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Whole Dude – Whole Centipede

What are Centipedes?

Scolopendra gigantea is a Centipede, a Creepy Creature that can arouse a sense of Fear. However, it behaves like a Saint; its reproductive behavior is Innate Behavior and is not a Learned or Acquired Behavior which may require the ability called Communication Behavior. The Centipede does not communicate its sexual desires to members of the same or opposite sex. It reproduces without ever expressing its sexual passion to another Centipede. It depends upon the LORD GOD Creator for its reproductive success and uses a hereditary, natural mechanism that does not demand Copulation with another member.

Centipedes are described as invertebrate animals that belong to Class Chilopoda, Phylum Arthropoda. It is important to note that Phylum Arthropoda is the largest and most diverse group of invertebrate animals. This group makes up more than 80% (800, 000) of all known animal species.

**Whole Dude – Whole Centipede: The creation of all creepy things. The creation of Lord Centipede.**

The First Book of Moses, Genesis, Chapter 1, verses 24 and 25 describe the creation of cattle, beasts, and everything that creeps upon the Earth.

Centipede has an elongated, flattened body that is divided into head and trunk, and the trunk comprises of segments. They move rapidly on from 14 to 177 pairs of legs. The average number of legs is 35 pairs, one pair per segment except for the first one segment and the last two. The appendages of the first segment are modified into jaw like claws equipped with poison glands with which it paralyzes its prey. The last pair of legs is pincer-like. The smaller centipedes move fast running with the body held straight. The larger variety move relatively slowly and show sinuous movements. These animals typically remain hidden by day under stones, dry leaves, bark, and ground litter and hunt small insects at night. The small centipedes are harmless to humans. The larger centipedes could pose a severe risk. Its sting may not kill man but could cause severe pain, burning sensation, redness, and swelling. The largest tropical species Scolopendra gigantea may reach a size of 12 inches or 30 centimeters. It will be interesting to know the difference between insects and centipedes. Insect has a body that is divisible into head, thorax, and abdomen. The term ‘true bugs’ is used to describe insects with sucking mouth parts and with forewings thickened toward the base. The term ‘worm’ is used to describe a variety of slender, soft-bodied animals such as the earthworms. Centipedes may not be described as bugs, insects, or worms. However, it will be correct to call them as creepy creatures as they move along with the body close to the ground and exhibit a creeping movement that is similar to the movement displayed by a snake. In common usage, the word ‘creep’ is used to describe a thing that arouses a sense of fear.

As the Book of Genesis suggests, God may have created a variety of creepy things before creating man in His own image. Man has rational, and moral nature like God’s and man has no inner impulse or drive to sin. Man has free will to obey God’s will. There is nothing in man’s environment that can compel man to sin. But, man could be solicited to disobey God and to commit sin. The solicitation to sin could only come from outside.

The “Fall” of man is narrated in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 3. The voice of ‘The Serpent’ that deceived Eve in the Garden of Eden was the voice of Satan, the adversary of both God and man. The voice of ‘The Tempter’ comes to man from outside himself and hence man has to live with a sense of fear and be cautious while contacting creepy creatures. Centipede could be an exception as it solicits no man to perform immoral, and corrupt sexual acts.

Lord Centipede – Whole Centipede – Saint Centipede:

Whole Dude – Whole Centipede: The creation of all creepy things. The creation of Lord Centipede. Lord Centipede is the name of a very popular and successful Music Band that performs in Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area.

Lord Centipede is the name of a music band that is very popular with a lot of young people living in Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area. I would not be surprised if this music band gets international acclaim and recognition. They deliver music with a sting; its nasty but enticing. Young people love it as the music provokes them to experience life with sharpness.

The Centipede that interests me is called ‘Whole Centipede’. He has the nature of a Centipede that I have described but he has also the ability to sing and play musical instruments. He could be one of those fallen angels; the bad angels who had participated in a deliberate, self-determined rebellion against God and got expelled from the Heaven. Some of these bad angels spent over thousand years living in abyss and have returned to planet Earth as they cannot return to the Heaven. By nature, these bad angels get attracted by a variety of creepy creatures and often reveal themselves in the bodily form of those creatures. Satan, the Leader of fallen angels is extremely wicked and he reveals himself in the bodily form of ‘The Serpent’. The ‘Whole Centipede’ has revealed himself in the bodily form of a human being, and is known as ‘Sir. Samir’, or ‘Lord. Sameer’. During day time, he is mostly pleasant and his nature is revealed during his music shows and performances. He can literally bite you with his music and song. He mercilessly punches people with his lyrics. He arouses a sense of fear when he sings and plays. However, the ‘Whole Centipede’ is not immoral, or corrupt like other bad angels. He acquired a good characteristic from the Centipede Class to which he belongs.

Centipedes are a class or group of Arthropods that do not exhibit the sexual, or reproductive behavior called ‘Copulation’. The male centipede does not copulate with a female centipede or with another male. It does not need a female and has no requirement called ‘cohabitation’. There is no direct bodily contact between the male and female centipedes. Male Chilopoda spin a small web onto which they deposit a spermatophore for the female to take up. Sometimes there is a courtship dance, sometimes the males just leave them for the females to find. In other words, the male centipede sleeps alone and the bed or ground on which it lays remains clean as its sperm is deposited in a small web from which the female gets the sperm.

The ‘Whole Centipede’ has this behavioral trait and he prefers clean, bed linen that are not soiled or stained by activities like copulation. Further, he shows a sense of passion, a strong urge, intense drive, and very deep motivation to maintain his bed linen in a clean, and good condition at all times.

These admirable qualities and behavioral traits of Centipedes to avoid copulation have helped me in selecting him for a new assignment in the ‘Whole Heaven’, a Heaven that I am creating. He will be appointed as the Director of Housekeeping Services and Housekeeping Operations in the ‘Whole Heaven’ where the Heavenly Maidens are prohibited from providing Housekeeping Services for they have the task of serving Heavenly Pleasure. In the ‘Whole Heaven’ the daily operations require a change of bed linen at least six times on any given Heavenly Day with no Holidays. It is a very demanding task and the high standards of Heavenly Service stipulate that the bed linen must be always be clean, and fresh while the Heavenly residents enjoy their Heavenly Pleasures as per the schedule planned by the Director of Front-End Operations. Only a ‘Whole Centipede’ who has no desire for engaging in copulation can provide such important Housekeeping Service with a total sense of Dedication. Whole Dude is very optimistic that the ‘Whole Centipede’ would soon be promoted and be elevated to the status of ‘Saint Centipede’ for rendering excellent service with a sense of Devotion and Dedication.

Whole Dude says that in Whole Heaven we need Whole Discipline and Whole Dedication to obtain Whole Pleasure. What do you want to say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzYe_dTrsJI

Whole Dude – Whole Jahan

Isfahan is Half the World – Where is the other Half?

**Isfahan – Nesf-E-Jahan – Half the World -Where is the other Half? The Persian Word Jahan means the World.**

Isfahan is located at about 400 km (250 miles) south of Iranian capital city of Tehran. Isfahan is considered to be a charming and memorable place and it is popularly known as Nesf-e-Jahan meaning that Isfahan is half the world, I name Hyderabad (Deccan),India as the other half. Hyderabad is charming and its historical monuments are being restored and the city was originally modeled after Isfahan and very soon people would appreciate the connection between these two cities.

THE BLUE MOSQUE OF ISFAHAN

The Blue Tiles of Isfahan

The entrance to Shah Mosque (aka Imam Mosque o... — Whole Dude – Whole Jahan: The Blue Tiles of Isfahan. **Isfahan – Nesf-E-Jahan – Half the World -Where is the other Half? The Persian Word Jahan means the World.**

Whole Dude – Whole Jahan: The Blue Tiles of Isfahan. **Isfahan – Nesf-E-Jahan – Half the World -Where is the other Half? The Persian Word Jahan means the World.**

Qutb Shahi Dynasty of Golconda, Deccan, India

GOLCONDA FORT- “GOLLA KONDA” (SHEPHERD’S HILL)

QULI QUTB-UL- MULK

Quli Qutb Mulk, a Shia Muslim from Persia (present day Turkmenistan) with friends and a few relatives had migrated to Delhi in the beginning of 16th century A.D. He migrated south to Deccan and served Bahmani Sultan Mohammad Shah. He conquered Golconda and was appointed as the governor of the Telangana region (about the size of France) in 1512 A.D. After the disintegration of the Bahmani Kingdom into the five Deccan Sultanates, he declared independence, assumed the title of ‘QUTB SHAH’ and established the Qutb Shahi Dynasty of Golconda in 1518 A.D. Qutb Shahis were great builders and patrons of learning. They not only patronized the Persian culture but also the regional culture of the Deccan, symbolized by the Telugu language and the Deccani idiom of Urdu. The Golconda rulers learned Telugu. The Qutb Shahi Dynasty will be remembered because of the legend associated with the construction of a Hindu temple in Bhadrachalam.

Myths, Legends and the Reality – Defining Indian Identity

**Myths, Legends, and Reality – Defining Indian Identity. Sree Seetha Ramachandra Swamy at Bhadradri. Temple of Lord Rama in Bhadrachalam defines the concept of Ultimate Reality.**

Sri Sita Ramachandra Swamy Shrine -Temple of Lord Rama in Bhadrachalam

**Qutb Shahi Dynasty of Golconda, Deccan, India. Defining Indian Identity**

**Myths, Legends, and Reality – Defining Indian Identity. A Temple to define the concept of Ultimate Reality.**

This temple town of Bhadrachalam, located on the northern banks of the river Godavari in Khammam District of Telangana, India, best describes my Indian Identity as it brings together our myths, our legends and our quest for the “Ultimate Reality”.

**Myths, Legends, and reality – Defining Indian Identity. A Temple to define the Ultimate Reality. The place described as Panchvati is in the vicinity of Bhadrachalam as per our local legend**

This place is connected to events described in the epic poem of Ramayan which narrates Lord Rama’s journey in our Land. Rama while living in exile, camped in the forest by the name ‘Dandakaranya’ and His spouse Seetha was abducted and eventually, Rama and His brother Laxmana cross the river Godavari at this place in search of Seetha. A pious man known as Bhadra prayed at this place seeking Lord Rama’s return to this place. Much later, a simple tribal woman who lived in this area discovered the idols of ‘Vaikuntha Rama’ (for He carried the Sudarshana Chakra apart from the bow and arrow) with Seetha seated on His lap and the idol of Laxmana standing next to them.

Kancharla Gopanna, a Tahsildar (revenue official) of Palvancha Paragana, completed building this temple in 1674 A.D. The legend about the divine intervention and the miraculous release of Gopanna from the prison at the Golconda Fort is narrated in my entry titled, ‘The Benevolent Shia Ruler of Golconda-Verily, A Blessed Soul’.

About Myths and Legends:

Myths are traditional stories which serve to explain our connection to God and the universe and hence they are not the same like the fictional stories. Myths exist in a historical context but may not be true historical accounts that are supported by scientific verification. Legends are stories handed down for generations among a people and popularly believed to have a historical basis but do not qualify for inclusion in a text book of history. As an Indian, I depend upon myths and legends to derive a sense of direction, a sense of guidance and a sense of hope for my human existence. They help me to know who I am and where I am going.

About Reality and Ultimate Reality:

**The influence called Time makes the distinction between Real and Unreal. A Temple to define the concept of Ultimate Reality**

Indians are very concerned about the effects of Time . We practically witness in our daily lives the forceful consequences of time. Time changes the course of human life and time changes the physical world. However, the “Ultimate Reality” does not change, it is constant and it is eternal. Indians seek this Reality as it represents their natural home and that is their final destination on completion of the life’s journey. Since ‘TRUTH’ is unchanging in its character, is also described as the Reality that we cherish to experience.

**Myths, Legends, and Reality. Defining Indian Identity. A Temple defines the concept of Ultimate Reality. The name Ra Ma represents Eternal Truth.**

Millions of Indians express this desire for Truth and the Reality with a very simple statement. They claim that the name “RA MA” is eternal Truth. Our search for Truth and Reality becomes very easy if we just seek “RA MA”. Great powers on this earth had vainly tried to destroy our belief in RAMA. Mughal Emperor Babur destroyed the temple in Ayodhya which we consider as Rama’s birth place. The forces of Sultan Tughlak destroyed the Rama temple in my home town Rajahmundry. Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb destroyed countless number of temples and idols of Rama. Yet the myth and legend of Rama survives. At Bhadrachalam also known as Bhadra giri or Bhadradri (the hill of Bhadra), Sultan Tani Shah, a benevolent Shia Muslim ruler of Golconda, helped Kancharla Gopanna to maintain this temple. This devotee of Lord Rama is popularly known by the name Bhakta Rama Dasu.

Would it be possible to destroy Rama?

**Myths, Legends, and Reality. Defining Indian Identity. A Temple defines the concept of Ultimate Reality.**

Many have tried to destroy the idols and images of Rama. For example, if some one would destroy the temple of Rama in Bhadrachalam, we still connect this place and the forest and the river with Rama’s life journey. If some one would destroy the forest, level the ground and change the course of the river, I would still look for the signs of His presence in the creation of the heavens and the earth. I would describe the blue sky as the color of Rama. If some one could destroy the blue sky and when I look up and see the dark sky, I would say that I am reminded of Lord Krishna who is described as black in color as dark as the sky of New Moon’s day. Our myths remind us that Rama and Krishna are one and the same. I do know people take great pride in their physical power but it may not be easy to wipe out a belief system which is more than the Idols which represent the Belief. The Indian Identity associated with Blue and Dark sky would survive as long as there is a sky above our heads and as long as the difference of night and day exists on this earth.

” Lo! In the creation of the heavens and the earth and (in) the difference of night and day are tokens (of His sovereignty) for men of understanding”. Surah III, verse 190, Holy Book of Quran.

