fawning over others; we never miss a bender; teachers give benders; we periodically bend to pick up the shattered pieces of our lives; we bend double with pain; we bend low with care; we bend to touch our toes in vain attempt to stave off the middle age spread. In fact we are now beginning to stoop to any lengths.... And I wonder why our forefathers ever bothered to stand up in the first place.

FL22-FL25. INTERESTING 4-LINERS.

WEEP ON
Weep on - perhaps in after days,
They will learn to love your name,
And many a deed may wake in praise.
That long hath slept in blame.

WISE OLD BIRD
A wise old bird sat on an oak.
The more he heard, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard;
Let us not laugh at this wise old bird.

WORDS
I'm careful of the words I say
To keep them soft and sweet;
For I know not from day to day
Which one's I'll have to eat.

WORRYING
What's the use of worrying?
It never was worthwhile,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit bag,
And smile, smile and SMILE!

T9. MISMANAGEMENT PROCESS

A story is told about 4 people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it. But Nobody realized that Everybody would not do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
How management in a missionary institution is so different from others?
There, Nobody is irresponsible. Everybody would give the best. Somebody even excels. Anybody does the job willingly with a spirit of devotion to duty.

MS10. MAGIC SQUARES

SUMMING UP:

We have seen that a 3x3 square only one and 4x4 square 880 solutions and can be constructed by the auxiliary method and also by other methods. A 5x5 square can be constructed either by the Hindu Rule which gives 720 squares from one set, or by the Border Square method with the 3x3 square as the base, or from two auxiliary squares which at once gives 3,600 squares from one set. Further 5x5 squares can be constructed by either constructing 3x3 squares with total of 39 with 13 in the central cell, or by first forming a 3x3 square with any number in the central cell and thereafter filling up the remaining cells with numbers of our choice, except that the total for any one row or column or diagonal should not be more than62. Some illustrations are given below, first 2 with 13 in the central cell:
22 18 10 09 06
07 12 03 24 19
11 25 13 01 15
05 02 23 14 21
20 08 16 17 04

20 01 23 09 12
22 08 21 10 04
02 15 13 11 24
07 16 05 18 19
14 25 03 17 06
Now with 15 in the central cell and different totals for rows and columns for the 3x3 square:
01 10 19 23 12
09 18 22 11 05
17 21 15 04 08
25 14 03 07 16
13 02 06 20 24
It will be seen that the numbers in the border square do not follow any pattern. But we can form additional squares by subtracting all numbers from 26._As is the case with 4x4 square, for 5x5 square too, we can frame rules which will enable us to generate squares from the one already constructed. Let the square be represented by:
a b c d e
f g h i j
k l m n o
p q r s t
u v w x y
We can now generate new squares by interchanging any two columns or rows provided this does not affect the diagonal totals, some examples are given below:
a) If g+s = i+q, we can interchange 2nd and 4th columns
b) If h+n = m+i and m+s=r+n, 3rd and 4th columns.
c) If g+m=h+l and h+n=i+m, 2nd and 3rd rows.
d) If g+m=h+l and l+r=m+q, 2nd and 3rd columns.
e) If l+r=m+q and m+s=r+n, 3rd and 4th rowsw.
f) Also if b+c=v+w, they can be interchanged in the 1st and 5th rows, etc.
g) As stated earlier new squares can be generated merely by subtracting all numbers from 26. These rules, incidentally, have applicability in general for all squares of any order.

A12. "I"

It starts with "I". Well you see my body, but this is a superficial view. In addition to my body there is another component which enables me to feel joy and sorrow. This part of me is the "Mind". Moving a little deeper, I find another part of me, which enables me to control my Mind - that is "Intellect". Looking further when I'm awake, I see the "Universe" around me, but what happens when I am asleep? I am unaware of what is happening around me. But in my dream I may feel and see some things! Is the "Dreamer" different from the "Waker". It appears that "I" am in a different world when "I" am awake from the one "I" inhabit during my sleep. The Vedas examine whether there is only one world, which "I" see in my waking state or more than one world. It is this "I" to which the name "Awareness" or "Consciousness" is given. The Vedas call it "Atma" or "Soul". In the vast literature on Indian Philosophy and in the Upanishads, where the nature of Atma is explored, it is described as "Self". A closer look indicates that all existence is the interplay of "Consciousness", "Action" and "Matter" or else interplay of "Mind", "Matter" and "Motion" or worded slightly differently as the interaction of "Knowledge", "Objects" and "Process".
An Object occupies "Space", whereas Awareness does not. This brings us to the hot question - like the one that Hen came first or the Egg, whether Awareness or Consciousness came first or Existence? There are three aspects - that of Seeing or Observing, that of being Seen or Observed and that of the One who is Observing the Object which is Seen. It is difficult to decide the sequence of Awareness and Existence, because Awareness of an object is proof of its Existence, but the fact that we are not Aware of a Thing does not mean that it does not Exist. That is where FAITH comes in! And FAITH is the substance of things hoped for and evidence of things not seen, isn't it so?

