Age of Empires

Age of Empires is the King of all games. Most modern games lack the unique graphics that age of empires has. The life in the characters in age of empires game is unique. Playing the game is also easy and easily learnable. Unlike other games where we have to spent some time getting used to its features in Age of Empires, it is not so.

The game is produced by Microsoft and the game producer has brilliantly used his talent on every aspects of the game.

In this game there are villagers who work and earn gold, stone, wood and food for you. Having this you go about producing buildings and soldiers and go about constructing your empire with strong fortress. You become its king. The interesting part is when you are going about doing this, another empire is slowly developing by another king. That king never keeps quiet and he always want to wage a war with another empire. In any single play there can be 8 empires with 8 kings. They can make allies between other kings or could go about single handed fighting with its neighboring kingdoms.

It is almost like the online Travian game, but is more powerful and has rich features that Travian lacs. You can watch the fights right before your eyes between soldiers and horses. You can watch the destruction of buildings. You can lead your forces and defeat a king.

There are stories about the ancient king within the game. There is audio treats during the game, you will be guided through the game of what next the king has to do. At the start of the game brief history about the King is narrated and at the finish of the game again the story is ended with further continuation linked to another story.

There could be many good modern games with some good graphics but nothing could compare with the graphics of age of empires. Microsoft has released more games in continuous of age of empires but they too are unable to bring in the quality and interest that this game has generated.

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Heaven or Hell

One day a sage was deep in penance in a forest inside a cave. His prayer attracted the God towards him. God appeared before him and asked him what he wishes to have.

"Oh! God, this humble sage wants to see how people live in heaven and in hell. Whether the lord would take me there for me to see".

"O.K, which one you want to see first heaven or hell".

"Oh, God, take me to hell first and then to heaven. When I return back I should have sweet memories heaven lingering in me so let me see heaven lastly.

"O.K., come with me". So the sage is lifted up and into the sky they vanish. Sage is taken to the hell and is left out there. "Here it is" now you can go around this hell and see yourself". Thus God leaves him.

The sage finds a beautiful palace, there is good fragrance of sandal wood, flowers etc. The saint wonders whether this is hell or heaven. Have been left at a wrong place, this looks to be heaven. Thinking so he meets a watchman before the palace who is having a big and think wood-cutter like sword held over his shoulder. He has big moustache and looks very fiercesome. The sage explains to him that he has come to see heaven and hell. And asks him, "Is this a hell it seems to be heaven?".




The watchmen grumbles in a roaring voice. "I know for what you have come, this is the hell", replies the watchman. "Come with me I will show more what is in this hell".

By this time a bell rings and there are lot of people who rush towards a big hall pushing one another. They occupy the row seats and sit before a lengthy table, just as you see in any Kalyana Mantapa-marriage function. A big plaintain leaf is put before them. Then comes white hot rice with steam emitting from them. The fragrant smell of rice could be felt by the sage. Then comes the hot sambar, the plaintain leaf then filled up with all varities of vegetables and colourful sweets. For the first time the saint sees such a wonderful lunch with such a variety of dishes.

The sage asks the watchman, is this hell or heaven? People are getting so good a food here. At this the watchman roars with a coarse voice. Can't you simply watch. Just keep quiet and watch what is happening here". Some other workers come there with big sticks three feet in length and ropes. "What are those for" asks the sage. "Jjust keep quiet and watch, mutters the watchman in a commanding voice". . The sage obeys the orders of watchman and looks about what really is happening. The workers keep the three feet lengthy stick on everybody's hands and it is tied with a rope. Now no one is able to bend their hands. Everyone are able to mix the rice and sambar but they are unable to take the food to their mouth. Even though food is in plenty no one is able to eat it. Sage now thinks, what a hell is it. You have plenty of food before you but you are unable to eat it. This really is HELL.

Sage then says to the watchman, "it is enough watching hell, now I know what really hell is, take me to the heaven.

So he is transported to heaven. There too he finds the same type of palace same type of hall and also same type of foods are served. The sage thought, Oh, how nice it is to spend our life here having such a good hot delicious variety of food and sweets.

Just then the sage sees workers coming with the same type of three feet lengthy sticks with rope and they tie the hands of all the people sitting before the food.

The sage asks the watchman, "why in heaven too people hands are tied?"

"Don't you ever ask questions, wait and see".

The sage suddenly could see everyone eating food. Though they are unable to bend their hands. How! they take the food and they feed the other person beside them. Each one does the same and all are able to finish their lunch.

So this is the difference between people in the hell and heaven. In heaven people have this helping tendencies and they help each other. But in hell their mind never works in this way since they have no helping tendencies. They lived their life so in the earth and thus suffer in hell.

Thus helping others you would profit everone. Having learnt this lesson the sage comes back to the earth and spends rest of his life helping others and preaching them how by helping others you could help yourself.

