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Think or sink!

The old lady (who used to sport a paisa-agla-pottu) has suddenly changed
(for the better or worse - I am not so sure)

It is exactly 5 weeks since her dear husbnd passed away.

She has already started drawing his pension!
(I had no idea things old happen so fast in a country tied up by The Red Tape)

She was talking about diamond studs and nose rings the whole time.
I also noticed a new diamond nose ring glittering on her nose.
May be her share of her mother's jewel who also passed away recently.

I guess now she wants a matching diamond ring to go with the nose ring!
World is strange!!!
Not a single word about her dead husband or anyone or anything else! :(

She always subjects me to a rapid fire round of random questions with no time allowed to relax!
 
I am reminded of the mother of another neighbor (a long time widow)
who wanted to buy new gold bangles for herself.

Her son was planning to buy them during Akshaya trithiyai but she took of the previous night.
It is said the thoughts lingering in one's mind as he/ she breathes last decides the future birth!

I am sure she must have been born is a rich house which talks of gold not in grams but in kilo grams and wear the gold ornaments in matching colors as the others wear fancy costume jewels.
 
27. யார் துறவி?




உலகினைத் துறந்தனர் இருவர்;
உறவில் கணவன் மனைவியர்.
கானகம் ஒன்றில் இருவரும்
ஏகும்போது கண்டான் கணவன்,

மின்னும் வைரக்கல் ஒன்றை!
என்ன ஒளிக் கற்றைகள், ஆஹா!
பின்னே வரும் மனைவி அந்த
மின்னும் வைரத்தைக் கண்டால்,

இன்னும் வைராக்கியம் பெறாமல்
என்ன சொல்வாளோ? செய்வாளோ?
பெண் மனதில் ஆசை வைரத்துக்கும்,
பொன்னுக்கும் மறைந்து விடுமா?

நொடியில் குனித்து எடுத்தவன்,
உடையில் மறைப்போமா அல்லது
மண்ணில் புதைப்போமா அதைக்
கண்ணுக்குத் தெரியாமல், என்று

தவிக்கும் போது மனைவி கேட்டாள்,
தலையில் ஓங்கி அடித்தாற்போல,
“சிறு கல் ஒன்றையும், வைரத்தையும்
ஒரு போல் எண்ண முடியாத நீங்கள்

சந்நியாசி ஆக விரும்புவானேன்?
சம்சாரத்தை வீணே துறப்பானேன்?”
“என்னைக் காட்டிலும், ஒரு காலத்தில்
பொன்னை விரும்பிய பெண்ணே மேல்!”

வாழ்க வளமுடன்.
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.

WHO WAS THE REAL SANYAASI?

A husband and wife had renounced the world and become sanyaasis. One day they walked through a forest. The man saw a sparkling diamond and was afraid that his wife may lose her vairAgyam and wish to possess it.

So he quickly picked it up wishing to hide it somewhere or bury it before she sees it.

But the wife had already seen what he was trying to do and asked him, “If you can still differentiate a diamond from a pebble, why did you have to become a sanyAsi in the first place?

The man felt ashamed since the woman who had once loved gold and diamonds-before becoming a sanyAsi-had a better vairAgyam than himself.

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I ws amazed to see a pundit/priest who is a super specialist in Sri Rudram related chanting and pooja.

You must believe me when I say that If Nandi Devan was transformed into a human being he would resemble this pundit/ priest.

His ears had become GokarNms, his eye were extremely calm and pleasing as those of a cow/bull, his voice was capable of making a trapeze artist's precise swings and leaps between the higher and lower pitches without a wrong note.

Do we really become what we do/ we think/ we eat/we chant???
 
Diamonds set in platinum may cost a fortune but they look like ornaments made out of Aluminium!

Once upon a time aluminum was so scarce and costly that only kings and queens can afford to eat in an aluminum plate. Today it is what we find in the hands of all poor people!

Moral:
Nothing has an absolute value. The value of anything and everything is related to the value of the other things!!!
 
