Ānanda was one of the principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha. Amongst the Buddha's many disciples, Ānanda had the most retentive memory and most of the suttas in the Sutta Pitaka are attributed to his recollection of the Buddha's teachings during the First Buddhist Council. For that, he was known as the Guardian of the Dharma.
According to the Buddha every Buddha in the past and to come will have two chief disciples and one attendant during his ministry. In the case of Gautama Buddha the pair of disciples were Sariputta and Mahamoggallana and the attendant Ānanda.
The word 'Ānanda' means 'bliss' in Pali, Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages. It is a popular Buddhist and Hindu name, but popular also among Muslims in Indonesia.
In the Kannakatthala Sutta (MN 90), Ananda is identified with the meaning of his name:
Ānanda was the first cousin of the Buddha by their fathers, and was devoted to him. In the twentieth year of the Buddha's ministry, he became the Buddha's personal attendant, accompanying him on most of his wanderings and taking the part of interlocutor in many of the recorded dialogues. He is the subject of a special panegyric delivered by the Buddha just before the Buddha's Parinibbana (the Mahaparinibbana Sutta (DN 16)); it is a panegyric for a man who is kindly, unselfish, popular, and thoughtful toward others.
Sri Anandamayi Ma (Bengali: শ্রী আনন্দময়ী মা Sri Anondomoyi Ma; 30 April 1896 - 27 August 1982) was a spiritual personality from East Bengal. Swami Sivananda (Divine Life Society) described her as "the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced."Precognition, healing and other miracles were attributed to her by her followers.Paramhansa Yogananda translates Anandamayi as "joy-permeated". This name was given to her by her devotees in the 1920s to describe what they saw as her habitual state of divine joy and bliss.
Anandamayi Ma was born Nirmala Sundari (নির্মলা সুন্দরী; Nirmôla Shundori, English: "Immaculate, Beautiful") on 30 April 1896 to Bipinbihari Bhattacharya and Mokshada Sundari Devi in Kheora, Brahmanbaria District, British India, in what is now Bangladesh. Her father, originally from Vidyakut in Tripura, was a Vaishnavite singer known for his devotion. He had a detached persona. They lived in poverty, and lost many children in their infancy. Nirmala attended the village school for approximately two years. Although her teachers were pleased with her ability, her family thought she was dullminded because of her indifference and constantly happy demeanor. When her mother once fell seriously ill, relatives remarked with puzzlement about the child remaining apparently unaffected.
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The film is about Joy, Deb and Ananda. While Joy is a struggling actor and conducts workshops, Ananda works in an I.T. company and Deb is an actor. Joy's wife who is a fashion photographer runs the entire show as Joy hardly earns any money, Ananda's wife is a housewife and Deb is forever willing to sleep around with whoever catches his eye (in fact a new girl every day). However barring Deb, the rest of the couples don't share any intimacy at all.
Keywords: acting, audition, bed, call-girl, desperate-housewife, domestic-fight, infidelity, kolkata, print-media, smoking
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Based on the story of Aniruddha Kale, 'Mohaan Aawatey' is also being produced by Aniruddha, who also provides music of this film. The screenplay and direction is by Subhash Kale. The film stars Sanjay Narvekar, who plays the title role of Mohaan Aawatey
True Man True Story
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A story of a young photo journalist's brief encounter with a girl who has made a 'Basavi'(Devdasi) at the altar of the village Deity to save people who were hit by a devastating epidemic. Ananda the protagonist specializes in photographing ancient monuments and writing about various rituals and customs that have gone unquestioned. During one of his sojourns in some remote area in Karnataka he comes across the strange case of a village girl 'Chenni', daughter of the village Patel and gets obsessed by her very unusual life. In Trying to explore more information about her he discovers that she is a victim of blind faith and the story unfolds an unfortunate turn of events, only to change their lives forever.
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This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore. Darezhan Omirbayev's ABOUT LOVE (38 min) is a bitter love story based on Anton Chekhov's novel, in which a lonely math teacher falls in love with her married university classmate. Pen-ek Ratanaruang's TWELVE TWENTY (30 min) depicts the encounters of a man and a woman on a long haul flight, where they spend the next twelve hours and twenty minutes reading, drinking, eating and watching movies and sleeping by each other's side, as if they are a married couple.
