A Haunted Hotel

In April last year I got a job as a hotel receptionist in a town not far from where I live. I started as extra and now I've worked my way up to being a full-time night receptionist. We are only 2 who share the shifts all the time, so that means we always work alone. The hotel itself is practically just a big tower, with a total of 111 rooms. Part of the job is to go rounds; make sure everything is locked and secure, that everything is in it's place etc.
The back office of the reception is surrounded by frosted glass walls. Behind the glass wall on the right side is a corridor that leads to the elevators and nothing else, which means you see when a guest is arriving from their rooms. Well, you see their shadow to be more exact.
One evening I was working alone and I saw a shadow approaching from the elevators. I got up and walked to the front desk, ready to help the guest. I stood there for a moment, wondering where the guest went. I knew he/she didn't take the elevator back up since you hear the doors closing and the elevator moving. I walked behind the corner and looked out in the corridor. No one was there. I even walked up to the elevators to check if it had gone back up without me hearing but both of them stood with their doors open on the entrance floor. This spooked me a bit but I tried not to think too much about it. The rest of the night went on without anything more happening.
After that both me and the other girl, Louise who works the other nights, see the shadows regularly, but now we've learned which shadow is which. The spirit/spirits shadow appears to be more "smudgy" around the edges, while the guests is solid.
Also, when you work nights you have to go a conference round. The conference is located in another building, where you have to go through a big mall to get to it. That mall is kind of freaky, almost every time you pass through it you feel like you're being watched. Against the walls of the mall is huge plants in pots, and just a few weeks ago Louise saw a solid person stand behind one of those flowers and look at her. She didn't think too much about it since we have guards coming and going throughout the night. But when she passed the flower and the person was still there standing, still just watching her; she approached it. The person stepped around the flower out of her sight and vanished. There is no way it could've been a real person, there is nowhere to hide and everything is locked. Louise searched the mall but the person was nowhere to be seen.
I have never experienced anything in the mall itself, but in the conference hall (which also is a very scary place) things happen quite often.
When you have passed through the mall you reach a stair, which leads up to a locked door. Behind the door is a long corridor, with locked conference rooms on the right side. If you continue through the corridor it turns left, where there is chairs and a table, and then to your left there is more conference rooms. The first conference room is the biggest one, and during your rounds you have to open each room to see if no window is open and that everything is in place.
One night I went in to the biggest room, and suddenly I felt the urge to snap a few pictures in there. I took my phone, snapped a few shots with nothing in them and prepared to lock up and leave. I turned the lights off, and through the camera lens of my phone I saw someone standing in the middle of the room (it was not pitch black, the light from the emergency exit was on). I saw it so clearly: a head, shoulders and legs. I gasped and turned the lights back on, but the room was empty. I started to freak out and quickly locked the room and planned to leave when I started to hear noises coming from around the corner of the corridor, by the chairs. I froze and listened. It sounded like someone stomping around, dragging their feet behind them. And at the same time, like a lot of paper being shredded.
Note that I knew that the place was empty; I had already taken the round and no one was there except me, and no one could get in either.
I listened a while at the sound, while I was absolutely frozen in fear. I felt that whatever it was, it was not someone or something nice. I remember thinking that I should NOT go around the corner. Instead I backed out of the corridor, locked up the hall and ran back to the front desk. I can't remember ever being so scared like I was that night, every sound made me jump.
The morning came and I decided to spend the night in one of the rooms since I was too tired to drive home. I always lock the room when I'm sleeping during the day, so no one can get in, not even the cleaning ladies. There is only one key that can open the doors when they're locked from the inside and that is the skeleton key that is located in the back office, and we just use it during an emergency. Anyway, I'm sure I locked the door because I double checked it 3-4 times before I went to bed. But when I woke up, the door was unlocked. That's when I decided to go home.
After that night I've only seen shadows behind the glass wall from time to time, but never anything big. I feel like I should do something though, try to contact whatever is there but I'm not sure how. Any help would be much appreciated!