Shia Muslim Ruler of Golconda. Verily, a Blessed Soul

**Golconda Fort near the City of Hyderabad, the seat of Qutb Shahi Dynasty. GOLCONDA FORT- “GOLLA KONDA”(SHEPHERD’S HILL)**

Quli Qutub Mulk, a Shia Muslim from Persia (present day Turkmenistan) with friends and a few relatives migrated to Delhi in the beginning of 16th century CE. He migrated south to Deccan and served Bahmani Sultan Mohammad Shah. He conquered Golconda and was appointed as the governor of the Telangana region (about the size of France) in 1512 CE. After the disintegration of the Bahmani Kingdom into the five Deccan Sultanates, Quli Qutub Mulk declared independence, assumed the title of ‘QUTUB SHAH’ and established the Qutb Shahi Dynasty of Golconda in 1518 CE. Qutub Shahis were great builders and patrons of learning. They not only patronized the Persian culture but also the regional culture of the Deccan, symbolized by the Telugu language and the Deccani idiom of Urdu. The Golconda rulers learned Telugu.

The Qutub Shahis was the ruling family of the kingdom of Golconda, DECCAN, southern India. They were Shia Muslims and belonged to a Turkmen tribe from the Turkmenistan-Armenia region. The dynasty ruled Golconda for 171 years until the Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb’s armies conquered the Deccan in 1687 CE.

**Abdullah Qutb Shah, the sixth ruler of the Qutb Shahi Dynasty (1626-1672 CE). Abdul Hasan Tana Shah married his daughter and gained access to power.**

**Tana Shah (Abul Hasan Qutb Shah or Tanishah) (1672-1687 CE)**

 Sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah was the seventh and the last ruler of the Kingdom of Golconda (Deccan, Southern India) under the Qutb Shahi Dynasty. He ruled from 1672 CE to 1687 CE. He is also known as Abul Hasan Tana Shah and more popularly, he is known as TANI SHAH meaning benevolent ruler. He did not discriminate against those of other ethnicities or religions. He hired Hindus as his ministers and generals.

Akkanna, Madanna were secretaries to the prime minister during Abdullah Qutb Shah rule and their position helped Gopanna get a post as Palvancha Tehsildar. Sultan Tana Shah appointed Madanna as Prime Minister and Akkanna as Revenue Minister.

Madanna served as an official during Sultan Abdullah Qutb Shah’s rule. Madanna had a nephew by name Kancharla Gopanna and he helped Gopanna to be appointed as a “Tehsildar” (a revenue official) of Palvancha county.

During mid 17th century CE, Pokala Dhammakka, a tribal woman living in Bhadrareddypalem, found the central icon of Rama in an anthill. She dissolved the anthill using the water from the Godavari River. With the help of the villagers, Dhammakka constructed a mandapam (a temporary platform with a roof) and offered prayers to the deities.
Following Abdullah Qutb Shah’s orders, Gopanna enforced the Jizyah tax (jizyah, also spelled jizya, historically, a tax paid by non-Muslim populations to their Muslim rulers., a penalty designed to make Hindus pay for not adopting Islam). Observing the dilapidated state of the worship site, Gopanna decided to build a temple for Rama, Seeta, and Laxmana idols by raising donations.
In the initial attempt, Gopanna received harsh criticism from the local Hindus for enforcing the Jizyah tax.
Dejected by numerous rebuffs, Gopanna decided to use a portion of the tax collected to build the temple and face the consequences. The temple was built by Gopanna in 1662 CE with a cost of nearly six lakh Varahas ( Gold coins).
Abdullah Qutb Shah summoned Gopanna, who had no proper answer for misusing kingdom’s funds.

Sultan found Gopanna was guilty of the misuse of the funds and had him imprisoned at the Golconda Fort.  

A Legend About Divine Intervention:

**Shia Ruler of Golconda, Verily, a Blessed Soul. A Temple to define the concept of Ultimate Reality.**

Did Lord Rama actually visit Golconda Fort to obtain the release of Kancharla Gopanna from the prison? Sultan Tani Shah believed that it was God or Allah who had come to him and cleared the debt owed by Gopanna. He further expressed that belief in his actions. He allowed Gopanna to complete the construction of Lord Rama’s Temple in Bhadrachalam and financially supported the maintenance of that Temple. By doing so, the Shia Ruler of Golconda gave us a chance to reflect upon Lord’s Mercy, Grace, and Compassion.

 Gopanna spent about 12 years in prison. According to legend, God intervened on behalf of Gopanna to obtain his release from the prison at Golconda Fort.

**RamaTanka Gold Coins given to Tana Shah are still in display at Bhadrachalam Temple.**

As per the legend, Lord Rama in disguise had come before the King and returned the money owed by Gopanna and the debt was repaid with gold coins. God who came to rescue Gopanna from the prison had met the Sultan but not the prisoner. Upon his release from the prison, Gopanna did express his sorrow for missing the opportunity to meet the Lord. Gopanna was released from the prison and he successfully finished the construction of the Rama temple which stands even today. Sultan Tani Shah publicly acknowledged that he had met “ALLAH ” and recognized the fact of Gopanna’s release from the prison was made possible by divine intervention. He made permanent arrangements for the upkeep of this temple. The funds that were collected as tax from Palvancha county were allocated to the temple and also he had established an annual tradition of sending pearls to shower the Deity during the annual temple festival. This tradition of offering pearls was continued by the rulers of the princely State of Hyderabad popularly known as the ‘Nizams of Hyderabad’, who ruled the Telangana region continuously until India’s independence. The Hyderabad State became a part of the Indian Union and the State of Andhra Pradesh came into existence in 1956. The Government of Andhra Pradesh and later Telangana followed the tradition established by Sultan Tani Shah in the 17th century and the tradition of offering pearls to Lord Rama still exists.  

VERILY A BLESSED SOUL:

Did Lord Rama actually visit Golconda Fort to obtain the release of Kancharla Gopanna from the prison? Sultan Tani Shah believed that it was God or Allah who had come to him and cleared the debt owed by Gopanna. He further expressed that belief in his actions. He allowed Gopanna to complete the construction of Lord Rama’s Temple in Bhadrachalam and financially supported the maintenance of that Temple. By doing so, the Shia Ruler of Golconda gave us a chance to reflect upon Lord’s Mercy, Grace, and Compassion.

**This Lord Rama’s Temple in Bhadrachalam is a testimony about Lord’s Grace, Mercy, and Compassion.**

This benevolent ruler defended the Golconda Fort for eight months when the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb attacked it in 1687 A.D. In October 1687, the Fort was captured by bribery and Sultan Tani Shah was taken as a prisoner and was imprisoned in Daulatabad Fort until his death. 

I would call Sultan Tani Shah is a Blessed Soul for he recognized God’s plan and purpose and supported Gopanna to build the temple and provided for the maintenance of the temple and gave us the opportunity to know about God’s Compassion, Grace, and Mercy. Secondly, Sultan Tani Shah received the biggest gift that a man could ever seek. Man always cherishes the idea of meeting his Creator, the Father in Heaven, Allah, the Lord, RAMA the divine reincarnation of Vishnu and very few actually realize that dream. Gopanna was rescued but could not meet RAMA. Sultan Tani Shah did not pray or ask for this favor from God. He is a Blessed Soul because God granted him that gift. He received a sensory experience of that Reality called God and I fully trust this experience he had shared with others. Sultan Tani Shah’s  actions substantiate his claim. Most importantly, he did not seek any personal reward or personal gain while he acted in the obedience of a God he never actually believed and had never intended to worship in any manner. He acted without seeking the fruits of his actions. I bless this Shia Ruler of Golconda and pray for Lord’s Peace be upon him forever.  

A Replica of Heaven on Earth – Isfahan, Half the World and Hyderabad, the Second Half

Charminar – Architectural Centerpiece of Hyderabad

Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah, the fifth Sultan of the Qutb Shahi Dynasty of Golconda described the then new city of Esfahan (Isfahan) of Persia as “unparalleled in the world and a replica of Heaven itself.” He ascended to the throne in 1580 at the age of 15 and ruled for thirty-one years. He founded the city of Hyderabad and this most well planned city was modeled on the city of Esfahan. Architects from Persia planned the lay out of Hyderabad City which was built on the southern bank of Musi River in 1591. Charminar (Four Towers) was built as the architectural centerpiece and it defines the center of the Hyderabad City. He married a Telangana Telugu woman named Bhagmati and hence the city is known as ‘BHAGYA NAGAR’. He gave her the name Hyder Mahal and the city got its name from her new identity. He built Jama Masjid in 1597.

**A Replica of Heaven on Earth – Isfahan, Half the World and Hyderabad, the Second Half. Jama Masjid of Hyderabad.**

Iran helping India to restore Qutb Shahi Monuments

Qutb Shahi Dynasty Historical Monuments at Golconda,Deccan — **Iran helping India to restore Hyderabad Qutb Shahi monuments**

QUTB SHAHI DYNASTY-HISTORICAL MONUMENTS OF HYDERABAD

**Iran helping India to restore Hyderabad Qutb Shahi monuments**

The Qutb Shahis was the ruling family of the kingdom of Golconda, Deccan, India. They were Shia Muslims and belonged to a Turkmen tribe from the Turkmenistan-Armenia region. The dynasty ruled Golconda for 171 years until the Mughal Emperor Aurangazeb’s armies conquered the Deccan in 1687. Amidst beautifully laid out gardens of Ibrahim Bagh there are seven tombs erected in the memory of the departed kings of Golconda and they are known as Qutub Shahi tombs. They are located one km away from Golconda Fort. The site is considered to be one of the world’s largest necropolis and nowhere in the world there are so many tombs in one place.

Each tomb stands on a raised platform. It is a domed structure built on a square base surrounded by pointed arches. The quadrangular terrace is approached on all sides by flights of steps. The galleries of the smaller tombs are single storied while the larger ones are two-storied. In the center of each tomb is a sarcophagus which overlies the actual burial vault in a crypt below. The material used was Grey granite embellished with stucco ornamentation. The domes were originally overlaid with blue and green tiles of which only a few pieces remain now. The tombs were once furnished with carpets, chandeliers and velvet canopies on silver poles. Qurans were kept on decorated supports.Golden spires were fitted over the tombs of the Sultans. The tombs were surrounded by rose gardens and fountains. The tomb of founder of Hyderabad City, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah is the most impressive, rising to a height of 42.5 meters with a large dome and 28 open arches on each side. He had taken Iranian help in the planning of Hyderabad.

Iranian Government and the Iranian Consulate in Hyderabad have taken a great interest in the restoration work of these tombs. During August 2006, six Iranian experts visited the site to draw up the plans for restoration which also includes the Prema mati Mosque, and the Badshahi Ashoor Khana where tears are shed over the martyrdom of the Prophet’s grandson Hussain. The underground drainage system, the fountains and the hamam (bath) that existed before would be restored. Gardens will be developed in and around the monuments. This project when completed will be like 20 Taj Mahals at one place.

**Iran helping India to restore Hyderabad Qutb Shahi monuments. The City around these monuments has totally changed over the years.**

Whole Mythology – Whole Story – Whole Happy

Whole Mythology – Joshua is Reborn in Spring Season – Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb?

**Whole Dude – Whole Mythology: Joshua is Reborn in Spring Season. How did this happen? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?**

Excerpt: Whole Dude – Whole Mythology” explores the spiritual journey of Hoshea’s rebirth as Joshua. The narrative details the necessity of rebirth, replacing a sinful nature with a spiritual one for every human to reach heaven. Using Mother Nature as Hoshea’s conduit, his transformation to Joshua is described as a physical and spiritual birth, symbolising salvation and hope. The story emphasizes everyone’s capacity for redemption and the crucial role of Mother Nature in this spiritual journey.

Whole Mythology describes the Whole Story, an account of my friend Hoshea’s physical rebirth and it describes the natural process involved in preparing “REBORN” Joshua. How can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be reborn?

For Hoshea to be reborn as Joshua, Mother Nature helps in his rebirth. In this natural operation, Mother Nature extracts Hoshea’s sinful or lustful nature completely for man is a born sinner and man cannot enter the Kingdom of God with a sinful nature.

Every man is a born sinner. The Son of Man was baptized by Prophet John and the Holy Spirit entered His body to fully establish His Spiritual or Divine nature. For all other human beings, to be “Born Again,” the sinful or lustful nature has to be replaced with spiritual nature.

WHOLEDUDE - WHOLE STORY: CHRISTMAS IN SPRING SEASON. To welcome the Spring Season on Vernal Equinox Day, March 20, 2014(Thursday), the Wise Man will deliver a BirthDay Gift to Hoshea who has reborn as Joshua. — Whole Dude – Whole Mythology: Joshua is Reborn in Spring Season. To welcome the Spring Season on Vernal Equinox Day, Friday, March 20, 2015, the three wise men deliver birthday gifts to Hoshea who is reborn as Joshua.

Whole Mythology – Whole Story

Man needs a Savior for physical rebirth with entirely spiritual nature is practically impossible. In this Whole Story, Hoshea is Reborn as Joshua with help from Mother Nature who expels his sinful and lustful nature while giving him Rebirth.

WHOLE DUDE - WHOLE STORY : EVERY MAN IS A BORN SINNER . THE SON OF MAN IS BAPTIZED BY PROPHET JOHN AND HOLY SPIRIT ENTERS HIS BODY TO FULLY ESTABLISH HIS SPIRITUAL, DIVINE NATURE . FOR ALL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, TO BE "REBORN" THE SINFUL OR LUSTFUL NATURE IS REPLACED WITH SPIRITUAL NATURE . MAN NEEDS A SAVIOR FOR PHYSICAL REBIRTH WITH ENTIRELY SPIRITUAL NATURE IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE . — Whole Dude – Whole Mythology – Whole Story: Every man is a born sinner. The Son of Man was baptized by Prophet John and Holy Spirit entered his body to fully establish His Spiritual, Divine Nature. For all other human beings, the sinful nature must be replaced by Spiritual Nature and they must be Born Again.

