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ALBERTA GUJARATI ASSOCIATION
HOSTED
IN THE CITY OF EDMONTON
ALSO KNOWN AS
THE "CITY OF CHAMPIONS" AND
"CITY OF FESTIVALS"
IN ALBERTA, CANADA |
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(English
Translation of the above Gujarati joke)
"Do you wish that the world takes notice of you and seeing you gets
surprise?
It is very easy....
Take a photo doing head-stand on an huge elephant's back
and then enlarge the print but display it turning upside
down....
a and enjoy the world surprise"
......But apart from the joke...
THAT IS A GUJARATI ETERNAL
EVERGREEN
PERSPECTIVE OF
GUJARATI SELF IN LIFE
AND
THE WORLD GUJARATI LIVE IN...
SHOW-CASED BY FEW THOUSAND GUJARATI
PEOPLES
PROSPERING WITH HARMONIOUS CO-EXISTENCE
IN MULTICULTRUAL WESTERN CANADIAN PROVINCES OF
MANITOBA, SASKETCHWAN, ALBERTA, AND BRITSH COLUMBIA
AMONG 10.5 MILLION WESTERN CANADIANS....
ABOUT
GUJARAT AND GUJARATI PEOPLES
Gujarati people
are an
Indo-Aryan
ethnic group that is traditionally
Gujarati-speaking
and can trace their ancestry to the state of
Gujarat
in northwestern
India.
Famous Gujarati include
Mohandas Gandhi,
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(father of Pakistan),
and
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(a political and social leader of India and colleague of Mahatma Gandhi)
who played a major role in the India's struggle for independence from
250-year British plundering of India and guided its integration into a
united, independent nation. He was called the "Iron Man Of India")....
To
have a brief history of
Gujarati people
please click
on the name hilite.......and
to know about
Gujarat state
in India where 49 million Gujarati peoples
have originated and emigrated to populate all over this planet Earth
please click on the name hilite...
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...ALBERTA GUJARATI ASSOCIATION HOSTS
THE 2010 RAAS GARBA FESTIVAL
IN EDMONTON, ABLERTA, CANADA
OON SEPTEMBER 3-5, 2010.. |
Edmonton 2010 Raas Garba Festival will bring together
Gujarati from
Western Canadian cities and the Edmonton community at large this summer.
As the main event, the Raas Garba competition promises to be full of
energy, creative imagination and talent of Gujarati youth and a
celebration of their heritage. Winners will be announced and recognized
during an awards dinner later the same evening. Other activities during
the festival will include practice recitals, social and cultural events,
games and health seminar.
This festival has previously been held successfully in Calgary, Edmonton
and Vancouver. Raas Garba is a form of dance, similar to Western folk
dance that originated in the western state of Gujarat, India. Many
traditional garbas are performed in a circle around a central lit lamp
in an earthen pot, signifying the Almighty pervading the Universe and
powering the circle of life. People dance around the center, bending
sideways at every step, their arms making sweeping gestures, each
movement ending in a clap. Modern garba is also heavily influenced by
Dandiya Raas, a dance traditionally performed by men. The merger of
these two dances has formed the high-energy dance that is seen today. To
continue reading the full story and also see the photos and video of
this 3 day event please click on the name to visit the Raas Garba Festival
website called "MY RASS" hosted by Alberta Gujarati Association based in
Edmonton, Alberta Canada.....
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.....THE ORIGIN OF GUJARATIO
PEOPLES OF WESTERN CANANDA.....
....INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION-
THE OLDEST CIVILIZATION ON EARTH...
Map from
Wikipedia)(
Extent and major sites of the Indus Valley Civilization. currently known
and includes the state of Gujarat, India. The shaded area does not
include recent excavations such as
Rupar,
Balakot,
Shortughai in
Afghanistan, Manda in
Jammu,
etc
(Map from
Wikipedia)
Ancient Lothal
as envisaged by the
Archaeological Survey of India..
The findings consist of a
mound, a
township, a
marketplace and the dock.
Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus
valley civilization. Located in Bhal region of the modern state of
Gujarat and dating from 2400 BCE. Lothal's dock—the world's earliest
known—connected the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river on
the trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh and the peninsula of
Saurashtra when the surrounding Kutch desert of today was a part of the
Arabian Sea. It was a vital and thriving trade centre in ancient times,
with its trade of beads, gems and valuable ornaments reaching the far
corners of West Asia and Africa.
