Chinese media reports say U.S. Internet giant Google will close its business in China after complaints of censorship and cyber-attacks. The reports say the announcement could come as early as next week, although Google is refusing all comment.

The U.S. Defense Department says it is reviewing media reports that a Pentagon official hired private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to track and kill suspected insurgents. The CIA and the military regularly conduct secret intelligence operations, but it is generally considered illegal for the military to use private contractors as covert spies.

Om. Manas is said to be of two kinds, the pure and the impure. That which is associated with the thought of desire is the impure, while that which is without desire is the pure. To men, their mind alone is the cause of bondage or emancipation.

It is only He who, deluded by Maya, assumes a body with the internal organs and does everything. It is only He who in the waking state is gratified with women, food, drink, and other diverse enjoyments. In the dreaming state, the Jiva enjoys pleasures and pains in the several worlds which are created by His Maya.

Through attaining Atma, one gets liberation. Just as fire without fuel is absorbed into its own womb, so Chiṭṭa through the destruction of its modifications is absorbed into its own womb. To a mind that has attained quiescence and truth, and which is not affected by sense-objects, the events that occur to it through the bondage of Karma are merely unreal.