Preface to Whole Dude – Whole Story:

Whole Dude – Whole Story: This is the Whole story about Hoshea which in Hebrew means “Salvation”. Hoshea was given a new name by Moses, after his recreation, transformation, and renewal. He was reborn as Je-hosh-u-a, or Yehoshua, or Jehoshua, or Joshua who brings us the Hope of Salvation.

Hoshea (Hebrew “HOSHEA” means ‘Salvation’) is the central character or Hero of this Whole Story. This Whole Story describing “Whole Sex with Whole Body is a Whole Treat” is inspired when Hoshea celebrated his birthday. We arrived in the Spring Season of the Year 2012 on Tuesday, March 20. Spring Season gives us the hope of Regeneration, Renewal, and Rebirth. Regeneration (Greek. palingenesia) has as its basic idea “to be born again” or “to be restored”. This is a Whole Story about my friend Hoshea whose name is given in the Old Testament Books of Moses.

The Fourth Book of Moses also called The Book of Numbers, Chapter 13, verses 8 and 16 describe Hoshea (O-shea), the son of Nun dispatched by Moses to scout the Promised Land. Hoshea gets renamed by Moses as Je-hosh-u-a, Jeshua, Jeshuah (Hebrew. Yeshua) or Joshua. The name, Jehoshua, Yehoshua gives the Hope of Salvation and the deliverance promised by Messiah.

WHOLE DUDE - WHOLE STORY : FOR HOSHEA TO BE REBORN AS JOSHUA , MOTHER NATURE HELPS IN HIS REBIRTH . — **Whole Dude – Whole Mythology: Joshua is Reborn in Spring Season. Mother Nature helps in the rebirth of Hoshea as Joshua.**

Regeneration is the spiritual change in people’s hearts by which their inherently sinful nature gets changed. As long as man is in sin, he cannot believe in God. Regeneration, Renewal, and Rebirth is an act by which a person gets release from his sinful nature, gets enabled to respond to God. This Whole Story about Hoshea is to narrate the origination of a new dimension in his Life, a story about his Rebirth and his transformation into a new Creation. To experience Rebirth, Hoshea enters Mother Nature and tastes the purity, the sweetness, and the perfect sense of joy and pleasure when his Whole Body gets engaged in Whole Sex. This Blissful Experience of Rebirth is cherished as a ” Whole Treat” and it has never been described before in human literature. In Regeneration, the soul is both passive and active: passive while it is still in bondage to sin and active when released. Soul released from sin gets regenerated, it spontaneously turns toward God.

In the Gospel According to Saint John, Chapter 3, verse 3, Jesus explains the mechanism for Salvation: “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” In this Whole Story, Hoshea takes Rebirth and transforms with help from Mother Nature. In the story, Hoshea is only seeking his transformation in his body; he wants to be created with a brand new body. Since, I believe in the full Unity of Body, Mind, and Soul, I say, “Amen.”

Whole Story: How to enter a Womb for a Second Time? Whole Sex with Whole Body is a Whole Treat:

Whole Dude – Whole Mythology – Whole Story: Man needs the help of Mother Nature for his spiritual rebirth. Can man give up his sinful nature and regain his original nature? A man may have to reenter Mother Nature to entirely give up his lustful sin nature and seek rebirth into his original nature as a step towards his Salvation and Eternal Life.

Whole Dude – Whole Story – Hoshea refreshes himself tasting the fresh, clean, and sweet drops of dew he collected with his finger tips while playing with the blades of Silky, Velvety, Patch of Grass that captivated his attention.

Hoshea is a young dude. He is a fast dude. He walks fast, he talks fast, and he works fast. Speed is the essence of his life. But, there is a little danger that is lurking in the corner. He openly admits some concerns about his body image. Apparently, he is looking forward to his transformation, renewal, and an attractive body. This is not an exceptional desire. Most people are inwardly unhappy with their body images and if given a chance, may like to acquire a brand new personality. Would it be possible to change man’s nature by simply changing his body? I want to call Hoshea, a “Cool Dude” and he flatly refused my offer. His concern is because of his perception of my “Dudeness.” However, he is willing for a transformation, for regeneration, for renewal, rebirth, and become a created being with a new body. I suggest to him to visit a garden and refresh himself. People need to spend time all alone, just by themselves in the company of Mother Nature and rediscover themselves. Hoshea likes my idea. He goes to a beautiful garden. Spring has just arrived. Tulips are blooming in full glorious colors. Birds are chirping, singing and humming in the air. The breeze is cool and gentle. The morning Sun is warm and inviting to the dawn of a bright day. Hoshea instantly fell in love with Mother Nature. We are all creatures born from Mother Nature. We love to go back to Mother Nature and reclaim our own original nature that is free of sin. Hoshea looks around to immerse himself in the morning splendor of Mother Nature.

Soon, Hosea discovers a patch of green grass. It looks very special. It is a brand new patch with silky, and velvety grass blades. He runs his fingers through the grass blades enjoying the smooth, and silky feeling. He finds it very comforting to playfully ruffle the grass blades, petting and indulgently stroking the grass. While he is relishing these moments, he soon dips his fingertip into a little hole that he discovers inside the green patch. It is a total surprise. The hole is warm, moist, and is responding to his fingertip probing it. Hoshea, soon introduces his two fingertips to verify this sensation. He pulls his fingers out of the hole and finds clean, pure, shiny beads of fresh dew drops on the fingertips. He impulsively licks his fingertips. It imparts the sensation of enticing sweetness, the likeness of which he never tasted before in his entire life. It has the sweetness of fresh nectar and the intoxication of new wine. He eagerly tastes more of these dew drops by repeatedly plunging his fingers in and out.

Now, Hoshea wants to know the full secret of this hole and wants to get to its very bottom. He gently pushes his hand inwards and finds a cavity that stretches just enough to accommodate his hand. Now, Hoshea fully spreads himself on the ground, to push a little further to see if he can reach the bottom of the cavity. As he tries, the cavity grew in size, and Hoshea pushes his entire arm and still not able to touch the bottom of the hole. Hoshea’s curiosity is now fully aroused, he quickly removes his shoes to introduce his bare right foot to enter the hole and its hidden cavity. To his utter surprise, the right foot, then the ankle and the leg could go inside without contacting the bottom. Without wasting any more time, Hoshea quickly introduces his left foot into the hole and tries to stand inside. He dips himself through the hole, and went deep enough, up to the level of his waist. To his amazement, Hoshea notices that the walls of the cavity are tightly holding his thighs and legs and yet the feet could not touch the bottom. Supporting himself, on his arms, and elbows, Hoshea pushes his chest downwards into the cavity, to know if he could stand inside on his feet. While he gets fully engrossed with his moves, the walls of the cavity start to pulse and vibrate. It has a very soothing and sensuous massaging effect on Hoshea’s body. The more he tries to reach the bottom, the more strong, and intense is the response of the cavity to hold him in a tight embrace, tickling every nerve of his body. Hoshea tries his very best to hold back from responding to this building up pressure from heightened sensations. He soon reaches a state of ecstasy, and the orgasmic climax simply overpowers his body. Like the eruption of a volcano, Hoshea feels the flow of hot lava streaming down his thighs and legs. The spasms of eruptions with hot lava flow continued until Hoshea’s body simply turns into the consistency of India-Rubber or you may prefer the term “Jell-O.”

Hoshea’s mind experiences a sense of total relaxation, perfect joy and happiness and with that, every nerve in his body and every muscle of his Whole Body became limp and flaccid. His arms and elbows buckle, and Hoshea starts to slowly sink into the hole and its mysterious chamber. Hoshea is still conscious and still sees the blue sky, and the birds flying with joy and freedom. As he is getting further inside, the hole strangely starts closing around his head, and Hoshea finds himself in a dark, cool tunnel-like chamber which is still pulsing and is vibrating. Hoshea gets alarmed and he tries to wiggle using the last bit of strength left in his body from which all energy has been drained out during the bouts of sensuous orgasms. To his shock, the walls of the cavity start to propel him further inwards, first very gently and later the speed increases to an unbearable level.

Hoshea soon passes out and has no further awareness of his ride in this dark, long, tunnel. Hoshea is not seen by his friends after this visit to the garden on a Friday morning. He is not seen the entire day, and night of Saturday. In the garden, there is no visible clue of any mishap. The green patch just looks green and normal. Hoshea’s friends have no clue as to how he has gone missing.

Whole Story – Whole Sex for Regeneration and Rebirth:

Whole Dude – Whole Mythology: Hoshea is reborn, regenerated and is known as Yehoshua or Jehoshua. He lived in the embrace of Mother Nature, deep inside a secret chamber and resurrected to his new Life, a promise of hope for Salvation.

On Sunday morning, around the time for Sunrise, Hoshea finds himself in his own bedroom. Hoshea awakens to a loud noise and he looks around. He is on the floor, just below his bed. He is still shaking, and a bit shivering. He slowly opens his eyes, gathers enough strength to get up. He recognizes the odd smell of his body, and he has that peculiar smell of a newborn baby. Hoshea slowly moves into his bathroom and cleans himself with a hot water shower. I call to check on him. He answers the phone with a faint voice. I suggest to him that he must take a shot of brandy with hot water to feel better. Hoshea is now a transformed or a reborn Dude. He tells me something about his abstinence and temperate nature. I agreed and I ask him to have a hot cup of tea for which he consents. Next day, Hoshea returns to work with the usual zeal, enthusiasm, and vigor. His experience of Whole Sex with his Whole Body totally transforms him. He is reborn and the body has a new radiance giving a sense of hope for man’s deliverance from sin and death. I asked Hoshea to project his new “REBORN” Identity by getting a new wardrobe and avoid wearing the dark clothes that he was fond of in his previous life.

Whole Dude – Whole Mythology

Whole Mythology – Joshua is Reborn in Spring Season – Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb?

Whole Mythology – Whole Story

Preface to Whole Dude – Whole Story:

Whole Story: How to enter a Womb for a Second Time? Whole Sex with Whole Body is a Whole Treat:

Whole Story – Whole Sex for Regeneration and Rebirth:

Whole Dude – Whole Game

The Celebration of International Cat Day

In celebration of International Cat Day on Tuesday, August 08, 2023, I am pleased to share my story, The Cat and the Mouse Game.

The Cat and The Mouse Game:

In my analysis, Katy Perry’s Tattoo in the Indian Language of Sanskrit is about ‘Staying Afloat’ as in the Indian View, Human Existence poses a great Challenge for it is thought of as a tedious, never-ending swim across the vast, unchartered Ocean called ‘Samsara’. To ‘Go With the Flow’ of Time fundamentally demands to keep one’s precarious existence under all challenging circumstances.

Whole Dude – Whole Game: Evening With Katy Perry. Staying Afloat during the very tedious and long Life Journey called SAMSARA. To Go With Flow of Time fundamentally demands to keep one’s precarious existence under challenging circumstances.

I posted this story about ‘The Cat and The Mouse Game’ on December 02, 2014 and updated the story on February 02, 2015 after the XLIX Super Bowl Game. Many of my readers across the United States have suggested that Katy Perry has responded to The Cat and The Mouse Game Challenge and came riding on a Roaring Cat during the XLIX Super Bowl Game Halftime performance. Can a Mouse find its way to win the Challenge posed by The Cat Power? For one thing, I admit that The Mouse can tell the difference between a Tiger and a ‘Paper Tiger’. However big it may be, a robotic Cat cannot stop The Mouse in its search for the ‘Hidden Cookie’.

#EVENINGWITHKATYPERRY : CAN A MOUSE FIND HIDDEN COOKIES IF THE COOKIE IS RIDING ON A ROARING CAT ??? — **WHOLE DUDE- WHOLE GAME: # EVENINGWITHKATYPERRY: CAN A MOUSE FIND HIDDEN COOKIES IF THE COOKIE IS RIDING ON A ROARING CAT? CAN THE MOUSE WIN THE WHOLE CHALLENGE POSED BY THE CAT POWER?**

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE - #EveningWithKatyPerry : THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME . CAN THIS ROBOTIC CAT BEAT THE MOUSE IN THE GAME OF LIFE ???? — **WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: # EveningWithKatyPerry: THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. CAN THIS ROBOTIC CAT BEAT THE MOUSE IN THE GAME OF LIFE?**

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE - #EveningWithKatyPerry : THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME . THE CAT IS BIG . IS IT A GOOD DEFENSE ???? CAN IT TACKLE THE CLEVER, LITTLE MOUSE ???? — **WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: # EveningWithKatyPerry: THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. THE CAT IS BIG. IS IT A GOOD DEFENSE? CAN IT TACKLE THE CLEVER, LITTLE MOUSE?**

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE - #EveningWithKatyPerry : THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME . EXISTENTIALISTS ENDORSE IT AS THE GAME OF LIFE . — **WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: # EveningWithKatyPerry: THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. EXISTENTIALISTS ENDORSE IT AS THE GAME OF LIFE.**

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE - #EveningWithKatyPerry : THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME . THE SKEPTICS WHO HABITUALLY DOUBT DENY THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. — **WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: # EveningWithKatyPerry: THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. THE SKEPTICS WHO HABITUALLY DOUBT DENY THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME.**

Super Bowl – Super Challenge – Super Performance:

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE - #EveningWithKatyPerry : THE GAME OF LIFE . THE SALESMAN SELLING THE REPLICAS OF THE "LEFT SHARK" RECEIVED A NOTICE FROM KATY PERRY'S ATTORNEY . THE MOUSE IS NOT AFRAID OF "PAPER TIGERS." — WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: # EveningWithKatyPerry: THE GAME OF LIFE. THE SALESMAN SELLING THE REPLICAS OF THE “LEFT SHARK” RECEIVED A NOTICE FROM KATY PERRY’S ATTORNEY. THE MOUSE IS NOT AFRAID OF “PAPER TIGERS.”