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ABOUT ALBERTA GUJARATI
ASSOCIATION IN EDMONTON r />
  
(Photos from
AGA Website)
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The
Alberta Gujarati Association, AGA, was started in 1970 and
registered as a non-profit Society under Alberta Society Act in 1978 by
a group of immigrants in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada that came from
Gujarat, India. While looking for a way to connect with other newly
arrived Gujarati people, AGA introduced festivities, cultural programs,
events and more that the people of Gujarat were accustomed to back home.
AGA has a current membership of over 400 families.
The distinctiveness of AGA is Gujarati culture which has been identified
to have existed during the Indus valley civilization which is the
currently the oldest known civilization on this planet Earth. The
current archeological finds dates Indus valley civilization to be over
10,000 years old.
Indus Valley Civilization and
Harappan Civilization
was very probably evolved in science, industry, commerce, arts, life
philosophy and metaphysical sciences more than the current state of
evolution of current humankind civilizations.
AAAGA provides to its membership social, educational and sports program
for Gujarati festivals such navaraatri, diwali, tulsi vivaah, jalaraam
jayanti, gujaraati language learning classes, music learning and
practices, seniors gatherings, sports events including a gujaraat
Cricket Club, devotional activities through Shakti Satsung Mandal,
mentoring to new gujaraati immigrants, social assistance to membership
families in distress and mentoring to member students.
AGA participates and delivers social services to mainstream Edmonton
communities and events such as Klondike days,
Heritage festival, Canada Day Celebrations, International Day for
Elimination of Racial Discrimination and other community events and
fund-raising for world events such as Gujaraat Earthquake. br />
AGA has a long-term plan in place to build its own centre called strong>
Mahatma Gandhi Centre,
a "Gujarati Home Away From Home"
for 365/24 day to day living of Gujarati lifestyle by
preserving and fostering gujaraati legacy in this twenty-first century
and the third millennium.
(Compiled From My Raas website
and My Story
published by AGA in 2002) |
Please click on the next line to read more about today's western
Canada's Gujarati people's news story.......and to see event photos and
videos... together with info on Gujarati peoples and their history, info
on City of Edmonton including why it is called "City of Champions"
and "City of Festivals" and the Canadian Province of Alberta which is
also now called "Saudi Arabia of Canada" at the end of the news on the
next webpage..... |
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MONDAY MUSE:
CREATE YOUR LUCK
Dynamic personalities do not bother too much about luck… they create
their own “luck”!.... .
.......So often we pray for Good fortune to
eclipse our Bad Luck…
But to BE BETTER at scripting our destiny… ......
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Once, an old farmer’s old horse ran off into the hills. When, his
neighbours sympathised with him over his bad luck, the farmer replied,
'Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?'
A week later the horse returned with an imposing wild horse from the
hills and this time the neighbours congratulated the farmer on his good
luck. His reply was, 'Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?'
The farmer's son fell off and broke his leg while attempting to tame the
wild horse. Everyone thought this to be bad luck. But the farmer
maintained the same reaction, 'Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?'
A week later the army marched into the village and forcefully enlisted
every able-bodied youth. However they let off the farmer's son due to
his broken leg.
Luck is said to be good if things go our way and bad if things go
astray. But what seems good luck may actually turn bad and vice versa as
well.
So often, we hurry to attribute our so-called-luck to ridiculous
reasoning.
In fact, superstition arises from beliefs in luck being controlled by
unseen forces, magical rituals and bizarre behaviour.
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Obviously, people who believe in luck tend to disconnect with pluck!
People who can be described retrospectively as “lucky” actually generate
their own success via the following tactics:
- They develop proactive skills to notice and create
‘chance’ opportunities.
- They make prudent decisions using imagination as
intuition. They create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive
expectations.
- They adopt a resilient logical attitude to transform
so called bad luck into good.
- Dynamic personalities do not bother too much
about luck… they create their own “luck”!
So often we pray for Good fortune to eclipse our Bad Luck…
But to BE BETTER at scripting our destiny, let’s hold on to pluck!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
June 29, 2009, Goa, India. |
MONDAY MUSE is
another new PVAF life-knowledge-sharing feature...
TO
MAKE YOUR TOMORROW HAPPIER THAN TODAY....
because
NOW YOU CAN CREATE YOUR LUCK
ON YOUR LIFE-PATH...
IN SCIENCES OF LIFE AND CREATION CALLED vED
LUCK IS CALLED kARm-fl MEANING
YOU WILL REAP IN FUTURE WHAT YOU SOW TODAY............
Please click on the next line to learn about
this MONDAY MUSE and
also about its contributor lifecoach/writer Pravin K. Sabnis....
and
how YOU too can share your similar life-wisdom-knowledge..... |
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REMBERING 2009 AT PVAF...