Hitler's

Dental detective work gets to the root of Hitler mystery By Roger Highfield, Science Editor A NEW portrait of Adolf Hitler's last days before he committed suicide in the Berlin bunker emerged yesterday, revealing how the Nazi leader was tormented by tooth decay, abscesses and gum disease that caused "terrible bad breath". The whole tooth: Prof Michel Perrier with some of the photographic evidence used to confirm that remains found in 1945 were Hitler's The study of film footage of Hitler, enhanced by a computer, has confirmed that remains found by the Russians in 1945 were his, helping to end half a century of speculation about his fate and validating an identification technique of increasing value to forensic scientists. A paper was presented yesterday at an international conference in London by Prof Michel Perrier, 52, of the University of Lausanne, and will be published in the Journal of Forensic Science. It links newsreel footage with X-rays of Hitler's skull, jaw remains found in the bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery garden and his dental records. Even if Hitler had a double, so many characteristics in his teeth match in each source of evidence that Prof Perrier said yesterday he had no doubt that Hitler died in the bunker. Hitler married his mistress, Eva Braun, during the night of April 28/29, as Soviet troops advanced towards his bunker complex. On April 30 he committed suicide with his wife. In accordance with his instructions, their bodies were burned. Russian forces found the remains and conducted the autopsy of the bodies the following month, said Prof Perrier. "What they found were charred pieces of bone, such as pieces of skull, the lower jaw and part of the upper jaw consisting of a bridge with nine units." Nothing was revealed to the public until 1968, fuelling speculation about Hitler's fate. That year a book by Lev Bezymenski contained a description of Hitler's autopsy and his remains. The jaw remains were compared with dental evidence given to the Americans by Hitler's American-trained dentist, Hugo Blaschke, who had been arrested in 1945. Blaschke, an SS general, had treated Hitler from 1934 until shortly before his death. When his testimony was added to that of his assistant, Kate Hausermann, there was a great deal of material to check the jaw remains against, and they seemed to match. "Hitler had very bad teeth. He had periodontal disease. He had many reconstructions, some done before the time of Blaschke," said Prof Perrier. There were no X-rays of Hitler's jaw available at the time, which could have helped to provide even better confirmation. Then, in 1972, archives in Washington released five X-rays of Hitler's head, taken on July 20, 1944. They revealed bridge work, periodontal (gum) disease and "very unusual dental work", said Prof Perrier. These matched Blaschke's evidence and the Russian autopsy. Prof Perrier has now provided further evidence to link the remains in the bunker to footage of the Führer. He combed Swiss archives for newsreels of Hitler and produced computer-enhanced images of his teeth to compare with the autopsy, X-rays and Blaschke's report. Prof Perrier found clear-cut matches between the computer-enhanced footage of Hitler's teeth and the bunker remains. Hitler once referred to his dental problems openly, albeit indirectly, after negotiations with General Franco. Hitler's interpreter, Paul Schmidt, wrote that "they talked to or rather at one another" until 2am and failed to agree on anything. Hitler later told Mussolini he would "rather have two or three teeth out than go through that again". [Previous story]    Daily Telegraph story: Dental detective work gets to the root of Hitler mystery: Using forensic dentistry and computer imaging, scientists have proved that the charred remains of Hitler found by Red Army soldiers in Berlin were those of the Führer | Sunday Times version of same story  Apr 2000: Adolf Hitler's skull went on display in Moscow, along with documents revealing what happened to the dictator's remains after they were seized by Soviet troops in 1945  Elena Rzhevskaya reminisces about carrying a piece of Hitler's skull around in Berlin  Jewish historian Daniel Goldhagen says remains of Hitler's bunker must be preserved

Notes: DAVID IRVING first published the X-rays of Hitler's head and sketches by dentist Blaschke in a readers letter in Die Zeit thirty years ago. They are also depicted in his book Hitler's War (New York, 1977; London 1991 etc). It is good to see the "scholars" catching up.

Life of Chandrasekhar Azad

One of the torchbearers of the revolutionary struggle against the British, Chandrasekhar Azad was born Chandrasekhar Tiwari on July 23, 1906 in the Bhabhra village in Madhya Pradesh. It was during his teenage days that Chandrasekhar adopted the sobriquet of 'Azad' which stands for 'free' in Urdu. Consequent to this, Azad vowed that he would never be taken alive by the British and would instead fight till his last breath.

Like many of his contemporaries, Chandrasekhar Azad too got disenchanted with the non cooperation movement when Gandhi called it off following the Chauri Chaura mob violence in 1922. He was disappointed with the divisions among the political leadership and believed that armed struggle is the only way to realize the dream of a free and socialist India. Azad joined the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) formed by Sachindranath Sanyal in 1923.