Intellect and Consciousness

Think of this Intellect..., where does it reside in our body?

You may say it is in the brain, in the mind.

Think of this body...a dead body and a living body. There is no difference in them at the moment of death. The organs in a dead body and a living body is exactly the same. The atoms that has gone to create this living body still remains in the dead body. It is only by the passage of time the dead body decays. Now why should it decay?

So there is some difference between a living body and a dead body. A dead body decays!

What then is the difference in them. We may say. `Consciousness' and the `intellect' that had been governing the body has gone, hence the body decays. But where has this consciousness, and intellect which is a part of consciousness, has gone.

Has this atoms, that has created this body, has anything to do with consciousness and intellect? No, should be the answer. Consciousness, and intellect which is a part of consciousness, exist independently. But Where? At the moment of death where it has gone?

The body which you have exercised and kept so healthy has gone dead now. It is dead because consciousness has escaped from that body. You faint and lie like a dead body until the consciousness returns. If the consciousness never returns then you die. What is this consciousness, what is it made up of?

What if this consciousness never leaves your body.

Sometimes we writher in intolerable pain, we fall into untold sufferings, at this time some get into suicidal tendencies, some call the Kala Bhairava to take their lives.

Consciousness can also be called as PRANA.

To know all about this consciousness, THINK upon it and find the answer that is right within you. This Consciousness, this intellect from where it has come.

Go back to the origin of universe the beginning of universe.




Go back to that time when nothing existed, just when it was a total shunya, darkness with no activity.

In the previous chapter we came to know that to a life to come into being some Great intellect should have existed to create it.

Now when back in time in the begining when nothing existed where from this INTELLECT come from to create this LIFE, this universe, this water, air, earth etc?

And as you read on...in the coming chapters you will come to know. Your intellect will open up.

Just for Gags

Jhun Jhun Wala was asked to deliver a speech. So he called up his secretary to draft one.

Jhun Jhun Wala not conscious of what he is doing delivered his speech, later he scolded his secretary: 'Why did you write such a long speech for me? You saw how those people were feeling bored!'

The secretary replied, 'Sir, it wasn't a lengthy speech at all; but I did make one mistake- I gave you all 3 copies of the speech.'

Intelect grows by thinking

How can our intellect develop?

Will you say that, `when we attend school and college, and when we listen to the teachings, lectures, our inetellect grows'.

If a monkey, bear or dog is taught whether its intelligent grows. You may say `yes' but marginally. But a monkey, bear or dog are trained, its intellect is different to human beings and is limited.

You listen to a lecture but stop there without analysing of what is said, will your intellect grow? Certainly not. Analysing of what you have heard will grow your intelligence. Analysing is nothing but THINKING on that matter. Thus for a intellect to grow we have to THINK. Again the intention to think should be there. In otherwords the intellect can develop only by ITSELF. No other person can put intelligence on you. It has to develop by your own thinking. The motive, the will to develop intellect, should be there. And that could be achieved by THINKING.

Practise THINKING and your intellect will grow.

If you stop thinking or not have the intention to use your intellect to develop, the intellect will not develop, it may decay. It may take the opposite direction.




So think for a while, "Are you THINKING and developing the intellect that is already there right inside you"?

Suppose that you decided NOT to think. It is clear, that in time your intellect would decay and regress significantly.

So, intellect has a motive to develop itself. The best and the most logical choice for intellect - is to grow and expand itself.

Otherwise it decays and in the extreme case it may even cease to exist.

It is a pleasant feeling to become more intelligent and knowledgeable?

So THINK.

Don't dry your intelligence

Jhun Jhun Wala left his intelligence to decay.

So did his friend and so they both were sent to a mental hospital.

One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jhun Jhun Wala's friend suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Jhun Jhun Wala promptly jumped in to save him. He swam to the bottom and pulled his friend out.

When the Head Nurse became aware of Jhun Jhun Wala's heroic act she immediately ordered him to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered him to be mentally stable.

When she went to tell Jhun Jhun Wala the news she said, "Jhun Jhun Wala, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged; since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, your friend you saved, hung himself with his bathrobe belt in the bathroom. I am so sorry, but he's dead."

Jhun Jhun Wala replied "He didn't hang himself. I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?"

The beginning-Big Bang Theory

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Think for Just a while. Think about all that is on this earth. From where these have come. What is their beginning.

Can we say that in the beginning there was nothing. Go back and back and back and find out the beginning.

In the beginning there was nothing. There was no space. There was no time. There was no life and consciousness. Just it was a Shunya. No darkness, sunlight, sea and sky nothing.

Imagine this nothing - and suddenly a beginning has occured.

This beginning is not one thing but everythig. The beginning of sun, sea, sky, water, air, life etc whatever you can imagine has occured in one big bang... as the scientist call it as `Big Bang theory'. We can say that it happened In a second, in a moment.