MS9. MAGIC SQUARES

Other Methods:
We conclude this part with a few methods which are more of academic interest as they yield one or just a few squares. Cosider the picture below (dashes have been used to fill up empty spaces):
- - - - - - - - 01 - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - 06 - 02 - - - - - - -
- - - - - - 11 - 07 - 03 - - - - - -
- - - - - 16 - 12 - 08 - 04 - - - - -
- - - - 21 - 17 - 13 - 09 - 05 - - - -
- - - - - -22 - 18 - 14 - 10 - - - - -
- - - - - - - 23 - 19 - 15 - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - 24 - 20 - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - 25 - - - - - - - - -
Now we have to simply move the numbers, which are outside the main square, 5
steps to the empty spaces to get the following 5x5 square.
11 24 07 20 03
04 12 25 08 16
17 05 13 21 09
10 18 01 14 22
23 06 19 02 15
This method is attributed to Bachet de Meziriac. Same principle holds good for constuction of higher order odd squares. We now have a look at a 6x6 square. Write numbers from 1 to 36 in their natural order as shown below:
01 02 03 04 05 06
07 08 09 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36
Replace 2,3,4,5 by 35,34,3,32 respectively; 7 & 25 by 30 & 12; 13 & 19 by 24 & 13; 9 & 10 by 28 & 27; 12 & 30 by 7 & 25; 18 & 24 by 19 & 18; 17 & 23 by 14 & 20; 27 & 28 by 9 & 10; 32, 3, 34, 35 by 2, 4, 33, 5 respectively, giving a 6x6 square as under:
01 35 34 03 32 06
30 08 28 27 11 07
24 23 15 16 14 19
13 17 21 22 20 18
12 26 09 10 29 25
31 02 04 33 05 36
Note that diagonal numbers were not changed. Since 6/2 is odd a 6x6 square needs quite a few changes making it cumbersome, however, it is easier to construct a 8x8 square this way. Write the numbers 1 to 64 in their natural order as shown below:
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56
57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64_
Now divide by 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines so that in each corner there is a 2x2 square and in the center a 4x4 square. Within these 5 squares inter-change all pairs of numbers symmetrically opposite. Outside the 5 squares no change is required. The resulting square will thus be as under:
64 63 03 04 05 06 58 57
56 55 11 12 13 14 50 49
17 18 46 45 44 43 23 24
25 26 38 37 36 35 31 32
33 34 30 29 28 27 39 40
41 42 22 21 20 19 47 48
16 15 51 52 53 54 10 09
08 07 59 60 61 62 02 01
Well we can go the other way round too. Keep the 4 corner 2x2 squares and the central 4x4 square as they are and reverse the other 4x2 squares in rows 3, 4, 5 & 6 and columns 1 & 2 and 7 & 8 and the rows 1 & 2 and 7 & 8 in columns 3, 4, 5 & 6 to form the new square. I will illustrate this by 12x12 cell, but before that please note that this method is valid for all squares which are multiples of 4. So if the square is 4nx4n, we take the corner cells of the order nxn and the central cell of the order 2nx2n for reversal. Alternately we retain the 4 corner nxn squares and central 2nx2n squares unchanged and reverse the squares, as seen below for the 12x12 square.
001 002 003 141 140 139 138 137 136 010 011 012
013 014 015 129 128 127 126 125 124 022 023 024
025 026 027 117 116 115 114 113 112 034 035 036
108 107 106 040 041 042 043 044 045 099 098 097
096 095 094 052 053 054 055 056 057 087 086 085
084 083 082 064 065 066 067 068 069 075 074 073
072 071 070 076 077 078 079 080 081 063 062 061
060 059 058 088 089 090 091 092 093 051 050 049
048 047 046 100 101 102 103 104 105 039 038 037
109 110 111 033 032 031 030 029 028 118 119 120
121 122 123 021 020 019 018 017 016 130 131 132
133 134 135 009 008 007 006 005 004 142 143 144
It will be noticed that here too we can generate a large number of squares very easily. It will be noticed that pairs of numbers have same total, which can be interchanged without affecting the diagonal totals. A few examples:2+95=3+94, 2+83=3+82, 84+109=85+110, etc. More, work out yourself. It will also be seen that it can be done in 8x8 square too.