Keywords: digit-in-title, number-in-title, year-in-title
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Date Number One tells 5 stories that are centered around several first dates: Story 1: Just Another Ninja Searching For Love - about a ninja who goes on a blind date, Story 2: A Romantic Dinner For 3 - about a woman who wants to starts a 3 person romantic relationship, Story 3: Washington "City Of Love" DC/Start Over - about a writer attempting to start over with an ex-girlfriend, Story 4: Air Quotes Woman - about a woman who uses air quotes all the time, Story 5: The Superdelicious French Lesson - about a character learning a new language in an unusual way.
Keywords: digital-video, independent-film, low-budget-film, number-in-title
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Sudha is happy with Satish her second husband and she has young daughter, Manu from this marriage. Sudha's son from the first marriage, 'Ananda' is staying with his now newlywed father in Nagpur. He is 12 years old and lives with his grandmother, elder uncle and aunt. He has a blurred memory of his real mother while Sudha also shares same sorrow as she had to stay away from her own son for eight years. 'Ananda' wants to meet his mother, and he skilfully manages to get his mother's address from his favorite Pama aunt. He sends a very emotional letter to his mother who after reading it, now desperately wants to meet her own son who's missing her. But society is not going to look at this meeting as an easy and straight task. The two have to tackle their emotional dilemmas, family crisis and obstacles, to accomplish their only wish of seeing each other.
Rompo el silencio
Para decírtelo
Pero siempre es No y No
¿Por qué eres siempre así?
Uno, dos, tres
Decídete ya
Y dilo, que tú me quieres
Estamos listos
Lo admito
Yo te puedo ver
Me puedes esconder
Cada vez más
Cerca y cerca y cerca
Rompo el silencio
Para decírtelo
Pero siempre es No y No
¿Por qué eres siempre así?
Detalles, inciertos
Dime si no. estás listo
Riesgo... bendición
Siempre tendrás mi corazón
Yo te puedo ver
Me puedes esconder
Cada vez más
Lejos y lejos y lejos
Rompo el silencio
Para decírtelo
Pero siempre es No y No
¿Por qué eres siempre así?
No puede ser
No no no
Yo sé muy bien
Que quieres más
Ya no soporto este silencio
Que me queda si tu te vas
Rompo el silencio
Para decírtelo
Pero siempre es No y No
¿Por qué eres siempre así?
Zu aufeinander
hin zueinander
nebeneinander
ganz nah beieinander
stehn nebenander
in die Augen sehen voneinander
schön miteinander
Gefühl für einander
Liebe hat die Macht, dir die Macht zu verleihn
machtlos zu sein
Liebe hat die Macht, dir die Macht zu verleihn
Verliebt ineinander
Spaß miteinander
übereinander
[Sex]
untereinander
gut zueinander
vertrauen einander
alles tun miteinander
zu eng aufeinander
Liebe hat die Macht, dir die Macht zu verleihn
machtlos zu sein
Liebe hat die Macht, dir die Macht zu verleihn
Macht zu verleihn
Streit miteinander
[Weib, was ficht dich an?!]
nich verstehen einander
nich mehr sehen einander
Wut aufeinander
[Jetzt geht's aber gleich los oder was?!]
beschimpfen einander
betrügen einander
weg voneinander
Schluss miteinander
Liebe hat die Macht, dir die Macht zu verleihn
machtlos zu sein
Liebe hat die Macht, dir die Macht zu verleihn
Macht zu verleihn
Wenn die Liebe kommt
und wenn die Liebe geht
kommt immer mal zu früh
und manchmal zu spät
und wenn die Liebe da is
merkt man, dasse wunderbar is
Wenn, wenn die Liebe kommt
Liebe hat die Macht, dir die Macht zu verleihn
machtlos zu sein
Liebe hat die Macht, dir die Macht zu verleihn
Macht zu verleihn