Existentialists endorse The Cat and The Mouse Game as the Game of Life or Existence. Skeptics who habitually doubt, question, or suspend judgment may deny The Cat and The Mouse Game. Whereas the Rationalists concur with the reasonableness of The Cat and The Mouse Game. I am not sure about the rationality of Katy Perry’s attorney who mailed a legal notice to Orlando based artist Fernando Sosa 31 who made a three-inch replica of a Shark figurine using a 3D printer and started selling these sharks on Shapeways.com for $24.99 on Tuesday, February 03, 2015. Katy Perry’s attorney promptly sent him a “Cease and Desist” Letter demanding the shark’s removal citing intellectual property rights. On Wednesday, Shapeways.com canceled orders and refunded customers. In a world ruled by Greed, the Big Cat holds the power to sniffle the Little Mouse and deny even the simplest kind of economic opportunity to support its survival. It reminds me of the scripture, Matthew : 15:27; “Yes it is, LORD.” she (the Canaanite Woman) said, “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” Fernando Sosa can’t even gather those crumbs that have fallen on the ground near Katy Perry’s Halftime Show.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE -#EveningWithKatyPerry : CAN THE LITTLE MOUSE EAT THE CRUMBS THAT FALL ON THE GROUND WHERE KATY PERRY PERFORMED DURING XLIX SUPER BOWL HALFTIME . THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOK OF SAINT MATTHEW 15:27. THE CANAANITE WOMAN PLEADING WITH JESUS FOR THE FAVOR OF EATING FALLEN CRUMBS . — WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: #EveningWithKatyPerry: CAN THE LITTLE MOUSE EAT THE CRUMBS THAT FALL ON THE GROUND WHERE KATY PERRY PERFORMED DURING XLIX SUPER BOWL HALFTIME? THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOK OF SAINT MATTHEW 15:27. THE CANAANITE WOMAN PLEADING WITH JESUS FOR THE FAVOR OF EATING FALLEN CRUMBS ASKING FOR A SHOW OF MERCY.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : SUPER BOWL - SUPER CHALLENGE - SUPER PERFORMANCE . THE COOKIE WON THE SUPER CHALLENGE . — WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: SUPER BOWL – SUPER CHALLENGE – SUPER PERFORMANCE. THE COOKIE WON THE SUPER CHALLENGE. #EveningWithKatyPerry SHE IS DISTRACTED BY THE BALL SHE IS HOLDING AND THE CLEVER, LITTLE MOUSE FINDS ITS WAY.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : SUPER BOWL - SUPER COOKIE - SUPER VICTORY . — **WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: SUPER BOWL – SUPER COOKIE – SUPER VICTORY. #EveningWithKatyPerry THE GAME OF LIFE. YOU CANNOT WIN WITHOUT EVER TAKING RISKS.**

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - #EveningWithKatyPerry : "IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE" IS NOT THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR THIS STORY. I AM SAYING THAT A MOUSE HAS ABILITIES TO FIND "HIDDEN COOKIES" FOR IT ALWAYS PLAYS THE RISKY CAT AND MOUSE GAME. — WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: # EveningWithKatyPerry: “IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE” IS NOT THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR THIS STORY. I AM SAYING THAT A MOUSE HAS ABILITIES TO FIND “HIDDEN COOKIES” FOR IT ALWAYS PLAYS THE RISKY CAT AND MOUSE GAME.

This blog post is an open invitation to Katy Perry to sponsor the Whole Team event called #EveningWithKatyPerry. This is a proposal to entertain Katy Perry who is known to the world of music lovers as a great performer and entertainer. This Special, and Original, Whole Team Event is a new concept in the World of Entertainment. In this Event, the Entertainer will be the only person who would enjoy the privilege of being entertained by a Team (Sorry, this Event is not open to the general Public). I am asking Katy Perry to graciously accept this special offer from Whole Team Members who participate in the “Whole Challenge.” I assure her that she would have the most wonderful time of her life by spending time with “Whole Idealists” who truly appreciate her passion for “Naturalism.” I am presenting the concept of “Whole Cookie – Whole Challenge” to discover Love as a Fundamental Force.

Whole Team – Whole Cookie – Whole Challenge: “Hide and Seek” or The Cat and The Mouse Game:

**Whole Dude – Whole Game: #Evening with Katy Perry. A Cat and Mouse Game.**

Katy Perry No Underwear – Ditches Panties at Red Carpet: #EveningWithKatyPerry

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS WHO ACCEPT THIS WHOLE CHALLENGE ARE INVITED TO MAKE A WHOLE DISCOVERY OF THE HIDDEN COOKIES IN THIS PHOTO IMAGE OF KATY PERRY ON THE RED CARPET AT ARIA MUSIC AWARDS FUNCTION HELD IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2014. — WHOLE DUDE – WHOLE GAME: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS WHO ACCEPT THIS WHOLE CHALLENGE ARE INVITED TO MAKE A WHOLE DISCOVERY OF THE “HIDDEN COOKIES” IN THIS PHOTO IMAGE OF KATY PERRY ON THE RED CARPET AT ARIA MUSIC AWARDS FUNCTION HELD IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2014. SHE IS A SWEET COOKIE POSING A CHALLENGE; WHERE SHE IS HIDING THE COOKIES WHILE WEARING A SEE-THROUGH SKIRT?

WholeDude.com is inviting the Whole Team Members to take part in this Whole Challenge (“HIDE AND SEEK” or THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME) to find the “Hidden Cookies” in the photo images of music celebrity Katy Perry. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) held its 28th annual Music Awards function in Sydney, Australia. The Red Carpet Show was held on Wednesday, November 26, 2014. US music celebrity Katy Perry made a delightful appearance on the Red Carpet in a ‘See-Through’ Skirt and displayed her taste for Naturalism by ditching her undies. Being an Idealist WholeDude loves Naturalism. Most viewers of Katy Perry’s images have failed to discover the “Hidden Cookies” while she wore a ‘See-Through’ Skirt.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS HAVE TO MAKE A WHOLE DISCOVERY OF THE "HIDDEN COOKIES" IN THIS PHOTO IMAGE OF KATY PERRY AT 28th ANNUAL ARIA MUSIC AWARDS. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS HAVE TO MAKE A WHOLE DISCOVERY OF THE “HIDDEN COOKIES” IN THIS PHOTO IMAGE OF KATY PERRY AT 28th ANNUAL ARIA MUSIC AWARDS. SHE IS A SMART COOKIE FOR SHE IS POSING AS IF SHE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE FROM PUBLIC VIEW.

There are Rules and Conditions to participate in this Whole Challenge to find the “Hidden Cookies.”:

1. Whole Team Members, age 18-Years or more can participate in the Whole Challenge. If Katy Perry agrees, the Winning Participants will attend a Special Event, #EveningWithKatyPerry and get a chance to entertain the celebrity.

2. Whole Team Members may click on the images and view the enlarged version of these images.

3. Whole Team Members may use the ‘MOUSE’ or the typical characteristics of the Mouse to probe the images and to discover the “Hidden Cookies.”

4. Whole Team Members can find the “Hidden Cookies” from any of the photo images that appear in this article. The Winner of the Whole Challenge will receive a Whole Award.

5. Whole Team Members are not allowed to ask Katy Perry for clues or tips to find the “Hidden Cookies.”

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO MAKE THE WHOLE DISCOVERY OF THE "HIDDEN COOKIES." FEEL FREE TO GREET KATY PERRY WITHOUT TOUCHING HER WITH HANDS. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO MAKE THE WHOLE DISCOVERY OF THE “HIDDEN COOKIES.” FEEL FREE TO GREET KATY PERRY WITHOUT TOUCHING HER WITH HANDS. SHE IS INDEED A SWEET, SMART, SHREWD, AND TOUGH COOKIE WHO KNOWS HOW TO HIDE HER SECRET INFORMATION.

The Whole Challenge is exclusively for the Whole Discovery of the “Hidden Cookies” and the Whole Search is made only using the “MOUSE” or the abilities of the Mouse. Whole Team Members who can name the Inventor of “MOUSE” will get a Bonus Prize.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS CAN HAVE SOME FUN IF THEY DO WHOLE SEARCH FOR THE "HIDDEN COOKIES" USING THE "MOUSE." — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS CAN HAVE SOME FUN IF THEY DO the WHOLE SEARCH FOR THE “HIDDEN COOKIES” USING THE “MOUSE.” IF SHE IS SMART, WE NEED A THIEF LIKE THE MOUSE TO FIND THE SECRET SHE IS HIDING. THIS IMAGE REVEALS A TATTOO ON HER LEFT ANKLE.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS WHO DISCOVER THE "HIDDEN COOKIES" WILL RECEIVE A WHOLE AWARD. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS WHO DISCOVER THE “HIDDEN COOKIES” WILL RECEIVE A WHOLE AWARD. IN THIS IMAGE, YOU CAN SEE A TATTOO ON HER LEFT WRIST, HIDDEN IN OTHER IMAGES. WHAT ELSE IS HIDDEN?

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS MAY BE ASKED TO NAME THE "MOUSE" INVENTOR TO GET A BONUS PRIZE APART FROM THE WHOLE REWARD IF THEY DISCOVER THE "HIDDEN COOKIES." — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS MAY BE ASKED TO NAME THE “MOUSE” INVENTOR TO GET A BONUS PRIZE APART FROM THE WHOLE REWARD IF THEY DISCOVER THE “HIDDEN COOKIES.”

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE IN WHOLE CHALLENGE MUST SEARCH AND DISCOVER THE "HIDDEN COOKIES" WITHOUT TOUCHING KATE PERRY WITH THEIR HANDS. THE USE OF THE "MOUSE" IS ALLOWED. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE IN WHOLE CHALLENGE MUST SEARCH AND DISCOVER THE “HIDDEN COOKIES” WITHOUT TOUCHING KATY PERRY WITH THEIR HANDS. THE USE OF THE “MOUSE” IS ALLOWED.

This Whole Challenge to find the “Hidden Cookies” is a contest invented by WholeDude.com. If any of my readers have known or heard about such a “HIDE AND SEEK – THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME that involves finding the “Hidden Cookies” may inform me for I believe in WholeDude’s entitlement to special rights to boast about this Whole Challenge.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : AN OPEN INVITATION TO WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS TO DISCOVER THE "HIDDEN COOKIES." CERTAIN RULES APPLY. DO NOT TOUCH KATY PERRY WITH YOUR HANDS. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: AN OPEN INVITATION TO WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS TO DISCOVER THE “HIDDEN COOKIES.” CERTAIN RULES APPLY. DO NOT TOUCH KATY PERRY WITH YOUR HANDS. WATCH OUT THAT HAND WITH BLACK STRAP ON THE WRIST.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : KATY PERRY AT ARIA MUSIC AWARDS. WHERE ARE THE "HIDDEN COOKIES ?" — **Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: KATY PERRY AT ARIA MUSIC AWARDS. WHERE ARE THE “HIDDEN COOKIES ?” AND WHAT ARE COOKIES?**

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK KATY PERRY TO SHOW THE "HIDDEN COOKIES." — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK KATY PERRY TO SHOW THE “HIDDEN COOKIES.” DO NOT ASK FOR TIPS OR CLUES. THERE IS A SIGN ON HER RIGHT WRIST WHICH IS HIDDEN IN OTHER IMAGES.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE: NOW WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS MAY SEE SOMETHING ON KATY PERRY'S RIGHT ARM AND THIS IS NOT SEEN IN ANY OF THE OTHER IMAGES. SIMILARLY, THERE ARE "HIDDEN COOKIES." — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: NOW WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS MAY SEE SOMETHING ON KATY PERRY’S RIGHT ARM AND THIS IS NOT SEEN IN ANY OF THE OTHER IMAGES. Similarly, THERE ARE “HIDDEN COOKIES.”

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS MAY APPRECIATE KATY PERRY'S TASTE FOR 'NATURALISM'. FIND THOSE "HIDDEN COOKIES" FOR WINNING A WHOLE AWARD. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS MAY APPRECIATE KATY PERRY’S TASTE FOR ‘NATURALISM’. FIND THOSE “HIDDEN COOKIES” FOR WINNING A WHOLE AWARD. SHE IS A ‘NATURALIST’ WITH A NATURAL INCLINATION TO HIDE BITS OF INFORMATION FROM HER VIEWERS. SHE COULD BE PLAYING THE ‘HIDE AND SEEK’ GAME, OR SHE IS CHALLENGING AN ENTERPRISING MOUSE TO FIND THE HIDDEN COOKIES.

#EveningWithKatyPerry – Whole Challenge – “Hide and Seek” – The Cat and The Mouse Game:

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. THE COMMON HOUSE MOUSE OR MUS MUSCULUS IS QUIET, SHY, TIMID, SLY, AND STEALTHY IN ITS HABITS. IT MOVES UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS AND FINDS FOOD USING CLUES LIKE SCENT AND SMELL RATHER THAN VISION. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: “HIDE AND SEEK” – THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. THE COMMON HOUSE MOUSE OR MUS MUSCULUS IS QUIET, SHY, TIMID, SLY, AND STEALTHY IN ITS HABITS. IT MOVES UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS AND FINDS FOOD USING CLUES LIKE SCENT AND SMELL RATHER THAN VISION. THE MOUSE IS KNOWN FOR ITS ABILITY TO STEAL FOOD LIKE A THIEF.

It would be interesting to learn about “HIDE AND SEEK” – ‘The Cat and the Mouse Game’. Mouse (Mus musculus) derives its name from the fancied resemblance between the movements of a Mouse and muscle or a body organ that moves in and out in a sly manner. It is a small rodent having tiny ears, and a long, thin tail. Mousing means to seek about or search for something busily and stealthily.

**Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – The Cat and the Mouse Game**

The Cat’s search for a mouse is also called ‘Mousing’. The Mouse is known or reputed for its ability to steal food like a thief. But, the connection between Mouse and muscle or flesh is of equal interest. Muscle describes any of the body organs consisting of bundles of cells or fibers that are contracted and expanded to produce bodily movements. Human nature, especially in its sensual aspect, has the nature of ‘flesh’. The term ‘fleshy’ refers to the fondness of sensual, or bodily pleasures. The word ‘Fleshpot’ describes a place where bodily comfort and carnal pleasures are purchased. For these reasons, man’s bodily organ that he uses to find sensual pleasure operates like ‘The Mouse’. In Computer Science, ‘Mouse’ refers to a small hand-held device that moves on a flat surface in front of a video screen in such a way as to move, or position the cursor or part of the display. I am suggesting the use of the ‘Mouse’ using the sly, and stealthy nature of the common House Mouse, and to find the source of carnal pleasure using clues of “SCENT” or Smell and not of Vision. The information that is hidden from public view, “The Hidden Cookies” derives its name because of its “Scent” or Smell. You have to imagine the “Scent” and conduct the ‘Search’ Mission to discover the ‘Hidden Cookies’.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : THE GREAT CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF PUSS AND PUSSYFOOT??? — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: “HIDE AND SEEK” – THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF PUSS AND PUSSYFOOT? THE WORD “PUSS” REFERS TO THE ECHOIC OF THE SPITTING OF A CAT. CATS ARE OFTEN CALLED “PUSSYCATS” BECAUSE OF THE “PUSS” SOUNDS THEY MAKE. I USE THE SAME WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD COLLEGE DICTIONARY THAT IS SEEN IN THIS IMAGE.

Cat (Felis catus) since ancient times is often kept as a pet and used for killing mice. The word “PUSS” describes the echoic of the spitting of a cat. The term “PUSSYFOOT” means to move with stealth or caution like a cat. The cats that are kept as pets are affectionately called “PUSSYCATS” for they often make those “PUSS” sounds. The cat is known for its hunting ability and it hunts the mouse reputed for its stealing ability. If the Mouse has to succeed in finding the “Hidden Cookies”, the dangerous, and risky Mission demands artfully sly action.

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : THE GREAT CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. THE MILK OF KINDNESS CAN BRING THE CAT AND THE MOUSE TO LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE, AND HARMONY. THIS PHOTO IMAGE IS FROM PICHIT, THAILAND, WHERE OUAN THE CAT AND TUA LEK THE FIELD MOUSE ARE THE PETS OF A COFFEE-SELLER. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. THE MILK OF KINDNESS CAN BRING THE CAT AND THE MOUSE TO LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE, AND HARMONY. THIS PHOTO IMAGE IS FROM PICHIT, THAILAND, WHERE OUAN THE CAT AND TUA LEK THE FIELD MOUSE ARE THE PETS OF A COFFEE-SELLER.

“HIDE AND SEEK” – The Cat and The Mouse Game if played artfully with skill, imagination, and humor will provide Great Fun to both the players. That is the reason that I demand to serve the “Whole Cookies” with the ‘Milk of Kindness’.

#EveningWithKatyPerry – What are Cookies?

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : TO PLAY "HIDE AND SEEK" - THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME, READERS HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF COOKIES. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: TO PLAY “HIDE AND SEEK” – THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME, READERS HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF COOKIES.

Cookie (Dutch. Koekje. koek, refers to a cake) is a small, sweet cake, usually flat, and often crisp. The word “COOKIE” is informally used to describe an attractive, young woman, especially one qualified as tough, smart, and shrewd or as a person of a specified kind. In this context, I recognize Katy Perry as a “Tough Cookie” for she came to a public event wearing a “See-Through” skirt without using the protection offered by underwear which covers and conceals the private parts from public exposure. The terms “Computer Cookies”, Browser Cookies, Internet Cookies, and Tracking Cookies describe small, often encrypted text files in browser directories. Web developers use Cookies to help computer users navigate their websites efficiently and perform certain functions. A Cookie can store user’s information and later the web developer may retrieve that information to recognize the user’s identity. The term “Hidden Cookies” is often used to alert users about concealed spyware or malware that some web developers use to steal the personal identity information of the computer users. The word “COOKIE” means information that is hidden and the information has the potential to expose the person’s identity. For that reason, the parts concealed from public view in the photo images of Katy Perry could be described as the “Hidden Cookies.”

#EveningWithKatyPerry – Whole Challenge – Whole Search – Whole Consolation:

**Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – The Cat and the Mouse Game. Hide and Seek Game. What is a Mismatched Cookie?**

What is a Mismatched Cookie? A Cookie can be called “Mismatched” if it is unlike the “Hidden” Cookie. In this story about playing the Cat and the Mouse or Hide and Seek Game to discover the Hidden Cookie, any other type of Cookie which is not a proper Match must be called “MISMATCHED.”

WHOLE TEAM - WHOLE COOKIE - WHOLE CHALLENGE : WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE WHOLE SEARCH FOR THE "HIDDEN COOKIES" CAN CLAIM THIS WHOLE CONSOLATION PRIZE. SORRY, MILK IS NOT INCLUDED. — Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry – WHOLE TEAM – WHOLE COOKIE – WHOLE CHALLENGE: THE CAT AND THE MOUSE GAME. WHOLE TEAM MEMBERS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE WHOLE SEARCH FOR THE “HIDDEN COOKIES” CAN CLAIM THIS WHOLE CONSOLATION PRIZE. SORRY, MILK IS NOT INCLUDED. BUT SERVE THE WHOLE COOKIES WITH THE MILK OF KINDNESS.

Whole Team Members who participate in this Whole Challenge; “HIDE AND SEEK” – The Cat and The Mouse Game, can claim a Whole Consolation Prize (365 Everyday Value Mismatched Sandwich Cremes) even if the Whole Search for the Hidden Cookies fails. The Whole Team Players must write to WholeDude.com and Leave a Comment to confirm their participation in the Search Mission. A Bonus Prize is awarded if the Whole Team Player includes the name of the “MOUSE” inventor.

WHOLE TEAM-WHOLE COOKIE-WHOLE CHALLENGE : AN EVENING WITH KATY PERRY. — **Whole Dude – Whole Game: WHOLE TEAM-WHOLE COOKIE-WHOLE CHALLENGE: #EVENINGWITHKATYPERRY The Cat and the Mouse Game.**

AN EVENING WITH KATY PERRY. — **Whole Dude – Whole Game: WHOLE TEAM-WHOLE COOKIE-WHOLE CHALLENGE: #EVENINGWITHKATYPERRY The Cat and the Mouse Game**

Whole Dude – Whole Game: #EveningWithKatyPerry The Cat and the Mouse Game

Whole Dude – Whole Smile

January 30, Martyrs’ Day, I smile like the Smiling Buddha

Excerpt: On January 30, Martyrs’ Day, I smile like the Smiling Buddha. At Giriraj , in 1962, when we celebrated the ‘U.N.O. DAY’, I had the opportunity to speak and publicly express my opinion about India’s relationship with the United Nations. As my father, the Principal of Giriraj, was listening to me, I told the Faculty Staff Members and the assembled student community that India should exercise its rights to develop and test the nuclear weapons. India carried out its first nuclear test at POKHRAN on May 18, 1974. The Concept of Peace and Non-violence does not exclude India’s Right to Test Nuclear Weapons.

**Whole Dude – Whole Smile: Remembering the Smiling Buddha on January 30, Martyrs’ Day**

SMILING BUDDHA AT GIRIRAJ GOVERNMENT ARTS COLLEGE, NIZAMABAD, INDIA

The Concept of Peace and Non-violence does not exclude India’s Right to Test Nuclear Weapons

**Smiling Buddha at Giriraj Government Arts College, Nizamabad, India.**

In the year 1961, my father was transferred from Government Arts College, Rajahmundry to Nizamabad upon his selection as the Principal of Giriraj Government Arts College. At age 13, I joined Giriraj as a student of the Pre-University Course. In 1962, at age 14, I joined the Bachelor of Science 3- year degree course. I started understanding the security threats that were faced by India after the brutal Chinese aggression across our Himalayan frontier. I had also started to lose my faith in the United Nations as India was not able to defend its vital national interests in the UN Security Council. India survived on account of the diplomatic support extended by the Soviet Union. At Giriraj , in 1962, when we celebrated the ‘U.N.O. DAY’, I had the opportunity to speak and publicly express my opinion about India’s relationship with the United Nations. As my father, the Principal of Giriraj, was listening to me, I told the Faculty Staff Members and the assembled student community that India should exercise its rights to develop and test the nuclear weapons. India carried out its first nuclear test at POKHRAN on May 18, 1974.

I WAS SMILING LIKE ‘THE SMILING BUDDHA’

***Whole Dude – Whole Smile: Smiling Buddha at Giriraj Government Arts College, Nizamabad, India. Till date, it is considered to be one of the CIA’s biggest failures in espionage and detection.***

**Whole Dude – Whole Smile: Smiling Buddha at Giriraj Government Arts College, Nizamabad.**

I love Giriraj , which gave me this courage to speak my mind without any inhibition or fear. Later in my life, in the year 1979 while serving in the rank of Major in the Indian Army Medical Corps, I participated in a major military exercise in and around Pokhran area of Rajasthan and I was smiling like “THE SMILING BUDDHA.”

**Whole Dude – Whole Smile: On January 30, Martyrs’ Day, I was smiling like the Smiling Buddha.**

Whole Dude – Whole Question

Half Full or Half Empty is not the Right Question – Can You Drink the Cup I Drink?

Excerpt: When I drink from the ‘Cup of my Life’; What I truly experience from my life, the reality of my condition is more important than my attitude towards existence. The man has no hope to find happiness until and unless he renounces all desires including the desire to find happiness. The man has no choice other than that of living in the moment without concern for either pessimism or optimism. The attitude of dispassion automatically excludes both pessimism and optimism.

HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY? IS THAT REALLY IMPORTANT?

I drank from that cup. Now, the cup could be described as half full or half empty. Is that really important? The cup that I drink from gives me pain and I experience suffering. What would be the right question if I have to drink from that cup? What I truly experience from my life, the reality of my condition is more important than my attitude towards my existence. The issue is not about optimism or pessimism. I need to focus on knowing the reality and I need to face the reality about what I experience when I drink from that Cup of my Life.

IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THIS CUP TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM ME ?

I would answer this question from a reading from The New Testament of The Holy Bible. I would like to quote verses 36 to 44, chapter 26, The Gospel According to Matthew.

36. Then Jesus came with His disciples to a place called Gethsemane and said to them, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.”

37. And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

38. Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”

39. He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless not as I will, but as You will.”

40. Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?

41.”Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

42. Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”

43. And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.

44. So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.

Jesus had prayed three times, saying the same words. It was not possible for the cup to pass away and Jesus had to drink from the cup.

THE TEACHINGS OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA:

Whole Dude – Whole Question: Lord Gautama Buddha has laid the foundation for understanding Pain and Suffering that is implicit in Human Existence. Half Full or Half Empty? – What is the real Question? Can You Drink the Cup I Drink?

At age 29, Prince Siddhartha realized that humans are subject to old age, sickness, disability and death. He became aware of the suffering implicit in human existence. Buddha described the nature of reality and Dharma (“true law”) as the Four Noble Truths (1) life is fundamentally disappointment and suffering; (2) suffering is a result of one’s desires for pleasure, power, and continued existence; (3) to stop disappointment and suffering one must stop desiring and (4) the way to stop desiring and thus suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path- right views, intention, speech, conduct, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.

From the hymns popularly known as Bhaja Govindam, while I drink from the Cup of my Life, I will keep contemplate on the concept of dispassion:

“KASYA SUKHAM NA KAROTI VIRAGAH”

suramandira-taru-mūla-nivāsaḥ
śayyā bhūtalamajinaṃ vāsaḥ ।
sarva-parigraha-bhōgatyāgaḥ
kasya sukhaṃ na karōti virāgaḥ ॥ 19 ॥

Living in temples or at the foot of trees, sleeping on the ground, wearing deer-skin, renouncing all possessions and their enjoyment – to whom will not dispassion bring happiness?

The verse 19 in Shankaracharya’s Bhaja Govindam questions, “Kasya sukham na karoti viragah?”, which means, “What pleasure cannot be given by dispassion?” It gives all the pleasures because you are so totally living in the moment.

The man has no hope to find happiness until and unless he renounces all desires including the desire to find happiness. The man has no choice other than that of living in the moment without concern for either pessimism or optimism. The attitude of dispassion automatically excludes both pessimism and optimism.

**Whole Dude – Whole Question: Half Full or Half Empty? – What is the real Question?**

**Whole Dude – Whole Question: Half Full or Half Empty doesn’t change the reality of the experience.**

Whole Dude – Whole Day

At Whole Foods, Ann Arbor, the Celebration of Birthday got transformed into Whole Day Celebration.

**Whole Dude – Whole Day: The Celebration of Birthday at Whole Foods**

The Whole Dude brings the Whole Self to work and hence the Birthday Celebration is named as Whole Day Celebration.

Whole Dude – Whole Day: Whole Team – Whole Congratulations – Whole Gift: To give “Whole Congratulations” to my “Whole Team” Members, Whole Dude decides to spend “Whole Dough” to offer “Whole Gift” for the very special Celebration on Whole Day. Certain Terms and Conditions apply.

Birthday vs Whole Day Celebration:

The Whole Day Celebration is unlike the routine Birthday Celebration. The following Terms and Conditions apply to the Whole Day Celebration to make the distinction between Whole Day and Birthday Celebration:

Must be an eligible Whole Team Member and receive the specially designed Celebration Card just meant for You.
Whole Team Members who want to participate in the Whole Day Celebration must sign on the Celebration Card to give the Birthday Greetings to the Whole Person who is Celebrating Birthday.
The Whole Person celebrating Birthday spends Whole Dough to offer Whole Gifts to all the Whole Team Members who sign the Celebration Card joining the Whole Day Celebration.
Whole Team Members transform the Birthday Celebration into Whole Day Celebration when they receive their Whole Gifts and the Whole Person gets no Gift on his/her Birthday.