OL5. WISDOM IN ONE LINERS

Where boasting ends dignity begins.
You can plant anything in an open mind.
Vice is the darkness that brings virtue to light.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interfere!
There's no hardship more crippling than self-pity!
Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul!
Trouble is an ounce or a ton depending on how we take it?
The first rule for speaking well, naturally, is to think well!
The world is a beautiful book but what use to him who cannot read?
The drama is make-believe art, it does not deal with truth but with effect.
The only conquests that cause no regrets or envy are those made over ignorance?

DD22. DEFT DEFINITIONS

DD22. PALMIhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifST An ignorant man who takes counsel from stars instead of from God who made the stars.
PAIN A strong feeling that at times forces even an innocent to lie.
PAINTING Silent poetry.
PAPER It is the God of bureaucracy, just as the Sun is for other people. The babus who join ink-stained hands in prayer to the processed celluloid sometimes display a faith so blind that it is sublime.
PARKING-SPACE An area of about 7'x14' on the other side of the road.
PARTING A sweet sorrow, but take note that journey's end in lover's meetings.
PASSIONS Certain qualities in human behaviour which are not well looked at. To be frank they are the winds that fill the sails of a vessel. They sink it at times but without them it would be impossible to make way. Many things that are dangerous here below are, all the same, necessary.
PAST a) A bucket of ashes.
b) Best prophet of future.
c) Pathology is the science of a disease called "inquiries"
PATIENCE a) The fine art of hoping.
b) An ornament to a woman and modesty to a girl.
c) The key for contentment.
d) An appropriate strategy that is often overlooked on important occasions.
PATRIOTISM The last refuge of a scoundrel.
PEACE A monotonous interval between two wars or disastrous fights.
PEN Tongue of the mind.
PERSEVERANCE The courage to hold on when all others have given up.
PESSIMIST Who rejoices in proving that there is no joy.
PHILOSOPHER A lunatic who can analyze his delusions.
PHILOSOPHY a) Old hag's description of the menu in paradise.
b) Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
c) A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
d) The account which the mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
PICTURE Poem without words.
PITY A cheap gift which could have no weight at all either for good or bad but can do a lot of damage.It accentuates troubles that would be less painful if the sufferer is not reminded of them.

G5. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS

Listen to the echo within your heart,
If it beats with hope today.
It means you celebrate some years well lived,
On this yet another birthday,
Follow the sound with eyes well closed.
Trust yourself in its fold,
For it says the silver years of your life
Will soon turn into Gold!!!!!

WORDS NEEDING ATTENTION - 2.

ACTIVITY - Inactivity should be avoided by all means, it only leads us to be
nonsensical. Activity implies resistance. Resist all evils, mental and physical and when you have learnt to do this without fear or favour you will find calmness around you and peace of mind to give you company.

AFFLICTION - Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experience, that at the time seemed desolating and painful, with particular satisfaction. Indeed everything I have learnt, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence has been through 'affliction' and through 'happiness'. If it were to be possible to eliminate affliction from our earthly existence, the result would not be to make life delectable, but to make it too banal and trivial to be endurable.

DD21. DEFT DEFINITIONS

NAME Face by which one is known.
NATURE Visible garment of God.
NECK Measuring jar for the troubles one is facing.
NECESSITY a) Need I say anything.
b) Mother of invention.
NEEDLE One whose life is always hanging by a thread.
NEIGHBOUR One who used to drop in for a call and now calls in for a drop.
NUEROTIC a) A person who has discovered the secret of perpet-ual emotion.
b) A man who builds castles in the air.
NEWS The first rough draft of history.
NEWSPAPERS a) World's mirror.
b) Circulating library with high B. P.
NIGHTMARES Direct result of injudicious feasting.
NOBILITY Like small-pox it leaves its marks even if a man gets over it.
NOISY-PARTY A celebration at your neighbour's place in which you are not taking part.
NOVELTY Grand parent of pleasure.
NON-VIOLENCE Supreme virtue of the brave.
NURSE A person who wakes you up to give you a sleeping pill.
OBEDIENCE Mother of success wedded to safety.
OBITUARY Acompacted version of a personal destiny and his small role in the larger game of life.
OBSTINATE Not one who holds opinions but one who is held by them.
OCCUPATION Scythe of time.
OPINIONS Heirs of our habits and mental customs.
OPTICIAN A man whose business is seeing better.
OPTIMISM Realisation that one window closing could also mean another will open.
OPTIMIST A man who is as often wrong as the pessimist but has lot more fun.
ORATORY The power of talking people away from their sober and natural opinions.
ORIGINALITY A pair of fresh eyes.
OVERWEIGHT A person who is generally beyond his seams.