Now how this has occured and who is behind this occurence?

Wait A Minute

Jhun Jhun Wala : "God, how long is a million years?"

God : "To me, it's about a minute."

Jhun Jhun Wala : "God, how much is a million dollars?"

God : "To me it's a penny."

Jhun Jhun Wala : "God, may I have a penny?"

God : "Wait a minute."

Purpose of life

I believe that you have grasped that which was given in Part 1 to 3. It is important that you do, since those parts are linked to this part-4

As a man you had intelligent and it is accepted fact that every intelligent person does every act with a PURPOSE.

What for... you created or build a house?! It had a PURPOSE in it. You needed a shelter to live within and so constructed it. It was for your own living and your family, you employed workers and constructed it.

When you with limited intelligence has created a house with a purpose in mind what about the Greater intelligence that has created a life for? Whether this super intelligence has created life without any reason or purpose. Now you have to AGREE that this Great intellect who has created this life has created it with a PURPOSE. This universe is created by this super intelligence with a purpose.

And what is this PURPOSE?

Stretch your imagination to the greatest extent that is possible and think for what PURPOSE this universe is created. Think all that is happening in the universe for a while. Now leave universe aside.

By now you know that this life is created by the Great Intellect for a purpose. Put your imagination and your intellect to work and think out for what PURPOSE this could be.

What is the PURPOSE of this life that this Great Intellect wanted it to be.




Move on to part - 5


Someone tells Jhun Jhun wala, "you are unfit to live in this world. For what purpose you are born here, God knows". You Indians are lazy.

Jhun Jhun wala gets upset and commits suicide and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different hell for each country.

He goes to the German hell and asks, "What do they do here?"

He was told, "First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the German devil comes in and beats you for the rest of the day."

The man does not like the sound of that at all, so he moves on and checks out the USA hell as well as the Russian hell and many more countries... He discovers that they are all more or less the same as the German hell...

Then he comes to the Indian hell and finds that there is a long line of people waiting to get in. Amazed, he asks, What do they do here?"

He was told, "First they put you in an electric chair for an hour..Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the Indian devil comes and beats you for the rest of the day."

"But that is exactly the same as all the other hells---so why are so many people waiting to get in here?" asked the man.

Because maintenance is so bad that the electric chair does not work, someone has stolen all the nails from the bed and the Indian devil is a former Govt. servant, so he comes in and signs the register and then goes to the canteen!

Life and Universe

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Its important that you have grasped things that has been said in part-1 and 2.

So you agree that life is more difficult to create then to create a house.

For creating a house you already know that it needs intelligence and intellect, someone has to design it in his mind before bringing it to creation.

Can a life create itself? It has blood vessels, nerves, digestive system etc. These things do you think created itself. So this life has come into being only because it has been imagined before hand. It really needs great intelligence and intellect to design a life. Just think of the various functions that the body performs in our day to day life. How perfect and systematic it is.

So some intellect a really great intellect has to exist, before life can come into this Universe. Greater intelligence than the intelligence that is needed to create a house is required for a life to be created..

So Remember - that even a house cannot be created without Intelligence. And that Life required far greater intelligence to be designed than a house.

Now move on to Part - 4

Chennai Super Kings Vs Mumbai Indians

A note to Badrinath!

Mr.Badrinath...

A basic cricket lesson, strategy everything was missed by Chennai Super Kings. Leave aside Dhoni what he had to say you at the time out period. Badrinath you having lead the Chennai cricket teams have enough experience about the game.

This pitch on this day suited very well for you and Rohit Sharma. out of all the 22 players it suited you both. Tommorrow this same pitch may suit for other and not you both. This happens in cricket. On one day it suits some and the other day for someone else. A close watch you can see every batsman was out going for shots because they could not time the ball. They could not read the pitch. 1 There should be no second thoughts that you should face maximum balls and so the strategy is to see that you always possess the strike. But what you did! When Morket was out, the game was yours alone and in your hand alone.

You had 36 balls and in that 36 balls you can easily score at the strike rate of 150 but what you did was giving the strike to Joginder Sharma. He who cannot read the pitch naturally will get out if trying to hit shots. That did happen. Next came Randhiv and in the last two overs again you failed to be at the striking end though you had enough opportunity.

What you did was at the 18.1 over you took a single and came over the other side. Is this what the cricket taught you. There were just 28 runs to score and it was just so easy in this pitch for you to score. But the whole of 19th over was wasted by you standing in the non-striker end.

In the end analysis it was just 9 runs that your team fell short.

I like to ask you whether you are batting for yourself or for the team.

You had made all the CSK fans sad.

CSK Vs Mumbai Indians Highlights - Part-1

CSK Vs Mumbai Indians Highlights - Part-2