There is a lot of difference between Pulling and Pushing.
Both involve the movement of another object /person!!!

Pulling always brings the thing /person towards you.
Pushing may not occur the exact way you want it to happen!

Pushing needs just a surface but pulling need a strong handle.

How can you pull something without any handle to hold on to
or a person without any limbs or at least two prominent ears???

It is a pity that this simple fact was not known to the brilliant and intelligent constructors of the hotel where we had all stayed for 3 days during the Maha Rudhram.

The bathroom door had a circular latch on the outside but no handle to enable you to use the latch!!!

The inside of the bathroom had a more mind blowing arrangement.
A small portion was made into the showering corner with water proof glass door and walls.

A large handle 12" wide was fixed on the outside of the showering room door which ONLY needed to be pushed in.

There was no proper arrangement to pull the door in after having shower.
The was no gap below the door or on the sides. The door itself was so tall that only a 6 footer can reaah its top.

When I went in for a shower and closed the door I felt something had gone wrong on hearing the door shut with sharp snap.

I was right! I could not pull the the door inside to get out of the glass cage! My hands were moist, the area was soapy and the towel was hanging snugly on the handle fixed outside the door.

When you are in a tight corner and a small transparent glass cage and when you also have a very fertile imagination ...you are doomed!!!

Every possibility of my despair and shame before I could be rescued from that glass cage made me panic more and more.

I prayed to Murugan, Hanuman and Ganesa and was desperately trying to pull open the door that had a small cylindrical knob with no milled edge/nor any dent for the finger grip nor anything that will assist holding and pulling it open from the inside.

One of those God must have rushed to my assistance and I managed to come out of the glass cage sweating and shivering with panic. I did not shout even though I really panicked.

Things did not go so well to another mami from Bengalore since she started screaming her head off under similar circumstances. She also got the juiciest scolding from her husband for creating a scene.

If I were her, I would have shut him up in the bathroom, locked the bathroom door from outside and also the left the room to let him know what it feels like to panic.

The same mami has another unfortunate incident. It is worthy of being related as a separate incident.
 
The super comfort sponge beds may serve the young couple by adding to their joy with its buoyancy but it certainly is not for the old people with creaking joints which need to aligned every time they try to move.

The bed was anything between 9" and 15" high. My hand sank up to my elbow when planted on it as I sat on it. It acted like a giant seesaw by lifting the other end up when one end was pressed down. So the night's disturbed sleep was as if done on a boat oscillating from side to side.

The treacherous bed could push anyone down if they dare to reach the very edge when they sleep. So this happened to the very same mami from Bengalore.

The gap between the bed and the wall wa big enough to let her fall down but small enough not to let her get back to her feet. We need more space to get out than to fall in!!! Right??

So she received the second sahasra nama archanai done by her husband - who I have fondly nick named and called as " Main switch mama".

That story is reserved for another day!
 
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The Maha Rudhram was performed spread over 4 days like the naalu-naaL-kalyANam of the past. The cost of the poja was also similar to a marriage and is estimated to be one million rupees.

The entire crowd who attended had feasts as in a marriage and gift of new clothes as in a marriage. There were 44 pundits from the peetams of the four South Indian states. I was amazed that while they chanted in perfect unison, they looked like birds of feather flocking together from each state.

Major portion of the flowers arriving to Coimbatore reached the pooja manadapam. Four experienced women were making garlands of all types all through the day.

The first day started with an introduction to Sree Rudhram and Sree Rudhran Himself. I have heard Rudhran means 'one who cried' and also 'one who makes the others cry'.

But it was established that Rudhran was the giver of the three things man needs most urgently, namely Wealth, Health and final Liberation (mukthi)

Rudhran is 'Aasu thOshi' (one who can be pleased easily) and also 'Aashu kOpi' (one who can be angered equally easily).

The various terms related to Sree Rudhram (consisting of 11 paras) were defined Rudhra EkAdasi is chanting11 rounds of sree Rudhram.

