Points to ponder!

[Visalakshi Ramani]

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The wearer will soon find out
where the new shoe pinches him!

Lack of imagination has to be
filled up by actual experiences!

Experience runs a tough school.
But fools will learn nowhere else!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Vultures celebrate the death of any animal

and feed on its flesh and carrion!

Why would any animal shed tears

on the death of a vulture?

Unless it happens to be the great Jataayu-

who fought valiantly tooth and claw-

to save Sita from the wicked clutches of Ravana-

and gave up his life in trying to uphold his Dharma?

He had earned the tears shed by Sri Rama

by his goodness and his selfless act of valor.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Some honest doubts!

1. Was not EVERY member a "Johnny come lately"
when he/ she joined the Forum?

I am sure no was born and brought up here!

2. How can Mr. praveen not know the i.d of the person who sent him P.M.

unless the person had multiple i.d s and was playing like a trapeze artist between them?

3. I had a group 'male cry babies' descend on me once, as a gang, with the help of the owner and the moderator of the forum!

So the 'cry baby' who complained need not a woman. It could also have been a man!

4. "Mutual Admiration Society"
(itself a borrowed feather) is be far harmless
and more acceptable than the
"Mutual Pact of Protection"
signed in blood(?)

5. Where is the need for a four member forum?
A mail i.d will be more than sufficient to exchange
the valuable knowledge.

6. Nobody leaves a void anywhere. Nature sees to that it is filled as soon as and as best as is possible!

7. Isn't strange to hear the people who
(think it is their birth right to )
brand others and call them names
speak about refraining from name calling?

Wonders never cease for one who starts to ponder!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Why were some people conspicuous by their

absence in the highly charged scene yesterday? :bolt:

Just watching the tamaashaa from a SAFE distance :couch2:

or due to the dilemma like the one Karna felt

Dharma :decision: Loyalty

before the start of the great Mahabharata war??:noidea:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

To 'Cut the Gordian knot!'

Phrygians were without a king at one time. Next man to enter the city driving an ox cart should become their king - as predicted by an oracle!

Gordias a peasant farmer drove into town on an ox-cart. He was declared by the priests as their new king.

In gratitude, Midas his son dedicated the ox-cart to the God Zeus and tied it with an intricate knot.

When Alexander arrived, Phrygia had been reduced to a province of the Persian Empire.

Several themes of myth converged on the chariot

Midas was connected in legend with Alexander's native Macedonia, where the lowland 'Gardens of Midas" still bore his name.

The Phrygian tribes were rightly remembered as having once dwelt in Macedonia.

So, in 333 BC, while wintering at Gordium, Alexander the Great attempted to untie the knot. When he could not find the end to the knot to unbind it, he sliced it in half with a stroke of his sword, producing the required ends

This is the famous "Alexandrian solution"... Solving a difficult problem with one bold step.

That night there was a violent thunderstorm. Alexander's prophet took this as a sign that would grant Alexander many victories.

Once Alexander had sliced the knot with a sword-stroke, his biographers claimed in retrospect that an oracle further prophesied that the one to untie the knot would become the king of Asia.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Like Lord Dakshinaamoorthy, the Forum conveys many

things by its silence much more eloquently than its words!

Now we know who are the real "cry babies!"

Now we know who keeps bombarding the owner and

promotor with P.M s!

Now we know who will hide not only under the saree pallu

but also under dhothis if necessary?

Great revelation and greater victory for the .... .. ......!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

However certain our expectation
The moment foreseen may be unexpected
When it arrives. :fear:


Human kind cannot bear very much reality.


The last temptation is the greatest treason::nono:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.eace:

Quotes by T.S.Eliot.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

அஷ்ட வக்கிரன்.



வேத விற்பன்னரான உத்தாலகரிடம்
வேதம் பயின்ற ஒரு சீடர் கஹோளர்;
நியம நிஷ்டைகளில் சிறந்த போதிலும்,
திறமை குறைந்தவர் வேதப் பயிற்சியில்.

சீலம், பக்தி, நற்குணம் பெற்றிருந்ததால்,
சீலவதி குருவின் மகளையே மணந்தார்.
வேத பாடத்தின்போது அருகே அமர்வாள்
மாதரில் சிறந்த குருவின் மகள் சுஜாதை.

கருவில் உருவான குழந்தையும் கூட,
கருவிலேயே வேதம் கேட்டுப் படித்தது;
தந்தையின் தவறுகளைக் கேட்டு வருந்தி,
விந்தையாய் எட்டுக் கோணல் அடைந்தது!

அஷ்ட வக்கிரன் என்று பெயர் பெற்றவன்,
கஷ்டமான வேத, வேதாந்தங்களைத் தன்
பாலப் பருவத்திலேயே நன்கு பயின்றதால்
பால சூரியனைப் போலவே திகழ்ந்தான்.

மிதிலையில் நிகழ்ந்த பெரிய யாகத்துக்கு
மிதப்புடன் சென்றவனைத் தடுத்தான்,
தோற்றத்தை மட்டும் கண்டு ஏமாந்த,
ஏற்றத்தை அறியாத அறிவிலி சேவகன்.

