″BY THE PAST, THROUGH THE PRESENT, TO THE FUTURE″.

The coconut (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family, Arecaceae. Originally native to the Central Indo-Pacific, in the regions of Maritime Southeast Asia and Melanesia, coconuts are now found across the world due to human cultivation and dispersal. They are normally cultivated in hot and wet tropical climates. The term coconut also commonly refers to the seed and fruit of the coconut tree, which is botanically a drupe. The fruit has three layers including an edible white, fleshy endosperm and is filled with a liquid known as coconut water. The coconut thus played a critical role in the migration of Austronesian peoples across the Indian Ocean, as it provided a portable source of both food and water for long sea voyages. In modern times coconuts are used extensively in cooking and cuisine, using the raw flesh, the water or in alternative forms such as coconut milk and coconut butter. These coconuts, one whole and one halved, were grown in the Dominican Republic; this photograph was focus-stacked from 19 separate images.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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"It is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura (Satan) at work when you are taught to shun beauty. It has been the ruin of India. The Divine manifests in the psychic as love, in the mind as knowledge, in the vital as power and in the physical as beauty. If you discard beauty it means that you are depriving the Divine of this manifestation in the material and you hand over that part to the Asura " ~ Mirra Alfassa

TRIANGLE OF LOVE

We may represent love as a triangle, each of the angles of which corresponds to one of its inseparable characteristics...

FIRST ANGLE: The first angle of our triangle of love is that love knows no bargaining.

SECOND ANGLE: The second angle of the triangle of love is that love knows no fear.

THIRD ANGLE: The third angle of the triangle of love is that love knows no rival, for in it is always embodied the lover's highest ideal. It may be that in many cases human love is misdirected and misplaced, but to the person who loves, the thing he loves is always his own highest ideal...One may see his ideal in the vilest of beings, and another in the highest of beings; nevertheless, in every case it is the ideal alone that can be truly and intensely loved.

                      - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (Bhakti Yoga)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET ON LOVE

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand'ring bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me prov'd,

I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

ON FAITH

"If you gave me the sun in one hand and the moon in the other, I should not give it up."

                        - Prophet Mohammad (on being asked to keep quiet about his faith)

"As ye believe, so it will be."

                  - Jesus the Christ

‘For when the One Great Scores comes

To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost – But How you played the Game’ - Alumnus Football: Grantland Rice

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Hi! I am Anindya Moitra from Kolkata, India. My journey in Wikipedia began in 2008 and in Wikimedia Commons began in December 2006. My humble contributions in Wikipedia and its other sister concerns are mere drops in the ocean.