Maha Rudhram is chanting 11x11 rounds of Sree Rudhram

Athi Rudhram is chanting 11x11x11 rounds of Sree Rudhram. I have had the good fortune of attending this in Thathamangalam - a town in Kerala.

Gathi Rudhram is chanting 11x11x11x11 rounds of Sree Rduhram. Apparantly it had been performed only once and that also by Sree Krishna Himself.

May be it is possible only for the Gods to perform this and not for mortal men!

The pooja which we attended 11x11 rounds of Sree Rudhram were chanted by 44 pundits and 6 others in the crowd.
 
The speaker on Sree Rudhram offered to clarify our doubts.The husband of the Benaglore mami ( who has panicked when she got caught in two tight spots)
had only one doubt...thankfully.

His doubt was "Where is the main switch which operated the body?"He would not listen to any answer or explanation but would keep repeating the same question like a jumping jack.

Then he put the same question differently. "Where is Aatma and how big is it?"
I bet he never got his doubts cleared bur he earned the nick name Main Switch Mama!

He chanted Sree Rudhram along with the pundits with a lot of energy and movements. He was well rewarded with a rich jari bordered Soman Set and a cover with some money...may be the pink 2K which was flashing everywhere!
 
I observed an interesting thing in the gathering. Each pundit...young or old, lean or fat wore a belt made of colorful brocade border.

It had separate compartments for the mobile, the money, the coins and the miscellaneous items. It is made to order and to the required waist size at the cost of Rs 250/-

Tell me," Why should ONLY women have all the fun of wearing the beautiful and colorful things"???
 
The young son of pundit Maha Dhevan became literally
a "Chokka lingam" during the chanting. :sleep:

He was hungry, thirst, tired and sleepy (aka bhookhaa, pyaasaa, thakaa, haaraa).
He too earned his own dhothi and a cover with cash in it!
 
Everyone thinks he/she is really a good person.
It is his /her liberty to assume ( or imagine) it to be true!

Others may have a different opinion of that person.
It is the liberty and estimation of those persons!

BUT do they need to tell that person like slapping on the face
that he/ she is a real cheat and a liar ...never to be trusted.

If he /she is not trustworthy... do not trust him /her.

If you are biased and your opinion is wrong... suffer the consequences.
You deserve it since you have earned it yourself with so much of hard work.

But never ever hurt a honest person with such scorching words
which will transform you yourself into a real cheat and a terrible liar! :lie:
 
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You are NOT what YOU think you are!

You are NOT what I think you are!

You are what you think I think you are!

Corollary:

There is no need to make a harsh statement and remove all the lingering doubts!

 
Like everything else TIME is also relative.
In fact it is relative in more than one way.

Have you ever thought about the fat we can measure only duration of TIME or as a difference between two different points on TIME and can never ever measure TIME absolutely.

No one knows when TIME started. No one knows when TIME will end.

With nothing to do, TIME hangs on heavily a person!
With overlapping act ivies TIME seems to fly away in haste!

While waiting for one's sweet heart TIME seems to hang on heavily.
When with the sweet heart TIME seems to fly away on swift wing.

This too is a simple explanation for the complex Theory of Relativity. :)
 
It is said that "Man proposes BUT God disposes"!

I bet everyone of us have felt this way sometime or other during our life time.

So what happens when man does NOT propose?

Does GOD HIMSELF propose - since there is nothing to dispose or oppose?

I do firmly beleive it to be so.

Whenever I surrender to God and let thing take shape by themselves,

they seem to do so beautifully, efficiently and smartly!

In fact it happens in a much better and a more efficient way

that I could have ever thought out and planned.

We are short sighted and can never ever make any plan as great or practical

as the All knowing, All powerful and All prevailing God.

Surrender to HIM and become free from sorrows and disappointments!

Whee is the question of disappointment when you have made

no appointment in the first place. Got the point???
 
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நினைப்பதும், நடப்பதும்



நினைப்பது ஒன்று, நடப்பது ஒன்று என்று,
நித்தமும் பலமுறை நாம் சொல்வது உண்டு.
நினைத்தது எல்லாம் நடந்தது என்றால்,
நினைக்கவே மாட்டோம், நாம் இறைவனை!