Chandrasekhar Azad played a key role in the famous Kakori train robbery of 1925 in which revolutionaries of HRA led by Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan looted the Number 8 Down Train carrying cash-bags belonging to the British Government Treasury. In retaliation, police launched an intense man-hunt and all the revolutionaries were rounded up with the sole exception of Chandrasekhar Azad. In such a grim scenario, Azad took upon himself the onerous task of rejuvenating the armed movement.

He joined hands with Bhagat Singh and other young patriots and converted the HRA into Hindustan Socialist Republican Association in 1927. Azad is widely regarded the mentor of Bhagat Singh and together they infused new life and energy into the flagging revolutionary movement. The highpoint of their association was the killing of DSP Saunders at Lahore in 1928 to avenge the death of freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai.

On February 27, 1931 Chandrasekhar Azad went to the Alfred Park in Allahabad to meet two of his comrades. On being tipped off by an informer, police surrounded the Park from all sides and asked Azad to surrender. But Azad chose to fight till his last breath and opened fire on the police. When all his ammunitions were finally exhausted and only one bullet remained in the pistol, Chandrasekhar Azad took his own life.

Chandrasekhar Azad

Chandrasekhar Azad was a born revolutionary. A contemporary of Bhagat Singh, Azad too lived for a short span but during the 25 years that he lived, Azad waged a valiant battle against the British and inspired the youth of the nation with his heroics. Worshipped by the masses and loathed by the government, Azad was on the run all his life and he used all the survival tricks up his sleeve to escape police dragnets again and again.

As a true revolutionary, Chandrasekhar Azad vowed that he would never be nabbed by the police and when the time comes, he would die a free man. On that fateful day of February 27, 1931, surrounded by police in the Alfred Park, Allahabad and all escape routes sealed, Azad fought like a man possessed and ultimately took his life with the last bullet of his pistol.

Chandrasekhar Azad is no more but his legacy continues till today in the form of legends and inspiring anecdotes. But somehow the Indian nation has failed to honor the supreme sacrifice made by Azad and his brave comrades. The present generation fails to even recognize many of our freedom fighters, let alone appreciating their contribution to Indian independence.

steve jobs

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

(Quoted in the Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993)

Steve Jobs….the man who transformed the world with his innovative approach, ideas and creativity. The former Apple CEO was a visionary in the world of computing and is largely responsible for the level at which computers are integrated with our everyday lives. Initially, from a mouse to making of iMac, iPod, iPad, iTunes and iPhone….this guy revolutionized the world of computers.

Here, to express my respect and inspiration for this legend, I have researched his life added with pictures, to let the world know that what we will MISS now…

Early Life:

Steven Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs and grew up in Silicon Valley. He grew up with one sister, Patty. Paul Jobs was skilled at fixing cars.

As a child, Jobs preferred doing things by himself. He swam competitively, but was not interested in team sports or other group activities. At an early age his interests developed in electronics and gadgetry. He spent a lot of time working in the garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics manufacturer.

Following his interests, Jobs also enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club. There he saw engineers exhibit new electronic products, and saw a computer at the age of twelve for the first time. He was very impressed, and knew right away that he wanted to work with computers.

Education and Early College Days:

When Steve arrived in Homestead High School, he enrolled in a popular electronics class. After graduating from high school in 1972, Jobs attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, for two years. However, the tuition for Reed was so expensive that Paul and Clara could hardly afford it. Yet they were bound by the promise they’d make to their son’s biological mother, so they spent almost their entire life’s savings on their son’s higher education.

Steve only officially stayed for a couple of months at Reed. He dropped out before Christmas. He dropped out after one semester to visit India and study eastern religions in the summer of 1974.

“Apple” Days:

In 1975 Jobs joined a group known as the Homebrew Computer Club. One member, a technical whiz named Steve Wozniak (1950), was trying to build a small computer. Jobs became fascinated with the marketing potential of such a computer. In 1976 he and Wozniak formed their own company. They called it Apple Computer Company, in memory of a happy summer Jobs had spent picking apples. They raised $1,300 in startup money by selling Jobs’s microbus and Wozniak’s calculator. At first they sold circuit boards (the boards that hold the internal components of a computer) while they worked on the computer prototype.

Apple II and the Personal Computer Era:

Looking at the self created huge computer, Steve realized there was a huge gap in the computer market. Advances in electronics, meant that computer components were getting smaller and the power of the computer was increasing. Jobs and Wozniak redesigned their computer, with the idea of selling it to individual users. The Apple II went to market in 1977, with impressive first year sales of $2.7 million. The company’s sales grew to $200 million within three years. This was one of the most phenomenal cases of corporate growth in U.S. history. Jobs and Wozniak had opened an entirely new market—personal computers.