A11. LOOKING WITHIN - ENNEAGRAM

Ever wanted to know what makes you think, feel and act the way you do? How your way of perceiving things, your reality, might differ from that of another person's? Do you ever wonder why you behave the way you do even when know that it would better to change your behaviour.
The ENNEAGRAM, a powerful and dynamic personality system, that describes nine distinct and fundamentally different patterns of thinking, feeling and acting, provides the answers to these questions and much, much more. It tells us what motivates us, what basic coping strategies we adopt to survive and thrive and what causes our relationships to flourish or flounder. In addition, the Enneagram provides a specific path of personal development and enrichment for each of the nine types - ways to discover our highest qualities and purpose in life. The Enneagram is an ancient system. Somewhat similar to astrology's 12 sun signs, the Enneagram is a human study that places personalities in nine categories.
The word 'Ennea' is Greek for nine and 'gram' means a figure or something drawn. Hence, the Enneagram is a diagram or star with nine points representing the nine personality patterns. Each of these nine pattern is based on an explicit set of perceptual filters that determine our worldview. Underneath each of the nine patterns is a basic proposition or belief about what you need in life for survival and satisfaction. As you discover your personality type and the underlying basic proposition, you will also discover what motivates you , your coping strategy and keys to personal development.
Because the Enneagram is such a fundamental and powerful way to understand personality, it provides numerous, often immediate, practical applications for personal development in such diverse fields as education, business, intimate relationships and family life.

P9. HYMN TO THE DAY - ANOTHER VERSION.

Listen to the exhortation of the Dawn-
Look to the DAY!
In its brief course lie all the Verities
And realities of your existence!
The bliss of Truth, the glory of Action,
The splendour of Beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream, and
Tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived makes every yesterday
A dream of Happiness, and
Every tomorrow a vision of Hope.
Look well, therefore, to the Day!
Such is the salutation of the DAWN!!!)

WORDS NEEDING ATTENTION - 1

Some of the words in common usage have widely divergent meanings and need deep reflection. I don't lay any claims to the originality of the words/sentences I have chosen, they are from my very old collections modified from time to time. Here are a few of these words, which fascinate me the most:

ACCURACY - It is basic to style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit not only in their utterances but also in their implications, their sequences and in their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled. The problem of all writing, speech and conversation is the same as that presented by the composition of a telegram. One has to convey a meaning, with the use of a few and generally inadequate words, and eke it out with what the reader, drawing upon his own reserves, will understand. The number of words one can use can never be enough to express one's innermost and real feelings and the impression one wishes to convey. Hence the necessity for apt choice of the few words one really uses - but the reserves he can draw upon in the readers or listeners mind are lavish indeed and that's what counts. The entire art therefore lies in choosing the words that the person not only understands but also has no room for ambiguity or misunderstandings.

MS8. MAGIC SQUARES

De La Hire's Method:

De La Hire has kmnnsuggested a modified form of this procedure for even order square of 6_6. His method is to form two auxiliary squares with 0,6,12,18,24 & 30; and 1,2,3,4,5 & 6 in such a way that the columns of one square and the rows of the other square each so contain numbers, 3 times repeated, that the required sum summation of 90 for one swquare and 21 for the other square is achieved. We may, however, form these squaeres using A's and a's using the conditions stipulated by him. Our condition then will be that A's and a's be so combined in pairs that they total 30 and 7 respectively. We can take combinations of 0 and 30; 6 and 24; 12 and 18; 1 and 6; 2 and 5; 3 and 4. This will enable us to use permutations of numbers and thus generate multiple squares. The auxiliary squaress will take this shape:
A F F A F A ............. a e d c b f
E B E E B B .............. f b d c e a
D C C C D D ............ f e c d b a
C D D D C C ............ a e c d b f
B E B B E E .............. f b c d e a
F A A F A F ............. a b d c e f
If we take A = 0, B = 6, C = 12, D =18, E = 24, F = 30, a =1, b = 2, c = 3, d = 4, e = 5 and f = 6, our 6x6 square will be:
01 35 34 03 32 06
30 08 28 27 11 07
24 17 15 16 20 19
13 23 21 22 14 18
12 26 09 10 29 25
31 02 04 33 05 36
A further modification of this method, a bit more complicated, permits us use of A's and a's in such a way that the arithmetical sum of each row, column, and each diagonal, with appropriate values of A's and a's total nxn(n-1)/2 for A's and nx(n+1)/2 for a's. This means that there can be 2 or more A's and a's in diagonals too.

DD20. DEFT DEFINITIONS

MODERATION The silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
MODESTY a) Conscience of the body.
b) An ornament which is a guard to virtue.
c) The lowest of the virtues. It is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.
d) He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
MONEY a) A remarkable commodity which when you are to required to pay back always seems twice as much as when you borrowed it.
b) The sixth sense that enables the other five to be appreciated.
MONEY-LENDER One who serves us in the present tense, lends us in the conditional mood, keeps us in the subjective and ruins us in the future.
MORALE Self- esteem in action.
MORALITY A private and costly luxury.
MOTHER a) Caretaker of all our domestic needs.
b) Peacemaker between dad and kids.
MOTHERHOOD State of perpetual servitude.
MOTHER-IN-LAW A referee who has an interest in one of the contestants.
MURDERER A type of homo-sapien who does not exist outside the pages of a cheaper kind of thrillers. You are yourself a potential murderer, restrained so far, perhaps, by the lack of a sufficiently strong motive and partly by a healthy fear of what is represented by the representative of the law at the corner of the street.
MUSIC Voice of God.
MYSTERY Wisdom of the blockheads.

G4. A NEW RECIPE WORTH TRYING

Take twelve whole months.
Clean them thoroughly of all bitterness, hate and jealousy.
Make them just as fresh and clean as possible.
Now cut each month into twenty-eight, thirty, or thirty-one different parts,
But don't make up the whole batch at once.
Prepare it one day at a time out of these ingredients.
Mix well into each day one part of faith, one part of patience, one part of courage, and one part of work.
Add to each day one part of hope, faithfulness, generosity, and kindness.
Blend with one part prayer, one part meditation, and one good deed.
Season the whole with a dash of good spirits, a sprinkle of fun, a pinch of play,
And a cupful of good humor.
Pour all of this into a vessel of love.
Cook thoroughly over radiant joy, garnish with a smile,
And serve with quietness, unselfishness, and cheerfulness.
You're bound to have a happy new year.