“வெளித் தோற்றம் அறிவுக்குப் பிரமாணமா?
வெளி வடிவம் பருத்து, உள்ளே பஞ்சு ஆனால்?
முதிர்ச்சி என்பது வெறும் வயதினால் அல்ல;
முதிர்ச்சி என்பது ஞானத்தாலேயே உண்டு.”

வாத நிபுணன் வந்தியைத் தன்னுடைய
வாதத்தால் வென்ற அஷ்டவக்கிரன், தன்
தந்தையை நீரில் மூழ்கடித்துக் கொன்ற அந்த
வந்திக்கும் அதே கதியை ஏற்படுத்தினான்.

தோற்றத்தைக் கண்டு ஒரு மனிதனின்
ஏற்றத்தை நாம் எடை போட வேண்டாம்.
தோற்றங்கள் நம்மை ஏமாற்றிவிடலாம்;
ஏற்றங்களை நாம் உணருதல் வேண்டும்.

வாழ்க வளமுடன்,
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

ASHTA VAKRAN.

This is the story of the GnAni ashtavakran.

His father was originally a disciple of his grand father who was a famous Guru. The guru married his lovely daughter SujAtA to his disciple – since he was a good man and excelled in the other duties assigned to him.

The father was not very proficient in the Vedas. Whenever he committed a mistake in Veda, the baby in the womb of his wife, would bend and get distorted.

So when the boy was born he had eight distortions in his body and was named as Astavakran.

He became proficient in Vedas and sAsthrAs at a very early age. He shone like a Sun God with his gnAnam and accomplishments.

He visited Janaka MahArAjA’s court with his friend.The dwarapAlakan refused entry to this distorted man. Ashtavakran told him that gnAnam of a person did not depend on the age or the appearance of the person.

He won over a proud pundit called Vandhi, in a war of debate. Vandhi had won over many other pundits earlier and caused them to be drowned in a river – when they failed in their debates.

Astavakra gave the same punishment to Vandhi and avenged his father’s untimely death caused by Vandhi.

 

[N.R.Ranganathan]

Madam,
Ashtavakra gita is a fine treatise on advaita vedanta. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
asked Vivekananda to read this again and again and Swami Vivekananda used to
keep it with him always. Chinmayananda has written a commentary on it.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Dear Mr. N.R.R,

I am sure than even a basic understanding of the principles of Ashta Vakra Gita will make us realize that Soul is DIFFERENT from the body.

The defects of the body DO NOT AFFECT the soul-which is always perfect Sat-Chit-Anandam.

But for that first of all we must agree that we HAVE a soul! Isn't it?

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

My father used to reflect on human behaviors
in an analytical way.

The G.M or M.D. of an organization-

who terrorizes his subordinates :whip:
will be as sweet as a lamb at home. :couch2:
He will let his wife rule him! :moony:

The peon who rides on rough waves during the

working hours will turn a terrorist at home-

taking out his vengeance on his wife. :ballchain:

So everybody wants rule others

and also be ruled by others.

Isn't this a funny trait is us?

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

வீட்டில் எலி:fear:......வெளியில் புலி!:whip:

வீட்டில் புலி:ballchain:....வெளியில் எலி!:scared:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

You should not interrupt my interruptions: :nono:
That is really worse than interrupting.:mmph:

Miss Nancy Eliot smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how hey felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern. :mod:

Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

இயற்கையே நம் குரு!



அகழ்வாரைத் தாங்கும் நில மடந்தையிடம்,
இகழ்வாரைத் தாங்கும் பொறுமை கற்போம்;

அனைத்தையும் புனிதமாக்கிய பின் தெளிந்து,
இனிக்கும் நீர் போல மாறிவிடக் கற்போம்.

பொருட்கள் அனைத்திலும் மறைந்து நிற்கும்,
நெருப்பைப் போன்றது ஆத்மா என்று அறிவோம்;

மாற்றம் அடையாமல் மணங்களைப் பரப்பும்,
காற்றிடம் கற்போம் பற்று அறுக்கும் தன்மையை.

நிர்மலமாக எங்கும் என்றும் நிறைந்திருக்கும்
மர்மம் என்ன என்று ஆகாசத்திடம் கற்போம்;

ஆழம் காண முடியாத கம்பீரத்தை அங்கு
ஆழ்ந்து விளங்கும் கடலிடம் கற்போம்.

நூறு குடங்களில் வேறு வேறாகத் தெரியும்
சூரியன் போன்றதே ஆத்மா, அறிந்திடுவோம்;

வளர்ந்து தேயும் சந்திர கலைகள் போன்றே
வளர்ந்து தேயும் மனித சரீரமும், அறிவோம்.

தன் உடலில் இருந்தே உற்பத்தி செய்து,
தன் உடலுள் வலையை மீண்டும் மறைக்கும்

சிலந்தியிடம் காண்போம் நம் இறைவனின்
சிருஷ்டி, பிரளய ரகசியங்களை எல்லாம்!