Whole Dude – Whole Name

**Bharat Darshan – The tradition of choosing names using the Science of Light called Jyotish.**

Excerpt: The choice of my Name is predestined by the Date, Time and the Place of Birth and their relationship to the Science of Light called Jyotish. The people of Land of Bharat are extremely fond of choosing names. This fondness for selecting, using and remembering names is an important Cultural attribute which defines the Indian Identity. In my case, the choice of the Name is predestined by the Science of Light. Earthly events have celestial connections. For every name that appears in my blog post, there is a specific legend that describes the origin of that name.

The name ‘ Indian ‘ is related to the great river Sindhu which is also known as Indus. In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed westwards towards setting sun to reach the shores of India. He discovered people living on islands whom he had mistakenly named as Indians. Apart from those island dwellers, the natives of the entire American continent, the so-called New World were named Indians. In spite of concerted efforts to rename them as Native Americans, the name Indian is still in use.

Name is a very important tool to describe personal identity. The word name as a noun, describes a person, place or thing. It is also a word or words by which an object of thought is known. Indians did not choose the name India or Indian.

Kapaleeshwarar temple in Mylapore, Chennai. — **Bharat Darshan: What’s in a Name? The Making of a Whole Name for the Whole Person. The Choice of the Name is predestined by the Science of Light called Jyotish .**

The people of Land of Bharat are extremely fond of choosing names. This fondness for selecting, using and remembering names is an important Cultural attribute which defines the Indian Identity. In my case, the choice of the Name is predestined by the Science of Light. Earthly events have celestial connections. For every name that appears in my blog post, there is a specific legend that describes the origin of that name

The Tradition of Giving Names:

Bharat Darshan: The Making of a Whole Name for the Whole Person. Lord Shiva is known as Rudra, Neela Kantha, Pasupati and several other names. This fondness for selecting, using, and remembering names is an important cultural attribute which defines Indian Identity. The Choice of my Name is predestined.

The name ” Rudra ” is one of the earliest names known to humanity. According to legend, the Vedic God Rudra acquired His name from His Creator Brahma. As per the story, a boy was seen ‘crying’ and ‘wandering’. The father asked the boy the reason for his ‘howling’. The boy answered that he was ‘weeping’ for he was not given a name. So, the father created a name by bringing together two Sanskrit words which mean ‘crying’ and ‘wandering’. Thus the name Ru+dra was born. This legend is an example of our emotional dependence upon the need for names. The major Deities such as VISHNU and SHIVA that Indians worship are known by thousands of names and remembering those names is deemed as an act of devoted worship. The use of these names is a fundamental right and I understand the term religious freedom in the context of my freedom to choose the name that I want to worship. The religious experience that I gained while growing up in India relates to the use of names as an act of worship. Worship would have no meaning or purpose and would not give me a sense of direction if I do not remember the beautiful names that I have come to know.

A Personal Name and a Personal Story:

**Bharat Darshan: What’s in a Name? The Making of a Whole Name for the Whole Person. The Choice of the Name is predestined by the Science of Light called Jyotish.**

This landmark Temple of Kapaleeswara binds me to my birthplace of Mylapore, Madras(Chennai). The Presiding Diety of this Temple is chosen as my personal Protector and hence I am given the name of "RUDRA". — Bharat Darshan: The choice of my Name is predestined. This landmark Temple of Kapaleeswarar binds me to my birthplace Mylapore, Madras (Chennai). If my birthplace had been different, my Name would have been different. The Presiding Deity of this Temple is chosen as my personal Protector and hence I am given the name of RUDRA.

My personal name is very much a part of my personal story. If my birthplace had been different, my Name would have been different. My Name is chosen entirely due to the circumstances of my birth and I remain connected to the persons and the places for the rest of my life. I describe Mylapore, Madras city (Chennai) as my birth place and I describe Rajahmundry of East Godavari District as my native place.

Bharat Darshan: MY IDENTITY AND MY CONNECTION. I CALL MYSELF AS ‘REBBAPRAGADA’; MY MOTHER BELONGS TO THE ‘KASTURI’ FAMILY. THIS IS A PICTURE OF KASTURI BROTHERS. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, 1. DR. KASTURI NARAYANA MURTHY, M.D. (MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER), 2. KASTURI. SESHAGIRI RAO (MARRIED TO MRS. RUKMINI, DAUGHTER OF DR. SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN), 3. KASTURI NARASIMHA RAO, 4. KASTURI KRISHNA RAO, 5. KASTURI SOMESHWARA RAO, 6. KASTURI RAMACHANDRA RAO, AND 7. KASTURI SIVAPRASADA RAO (FAR RIGHT).

My mother gave birth to me at my maternal grandfather’s residence 2/37 Kutchery Road in Mylapore during the month called Dhanurmasam that represents Sun’s transit in Sagittarius.

I am born on a Friday night, at 4:30 A.M or the early morning hours of Saturday as the day begins at Sunrise. My grandfather’s residence on Kutchery Road is located at a short distance from Santhome Cathedral on the East, and Kapaleeswarar Temple on the West.

The Corporation of Chennai, Public Health Department entered my birth in the Birth Register and issued a certificate which records my gender, the date and time of my birth, the place of my birth, the names of my father and mother, the registration number and it does not show my name as my parents did not give me a name while reporting my birth. Much later, while living in the United States, I contacted the City Corporation requesting the City Public Health Officer to add my name to my own birth record and my request was not granted for the City requires the signatures of two witnesses.

**Bharat Darshan – The Making of a Name by the Science of Light. The performance of Rudra Puja at Kapaleeswarar Temple, Mylapore, Madras, Chennai was predestined.**

I spent the years of my early childhood at my paternal grandfather’s mansion in Innespeta, Rajahmundry, East Godavari District of Madras Presidency and later Andhra Pradesh, India.

As per the traditional belief and the practice of Vedic Astrology known as Jyotish (Science of Light), my Birth Star Moola predicted and warned about some forthcoming inauspicious events.

**Bharat Darshan: The Making of a Whole Name for the Whole Person. The Key Themes of Birth Star Moola Nakshtra.**

The astrological calculations suggested that remedial action is needed to counter the negative aspects of the Moola Birth Star.

**Bharat Darshan – The Making of a Name by the Science of Light.**

Accordingly, my father performed a ritualistic worship popularly known as Rudra Abhishekam and worshiped Lord Shiva at the beautiful Kapaleeswarar Temple of Mylapore.

To ensure that I would always enjoy the blessings of Lord Shiva, my father decided to name me as Rudra. Hence, the name of Rudra instantly connects me to my birth place of Mylapore and to Lord Kapaleeswarar who was chosen as my personal protector.

Bharat Darshan: What’s in a name? My paternal grandfather. The family astrologer who had prepared my horoscope predicted an inauspicious event and the prediction came true five months after my birth. But the prediction did not deter my grandfather in any manner. My grandmother whose name I had acquired told me that my grandfather had loved me with all his heart without any concern about the astrological prediction.

My birth star also forewarned about consequences that impact my paternal grandfather. There was no easy escape from the influences and the second part of my personal name was carefully chosen as Narasimham to please my paternal grandmother, Lakshmi Narasamma. Because of the gender variation, her name Narasamma got transformed to Narasimham. This name immediately connects me to the Laws of Karma.

**Bharat Darshan: The Making of a Whole Name for the Whole Person. The choice of the Name is predestined by the Science of Light called Jyotish.**

The names Rudra and Narasimham are well-known and particularly in the southern States of India, the name Narasimham and numerous variations of that name are frequently used. As long as I remain a conscious entity, my grandparents live in my consciousness.

**Bharat Darshan – The Making of a Name by the Science of Light. Moola Star belongs to the Sagittarius constellation.**

Astrology or Jyotish may not be a perfect Science. Horoscopes may not precisely predict the future course of events in a person’s life. I exist in this world and I am known by a name which was specifically selected for me because of the predictions cast by my horoscope and the predictions came true and I find enough justification for this Indian Cultural Tradition called Jyotish.

**Bharat Darshan: The Making of a Whole Name for the Whole Person. The Rebbapragadas Group describes people related to this group of people and others connected to Rebbapragadas.**

A unique name and a unique perspective:

Bharat Darshan – The making of a Whole Name for the Whole Person: The decision to serve in the Indian Army Medical Corps was made at Kurnool and I was granted Short Service Regular Commission in the rank of Second Lieutenant after an interview conducted at the Principal’s Office in the Administrative Block of Kurnool Medical College. Dr. Bhasker Reddy, Principal conducted this interview along with a team of Army Medical Corps Medical Officers.

In 1965, I joined Kurnool Medical College after I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad. At Kurnool, a batch of B.Sc., degree students were directly admitted into the second year of the medical education program that awards the M.B.B.S degree. Professor Rama Murthy of the Anatomy Department was very fond of knowing and recognizing each of his students by their personal names. On the first day of our Anatomy class, the attendance register was not ready and Professor Rama Murthy decided to call out names from the list of selected candidates. He very solemnly announced to the class that the roll call begins with a very angry and fiery name. We were intently listening to know what that name could be. Apparently, the list of selected students was prepared according to merit and my name was placed at the top of the list. He called my name and expressed his sense of disbelief. He asked me to verify my name and told the class that it was the first time in his life that he encountered a person with the personal name of Rudra Narasimham. His statement appears to be right and I have not met any other person who may have the same name. It is one of its own kind and is unique and special and these two names were put together to establish me as a Whole Person.

Bharat Darshan: The Making of a Whole Name for a Whole Person. Socrates implored people to ‘know thy self.’ He had stated that the unexamined life is not worth living. Understanding life involves understanding personal identity and name is a word by which an object of thought is known.

The name Rudra, the first part of my first name is related to Lord Shiva who is recognized as the God of Learning. Shiva is like Socrates. Socrates of 5th century B.C. is claimed to be the father of western thought. He implores people to “know thy self.” Socrates states that the ‘unexamined life is not worth living’. Shiva guides me to reflect upon life. Shiva encourages introspection, reflecting upon your own mind and thoughts. Shiva defines that the purpose of learning is to acquire the ability to think for oneself.

Defining Indian Identity - What is in a name? — **Bharat Darshan: What’s in a Name? The Making of a Whole Name for the Whole Person. The Choice of the Name is predestined by the Science of Light called Jyotish.**

The name Narasimham represents to me a Whole Person who defends my right to choose the Name for my worship. The story about Prince Prahlad of Bhagavata Purana, the epic poem called Bhagavatam, represents the cultural importance attached to personal choice in matters of religious worship. Names of persons, places and the legends form a part of Cultural Legacy of our Land and define the Indian Identity described by the Name Bharat.

**Bharat Darshan – The Making of a Whole Name for the Whole Person by the Science of Light. Moola Star of Sagittarius constellation.**

Whole Dude – Whole Hope

On the Tenth Day of January 2024, Septuagenarian trusts in God of Hope

**On the Tenth Day of January 2024, the Septuagenarian Lives on Hope alone. When Everything Else Ceases, Love Never Fails.**

Excerpt: I am not surprised to find that people do not understand the pain that I reveal in my writing. I am not surprised to find that people do not perceive the hardships that I endure. I am not surprised to find that people cannot hear my voice filled with desperation. I seek Peace, Harmony, and Tranquility while preparing to face the challenges posed in the New Year of my life. I seek Wisdom shared by the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Bible known to Jesus during His lifetime. He cautions people about hardened hearts, spiritual blindness, and deafness that makes people unresponsive to human pain and suffering. I should not hope or desire to find people who have the heart to feel for my problems, who have eyes to see my difficulties, and who have ears to listen to my pitiable groans.

Job 19:25 — **On the Tenth Day of January 2024, the Septuagenarian Lives on Hope Alone. When Everything Else Ceases, Love Never Fails.**

On the Tenth Day of January, 2024, the Septuagenarian Discovers the Septuagint

PPT - A Time Line of Key Events in the History of the Bible PowerPoint Presentation - ID:3124561 — **On the Tenth Day of January 2024, the Septuagenarian Lives on Hope Alone. When Everything Else Ceases, Love Never Fails.**

I acknowledge the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy on the Tenth Day of January 2024. At any given place, and time, the external circumstances impacting our living conditions vary as all of us have individualistic life experiences even while sharing a common living environment. Prophet Isaiah reveals my predicament, the burden of Cross that I must carry without any choice.

I seek Peace, Harmony, and Tranquility while preparing to face the challenges posed in the New Year of my life. I seek Wisdom shared by the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Bible known to Jesus during His lifetime. He cautions people about hardened hearts, spiritual blindness, and deafness that makes people unresponsive to human pain and suffering. I should not hope or desire to find people who have the heart to feel for my problems, who have eyes to see my difficulties, and who have ears to listen to my pitiable groans.

The Septuagint helps me to secure my mental peace; by knowing the Septuagint, particularly, the ideas shared by Prophet Isaiah which guided Jesus during His very difficult Life Journey.

I am not surprised to find that people do not understand the pain that I reveal in my writing. I am not surprised to find that people do not perceive the hardships that I endure. I am not surprised to find that people cannot hear my voice filled with desperation.

I am not perturbed for I live among people whose hearts have become dull. At least for now, I must live without the benefit of healing promised by Jesus.

Jesus speaks of conversion that leads to healing of hearts. Time has healing power of its own. Both physical wounds and emotional injuries heal under the influence of time. In 2024, I need to wait with patience and ask for the blessings of perseverance for the healing process to manifest its results. My Redeemer lives. I live on the hope of meeting Him.

Simon Cyrene

Whole Dude – Whole Friend

Whole Dude – Whole Friend: Special Frontier Force Remembers the 41st US President

**Whole Dude-Whole Fight: Shoulder Badge, Special Frontier Force**

Excerpt: Both the US Government and the Central Intelligence Agency maintain their silence about the support given to the Tibetan Resistance Movement and the eventual creation of Establishment -22/Special Frontier Force, a military alliance/pact between the US, Tibet, and India to fight the military threat posed by Communist China when it occupied Tibet in 1950 and forced His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to lead a life in exile. Indeed, that is the Whole Secret. The US, India and Tibet agreed to keep the US role in Tibet as a Secret and I signed a Declaration in Chakrata, India during September 1971 to keep the Tibet Operation as a Secret under the provisions of the Official Secret Acts of India.