A10. THE HUMAN BODY

A10. THE HUMAN BODY
Let us talk about our own body today (and match our views):
The human body is a self-nourishing, self-regulating, self-repairing, self-starting and self-reproducing machine installed at birth and lasting for a good three-quarters of a century, like a good grand-father's clock, requiring very little attention.
It is a machine. A machine provided with wireless vision and wireless hearing with a much more complicated system of nerves and lymphs than the most complicated telephone and telegraph system of the world. It has a system of filing reports done by a vast complexes of nerves, managed with such efficiency that some files, the less important ones are kept in the attic and the others are kept in a more convenient desk, but those kept in the attic, which may be more than 30 years old and rarely referred to are nevertheless there and found with lightning speed and efficiency. Perhaps the system is much faster and efficient than the fastest and latest of the present day computers. In computer terminology the memory capacity of the human brain is 10 trillion bytes or 100 times bigger than one gigabyte disc.
It also manages to go about like a motor-car with a perfect knee-action and absolute silence of engines and if the motor car has an accident and breaks its glass or its steering wheel, the car automatically exudes or manufactures a substance to replace the glass and does its best to grow a steering shaft, for we must remember that when one of our kidney gives way, the other swells and increases its functions to ensure the passage of the normal volume of urine. Then it also keeps up a normal temperature within a tenth of a Fahrenheit degree and manufactures its own chemicals for the purpose of transforming food into living tissue.
Above all, it has a sense of rhythm of life and a sense of time, not only of hours and days, but also of decades; the body regulates its own childhood, puberty and maturity, stops growing when it should no longer grow and brings forth a wisdom tooth at a time when no one of us even thought of it. Our conscious wisdom has nothing to do with our wisdom tooth.
It also manufactures specific anti-dotes against poison on the whole with amazing success and it does all those things with absolute silence without the usual racket of a factory, so that our superfine meta-physician may not be disturbed and is free to think about his spirit or essence.
It relies on a very cheap and abundantly available source of material for survival. Ventilation takes place to maintain a constant flow of fresh air, around 16 times a minute. It has a network of pipelines, stretching over 40 miles to transfer oxygen poor blood from all body tissues to a muscular pump, the best in the world, which purifies it and sends oxygen rich blood to all tissues to maintain their strength and vitality. The pump works uninterrupted, between 60 to 80 times a minute, to keep life flowing. The body has around 600 trillion tiny air bags in the lungs. The surface area they provide for oxygen and carbon-dioxide is equivalent to that of a tennis court.
It has a defense system that seeks out and engulfs any invading bacteria or viruses or disease causing organisms. It also has a mechanism which protects it from physical injuries by releasing chemicals which enable blood to clot and thus prevent blood outflow.
It has storm-troopers who carry carbon dioxide from tissues to the lungs where it is exuded. It has garbage clearance apparatus which carry metabolic wastes from its factory to the kidneys which help to excrete it as urine and digested food is also transferred to this factory for processing and passing onward to the body cells as nourishment and waste product is routinely thrown out.
Believe me 15 million red blood cells are created and killed every second in the human body.
And marvel of marvels, the genetic engineering ensures that all organs and body features are identical in all human beings, except in very rare cases, and yet no two faces or body structure are identical in all respects, irrespective of which part of the world we look for them.

G3. NEW YEAR GREETINGS

In our treasure of ever growing memories,
There are so many of which you are a part,
We have shared so many Happy Times,
And in our hearts we have been so close,
That it seems natural and a pleasure,
To send these Warm and Happy Thoughts,
With a sincere wish along the way,
For a very Happy and prosperous New Year.

DD19. DEFT DEFINITIONS

MACHINE An aid that may do the work of fifty ordinary workers but fails to do the work of even one extraordinary man.
MAGISTRATE An official who is often required to decide the responsibilities for accidents between vehicles on the road, each, according to its driver, on its proper side, duly signaled and sounded and at the time, stationary.
MAGIC The hand is quicker than the eye is.
MAJORITY A large number of people who have gotten tired of thinking for themselves and have decided to accept somebody else's opinion.
MAN a) A social animal who can be divided into two broad categories. Those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
b) Human race is said to be divided into two sexes of which the man is said to belong to the stronger sex, but in the opinion of this lexicographer " The weaker sex is stronger than the stronger sex because of the weakness of the stronger sex for the weaker sex."
MANNERS a) The final and perfect flower of noble character.
b) They are like the cipher in arithmetic, they may not be of much value in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.
MARRIAGE a) A romantic novel in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
b) It is like the bath-by the time you get used to it, it is not so hot.
c) A barbaric formula designed originally to perpetuate the servitude of women and developed by modern courts to achieve the enslavement of men.
MARRIED-MAN Those who give-in when right.
MATRIMONY The sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
MATURITY Expertise developed to admit and say " I was wrong " and when right, ability to resist saying Ï told you so".
MEDDLING Principal occupation of women.
MEDITATION Wet nurse of thought.
MEMORY Something which recoils at you when you scold your child for an offense he commits, which you yourself did at his age.
METEOROLOGIST One who looks at the sky and tells us whether.
MIND a) What is it ? No matter. What is matter ? Never mind.
b) A part of human body which, like the parachute, works best when open. However, like the richest jewels that are ,sooner or later, found to wear out their settings, a great many of these so called open minds should be closed for repairs at the proper time lest they consume the body to which they are attached.
MIRACLE s) An event which defies natural laws and the most incredible thing about these miracles is that they do happen.
b) An event described by those to whom it was told by men who didn't see it.
MIRAGE Look directly at what you seek and see it disappear.
MISCHIEF Something in respect of which it is difficult to decide as to whether we suffer from it most from our enemies with the worst intentions or from friends with the best of intentions.
MISNOMER The right name for the wrong word.
MISERY a)It loves company but cannot bear competition.
b) Shadow of happiness.
MISTAKE a) A new lesson for success.
b) One that you don't make, if you learn from every one that you do make.