நடந்ததையே நாம் நினைத்துக்கொண்டிருந்தால்,
நடக்க வேண்டியவற்றை மறந்தே போவோம்.
நல்லது எது, அல்லாதது எது, என்று அறிவான்,
நம்மையும் விட நன்றாகவே, நம் இறைவன்.

ஜுரம் வந்த குழந்தைக்கு மருந்துகளை,
நேரம் தவறாமல் தாய் தருவதில்லையா?
குழந்தை கேட்கும் என்று காத்திருப்பாளா?
குழந்தை கேட்பதெல்லாம் கொடுத்திருப்பாளா?

கேட்கும் கெட்டதைக் கொடுத்து விடுவதா ?
கேட்காத நல்லதைக் கொடுத்து விடுவதா?
தாய்க்குத் தெரியும் குழந்தையின் தேவைகள்.
தலைவன் அறிவான், நம் அனைவரின் தேவைகள்.

கேட்டும் கொடாதவர் சிறியோர் ஆவர் ;
கேளாமலே கொடுப்பார் சீரிய பெரியோர் .
பெரியவனாகவும், வலியவனாகவும்;
அரியவனாகவும், எளியவனாகவும்;

தாயுமாகித் தந்தையுமாகி, நம்மை
தாங்கி நிற்கும் தன்னிகர் அற்றவன்,
தருவான் என்றும் நமக்கு நல்லதையே.
தர மாட்டான் நாம் கேட்பதெல்லாமே!

தாயை நம்பும் சேய் போல் நாமும்,
தயாபரனை நம்புவோம் முழுமையாக.
“நம்பினார் கெடுவதில்லை!” இது நமக்கு,
நான்கு மறைகள் தரும் உத்தரவாதம்!

வாழ்க வளமுடன்,
விசாலாக்ஷி ரமணி.

MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES.

If a man gets everything he wants, he will forget God. If he remembers
everything he wanted but did not get, he won’t be able to go with his life.
God knows what is best for us and gives us exactly that.

A mother gives medicines to a child suffering from fever. She won’t wait
till the child asks for it. At the same time she won’t give everything the
child wants to eat. She will give only what is best for the child.

God is our mother. He knows what is best for us – better than we do! He
will give us the best and not all what we seek from Him.

We have to trust in Him with a whole heart as a child does its mother.

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One of the houses we visited recently has two huge Labrador dogs.

Their combined weight is 100 K.G and I bet they will stand taller than me if they stand on their hind legs.

They are gentle but keep sniffing us below the navel much to our uneasiness.

What will happen if they suddenly decided to bite off a chunk of flesh from that region for whatever reason?

They love to sleep at the main intersections in the house - making it impossible for people to go from one room to another.

They obey no one other than their master and his wife.

No amount of coaxing nor commands in any language can make them move even their eye lids.

One of the dogs a male used to sleep in the same room as we did - but on the small carpet spread on the floor.

The female would always occupy the best sofa in the house - one which had a matching foot stool and definitely the most comfortable.

When I got up to go to the bathroom, I used the torchlight in the cell phone. Sudden bright light followed by sudden darkness does not suit my eyes.

The dog watched with fascination the small bub glowing on the cell phone as if mesmerized. So I left the torch on the bed itself and finished my business in the bathroom.

When I came out I found the dog had occupied my very warm bed and would not budge. I gave orders in every language I knew but in vain.

Luckily the lady of the house was a light sleeper . She came to my rescue and took the dog out of our room.

In less than 15 minutes it came back , jumped on to the bed in between me and my husband. We both got the shock of our life. Luckily this time the owner of the dogs was awake and took the dog out.

Wiser by now, we closed the bedroom door before going back to the sleep which managed to elude us for a long lone time! :(

I was shocked by the fluffy hair balls the maid managed to sweep off all the rooms after wiping clean the sofas! If they are consume with the food, the stomach can spin its own new lining blanket!
 
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