Home Sweet Home

Monday, August 24, 2015

Home Sweet Home

John Howard Payne- who wrote “Home Sweet Home” never had a home of his own.

Payne was born in New York City in 1791, His father was an unsuccessful schoolmaster who kept his family on the move. Payne was living alone in New York boarding house when, at the age of only 14, he startled the theatrical world by publishing a magazine on show business. Although he alone make up the entire staff, the magazine was an instant success.

While still in teens, Payne won fame as an actor and a playwright. Then, in 1813, he went to London to try his luck there  . in 1820 after a theatrical failure, he was sent to London’s infamous Fleet Street Prison for debt Friends helped him to escape and he fled to Paris.

Still homeless and broke, he wondered the streets of Paris thinking of suicide. Finally, he found a job writing the words for a new operetta called Clair. One of the songs he wrote for this was “Home Sweet Home” Although the song was a worldwide hit. Payne never made any money from it. He was always broke, always on the move

Finally through friends, he was made the United States Counsel in Tunisia-then a very bleak hardship post. He died there , still alone in 1852, his grave marked only by a pepper tree.

Years later, Payne’s body was brought back to the U.S and buried with honours in Washington’s Oak Hall cemetery.

The homeless man who had written the most popular song of his century had come home at last.

Five Types Of Human Rights

As per the provisions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Human Rights may be classified into five categories.

Civil Rights include right to freedom of expression, movement, from association, right to equal access to hold public office.

Economic Rights. Include right to adequate standard of living, right to property, and right to rest and leisure. And right to have social assistance.

Social Rights ensure right to education and right to establish family

Cultural Rights include right to participation in the cultural life of community and right to protection of moral and material interest resulting from cultural and scientific development.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

In order to practice meditation , every aspirant requires, at least in the beginning, some concrete objects on which to mediate. Technically, Yoga has been defined as “a method of stopping the mind-stuff from acquiring modification’s According to Patanjal,, the most effective, way of doing this is to concentrate the “mind-stuff” by meditation on God. On the assumption (based on authentic experience) that the sound-symbol of God is the sacred word “Om” the aspirant is asked to repeat this word at time of mediation, as also when doing Prayaam

Raja-Yoga (the Royal Path of Union) is probably the most scientific and partial of all the four Yoga’s. The profound knowledge of the mind, including its subconscious depths and its superconscious heights, on which Patanjali has based his teaching, might make any modern psychologist green with envy.

This Yoga does not ask us to take anything for granted. It does not talk of “Grace” or of “The chosen Few”. It simply says that whoever sincerely follows the instructions will get at least some results-more or less, according to his capacity –and that these results will fortify his belief and encourage him to proceed further. It goes without saying that, as in the case of all other practices fast results can be achieved only by those who are most energetic.

But, if He exists? 

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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