Arrival of “Mac”

The Macintosh came into being in 1984, a revolutionary new model. It took the graphical user interface software – the desktop and mouse-controlled cursor you see on your screen today – from an earlier personal computer design called ‘Lisa’ and made it faster, far more affordable and a commercial success. However, The Macintosh did not sell well to businesses and this failure of the Macintosh signaled the beginning of Jobs’s downfall at Apple.

Emergence of ‘Next’

Jobs lured John Scullery away from Pepsi-Cola in 1983 to become Apple’s chief executive. When sales started to slump in 1984 Jobs’ relationship with Scullery began to deteriorate – a power struggle ensued that eventually saw Jobs resign.

In 1986 Jobs founded a new company called NeXT – abandoning the company’s hardware division in the early nineties to concentrate on software development. In 1996 Apple bought NeXT for $429 million and Jobs returned to Apple as an adviser where he was then made chief executive in 1997.

Back to Apple:

Apple’s iPod portable music player and iTunes store is heralded as revolutionizing the way people listen to and buy music. Launched in 2001 Apple’s first iPod cost $499, paving the iPod Nano, iPod Touch and iPod Shuffle, which came later. iTunes was also launched in 2001, adding an online music store in 2003 – the first ever legal online music store. As of this year iTunes has sold over 16 billion songs.

Purchased Pixar:

Is also Chairman and CEO of Pixar, the Academy-Award-winning computer animation studios which he co-founded in 1986. Pixar’s first feature film, Toy Story, was released by Walt Disney Pictures in November 1995 and became the highest domestic grossing film released that year and the third highest grossing animated film of all time.

Controversial Personal Life:

Although not much is found and read about Steve Jobs teenage marriage with Chrisann Brennan, out of which they had a daughter named Lisa Brennan Jobs. Initially, he disowned her and denied to pay any child support. However, later the father and daughter reconnected in 1992 and spend vacations together.

However, his publicly known marriage was the one with Laurene in 1990, to whom he was married for 20 years, their three children and a fourth child from a previous relationship. He spent increasingly more time with his son Reed and daughters Erin and Eve. His then-teenage daughter Lisa also joined the family.

Steves Houses:

Steve bought his Palo Alto home in the mid-1990s, after his marriage with Laurene. The house is the British country style, it fits beautifully with the rest of this quiet neighborhood — and certainly does not stand out as the house of a high-tech/media mogul. Steve lives here with his wife Laurene and his three kids Reed, Erin and Eve, who were all raised there

From people who have seen it, the house is lightly furnished, but much more so than Steve’s Woodside mansion during his bachelor days.

His illness and Last days:

Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004. After surgery he returned to Apple, but had to take another leave of absence in 2009, ultimately undergoing a liver transplant. He took his final leave of absence in January 2011.

In August, he formally resigned as CEO. “I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come,” Jobs said in a letter addressed “to the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community.”

However, on 5th October, 2011, the co-founder of Apple Inc, one of the world’s great entrepreneurs, was surrounded by his wife and immediate family when he died in Palo Alto, California.

God My Father

God My Father
		I am Egyptian. After I graduated from the University of Cairo, I decided to go to Jordan to look for work. One night I was very sad and desperate. I was feeling very down and I didn’t know where to go. I was walking without any direction, when I saw a church building and some people inside. I heard songs and asked myself, “What they are doing there?” I believed that these Christians worshiped three gods. A voice inside me kept pushing me to go in and see what was going on. Our religion prohibits us from entering a church, but I was very sad and was willing to do anything to forget my sadness. I went in and sat on the bench in the last row. After the songs were finished, a tiny man stood and started to talk about God the Father. I was shocked. How could this person call God a father? This was the first time in my life I had heard this. The man read from a book, “And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink. Do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things and your Father knows that you need them.” Luke 12: 29-30. He started to explain, saying that God our Father knows our sadness, hurt feelings, and what we are going through. He is listening to us. He stated that we can talk with our heavenly Father, explain our problems to Him, and He will answer. I felt that this person was talking directly to me. When I went home, every word stuck in my mind. I couldn’t sleep that night, and I found myself repeating, “God my Father, please help me.” The following week I went back to the same church and asked somebody to help me understand more about my heavenly Father and the Bible. I became a follower of Jesus Christ, enjoying God’s fatherhood.