**Whole Dude – Whole Friend: Special Frontier Force Remembers the 41st US President**

Special Frontier Force remembers the 41^st US President George Herbert Walker Bush for he served as the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency. In President Gerald Ford’s final year in office, Bush was appointed Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, which was in disarray after years of scandalous revelations. Though he was only there a year, he was credited for restoring the agency’s morale, and he was well thought of by longtime hands. The main building at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va., was renamed in his honor in 1999.

Special Frontier Force deeply mourns the loss of President George H W Bush while acknowledging the role of the US Central Intelligence Agency in fostering friendly relationships between the people of the US, India, and Tibet.

Special Frontier Force at the White House

CIA Remembers Former Director, Former President George H.W. Bush

Statement by Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina C. Haspel

“We’ve lost a great champion of the Agency—an accomplished Director, faithful advocate, and dear friend—with the passing of former President George H.W. Bush. As a heroic Navy pilot in the Second World War, a skilled statesman who deftly managed the collapse of the Soviet Union and liberated Kuwait from Saddam Husayn’s aggression, and a committed citizen who remained engaged in public service throughout his later years, President Bush exemplified the virtues of patriotism, duty, and compassion. Officers here at the George Bush Center for Intelligence and deployed around the globe honor the memory of a great American. On behalf of the men and women of CIA, I extend our heartfelt condolences to the Bush family.”

A STATESMAN REMEMBERED

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George Herbert Walker Bush, whose lone term as the 41st president of the United States ushered in the final days of the Cold War and perpetuated a family political dynasty that influenced American politics at both the national and state levels for decades, died Friday evening. He was 94.

© AFP, AFP/Getty Images George H.W. Bush is pictured when he was one and a half year old. Born 12 June 1924 in Milton, Massachussetts, George Bush yale graduated with a degree in Economics in 1948, made a fortune drilling oil before entering politics in 1964. (FILM) (Photo credit should read /AFP/Getty Images)

Bush was the last president to have served in the military during World War II and the last whose worldview had been shaped by the imperative to contain Communist expansionism.

His experience in international diplomacy served him well as he dealt with the unraveling of the Soviet Union as an oppressive superpower, and later the rise of China as a commercial behemoth and potential partner.

As cautious and restrained as he was in foreign matters, Bush had an inclination for personal risk-taking that showed up early in his life, when he became a carrier pilot in the war — one of the most dangerous jobs in the military — and then stuck out on his own at war’s end, eschewing a comfortable job in New York to become an oilman in Texas.

Likewise, when his interest turned to politics a decade or so later, he was more than willing to give up his executive suite for a chance at public office.

Steeped in noblesse oblige and the importance of public service, Bush always felt the lure of political life. It finally snared him in 1962 when he was chosen to head Houston’s fledgling GOP. He spent the next three decades in the political limelight, enjoying a roller-coaster career that saw more defeats than victories yet improbably landed him in the White House.

© AP George H. W. Bush poses in his baseball uniform as a student at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Bush was the first baseman on the Yale team that lost to California in the first College World Series in Kalamazoo, Mich. in 1947.

Bush was elected president in 1988 as the successor to Ronald Reagan, a conservative icon whom he ran against and then served as vice president. Unlike Reagan, he was a pragmatic leader guided by moderation, consensus building, and a sense for problem-solving shorn of partisan rhetoric. Like his father, who served in the U.S. Senate, he swore no allegiance to orthodox tenets. That put him at odds with a take-no-prisoners attitude of a new breed of Republicans and helped do in his reelection bid, sending him home to Houston in forced retirement.

© Tom Harvey, Admiral Nimitz Museum One of a series of photos from the George Bush Gallery at the Admiral Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg Texas. Photo shows a young George Bush in the cockpit writing in his logbook during WWII. Former President Bush during his World War II days. For use with FLYBOYS story to run 10-18 in Houston section.

Most of Bush’s political career was spent in appointed jobs, where he demonstrated loyalty and a quick-study competence, rarely making headlines. Expectations were modest when he became president. Many in his party hoped he would simply follow in Reagan’s footsteps. Instead, he quickly distinguished himself as the postwar order began to undergo dramatic changes.

Bush was put to the test shortly after taking office. Surging movements in Eastern Europe saw opportunity to free themselves from the Soviet yoke, thanks in part to the liberalizing influence of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Bush’s measured response allowed events to unfold, including the destruction of the Berlin Wall, without triggering potentially catastrophic responses from Soviet hard-liners.

Bush again displayed his diplomatic skills in the summer of 1990 when he coordinated a multinational response to the military invasion of tiny Middle East nation Kuwait by neighboring Iraq and its dictator, Saddam Hussein. The victorious Operation Desert Storm brought high approval ratings that appeared to guarantee a second term.

© Joel Draut, Houston Chronicle 05/06/1979 – George Bush, candidate for the Republican nomination for president, addresses supporters at rally in Sam Houston Park at the start of his Texas campaign tour. Joel Draut / Houston Post

Domestic matters proved a different sort of challenge. Plagued by inherited budget deficits and a Congress under the control of Democrats, Bush was pushed into a tax increase that belied his explicit promise to allow none. He agreed to it because he recognized it was in the country’s best interest, but the political damage was severe. His reelection bid fell short, a failing that haunted him for years. Uncharacteristically, it even caused him to wonder whether history would regard him as a failed president.

© Anonymous, ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential hopefuls Ronald Reagan, left, John Anderson, Howard Baker, Robert Dole Philip Crane who all showed up for a debate that was to be between Ronald Reagan and George Bush Saturday night, February 23, 1980, at Nashua Senior High School in Nashua, N.H.

It has not.

“I think over the years he fares well,” said presidential historian Henry Brands, the author of seven presidential biographies and a professor at the University of Texas. “If voters have a referendum and they vote you down, that automatically puts you down a rung. It’s unfair. Bush always was rated very highly by historians more than he was by the public. I think that is changing.”

© Anonymous, ASSOCIATED PRESS George Bush peeks around a partition which has a poster of Ronald Reagan, one of his opponents for the Republican party presidential nomination, before he speaks at Columbia, S.C., March 4, 1980.

Bush was born into privilege and reared in the cradle of America’s economic aristocracy, yet from an early age, he refused to ride the coattails of entitlement. Approaching his graduation from Yale University in 1948, he was offered a job at his family’s Wall Street investment firm, close to his native Connecticut. He turned it down. Whatever his destiny, he vowed that it would be fully earned.

© Bob Child, AP George Bush, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, watches as his grandson, George, 4, meets another child at “Bush for President” headquarters,in Hartford, Conn., March 24, 1980.

So began a remarkable journey that would lead him from the elegant estates of New England to the dusty plains of West Texas, to the leafy precincts of Houston’s nicest neighborhoods, to foreign capitals and back to America’s own, into political campaigns at the humblest level and one that ultimately netted him the White House.

© Bill Ingraham, AP Using Independence Hall as a backdrop, Republican presidential hopeful George Bush addresses supporters and newsmen April 9, 1980 in Philadelphia. Bush is seeking votes in the April 22 Pennsylvania primary.

Bush’s long life encompassed the full arc of the 20th century, beginning in an era of steamships and a new ideology called communism, and ending as American spaceships explored distant planets and the hammer-and-sickle was mostly a fading emblem on old flags. He was to be the last president of his generation, which came of age during the Great Depression, participated in a cataclysmic world war, and ushered in unprecedented American power and prosperity.

© Joe Kennedy, MBR On July 14, 1980, the Republican National Convention convened at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Former Gov. Ronald Reagan of California was nominated for president and former congressman George H.W. Bush of Texas for vice president. (Joe Kennedy/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Turning away from the preordained comfortable life, Bush struck out for Texas and found success, first as an independent oilman and later as a young Congressman from Houston. The misfortune of bad timing hurt him at times in his pursuit of higher office, yet a string of high-profile appointed positions reflected the faith others had in his ability and kept alive his dream of fulfilling his father’s prediction that someday he would become president.

© ASSOCIATED PRESS George Bush, foreground, raises his arms as a floor demonstration erupts before speaking to the Republican Convention delegates in Detroit, Mich., Wednesday evening, July 16, 1980. Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan later announced Bush as his running mate.

“The world was fortunate to have his background and instincts at a turning point,” said Robert Gates, who served as Bush’s CIA director and deputy national security adviser. “The collapse and end of the Cold War look sort of pre-ordained in hindsight, but for those who were there, it was not clear how it would happen.”

© ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican vice presidential candidate George Bush reacts to applause from the assembled Republican delegates at the Republican National Convention at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Mich., Thursday evening, July 17, 1980. Bush was selected by Ronald Reagan as his running mate on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Gates, who served in eight presidential administrations, suggested that Bush never received the credit he deserved for quietly “greasing the skids” that saw communists slide from power in the Soviet Union.

© David Breslauer, Houston Chronicle PHOTO FILED: GEORGE HW BUSH-GROUP. 07/19/1980 – George Bush, left, returned in triumph to greet his neighbors near his southwest Houston home Saturday after being tapped by Ronald Reagan for the GOP vice presidential nomination. He took time off from having breakfast at his home with Reagan and a joint appearance at a Galleria rally to shake hands with neighbors Walter and Lois Taber and their children, Keith and Tom. David Breslauer / Houston Chronicle

“There is no precedent in all of history for the collapse of a heavily armed empire without a major war,” Gates said. “He was a figure of enormous historical importance.”

© Curtis McGee, Houston Chronicle PHOTO FILED: RONALD REAGAN-HOUSTON VISIT. 07/19/1980 – The GOP nominees – George Bush and Ronald Reagan and their wives, Barbara and Nancy – make their first post-convention appearance at the Houston Galleria shopping mall. (l-r): GOP VP Nominee George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, GOP Pres. nominee Ronald Reagan. Curtis McGee / Houston Chronicle HOUCHRON CAPTION (07/20/1980): It was hand-waving and cowboy hats Saturday at the Galleria as the Republican Party nominees made their first post-convention campaign appearance. Ronald Reagan, the GOP standard-bearer, and George Bush of Houston, his running mate, spoke to several thousand at the shopping center. Responding to cheers are, from left, Bush, wife Barbara, Nancy Reagan and Reagan.

Though Bush came to be widely respected by foreign leaders and diplomats, his political profile at home was different. He had long been dogged by assertions that he was a bland and hazy character, aloof and dilettantish. The image baffled him and many who knew him. He was chided for a lack of apparent vision, yet it was not his nature to view himself as a visionary.

© David Breslauer, Houston Chronicle PHOTO FILED: RONALD REAGAN-HOUSTON VISIT. 07/19/1980 – Vice presidential nominee George Bush, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan and GOP presidential nominee Ronald Reagan. The GOP nominees make their first post-convention appearance at the Houston Galleria shopping mall. David Breslauer / Houston Chronicle

“What’s wrong with trying to help people,” he once asked. “What’s wrong with trying to bring peace? What’s wrong with trying to make the world a little better?”

To some, Bush paled in comparison to his strong-willed predecessor in the White House, but he was simply a different breed of politician: a traditional Republican whose belief in limited government was in no way at odds with his view that public service was a calling.

© Jerry Click, Houston Chronicle 11/04/1980 – (L-R) Barbara Bush leads her mother-in-law, Dorothy Walker Bush, and husband, GOP Vice Presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush. through a hallway at the Houston Oaks Hotel in Houston. The Bushes gathered with familly and supporters at the hotel to await the 1980 presidential election results. By the end of the evening family and supporters celebrated his election as the next Vice President of the United States. Jerry Click / Houston Post

Reagan’s famous maxim that government was not the solution to a problem but the problem itself was not Bush’s view, which might explain why his single term arguably resulted in more significant legislative achievements than Reagan’s two, among them the Americans with Disabilities Act, a bolstered Clean Air Act, and an increased minimum wage.

© Bill Thompson, Houston Chronicle 11/04/1980 – (L-R) Barbara Bush and husband, George Herbert Walker Bush, celebrate his election as the next Vice President of the United States at the Houston Oaks Hotel in Houston. The Bushes gathered with familly and supporters at the hotel to await the 1980 presidential election results. Bill Thompson / Houston Post HPOST CAPTION (11/05/1980): Bush, wife Barbara celebrate victory at Houston Oaks Hotel

Bush’s career from start to finish, especially as president, was largely free of scandal or great controversy, with one troubling exception — his role as vice president in the Iran-Contra scandal.

© Hearst Newspapers **FILE** U.S. President-elect Ronald Reagan, left, and Vice President-elect George Bush share a laugh during their first news conference in which they announced their transitional team in Los Angeles, Ca., in this Nov. 6, 1980 file photo. Reagan, the cheerful crusader who devoted his presidency to winning the Cold War, trying to scale back government and making people believe it was “morning again in America,” died Saturday, June 5, 2004 after a long twilight struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was93. (AP Photo, file) (AP)

His ethical standards rarely were questioned. His judgment was the product of studied deliberation and ample give-and-take with advisers. He regularly entertained Democratic leaders at the White House and made a great effort to develop personal relationships over drinks and a game of horseshoes, just as he had in the diplomatic world over many years.

© Betty Tichich, Houston Chronicle 11/10/1980 – Vice-President elect George Bush holds a press conference in Houston before leaving for Washington, DC where he will meet with President-elect Ronald Reagan and begin work on the transition. Betty Tichich / Houston Post

“President Bush was inclined to forgive and forget past slights, defeats, and even outrages,” said longtime aide Chase Untermeyer. “Thus did he offer rides to Maine for Senator George Mitchell, make the daughter of Senator Sam Nunn the head of the Points of Light Foundation, and — to clinch the case — become buddies with Bill Clinton.”