நினைக்கும் பொருளாக நாம் மாறுவதை,
தினமும் காணும் குளவியிடம் கற்போம்;

தினவு எடுத்து திரியாமல், கிடைத்தைத்
தின்பதை மலைப் பாம்பிடம் கற்போம்.

மலருக்கு மலர் தாவிச் சென்று பல
மலர்களின் தேனைச் சேர்த்து வைத்து,

தேனாலேயே அழியும் தேனீ கற்பிப்பது
தேவைக்கு மீறின செல்வத்தின் ஆபத்து.

கண்களால் நன்கு காணும் திறனையும்,
காதுகளால் நன்கு கேட்கும் திறனையும்

அழகாய் வளர்த்தால், நமக்கு இறைவனும்
அழகிய இயற்கையும் குருவாகவே ஆவர்!

வாழ்க வளமுடன்,
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

"Worthy of HIM I should become,
The lovely God the size of a thumb;
Who hides in our hearts playfully,
The safest hide-out universally!

Let my mind vanish completely,
Like the misty vapors in Sunshine.
Let HIM guide my hand willingly,
He who makes the stars shine!

Let me be an instrument in His hands,
And just a bundle of aches and pains;
May I see only what HE wants me to see,
May I do only what HE wants me to do.

May I speak only what HE wants me to say,
May I hear only what HE wants me to hear;
Nay, nay, it is time to drop the “I” and “mine”,
And be controlled by the Power Divine!"

This is a part of my poem "A prayer". ray:

Thinking back I realize that I have become an

instrument in the hands of some people in addition to

God or were they the authorized representatives of

God Himself ? :noidea:

 

[N.R.Ranganathan]

Dear Madam,

Please see srimad Bhagavatham. Sri Dattatreya had 24 gurus. If I start narrating
it will run into several pages . Animals, trees, creepers, why almost everything
is regarded as Guru. A good lesson to learn .

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Never ever say, "Pack up!" :nono:

Not even to a kit of make-up!

It may lead to your lock-up! :scared:

It is time for you to wake up;

To the kind of solid back-up

Some things can rake-up! opcorn:

(just for fun for those on the run!)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you, :fear:
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you,
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. :rip:

When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room, again, alone, :roll:
She smooths her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone. :sing:

Quotes by T.S. Eliot.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Every artist writes his own autobiography.:typing:

Beauty is the child of love.

In many a war it has been the vanquished,:whoo:

and not the victor, who has carried off
the finest spoils.opcorn:

Quotes by Henry Havelock Ellis.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

When my elder son started learning about Fractions in his school he started playing a new game in Mathematics.

Whatever he wanted should be given to him by the count of three!

So it should actually go ,"One! Two! Three!" :high5:

But if the thing does appear before him by the count of two, he would divert to a different way of counting.

After 2 it would become 2 and 1/16, 2 and 2/16, 2 and 3/16 etc until he reached 2 and 15/16! :bump2:

By that time surely anyone would have given him what he wanted! :becky:

It was fun game in mathematics, helping him learn the importance of fraction and their correct order too!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Some people who PERSIST in making themselves a nuisance
are fondly called as "the pain in the neck!" :whoo:

I saw one such mami holding her head at an odd angle. :sad:

It turned out to be that she was just suffering

from a pain in the neck.

The word that flashed in my mind were...

'A pain in the neck' for 'THE pain the neck'? :shocked:

"திருநெல்வேலிக்கே அல்வா"வா?

"கொல்லன் தெருவிலே ஊசியா?"

"கடுக்காய் கொடுப்பது" என்று

கேள்விப்பட்டுள்ளேன்!

எதுகை மோனைக்காக

அது கூறப்படுகின்றதா?

வேறு பொருள் உள்ளதா? :noidea:

அறிந்தவர்கள் கூறலாமே !

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The manly part is to do with might and the main what you can do. :roll:

The Frenchman invented the ruffle, the Englishman added the shirt. :high5:

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revelations.:fear:

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

One honest doubt!
The girls appearing in
the matrimony ads are
so very young.......! :music:
so very good looking!
so well qualified and
so desirable.........!:bump2:
Why is it then
they are NOT chosen by
any one yet???:noidea:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.

In 2010, there was 1 new post, not terrible for the first year! There were 276 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 40mb. That’s about 5 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was June 30th with 162 views. The most popular post that day was A Prayer.

This is the score for 2010 from June 26th to December 2010.

I am happy to share the good news with the readers that the viewership as on today is

• 4,500 views all-time
• 10 views today
• 162 views on your busiest day, June 30, 2010
• Summary Tables

That means the viewership for the first half of 2011 is 1900 when we add the number of views 18, 191 in the forum also.

The blog is picking up slowly but steadily!

I thank all the readers for their continued support!

I gave the link of this blog to the young grand daughters of my good neighbor about ten days ago!

I do not know what those kids have actually done but in the past one month the number of views has moved up by ~ 1200!

Long live those cute kids and their cuter friends!

• 5,712 views all-time
  
• 37 views today
• 162 views on your busiest day, June 30, 2010
• Summary Tables