TO MAKE YOUR 2010 HAPPIER
SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOW MORE KNOWLEDGE
TO UNDERSTAND THE PAST
TO LEARN FROM THE PAST
AND
CAN USE THE KNOWLEDGE TO LIVE YOUR
DAILY LIFE...
......RATHER THAN SUFFERING FROM IGNORANCE....
.....AND THIS WEEKEND SPECIALS
ADDS A LITTLE BIT OF HUMOUR AND AWE
AT WHAT WE HUMANS ARE CAPABLE OF DOING
THE MOST UNEXPECTED
THE NEXT MINUTE OF OUR LIFE-JOURNEY.....
......please scroll through and enjoy....
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YOU CAN CLICK ON THE HILTEDE SOURCE
OF EACH PHOTO
TO SEE MORE OF THE WIERDEST THINGS
HUMAN BEING CAN DO AND CREATE....
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THIS IS GENIUS...OR MIRACE ...OR MAGIC ILLUSION
.....A WOMAN IN YOGA POSE LEVITATING
IN A STREET PERFORMACE.....
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MAN MARRIES A DOG IN INDIA...
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......please click on the next line
to go to
PVAF web page of this weekend special of
PHOTOS WORTH THOUSAND WORDS
to keep on scrolling and smiling at our human race..... |
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....NEWS PHOTOS OF THE WEEK...
which is equal to thousand words of news on this
LIFE KNOWLEDGE SHARING PVAF WEBSITE
to make your tomorrow happier than today
simply because you have more life knowledge today.... |
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.......EVEN A DOG KNOWS
NOT TO SWIN IN THE FLOOD AND DIE....
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Khin Maung Win/AP
August 31, 2010: A boy along
with a dog on an inner tube wades through a flooded road on Tuesday in
Burma (Myanmar). The Bago River went over its banks on Monday, forcing
residents in low lying areas to abandon their homes.
(Christian Science
Monitor)
....SHRii viSHANu`s 8th
avtaar WAS ABOUT 5200 YEARS AGO...
ON 8th DAY OF suD
(first half)
of SHRaavAN maas
(month)
OF vEDik CALANDER....
(this year on
September 2, 2010)
.....ABOUT 100 YEARS BEFORE
THE PRESENT vEDik TIME ERA CALLED
kli-yug OF
432,000 YEARS STARTED ON FEBRUARY 18th 3012 BC ...
...and during kli-yug
humankind will live progressively breaking more and more of all
universal rules and regulations of
DHARm which
empowers harmonious co-dependent happy co-existence among all creations
in every day lifestyle regardless of what belief system they follow...
At the end of kli-yug SHRii viSH`ANu will take HIS 10th
avtaar called klki-DEv ...to remove all those who do not
live by DHARm and transit those who live by DHARm into
vEDik time era called
st`y-yug with a
duration of 1,728,000 years ....
....during which DHARm will be upheld by humankind 100 % at the
start and
decrease to 75 % towards the end of st`y-yug...
(please click
on the hilited sNskRUt language words of vED = SCIENCES OF
LIFE AND CREATION.... to understand what is on Wikipedia which may
have lost essence of of the GNaan (TRUE vEDik KNOWLEDGE)
meaning in translating sNskRUt into English together with not
having a comprehensive GNaan of vED....This write-up
for this photo provided by
Champak Mistry
of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from his vED library )
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Ajay Verma/Reuters
August 31, 2010: Children
dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna wait to participate in a fancy dress
competition at a temple during the celebrations ahead of the Janamashtmi
festival in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. The festival, which
marks the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, will be celebrated across
India on September 2, 2010.(Christian Science
Monitor) |
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searching photo news for your happy weekend...... |
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| ....GOOD,
BAD & UGLY FACES OF WEALTH... |
The "World Wealth Report"
is a report on individuals with a net worth of at least
$1 million in all assets except their primary residence.
The report is compiled annually by
Capgemini for Merrill Lynch.
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....THE "WORLD WEALTH REPORT" HILITES....
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High net worth individuals are defined as those with over $1-million
(U.S.) in investable assets and financial services firms from around the
globe.
The number of high-net-worth individuals in the world grew by 17.1% in
2009
(where was the
recession in the life of these peoples), to 10 million. The combined wealth of those individuals rose by
18.9% (how can one make so much money
in a world recession )to an estimated $39-trillion.
The U.S., Japan, and Germany account for 53.5% of
the world's high-net-worth population
(although their combined population is
a small fraction of the world population).
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......COMPARE THE INDIVIDUAL HIGH
NET WORTH TO
THE NET WORTH OF THE WORLD.....