© John Everett, Houston Chronicle PHOTO FILED: GEORGE HW BUSH-GROUP. 11/10/1980 – Vice president-elect George Bush wearing a “Luv ya Blue” vest, enjoys a laugh with NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle during Monday night football game between Houston and New England in the Astrodome.

Bush was by nature a practical manager. He believed his job was to get something done, taking incremental steps when big ones were unobtainable. He had no use for those who would sacrifice progress on the altar of philosophical purity, nor did he regard opponents as enemies.

He was defeated in an unusual three-way contest with Democrat Clinton and Texas billionaire Ross Perot — a sour coda to a stellar career. Though he had been ambivalent about even running for reelection, the loss would gnaw on him. He believed that he left the job he signed up for unfinished.

Even years later, Bush recalled the sick feeling he carried inside for having let down the people who believed in him.

“That was the sad part for me,” he told an interviewer, “and I felt very strongly about that. I still do.”

© DC, ASSOCIATED PRESS President Ronald Reagan, left, and Vice President George H. Bush don western-style straw hats presented to them by two cheerleaders at an outdoor political rally on Wednesday, July 25, 1984 in Austin, Texas. Houston Oilers? cheerleader Cathy Ludwig, with Reagan, and University of Texas? cheerleader Leslie Scott, with Bush, made the presentation. (AP Photo)

Bush was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Mass., to Prescott and Dorothy Bush, the second of five children, four of them boys. His was an idyllic childhood spent among the nation’s economically privileged, with numerous trips to family estates in Maine and South Carolina.

© Barry Thumma, STF President Reagan and Vice President Bush make an appearance on the North Portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sunday, Jan. 20, 1985 after the President was sworn in for his second term. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

Although the hardships of the Great Depression did not severely affect the Bushes, his parents tried to stress that good fortune should not be taken for granted, insisting on modesty at all times, along with concern for those going through hard times. Work mattered. Life, they insisted, was no country club affair.

© Neal Ulevich, ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Vice President George Bush, accompanied by Chinese Vice Premier Wan Li, reviews a Chinese armed forces honor guard during a ceremony to welcome him to Peking October 13, 1985.

Bush attended Phillips Academy, a famous boarding school in Andover, Mass., where he excelled academically and athletically. He was a favorite of his classmates, often chosen to captain the teams he was on and known to call out bullies who bedeviled the less popular students.

As he grew to adulthood, he slowly soaked up the history of generations of Walkers and Bushes and began to understand the expectations for those of his class and background — a demand for service to the public good largely divorced from personal gain. It made a deep impression on him.

© MARY URECH ROBERTS, Houston Chronicle 10/12/1987 – Vice President George HW Bush officially launched his 1988 presidential campaign in the main ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The announcement party moved from the ballroom to the hotel’s massive lobby where the elevators were decorated with lights spelling out “Bush 88.” Mary Urech Roberts / Houston Chronicle

“Bush was a figure of an older, fading order of American power,” wrote Bush biographer Jon Meacham in “Dynasty and Power,” a 2015 authorized biography. “When his family and … friends looked at him, they saw a man who could have spent his life making and spending money, but who had chosen to obey the biblical injunction, drilled into him by his parents, that to whom much is given much is expected.”

© Scott Applewhite, ASSOCIATED PRESS Vice President George H.W. Bush sits with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, prior to a breakfast at the Soviet Embassy in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 10, 1987. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bush’s first great test came as his days at Andover were ending, graduating in the face of a world succumbing to a widening war. He might have been able to use connections for a service academy appointment or a plum job that did not place him in harm’s way. Like many of his friends and others of his class, including Joseph and John Kennedy, he chose the opposite path.

Bush enlisted in the U.S. Navy upon finishing high school in 1942 and hoped to become a pilot. He earned his wings and was commissioned an ensign before his 19th birthday. His wartime duty was spent in the Pacific flying a three-man Avenger torpedo bomber.

© Bruce Bennett, Houston Chronicle 03/08/1988 – Celebrating his Super Tuesday election night victory, Vice President George Bush holds up a “Bush ’88, Texas Victory” t-shirt at the Westin Oaks Hotel ballroom in Houston. The shirt was presented to him by GOP state co-chair, Tom Loeffler. His wife, Barbara, stands beside him. Bruce Bennett / Houston Post

Bush piloted 58 combat missions from the carrier USS San Jacinto, but one stood out. During a Sept. 2, 1944, attack on Japanese positions on Chichi-Jima, one of the Bonin Islands, his Avenger was badly hit by flak. He was able to complete the bombing run but ordered the other two crewmen to “hit the silk” as the plane headed toward the water. He did likewise and was able to haul himself into a life raft after popping up from the sea, dazed and out of breath. His crew mates were never found.

© Craig Hartley, Houston Chronicle 06/09/1988 – Vice President George Bush waves to delegates attending the Texas Republican Party convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Behind him are his wife, Barbara Bush, and Texas GOP Chairman George Strake. Craig Hartley / Houston Post

Bush was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, yet never considered himself a war hero despite the efforts of later political advertising. “They wrote it up as heroism,” Bush said late in his life of the paperwork leading to the decoration, “but it wasn’t — it was just doing your job.”

In January 1945, while on leave, Bush wed his pre-war fiancee, Barbara Pierce. The two had met at a dance when he was at Phillips and she at a tony boarding school in South Carolina. Her family, like his, came from old money, and among her ancestors were early New England settlers. A distant relative, Franklin Pierce, was the 14th American president.

© Ira Strickstein, Houston Chronicle 09/22/1988 – Pres. Ronald Reagan and Vice Pres. George Bush at the Brown Convention Center at Republican Victory ’88 fund-raiser for Bush’s campaign for US presidency. Ira Strickstein / Houston Post

After the war, Bush and his new wife moved to New Haven, Conn., where he would begin his college education at Yale, the alma mater of his father and four other relatives.

© Eric Gay, ASSOCIATED PRESS Vice President George Bush tosses a football back to members of the traveling press corps after arriving in Houston on Monday, Nov. 7, 1988. Bush, in the last full day of campaigning, returned to Houston where he will vote on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

He graduated in under three years because of an accelerated program offered to veterans eager to make up for lost time. He again excelled at sports and captained the baseball team, for which he played first base. He was just as adept in the classroom, gaining Phi Beta Kappa distinction and an economics degree. Yet, as he acknowledged, what should have been idyllic college years had been altered by the war. The class of 1948 were serious men intent on getting out and getting going.

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As graduation approached, Bush balked at an offer to join a prominent investment bank started by his maternal grandfather. To a friend he wrote that it bothered him to take advantage of “the benefits of my social position.”

© Ed Kolenovsky, ASSOCIATED PRESS Vice President George Bush and wife, Barbara, wave to supporters that turned out in Houston, Tex., to hear him announce he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, Oct. 12, 1987.

A close family friend encouraged him to think of the oil business, which would take him to Texas. Oil drilling was as foreign to him as tightrope walking or fashion design, but it appealed to his taste for risk and held the promise of great wealth.

In the summer of 1948, Bush loaded up his new Studebaker, a graduation gift, and pointed it southwest, ending up in Odessa several days later. Barbara and their new baby, George, flew down after he had found lodging in a weathered duplex, their first Texas home. Their new life began. The family friend had provided an entry-level sales position with an oilfield tool company, the bottom rung on the ladder. It should be noted this was no ordinary friend — Neil Mallon was the head of Dresser Industries, a leading oilfield equipment company.

© Carlos Rosales, Houston Chronicle Vice President George Bush, right, and Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle wave to the crowd after Bush announced Quayle would be his running mate following a riverboat cruise in New Orleans on Aug. 16, 1988.

By 1950, he, Barbara, and their two young children were living in Midland, where he had formed an oil company with a neighbor, John Overbey. Financial backing came from Bush’s father and some of his father’s friends and business contacts.

With no geologic or engineering background, Bush learned the business from the ground up, “walking fields, talking to people, and trying to make deals,” Overbey later recalled in an interview. Three years later, he and Overbey joined up with two brothers, Hugh and William Liedtke, to form Zapata Petroleum. An offshore subsidiary was formed a year later.

© Ira Strickstein, Houston Chronicle 08/27/1988 – Republican presidential candidate George Bush shows his Texas stripes, displaying a pair of cowboy boots emblazoned with the state flag during a Republican Victory 88 meeting at Houston’s Stouffer’s Hotel Saturday, Aug. 27, 1988.

Zapata raised more money and gambled on an interest in a field in Coke County that skeptics claimed was played out. One of the brothers, Bill Liedtke, said years later that the young company drilled 130 wells and never had a dry hole. As for politics, there wasn’t much time for it, though Bush did later mention his modest role as a Republican precinct worker. In one particular primary, he later recalled, perhaps apocryphally, only three GOP voters showed up: him, his wife, and a drunken Democrat who wandered into the wrong polling station.

© Richard Carson, © Houston Chronicle Photographer Richard J. Carson recorded the historical significance of Bush’s acceptance speech and the lighter side of the event 11/08/1988 when Barbara Bush puts her hand over her granddaughter’s yawn as George Bush gives a speech.

Bush enjoyed his time in Midland, learning a business, tending to a growing family and making friends who would prove important later. The closeness of the city’s business community was evident when the Bush family’s life was interrupted by tragedy. The second of the children, daughter Robin, was diagnosed with leukemia in 1953, before the disease became largely curable.

© AP ** FILE ** In this Nov. 9, 1988, President-elect George H. W. Bush holds his hands up to acknowledge the crowds applause, and ask them to allow him to continue his speech during his victory rally with grandson, George P. Bush, right, and son, George W. Bush, left, in Houston, Texas. Bush trounced Michael Dukakis 426-111 in the electoral vote, but the popular vote was closer, 53 percent to 46 percent.

His fledgling business career was all but put on hold for more than six months as he, Barbara and Robin made repeated trips to Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Barbara tried to approach their new circumstances with stoic resolve, to the point of booting visitors out of Robin’s hospital room if they cried. Her husband became increasingly emotional and often was the one who had to leave the room. Robin died later in 1953.

© King Chou Wong, Houston Chronicle 11/09/1988 – President-elect George Bush, his wife, Barbara, and his grandchildren, Jenna (left) and Barbara wave to well-wishers before they board a jet at Ellington Field the day after his election victory. At right can be seen a congratulatory sign prepared by the crew. King Chou Wong / Houston Post

“I hadn’t cried at all when Robin was alive, but after she died, I felt I could cry forever,” she recalled in a 1988 interview with Texas Monthly. “George had a much harder time when she was sick. He was just killing himself, while I was very strong. That’s the way a good marriage works. Had I cried a lot, he wouldn’t have. But then things reversed after she died. George seemed to accept it better.”

The Bushes lived in Midland for almost a decade. It was where he made his first real money — his own money — and where he established his image as a true, if transplanted, Texan, one who could down to a bowl of chili at lunch and a chicken-fried steak at dinner, snacking in between on pork rinds. Everyone in town knew George Bush — “Poppy,” his childhood nickname, had been jettisoned along with the Brooks Brothers suits — but isolated West Texas was not where he needed to be.

© J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Former President Ronald Reagan, left, his wife Nancy Reagan, new first lady Barbara Bush and her husband President George Bush, right, walk down the Capitol steps after the inaugural ceremony in Washington, D.C., Friday, Jan. 20, 1989. President Bush was sworn in as the nation’s 41st president. The Reagans are heading to an awaiting helicopter to take them to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and onto California. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A disagreement over the direction of the company led Bush to buy out the other investors in Zapata Offshore in 1959, and he soon moved the company to Houston.

During the early 1960s, Bush began to feel the political itch, or to be more precise, respond to an itch that had been there for years, and waded into a successful race for Harris County GOP Chairman to make sure it did not fall into the hands of perceived extremists in the party’s right wing, many of whom were members of the conspiracy-hawking John Birch Society.

© Hearst Newspapers Barbara Bush had a reputation as a grandmotherly figure when her husband took office in 1989, but she proved that grandmothers can be fashionable in this royal blue gown with velvet bodice, square neck and diagonal dropped waist designed by Arnold Scaasi.

Perhaps because his father had just left the U.S. Senate, Bush then brashly decided to take on incumbent U.S. Sen. Ralph Yarborough in 1964.

Though little known outside of Houston and Midland, Bush campaigned vigorously as a different sort of Republican, less in step with the northeastern wing of his father and closer to the politics of Barry Goldwater and George Wallace. He went full-tilt conservative, opposing, among other socially progressive initiatives, the pending Civil Rights Act.

Yarborough portrayed Bush as an extremist and won easily, gaining 56 percent of the vote as Lyndon Johnson swamped Goldwater in the presidential race.

© Barry Thumma, ASSOCIATED PRESS President George H.W. Bush turns and shakes hand with House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas after he announced in the White House briefing room in Washington, on Friday, March 24, 1989 that he is unveiling a Bipartisan Contra aid plan as the first plank of his emerging foreign policy. Center is Secretary of State James Baker and left is House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Ill.

After his defeat, Bush struggled to reconcile his moderate views with an election that had seen him embrace, however tentatively, an anti-progressive tone and a segregationist posture.

“This mean, humorless philosophy which says everybody should agree on absolutely everything is not good for the Republican Party or our state,” Bush wrote to a friend after the loss. “When the word moderate becomes a dirty word, we have some soul-searching to do.”

© Barry Thumma, AP President George H.W. Bush lets loose of a horseshoe during the dedication of the new horseshoe pit on the White House lawn Saturday April 1, 1989 in Washington. Other people are unidentified.

In November 1966, Bush ran for Congress and won, becoming the first Republican from Houston and the star of the growing Texas GOP. He ended up with a plum appointment to the Ways and Means committee — a party nod to the importance of Texas. His voting record was predictably conservative, though not as hard right as his previous rhetoric suggested, and he ended up voting for the Civil Rights Act, as a result receiving stacks of hate mail and some death threats.

Mike Tolson is a senior Chronicle reporter who specializes in long-term projects. He can be reached by e-mail at Mike.Tolson@chron.com.