LIfe Stories

	Set Free in Prison
		One day a colleague sent me to the prison to visit a person who had turned his back on our religion and become a follower of Jesus Christ. They chose me because I am a lawyer and I should be able to convince him to come back to his roots and traditional religion. I went to meet with him and told him, “Come back and we will forgive you. Otherwise you will face execution.” He asked me, “Have you read the Bible?” “No,” I answered, “but I know some stories from the Bible.” “Then take this Bible and read it. Then come back to me,” he replied. I took the Bible and out of curiosity I started reading it. It was unusual and interesting, and the more I read the more I loved it. I spent 18 days just reading. Then I came to John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” This verse struck me, because in our holy book we have similar words about Jesus, that he is the “Word of God”. During this time I was thinking deeply about Jesus, but I was still praying to Allah in my way. One day I was lying in bed and I saw a number of people come to me and ask me to pray! I said, “I am praying.” They said, “No. Get up and pray.” Then they disappeared. My eyes and my heart started to open. I went back to the prison and met with the prisoner many times. He explained some issues about Jesus Christ to me. On May 10, 1998 I went to the prison again and I asked the priest who was leading the Christian prisoners in worship to let me attend the meeting. He was surprised. In the middle of the worship service I stood up and asked the priest to give me a chance to speak. I said, “Today I gave my life to Jesus Christ and became one of his followers.” This was the most wonderful moment in my life. My soul was set free inside a prison in Sudan! After this everyone knew and the police arrested me. My family burned everything that belonged to me. I spent many months in jail and was tortured. At last I fled with my wife and two children outside Sudan to worship my Lord and King Jesus Christ freely.

Birth of Sri Hanuman Ji

Birth of Sri Hanuman Ji

Anjana, who became the mother of Hanuman Ji, was one of the sixteen matrikas. The matrikas are adored and worshipped ladies of celestial, astral and material planes of the universe. Once Anjana assumed the form of a lady tourist visiting Svah planet, a few million miles beyond the polestar. She arrived in the assembly of Indra, the king of Svah planet. Some how the king was attracted to her and requested her to make love with him. She rebuked him severely and said, who would like to make love with you, a fallen one with the signs of a thousand eyes!”

King Indra could not bear this insult and cursing her, he replied, “You are very vain because of your beauty. You will be born in the monkey faced Vanara race”.

While Indra was cursing Anjana, Anjana’s dearest friend Adrika (out of love for Anjana), tried to insult Indra by meowing like a cat. Indra then cursed her saying, “You will become cat faced in your next life!”

In course of time, both friends were born as the twin daughters of Kunja, a Vanara knight. When they grew up, Keshari, a famous knight of the Vanara race. Married both of them. Then, one day while, Keshari was in meditation at the southern seashore, Maharishi Agastya became the atithi of Keshari. Both of Keshari’s wives welcomed the unexpected guest and served him whole heartedly. Agastya was highly satisfied and told the wives to ask for any boon they wished.

“I want the mightiest son, who will be highly bold and strong in the world. Totally devoted to universe welfare,” Anjana requested.

“So be it,” Maharishi Agastya approved the wish for both of them, and in due course of time, Anjana gave birth to Sri Hanuman Ji who became all powerful and Adrika gave birth to a son, Adri by name, who became governor of all the goblins.

Soon after Maharishi granted the boon, Maharishi Agastya realized that Lord Shiva himself was going to be born as the son of Anjana. He ordered her to go to meditate on the hill Venkatadri in Vrishabhachal on the bank of Akashaganga. This was the most appropriate place to materialize her desire. Thus, one day, she was absorbed in a long meditation, the wind God appeared and said, “Adorable devi, I am pleased with you. You will attain a mighty son, one who will not be affected by any weapons whatsoever. I shall become your son myself. He will be equal to me in power and speed. Thus saying, the wind God infused his light into mother Anjana.

Great souls seldom move from their celestial abodes unless there is a mission for them to fulfill. Then the whole creation awaits their advent. In the same way, there were do many reasons for the advent of Sri Hanuman ji. The natural instinct of Keshari was to wander around to different holy places, and when ever found a scenic garden he used to sit in long meditation. Once, while he was residing in Gokarna (a holy place of Lord Shiva near Goa), he found a great monster, Shambasadana, continuously persecuting the holy saints who were residing there. Keshari confronted this monster and hit him forcefully with his fist. There was a great wrestling match and at last Keshari was successful in slaying him.