And you will start wondering
why half of the peoples on this planet earth
are living hand to mouth daily and/or
get only one meal a day.....
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From
GetMoneyEnergy
web site: The entire
world officially owes itself more money than it can produce in the form
of equity assets. Of course, the calculation might be meaningless, since
the numbers are an aggregate of the nations involved, and it doesn’t
make sense to imagine the world not being able to pay itself back. But
it’s still a thought-provoking state of affairs.
According to a recent report in the Financial Post on the precarious
pressure-cooker that is the current bond market, total world debt in the
form of bonds is equivalent to about $82 trillion dollars USD. The
number nearly tripled since 2001 (when it was only $33 trillion U.S.).
Compare total debt with total assets: the total value of world equity
markets amount to only $44 trillion dollars in USD equivalent.
The
world thus has a negative net worth of about -$38 trillion measured in
USD.
I’m not too sure what exactly this indicates, other than, perhaps, the
amount of inflation ready to leak into the global system.
All these bonds are so much money
“printed.” Most of it belongs to the United States, as we all know.
Greece is barely a pebble on the beach.
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....WHY PVAF IS PUBLISHING TODAY'S NEWS STORY...
(The following
write-up and comments in smaller fonts in this news story and the entire
news story has been compiled and contributed by
Champaklal Dajibhai
Mistry of
Edmonton, Canada, who in 1999 pioneered the PVAF program "Remove Poverty
Through Education".....based on his life education and life experience
gained and through his consulting business in which he has worked for
about 40 years as a business owner, Professional Engineer and Project
Manager representing Project Owners on many community development
programs to remove poverty through community infrastructure development
revolving around life education in Africa, Ontario and Alberta) |
PVAF's primary reason for existence since its self-birth is a hope that
one day PVAF can say it tried and tried and tried to remove poverty
among earthlings for the next 3 generations of humankind (it takes at
least 3 generation to create a social change among humankind)...Poverty
afflicting humans are as many and more as there are human tribes on this
planet earth...and poverty can be generally classified as whatever
created suffering to a human in his/her physical, intellectual,
emotional and spiritual well-being and welfare of his/her existence in a
life-travel.....PVAF has been sharing knowledge on this web site in all
these four aspects of human life and overall existence in the grand
scheme of all creations in this universe......
This sharing includes the continuing education about the vEDik time era
called kli-yug
that the current humanity is living in its 5112nd year of its
total duration of 432,000 years...with the knowledge that money and
women will be the leading agents of societal life making in
kli-yug
....and the percentage of humans living by the rules and regulations of
DHARm
which is 25 at the start of
kli-yug will progressively decrease to about 10
percent when kli-yug
ends....This 10 percent population will transit into the next
vEDik time
era called st`y-yug
in which 100 percent of the humans will live by the tenets of
DHARm
decreasing to 75 percent when
st`y-yug ends after 1,728,000 years duration....(Please
visit "archived" AASHRAM NEWS articles for knowledge
about DHARm
and also click
here for
VEDA section of PVAF to
read more about vEDik era
and other parts of sciences of life and creation collectively called
vED
in sNskRUt
language...and/or
email to Champak Mistry by clicking
here to discuss any
part of this write-up....)
When read together with the above knowledge sharing.....Today's news story hilites the PVAF mandate's seriousness and challenge
to be faced in the next 3 generations....The statistics of today's new
story is very revealing in the fact:
- that the most of the wealth in the current world is
in the hands of 0.16 % of the total world population....and
- more scarier fact is that most of the world wealth is
also negative asset meaning the net worth of the current world is a
debt.....that means it is not the real wealth compared to having hard
cold cash or gold or tangible assets which can be converted to cash....
With the above two realities how will ever the majority of the people in
the world ever have a chance to be what is currently the golden dream of
even being "middle class" peoples who have a comfortable life through a
well paying job......
On behalf of PVAF I invite for your comments on today's news story and
my brief take above....Just click on the button
"POST A COMMENT' in
the header of this news and share away...most gladly how the challenge
of eliminating poverty among humanity will be overcome....If you wish you can email your sharing for publication on this
AASRAM NEWS page by
clicking
here....
You are invited also to join the PVAF volunteers who are current generation and
half highly educated and pro-active and "out of box thinking" minded
professionals around the world who are working with the PVAF PROGRAM
"TO REMOVE POVERTY THROUGH
EDUCATION"....Please click
here to find out how,
what, when and where of joining this PVAF Volunteer Force.....
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news....and also learn all the details on what it means to be a
"millionaire" in today's world..... |
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