Mice!

Elephants here

Mouse

Read the story about Gajamugasuran n Ganeshahttp://www.kidsgen.com/fables_and_fairytales/indian_mythology_stories/ganeshas_%20mouse.htm

The cute nuisance!

669_Mouse

Today's topic is Mouse.

The significance of riding on a mouse is the complete conquest over egoism. The holding of the ankusha represents His rule of the world. It is the emblem of divine Royalty. 
~ Swami Sivananda 

In the Deccan region, Ganesha was pictured with a sheaf of corn and sugarcane, with a mouse as his vehicle. Invoking him made it possible for farmers to eradicate their worst problem, namely rodents, insuring a bountiful harvest. Ganesha is thus the guardian and protector of success, in this case, a good harvest.

 

Happy Drawing! :)

Happy Ganesha!

The saying inspired me to do this :)

Am going to Mysore Dussera!

Drishti Ganesha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha

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Today's topic is Elephant.

More HERE.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
~ Jackie Kennedy

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
~ David Attenborough

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
~ Samuel Richardson

 
Happy Drawing! :)

Ah! to learn

as a student of art, the learning process 

is as fascinating as the artwork itself. 

The sincere student!

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Today's topic is Student.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
~ Og Mandino

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
~ Conrad Hall

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
~ Lou Reed

I'm still a novice student.
~ Ang Lee

I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.
~ Andrea Barber

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
~ Elisabeth Rohm

A student of life considers the world a classroom.
~ Harvey Mackay

 
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A dedicated and passionate Teacher-Venkatalakshmi Sridhar

I owe a lot in my life to my wife! She is so passionate about teaching. She started teaching when she was just in her teens...To this day students  who come to her for learning want to stay with her for as long as they can.
I salute her!! May her tribe increase!!

Happy Teachers' Day

GURUR VISHNU,
GURUR DEVO MAHESHWARAH
GURUR SAAKSHAAT PARA-BRAHMA,
TASMAI SHRI GURUVE NAMAH.

Summary of the Mantra

The Guru is Brahma (The God of Creation)
The Guru is Vishnu (The God of Sustenance)
The Guru is Shiva (The God of Annihilation)
My Salutation to such a Guru, who is verily the Supreme God

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Today's topic is Teacher's Day.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
~ C. S. Lewis

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~ Khalil Gibran

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
~ John Steinbeck


A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
~ Brad Henry

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
~ Dan Rather

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
~ Lily Tomlin

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
~ Elbert Hubbard

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
~ Dr. Seuss

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
~ Andy Rooney

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~ Anatole France

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
~ Morihei Ueshiba

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
~ Steve Harvey

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
~ William Hazlitt

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
~ Bryant H. McGill

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
~ Stevie Wonder

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
~ William Wordsworth

Experience is the teacher of all things.
~ Julius Caesar

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward

I'm glad I was a teacher.
~ John Wooden

 
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Teaching myself

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda 

Please teach me how to scam regularly!

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Today's topic is Teach.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~ Lao Tzu

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
~ Maya Angelou

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
~ Mark Twain

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
~ Galileo Galilei

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
~ Ayn Rand

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
~ Aristotle

Happy Drawing! :)

Learnt a lot from this Bro!

Yesterday I spent quality time with my Bro learning so many things as he has recently taken VRS as AGM from RBI. His vast experience in RBI coupled with his various postings has made him a great source of knowledge about Banking in general and RBI in particular. Lucky to have such a bro!

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Today's topic is Learn.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~ Albert Einstein

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
~ C. S. Lewis

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
~ Denis Waitley

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
~ Earl Nightingale

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
~ Benjamin Franklin

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
~ Mark Twain

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
~ Winston Churchill

Failure is success if we learn from it.
~ Malcolm Forbes

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Happy Drawing! :)

Cow

a study in oil