All of the rishis were extremely happy with Keshari’s feat and blessed him so that he might attain an almighty, enlightened son, who would become very hot tempered to any unjust act. They then offered a very powerful mantra of Lord Shiva. After Keshari had been repeating this powerful mantra, Lord Shiva appeared and blessed him, and Lord Shiva’s light entered into Keshari’s body. Keshari felt as if he was no longer a mortal. When the rishis saw him full of effulgence they suggested that he return to his home.

At the same moment, Anjana returned home after receiving her boon from the wind God. When she saw her husband after such a long time she was filled with rapturous joy and fell down at his feet. Keshari was overwhelmed with love. He raised her u with his two arms and embraced her, and for some time they became one in that universal silence. Keshari did not remain Keshari and Anjana was no longer Anjana, they became one in love trance and in that love trance Shiva’s light, which was abiding in Keshari was transmitted to Anjana. She felt as if bathed in effulgent bliss, light, and grace. Now Keshari became as he was before the visit of Lord Shiva. All of Lord Siva’s effulgence was transmitted to Anjana.

Anjana abandoned that special simple dress which she had adopted in the time of separation from her dear husband. She wore instead a gorgeous silk sari, golden necklaces, a crown earrings embedded with gems and jewels. She was adorned beautifully! The husband and wife began to enjoy in the groves on the top of the mountain.

On the planet Bramha, which is situated about one hundred and sixteen million miles above polestar, there was a nymph whose name was Suvarchala. She was very fond of blossoming, fragrant flowers. Once she rushed to some flowers in the assembly of Bramha. The creator, Brahma, is found of good manners and certain formalities and was not pleased with Suvarchal’s impulsive action he cursed her saying. “You, being born into the race of gods, possess no patience, so you will become a crow”,

Suvarchala repented and, falling at his feet, asked for a pardon from Lord Brahma, He mercifully forgave her and said, “In the silver age, on planer Earth, king Dasjaratha will receive a bowl of diving rice pudding after his ceremony of putreshthi yajna. He will then distribute it among his three queens. You woll take away queen Sumitra’s share, and then by the touch of that divine, blesses rice pudding you will attain your original form and come to my planet again.”

The time described by Brahma arrived and king Dashatatha was performing his fire sacrifices festivity on the bank of the holy Sarayu river. It was definitely an interplanetary festivity. King Dasharatha fed millions of guests. He offered almost all of his property and empire to enlightened rishis, which they, in turn, gave back to him after accepting a small exchange.

A huge masculine form then arose from the sacrificial fire with a bowl of celestial rice pudding in his hand. His body was red like ultraviolet rays. He had long golden hair, a long beard, and large eyes. He spoke like a rumbling cloud, saying, “My dear king Dasharatha, the gods of higher planets are highly satisfied with you because of your sacrificial festivity, and they have sent you this rice pudding, let the queens respectfully eat it and then they will give birth to four incomparable babies who will redeem the earth from all the evil forces.”

The whole assembly of saints, kings, and rishis were all silent while the king was distributing the rice pudding among his queens. As soon as the king placed a protion in the open palms of Sumitra, Suvarchala, in her form as a crow, jumped as it. She held it fast with her legs and beak and flew away high into the sky. Kousalya ans Kaikeyi, the other two queens, shared their porting of pudding with Sumitra. Thus Sumitra gave birth to two babies.

As soon as the crow rushed to the open sky there arose a heavy wind and hurricane. The bird stumbled and the rice pudding was touched by her body. Immediately she regained her celestial form and the body of the crow fell down to earth. The wind god then took the bowl pudding and appeared on the hill top groves where the couple, Anjana and Keshari, was wandering. The wind told Keshari and Anjana that he had come there to offer them with celestial rice pudding,

“Allow Anjana to eat it and she will give birth to the mightiest child, a boon I was granted her some time ago.”

After receiving the order from her dear husband, Anjana accepted the bowl of rice pudding. Feeling much joy she put it against her heart and head and then wind

God disappeared. Anjana ate the pudding and became pregnant. Soon after, as demigod races do not require the full nine months in womb, she gave birth to Sri Hanuman ji on Tuesday, in the month of October. This is why all great devotees of Sri Hanuman ji observe a fast on Tuesdays. Then take only fruits and milk products, and communicate with Sri Hanuman ji.

Sri Hanuman ji was born completely adorned with golden crown, gemmed earrings, underpants and sacred thread. He was yellowed eyed and there was golden hair all over his body.